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March 31, 2011

I just heard from Alfred, a friend who I have made since I started this website. We exchange letters every so often, and I always enjoy hearing from him. Alfred has been great about sending me recommendations of new Cozy Mystery authors who he thinks really belong on the site. And, he is always right about those authors! He also gives me the heads-up on when some of the Cozy Mystery authors are publishing a new book.

Recently, Alfred started reading his current book and realized that he wasn’t in the mood to read it. With that, he started thinking about hobbies, and thought it might be interesting to find out what other hobbies you all enjoy doing when your latest Cozy Mystery just isn’t cutting it for you!

I’ll start the ball rolling by telling you that one of the things Alfred enjoys doing is Word Search Puzzles. Another thing he enjoys doing is listening to the old radio shows from the 1940s and 1950s. And, since he has subscriptions to two word search magazines and also has CDs of old radio shows, he is able to combine both of these relaxing hobbies. He also enjoys jigsaw puzzles.

(One of my brothers enjoys jigsaw puzzles and word searches, also!)

Now I’ll tell you about some of my hobbies >>> I love my Sudoku Puzzles! I have to admit that I’m not too terribly fast at them, and sometimes I have to put one down and then try coming back to it another day, but I still love them. Also, I enjoy my needlepoint, especially with those little Mill Hill glass beads… even though I am almost sure that they are the reason I have had to up my reading glasses prescription! (Anymore, I feel like Sprite is a “hobby” of mine. Carrying her from room to room, giving her all of her many pills, making sure she doesn’t take certain pills on an empty stomach, ETC!)

Do any of you have some hobbies that you wouldn’t mind telling us about?

(PS>>> Alfred, thanks for the great entry idea!)

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Mystery Books that Take Place in South Carolina …

March 28, 2011

Here are some fun South Carolina facts:
The capital & largest city is Columbia.
State motto is “While I breathe, I hope” (“Dum Spiro Spero”)
State flower is the Yellow Jessamine.
State bird is the Carolina Wren.
Origin of the South Carolina’s Name: In honor of England’s Charles I.
State nickname is Palmetto State. (This is because the American fort on Sullivan Island’s walls were made out of Palmetto logs, which helped to protect the fort when the British cannonballs ricocheted off of the spongy Palmetto logs.)

Mystery authors who are found on the Cozy Mystery Site who feature south Carolina locations/settings in their books:

Susan M. Boyer: Liz Talbot Mystery Series

Elizabeth Lynn Casey (aka Laura Bradford): Southern Sewing Circle Mystery Series

Laura Childs: Theodosia Browning Tea Shop Mystery Series

Caroline Cousins: Indigo Island Mystery Series

Nora DeLoach: Mama Detective Mystery Series

Carolyn Hart: Death on Demand Mystery Series AND Henrie O Mystery Series

Sean Keefer: Stand Alone Mystery: The Trust

Joyce & Jim Lavene: Renaissance Faire Mystery Series

Kendel Lynn: Elliott Lisbon Mystery Series

Tyora Moody: Eugeena Patterson Mystery Series

Tamar Myers: Den of Antiquity Mystery Series

Gail Oust: Bunco Babes Mystery Series

Cathy Pickens: Southern Fried Mystery Series

Fran Rizer: Callie Parrish Mystery Series

Paige Shelton: Farmers’ Market Mystery Series

Kathryn R. Wall: Bay Tanner Mystery Series

Please feel free to comment if you see an author from the Cozy Mystery Site who belongs on this list, or if you have any corrections.

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Mystery Book Theme: Actors and Actresses

March 25, 2011

I was asked by a Cozy Mystery site reader to do an entry that would include actors and dancers. I have decided to separate the two themes. This post includes mystery books that feature actors. I have only included the authors who can be found on the Cozy Mystery site:

Lydia Adamson: Alice Nestleton Mystery Series

Conrad Allen (aka Edward Marston & Keith Miles): George Porter Dillman Mystery Series

Marian Babson: Trixie Dolan & Evangeline Sinclair Mystery Series

George Baxt: Celebrity Sleuths Mystery Series

Simon Brett: Charles Paris Mystery Series

Jeffrey Cohen (aka E. J. Copperman): Double Feature Mystery Series

Lesley Cookman: Libby Sarjeant Mystery Series

Eileen Davidson: Soap Opera Mystery Series

Jane Dentinger: Jocelyn O’Roarke Mystery Series

Susan Dunlap: Darcy Lott Mystery Series

Jerrilyn Farmer & Joan Rivers: Red Carpet Mystery Series

Kellye Garrett: Detective by Day Mystery Series

Ann Granger: Fran Varady Mystery Series

Kerry Greenwood: Ruddy Gore (7th in the Phryne Fisher Mystery Series)

Stuart M. Kaminisky: Toby Peters Mystery Series

Ngaio Marsh: Night at the Vulcan (aka Opening Night)

Edward Marston (aka Keith Miles & Conrad Allen): Elizabethan Theatre Mystery Series

Stefanie Matteson: Charlotte Graham Mystery Series

Linda Palmer (aka Melinda Wells): Daytime Mystery Series

Melinda Wells (aka Linda Palmer): Della Cooks Mystery Series

Please feel free to comment if you see an author from the Cozy Mystery Site who belongs on this list, or if you have any corrections.

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3 Pounds of 1264 Pages… That’s a Whole Lot of Reading!

March 22, 2011

Our daughter came home last week for her spring break. Since she is busy with her classes and papers, she enjoys the “relax time” that she can get during her school breaks, even though she has a lot of class reading to do.

Unfortunately, she wasn’t able to spend the entire break time at home. She is taking a class which required her to go to Washington D.C. for a few days, which meant that she didn’t get to spend the entire week holiday with us. But since her time at home is quickly becoming shorter and shorter as she grows older, we were just happy she had the amount of time she had.

Whenever she is home, she always includes a talk with her dad about books he is reading, or has recently read. His latest book was William L. Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, which he recommended to her. Long story short… she bought a copy of the book and is now reading it in her “reading for fun” allotted time.

She is enjoying the book although it is a bit dated.  Now that she is back at school, she doesn’t have much “reading for fun” time. Good grief! It would take me forever to read a book that long! I can’t even imagine holding a book that heavy during my “reading for fun” time!

Needless to say, my daughter takes after her father… which is a pretty good thing!

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