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[Ije the Devourer of Books]

I feel so happy :)

It is really good :)

[Calathea]

Ije the Devourer of Books wrote: "I am reading Murder Takes the High Road. I was fortunate enough to get an ARC from the publishers and it is just sooooooo good. :)"

I was going to write that I'm turning slightly green and then wasn't so sure if green is associated with envy in English. ;) Anyway, happy reading, Ije, I'm looking forward to this one! :-)

[Alison]

Calathea wrote: "Ije the Devourer of Books wrote: "I am reading Murder Takes the High Road. I was fortunate enough to get an ARC from the publishers and it is just sooooooo good. :)"

I was going to..."

You can definitely "be green with envy," Calathea, not to worry! :) You can also be green for other reasons. Like if you're turning green, it can be because you feel sick.

I, too, am envious of Ije! :)

[Rosa]

Ije the Devourer of Books wrote: "I am reading Murder Takes the High Road. I was fortunate enough to get an ARC from the publishers and it is just sooooooo good. :)"

Enjoy! 😆

[Antonella]

Calathea wrote: "I was going to write that I'm turning slightly green"

Did I tell you that am in the Green Party? ;-)
Anyway soon it will be our turn. In the meantime, enjoy the book, dear Ije!

[Alison]

Antonella wrote: "Calathea wrote: "I was going to write that I'm turning slightly green"

Did I tell you that am in the Green Party? ;-)
Anyway soon it will be our turn. In the meantime, enjoy the book, dear Ije!"

Antonella, I voted Green for my party vote in the last NZ election and I thought of you! :)

[Antonella]

Alison wrote: "Antonella, I voted Green for my party vote in the last NZ election and I thought of you! :)"

Thank you from me and from Planet Earth ;-)

[Josh]

Kirsten wrote: "Hey guys! I am just popping in to thank you all for some recent books I've read thanks to recs and discussion from you all. I've been lurking for the past few months because of RL family and work s..."

Hey there!

[Josh]

KC wrote: "An interview with Nicole Kimberling:
https://www.undergroundbookreviews.or...

Awesomeness: new Dal Maclean mystery coming soon, and a ..."

Yes to all of that!

[Josh]

WMD wrote: "Hello
I have been very hungry for good writing in the action m/m zone...just miss after miss for me.
But today I can strongly recommend new book
When Death meets the Devil by L J Hayward.

Would p..."

It's always nice to find a good book after a long drought. ;-)

[Josh]

Susinok wrote: "Darlene wrote: "Ok, I just finished the 4th book in "Curl Up and Dye" Mysteries series,I Do, or Dye Trying by Aimee Nicole Walker and what a great book and series! ..."

What do you think of Joel Leslie as a narrator? I've been considering using him for a project.

[Josh]

Ije the Devourer of Books wrote: "I am reading Murder Takes the High Road. I was fortunate enough to get an ARC from the publishers and it is just sooooooo good. :)"

:-D :-D :-D

Glad you're enjoying it!

[Jordan]

I started to read LA Witt’s At Rock Bottom and Nowhere yesterday, and I’m LOVING it!

[Clary]

I am happily obsessed with Chase Taylor Hackett and his two novels Where Do I Start? and And the Next Thing You Know . . .. Finally, someone who really knows lawyers!

[Johanna]

Darlene wrote: "I've never listened to books, I should try one at some point!"

Oooh, I'm 100% sure you will fall in love with Josh's audio books, Darlene. Even though I've reread most of her books several times as print books and ebooks, hearing them in audio is always a brand new, awesome experience!

[Johanna]

Ije the Devourer of Books wrote: "I am reading Murder Takes the High Road. I was fortunate enough to get an ARC from the publishers and it is just sooooooo good. :)"

It's wonderful, isn't it?!

[Johanna]

Calathea wrote: "Ije the Devourer of Books wrote: "I am reading Murder Takes the High Road. I was fortunate enough to get an ARC from the publishers and it is just sooooooo good. :)"

I was going to..."

LOL!

You'll love it. It has this great vintage mystery vibe going on along with all the twists and turns in the plot. :-) And it's full of fun, delicious, spot-on relationship... situations.

[Ije the Devourer of Books]

Johanna wrote: "Ije the Devourer of Books wrote: "I am reading Murder Takes the High Road. I was fortunate enough to get an ARC from the publishers and it is just sooooooo good. :)"

It's wonderful..."

I loved it :)

[Josh]

Clary wrote: "I am happily obsessed with Chase Taylor Hackett and his two novels Where Do I Start? and And the Next Thing You Know . . .. Finally, someone who re..."

:-D :-D :-D

[Alison]

I finished up a great mainstream fantasy trilogy last week--V.E. Schwab's Shades of Magic series--and it was great! The first book is A Darker Shade of Magic. It's a very cool series about parallel Londons and magic and the people who can travel between worlds. It's not m/m, but there are two romantic subplots (one het, one queer) and there are awesome queer characters and POC. The world-building is very cool and the magic system is also very cool. The whole series is cool and I really enjoyed it.

[Clary]

Clary wrote: "Finally, someone who really understands lawyers."

I mean no disrespect to Pierce Mather, who remains one of my favorite characters. That scene where he is working late at night in bed on his laptop is so absolutely true to form I almost cried.
Stranger on the Shore

[Josh]

Clary wrote: "Clary wrote: "Finally, someone who really understands lawyers."

I mean no disrespect to Pierce Mather, who remains one of my favorite characters. That scene where he is working late at night in be..."

Hahahahaha

[Josh]

Alison wrote: "I finished up a great mainstream fantasy trilogy last week--V.E. Schwab's Shades of Magic series--and it was great! The first book is A Darker Shade of Magic. It's a very cool serie..."

That's terrific!

[Loretta]

Josh wrote: "Susinok wrote: "Darlene wrote: "Ok, I just finished the 4th book in "Curl Up and Dye" Mysteries series,I Do, or Dye Trying by Aimee Nicole Walker and what a great b..."

I love Joel Leslie. I'm listening to him today :)

[Jordan]

A Darker Shade Of Magic has been recommended to me before. At least once or twice. I’ll really need to take a look at it sooner rather than later.

[Susinok]

Josh wrote: "What do you think of Joel Leslie as a narrator? I've been considering using him for a project...."

I really like his works! I've bought a few books I'd otherwise have skipped because he narrated. I would heartily recommend Marshall Thornton's Femme as a great example.

He also did Hemovore by Jordan Castillo Price, and he's great with accents, actually doing a fantastic job or Alexis Hall with the Billionaire books. How to Bang a Billionaire

[Steve]

Susinok wrote: "Josh wrote: "What do you think of Joel Leslie as a narrator? I've been considering using him for a project...."

I really like his works! I've bought a few books I'd otherwise have skipped because ..."

I've listened to three books Joel has narrated: 1) Romancing the Ugly Duckling by Clare London; 2) Cronin's Key by N.R. Walker; and 3) How to Bang a Billionaire by Alexis Hall. I was SO impressed with him in all of them. If you didn't know it, you'd swear there is more than one person voicing these books. I thought his work on Cronin's Key was one of the best audio performances I've ever heard (certainly near the top), but he surpassed with with his work on How to Bang a Billionaire. I know Joel personally from GRL and he's a really nice person.

[Josh]

Susinok wrote: "Josh wrote: "What do you think of Joel Leslie as a narrator? I've been considering using him for a project...."

I really like his works! I've bought a few books I'd otherwise have skipped because ..."

I'll listen to more of his samples.

[Josh]

Steve wrote: "Susinok wrote: "Josh wrote: "What do you think of Joel Leslie as a narrator? I've been considering using him for a project...."

I really like his works! I've bought a few books I'd otherwise have ..."

Ah! Okay. Good to know!

[Steve]

I'm reading 'Working It' by Christine d'Abo and it's not bad. I got the recommendation from BookBub. I need to finish it tonight though, because the new Mary Calmes book 'Twisted and Tied' should be in my in-box later tonight!

[Jordan]

Is t Working It a Lambda finalist?

I looked through the romance finalists and was really disappointed in their selections. Most of it was things no one’s read, or if they did, most of the, hated it, here on GR. So odd. Proof, I think, that even awards are subjective.

[Karen]

Steve wrote: "I'm reading 'Working It' by Christine d'Abo and it's not bad. I got the recommendation from BookBub. I need to finish it tonight though, because the new Mary Calmes book 'Twisted and Tied' should b..."

I read this in the past week. I really liked the way it was written, especially for the first 60-75%. I enjoyed how Nolan kept exceeding Zack's expectations when they were still so unsure of each other, but hoping for more. What did you think?

[Ame]

Josh wrote: "Steve wrote: "Susinok wrote: "Josh wrote: "What do you think of Joel Leslie as a narrator? I've been considering using him for a project...."

I really like his works! I've bought a few books I'd o..."

Joel Leslie also narrated Red Dirt Heart by N.R. Walker and several other books of her. Also Mark Cooper vs America by Lisa Henry. Really good so I totally recommend him.

[Steve]

Karen wrote: "I read this in the past week. I really liked the way it was written, especially for the first 60-75%. I enjoyed how Nolan kept exceeding Zack's expectations when they were still so unsure of each other, but hoping for more. What did you think?"

I'm liking it so far. I liked seeing the change in Zack from in the office to out of the office, as well as his coming to rely on Nolan at work.

[Jordan]

His Quiet Agent by Ada Maria Soto just released in audiobook!

I sampled it first. The narrator is ok, he’s a bit loud, but otherwise, I guess ok. I bought it anyway, since I was hoping for it in audio, and I didn’t think it would ever happen.

Currently listening to Skin After Skin sporadically, with about nine hours to go! It’ll be awhile before I get to anything else. Lol.

[Antonella]

Jordan wrote: "His Quiet Agent by Ada Maria Soto just released in audiobook!"

LOL! I've just posted this in «What we're listening to», you were half an hour earlier ;-).

[KC]

Something light that made me laugh:
https://www.boredpanda.com/happy-gay-...

[KC]

Read a cute little story: Smoke Signals. Dragons, i like them :-)

And also, Best of Both Worlds, which was good, i thought, and interesting because of the format - short, 100 words scenes.

[Alison]

KC wrote: "Read a cute little story: Smoke Signals. Dragons, i like them :-)

And also, Best of Both Worlds, which was good, i thought, and interesting because of the format - ..."

Yay dragons! That looked like a cute story. I was going to buy it because I also like dragons. :)

[Antonella]

KC wrote: "Read a cute little story: Smoke Signals. Dragons, i like them :-)"

Yay for dragons! Get your dragon for only $2.99 USD ;-):
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/...

[Jordan]

Because dragons... I have to share this with you guys. Julie Kagawa is a very well known YA fantasy author, and she does these amazing clay dragons. I think she might even sell them on Etsy. Or at least, she used to. Don't know if she still does.

http://juliekagawa.blogspot.com/2013/...

[Anne]

Jordan wrote: "Because dragons... I have to share this with you guys. Julie Kagawa is a very well known YA fantasy author, and she does these amazing clay dragons. I think she might even sell them on Etsy. Or at ..."

These are adorable.

[Jordan]

Anne wrote: "Jordan wrote: "Because dragons... I have to share this with you guys. Julie Kagawa is a very well known YA fantasy author, and she does these amazing clay dragons. I think she might even sell them ..."

Aren't they?!

[Antonella]

Cover reveal for a new standalone by Jordan Castillo Price
http://mailchi.mp/psycop/cover-reveal...

«Imperfect Match» is coming in ebook and paperback March 20, and audio later this year.

And I didn't know it! Apparently I should start again to be more on FB!

[Alison]

Antonella wrote: "Cover reveal for a new standalone by Jordan Castillo Price
http://mailchi.mp/psycop/cover-reveal...

«Imperfect Match» is coming in ebook and paperback March 20, and au..."

I was going to post this too. I hadn't heard anything until the email this morning, so it's possible it's a very new thing if neither of us heard about it until today. Plus, it's not on GR yet.

Regardless, new JCP in five days!!! :)

[Alison]

Another exciting new book thing in five days--Charlie Cochrane has a new Cambridge Fellows novella coming out! Yay!

Lessons in Chasing the Wild Goose: A Cambridge Fellows Mystery novella

[KC]

Antonella wrote: "Cover reveal for a new standalone by Jordan Castillo Price
http://mailchi.mp/psycop/cover-reveal...

«Imperfect Match» is coming in ebook and paperback March 20, and au..."

Cool! I just pre-ordered it. :-)

[Josh]

Ame wrote: "Josh wrote: "Steve wrote: "Susinok wrote: "Josh wrote: "What do you think of Joel Leslie as a narrator? I've been considering using him for a project...."

I really like his works! I've bought a fe..."

Thank all of you for these recs and your opinions on the narrator. I do need to produce more audio this year, and as much as I love my tried and true favorite narrators, you do have to break it up and use different voices now and again.

[Josh]

Jordan wrote: "His Quiet Agent by Ada Maria Soto just released in audiobook!

I sampled it first. The narrator is ok, he’s a bit loud, but otherwise, I guess ok. I bought it anyway, since I was hoping for it in ..."

Okay, I know what I'm using this month's credit on. You guys recced that book so highly!

[Jordan]

Alison wrote: "Antonella wrote: "Cover reveal for a new standalone by Jordan Castillo Price
http://mailchi.mp/psycop/cover-reveal...

«Imperfect Match» is coming in ebook and paperbac..."

I've not heard of this yet either! This is soooo exciting!