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[Melissa]

Currently reading The Sleepwalking Slasher: The True Crime of Samuel J. Keelor .

[Melissa]

Just starting The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian .

[Karen M]

I have moved on to the second book, Hollow City, in the series.

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

Currently reading a romance, A Last Chance Christmas, which I just realized fits not one, but TWO challenges. Gotta love it when that happens! ☺

[Marisa, Cozy Mysteries Assistant Moderator]

I'm currently reading La librería de los finales felices, I think the only book I've read in Spanish this year. I don't know if it's romance, sentimental... charming anyway. And it fits two challenges too ☺

[Sabrina]

Heather L wrote: "Currently reading a romance, A Last Chance Christmas, which I just realized fits not one, but TWO challenges. Gotta love it when that happens! ☺"

Oooh I love cowboys! I think I'm going to add this series to my TBR pile as well!

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

Sabrina: LOL... Happy to have enticed you. I've been following the "Sons of Chance" series for a few years now, though I missed books 14-16 this last summer. I always seem to miss them when they come out, and can never find this imprint at the UBS (every other Harl. imprint, but no Blaze). Even B&N didn't have the trio I missed when I picked this one up on Black Friday. Guess I'll have to order them online, provided they don't show up in my stocking. ;-)

I just got done setting up this week's Teaser Tuesday, for which I am using this book. Here's the exchange between Molly and Ben I used this week:


"That's true, but I just realized I'm getting very hot in this coat, so forget about that question for now. We can talk about it after we come back from the tractor barn and take off all these clothes."

"Depending on how much you plan to take off, we should definitely talk about it."

(Molly and Ben, Chapter 5)

[Mary (Biblophile)]

I just finished A Fearsome Doubt. Trying to catch up on this historical mystery series.

[MaryKatherine]

I'm currently reading The Pillars of the Earth because I LOVE historical fiction. So far I like the story, but I think Follett could have trimmed down some of the excess descriptions.

[Kirsten]

I've been reading The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins as part of the 1001 Books Challenge https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

[MaryKatherine]

Kirsten wrote: "I've been reading The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins as part of the 1001 Books Challenge https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/......"

I've heard such great things about that novel!

[Teresa]

Just started Ilse Witch by Terry Brooks.

[Sabrina]

Teresa wrote: "Just started Ilse Witch by Terry Brooks."

Have you read all the other books in the Shannara series as well? For me, these were my introduction into the world of fantasy!

[Teresa]

Sabrina wrote: "Teresa wrote: "Just started Ilse Witch by Terry Brooks."

Have you read all the other books in the Shannara series as well? For me, these were my introduction into the wo..."

I read the original trilogy - Sword, Elfstones and Wishsong and then the four Heritage of Shannara books years ago but didn't read any further. I also read the Landover series and loved it. I read almost strictly fantasy as a teenager and young adult and Terry Brooks was one of my favorite fantasy authors.

I loved the Shannara books I read but got tired of the way he (or his publisher) cut the books up. I didn't like that after the original series, the books weren't each a self-contained story but more like one giant book cut into three (or four parts) and released a year apart. I don't mind a continuing series but I didn't (and don't) like reading a book and having it end in a cliffhanger so you have to wait a year and read the next book to finish the story.

But about a year ago, I decide to start re-reading some of my old fantasy favorites and catch up on the various series (in between all the other things I am reading). So I re-read the original trilogy and the Heritage of Shannara. Then I decided to read the others in publishing order so I read the Word and Void and am now working on the Jerle Shannara series. I don't remember reading this series before but the first 100 pages I read sound familair so maybe I started it at one point.

I guess this was a long-winded answer to your question Sabrina.

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

Kirsten wrote: "I've been reading The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins as part of the 1001 Books Challenge"

I read that this summer, for a classics group read, and loved it. I hope you are enjoying it!

[Kirsten]

I am! Thanks, Heather L!

[Cathy]

I just finished reading Charlaine Harris's Midnight Crossroad (it's interesting how she's peppered characters and allusions to her other series in this first book), and I've just started Robyn Carr's My Kind of Christmas. I haven't read Ms. Carr before and I'm enjoying her writing style.

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

Cathy wrote: "I just finished reading Charlaine Harris's Midnight Crossroad..."

Another in Mount TBR. I still haven't read the last two Sookie books, either, though I do have them. :-\

[Leslie]

Teresa wrote: "Sabrina wrote: "Teresa wrote: "Just started Ilse Witch by Terry Brooks."

Have you read all the other books in the Shannara series as well? For me, these were my introduc..."

I have read most of the Shannara series. I liked them but now, looking back years later, they didn't make as much of an impact on me as Tolkein or Ursula K. LeGuin did.

[Melodie]

Cathy wrote: "I just finished reading Charlaine Harris's Midnight Crossroad (it's interesting how she's peppered characters and allusions to her other series in this first book), and I've just started Robyn Carr..."

I liked MIDNIGHT CROSSROAD!

[Kirsten]

I've been reading Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic by Matthew Stewart

[Melissa]

Just starting Emerald Green .

[Kirsten]

I've been reading Hot Blooded by Lisa Jackson and listening to Portobello by Ruth Rendell

[Carol]

I'm reading "W Is For Wasted" by Sue Grafton. I've read them all, from "A Is For Alibi" up to this one. She just get better and better!

[L.M.]

I've really been enjoying the Marcia Muller Sharon McCone mystery series. It's really interesting to see such a 'modern' woman PI who got her start in the 1970's. Very interesting.

[Kirsten]

I finished reading Hot Blooded by Lisa Jackson yesterday and I've been listening to A Carrion Death by Michael Stanley

[MaryJo]

Decided to go back to an Anne Perry for a change, and found out the library here hasBlood on the Water. It has been a good read, one featuring William and Hester Monk.

[Bonnie]

I am very eclectic, but almost always read for pleasure. Fantasy, urban fantasy, suspense, historical- and often with a little romance or even a lot involved.

[Karen M]

Still on a Christmas binge with A Dixie Christmas while waiting on two books I've won.

[Thea]

I just finished "The Sweetness of Forgiving" and I am quite dissapointed. It could have been a much better book out of this premise. Oh well....

[Nancy]

Not sure if I mentioned this one before but right after Thanksgiving i read Robert Crais' Suspect.
Absolutely loved it!
Policewoman murdered & her male partner badly hurt. He chooses a new partner, a K-9 dog, and hunts down the perpetrator.

[Melodie]

Nancy wrote: "Not sure if I mentioned this one before but right after Thanksgiving i read Robert Crais' Suspect.
Absolutely loved it!
Policewoman murdered & her male partner badly hurt. He chooses a new partn..."

Major "Craisie" here! Really liked SUSPECT when I read it last year. Looking forward to THE PROMISE coming in the spring!

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

I am currently reading two Christmas romances, Vampire for Christmas and Naughty Christmas Nights.

[Kirsten]

Yesterday, I started reading A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She is Today by Kate Bornstein and finished reading Mercy by Julie Garwood

[Bonnie]

MaryJo wrote: "Decided to go back to an Anne Perry for a change, and found out the library here hasBlood on the Water. It has been a good read, one featuring William and Hester Monk."

She also writes a little Christmas novelette each year. Some are really good if you have not read these.

[Kirsten]

I started reading J by Howard Jacobson yesterday and I'm already at 65%! Boy, is it good!

[Karen M]

Just finished Cupid's Christmas which was another really great story from Bette Lee Crosby. About to start Claustrophobic. Really loving a chance to read Christmas themed books.

[MaryJo]

Bonnie wrote: "MaryJo wrote: "Decided to go back to an Anne Perry for a change, and found out the library here hasBlood on the Water. It has been a good read, one featuring William and Hester Monk..."

I've listened to a couple of her Christmas stories on audios while traveling, and found them a little 'fluffy', but fine for a motor trip. I do
prefer the William Monk and Thomas Pitt books when reading Perry.

[Kirsten]

I just started listening to Firestorm by Nevada Barr. I don't think I'd classify it as a cozy, but it's very compelling.

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

Finished both of the Christmas books started over the weekend (post 4669), and cannot decide what to read next. Nothing at top of the TBR pile is grabbing me. :-\

[Ellen]

, [book:We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Jay Fowler. Brilliant literary novel see my review.

[Melodie]

Kirsten wrote: "I just started listening to Firestorm by Nevada Barr. I don't think I'd classify it as a cozy, but it's very compelling."

One of my favorites in that series!

[Karen M]

Reading Angel Be Good but since two books arrived in the mail today, this is probably the last Christmas book I'll get to this year.

[Kirsten]

I started reading Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis and continued listening to The Shining by Stephen King yesterday.

[MaryKatherine]

Kirsten wrote: "I started reading Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis and continued listening to [book:The Shining|12..."

I absolutely love The Shining! So creepy :)

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

I started The Collector by Nora Roberts yesterday afternoon, am already a quarter of the way done.

[Kirsten]

Yesterday, I continued reading The Clinch Knot by John Galligan. This is a really good mystery with a fly fishing theme. Also, this particular one has an interesting racial plotline that is quite relevant in light of Ferguson.

I also continued listening to The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.

And, I started reading The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir

[Karen M]

I've started reading an ARC of The Well: A Novel which is starting out a bit dark but good.

[Melissa]

Just starting Shakespeare's Spy .

[Chris]

When I am not reading mysteries I read psychological thrillers, some horror and suspense.