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Oct 11, 2011 04:10AM
Welcome Caren, Debra, S., and Sarah! Can't say I'm a big college football fan of any one team (my college hadn't even been coed for long enough to have a football team when I started there! LOL) but I do know that this is a great place to find out about mysteries and lots of great books to add to your TBR pile. Enjoy!
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Welcome Sarah! I'm over in AU and it'll be nice to have another 'neighbour' here. :) You'll have no problem finding new cozy authors here.
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G'day everyoneMy name is Sally and I live in Australia. I love mystery books and love them even more if they are cosy!
I found this group by following the link through a friend and as I have just ordered The Cat, the Quilt and the Corpse seemed like fate to be here :)
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Heather L wrote: "Sally! Fancy meeting you here. *G* I hope you enjoy the book when you finally receive it! ; )"So do I - it was your teaser that helped me discover it - LOL!!!
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Sally906 wrote: "G'day everyoneMy name is Sally and I live in Australia. I love mystery books and love them even more if they are cosy!
I found this group by following the link through a friend and as I have ju..."
Welcome! I'm in Aus too and love knowing there are more cozy mystery lovers here! :)
I an grandma dee, married to Papa bill and grandma to The Munchkin (4) and Jules (2). We all read all the time. WE carry nooks with us and wear mp3 players around our necks for audio. I have a hard time finding Cozies because they check out of the library so fast. I am hoping by using the nook color and the zens with overdrive I can find some. To be on the safe side I also joined audible.com. I read a lot of thrillers but am looking for cozies and reading my way thru agatha christie on mu nook.Are there any cozies with parrots in them? I am owned by Sparrowhawk my 4 tear old conure.
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Hello, I'm Norma Huss. I read a lot of cozy mysteries. I'm currently reading Cleo Coyle's Roast Mortum. I'm also a Goodreads author with one book out and another about to come out. I live in Pennsylvania, but I write about Chesapeake Bay.
A former Pennsylvanian I've met, and like to read is Tamar Myers. Have you read her African books inspired by her childhood? Maybe not really cozy, but very good!
A former Pennsylvanian I've met, and like to read is Tamar Myers. Have you read her African books inspired by her childhood? Maybe not really cozy, but very good!
Hi, I'm Cheryl Dale. I've liked mysteries since I started off with Nancy Drew. Now I read all over the board but cozies are still an old favorite.
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Heather L wrote: "Hi Grandma Dee! I just finished What's a Ghoul to Do? by Victoria Laurie, book one in her "Ghost Hunters" series, and the main character has a parrot named Doc. Welcome to the group!"I love those books!
Welcome Caren, Debra, Sarah and Sally!I hope you will like it here!
Good morning. It is a cool, rainy, windy day -- a great day to ready a nice cozy mystery. I started my fascination with cozy mysteries (although I didn't know that the genre had a name until I wandered into Goodreads one day last year) several years ago when BS Mysteries started showing Hercule Poirot movies. I love the genre but was so put off by the overly violent and full of sex stuff out there. Yee haw I have found my delight with cozy mysteries. Good to be "home".
Welcome, S., Sarah, Sally, Grandma Dee, Norma, Cheryl, and Sandra!!Wow, lots of "S" names in this batch.
Welcome Grandma Dee, Norma, Cheryl and Sandra!Grandma Dee, you need to check out Donna Andrews Meg Langslow series. Each book features a different type of bird. We'll Always Have Parrots is the fourth, I think.
Cozy mysteries are my favorite type of novel. Thrilled to find this group. I am Kay, a grandmother, journalist, and animal and book lover who lives in Anchorage, Alaska. Thank goodness for my active grandchildren and dogs (needing walks) or I would spend all my free time reading fiction. Still, I have to frequently remind myself that I am the main character in my own book of life, and what a dreary character I would be if I spent all my free time reading. Luckily there are places such as goodreads, where I can share the rich and fantastical world of imaginary characters that enrich my daily life. Louise Penny my favorite mystery writer.
I am behind on my Welcomes!!! Welcome to the new members!!I have been really busy rebooting my blog on WordPress. Please stop by if you get the chance.
http://www.escapewithdollycas.com/
Hi all, my name is Christine from Utah and I love Cozies! I read my first cozies back when I was hooked on scrapbooking and I had heard about the scrapbooking mystery series by Laura Childs. I really enjoyed the books and moved on to read her Tea Shop Mysteries and then started looking at other mysteries at my local library. Now I am hooked and can't seem to get enough of cozy mysteries. I only wish my library had a better selection. :) While they have many of the popular series', there are several series' of which they only have a couple books and others that they do not have at all.
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Thanks for the kind welcome ladies!
So the guy's in the closet with a knife, in a young girl's bedroom. Is that really entertainment? Kind of watching the lions and the christians going at it. Give me a cozy any day.
Hello All! My name is Jaci (pronounced Jackie) and I am from Rapid City, SD. I have been reading pretty much my whole life and I love to read new things. I mostly read mysteries and some fiction. I've enjoyed, most recently, reading books written about things that happened during WWII. Looking foward to digging into some of the discussions here!
Hi, thanks for the all the kind welcomes. I'll start out by welcoming the other newbies! Okay, maybe I'll finish with that too.
Welcome Jaci, Christine in UT, Norma, Sandra, Sally, Cheryl and Grandmadee! There is also a parrot in the Kendra Ballantyne series by Linda O. Johnston. She's a pet-sitter and a lawyer and there's a parrot in her law office. Hope you all enjoy being on this board - it's a great bunch of folks and you'll find lots of great recommendations for good reads!
Welcome, Kay, Christine, and Jaci!Kay, I, too, am a fan of Louise Penny's writing, and Christine, are you familiar with Joanna Campbell Slan's scrapbooking mystery series?
My name is Michelle. I haven't read very many cozy mysteries, but I'm getting more and more interested in this mystery sub-genre. A while ago, I started reading the Aurora Teagarden series by Charlaine Harris, and really enjoyed the books that I was able to get my hands on.
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Hi Michelle! I like the Aurora Teagarden series okay, but am more partial to Harris' Lily Bard series. And, of course, I like the Sookie Stackhouse series.
Heather L wrote: "Welcome Jaci! Hi Michelle! I like the Aurora Teagarden series okay, but am more partial to Harris' Lily Bard series. And, of course, I like the Sookie Stackhouse series."
Thanks for the Welcome Heather! I'll have to look into the Lily Bard series soon. I'm in the mood for a good cozy. I've also read Ghost of a Chance, and think I'd like to continue with that series as well.
My name is Carol. I'm 65, retired, and live in Southern CA with my husband and our rescued Sheltie/Corgi mix dog. We have 2 grandcholdren 12 and 6. I've read as long as I can remember as my parents were avid readers even though we had one of the first TVs in our area. I never knew until recently that what I was reading were known as cozies. I usually like to read a new series (to me) in chrono order. My favorite is whatever I happen to be reading at the moment which is Sally Goldenbaum's Seaside Knitters Mystery Series. BTW, I do all my reading now from a Kindle and love it.
Hello, everyone. I fell in love with the cozy when my mom introduced me to The Cat Who series years ago and they're still the ones I grab off the shelf when I need a sure thing, even if I have read them all numerous times! But I'm in a mad search for more really good cozies, and I'm picky picky picky! I like strong protagonists, a good twist and turn or three, good writing, and characters that come alive. I can like this or that just fine, but I'm searching for something i can really like , even love. Wish me luck!
Welcome Michelle, Carol and Maurie! This is a great group of readers and I'm sure you'll have to problem finding new authors/series to add to your favourites - especially if you read back through some of the older threads, which is what I did, much to the detriment of my book budget! :)
Thanks for the welcome Jennifer E. :)
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Glad to have you join us, Michelle, Carol and Maurie! You will no doubt find plenty of suggestions here for great books to read (as others have said - to the greater increase of your book budget and/or TBR pile! LOL). Have fun.
I was browsing book clubs and had to join! I love mysteries! I live in Michigan, so curling up with a good mystery in front of the fire is my kind of thing!!
Maurie wrote: "Hello, everyone. I fell in love with the cozy when my mom introduced me to The Cat Who series years ago and they're still the ones I grab off the shelf when I need a sure thing, even if I have rea..."I'm new here myself and don't know how the comments work but I'm game to try. I recommend that you try Maria Schneider Executive Lunch. It's the 1st of 3 books in a series set in an office IT environment. Very good series; highly recommended.
Hi, my name is Peg and I am also 65 and retired because I haven't been able to find a job for the past five years!!! I like reading cozies but I have to be honest, have to pass on a lot of good ones because of the tiny print which drives me crazy! I will try and look under used book stores to see if they have them in hardcover or large print. I write down authors and your ladies recommend and then I go to my nearby Barnes and Noble and look at these authors and also try and go through some books where the print isn't that teeny tiny. I did find and read Amanda Lee's cozies which were good. I found a new cozy author named Anna Canadeo who now writes under Katherine Spencer and she writes the Cape Light series with Thomas Kinkade.
Hi, my friends call me BO and I live on "Paw Paw Ridge" in TN. I love animals, cooking and reading cozy mysteries. I occasionally still read another genre from time to time but about 10 years ago, after I retired, I really got into the cozies. I have too many favorite authors to list here but a couple of my favorites are Earlene Fowler, Mary Daheim and almost any series set in Maine. A friend recommended this site to me -- it's nice to meet you all.
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thank you, Heather. glad to be here and hope to learn about a lot of good cozy books
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