2023 Book Selection Sign Up

[Cheryl A.]

I will take the Magical / Ghosts / Paranormal/ Psychic / Witches / Vamps and Werewolves theme for October with Winter Witches of Holiday Haven series by Bella Falls, et al.

My choice is Dotty Drinkwater Mystery Series by Diane Ezzard

[Nell]

Thanks Cheryl. Your choices are posted on the group page.

[Bonnie]

jaxnsmom wrote: "It's time to sign up to select our group reads for 2023. If you haven't done it before it's really easy and we're happy to help.
Both books have to be the first in a series, and not been a group ch..."

I'm new here, but I could do December if no one else has signed up. Do both books/series need to be the same theme you chose ? Or is one a theme and one just a series you like?

[Nell]

Bonnie wrote: "jaxnsmom wrote: "It's time to sign up to select our group reads for 2023. If you haven't done it before it's really easy and we're happy to help.
Both books have to be the first in a series, and no..."

That's great Bonnie! I don't see any one listed for December.

One of the series you pick fits a theme. The other is member's choice.

[Amy]

I'd like to do March.
Overall theme: Food and Drink

Theme: Lobster Shack Mystery
First book: Curses, Boiled Again! by Shari Randall

Theme: Cocktails
First book: A Dash of Death by Michelle Hillen Klump

Please let me know if these have already been featured and I will pick something else.

[Nell]

Amy - The sign-up for 2024 will be posted soon. We'll keep you in mind for March.

Only one of your series has to fit a theme.

[Bonnie]

So for December, my theme is: English Village/Set in England


Series Dickens & Christie by Kathy Manos Penn
First Book


Second Book from The Snips and Snails Cafe Mystery by Elizabeth Rain.
First Book

[Hilary (A Wytch's Book Review), Co-Moderator, Featured Series]

Bonnie wrote: "So for December, my theme is: English Village/Set in England


Series Dickens & Christie by Kathy Manos Penn
First Book


Second Book from The Snips and S..."

Oooh two new ones for me :D

[Bonnie]

Hilary (A Wytch's Book Review) wrote: "Bonnie wrote: "So for December, my theme is: English Village/Set in England


Series Dickens & Christie by Kathy Manos Penn
First Book


Second Book from ..."

I've read and liked a book in each, but not the first book (yet.) I tend to buy books on sale and get them on prime.

[Nell]

Bonnie wrote: "So for December, my theme is: English Village/Set in England


Series Dickens & Christie by Kathy Manos Penn
First Book


Second Book from The Snips and S..."

Thanks Bonnie

These look good. Both series are new-to-me. .. and both are on KU.

[Meg]

Love this theme! I have tons of English village cozies.

[Bonnie]

Thanks for putting the books/series up Mods (?) Is there anything else I need to do besides choosing?

[Bonnie]

Meg wrote: "Love this theme! I have tons of English village cozies."

I bet I do too, but I've had so many cozies so long on Kindle I don't remember what they are- I do another group color choice by the month and often find out by using them for that challenge . I have a lot of paperback Agatha Raisins too.

[Meg]

It got to the point where I sat down one evening and started listing all the British cozies/mainstream mysteries I have on Kindle (or as many as I could find). You and I are alike in having some on there for quite awhile! I decided after making the list that my January tbr is going to be composed of mostly British reads. I really want to start or continue a few series.

I'll have something for our monthly read in December, tho; I have a few British holiday titles on December's tbr. Or, if we're focusing on the specific series, I have Bells, Tails & Murder.

[Bonnie]

Meg wrote: "It got to the point where I sat down one evening and started listing all the British cozies/mainstream mysteries I have on Kindle (or as many as I could find). You and I are alike in having some on..."

I like to read cozies (and the semi cozy British ones) between other kinds of books, historical or contemporary. I did use a lot of seasonal ones in a 2023 reading challenge, but find I need to switch up or I burn up reading specific genre books.

[L J]

I like British mysteries. Most of the English ones I've read recently are historical. Contemporary ones tend to be British but not English.

I have Bells, Tails & Murder. Looking forward to reading it.

Just checked and I also have Risky Bisqueness. Looking forward to it too.

[Barb, Co-Moderator Challenge Expert]

Meg wrote: "It got to the point where I sat down one evening and started listing all the British cozies/mainstream mysteries I have on Kindle"

I created a shelf here on GR for my Kindle books - and my Audible+ books too, so I don't forget to listen to them before they're removed from the catalog :)

[Bonnie]

L J wrote: "I like British mysteries. Most of the English ones I've read recently are historical. Contemporary ones tend to be British but not English.

I have [book:B..."

I picked up a few witchy cozies in October ( I am kind of playing around with Nanowrimo with an old short story from long ago.) I probably should have saved that series for another time, but I am determined to start either reading some stuff I have on Kindle (marking it read) or deleting it. I donate old books, but have a hard time letting go kindles even if I have had them unread for years.

[Bonnie]

L J wrote: "I like British mysteries. Most of the English ones I've read recently are historical. Contemporary ones tend to be British but not English.

I have [book:B..."

I like some of the Scottish (I'm half Scottish) and Welsh (have a Welsh friend) mystery series but they are more semi-cozy historical or police procedural stuff. Short and not graphic murders/victims no one really cares that much about, but not cozy cozy.

[Hilary (A Wytch's Book Review), Co-Moderator, Featured Series]

Bonnie have you tried Plaid and Plagiarism by Molly MacRae , Off Kilter by Hannah Reed , The Cracked Spine by Paige Shelton or Single Malt Murder by Melinda Mullet , all cozies and Scotland based!

[Bonnie]

Hilary (A Wytch's Book Review) wrote: "Bonnie have you tried Plaid and Plagiarism by Molly MacRae , Off Kilter by Hannah Reed [boo..."

I haven't, but did put one on hold- and know the library had another on audible (can't fit it in the month, though. I don't do much audible now I'm retired. I used to drive around a bit at work and listen to books.

[Meg]

Barb wrote: "Meg wrote: "It got to the point where I sat down one evening and started listing all the British cozies/mainstream mysteries I have on Kindle"

I created a shelf here on GR for my Kindle books - an..."

Good idea on the audible plus shelf, Barb! I'll have to start one when I find a block of time. As far as a Kindle books shelf, the majority of my books are on the Kindle these days, so that would take even more time. I do have a Word document listing a big chunk of them, cross-referenced to other Word lists. Really what would make life easier is to quit buying more. As if...!

[Bonnie]

I just checked on my Amazon page and I have 764 books on my Kindle. A lot have been read, a few are from the library or prime borrows, but a good chunk I don't even remember getting or why. I am getting better about marking ones I read "read" at least.

[Barb, Co-Moderator Challenge Expert]

Meg wrote: "As far as a Kindle books shelf, the majority of my books are on the Kindle these days, so that would take even more time."

So maybe a shelf for 'everything else'? Then you'll know that what's left is a Kindle book without taking the amount of time that would require :)

[Meg]

Definitely something to think about!

[Bonnie]

I managed to delete over 100 books yesterday from my amazon site/kindle content lists. Some I had read but didn't like enough to ever read again, but a lot of them I had picked up free or cheap years ago and either never read or started and didn't like (and didn't feel like reading now either.) But then today I picked up some more cheap reads from book bub.

[Meg]

That's the way it goes. 😂 I deleted quite a lot this year, but added more than I got rid of. But I'm not worrying about it, really. The books sit in the cloud and will be there when I'm ready. Hoarding-- oops, not hoarding, collecting!-- at it's finest.