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Unlucky 13 by James Patterson.This is my 3rd book in the Women's Murder Club Series. I've really enjoy getting to know the characters in this series.
Earlier this month I read
The Book of Killowen by Erin Hart and I loved it. :D
Just started 'Ancient Prey' by R. J. Jagger. Doesn't look like it will qualify as 'Cozy' but I was ready for a change of pace.
I'm reading "Murder for Bid" by Susan Furlong Bolliger and I highly recommend it.
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I wish I had the time to read right now, but I'm so busy trying to get my next book ready for release. I love to see readers diving into mysteries...
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Anyway, This has been a big job and we are cleaning it out as time permits,,, So my reading time has been very limited..
I did not mean to ignore a group on Good Reads that I just started,,, But everything started to happen at once.... I will let you know how the cozy turns out,,,
I am reading the second in a series....A Royal Pain by Rhys Bowen. Set in 1930's England with a female protagonist.
I haven't been able to focus enough to read anything for the past 3 weeks, but I took time out to read "Die Judge Die" by Una Tiers --- read it in one long afternoon and loved it. I'm a fan of her protag 'Fiona' and the wacky clients that fill her plots.
I, too, have been having a hard time focusing. Things are so backwards. I am buying books in order to feed my need to read. What is unusual is I keep trying but starting new books. I am halfway through Book Clubbed by Lorna Barrett (last book in series just finished), I am almost done Krista Davis' Diva Cooks a Goose...what am I doing reading a Christmas story. I want to start A Crafty Killing series by Lorraine Bartlett. I never used to have ten books on the go and I don't like it...I don't think I am giving my full attention to the individual books. I am spending too much time on Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Facebook, Goodreads, Dreamwidth, Wordpress. I am actually writing more than reading as my journalling/blogging gets out of hand.
I'm the same Karen-Leigh. I put time aside to read and end up looking at emails, checking Facebook and Twitter, and all those other time-wasting pursuits. I'm so annoyed with myself when I realise there's another hour wasted!
I'm currently reading
by Sarah Jio. It's been a quick read and it keeps your attention. I've only got five chapters left and I have a feeling it's going to be one of those books that I hate to see end.
A Friendly Game of Murder. Definitely an action packed book, filled with science, wit, mystery, and, of course, history. Looking forward to the next adventure of the Algonquin Round Table.
I read and finished The Bone Box
by Gregg Olsen new author for me loved the book! Dr Birdy Waterman is a forensic pathologist who grew up on the Makah Reservation in Neah Bay, Washington. next up is either
the next in the series or
a debut author this one looks pretty good also
I am waiting on an ARC for author Hollie Westring, the 3rd book in her Sage Springs series. Small town, close friends, slightly paranormal but in a cozy fashion. Romantic mystery genre.Her first book is free, at least for now
*Amazon US: http://amzn.to/1l5phlf
*Nook: http://bit.ly/1nmrNsU
*iBooks: http://bit.ly/1mhJRk0
*Smashwords: http://bit.ly/1ggOwDs
*Kobo: http://bit.ly/1mMFKyr
It took me a few says but I decided on the Historical Cozy Mystery Murder at the Brightwell
it's a debut author and set in the 1930's at a British sea side hotel.
Finished Lorna Bartlett Booktown series and started Lacy Steele series by Vanessa Bartal. So tempted by Krista Davis' Diva series but I have decided to read all the cosies in my Kindle in alphabetical order. I finished Lucy Arlington's Novel Idea series. I am also going to read the three Victoria Square novels by Lorraine Barrett. I was hoping for a new one to come out before I did that. I also bought a bunch of Ellery Adams' Books By The Bay in paperback, a Jessica Beck - Killer Cruller, Going Going Ganache by Jenn McKinlay. These are my next project.
LOL Karen-leigh it looks like you are a series junkie too!It is so hard to keep track of them I started using fictfact.com to keep track of them and they have a calendar that tells me when new ones come out for my series. Very bad thing to have on hand lol
I use fictfact.com as well. Much easier to keep track of series.
Oh dear, another thing to join and keep track of. Another password and ID to add to growing list. Looks really interesting. I really need something that makes it even easier for me to spend money on books.
Jill wrote: "I use fictfact.com as well. Much easier to keep track of series."I know it would be great if GR could just set something up like that.
Karen-leigh wrote: "Oh dear, another thing to join and keep track of. Another password and ID to add to growing list. Looks really interesting. I really need something that makes it even easier for me to spend mone..."I needed something to keep better track of what I already read GR shelves are great (mine are a huge mess right now)
but I wanted something that was not attached to GR at all.
I like fictfact.com I don't have to spend alot of time in there. It makes it easier to know if I've read a book and not have to buy it twice or think I've read it when I haven't, and it's so easy to use.
Still reading Lucy Steele series on Kindle, have Treacherous Toys half finished at bedside. Finishing last ten pages of non-cosy book this morning. Dipping into others. Asked question of site about giving my existing Kindle with all its stories intact to my sister in another town when my new Kindle comes. Has anyone ever done that?PS I really like Kate Carlisle's writing.
All of your books are hooked up to your email addy so if you give her the kindle and don't take it off your email yes it will work but she would be hooked up to your CC account. I do know people who do this but I think they use gift cards to buy books and have a separate email addy set up only for their kindles. They do have something new that I have not looked into much. It looks like it is with newer models.
How to set up Kindle Family Library
At long last, Amazon will allow adult family members to share their books, apps and more. Here's how to make it happen.
http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-set...
Karen-leigh wrote: PS I really like Kate Carlisle's writing. ."
LOL I stayed up most of the night with it.
I have a new series now lol
I just finished four books in four different, new to me, series and I am fighting the temptation to rush out and get the others. I really must read from my 'to be read' list first. Christmas gifts should be purchased for others...not for me.
Thanks for the Kindle alert. I will plan on sending old one to sister. It is unlikely she will read most of the books on it but maybe some will interest her. My entire life I lived surrounded by people who didn't read the same books as me.
Another good one, entire series is good. Just finished A Crafty Killing, The Walled Garden and One Hot Murder and Arch Enemy of Murder and now working on Class Reunion. All of these I am reading for third or fourth time. Started at the A's in my authors and am working my way through again.
With all the books on my "to-read" list there are few of them that I will reread but I do have my favorite reads. When I do re-read them, is like reconnecting with old friends.
If I wasn't capable of rereading a book ten times I would be bankrupt several times over. Libraries cannot cater to my need to possess books. So being able to reread books I own over and over makes buying them less irresponsible.
Karen-leigh: Is your library a stand-alone library or is it part of a system?
It has been so long since I have been but I think it is part of a system, whereby you can order a book and have it brought from another branch...is that what you mean?
While it is NOT a cozy, I just finished Gone Girl. You either love it or hate it. A compelling read.
Not A Review: Currently reading, along with half a dozen other books, Leonard Maltin's 2013 Movie Guide. Put it on my list on Goodreads and it keeps popping up wanting to know my progress. One does not make progress quickly through a book like this. It is a reference book, an encyclopedia for movies. The fact that I am reading it like a book is a nostalgic human journey I am undertaking. Movies are so entwined with our lives that we consume far more of them than we realize. Television has made this a reality, as I could not have afforded the cost of entrance fees for the number of movies I have seen in my life, or the accumulated calories of all those ubiquitous buckets of buttered popcorn that go with movie theaters. As I read through this book and troll through my memories watching for the names of favourites and those that are merely familiar a few things struck me this morning. One, the number of actors who have died in my lifetime...some so very young and well loved. Two, it is fascinating to see the rise and fall, in what seems like a brief span of time, of many name stars. The low budget starter films of a shooting star like Brad Pitt, you watch rise through better quality and, inevitably, the fall through cheaper, low budget, lower billed efforts. Names that were huge appearing in crappy little no name pieces in tenth billing spots and you wonder about what drives them to do it. Acting must be like an addiction. It can't always be about money. Many of the names are rich but the drive to act in anything even after you are no longer wanted anymore has big names and actors with huge abilities appearing in some awful dreck.It is sad, in its way, to see the progression...their beginnings amongst giants, their growth into giants in turn and their diminishment among no names and up and comers. That sounds unkind, those no names might someday become giants...it is my perception of the progression of time that says...not in my lifetime, but time moves so fast and new crops of stars appear and disappear faster than ever. I am already falling behind on popular culture and spend my time and money looking back nostalgically. All the award shows are filled with, to me, nonentities. The tabloids and the photographs currently hot are all boring nobodies to me. Was it always like this...that the most publicized were the most talentless? This is why Maltin's book is so fascinating to read..a reflection on the passing of eras.
Another of those spooky flashes in my life. Was it yesterday I was wondering if Wayne Newton was still alive....don't ask what brought him to mind. So I googled and found he is still working Vegas. i love google, every passing thought or question can be instantly resolved. Moving on to today and what prompted this blog was...I started reading where I left off last night and halfway through first page was a movie starring Wayne Newton and I was gobsmacked and thinking of coincidences and spooky ether connections and how the mind works and when did Richard Jaekel die and Lewis Collins has been gone one full year and I wish he had made more movies and they do not make actors like Oliver Reed anymore. So I decided to empty my head here and go back to reading...I am only up to the Ds...this is going to take a while.
LOL Wayne Newton. I miss the old movies I don't watch much TV any more and we got rid of are cable. No need to have and pay for it if we never watch it. I love google I tell people all the time Google is your friend.On a side note I think she needs a chat thread set up
I finished If Books Could Kill
so far I love the series The big mystery for me with this is going to be finding out who Gabriel is and what all is Derek into. and whatever mystery comes up next
I just finished Nightmares Can Be Murder by Mary Kennedy and am reading Lie Of The Needle be Cate Price. Bot of them were wonderful reads.
Currently reading Borrowed Crime by Laurie Cass. It's the 3rd book in the bookmobile cat series. Funny and sweet, it's a nice diversion from nursing school texts lol
I have been catching up with the Bibliophile Mystery seriesby Kate Carlisle
I just finished Peril in Paperback
and have 3 left to read.I did catch up with the Ruth Galloway series by Elly Griffiths
Reading The Alpine Zen by Mary Daheim. It's the 26th book in the series about Emma Lord, owner of the Alpine Advocate, a small town newspaper. Great series, I hope it's not ending at Z. Guess I'll find out soon.
I have all of Kate Carlisle's biblio series and have read and enjoyed them all. They are keepers, I have preordered her next one and as soon as it comes in I will re-read them all in order from number one.
I am finishing the last Karen Ann Golden The Cats That series. I am enjoying the series enough that when the next in the series comes out I will buy it. That is the criteria and is also a really good reason not to get so far behind in my reading that I have seven books in a new, to me, series unread and after reading two of them find I wish I hadn't bought them all and struggle to read them to get money's worth. I am not a fussy reader and no good at reviewing books. Karen's series is okay but not as good as, for example, Kate Carlisle. My cat died at the end of February and I find reading Karen's books with so much cat presence that I am feeling like jumping back into cat ownership....I am so suggestible. Of course, her life with siamese seems like a nightmare to me and only reminds me of my quiet, loving time with my tabby.
Bone Tree by Greg Iles. Compelling read...second book in a trilogy.
Just restarted from book one the incredibly well written and humorous series by Donna Andrews about Meg Langslow, lady blacksmith and her hilarious family. I am a solitary and usually stories about large families give me the willies but this family almost sounds like fun.
I took a break from the Bibliophile Mystery seriesby Kate Carlisle, to read one of Nancy Thayer books Summer House
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