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Summer is for Fun!

May 21, 2008

My daughter and I have decided to head on up to Colorado Springs to see my mother, her beau, and my brother…. And, I should probably mention my mother’s "new baby"… a King Charles Spaniel. (My husband and son will be at home taking care of our "baby"… Sprite.)

So, I have done the same thing that I did last summer>>> post dated several blog entries which will "magically appear" on the correct days. (I can even select the times I want the blogs to appear!) These computers sure are wonderful things, aren’t they?

We haven’t made the trip by car since my father passed away several years ago. I guess that I have blocked out just how long the trip actually is to drive. My husband is slowly making aware of how long it will take, and how desolate some areas are. If flying hadn’t become such a nuisance, we would definitely be flying. My memories from last summer when our airline simply cancelled our flight back from Boston are quite vivid… The airline actually left a message on my answering machine which greeted me when I got home from Boston via another flight!  What a nice welcome home that was… after scurrying around trying to find another flight, to hear the automated message telling me that I would need to scurry around to find another flight. Good grief!

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The 2008 Edgar Awards:

May 19, 2008

I finally got the 2008 Edgar Awards listed. The winners were announced the first week of May. I am sorry that this has taken me so long to post… It feels like I just posted the Agatha Awards! Well, I did… Since these awards are given (roughly) one month apart.

As the names of the awards imply, the Agatha Awards are for books that definitely lean more toward the Cozy Mystery Book genre… the Agatha Christie types of books. However, the Edgars should appeal to even the most devoted cozy readers. I think that if you take a look at the different Edgar Award categories, you will see that there are lots of really great mysteries, written by really terrific mystery authors.

I have tried to highlight all of the nominees and winners who have a page on the Cozy Mystery Site… If you do a comparison between the Agatha Award pages and the Edgar Award pages you will see that most of the Agatha winners and nominees have pages on this site. For example, a quick look at the Agatha Award Best Novel page and the Edgar Award Best Novel page will show you what I mean.

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June 2008 Mystery Book New Releases:

May 17, 2008

The following Mystery Books will be released in June 2008:

Catherine Aird:  Losing Ground  (This will be the 22nd in the Inspector Sloan Mystery Series…)

L. L. Bartlett (aka Lorna Barrett):  Dead in Red  (This will be the 2nd in the Jeff Resnick Mystery Series…)

Claudia Bishop:  The Case of the Ill-Gotten Goat  (This will be the 3rd in the Casebooks of Dr. McKenzie Mystery Series…)

Lawrence Block:  Hit and Run (This will be the 4th in the John Keller Mystery Series…)

Emily Brightwell:  Mrs. Jeffries Holds the Trump  (This will be the 24th Mrs. Jeffries Victorian Mystery Series…)

Leslie Caine:  Poisoned by Gilt  (This will be the 6th in the Domestic Bliss Mystery Series…)

Natasha Cooper:  Poisoned Mind (This will be the 9th in the Trish Maguire Mystery Series…)

Philip R. Craig:  Vineyard Chill  (This will be the 20th in the Martha’s Vineyard Mystery Series…)

Debora Crombie:  Where Memories Lie (This will be the 12th in the Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James Mystery Series…)

Clive Cussler (written w/Jack Du Brul):  Plague Ship  (This will be the 5th in the Oregon Files Mystery Series…)

Jeffery Deaver:  The Broken Window  (This will be the 8th in the Lincoln Rhymes Mystery Series…)

Susan Dunlap:  Hungry Ghosts  (This will be the 2nd in the Darcy Lott Mystery Series…)

Janet Evanovich:  Fearless Fourteen  (This will be the 14th in the Stephanie Plum Mystery Series…)

Anthea Fraser:  Next Door to Murder  (This will be the 6th in the Rona Parish Mystery Series…)

Carolyn Haines:  Wishbones  (This will be the 8th in the Sarah Booth Delany Mystery Series…)

Honor Hartman:  The Unkindest Cut   (This will be the 2nd in the Bridge Club Mystery Series…)

Linda O. Johnston:  Double Dog Dare  (This will be the 6th in the Pet-Sitter Mystery Series…)

Rebecca Kent (aka Kate Kingsbury):  High Marks for Murder   (This will be the 1st in the NEW Bellehaven House Mystery Series…)

Laura Levine:  Killing Bridezilla  (This will be the 7th in the Jaine Austen Mystery Series…)

Jess Lourey:  August Moon  (This will be the 4th in the Murder by Month Mystery Series…)

Sujata Massey:  Shimura Trouble  (This will be the 10th in the Rei Shimura Mystery Series…)

Sharyn McCrumb:  Once Around the Track  (This will be a Stand Alone… OR ?possibly a new series?…)

Tamar Myers:  Death of a Rug Lord  (This will be the 14th in the Den of Antiquity Mystery Series… actually out during the very end of May…)

Barbara Parker:  The Dark of Day  (This will be a Stand Alone…  OR ?possibly a new series?…)

Robert B. Parker: Resolution   (This will be a Stand Alone… historical fiction…)

James Patterson (written w/Howard Roughan):  Sail  (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Ruth Rendell: Not in the Flesh (This will be the 22nd in the Inspector Wexford Mystery Series…)

Maggie Sefton: Dyer Consequences   (This will be the 5th in the Knitting Mystery Series…)

Patricia Smiley: Cool Cache  (This will be the 4th in the Tucker Sinclair Mystery Series…)

Julia Spencer-Fleming:  I Shall Not Want  (This will be the 6th in the Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mystery Series…)

Victoria Thompson: Murder on Bank Street  (This will be the 10th in the Gaslight Mystery Series…)

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New DVD Ideas… Hopefully!

May 15, 2008

The last few days I have been working on trying to get together my information in order to post some new TV and Movie ideas on that page. I wish that my memory was good enough to enable me to post the "articles" without having to refresh it with the dates, actors, and even if we liked the shows or not! 

Actually, that last thing I listed ("and even if we liked the shows or not") is not really an issue. The only TV shows and movies that I do list on that page are those that I have enjoyed at one time or another…. either alone or with all/some of my family members. So, at least that part is easy…. unless the listed show is a series that we started off really enjoying and then for some reason just could not even "make" ourselves enjoy.

Anyway, that is what I have been up to these last few days… trying to organize both my head and my facts!

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