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Karen wrote: "Meg wrote: "Wow, 26 already? I still have #3 to read! (Don't ask how long I've had it...)"I still have the first few books ("collected" and TBRed from a used book store). I'm (sort of) ashamed to say I've had them for about 20 years...."
Hmm, 20 years sounds about right! (Since you admitted it I decided not to hide any longer...) I got the first one during a book club meeting, and ended up with either 8 or 10 of them after I read it, plus #2. I'm not much of a horror reader but didn't find the first two to be so bad. Then club members talked about how horrific the other books were and I chickened out. PamG, do you think a sort of squeamish reader can deal with the next few?
Meg wrote: "Karen wrote: "Meg wrote: "Wow, 26 already? I still have #3 to read! (Don't ask how long I've had it...)"I still have the first few books ("collected" and TBRed from a used book store). I'm (sort..."
It's been a while since I read the early ones, but I don't generally recommend this series to anyone that can't handle violence, gore, and explicit scenes.
Ok, thanks, Pam! I'll approach the next one with caution...
I'm sadly nearing the end of Louise Penny's Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series. Number 15 is A Better Man. Freezing spring floods threaten Three Pines and Montreal. 
4.5★ Link to my review of A Better Man
Summer Brother by Dutch author Jaap Robben was a good read and has just been longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize. 
4★ LInk to my Summer Brother review
The title story of These Precious Days: Essays, by Ann Patchett is a novella-length essay about her amazing and unexpected friendship with an artist who is a personal assistant to Tom Hanks. The book itself is due out in November - here's a link to the story, free online.
https://harpers.org/archive/2021/01/t...
I thought it was wonderful! 5★ Link to my review of These Precious Days with a few of the paintings
Started out the week with a middle grade fantasy novel:
The Chosen One by James Riley https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I just finished the The Lost Apothecary
by Sarah Penner. It is a duel time book. The connection between was well done but a bit unrealistic. My problem with the book is I just didn't like the characters thus difficult to really like the book.
I finished The Cleaner
by Mark Dawson. My 3 star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...This is the first book in the John Milton series.
Meg wrote: "Heather L wrote: "Meg wrote: "You mean the mile-long wish list? I understand completely! 😂"Yours is only a mile?? 😀"
😂😁🤣 I stopped measuring mine a loonnngggg time ago 😂😁🤣"
I measure mine by how many -pages- are on my Mysteries-only TBR, now at 244.
I finished a crime thriller: Bone Rattle
by Marc Cameron.My 4 star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Brenda wrote: "My review for 
The Edge of the Ocean by L.D. Lapinskihttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
Wow, it sounds good! I love reading a fantasy now and again, so I believe this one will go on the WL.
Read #1 first Meg - you'll get more benefit with the two in order :) Happy reading!
Brenda wrote: "Read #1 first Meg - you'll get more benefit with the two in order :) Happy reading!"I had found the listings over on Amazon and put #1 on the WL even though I was so tempted to put #3. 😊
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Meg wrote: "Brenda wrote: "Read #1 first Meg - you'll get more benefit with the two in order :) Happy reading!"I had found the listings over on Amazon and put #1 on the WL even though I was so tempted to put..."
Is #3 there already? Wow!!
Here is my 4 star review of a family memoir. The author writes about the 3 women in his life that had a significant impact on him.Three Dreamers: A Memoir of Family
by Lorenzo CarcaterraMy review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Brenda wrote: "Meg wrote: "Brenda wrote: "Read #1 first Meg - you'll get more benefit with the two in order :) Happy reading!"I had found the listings over on Amazon and put #1 on the WL even though I was so te..."
Sorry, Brenda, that was a big typo on my part!!! Let me start over...I was tempted to put #2 on the WL but put #1 instead (specifically my audible list as I didn't find a Kindle version).
Currently reading Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Very well written and interesting as I am a Civil War reader.
Meg wrote: "Brenda wrote: "Meg wrote: "Brenda wrote: "Read #1 first Meg - you'll get more benefit with the two in order :) Happy reading!"I had found the listings over on Amazon and put #1 on the WL even tho..."
Hahaha! I wondered as I could only see #2 (and 1) on Amazon :)
Currently reading PARACOSM: Bleath: The Hauntings
by Anya Allyn a new word for me and a good idea for a book.
A 5 star read for me when I read it back in 2015 Tammy. I hope you enjoy it :)
I just enjoyed the thought-provoking second book of the Monkeewrench mystery series, Live Bait by mother-daughter duo P.J. Tracy. As if the concentration camp hadn't been bad enough, a Holocaust survivor is murdered. I'm glad there are more of these to look forward to!
4.5★ Link to my Live Bait review
Butterfly Blink: A Book Without Words is another colourful conversation-starter for children by Karl Beckstrand. As the title suggests, no words are necessary - except for the person answering the inevitable questions!
4★ Link to my Butterfly Blink review with several pictures
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I am reading The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
by Marie Benedict. Set in 1912 and 1926. Focus on Agatha Chrisite disappearance in 1926. I am about a third of the way through and it is just okay. It seems choppy to me and not connecting with the plot or story line.
My last two non cozies were:
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I enjoyed Infernal Devices, which was the third in The Hungry City Chronicles by Philip Reeve. The series wraps up with book #4. I was less enthused about Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily by Rachel Cohn. It was the third (& most recent) in the series. I really enjoyed the first book but each sequential book got worse & worse.
I finished a humorous and heartwarming contemporary romance:The Soulmate Equation
by Christina Lauren.My 4 star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Got in a non-cozy this week as well:
The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I know he's not little now but he will always be Little Stevie Wonder to me. Another inspiring Little People BIG DREAMS book for all families and schools.
5★ Link to my Stevie Wonder review with lots of pictures
I just enjoyed The Old Men Who Row Boats and Other Stories, a collection of stories that take place in Spain and Portugal. Author David Joseph has a good feeling for his people and the places where we meet them.
3.5★ Link to my Old Men Who Row Boats review
I am reading The Last Garden in England
by Julia Kelly. Set in Warwickshire England in 3 time periods. Restoring and building gardens. Very well written so far. Love the charactes.
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Now I’m waffling between two selections for a “boat” book. Hmm...maybe I’ll sleep on it. 😉
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I've started # 27 and I have # 28 on my reading list for May."
You go! I'm going to try to get #3 read this year. 😄🙄