Week 7 - What Are You Reading? Plus Puzzle Books!

[Joanna]

A quick little PSA to start. Cheryl asked about the Take It or Leave It challenge regarding books with puzzle pieces on the front cover. There don't seem to be as many out there as my brain led me to remember. Oops. But I have found some:
- Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger
- The Heist by Janet Evanovich
- Deadlock by Catherine Coulter

In addition, there are two kids titles which considering how hard it is to find this cover, I will be happy to accept for the challenge:
- The Jigsaw Jungle by Kristin Levine
- The Puzzling World of Winston Breen by Erin Berlin (we do not own this one)

The other option of the challenge was for the book to feature a puzzle game which can include everything from riddles to jigsaw puzzles to crossword to sudoku to codes etc. There seem to be a few books along this line including the Puzzle Lady series by Parnell Hall and the Inheritance Games series by Jennifer Lynn Barnes.

I hope that helps anyone else looking for the puzzle themed books!

What is everyone reading this week? One of my goals for the year (which I'm sure I've mentioned) is to try and read the backlog of series I have. I am notorious for reading book 1 but then never any of the others. February's series is The Queen's Thief and I'm working on book 1 again, The Thief. I also decided to do my annual reread of A Countess Below Stairs. I'm heading to a con this weekend so don't know if I'll pick up anything else. I always believe I'll read books while on vacation but then do I? Nope.

Happy reading, everyone!

[Ann]

There are several series that deal with codes and puzzles: Laurie R. King's Russel and Holmes series, Sherry Thomas' Lady Sherlock series, and the Veronica Speedwell series by Deanna Raybourn to name just a few.

I am currently reading Miss Moriarty, I Presume by Sherry Thomas, Treacherous is the Night by Anna Lee Huber on Hoopla, as well as Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo. Next up is While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams.

[Zachary]

How are we in Week 7 already?! I'm reading a powerful book this week called The Ground Breaking by Scott Ellsworth. It chronicles the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, the collective conscious and unconscious cover-up designed to erase the memory of said massacre, and the efforts by local citizens to memorialize the victims, and bring the event back into the collective memory.