Q&A with Josh Lanyon discussion
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Mymymble wrote: "I've been wanting to nominate 
for ages so here it ..."I'll second that, (But for the record, images aren't decipherable from tablets, because you can't hover over it and see what book it is. I just happened to recognize the cover in this case.)
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Real Life just happens to be a Kindle Daily Deal today, for $2.99. Here's the link, if anyone is interested:https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07SGMRMG3
Mymymble, I discovered that with a pressure-sensitive tablet I can press down on the cover image and the book info will pop up. So I learned something! :)
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This is just a reminder that we are still taking nominations for our March 2021 read until tomorrow when I create the poll!
So far our nominations include:
The House in the Cerulean Sea
Real Life
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https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...
I voted! Thank you for organising the poll.
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You're welcome!
I voted too. Thank you.
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You're welcome! Thank you!
We now have what I will call "a very healthy tie". lol.
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I just wanted to let you know that we have a tie right now for our March 2021 read! Voting ends on the 28th, which is only in a couple of days, so if you haven't taken the chance yet to vote, hurry over:
https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...
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Our February BOM thread is now up and ready for you to start discussing The Friend:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Josh said on Facebook that she expects Mystery at the Masquerade to be out by the end of the month! Let's hope that can be our March read.
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Woot! I'm sooo looking forward to that one. :-D
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Sound good?
So, with that, we're taking nominations for one week and the poll will go up next week!
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Jordan wrote: "My nomination is for the duology: Silver in the Wood & Drowned Country, as I think they're both novellas and short."I'll second that.
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I'll second that."
yay! :-D
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Jordan wrote: "This is a reminder that we're still taking nominations for our next BOM read until Thursday! So far we only have Silver in the Wood & Drowned Country nominated."Silver in the Wood is book one and Drowned Country is book two. Will we be reading both of them?
I liked Silver in the Wood a lot, and I'm looking forward to reading the sequel, so I'll just "third" them rather than nominate something else. I'm currently enjoying The Story of Fester Cat, but I'll save it for a later nomination when we're in the mood for something different. It's the story of a stray cat adopted by a gay couple, told from the POV of the cat.
Ije the Devourer of Books wrote: "Silver in the Wood is book one and Drowned Country is book two. Will we be reading both of them?"Yes; I believe the nomination was to read the two as a duology, since they're short novellas.
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They're both short, so I thought we might. Unless you'd rather just go with the first one. I've not read either, but picked up the audiobook that has them both together.
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I'm currently enjoying [book:The St..."
That sounds awesome! Please do nominate that at some point. :-)
Jordan wrote: "Ije the Devourer of Books wrote: "Jordan wrote: "This is a reminder that we're still taking nominations for our next BOM read until Thursday! So far we only have Silver in the Wood ..."No probs we can read both. I have read the first one. It would be good to read them together.
John Wiltshire has re-released the More Heat than the Sun series, starting with Love Is A Stranger. Is that already well read by everyone? Quite the contrast to the other suggestions, as a violent raunchy spy thriller. Not the best in the series, but a good well written launch to two of my favorite characters in a series that got better and better.Also, Jordan Castillo Price's latest in the Psycop series is out...Other Half. As the latest in the series, might not work for the book of the month, as definately need to read the whole series to make sense of it..might have to jump back to the first short book that started Psycops...Among the Living
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I started the latest Psycop, but paused it because I think I need to reread like, the previous 2-3, and I’m conflicted about this and how far back I need to go/want to go. But I really want to read the latest! My review of the last book mentions wanting to start over at the beginning, which is great, but that’s a lot! Lol.
I felt the same way, but had just fairly recently done a reread of the whole psyycop series last fall. With long series it can be tough, because I have reread the first books many times....but the more recent ones, not so much.So, for me, I started the reread of the series at Agent Bayne before reading Other Half. Agent Bayne is when Vince shifts from being cop to agent, so it was a good point, as the ones prior to that are very familiar to me. Have you all read the Psycop Short Stories collection, which includes an excellent new story of Vincent going thru early agent training.
WMD wrote: "Love Is A Stranger. Is that already well read by everyone? ...Not the best in the series, but a good well written launch to two of my favorite characters in a series that got better and better."The series sounded exactly like what I want to read, but I was disappointed in the first book so stopped there. It's encouraging to hear that it gets better -- I'd gladly give it another chance if it improves as it goes it along.
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Oh, Agent Bayne would be a perfect place to restart it! I have the same problem, of course, that I've reread (relistened to, actually) the first books a lot more than the recent ones. I will start here. Thank you!
I know I have read all the short story collections. Would be fun to reread them as they're not in audio, so I have likely only read them once or twice.
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It is that time to vote on our April 2021 read! Here's the poll: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...
The poll will be up through next Wednesday.
Obviously, if Josh's latest does come out soon we will push back the titles we're planning to read and will skip a month of nominating and voting.
Jordan wrote: "Obviously, if Josh's latest does come out soon we will push back the titles we're planning to read and will skip a month of nominating and voting. "Mystery at the Masquerade has already been sent to Josh's Patreon group, and is scheduled for release on February 28, so I think we can take it as a given.
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WMD wrote: "John Wiltshire has re-released the More Heat than the Sun series, starting with Love Is A Stranger. Is that already well read by everyone? ..."Thank you for mentioning it. I've read the first three books and I liked them so much that I bought the whole series on paper. But series are quite time consuming, so I never took it up again, even though I wanted.
BTW do you know what ''re-released'' means in this case? Just a new cover or so, or are there other changes?
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Antonella wrote: "WMD wrote: "John Wiltshire has re-released the More Heat than the Sun series, starting with Love Is A Stranger. Is that already well read by everyone? ..."Thank you for mentioning it. I've read t..."
@antinella I think just new covers. I hear he us working on a prequel. The first isnt the best in the series, but the series is in my top 3...look forward to hearing what everyone thinks!
WMD wrote: "I think just new covers. I hear he us working on a prequel. The first isnt the best in the series, but the series is in my top 3...look forward to hearing what everyone thinks! "Thank you! Maybe I'll finally manage to read the whole series...
Jordan wrote: "Love is a Stranger will be our next BOM read! Thanks for voting everyone!"Heads up -- according to the author, Love is a Stranger will be on sale for $1.99 on Amazon from March 19 - 21.
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Heads up -- according to the author, Love is a Stranger will be on sale fo..."
Perfect! Thanks for mentioning that. That's tomorrow too! woot.
Since Bell, Book and Scandal will be out in a couple of days, shall we read that for April, and push back The House in the Cerulean Sea and Love is a Stranger to May and June?
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https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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You can always list my book-du-jour as something additional for those who want to chime in with their thoughts. I do always find those comments and insights interesting--and sometimes truly helpful when planning the next books. ;-)
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And those will be in July and September. H&M is going to be bumped back a little bit because--pre-epiphany--I did schedule this year WAY too tight.
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Since you are doing a lot of the Secrets and Scrabble books, as I recall, we could easily do a double read those months, or just do a bunch chat where we talk about 2-3 of them at once.
What do others think?
We would definitely want to chat up the final H&M and AofM books though for absolutely sure!!!! ooooohhhhhhhh...... Now I'm getting excited. You know, there is something for an ongoing series, but there's also something for knowing the ending is coming and that new stories will follow... There'a fine line, I think. lol.
If it were up to me, I'd rather just read and discuss whatever of Josh's books come out, and continue to "bump" the other titles. It's not like the other titles are going to get stale or anything if we don't read them right away. And I will want to read Josh's books as soon as they come out (MMRG Scavenger Hunt duties notwithstanding), so if we postpose discussing them, I might not remember them so well by the time we do.
And this is just me, but with the scavenger hunt, I probably won't be able to read more than one off-hunt book per month, so if I do it will always be Josh's new one, rather than the book-of-the-month.
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That's good to know. I've not read anything by T.J. Klune before, I don't think. Honestly, I think this is the first one that looked interesting to me.
And yes, most libraries should have it. I know mine does on Overdrive in Audio and ebook formats. :-)
I think I bought it on sale, as I own it, and I think I also got the audiobook too, if I'm not mistaken. It was probably linked pricing, I bet.