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[Susan]

It made me cry too Melodie! I loved this book!!!

[Heidi]

Melodie wrote: "I finished by Maggie Stiefvater last night and it is the best book I've read so far this year. I can't remember the last time a book made me cry, but this one did. It's..."

I really liked it too :)

[Heidi]

Just finished The Girl Who Played with Fire - I highly recommend! Now listening to Drums, Girls, And Dangerous Pie and reading The Postmistress.

[Denise]

I finished While My Sister Sleeps last night. (See message 269 for brief synopsis of the story.) I would recommend this book to anyone and everyone. If you do decide to read it have tissue available for the last 20 to 30 pages. Also, I wrote a review for the book for those that are interested. Fabulous book, I will definitely read more of Barbara Delinsky's work.

[Melodie]

I'm reading . Love this series with its VERY unusual P.I.!

[Denise]

I am a little over half way through Amazing Gracie: A Dog's Tale by Dan Dye and Mark Beckloff. Within the first 20 pages I laughed out loud and cried. Even though I am more a cat person than a dog person this is a very touching story about a Great Dane that is deaf (the runt of the litter and she was going to be euthanized the next day if someone didn't take her).

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

Reading the paranormal thriller Blood Ties by Kay Hooper. Love this series, and especially like that she has started to include an index of characters and their abilities, as well as noted throughout in which previous book some events took place. Very helpful when one is twelve books into a series!

[Kaye]

I'm reading The Last Snow by Eric Van Lustbader- a really well written spy thriller. Something very different for me.

[Heidi]

I have about 40 pages left of The Postmistress. Unless the last 40 pages are the best ever, I am not really recommending it. It was very slow throughout. I am listening to The Lovely Bones on audio. So far, so good with that book.

[Denise]

I'm about halfway through A Mother's Secret. I think this is the last book of the Diamond Legacy series. I have liked the series but it seems like every book has revolved around a "secret" pregnancy which makes the whold series kind of convoluted. I am starting to have trouble keeping up with who belongs to whom. In a way, I'm glad there are no more books because of that.

[Denise]

I finished A Mother's Secret. It was good but after reading the other books in the series you know how it is going to end.

I started reading The Intercession of Spirits: Working With Animals, Angels & Ancestors by Ted Andrews and The 1910s by David Blanke.

[Denise]

Well, I got sidetracked from the two non-fiction books that I started reading. I wanted to read a fiction book so I started (and finished) Open Secret: Lost... But Not Forgotten. This book was of interest to me because it is the story of 3 kids that get separated when their parents get killed, two of them are adopted by different families and the oldest girl goes to live with her aunt and uncle. When the oldest girl is in her early 30s she hires a private investigator to find her brother and sister. Since I was adopted and also found my biological family when I was in my mid-twenties I found this book to be very realistic.

[Kaye]

I'm reading Evenings at the Argentine Club by Julia Amante- quite good.

[Melodie]

I'm reading .

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

Finished reading If Books Could Kill this evening, and now it's time to stop procrastinating and get to The Botticelli Secret. I meant to read it in January, but life had other plans. TBS is one of three books I hope to get through by end of the month. Here goes...

[Heidi]

I am reading - a YA book. Melodie - how is Homer's Odyssey??

[Melodie]

Heidi wrote: "I am reading - a YA book. Melodie - how is Homer's Odyssey??"

It's good, and I'm not really a cat person! But I also read last year and really liked it, too.

[Denise]

I'm almost done with The 1910s. I'm not really a "history" buff but I like the way this book is set up by topics such as "Advertising", "Fashion", "Food", "Literature", etc. so that you can read in depth what is interesting to you and skim the topics of lesser interest (or skip them altogether if you want). I have already put William H Young's The 1930s on reserve at the library. I am skipping the 1920s as I am not as interested in that era as I am in the 30s and The Great Depression.

[Heidi]

Thanks for the update Melodie. I am a total cat person, so was wondering about that book - and the Dewey book too!

[Susan]

I'm reading Saving Ceecee Honeycutt: A Novel by Beth Hoffman!

[Heidi]

Susan wrote: "I'm reading Saving Ceecee Honeycutt: A Novel by Beth Hoffman!"

Susan wrote: "I'm reading Saving Ceecee Honeycutt: A Novel by Beth Hoffman!"

I was looking at the book - give an update when you are done please :)

[Susan]

Everyone seemed to have loved it. I am really liking it so far but have just started! I will let you know how it was when I finish Heidi!

[Sherrie]

Starting

[Melodie]

I'm reading . I have a weakness for pop culture bios, and porn stars just fascinate me.

[Heidi]

I'm listening to on audio book. Melodie - you naughty girl!

[Denise]

I finished The 1910s which was very enjoyable. I have ordered The 1930s: (skipping the 1920s, not as interested in that era). I like how the books are divided up by topic and if your not very interested it is easy to scan or skip that section.

I'm 120 pages into The Intercession of Spirits: Working With Animals, Angels & Ancestors by Ted Andrews. Quite a bit of the front of the book is an autobiography of Ted. It gives real insight into his life and how he got into all things metaphysical. I think I'm going to have to purchase my own copy of this book.

Also I'm concurrently reading Cadillac Jack : A Novel by Larry McMurtry. I've tried McMurtry before and couldn't get into his books. The description of this book sounded interesting but so far it is a little tedious. I'm on page 54 and if it doesn't start moving pretty soon, well back to the library it will go.

[Melodie]

The only McMurtry book I ever read was LONESOME DOVE. I loved it. Was never able to get into another of his books.

[Denise]

Melodie wrote: "The only McMurtry book I ever read was LONESOME DOVE. I loved it. Was never able to get into another of his books."

That's funny, Melodie, because I tried to read Lonesome Dove and it bored me to tears. I just could not get into it and that is why I haven't tried any of his other books until now. Cadillac Jack : A Novel is supposed to be about an antique/book scout and that is why I decided to try McMurtry again. Thus far it hasn't been "all that" but I am hoping it picks up. All the reviews that I have read about it are so good. Maybe I'm just not a McMurtry fan.

[Denise]

I finished up Ted Andrews's book, The Intercession of Spirits: Working With Animals, Angels & Ancestors. There was an extra perk with this book that I didn't expect--Ted told about much of his life and how he developed his talents in the metaphysical area. I am still in shock that he is gone. (He was my age!)

Now I'm starting A User's Guide to the Universe: Surviving the Perils of Black Holes, Time Paradoxes, and Quantum Uncertainty, my newest Giveaway win. I've just started (at about 3:30 a.m. this morning) and either my brain was drained or this isn't as "physics for dummies" as I had hoped.

I am also starting Super Searchers Make It On Their Own: Top Independent Information Professionals Share Their Secrets for Starting and Running a Research Business. Since I am in the information research business (so to speak) I thought I might get some tips. I have put several books on reserve from this series so I will have more books of this nature coming up on my TBR list.

[Melodie]

Heidi wrote: "I'm listening to on audio book. Melodie - you naughty girl!"

I saw a review of this book in our Sunday paper a couple of weeks ago. Not something I would normally read, but it sounded interesting. I finished ! Not a bad read actually.

[Heidi]

Melodie- it is not something I would normally read either, but have seen stuff about it everywhere (EW - loved it) and after reading the reviews on here I thought I would give it a try. The author is doing a great job of making it more of a story about a woman and her family than about science. I'll let you know how it is when I am done. Glad you liked your Sinner book - it looks interesting too.

[Denise]

Still plugging through Cadillac Jack : A Novel. I know I've said if a book doesn't grab me in the first 100 pages I'm not going to finish but this was so highly reviewed that I keep hoping I will get to the good part. I'm currently up to page 103. I keep thinking "just the next 10 pages" so I guess I am going to finish it. If it takes me more than 2 or 3 days to read a book it isn't a "great read".

[Susan]

I'm reading Wintergirls and am loving it!! Hooked me from page one!

[Kaye]

I'm reading Murder on the Cliffs which has a really nice gothic feel to it. That's appropriate since it is set in Cornwall and Daphne Du Maurier is the main character.

[Melodie]

Susan wrote: "I'm reading Wintergirls and am loving it!! Hooked me from page one!"

This came up as a recommend for me on Amazon the other day. When I saw that it was really about anorexics I wasn't interested. I had 2 friends who had that problem when I was in high school, before the condition actually had a name. I saw first hand what it does to people. Don't want to read about it.

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

Have spent much of the weekend reading The Botticelli Secret by Marina Fiorato. Finally past the halfway mark! Some of the language is pretty course (as befits the unlikely heroine), but so far it has been intriguing and engaging.

[alicia]

Right now i'm reading Since the last 3 reads have been cozies.

[Denise]

I'm about ready to start Time of My Life: A Novel because I can't renew it again at the library. I found it when I was ordering Patrick Swayze's book The Time of My Life. It is about the woman with the perfect suburban life but her marriage is faltering, and she is sunk in the tedium of days spent changing diapers and she wonders "what if?".

Then one morning she wakes up 7 years in the past, before she is married, before her daughter was born and she is armed with twenty-twenty hindsight and free to choose all over again.... Sounds good doesn't it??? It surely has got to be better than Cadillac Jack : A Novel which I finally finished. I don't want to talk about that book anymore. If anyone wants to know my finishing thoughts on that wretched book please go to my review.

Since it is after 1 a.m. I will decide on my book for April's "group read" later today.

[Kimberly]

When I'm not reading cozies I love Political/Spy Thrillers. The late Allan Drury (political) and Robert Ludlum (Spy) are my all time favorites, but David BaldacciCamel Club series is excellent and Nelson DeMille is brilliant. I also like Vince Flynn.
Susan Howatch Church Of England series is so engrossing, I think is the best.

[Suzanne]

When I'm not reading cozies, I love "grittier" mysteries, traditional mysteries, thrillers, women's fiction, and general fiction. On occasion I read history or romanantic suspense. Currently I'm alternating between The Six Wives of Henry VIII and PS, I Love You.

[Heidi]

I just got done with , which was excellent -- even though it is way far away from my normal books. I am starting on audio today.

[Melodie]

Heidi wrote: "I just got done with , which was excellent -- even though it is way far away from my normal books. I am starting [bookcover:Darkfever|112750..."

I saw your review on the Henrietta Lacks book. That looks really interesting!

[Heidi]

Melodie - it was! I am kind of sad to be done with it. I listened to it on audio and I wonder sometimes if people like books as much in print as I did on audiobook because the narrator can really make a book great -- but from the other reviews, it looks like others felt the same as me.

[Kaye]

Melodie wrote: "Susan wrote: "I'm reading Wintergirls and am loving it!! Hooked me from page one!"

This came up as a recommend for me on Amazon the other day. When I saw that it was really about..."

I'm with you on not reading this one. We came very close to losing a daughter with this horrible disease.

[Kaye]

Kimberly wrote: "When I'm not reading cozies I love Political/Spy Thrillers. The late Allan Drury (political) and Robert Ludlum (Spy) are my all time favorites, b..."

I recently finished Last Snow by Eric Van Lustbader. This might be one you would have an interest in.
Last Snow

[Suzanne]

I really like the Ellie Hatcher series! I'm on the waiting list at the library for this one.

[alicia]

I have started as my non cozy read. Can't wait to catch up on this series I love Jack.

[Heidi]

alicia wrote: "I have started as my non cozy read. Can't wait to catch up on this series I love Jack."

I love this series - I have only read the first two, but am eager to read the third one soon!

[Denise]

I finished Time of My Life: A Novel by Allison Winn Scotch. It was a really good read. I didn't give it a 5 star because I felt that the ending was too abrupt. I felt there should be a little more at the end to wrap it up. I don't want to get into specifics which would be spoilers and would ruin the book for any of you that decide to read it. But if you have ever looked back in your past and thought I wish I had...then read this book. I liked it so well that I have ordered another of her books, The Department of Lost & Found: A Novel. It sounds really good too. I may just have found another favorite author!

Next up for me is How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter.

[Mary]

I'm halfway through Stephen King's Under the Dome. At over 1000 pages, it's a monumental work but well worth it. King has gotten away from the horror genre he's famous for, and this book is a very in-depth and sometimes frightening telling of what happens to one town when it's suddenly isolated from the rest of the world.
So why does this cozy writer read Stephen King? Because I find him to be an excellent writer, even though his stories are sometimes difficult to deal with. Hopefully I can learn something from his writing as I go along for the never-boring ride.