I’ll be writing a longer entry on Monday, but thought I would quickly write to say that I’m having a fantastic time. (More on that after the weekend…)

I am listening to the first book of the E. F. Benson Mapp and Lucia NON mystery series… Queen Lucia (narrated by Nadia May) and I am absolutely loving it! I know that I have raved about this particular NON mystery series many times before, but I must warn you that it is somewhat dated… having been written in the early 1920s. As I’ve said before, E. F. Benson‘s series is the only series that I have read several times (and plan on reading even more times in the future!) and each time I read it (or in this case listen to it) I discover new things.

Must go… Will write later...

Good grief! I thought I would just whip together my next mystery book theme, but I’m finding that it is taking a little longer than I had planned.

One really nice thing about putting together a new theme for the Theme Page, is that I get to “revisit” mystery authors who perhaps I hadn’t thought about in a while. I tend to keep to my “favorites” (as in favorite authors) and forget about possible favorite authors.

I am creature of habit…

However, right now I am trying to devote my reading time to trying new authors. I am glad that I have done just that, since I have been able to add a few new ones to my “favorites” list… Bill Crider and J. B. Stanley (aka Jennifer Stanley, although I haven’t read any of her books under that moniker YET!!!)

I do have to admit, though, that there have been a few stinkers in my latest attempt to broaden my horizons. I am not going to name those authors, but let me just say what I posted on my private list of authors: YUCK!!! Yep, that’s my code, and I don’t think I need to say more!

So, right now I am starting a mystery book by a new author (to me) and I will be posting about him/her in a few days… IF I like his/her mystery book. 

When I am in this discovery-type of mood, I am always hopeful that I will find a mystery author who I can add to the others… and am always sad when that doesn’t happen. I’ll let you know after I hit the magic page number (50, for me) >>> but if you don’t hear from me, that means I’m off on another “search and identify” mission, and that this latest mystery author has turned out to be an addition to my YUCK!!! list.

I have spent part of the day thinking about people…

Some of them are people who I knew personally, and others are people who have meant a lot to me, even though I never met them.

People who have made a huge difference to my life. And in my thoughts, I thank them for making it possible for me to live the life I do.

Thank you, to the many!

You know, I started thinking the other day, (my husband always likes it when I do that!) – am I more likely to try a new Cozy Mystery series by an author who is a woman, or would I look at both female and male authors in the same manner?

Hmmm…

I know which authors fill my TBR (to be read) bookshelf, and I have to admit that there are a whole lot more women authors than men crammed into each tier of my TBR (To Be Read) shelf unit. I mean, I have male authors in my “favorites” group but there are, by far, a lot less of them than women authors.

Is it because women authors simply lend themselves to being “Cozy”-er than their male counterparts? Is it that several best selling male authors have “ruined it” for the other male authors by including their craziest male fantasies into every novel they publish? I mean, I can only take so much of the 007 graphic “womanizing” (and that’s a tame word for it!!!) before I simply say… “In your dreams, Buddy!”

Do any of you have definite preferences when choosing to try a new mystery author?