I know that I have been remiss in writing an entry… I usually don’t take this long a break from writing, but I have been trying to get some things accomplished before my daughter comes home for her Thanksgiving break. She’ll be home for only two full days, and then will be going back to Cambridge for the remainder of the semester. I have a lot to get done before she arrives.
I thought that I would quickly “check in” and mention that I am continuing to make my way through my holiday themed mystery books. I enjoyed the first of the Special Pennyfoot Country Club mysteries (by Kate Kingsbury) and am reading a “Jessica Fletcher” (Donald Bain) holiday mystery right now. As I have mentioned before, I am becoming a rather slow reader, so I am hoping that I will be able to make it through a couple other holiday mysteries before our calendars change to 2010. (Can you believe it’s been ten years since all of that hub-bub about our computers not being able to change from the 1900s to the 2000s?!?)
How about you all? What are you reading? Drop us a line if you wouldn’t mind telling us about your current book… even if you’re not reading a mystery!
Anne says
I have a few new Christmas themed books waiting for me, too. For now I am reading my book club’s choice for this month French Lessons by Peter Mayle. It is very good but makes me hungry. As if the holidays do not play enough havoc with diets I’m reading a book about French food. Yikes. Plum Pudding Murder is dancing on my bedside table waiting as is Merry Merry Ghost. For me, this is a good post..I’m always interested in what others are reading. Have a great Thanksgiving everyone.
Shirley says
Hi
I’m reading Six Geese A Slaying by Donna Andrews, and I’ve got 10 more holiday themed books to go. I think I’ll be reading Christmas Mysteries in February but that’s ok with me.
Bill says
I’m listening to a Wexford (Ruth Rendell) – wish I could remember the name (my player is out in the car).
That is one of the problems with listening to a book on a tiny mp3 player – I turn on the player by touch and almost never have to look at the screen – and I don’t have the book cover in front of me all the time to remind me of the name of the book.
Anyway, I am enjoying the book – I think the early Wexford mysteries are really great (I haven’t read or listened to the later ones so I can’t comment on them.)
Dru says
I’m reading “Murder Off The Books” by Evelyn David who is a new-to-me author.
karen says
I’m trying to read “Decked with Folly” by Kate Kingsbury and “Merry, Merry Ghost by Carolyn Hart. I got sidetracked though when my husband came back from a trip with “Heat Wave” by Richard Castle. Of course I had to put down my holiday books for Richard Castle!!!!
Judith says
I just finished “Murder Off the Books” and really enjoyed it. I’m looking forward to reading the next book in the series – just as soon as I finish the other library books that are due this week! My one quibble is that although it is supposed to be set in the DC area (where I live), it didn’t feel like it.
Bailey says
I am reading the Marcus Didius Falco series by Lindsey Davis, and the Lord Meren series by Lynda S. Robinson. I really appreciate your blog! Thank you very much for all the work that you’ve put in to these lists. I find them so useful, as I am just re-discovering fiction and in particular mysteries. There is so much out there and I am in pig heaven with such abundance!
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Welcome to the site, Bailey!
Isn’t it great that there are so many authors AND so many books “out there” for us?
I’ll second your sentiment with an OINK of my own!
Jean says
I just finished “Ghastly Glass” by Jim and Joyce Lavene, “Medusa” by Clive Cussler, and “Murder off the Books”, to name a few. I’m in the middle of “A Corpse for Yew”, again by the Lavenes, and on my kindle I’m reading “Through the Grinder” by Cleo Coyle. Plus I have about a thousand I’ve not read yet, give or take a hundred. Yes, I love to read, and it’s really nice to see what other people out there are enjoying. Thanks for keeping up such a great site.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Jean, that sounds like a whole lot of reading! I’m glad you are enjoying the site AND thank you for the kind words…