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[Karen]

It's mid-May, so perhaps a good time to share my March/April list of 4-star-and-up-for-me books and audiobooks... another good reading month, including books not listed that weren't so much my cup of tea.

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (audiobook), A.J. Hartley and David Hewson
Secrets (audiobook), Jordan Castillo Price
The Company Man, Becky Black
Wedding Favors and Wizard's Moon, Josh Lanyon
Scrap, Josephine Myles
How to Howl at the Moon, Eli Easton
Posted to Death, Faked to Death, Decorated to Death, Baked to Death, Dean James
Trowchester Blues and Blue Eyed Stranger, Alex Beecroft
Foxglove Summer (audiobook), Ben Aaronovitch
Heat Trap, J.L. Merrow
Waiting for the Flood, Alexis Hall
Channeling Morpheus for Scary Mary (audiobook) and Canine, Jordan Castillo Price
Wedding Favors, Anne Tenino

[Johanna]

Karen wrote: "It's mid-May, so perhaps a good time to share my March/April list of 4-star-and-up-for-me books and audiobooks... another good reading month, including books not listed that weren't so much my cup ..."

OMG. Look at you! :-) I'm s u c h a s l o w r e a d e r m y s e l f . . . :-D

[Karen]

Johanna wrote: "Karen wrote: "It's mid-May, so perhaps a good time to share my March/April list of 4-star-and-up-for-me books and audiobooks... another good reading month, including books not listed that weren't s..."

Not a thing wrong with slow. You savor your reading. Sometimes I'm moving like it's in-one-ear-and-out-the-other, but enjoying myself. I end up rereading a lot of the books I really like. Also, you must recall that I don't sleep and my husband hasn't been home. ; )

[Jordan]

"I sometimes pretend to myself that I have insomnia when what I really have is a good book and an inadequate respect for tomorrow."

Don't know who said it, but this is soooo true!

[Ije the Devourer of Books]

Karen wrote: "It's mid-May, so perhaps a good time to share my March/April list of 4-star-and-up-for-me books and audiobooks... another good reading month, including books not listed that weren't so much my cup ..."

Thanks for sharing. I havent come across Dean James before so I will check him out. I loved Waiting for the Flood and How to Howl at the Moon. :)

[Jordan]

Currently making my way through The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and debating whether or not I want to read the other six books after it, and if I do, can I read them all before June?

I'll be starting my summer reading in June, so whatever I start now, has to be done by then!

This is a reread for me, but it's been at least 20 years since I read the Narnia books the first time, so it's almost like read them for the first time all over again. :-)

[Karen]

Ije the Devourer of Books wrote: "Karen wrote: "It's mid-May, so perhaps a good time to share my March/April list of 4-star-and-up-for-me books and audiobooks... another good reading month, including books not listed that weren't s..."

The Dean James books are slightly kooky village cozies, the sort of thing that is often too cute for me, but in this case just what the doctor ordered as a distraction from RL (trying to "teach" while standardized testing dragged on over a two-month period).

[Johanna]

Karen wrote: "Not a thing wrong with slow. You savor your reading."

Yeah, well. I've always been quite a slow reader even when I read Finnish. And nowadays when I read almost everything in English... I want to taste and understand every word. :-)

Karen wrote: "Also, you must recall that I don't sleep and my husband hasn't been home. ; )

Oh, this. LOL. And no sleeping, huh? I'm beginning to think you have a very personal reason for loving Anne Rice books... ;-)

(Or maybe her vampires do sleep? Do they?)

[Johanna]

Jordan wrote: ""I sometimes pretend to myself that I have insomnia when what I really have is a good book and an inadequate respect for tomorrow."

Don't know who said it, but this is soooo true!"

Ha! Great quote! :-)

[Anne]

Na wrote: "Anne wrote: "To keep with the theme of autism, I'm reading Carry the Ocean, that some of you mentioned earlier. "

It's about the Asperger syndrome?"

Apparently that name isn't in use anymore, but one of the MC's is on the highly functional end of the autism spectrum, which is what used to be named Asberger's Syndrome.

[Eve]

I had a few DNF the last month or so. I don't know if it's just me or the stories, a few began really well, then just after the half mark, I thought there's not much conflict/struggle going on already, or It was so predictable, it's hardly worth finishing.

So I took up an almost pure gay mystery (there is not much romance going on) David Lennon's Deadfall, to restore my interest! I am going through the Lambda nominations and it's in the gay mystery (same as Josh's Fair Game).

[Becky]

Karen wrote: "It's mid-May, so perhaps a good time to share my March/April list of 4-star-and-up-for-me books and audiobooks... another good reading month, including books not listed that weren't so much my cup ..."

Ooh, one of mine. ::preens:: :D

[Becky]

I just finished Raising Steam. It was a bit sad, knowing it's one of the last Discworld books we'll see and various loose ends will never be tied up.

I'm working slowly through The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, as part of my Holmes reread. And I'm about to start Ripley's Game, middle book in the five book series about the doings of that scoundrel Tom Ripley. :)

Audiobooks going on is the newest Jordan Castillo Price audiobook release Body Art: A Thriller.

[Karen]

Becky wrote: "Karen wrote: "It's mid-May, so perhaps a good time to share my March/April list of 4-star-and-up-for-me books and audiobooks... another good reading month, including books not listed that weren't s..."

The rest of the series is on my summer reading list. : )

[Becky]

Yay. :D

[Jordan]

Gave up on Narnia and dived back into a Dean Koontz book (Icebound) which I started awhile ago and never got around to finishing. It's very good so far, even if it is a little implausible to start with.

Then, if there's time left in the month after Icebound, I'll read the 4th Strachey book. I can't wait to get back to these books!

[Varecia]

I looked through the books I read during April and May so far, but am sorry to say that my reading month was not as good as Karen's.
I enjoyed the Strachey mysteries no. 4 and 5 and the Hardesty mystery no. 3 and look forward to read more of both series.
And I really liked A Death at the Dionysus Club and A Pride of Poppies, a very impressive anthology. I tend to forget shorts very fast, but here quite a lot of the stories stayed with me. It seems that some of the authors are going to develop their stories further, which I would love to see (mainly Jay Lewis Taylor and Charlie Cochrane).

During the last days I read a lot of books I grabbed for free in December from MLR or buyed for 99 cents during the last days at Dreamspinner. Mostly they are first books in series, but I don`t think I will read any of them further. I have not read all, but surprisingly I liked Foxe Tail best.

The last reading experiences made me wonder how much my way of reading changed over the years. I find most stories predictable today, so I read in a very eclectic way and it's the "smaller things" awakening my interest - sometimes I am fascinated by a character, sometimes I like the descriptions of time or place, sometimes it's the way an author just needs one sentence to open a whole field of emotions (that's Alexis Hall for me). *sigh* I would like to have the wide-eyed rapture of youthful reading back, at least once in a while!

[Jordan]

I picked up a book last night that I'd gotten last year when we weeded the nonfic collection at the library. And I got sucked in by the horrible childhood of this deaf girl. I read 5 chapters before I had to put it down and go to bed. Some humans have something fundamentally wrong with them, and this book is a clear example of that. This poor girl was abused for most of her childhood under the guise that she was "retarded" even though she was actually very smart. She just happened to be deaf, but no one knew that, or bothered to see what was actually wrong with her. She didn't even know what a name was or that she had one until she was 11! Poor thing!

Anyway, the book is called I Was #87: A Deaf Woman's Ordeal of Misdiagnosis, Institutionalization, and Abuse.

I hate that I get sucked into the horrid stories of abuse, but, like Anne, I can't keep my eyes averted when it happens to others. Unlike her, I don't have an evil woman standing over me, waiting to hurt me simply because I looked at someone else.

*shudders*

[Susinok]

I am re-reading Lou Harper's Secrets books to refresh my memory before reading the newest one, Secrets and Bow Ties.

[Karen]

Susinok wrote: "I am re-reading Lou Harper's Secrets books to refresh my memory before reading the newest one, Secrets and Bow Ties."

I just read it. It would work fine as a stand-alone, but I'm sure you will enjoy your re-read. : )

[Becky]

Started rereading my own Patient Z, because I'm very shortly going to start writing the sequel. (See, everything turns into a series with me.)

[Jordan]

Becky wrote: "Started rereading my own Patient Z, because I'm very shortly going to start writing the sequel. (See, everything turns into a series with me.)

"

Oooh! yay! I liked Patient Z!

[Jordan]

I just finished the Dean Koontz book I was reading and will now start the 4th Donald Strachey book! :-)

[Jordan]

I hope nobody minds, but since I'm starting the fourth DS book, I decided to create the topic post for it, and then went ahead and did topic posts through book 8.

I'm planning on reading three of them over the summer as part of my summer reading as well, so I'll definitely be ready to discuss the rest soon, and I seem to recall some others here have also read past book 3. Yay!

I'm loving these books so far, if I haven't said so already. lol.

[Ije the Devourer of Books]

I listened to The Blue Moon Cafe by Rick R. Reed and the narration was great. It made the book come alive. Right now i am reading Halfway Home: A Novel by Paul Monette and it is a really great book which reflects some of the personal experiences that the author experieced. I am also listening to Dangerous Ground. I really like listening to audio books while taking my brisk walks by the river. There is nothing better than watching swans and listening to a Josh Lanyon audiobook :)

[Johanna]

Jordan wrote: "I hope nobody minds, but since I'm starting the fourth DS book, I decided to create the topic post for it, and then went ahead and did topic posts through book 8.

I'm planning on reading three of..."

Thank you for setting up the topics, Jordan! :-)

[Johanna]

Ije the Devourer of Books wrote: "There is nothing better than watching swans and listening to a Josh Lanyon audiobook :)"

:-D

[ED]

I have just finished Jay Bell's Something Like Thunder. So far the whole series was a pleasure to read. The first four I think are available in audio format, read by very good narrator.

[Antonella]

What else was Gabriel García Marquez reading:

Gabriel García Márquez’s Formative Reading List: 24 Books That Shaped One of Humanity’s Greatest Writers

[Jordan]

So the author of The Elephant Whisperer also spent time saving the animals at the Baghdad zoo and wrote a book about it. So that's what I'm reading now.

[Susinok]

I just read two contemporary het romances, Fat and Slut by Seranna Dewylde. Both were really well done. The books centered around the emotional journeys of the two women and what they had to go through emotionally to have a healthy relationship and to believe in a happily ever after. Even so both books ended more in a "happy for now" way, since nothing is guaranteed in life. Both were excellent, I thought.

[Alison]

I'm deep in a re-read of Charlie Cochrane's Cambridge Fellows series, one after the other. This series makes me so happy. I am so excited that there will be two new books later this year. :)

[HJ]

Alison wrote: "I'm deep in a re-read of Charlie Cochrane's Cambridge Fellows series, one after the other. This series makes me so happy. I am so excited that there will be two new books later this year. :)"

I need to do this too! I love Jonty and Orlando, but since I've been reading the books ever since they were first published the early ones are a bit vague in my memory now.

[Johanna]

Alison wrote: "I'm deep in a re-read of Charlie Cochrane's Cambridge Fellows series, one after the other. This series makes me so happy. I am so excited that there will be two new books later this year. :)"

Thank you for mentioning this series, Alison. I haven't read it, but while in Bristol (UK Meet) last year I bought the book 1 Lessons in Love from Charlie. I'm ashamed to say I haven't read it yet, but now I fetched it from my bookshelf and it's here in my hand. And I'm going to start reading it TONIGHT. :-)

[Alison]

HJ wrote: "Alison wrote: "I'm deep in a re-read of Charlie Cochrane's Cambridge Fellows series, one after the other. This series makes me so happy. I am so excited that there will be two new books later this ..."

That's what I decided, HJ, though it hasn't been that long for me, and with the new ones coming out, I thought a refresher would be nice. Plus, I wanted the nice feeling that comes from reading this series. I hope you enjoy it, Johanna. There's a warmth and affection in the writing and in the characters that makes me feel good. Jonty and Orlando make me smile. They are really lovely books.

[Sara]

Johanna wrote: "Alison wrote: "I'm deep in a re-read of Charlie Cochrane's Cambridge Fellows series, one after the other. This series makes me so happy. I am so excited that there will be two new books later this ..."

I bought the first one at the Manchester UK Meet and the second last year in Manchester. I can't make up my mind whether to continue the series in paperback (signed by the author :D) or on my kindle. Decisions, decisions...

[HJ]

I do like to re-read a series each time a new one is published. But it can be a lengthy process when the series gets to book 12 ... Lessons for Sleeping Dogs

[Antonella]

HJ wrote: "I do like to re-read a series each time a new one is published. But it can be a lengthy process when the series gets to book 12 ... Lessons for Sleeping Dogs"

Uh, I wasn't aware of this. I thought I had missed a couple of the newest books, but not 4!

[KC]

Alison wrote: "HJ wrote: "Alison wrote: "I'm deep in a re-read of Charlie Cochrane's Cambridge Fellows series, one after the other. This series makes me so happy. I am so excited that there will be two new books ..."

I only read the first one and enjoyed the MCs relationship, and general adorableness :-) Should get back to it. I'm reading now the Benjamin Justice mystery series, and it's very good, but tough. I know i'll need a very different sort of mysteries after these ones.

[KC]

I'm reading Con Riley's Seattle stories. I loved After Ben so much and i really wanted to know what happens to the other characters, so i read Saving Sean (which could've been shorter, imho), and now i'm reading Aiden's Luck because i really wanted to know more about the MCs, but it's different than what i expected, a bit too angsty when i thought it would have more of a funny side to it.

Also reading, slowly savoring, Hansen's Bohannon's Women: Mystery Stories. There are three Bohannon books, short mystery stories, and it happened that i read them in order; can't help but compare the writing and characterization with whatever else i'm reading...So good.

[Johanna]

Hambel wrote: "Johanna wrote: "Alison wrote: "I'm deep in a re-read of Charlie Cochrane's Cambridge Fellows series, one after the other. This series makes me so happy. I am so excited that there will be two new b..."

Sounds like you should buy the third one in Bristol this year. And make a tradition out of this. :-)

[Idamus]

KC wrote: "I'm reading Con Riley's Seattle stories. I loved After Ben so much and i really wanted to know what happens to the other characters, so i read Saving Sean (which cou..."

I liked book 1 of the Seattle stories, but not the next two, sadly.

[Calathea]

Johanna wrote: "Hambel wrote: "Johanna wrote: "Alison wrote: "I'm deep in a re-read of Charlie Cochrane's Cambridge Fellows series, one after the other. This series makes me so happy. I am so excited that there wi..."

Oi, that reminds me of the book I bought last year in Bristol and haven't finished yet... The threefold cord. I liked it a lot and it's beautifully written but I was sidetracked somewhere along the way.

[Anne]

Calathea wrote: "Johanna wrote: "Hambel wrote: "Johanna wrote: "Alison wrote: "I'm deep in a re-read of Charlie Cochrane's Cambridge Fellows series, one after the other. This series makes me so happy. I am so excit..."

Hurry up and finish it, it's so good!

[Antonella]

Calathea wrote: "Oi, that reminds me of the book I bought last year in Bristol and haven't finished yet... The threefold cord. I liked it a lot and it's beautifully written but I was sidetracked somewhere along the way."

I really liked A Threefold Cord.

[Antonella]

Astrid Amara's Song of the Navigator is now available!!

Only $3.85: http://www.samhainpublishing.com/book...

[Calathea]

Antonella wrote: "Astrid Amara's Song of the Navigator is now available!!

Only $3.85: http://www.samhainpublishing.com/book..."

Got it. Thanks! :-)

[Jordan]

I bought the first two Mnevermind books from Jordan last year at Bristol, but still haven't read them. The first one is on my summer reading list this year and I can't wait to get to it!

[Antonella]

Calathea wrote: "Antonella wrote: "Astrid Amara's Song of the Navigator is now available!!

Only $3.85: http://www.samhainpublishing.com/book..."

Got it. Thanks! :-)"

I forgot to mention that I got it too and... I've finished it at 4 a.m. this morning ;-). Needless to say, it was gripping. I loved it.

[Susinok]

Just finished up Boystown 2 and began Boystown 3 by Marshall Thornton. I was adding my categories in Goodreads and paused. I just canNOT add the "Historical" to this book! 1981 is not that long ago (in my mind) and I REFUSE to consider it a historical novel. Though "technically" it is.

:::grumbles::: Young whippernappers...