Roz is a Series Terminator II in 2023 - 2025

[Roz]

If movies can go on to sequels, so can I.

[Roz]

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📱 Kindle Owned
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KU Kindle Unlimited

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💋 Series Kissed Goodby

[Roz]

Series I've started and plan on finishing this year.

Hannah Swensen by Joanne Fluke (29/29) 💋

✔️ 19 Wedding Cake Murder KU 1/2/2023
✔️ 20 Christmas Caramel Murder KU 1/4/2023
✔️ 21 Banana Cream Pie Murder KU
✔️ 22 Raspberry Danish Murder KU
✔️ 23 Christmas Cake Murder KU 1/21/2023
✔️ 24 Chocolate Cream Pie Murder KU 1/22/2023
✔️ 25 Coconut Layer Cake Murder KU 1/27/2023
✔️ 26 Christmas Cupcake Murder KU 1/29/2023
✔️ 27 Triple Chocolate Cheesecake Murder KU 2/3/2023
✔️ 28 Caramel Pecan Roll Murder KU 2/5/2023
✔️ 29 Pink Lemonade Cake Murder 7/31/2023

Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine (1/6)

2 Killman Creek KU
3 Wolfhunter River KU
4 Bitter Falls KU
5 Heartbreak Bay KU
6 Trapper Road KU

No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (16/23)

✔️ 13 The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection 💻
✔️ 14 The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon 💻 6/8/2023
✔️ 15 The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café 💻 7/19/2023
✔️ 16 The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine💻🎧 7/25/2023
✔️ 17 Precious and Grace 💻🎧
18 The House of Unexpected Sisters 💻🎧
19 The Colors of All the Cattle 💻
20 To the Land of Long Lost Friends 💻
21 How to Raise an Elephant 💻
22 The Joy and Light Bus Company 💻🎧
23 A Song of Comfortable Chairs

Department Q by Jussi Adler-Olsen (2/9)

3 A Conspiracy of Faith 💻
4 The Purity of Vengeance
5 The Marco Effect
6 The Hanging Girl
7 The Scarred Woman
8 Victim 2117
9 The Shadow Murders

[Roz]

Second tier series that I hope to finish this year.....but don't quote me on that

Clifton Chronicles by Jeffrey Archer (2/7)

3 Best Kept Secret
4 Be Careful What You Wish For
5 Mightier Than the Sword
6 Cometh the Hour
7 This Was a Man

Gaius Petreius Ruso by Ruth Downie (3/8)

4 Caveat Emptor
5 Semper Fidelis
6 Tabula Rasa
7 Vita Brevis
8 Memento Mori

Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear (4/16)

5 An Incomplete Revenge
6 Among the Mad
7 The Mapping of Love and Death
8 A Lesson in Secrets
9 Elegy for Eddie
10 Leaving Everything Most Loved
11 A Dangerous Place
12 Journey to Munich
13 In This Grave Hour
14 To Die But Once
15 The American Agent
16 The Consequences of Fear

Temeraire by Naomi Novik (5/9)

6 Tongues of Serpents
7 Crucible of Gold
8 Blood of Tyrants
9 League of Dragons

Old Man's War by John Scalzi (3/6)

4 Zoe's Tale
5 The Human Division
6 The End of All Things

But I'm sure I'll be adding to this during the year.
And here they are:

Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz 0/3
Harry Hole by Jo Nesbø 1/13
Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss 0/3
Gabriel Allon by Daniel Silva 11/22
Anna Pigeon by Nevada Barr 3/19
Thursday Next by Jasper Fforde 0/8
The Poland Trilogy by James Conroyd Martin 0/3
Walt Longmire by Craig Johnson (2/19)
Jane Wunderly Mysteries by Erica Ruth Neubauer 4/5 *#6 comes out in 2024 so I'll treat it as an orphan
Commissario Brunetti by Donna Leon 7/32
Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Stephen Donaldson 0/3 (for the first series, more after)
Jack Reacher by Lee Child (3/28)
Miss Marple by Agatha Christie 2/12
Mercy Thompson by Patricia Briggs 1/14
Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind 0/15
The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan 0/15
Kinsey Millhone by Sue Grafton 1/25
Kay Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell 0/27
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache by Louise Penny 0/19
Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes by Laurie R King 1/19
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz 0/7
Detective Kate Young by Carol Wyer 1/5
💋 Impossible Times by Mark Lawrence 3/3 4/24/2024
💋 Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman 4/4 10/4/2023
💋 Nora Kelly by Douglas Preston 4/4 2/3/2024
💋 Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood 7/6/2024

Orphans:

✔️ The Atlas Maneuver (Cotton Malone # 18)

I'll have to go back to my original list (2020) to see what else is lurking there.

[Roz]

I finished reading Wedding Cake Murder this morning. Meh +, but I'll continue reading the series. There's something off about one of the characters and I want to see if I'm right. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Cherie]

I want to start a new series by Sclazi but I am trying to hold off!

[Roz]

Which Scalzi series are you looking at?

[Cherie]

The Interdependency The Collapsing Empire. I have read the first two. I still need to read The Last Emperox.

[Cherie]

I think I meant The Dispatcher - I think they are Audible specials.

Fuzzy Sapiens is the only other series I have not read. He has quite a few stand alone books that I have not read yet too, but not many.

I see that you only have a couple left for Old Man's War. Zoe's Tale is kind of a retelling of one of the other books and the last two, are really different and less interesting (to me) than the first books in the series although I gave them four stars. I stuck them out, just to kill off the series but I love the way he writes stories.

[Cherie]

The Human Division looks good to me too.

[Roz]

I can get most of the Scalzi books I want to read in hardback through my library, not so much through Libby. I looked up Fuzzy Nation but it's the only one of the series he wrote. The first 3 in the series were written by H. Beam Piper, As soon as I get a chance I'll read the rest of Old Man's War.

[Cherie]

I copied this from the yearly challenge thread.
Roz wrote: "I checked out the Lacky Fabre series and saw that all of the 12 books are available to me through Libby. I may have to borrow the irate one soon."

You made me look. It seems that the novelty has worn off. All of the books are available to me on Libby also.

[Roz]

Haha did I really write "Lacky Fabre"? The "rate" one? Which one would that be?
That's pretty bad. I fell a couple of days ago and tore my rotator cuff (just a small tear) so I'm doing everything one handed on very little sleep.
I think I'll try one that isn't irate. 😊

[Cherie]

It gave me a good laugh so I didn’t tease you about it.
I’m sorry to hear about your torn cuff.
Small tears can still be very painful and take forever to really heal. What I found was that just when it started feeling better, I would forget and over do it and it would start hurting again.
I hurt my left shoulder in Tae Kwon Do and it felt like it was never going to heal because I would forget to caution my exercise partner when we were doing hand/arm drills and all it took was one good yank or twist and I was in pain for another few weeks.

[Roz]

I'm so close to terminating my first series of the year, I can taste it (no pun intended even though the series is food related). Expected pub date is 2/28/2023.

[Roz]

Well, I've added another series to my list. I read the first book in the Walt Longmire series and liked it enough to continue.

[Cherie]

Hahaha! I hope you enjoy Walt and company as much as I have, Roz.

I am just starting on the last book of the Pellucidar series by Edgar Rice Burroughs, although technically I just finished the last real “book” of the series, written by him. The 7th book is a collection of short stories published 12 years after he passed. The title story was discovered on a safe by his son. The others had been published in magazines, previously.

[Roz]

I read The Last Kingdom as an orphan and now I'm waiting for the next.
And I'm in the middle of Kindness Goes Unpunished #3 visit with Walt Longmire. He makes me smile.

[Roz]

Wow, haven't been here in a while. I better get moving on finishing some of these series before I either have to drop them or move them over to next year.

[Roz]

I finished reading Intrigue in Istanbul this morning. There's one more written in 2023 and then another that won't be available until the middle of 2024. I'm going to stop after I read the next on and treat #6 as an orphan. It was okay. 3 stars.

[Roz]

I was planning to continue reading more of the Anna Pigeon books by Nevada Barr. I've read 3 of them (1 out of order). They were a favorite of my father-in-law's (he wanted to be a forest ranger when he was a kid). Unfortunately # 3 - 7 aren't available in any form through my local library. I really didn't to buy the kindle versions for $8 - 9 a pop or the paperbacks. But I remembered how I used to buy books through Abebooks.com. I bought all 5 of my missing books for about $5/each for hardcovers and no shipping. I'll have to remember to do that next time I'm in a fix.

[Cherie]

Haha, too funny! I wanted to be a forest ranger too. I wanted to be a smoke looker in one of those towers on top of a mountain. Sounded exciting at the time. I even applied, just after I got out of high school. Never heard from them.
Then, I got a job and bought a car. 2.5 years later, I was married.

I am still listening to the Donna Leon books. #22 has a different narrator. Still getting used to him.

[Roz]

I don't know what my father-in-law was thinking when he wrote his autobiography for school when he was a kid. I have it somewhere in a box of family treasures. I remember he told me his mother squashed the idea telling him it wasn't an appropriate career for a nice Jewish boy. Poor guy. Loved that man!
My Nevada Barr books are on their way!
I finished reading The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café today. I've enjoyed the last couple in the series more than the others. They deal more with problems in the central characters' lives rather that solving client issues (although there are those too). I'd love to spend an afternoon having tea (ordinary not bush) with Mma Ramotswe.

[Roz]

I finished reading The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine and now I'm moving on to the next one: Precious and Grace.

[Roz]

I finished reading Pink Lemonade Cake Murder: A Delightful & Irresistible Culinary Cozy Mystery with Recipes, the last (so far) book in the Hannah Swensen mystery series. Finally, 1 series killed.

[Cherie]

YAY for your series kill!

It looks like my library has some of the Anna Pigeon books, but their catalogue is hard to tell which books are the series. It looks like there are quite a few. I really need to read more of my other series before I start another, but I marked the 1st one as "want to read".

[Fiona]

Good job on finishing that big series!

[Roz]

I feel like such a slug when it comes to finishing series. Some of these are so long. Sometimes I think that if I've reached the halfway mark I'm almost obligated to finish the series. Then there are some that I actually want to finish and I'm having trouble finding available copies. And then there are the orphans...

[Roz]

I've been neglecting my series books. I started the Commissario Brunetti series (I read #1 -- Death at La Fenice and enjoyed it). I'll definitely continue this one. And I'm going to start reading the Hercule Poirot books from the beginning.
I have The House of Unexpected Sisters and The Last Devil to Die waiting to be read.

[Roz]

I finished reading The Thursday Murder Club today. It was a short one, only 4 books. There will be more I'm sure but they'll be listed under "Orphans".

[Cherie]

Roz wrote: "I finished reading The Thursday Murder Club today. It was a short one, only 4 books. There will be more I'm sure but they'll be listed under "Orphans"."

I have this one on my TBR shelf, but the first one always seems to not be available when I look at my library choices.

[Roz]

I read Death in a Strange Country last night and liked it more than the first one.

[Roz]

It looks like I’m going to finish out this year with only 2 series killed. I’ll have to try harder next year. Hopefully I’ll be able to fit some into tasks for the Yearlong Hiking Challenge. I can always hope.

[Roz]

2024 series

Aside from the series listed for 2023 that I definitely need to work on killing, I will add the following:

💋 Nora Kelly by Douglas Preston (4/4)
Aloysius Pendergast by Douglas Preston (22)
💋 Cork O'Connor by William Kent Krueger (20/20)
Andy Carpenter by David Rosenfelt (3/29)
💋 Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood (3/3)

*more to be added as I think of or discover them.

[Cherie]

I was thinking about another character other than Nora Kelly in the other post that I commented in. I updated the other thread. Good grief!

[Roz]

I killed my first series of the year.
Nora Kelly by Douglas Preston is officially done. 4/4

[Janice, Moderator]

Yay!

[Cherie]

Yay! I want to read the last one after I finish Code Name Verity. I need to finish this one to move on in my yearly challenge. I am thinking of swapping my next read for the last Nora Kelly. Verity is a first book and Dead Mountain is a fourth book in a "four book series".

[Roz]

Good choice, Cherie.

[Roz]

I finished reading The Atlas Maneuver #18 in the Cotton Malone series. Now I have to wait until the next one. 😒

[Cherie]

I just found out that Kate Quinn has a four book series called The Mistress of Rome. I’m adding the first to my TBR list.

The Agatha Christie Colonel Race book, The Man in the Brown Suit is going along quite well. Just not as exciting as Diamond Eye was.
It is written in first person and the MC is Anne Beddingfield.

[Roz]

I've had Mistress of Rome on my tbr for a few years. I'll have to inter-library loan it.
I've also added another series to my ever-growing list:

Cork O'Connor by William Kent Krueger

[Cherie]

I am currently listening to Daughters of Rome, from the series. I think GR lists this as book #1 of the Empress of Rome series but I think Mistress of Rome is. My library listings agree. It is an interesting story, so far. The narrator is Elizabeth Wiley. All four books are available in audio from my library. I could use this book for my yearly challenge too - for “dual female main characters” after finishing Dead Mountain. The Man in the Brown Suit is meh so far.

[Roz]

I finished reading #2 in the Cork O'Connor series. Boundary Waters Loved it. Cherie, you have GOT to read this series. I really liked the parts the author included featuring the Ojibwe people, their stories, and traditions. The two books I've read so far are fast paces, good stories, and the characters are becoming more complex. I like that. This last one featured a lot of canoeing. I remember doing that at summer camp when I was younger and it was a lot of fun, a lot of work. Ah, to be young again.
I'm moving on to #3, Purgatory Ridge

[Cherie]

I finished The Man in the Brown Suit. Included in the ebook, is a story from Christie about how she came to write her first detective story and create Hercule Poirot. It is great! The first editor she sent it to returned it, so she sent it off to someplace else. Two years passed and one day she got a letter to meet with somebody. I am at this point.

I am working on a crochet project and each time I finish a part, I break and read. I have definitely discovered that I am all about the process of MAKING up the parts but not so much into the assembly of them.

[Cherie]

I can’t get Iron Lake for 7 weeks

[Roz]

I've been lucky. The first 4 in the series are available through Libby so they're easy to get. The rest are in print through my library. William Kent Krueger has become one of my favorite writers now.

[Cherie]

I just finished listening to The Edge, the second 6:20 Man story by David Baldacci. The narration for both of them was fantastic. I hope the author is writing another soon.


I am really enjoying listening to the PLAWAY for Carrie Soto is Back. I was even rooting for her during a match, while I was working on Friday.
The controls are pretty easy. It doesn’t give a % done but the chapters are displayed like 31-63, which is on chapter 31 of 63. (I watched the number change as I was listening. The time does not seem to be displayed.) I had to go buy a new battery as the one that came with it died.

[Roz]

I'm 5th on the waitlist for The Edge (that's equal to an 8 wk wait). I'm glad you liked it. I'll take it as an endorsement.

My library doesn't have PLAYAWAY, but it sounds pretty good.

[Roz]

I killed my 2nd series today: Impossible Times by Mark Lawrence. I had read the first book in the series in 2020. Took me a while to get back to it, but I'm glad I did.