Welcome to the group, Please introduce yourself and tell us what you are currently reading.

[Ssofmind]

I would like to welcome you to the group, Please tell us about yourself and what you are reading now.

[Ssofmind]

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[Ruth]

Hello I'm Sarah from the Cotswolds in the UK. I've read a lot of English cosy mysteries but am only just starting to explore US cozies. I've made a list of authors I'd like to try https://www.goodreads.com/review/list... and I'm always interested in reading reviews and adding to the list :-)

[Cozy Reviews]

Thank you for the welcome. I am a cozy fan and speed reader. I prefer mysteries with the occasional fiction chick lit or thriller. When I have time I read a book a day. Right now I am reading Better Read Then Dead. Iris Johansson New thriller and the cozy soup series by Connie Archer. I am starting Jonnie Jacobs entire series. Thank you for having me in the group. I am retired and live on the coast of Northern California.

[Karen-Leigh]

Just joined Good Reads and spent a lot of time fiddling with all my books...there were a lot of them. I live in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. I am currently reading Lorna Barrett's Booktown series for the third or fourth time. Each time I buy the latest book in a series I go back and start at book 1 which in this case is Murder is Binding. If I enjoy a book, Ikeep it in my library and reread it. I have a pile of new books by authors whose series I collect, I just finished reading all of Kate Carlisle's Bibliophile books and that is a series I really like. My name is Karen-Leigh.

[Karen-Leigh]

Comment on book recommended, it looks very nice but at the moment I am trying not to start any new series, at least till I catch up on all my existing ones. My favourite cosy authors, I can list them on request :-), have been quite prolific and I have at least one and sometimes two new books in many of the series. I buy books about books, cats, dogs. Not too many about food (am dieting) but I do like Virginia Lowell's cookie cutter series. I love the colouful covers of cosies.

[Ruth]

I think a thread with favourite cozy authors & recommendations would be great and something we could refer back to when we're looking for new authors to try.

[Marilynn]

I read cozies for fun...just finished Laura Childs' Gossamer Ghost. Not crazy about it. I like Jana Deleon's Mudbug series, along with Jacklyn Brady's Piece of Cake mysteries, and Victoria Laurie's Ghoul series. I am a retired teacher with 3 dogs and 2 cats.

[Karen-Leigh]

I think hearing about other authors is great, though I do not need tempting to more series. I do like hearing people's views on authors I read and books I have read.

[Karen-Leigh]

I have a huge collection of books but strangely enough not many mysteries. I started with a few Tommy and Tuppence by Agatha Christie, bought all of Georgette Heyer and loved them...they are really ragged with rereading. Then I bought all of Melissa Cleary's dog series about Jackie and Jake the police dog. Then Susan Conant's Holly Winter series. Then Laurien Berenson's poodle series. Carol Lea Benjamin's Rachel and Dash series. CC Benison's palace series with the corgis. It wasn't until I got my kindle that I went absolutely nuts with cosies. You see I have no more room for books and I know myself. Buy one book by an author, find out she is writing a series, like the book enough to want to read more about the character and boom I need another room just to store my latest obsession. The Kindle (which I am still ambivalent about because you DO NOT OWN THE BOOKS) turned out to be great for storage, bad for my pocket book because it really is too easy and fast to give in to desire for next book in series as soon as you finish one and still have a taste for that character or milieu. Reading Lorna Barrett Booktown right now and there are just so many to start after that and so many new unread ones. Sometimes I have anxiety attacks that I will not live long enough to read all the new books I have purchased and yet I am still buying new ones.

[Ruth]

Karen-leigh wrote: "Sometimes I have anxiety attacks that I will not live long enough to read all the new books I have purchased and yet I am still buying new ones. "

So many books, so little time - I know that feeling!

[Dianne]

Hello I'm Dianne I live in California. With winter coming my reading changes to mysteries, I am finding that my taste in mysteries has started to change this year as well I seem to need a lot less violence in my reading lately. This year I have been working on getting caught up with my series. Almost caught with the Ruth Galloway series and a few more.

[Karen-Leigh]

Your post rang a bell. I have been noticing the same thing and have been attributing it to age. My taste in all my reading seems to have changed, not just less violence but less sex and romance as well. I seem to be getting more squeamish in my old age. I just finished Booktown series and am starting Bartal's Lacy Steele series. Finished Krista Davis' book and it was good enough that I instantly craved more in the series and had to seriously restrain myself from ordering them. I really have to work my way through my pile of new unread cosies before I buy any more.

[Dianne]

Karen-leigh, same with me and I am attributing it to age as well. with the sex and romance I have gone to more women's fiction and like the friendship side of it more. I need to work my way through my pile of new unread everything, but it's never going to happen. lol With the cozies it's more of a new thing and why I wanted to start in a smaller group.

[Karen-Leigh]

I am new to cosies also. I had a few dog series, Conant, Berenson, Benjamin, Brown, Cleary and then there were the ubiquitous Agatha Christies that everyone ends up with sooner or later. Also Georgette Heyer. Those were the only mysteries I owned in a huge collection of books. Mysteries just were not my thing until I started shopping for my Kindle. I think I also started in my local second hand bookstore..attracted by the colourful covers, like a magpie I picked up a few and found myself hooked. I am determined to get through my to be read pile because I want to get back to rereading.

[Dianne]

I love the Georgette Heyer. ones they are usually pretty cheap if not free on kindle on her Birthday. I want to reread them

[Lindsay]

Hi I am Lindsay from Edmonton AB Canada. I love cozy mysteries and in particular paranormal cozy mysteries. I am currently reading Caught Dead Handed , Blood Magick , The Hawley Book of the Dead: A Novel and What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions. I have books in a few different places and on different formats that I read from. There is rarely only one book I am reading at a time.

[Karen-Leigh]

Have to check out Heyer's birthday and see if I can get the collection on my Kindle. My paperbacks are so old and have been read so often they are brittle and yellow with loose pages. PS I am from Barrie, Ontario Canada
Snow flakes fell this morning so cocooning with books is on my agenda for the next few months.

[Dianne]

LOL August 16 not sure if Canada did it publisher was or is Sourcebooks.

I also do a amazon "georgette heyer mysteries" search every once in awhile and come up with some of them for free or 2 or 3 dollars

[Debbie]

Hi I'm Debbie from Pennsylvanina. I find myself like a number of you tired of gore and sex, and Im enjoying softer stories. I have really gotten into cozies and adult chick lit with women of a certain age, shall we say, being the main characers.
I love the Janet Evanovich books and Mary Kay Andrews and Dorothea Benton Frank. And I also have way too many books, but I read and pass on. I will only allow myself to keep a couple of books a year. I use half.com and paperbackswap to fill in my series books, and borrow everything I can from the library.

[Dianne]

Hi Debbie! I love the adult chick lit with women of a certain age comment and Dorothea Benton Frank is one of my favorite authors.

[Karen-Leigh]

Dianne wrote: "LOL August 16 not sure if Canada did it publisher was or is Sourcebooks.

I also do a amazon "georgette heyer mysteries" search every once in awhile and come up with some of them for free or 2 or 3

I checked yesterday and got one for 2.50...it is a start.

[Karen-Leigh]

Debbie wrote: "Hi I'm Debbie from Pennsylvanina. I find myself like a number of you tired of gore and sex, and Im enjoying softer stories. I have really gotten into cozies and adult chick lit with women of a ce..."

I love Evanovich's Lizzie and Diesel series and wish she would write more. Not that fond of Plum series though I have read at least six of them.

[Karen-Leigh]

Just spent most of day on FicFact.com After I entered all the series I have read and pruned further to those I am currently collecting I was exhausted. I bought a software package to log all my library books and started with all those on my Kindle and Kobo and moved on to those still on shelves. I figured I would enter those I have read from the binder I have them recorded in later. But after seeing all the books in all the series that I have read I feel overwhelmed and not sure I want to keep going with the entries. Maybe I will just do the series on shelves and see how I feel about the rest when I get that far. Slightly shocked at amount of reading I have done but also how many books I have missed in a number of series I have let lapse altogether. Wow Didn't get any reading done and here I am reading a Christmas book so I decided the clear my decks because despite getting a cat I have decided I AM going to put up my tree..two Christmas books almost in a row ..feels like a message to me.

[Dianne]

I decided to read 2 Christmas novella's today so I can catch up with some of my series. I have been slowly working with my FicFact.com account. I do like how easy the site is to work with. As for fixing my other shelves I'm not up to that.

Decorating for Thanksgiving

[Karen-Leigh]

What are shelves and how do you get them etc. I belong to so many sites and generally am clueless as to how they work.

[Dianne]

Your bookshelves on Goodreads and other sites

[Martha]

Hi, I am Martha from the Finger Lakes of New York. I adore cozy mysteries and have read all of the ones at the local library. Right now I am trying to get through the books I recently bought but aren't cozy mysteries. There just isn't enough time! I love Preston and Child and have the latest of those books on my "to read next list" then it will be back to the search for more cozy mysteries. So glad to be part of this group and finding good reads!

[Dianne]

Welcome Martha!

[Stacy]

Hi! I'm Stacy from Clearwater,Florida. I'm a nursing student and an avid cozy mystery reader. I mostly enjoy funny mysteries with quirky female sleuths. Anything by Mary Daheim, Jenn McKinlay, Rae Davies, Jessica Beck, Kathi Daley, Virginia Lowell, Lucy Lawrence,Leslie O'Kane,Sofie Kelly,Laura Levine, Margaret Grace, Krista Davis, Juliet Blackwell,Leeann Sweeney, or Duffy Brown,to name a few, keeps me entertained. If anyone has any authors to suggest that are similar I would be more than willing to check them out and very appreciative. Thanks!!

[Dianne]

Hi and Welcome Stacy

[Lindsay]

Hey guys not sire if this is where I should post this. I have just received a bunch of promotional bookmarks and postcards from Duffy Brown in honor of her new series coming out this month. Any who if any body would like some let me know. Pop me a private message and i will send some stuff out your way. No mailing lists or anything like. Just a simple lady wanting to pass along the fun stuff i was given.