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[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

Finished The Lost Hero and started book two, The Son of Neptune.

[Nancy]

Nancy wrote: "I am reading Brad Thor's Black List. It really moves! Have read most of his previous ones &
consider him a "solid" good read :)"

I just finished Black List a couple of weeks ago - I agree - it really moves. And like you, I like Brad Thor's books.

[Connie]

Just finished Dennis Lehane's Live By Night. Wonderful, an epic saga!

www.conniearchermysteries.com

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

Finished reading The Son of Neptune last night. Another good story, though I didn't like it quite as much as the first book in this series. Here's hoping I can get book 3 and the 6th Kingdom Keepers from my sister next time she is up to visit.

Now reading Undead and Unfinished by MaryJanice Davidson. I remember a few people saying they didn't like this one as much as other books in the series, so we'll see what I think of it. I needed to finish a "U" book by Sunday for the Summer challenge, and this is the only one I could find in Mount TBR that doesn't come in the middle of a series. I'll have to work towards that other "U" book for the Autumn challenge. ;)

[Traci]

I used to read a LOT of cozy mysteries, but lately I've been mostly reading YA dystpoian novels (like Marie Lu's Legend) and zombies (The Forest of Hands and Teeth was great). But I'm trying to get back into Cozy's.

[Leslie]

Tray wrote: "I used to read a LOT of cozy mysteries, but lately I've been mostly reading ..."

Me too - well not the YA dystopian or zombie novels but reading fewer cozies than I have in the past. Lately I have been reading a lot of police procedural mysteries - got hooked on 3 new series in this sub-genre: the Inspector Erlunder series by Arnaldur Indriðason, the Martin Beck series by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö, and the Three Pines series by Louise Penny.

[Melodie]

Tray wrote: "I used to read a LOT of cozy mysteries, but lately I've been mostly reading YA dystpoian novels (like Marie Lu's Legend) and zombies (The Forest of Hands and Teeth was great). But I'm trying to get..."

I read a lot of YA stuff. Thought LEGEND & PRODIGY were both stellar reads!

[Karen M]

I'm reading a mystery/thriller, Death Never Sleeps, good from the beginning.

[Kai Hunter]

Well unfortunately, I work full time so there goes a big chunk of my weekdays. I also collect postcards and this year I've started scanning and cataloging my collection. (I'm upwards of 2000 cards now. I couldn't have done this when I only had a couple hundred!) As for reading, I'll read anything that looks good but my not so guilty pleasure is Christmas stories and romances. I read them all year long. Right now I'm reading Life of Pi and The School for Good and Evil.

[Jennifer]

Finished two today: An Absolute Scandal and Never Go Back . Almost done with Hit Me and am also reading Testimony of Two Men , All About All About Eve: The Complete Behind-the-Scenes Story of the Bitchiest Film Ever Made! and Laced with Magic . I'm enjoying all of them but seem to be taking longer to get through them than usual.

[Jeanne]

I just finished The House at the End of Hope Street. I loved this charming story about an enchanted house and its residents.

[Melodie]

Finished Hopeless. Not what I expected and a really good readl

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

Started Oliver Twist last night for a classics group read. Only up to chapter five, so not much happening in it yet.

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Got a Nook HD so I'm a little bit giddy, soooo using it I'm gonna start The Uninvited Guest . I like this series of medieval mysteries.

[Linda]

Heather L wrote: "Started Oliver Twist last night for a classics group read. Only up to chapter five, so not much happening in it yet."

Such a great classic. I loved it.

[Linda]

Last night I started Hallie Ephron's suspense novel Come and Find Me. Deliciously creepy so far.

[Karen M]

I'm about to start It Happens in the Dark, .

[Heidi]

Melodie wrote: "Finished Hopeless. Not what I expected and a really good readl"

I bought the kindle and audible addition of Hopeless a few weeks ago - have yet to get started on it but am glad you liked it :)

[Melodie]

Heidi *Listen. I'll just keep talking anyway. * wrote: "Melodie wrote: "Finished Hopeless. Not what I expected and a really good readl"

I bought that and the audible addition a few weeks ago - have yet to get started on it..."

It started out slow, but it went in directions I really didn't expect!

[Leslie]

Linda S. wrote: "Heather L wrote: "Started Oliver Twist last night for a classics group read. Only up to chapter five, so not much happening in it yet."

Such a great classic. I loved it."

Me too!

[Leslie]

I have been reading some historical fiction recently - finished Post Captain, currently reading The Sea and the Silence, and have The Widow of Jerusalem sitting on the table.

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Needed something different so I stated Never Go Back . My first Jack Reacher novel. A good page turner. Enjoying it so far.

[Melodie]

Christina wrote: "Needed something different so I stated Never Go Back. My first Jack Reacher novel. A good page turner. Enjoying it so far."

I've read 2 Reacher books, Killing Floor and 61 Hours. I wanted to love them because Lee Child is great, but I didn't. I read a couple of other series that are kind of along the same line as these books that I like. Don't know what it is about the Reacher books.

[Marja]

Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall. This was honestly one of the best books I've ever read -- right up there with To Kill a Mockingbird. I didn't want it to end. It's takes place during the 1960s and the civil rights movement. A young white girl and a black woman are thrown together through fate and the things they go through... Well, you'll have to read it.
Whistling Past the Graveyard

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Marja wrote: "Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall. This was honestly one of the best books I've ever read -- right up there with To Kill a Mockingbird. I didn't want it to end. It's takes place during..."

This in my to-read pile. It looks good. Glad to hear it stands up to expectation.

I finished The Kitchen House which about five of my friends read and said it is THE book to read. I felt expectation was too high - but that book was amazing. One of those books where you say now THIS is why I read books. People had such a strong reaction to it...I recommend it.

[Melodie]

Reading The Double. LOVE Pelecanos!

[Debbie]

I'm readingUp Country about a retired army vet. returning to Vietman at the request of our goverment. It is very interesting. I seem to read a Vietnam based novel once a year or so.

[Ian]

You have to be in the perfect setting for a good cozy right? ( Fire, cats, etc) So when I'm not 'cozying' I love reading diaries and letters, not snooped from other people's top drawers or mail boxes I do mean PUBLISHED ones :-). I'm currently second time around in the Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh - two literary heroes of mine coming together in a great literary correspondance.

[Leslie]

I am currently reading the third book in the Palliser series, The Eustace Diamonds. Very good so far :)

[Pamela]

When I'm not reading a cozy, I might be reading almost anything. I like some darker stories too, recently read Gone Girl and really enjoyed it. I really like cozy women's fiction too, like what Maeve Binchy used to write and what Debbie Macomber does with her Cedar Cove series and especially her Christmas books, love those.

[Connie]

I read that several years ago and loved it, it was a travelogue of Viet Nam.

[Nancy]

I read romances..love those happy endings!
Jennifer Greene's MacKinnon trilogy is a good one :)

[❂ Murder by Death]

I started Mud Season: How One Woman's Dream of Moving to Vermont, Raising Children, Chickens and Sheep, and Running the Old Country Store Pretty Much Led to One Calamity After Another last night.

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

❂ Jennifer wrote: "I started Mud Season: How One Woman's Dream of Moving to Vermont, Raising Children, Chickens and Sheep, and Running the Old Country Store Pretty Much Led to One Calamity After Another last night."

Wow, that's quite a title! ;)

[Lynn]

On a recent visit to a bookstore, The Mysterious Benedict Society caught my eye. I just started it. It's interesting so far.

[Nancy]

Just started The Vienna Prelude ( my book club's Oct 2013 selection). Really liked Bodie Thoene's Zion Chronicles so am expecting this series to be good too.

[❂ Murder by Death]

Heather L wrote: "Wow, that's quite a title! ;) ..."

lol, isn't it though? I thought for sure it would just use "Mud Season" but nope, the whole enchilada! :)

[MaryJo]

Nancy wrote: "Just started The Vienna Prelude ( my book club's Oct 2013 selection). Really liked Bodie Thoene's Zion Chronicles so am expecting this series to be good too."

Nancy, I can vouch for Vienna Prelude and the rest of the Zion Covenant series - same quality of work as the Chronicles, great reading.

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

Still reading Oliver Twist. It's good, but -- due to season premier week and a busier than expected weekend -- I am only about halfway through. Really need to buckle down and finish it this week!

[Leslie]

Heather L wrote: "Still reading Oliver Twist. It's good, but -- due to season premier week and a busier than expected weekend -- I am only about halfway through. Really need to buckle down and finish it this week!"

My memory is that the second half of the book goes pretty quickly ;)

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

Leslie wrote: "My memory is that the second half of the book [Oliver Twist] goes pretty quickly ;)"

I sure hope so! : D

[Debbie]

Connie wrote: "I read that several years ago and loved it, it was a travelogue of Viet Nam."

You are right Connie really gives the reader a feel for the land and a good bit of history of the war overall. I have less than 100 pages to go and I have really plowed through this. Some of the thoughts about a survior's outlook are enough to take your breath away.

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Just finished Never Go Back . I enjoyed it.

[Connie]

Debbie wrote: "Connie wrote: "I read that several years ago and loved it, it was a travelogue of Viet Nam."

You are right Conniereally gives the reader a feel for the land and a good ..."

Funny thing was I received it from a book club by mistake and intended to return it. But once I opened it, I was hooked.

[Debbie]

Connie wrote: "Debbie wrote: "Connie wrote: "I read that several years ago and loved it, it was a travelogue of Viet Nam."

You are right Conniereally gives the reader a feel for the l..."

I just finished it...what a wild ride. I'm going to be looking for more of Nelson DeMilles books. I'll be headed to the library.....

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

Leslie: Less than a hundred pages to go. You were right, the second half is going a bit faster. But then, I found that to be true of A Tale of Two Cities, too.

[Karen M]

I've started a book, In the Middle which I won and sadly the editing is really bad and it detracts from the story which is actually decent. I don't understand how an author can self publish a book without editing it. It's really sad.

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

Ugh! Sorry to hear that, Karen. Poor editing (or lack thereof) would irritate me, too.

[Claire]

I read a variety of fiction, often murder mysteries that are edgier than cozies. One I'm reading right now, Death Will Get You Sober by Elizabeth Zelvin is taking me longer than most books to read because the subtheme of alcoholism doesn't lend itself to a light, quick reading. But the characters are realistic and I'll read the sequel when I'm done with this. But maybe I'll read something light first, for a change of pace.

Most of the books on my GRs list are ones that I've read more than 20 years ago, so I'm still building my current list. For the past year, I've read mostly mysteries and most of those are cozies.

[Leslie]

Heather L wrote: "Leslie: Less than a hundred pages to go. You were right, the second half is going a bit faster. But then, I found that to be true of A Tale of Two Cities, too."

I think it is because there are so many characters that have to be introduced in the first part. Are these (Oliver Twist and A Tale of Two Cities) the only Dickens you have read? They are 2 of my favorite Dickens but I also really liked Bleak House (which is a bit of a mystery!).