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[Brenda]

Heather L wrote: "Brenda— I know, right? I went back and looked up the person who posted it, and it wasn’t Audible. Also looks like she did it with other books, so probably not a legal upload. 🙄"

Probably not!! oops! I wish people wouldn't do that - the authors work hard for their money...

[Brenda]

My review for Night Train to Paris by Fliss Chester

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Brenda]

That's the 2nd Paris one Heather :)

[Brenda]

My review for Unfaithful by Natalie Barelli

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

Brenda— I can’t hear you.... 😛

[Brenda]

Haha!! I'll just have to shout louder then!! 😁

[Brenda]

My review for My Name is Anton by Catherine Ryan Hyde

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Brenda]

My review for White Throat by Sarah Thornton

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[PattyMacDotComma]

Author Catherine Ryan Hyde is a favourite of many readers for her hopeful, heartwarming books. Seven Perfect Things: A Novel is the first I've read, and it was a happy break between heavier reads.
4★ Link to my 'Seven Perfect Things' review

[PattyMacDotComma]

I just finished the wonderful Song of the Crocodile by Aussie Aboriginal author (and Nardi Simpson. Just great!
5★ Link to my 'Crocodile' review

[PamG]

Here is my 5 star review for a police procedural/crime thriller: Breathe Your Last by Lisa Regan.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Alice]

I finished by Douglas Preston and Lincold Child. First book I ever read by them. Enjoyed it greatly. Loved the history and forensics.

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

Finished reading Silver Bells by Fern Michaels, and also plucked an older rom com from Mount TBR, I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus by Debbi Rawlins. Am now reading The President Is Missing by James Patterson/Bill Clinton. Got 100 pages into it last night. Short chapters and reads fast (at least so far).

[PamG]

I finished Golden in Death by J.D. Robb.

My 5 star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Brenda]

It's a fantastic series isn't it Pam. Every book is great - I hope she keeps going with them for a long time to come :)

[PamG]

Brenda wrote: "It's a fantastic series isn't it Pam. Every book is great - I hope she keeps going with them for a long time to come :)"

Agreed. I will probably read the next one in late December and I am looking forward to it.

[Brenda]

You'll love it Pam :)

[PattyMacDotComma]

I read the 4th book in Charlie Garratt's Inspector James Given series, Where Every Man, and I'm sure readers of the earlier books would like this one, where he is facing the fast-approaching Nazis in France in 1938.
3.5★ Link to my review of Where Every Man

[PattyMacDotComma]

I also read the 4th book in Graham Brack's delightful Master Mercurius mystery series. Mercurius is a 17th century Dutch minister/priest/university lecturer who has a talent for investigation. The Noose's Shadow is another entertaining adventure!
4.5★ Link to my Noose's Shadow review

[Brenda]

My review for The Lost Letters of Playfair Street by AA Michelle Montebello

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Marianna]

I’m reading The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager. Definitely not a cozy but very well written and thoroughly enjoyable!

[Jane]

Rereading The Talisman Ring by Georgette Heyer, as a companion to Almacks' discussion during November. I've read it often enough that I could participate without rereading, but felt like a reread anyway.

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

I’m sure Brenda is going to laugh at this, but I was up until 5 am finishing The President Is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson. I remember looking at the clock around 1 am, then became so caught up in the action the next thing I knew the book was finished and it was 5 am.

And if the thought of a pandemic virus is frightening, this book proves that a computer virus can be just as devastating, maybe even more so.

Loved the president’s speech in the last chapter. Much of what was said is relevant to what’s going on in our country/the world now. Definitely recommend this one!

[Brenda]

I hope you don't have to work today Heather!! Though I guess it's Sunday in your neck of the woods as it's Monday morning here :) It obviously says a lot about the book that you were so engrossed you didn't realise the time!! I wouldn't have been able to keep my eyes open though!!

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

Brenda— Yes, Sunday here, so I was able to sleep until 11 am. It was getting more difficult to keep my eyes open during the last half hour, but I was so close to the end and anxious to see how it played out. Have been a slug most of the day. I did take garage out and wash dishes, but not much else. Watched a couple Christmas movies, Packers football game on right now (we’re crushing the Chicago Bears!). Hoping I make it to the end of the game, which will be after 10 pm.

[Brenda]

Haha!! Sounds like you're a glutton for punishment! Good for you though - do what you like, when you like :) Enjoy!

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

“Sounds like you're a glutton for punishment!”

Occasionally, yes. 😂

[Meg]

Heather L wrote: "I’m sure Brenda is going to laugh at this, but I was up until 5 am finishing The President Is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson. I remember looking at the clock around 1 a..."

Ok then, I've added this to the WL. 😄

[Brenda]

Heather L wrote: "“Sounds like you're a glutton for punishment!”

Occasionally, yes. 😂"

Haha!

[Brenda]

My review for Misty by Fiona McArthur

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Brenda]

My review for Outsider by Linda Castillo

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[PattyMacDotComma]

I finally read the disturbing, macabre, sometimes hilariously slapstick historical fiction that is Booker-winning Aussie author Richard Flanagan's celebrated Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish. What an important, unique talent this man is!
5★ Link to my Gould's Book of Fish review

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

I’m cozying up to a A Cowboy Under the Mistletoe right now (alas, only in my reading).

[Brenda]

LOL!

[Brenda]

My review for Under the Golden Sun, the brilliant new historical from Aussie Jenny Ashcroft

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Brenda]

My review for The Traitor: Wolf Girl 4 by Anh Do

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[PattyMacDotComma]

The Lost Soul Atlas by Zana Fraillon is a fantastical book for young readers, but it's just as entertaining for grown-ups. Life or afterlife or somewhere in between? Twiggy tries to find himself and his Da.
4.5★ Link to my Lost Soul Atlas review

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

Brenda — Going back to previous discussions on challenges and being a glutton for punishment, I’ve just committed to four year-long challenges for 2021. At least books for these can be used for challenges here, too. 😳

[Cindy]

Starting A Promised Land today. It's a hefty book and I want to take my time on it so I am thinking this will be one of my last books for the year. And what a book to end with!

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

Cindy — Enjoy! I’ve enjoyed his recent interviews with Stephen Colbert.

[Meg]

Heather L wrote: "I’m cozying up to a A Cowboy Under the Mistletoe right now (alas, only in my reading).

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love it! lol!

[Meg]

Heather L wrote: "Brenda — Going back to previous discussions on challenges and being a glutton for punishment, I’ve just committed to four year-long challenges for 2021. At least books for these can be used for cha..."

Who the heck is putting that one on? I thought the 100 category ones were bad but I guess not!

[Meg]

Just finished Inspector Gamache #6, Bury Your Dead. Some really sad parts in this one.

Just love this series; trying to stretch it out so I don't run out too soon. Ditto with the In Death series; I'm on #42 or 43, which only leaves about 10 with the new one coming out soon.

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

Meg — One is the 2021 Popsugar Ultimate Reading Challenge, which I’ve been doing since 2015. Next year’s list came out yesterday, 50 books. I have 48/50 for this year’s, hoping to squeeze in one more. Next year...probably won’t get through as many. I set a goal for at least 30, and should be able to use mysteries for most of those.

The other three are part of a GR classics group’s “challenge buffet.” There are ten from which members can pick and choose. I am doing two that I did this year and one different: Read at least 24 short stories (I had 100+ this year), Read at least 12 of the 40 classic group reads for 2021 (did 14 this year), and Read at least six new-to-me authors (published before 2000).

And then there’ll be the mini and seasonal challenges here, but books can be used for multiple challenges. Definitely forces you to shake up the TBR pile.

[Meg]

Heather L wrote: "Meg — One is the 2021 Popsugar Ultimate Reading Challenge, which I’ve been doing since 2015. Next year’s list came out yesterday, 50 books. I have 48/50 for this year’s, hoping to squeeze in one mo..."

I've been doing the Popsugar one, too, but only for the last two years or so. I plan to do the latest one as I'm addicted (I'm the one who can't say no to practically any reading challenge). I haven't started plugging in books, tho. I will say that this challenge really makes me stretch my boundaries...I'll have read all 50 for 2020 before this month is done. Not sure yet how many I'll do next year.

[Brenda]

Heather L wrote: "Brenda — Going back to previous discussions on challenges and being a glutton for punishment, I’ve just committed to four year-long challenges for 2021. At least books for these can be used for cha..."

Sounds like a fun year ahead Heather!

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

Thanks, Brenda! 😀

Meg — I’ve already started figuring out what I have for some prompts. I feel like I have fewer options for most prompts than I did last year’s. In some ways that makes it easier to decide what you want to read, but for some I wish I had more options. There are several I’m sure will fit challenges here, even if not for the same exact prompt.

BTW, two of my suggestions made this year’s Ultimate. 🙂

[Meg]

Heather L wrote: "Thanks, Brenda! 😀

Meg — I’ve already started figuring out what I have for some prompts. I feel like I have fewer options for most prompts than I did last year’s. In some ways that makes it easier ..."

BTW, two of my suggestions made this year’s Ultimate. 🙂

Nice! Which two made it?

[Heather L , Cozy Mysteries Moderator]

Meg — The two that were chosen were a book whose title starts with Q, X or Z (which was the last of my suggestions I expected to make it, lol) and a book everyone else seems to have read but you. I have numerous books for both so that it’s hard narrowing my choices.

[Karen]

Heather L wrote: "Cindy — Enjoy! I’ve enjoyed his recent interviews with Stephen Colbert."

How funny... I watched the two nights and was disappointed. I guess I wanted more substance and less tomfoolery. I really didn't get any more than I did watching the President on Jimmy Kimmel. It was as if the two were given the same list of interview questions and asked them in their own styles, filling in the rest of the time with jokes. Though it's in the news, I thought too much time was spent on current events (how he would have handled the pandemic, how Biden will do, how Trump is doing/did, etc.) rather than the substance of his book. Some of it was interesting, of course, but... I know these shows lighter fare (not in depth journalism/news programs), but I was left wanting for more than I got. He's supposed to be on Fallon tonight (or this week?). I don't know that I'll watch.