Jaime Lyerly > Recent Status Updates

Just before 3/4 of the way through gets so dark that I needed to take months long break, and I wasn't sure if I would make it back to this book. I'm through that section now.

Ooo it's getting interesting with the mysteries. I've been really enjoying this one so far.

So many characters and names to remember at this point that my brain can't track them all. I'm sort of wishing the bad guy in the story is someone we've already met just so that I don't have to be introduced to more characters. I think this author took the idea of setting up a long story for the whole town series too seriously.

Book 6 done and started book 7. Book 6 finally had some interesting things that I didn't expect in it. I'm enjoying how the author is taking us to new locations with the same crew and premise.

Book 5 done. It's now getting to the point that they are doing the main arch story things rather than the current story as much, so this was my favorite of the bunch. But favorite that you would need to get to by the other books so it's not stand alone. Enjoyable.

Book 4 done. I enjoyed the holiday theme, and moving forward with the bigger story arch. So far I'm still pretty good at nailing who did the things, and the twists, but maybe not all of the pieces to it. I'm enjoying these characters very much. It's pretty charming and light, even with the murders to be solved wherever they go.

Now I'm just listening to the same books I have already read because I haven't had a 5 star read all year with the new books, so going back to ones I already read.

Party with the mermaids was entertaining, and moving the main arches forward, too.

This book is so weird. I stopped reading it cuz I was like, this is a memoir of someone being sad, and I have enough sad on my own. But persisting to want to finish this, and curiosity of the similar experience of sad meeting sad unfolding into more than sad, I find a chapter that I relate to, and is my favorite so far: Hunger. And on wolves. So yes, I'm glad I'm taking this one one section at a time.

Book 1: It's the great British bake off, but with magic and a murder to solve. Charming characters though, make it cute.

Book 2: Another murder to solve, and interestingly normal and abnormal world at the same time.

These books make me feel smart cuz I figure things out long before the main character does. I'm enjoying it though. Mostly light and enjoyable.

2000 more pages to go.

This book is a little challenging to get back into once I've stopped it months ago, but it's not as high stakes as an actual fiction book as there are stories here, but not really a plot.

So far, this looks delicious and so many good pictures. I'm biased because I already trust Lisa to teach me as I've learned so many things from her YouTube channel before. I got this book to give to my son, and we went through the whole thing together as first glance. The part I'm looking forward to going back to read is the section on prepping individual vegetable types.

This book must be sponsored by the letter "P." So many P words, and we are only on chapter 2. There are pie recipes at the beginning of each chapter, and I'm so hungry now.

I had to pause the audiobook at the end of the chapter and then mid chapter because of the thought of anything bad happening to Clark the bird. I didn't realize I was so emotionally invested, but not in the whole story really, but Clark the bird in particular. As long as Clark the bird is fine, I will be fine.

It was cute. I was not expecting so much talk of dating as these kids are supposed to be 12 years old in middle school. Overall, it was entertaining.

Nope. Can't read this 80's book with modern sensibilities. No thank you to all of this.