{"id":174,"date":"2007-12-04T16:08:15","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T21:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/ann-granger-only-a-few-pages-until-i-catch-up-with-one-of-my-favorite-authors.html"},"modified":"2007-12-04T16:08:15","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T21:08:15","slug":"ann-granger-only-a-few-pages-until-i-catch-up-with-one-of-my-favorite-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/ann-granger-only-a-few-pages-until-i-catch-up-with-one-of-my-favorite-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"Only a Few Pages Until I Catch Up with One of My Favorite Authors&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently listening to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cozy-mystery.com\/Ann-Granger.html\">Ann Granger<\/a>&#8216;s last <strong>Markby and Mitchell Village Whodunit Mystery,<\/strong> and I am sick about it! I know that I have mentioned (several times) about how I hate to &quot;catch up&quot; with my favorite authors. I try to leave&nbsp;a few books in my TBR (To Be Read) pile so that I have some books to really look forward to. But, since I read my books faster (just barely!)&nbsp;than an author writes his\/her books, invariably, there comes a day when I &quot;level out&quot; with the author.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The latest author who simply isn&#8217;t writing fast enough for me is Ann Granger.<\/strong> I&nbsp;waited and waited to finally read her fifteenth Markby &amp; Mitchell novel (<strong>That Way Murder Lies<\/strong>), but I finally broke down and started listening to it&#8230;. and could simply not put it down (or should I say &quot;turn it off&quot;?!?) I now have only a few chapters until I will no longer have &quot;an Ann Granger&quot; to look forward to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I was so delighted when I found that <strong>audible.com<\/strong> carried her novels. I quickly purchased them (<strong>un<\/strong>abridged, of course!) and gave my TBR &quot;real books&quot; to my library for other connoisseurs of wonderful books to enjoy. And, as excited as I was to get the books &quot;on tape&quot;&#8230; I was even more excited when I heard <strong>Judith Boyd&#8217;s<\/strong> phenomenal reading of the books. (She&#8217;s right up there with <a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/mystery-books-on-audio.html\">my other favorite book narrators<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I should take a more positive view of this&#8230;. a glass half full approach&#8230; a silver lining in the clouds&#8230; Nope! Doggone it&#8230;. Why can&#8217;t my favorite authors just write faster!?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently listening to Ann Granger&#8216;s last Markby and Mitchell Village Whodunit Mystery, and I am sick about it! I know that I have mentioned (several times) about how I hate to &quot;catch up&quot; with my favorite authors. I try to leave&nbsp;a few books in my TBR (To Be Read) pile so that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-authors","7":"category-books","8":"entry","9":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-2O","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}