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[Heidi]

Nope it is a hard copy. I bought it at Target of all places :) I will check it out.

[Elizabeth]

I am totally in love with scandinavian mysteries. Mankell, Fossum, Holt, Peter Hoeg, Indriasson but needed to try a different genre for awhile. Loved Bowen's Molly Murphy and look forward to more cozies

[Melodie]

Currently reading and .

[Ellen]

Elizabeth wrote: "I am totally in love with scandinavian mysteries. Mankell, Fossum, Holt, Peter Hoeg, Indriasson but needed to try a different genre for awhile. Loved Bowen's Molly Murphy and look forward to more c..."

Hey Elizabeth-Just wanted to say I have the same love, exactly!

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

Karendenice wrote: "Heather, you are a bad girl."

Who, me?? *wicked evil grin*

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

Karendenice wrote: "Heather L it took me forever to find the passage that you're talking about. Shuffling through pages on a nook is horrible. I found how horrible today. But yes I did find it. I thought it was hilari..."

Ugh! See, that is the one big thing I don't like about ebooks. It's hard to page through, or find a section you wanted to reread. Glad I'm not the only one who thought that passage was funny. *g*

(Heidi - did you find the page we were talking about?)

[Karendenice]

Hey y'all I love the descriptions he writes. Like (view spoiler)[Like a train arriving at a nightly platform, pulling the memories behind it on a rope. A lot of dragging. A lot of ackward bounces. (hide spoiler)]

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

Yes, there are many beautiful descriptive passages. Zusak has a wonderful way with words.

[Caroline]

Don't think that the Spenser novels could be considered cozies. I'm reading (with great joy and also great sorrow, since I know it's the last)

[Melodie]

Caroline wrote: "Don't think that the Spenser novels could be considered cozies. I'm reading (with great joy and also great sorrow, since I know it's the last) "

That's one of my next up. Ace Atkins is supposed to continue the Spenser books, but I have serious reservations about that. Ace is a good writer, but he's no Parker.

[Karendenice]

Hey Heather L, do you know if Heidi ever found her copy? Have you finished the book?

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

Karendenice: No idea, and not yet. Are you finished? I'm about 75% done. Didn't get much reading in last night - too busy putting together this week's Thursday Thirteen post for my blog and visiting those of friends. Plus I had to watch Criminal Minds. Should finish tonight or tomorrow.

[Karendenice]

I have about 130 pages left to read. I hope to get through with it tonight. Was Criminal Minds on last night? I'll have to go check my recordings. I love that show.

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

Yes, there was a new episode on last night. Hard to believe shows are almost over for the season. New eps of CSI and The Mentalist are on tonight, but maybe I can read a few pages during the commercials. I will not stay up until 2am finishing it, though. I won't. (And maybe if I repeat that a few times I'll start to believe it...grin.)

[Heidi]

Karendenice wrote: "I have about 130 pages left to read. I hope to get through with it tonight. Was Criminal Minds on last night? I'll have to go check my recordings. I love that show."

I'm out of town. I will check my book when I get back home :)

[Karendenice]

OK Heidi. We were just missin you. :)

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

Karen and Heidi: Just finished The Book Thief and am still a wee bit sniffly. I knew I would be. Excellent book. Loved it! Definitely one I would recommend and read again.

Karen, have you finished yet? I know we were about the same point in the book this afternoon.

[❂ Murder by Death]

My copy of Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris arrived today and as there is no way I can *not* start reading it immediately, I'll be putting my cozies aside for a day or two. :D

[Karendenice]

Yes Heather I just finished it this am. I tried to last night but I kept falling asleep. I was weepy also. Incredible awesome book.

[Caroline]

Melodie - I hadn't heard that someone was continuing the Spenser series. Like you, I will have to reserve judgement. After Ian Fleming, the Bond series was never the same. Although Nancy Pickard did a good job finishing up Virginia Rich's series. We'll see.

[Robin]

Last night, I started re-reading one of my very favorite books ever--A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. Still brilliant after all these years.

-R

[Melodie]

Dru wrote: "I'm reading by Harlan Coben"

I liked that one! Love the Bolitar books!

[Betty]

I just finished "The Book of Obeah" by Sandra Carrington-Smith before a cozy, am now reading "Time Travel and Harry Potter" by Richard H. Jones which is a technical description of how time travel done by Harry Potter in the Prisoner of Askaban differed from other time travel novels and how it worked in that novel. Next up is another cozy ARC, a new release by Maggie Sefton. Oh, and I'm also reading "Divine Intervention" by Cheryl Kaye Tardiff

[Sherry]

Betty wrote: "I just finished "The Book of Obeah" by Sandra Carrington-Smith before a cozy, am now reading "Time Travel and Harry Potter" by Richard H. Jones which is a technical description of how time travel d..."

What is the name of the new Maggie Sefton? Is it in her Knit Shop series, her Realtor series, or something else entirely?

[Ariel]

I recently finished Hell's Corner by David Baldacci - fifth in the Camel Club series. I like the Camel Club because it is suspenseful and even the fight scenes are without gory violence.

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

Spent the weekend reading A Courtesan's Guide to Getting Your Man by Susan Donovan and Celeste Bradley. This was a really good, hot romance that follows the lives (and loves) of two women, one in contemporay Boston, the other in early 1800s London. I had a difficult time putting it down, especially near the end, when it kept flipping back and forth between the ages from one chapter to the next. That was a bit maddening in that I really wanted to know how Ophelia's story ended (London), even as we followed the parallel thread of Piper's story. Highly recommend to anyone who enjoys romance!

(This was a GoodReads win.)

[Ellen]

I'm listening to the audio version of and I'm reading , , , and .

[Kaye]

Currently reading Almost Home by .Mariah Stewart and it's pretty good so far. I've read the first two in the series and enjoyed them a lot

[Misty]

I finished The Aloha Quilt a few days ago. When I first picked it up (audiobook), I thought it was a cozy. I just didn't pay attention and didn't read the blurb about it very carefully. I kept waiting for the mystery to start! LOL. I ended up enjoying it very much though. Yesterday I finished Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close for my book club. I wasn't crazy about that one, but I didn't throw it out the window either! :-) Right now I'm reading Digital Fortress and listening to Straken. I'm enjoying both of them. I love Dan Brown, and Straken is the third book in a fantasy series that I'm reading with my husband. Once in a while, we like to read the same books and then discuss them.

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

Started reading one of my recent GR wins this morning before work, You Belong to Me by Karen Rose. Didn't get past the first chapter, but looking forward to diving into it tonight.

[Shannon]

I am reading The Millionaire Mistress

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

Up to page 313 in You Belong to Me, about 60% of the way through. I'm really itching to read more, but that stupid day job is getting in the way again. Sigh...maybe I can sneak in a chapter later. *g*

[Heidi]

Heather and Karen I finally read pg. 111 of the Book Thief and agree on the chuckle :)

[Betty]

I'm expecting to read Divine Intervention by Cheryl Kaye Tardif, which I started, then had to leave while doing a couple of review books. Cheryl, I love what I've read so far!
I have two e-books lined up after that, one for review, one sent me by the author for my own enjoyment. I don't have an e-reader, so that means I have to either print them out or read them on my shared computer!

[Lois]

I'm currently reading City of Shadows by Ariana Franklin. I really enjoyed her Mistress of the Art of Death series (her heroine is a medieval Temperance Brennan.) It's a shame the author died suddenly a few months ago. She wrote incredible books.

[Melodie]

Clare wrote: "I like Julia Spencer-Fleming's Clare Fergusson series and all things noir - Dashiell Hammett etc, can't resist Margery Allingham's Campion or DL Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey! Have recently discovered ..."

Have you read yet? A really stellar read!

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

Heidi (don't listen to me) wrote: "Heather and Karen I finally read pg. 111 of the Book Thief and agree on the chuckle :)"

Hehe...glad to know it wasn't just us. *g*

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

I finished You Belong to Me by Karen Rose - was up way too late two nights in a row finishing it. Really good suspense. Glad I was able to sleep in today, though!

Read three Peter Wimsey shorts this afternoon from Dorothy L. Sayers: The Complete Stories, a total of 74 pages. Slowly making my way through this anthology, almost at the halfway point.

Not feeling much in the mood for a cozy, so think I'll dive into a paranormal romance next, At Grave's End by Jeaniene Frost, third book in the series.

[Kaye]

Reading The Linen Queen: A Novel by Patricia Falvey and loving it. Will try to finish up today. Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

[Beth]

I just finished Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home for my book club. I found it fascinating, and it made for a good discussion.

After reading all of the Best First Novel Agatha Award nominated books before that, I'm returning to the Stieg Larsson trilogy, which I got for Christmas, to finish the last book: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

[Donna]

I just finished . I did not like it at all. The main character, Jazz, just rubbed me the wrong way (starting with her name, which she picked out herself). I doubt I'll read anything else by this author.

[Melodie]

Reading . THe Morganville Vampires series is a favorite of mine!

[alicia]

Melodie wrote: "Reading . THe Morganville Vampires series is a favorite of mine!"

mine too!!!

[alicia]

I just finished and it was a very different,humourous and disgusting read.

[Kimmie]

Clare wrote: "I like Julia Spencer-Fleming's Clare Fergusson series and all things noir - Dashiell Hammett etc, can't resist Margery Allingham's Campion or DL Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey! Have recently discovered ..."
I just discovered Julia Spencer-Fleming's Clare Fergusson series. I am listening to
and I am loving it. I will definitely be reading more in this series.
-Kimmie

[Melodie]

Clare wrote: "No! Can't wait to get by hands on it! Which is your favorite in the series?"

Hard to pick just one of the Clare & Russ books, but I'd have to say that ONE WAS A SOLDIER would definitely be right up there.

[Melodie]

alicia wrote: "I just finished and it was a very different,humourous and disgusting read."

I just got this from PBS and ma looking forward to it.

[Kris]

I'm reading by Steve Berry

[Caroline]

Next, I plan to read . Since the Harry Potter series completed, I've come to enjoy Rick Riordan and also John Stephens' series which started with The Emerald Atlas. They're supposed to be YA but then, I'm just a big kid at heart. LOL

[Ellen]

I am reading by Mikhail Bulgakov.