{"id":169,"date":"2007-11-22T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2007-11-22T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/happy-thanksgiving-kissing-christmas-goodbye.html"},"modified":"2007-11-22T09:00:39","modified_gmt":"2007-11-22T14:00:39","slug":"happy-thanksgiving-kissing-christmas-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/happy-thanksgiving-kissing-christmas-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving&#8230; Kissing Christmas Goodbye&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Thanksgiving! (Actually, I am writing this the day before Thanksgiving&#8230; since I know I will be busy enjoying my family AND not enjoying the kitchen duties!)<\/p>\n<p>Well, I am going to have to take a break from my Who Killed Father Christmas? novel (by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cozy-mystery.com\/Patricia-Moyes.html\">Patricia Moyes<\/a>) in order to read my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0312349114\/ref=nosim\/httpwwwmarkes-20\">Kissing Christmas Goodbye<\/a> (by M. C. Beaton). I finally got my eighteenth Agatha Raisin novel, and I am so excited about reading it that I am almost giddy!<\/p>\n<p>I know that I have written about this before, but here it is in a nutshell!<\/p>\n<p>I first discovered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cozy-mystery.com\/M.-C.-Beaton.html\">M. C. Beaton<\/a> through her <strong>Agatha Raisin<\/strong> books. I thought that they were absolutely delightful. In fact, I enjoyed the Agatha novels so much that I didn&#8217;t want to read the <strong>Hamish Macbeth<\/strong> series, in fear that I wouldn&#8217;t like it&#8230; since, how many authors can have two wonderful series going at the same time?!? Anyway&#8230;. I stayed with solely Agatha until after the (+\/-)tenth book&nbsp;of the series. For some reason, I became a little disillusioned with some of Agatha&#8217;s antics. That is when <strong>I decided to try Beaton&#8217;s Hamish books. How glad am I that I did that!!!!?!!!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I love Beaton&#8217;s Hamish series<\/strong>&#8230; I still continued to really like the eleventh through fourteenth Agatha novels, but,&nbsp;when Beaton dropped the &quot;Agatha Raisin and the&#8230;..&quot; part of this series&#8217; titles, I&nbsp;started thinking that at any time, I would stop reading the series&#8230;&nbsp;I thought that perhaps the series had seen its final&nbsp;chapters (as far as I was concerned).&nbsp;I&nbsp;got very tired of one of the characters&#8230;James (not to worry&#8230; I won&#8217;t go into details&nbsp;since I don&#8217;t want to write any spoilers. But, I can say that it was one of the few times in my reading experiences that I wished the earth was flat so that James could simply walk off the side&#8230; never to be heard of\/from again!)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway,&nbsp;I have continued with the Agatha Raisin&nbsp;series since I still enjoy the novels&#8230; but not as much&nbsp;as I&nbsp;used to. And, since I love <strong>holiday-theme cozy mysteries<\/strong>, I think that I am going to enjoy this book.&nbsp;&nbsp;The cover is absolutely beautiful, but I&#8217;m hoping that Agatha is back to her delightfully wicked ways!<\/p>\n<p>On a totally different topic&#8230; My husband sent me&nbsp; a notice about Amazon having a day after Thanksgiving sale (better known as Black Friday Sale). We were totally unaware of that Amazon had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b\/?node=384082011&amp;tag=httpwwwmarkes-20 \">Black Friday Sale<\/a>&nbsp;in the past&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Thanksgiving! (Actually, I am writing this the day before Thanksgiving&#8230; since I know I will be busy enjoying my family AND not enjoying the kitchen duties!) 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