Tricia tries again in 2023

I'm Tricia from the western part of South Carolina. After abandoning my challenge last year (although still reading and managed 177 books) I am trying again this year. My categories are very similar to the one's for 2022 with a bit of tweaking. There will be some books for the CATS and KITS but I probably won't do them all.

Hoping for a good reading year for all of us.

1. Science Fiction and Fantasy

1. The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age by Stanislaw Lem - Finished January 30 - ebook
2. Heroic Hearts by Jim Butcher and Kerrie Hughes, editors - ebook
3. What Price Victory? by David Weber, editor - ebook
4. 1637: The Transylvanian Decision by Eric Flint and Robert E. Waters - ebook
5. House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones - own (paper)
6. Lost Heart by Robin D. Owens - also romance - ebook
7. Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs - ebook
8. A Call to Duty by David Weber and Timothy Zahn - ebook
9. A Call to Arms by David Weber, Timothy Zahn and Thomas Pope - ebook
10. A Call to Vengeance by David Weber, Timothy Zahn and Thomas Pope - own - paper
11. A Call to Insurrection by David Weber, Timothy Zahn and Thomas Pope - ebook
12. Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones - ebook
13. Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs - own - paper
14. Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones own - ebook

2. Mysteries and Suspense

1. Blood on the Tracks by Martin Edwards, editor - finished January 7 - ebook
2. Still Life by Louise Penny - finished January 21
3. Homicide Trinity by Rex Stout - finished January 6
4. Rope's End, Rogues End by E. . R. Lorac - ebook
5. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman - Finished January 23
6. Fell Murder by E. . R. Lorac - ebook
7. The Tragedy at Freyne by Anthony Gilbert - ebook
8. Fire in the Thatch by E. . R. Lorac - ebook
9. Post after Post-Mortem by E. . R. Lorac - ebooks
10. The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman - public library - ebook
11. Death Came Softly by E. . R. Lorac - ebook
12. The Fire Within by Patricia Wentworth - ebook
13. A Certain Justice by P. D. James - ebook
14. An Order for Death by Susanna Gregory - ebook
15. A Bone of Contention by Susanna Gregory - ebook
16. The Black Wings by Moray Dalton - ebook
17. On Borrowed Crime by Kate Young - ebook
18. The Verdict of You All by Henry Wade - ebook
19. Shroud of Darkness by E. . R. Lorac - ebook
20. The Last Escape by E. . R. Lorac - ebook
21. The Apothecary Rose by Candace - ebook
22. The Sacred Bridge by Anne Hillerman - ebook
23. Rack, Ruin and Murder by Ann Granger - ebook
24. Accident by Design by E. . R. Lorac - ebook
25. The Amazing Chance by E. . R. Lorac - ebook
26. The Crooked Hinge by John Dickson Carr - ebook
27. The Picasso Scam by Stuart Pawson - ebook
28. Bats in the Belfry by E. . R. Lorac - ebook
28. Murder by Matchlight by E. . R. Lorac - ebook
29. The Will and the Deed by Ellis Peters - ebook
30. The Book of the Crime by Elizabeth Daly - ebook
31. Silence in Court by Patricia Wentworth - ebook
32. A Glancing Light by Aaron Elkins - ebook
33. The Coconut Killings by Patricia Moyes - ebook
34. A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny - public library
35. A Spy for the Redeemer by Candace Robb - finished June 1 - own, ebook
36. Never Pick Up Hitch-Hikers by Ellis Peters - finished June 3 - own - ebook
37. The Thin Woman by Dorothy Cannell - finished June 6 - own - ebook
38. The Widening Stain by W. Bolingbroke Johnson - finished June 9 - own - ebook
39. A Meditation on Murder by Robert Thorogood - finished June 12 - own - ebook
40. The Cross-Legged Knight by Candace Robb - Finished June 16 - own - ebook

3. YA and Children

1. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin - Finished January 15 - own
2. The Shining Stars by Ghislaine Vautier - Finished January 25 -own
3. The Weekend Was Murder by Joan Lowery Nixon - own
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4. Miscellaneous Fiction and Nonfiction - For any book not in another category.

1. Into the Darkness by Barbara Michaels - finished January 12
2. Anne Belinda by Patricia Wentworth - ebook
3. Sugar Candy Cottage by Elizabeth Cadell - finished June - ebook
4. The Locked Tomb Mystery: and Other Stories by Elizabeth Peters - finished June 17 - ebook

5. Africa and Asia - Both Fiction and Nonfiction.

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6. History - Any not in another category.

7. Science - May include history of science, biography of scientists, even technology

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8. Time-Life Reading Series - These are from the 1980 reissue.

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9. CATS.

ClassicsCAT

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GeoCAT

1. The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age by Stanislaw Lem - Finished January 30 - ebook
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SeriesCAT

1. The Thursday Murder Club - series new to you - January 23
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KittyCat

1. The Shining Stars by Ghislaine Vautier - Finished January 25
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10. KITS

MysteryKIT

1. Homicide Trinity by Rex Stout - January
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SFFKIT

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AlphaKIT

1. Homicide Trinity by Rex Stout - Still Life by Louise Penny - January
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RandomKIT

1. Into the Darkness by Barbara Michaels - finished January 12
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11. Bingo



1: Features music or a musician
2: Features or is set in an Inn or Hotel
3: Features a member of the cat family (as big a cat as you like) - The Shining Stars for Leo the Lion
4: The next book in a series you've started
5: A book by an author that shares your sign of the zodiac
6: A memoir
7: A bestselling book from 20 years ago
8: Book with a plant in the title or on the cover - Into the Darkness
9: A book with switched or stolen identities
10: A book that taught you something
11: A book with a book on the cover
12: Features something art or craft related
13: Read a CAT
14: A book with a small town or rural setting - Still Life
15: A book on a SETM topic (Science Technology, Engineering or Maths)
16: A book with an LT rating of 4 or more
17: A book by a local or regional author - The Cyberiad
18: A book involving an accident
19: A book featuring a journalist or about journalism
20: A popular author's first book
21: A book on a topic you don't usually read
22: A book with a number or quantity in the title
23: A book by an author under 30
24: A book set on a plane, train or ship
25: A book in >1000 libraries on LT - The Westing Game

12. extra

13. extra

14. extra

15. extra

16. extra

That should be enough!

Welcome back! Looking forward to following your science category in particular :)

Glad to see you back, Tricia! I hope 2023 is for you and reading!

Stopping by to wish you a wonderful year of reading in 2023.

Best wishes on your 2023 reading!

>19 rabbitprincess:, >20 Tess_W:, >21 lkernagh:, >22 thornton37814:

Thanks for stopping by. I’ll get around to everyone’s threads soon.

Good luck with your reading in 2023.

>24 lowelibrary: Thanks.

January

Reading plans:

Category 1 - The United States of Atlantis or/and The Kaiju Preservation Society
Category 2 - Blood on the Tracks or/and A Certain Justice
Category 3 - Ender's Game and The Westing Game
Category 4 - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Category 5 - SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Category 6 - Galileo's Daughter
Category 7 - The Lunatic Express and Mission to Tashkent
Category 8 - Cider with Rosie

Cats:
ClassicsCAT - Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
GeoCAT - The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age by Stanisław Lem
KittyCAT - The Shining Stars
SeriesCAT - The Thursday Murder Club or Still Life

Kits:
MysteryKIT - Homicide Trinity
SFFKIT - Alien Blood and maybe Always Coming Home
AlphaKIT - Into the Darkness also a couple for S from above authors
RandomKIT - Also Into the Darkness

These are all from my own shelves except the two for the SeriesCAT. I have ordered them from the library but only Still Life has a good chance of becoming available this month. These are possibles but I probably won't finish all of them.

Currently Reading

Blood on the Tracks (anthology of early detective stories)
Homicide Trinity (Nero Wolfe)
Galileo's Daughter

Hi and Happy New Year! I am currently reading 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, too.

It's good to see you back, Trisha. I've placed my star and I am looking forward to following along with your 2023 reading.

Hope you have a great reading year. I am interested in several of your categories.

Welcome back! Adding Mission to Tashkent to the wish list.

Best wishes for your 2023 reading!

Made a little progress on the books I'm reading yesterday and visited some threads but somehow failed to make it back to mine!

>27 MissBrangwen:, >28 DeltaQueen50:, >29 Zozette:, >30 pamelad:, >31 mathgirl40: Thanks for visiting.

>30 pamelad: Hope you enjoy it when you get to it. The reviews on LT are encouraging.

Great to see you here again. Have a good reading year!

>33 MissWatson: Thanks for visiting. Same to you.

1. Homicide Trinity by Rex Stout

For MysteryKIT, AlphaKIT (letter S), could fit my Mystery category
c. 1962, 182 pages, Finished January 6

Homicide Trinity consists of three of Rex Stout's many novellas: Eeny Meeny Murder Mo, Death of a Demon, and Counterfeit for Murder. I enjoyed all three but liked Counterfeit for Murder best with a somewhat unusual client in Hattie Annis for Nero Wolfe. In fact, all three had unusual clients which added interest to the stories.

2. Blood on the Tracks by Martin Edwards , editor - finished January 7 - ebook

For my Mystery category
c. 2018, 350 pages, anthology

Blood on the Tracks is an anthology of short stories from early detective stories to those of the Golden Age. Each has some connection to railroads and train stations. Like most collections some stories were more entertaining than others and I liked the ones in the last half of the book best. They were arranged in chronological order from earliest to latest and there was was an introduction by the editor. Cautiously recommended for those interested in early detective stories. (The LT rating is 3.83.)

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Currently reading:

Galileo's Daughter
The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age
Into the Darkness

>36 hailelib: Ah that's one of several as-yet-unread British Library Crime Classics on my shelves! I'll have to pull it out sooner rather than later.

Thank you for visiting my thread! I took a look at your plans in >26 hailelib: and can definitely recomment SPQR.

>38 Jackie_K: When my husband read SPQR he suggested that I read it too. I'll definitely get to it even if not this month.

3. Into the Darkness by Barbara Michaels - finished January 12

For AlphaKIT - The letter I; RandomKIT (Hidden Gems); Bingo (plant on cover)
c. 1990, 348 pages

This book had been on my shelves for at least 30 years and never read. It was on a bottom shelf and actually had dust bunnies on its top. Not only does it satisfy two KITs but as a bonus there is a rose bush on the cover with two blooms and so also is a Bingo square.

Into the Darkness is a romantic suspense novel with a plot much like others of the time. Meg is the estranged heiress of the Mignot family and on her grandfather's death she returns to the family home. At first, Meg seemed like the weak, dependent, heroine so often found in early romances but soon she decides that she is tired of others trying to run her life. Then we have the kindly uncle, the sort of cousin, and the taciturn manager of the the jewelry business her grandfather leaves her. The story pretty much follows the usual line of suspense novels with the mystery of who is behind the strange happenings and who gets the girl. I liked the book much more than I had expected after having checked the reviews before reading. It was enjoyable and had several interesting secondary characters. However, I much prefer the books she writes as Elizabeth Peters.

>40 hailelib: It would be good to see some of Barbara Michael's early books republished. I looked for this one, but it costs a mint. Perhaps you have a fortune on your bottom shelf!

>41 pamelad: The ones I have were given to me by my mother years ago after she read them but I never got around to trying them until recently.

Finally finished another book.

4. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin - Finished January 15

For Category 3: YA and Children; Bingo for more than 1000 copies on LT
c. 1978; 185 pages; a Newbery Medal Book; ages 10 and up

An easy but entertaining story, especially the character of Turtle. Also a word puzzle book. You have all the clues; can you solve the puzzle before the winner of the game does? Recommended for those who often read YA literature.

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I can't believe that I've only finished four books when a couple of months ago I was reading nearly one every day. But that's how life works sometimes.

Meanwhile Currently Reading the following:

Galileo's Daughter
The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age
Cider with Rosie
Alien Blood

>36 hailelib: I've found the short story anthologies Edwards edits less enjoyable than the novels in that series.

>40 hailelib: I suspect I read that one 30 years ago or so. I wish I'd kept track of everything I read over the years. I was intermittent in that effort.

>44 thornton37814: In general, I prefer novels to short stories though I do read the shorter forms occasionally.

Hi! I see you started off your reading year with Rex Stout. He is my 3rd cousin 3x removed! He was my great-grandpa Stout's 3rd cousin. I am slowly working my way through the Nero Wolfe novels in order.

>46 cbl_tn:
I will probably read more Nero Wolfe stories later this year.

I got sidetracked last weekend by 2 library books coming in sooner than expected. Ignoring the ones I meant to be be reading I started on the new ones and finished both and then yesterday I read a short book about the zodiacal constellations. The books were

Still Life by Louise Penny
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
The Shining Stars by Ghislaine Vautier

The Thursday Murder Club is on my Wishlist because a friend suggested I would like it. I might get to it later in the year.

Keeping my comments short today ...

5. Still Life by Louise Penny - Finished January 21

For Category 2 - Mystery; AlphaKIT for letter S; SeriesCAT January
c. 2005; 312 pages

There are some LT reviews pointing out perceived flaws in Penny's book but the majority of readers thought it a very good mystery. I found it to be a real page turner that kept me engaged in the story right to the end and would recommend it to those who have yet to try this series. (The LT average rating is 3.84.)

I actually have owned the Audible version of Still Life for a couple of years but still haven’t got around to listening to it. If I get through all the books I have planned for February maybe I will find time for it.

6. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman - Finished January 23

A terrific book that kept me reading even though I should have been doing other things. The four members of the Thursday Murder Club are residents in a retirement community and meet regularly to examine files of cold cases. Then they have a real life murder to solve and manage to forge a relationship with the police assigned to the case. I particularly enjoyed Joyce's journal entries and the character Donna, one of the police team. One good feature of the novel is that the residents of the community are presented as real individuals who aren't letting age stop them from having a life. I will definitely be reading the next in this series soon.

>52 hailelib: I am really enjoying the Thursday Murder Club series! Joyce is my favorite. :)

>53 christina_reads:
I'm really looking forward to the second one.

Doing a little catching up.

7. The Shining Stars: Greek Legends of the Zodiac by Ghislaine Vautier - Finished January 25

For Category 3: YA and Children; AlphaKIT for the letter S; KiddyCat if I stretch the definition of picture book a little.
French edition c.1980; English adaptation c. 1981 by Kenneth McLeish; 30 pages

I have shared The Shining Stars with children in the 9 to 12 age range when we were studying the constellations. A nice book with lovely illustrations and a short version of the legend for each zodiac figure. However, I much preferred They Dance in the Sky: Native American Star Myths by Ray A. Williamson as the stories were ones they had not heard before. But it was more YA than for the younger children. To be fair, both books were good at what they did.

The last book to be finished in January

8. The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age by Stanislaw Lem - finished January 30 - ebook
For my SFF category, GeoCAT (Lem was born in Ukraine, lived in Poland, wrote in Polish), AlphaKIT for letter S, Bingo square for rating
Original c. 1967, 1972; this translation c. 1974; 314 pages in print; LT rating 4.13

This book may not be for everyone but by reading it in small doses I enjoyed most of the stories. But there were a few places that I found myself skimming rather than reading all the made up technical terms used by Trurl and his friend Klapaucius. The two constructors traveled the cosmos taking on various jobs and often getting into trouble before finding a solution to their problems. I doubt that I would ever reread it but I might try another of Lem's books at some point.

I don't think that I remembered that you are in western South Carolina… small world. I'm near Greenville.
Enjoyed catching up on your thread.

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Thanks for stopping by. We've been in the Clemson area for a long time and I used to go to Greenville fairly often but we rarely do that now.

A quick January reading summary.

Only 8 books finished in 4 of my own categories, 3 CATS, 3 KITS, 4 Bingo squares.
2 were ebooks, 2 from the public library, 4 print books from my shelves.

Favorites of the month in order:

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
Still Life by Louise Penny
Into the Darkness by Barbara Michaels

February Possibilities

Carried Over -
The United States of Atlantis
The Kaiju Preservation Society
A Certain Justice **
Ender's Game
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea *
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Galileo's Daughter *
The Lunatic Express *
Mission to Tashkent
Cider with Rosie *
Alien Blood *
Always Coming Home

* Started and Currently Reading

More possibilities:
The Nomad of Time
The Weekend was Murder **
The Innocents Abroad
The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt
The Hanging Girl - Dept Q
Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
The Thursday Murder Club - The Man Who Died Twice **
A Fatal Grace **
A Masterly Murder** or An Order for Death **
Ithaca
Babel*

Way more than I'll actually finish but lots of choice.

>60 hailelib: Having plenty of choice is good. I see The Hanging Girl on your list and that reminds me that I need to get back to that series!

>61 DeltaQueen50:
I enjoy reading the Department Q series once in a while and that’s the next one for me.

>62 hailelib: I am behind you, my next one would be The Marco Effect. It's a good series, I don't know why I have let it slip.

Galileo’s Daughter is on my Wishlist so I will be interested to hear your opinion of it.

>63 DeltaQueen50: - My next one is The Marco Effect also. I usually read it during the "A" month for the Alpha Kit so I may get to it next month.

>62 hailelib: >63 DeltaQueen50: I just finished the 2nd book in the Department Q series and found it overly gory but I'm willing to continue the series, since I like the characters and so many people seem to be fans of it.

Hi Trish! Just dropping in to say hey and hoping you are doing ok.

First, thanks to everyone who visited since my last post here whether you left a comment or not.

I'm trying to restart this challenge and I still want to finish the books I started before and then laid aside. Therefore, I will start where I was when I got side-tracked.

There has been a lot of reading which I've listed at the top of the thread. This was mostly mysteries of which a number were short and while OK while being read were rather forgettable. Also some sff, mostly rereads.

Going forward -

Books not read or started and not finished in January. I will try to do some of these.

The United States of Atlantis
The Kaiju Preservation Society
Ender's Game
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea *
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Galileo's Daughter *
The Lunatic Express *
Mission to Tashkent
Cider with Rosie *
Alien Blood * - compilation of two books - #1 finished, will try #2
Always Coming Home

More possibilities:

The Nomad of Time
The Innocents Abroad
The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt
The Hanging Girl - Dept Q
Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
Ithaca
Babel*

* Started and Currently Reading

Welcome back! I see you have Captain Vorpatril's Alliance on your "maybe" list, which I loved!

Welcome back, Tricia! Looks like a good range of possibilities for your going-forward reading. I'm still 170-somethingth on the list for Babel so will be looking forward to your thoughts on it!

>70 christina_reads: and >71 rabbitprincess:
Both Captain Vorpatril's Alliance an Babel will be coming from the public library and both stay checked out. In fact, I've had to return Babel to the library once already because my time ran out before finishing. I do want to try again.

I am going to attempt to keep posting and not disappear again. Yesterday's reading time was spent trying to do some catching up on threads but I didn't get very fair. It may be best to open each one and then close it as read and start following people from there.

It seems that I finished reading 54 books before the end of May. So, I'll begin with book 55.

55. A Spy for the Redeemerby Candace Robb - finished June 1 - ebook

For the Mystery category
c. 2002, 306 pages

This installment of the Owen Archer series finds Owen still in Wales and Lucie trying to take care of various problems back in York. The book switched back and forth between their stories as the two were sorting out their problems. I enjoyed the book well enough to plan on reading the next novel in the series soon.

56. Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire - finished June 4 - ebook
For the SFF category, also YA
c.2016. 174 pages

I'm putting this in my YA section although it would work in the fantasy category as well. A slightly odd fantasy with mostly teen-age characters but I may read the second one at some point.

Great to see you posting again! I think the hardest part of LT is trying to stay current with all the threads - but people here are very understanding so take your time and catch up however works best for you.

>74 DeltaQueen50: Thanks for visiting and the encouragement.

I'm still not keeping up as well as I had hoped and seem to be stuck on mostly mysteries but I do have a few books to add here. I did read some more of Galileo's Daughter but those cheap Amazon deals are tripping me up a bit. Then there's the steady stream of books appearing in the mailbox that my husband has been ordering, so I've spent my recent LT time cataloging the books we've both been buying. One of his that I will be reading in small bits is Stories of Books and Libraries edited by Jane Holloway which is a new book (2023) in the Everyman's Pocket Classics.

Now for the books -

57. Sugar Candy Cottage by Elizabeth Cadell - finished June 3 - ebook
For the Miscellaneous Category
c. 1958; this edition 2016; 298 pages

I was looking for something a little different to read after the two before it and did see a mention of Cadell here so looked for some of her books on Amazon's kindle pages. This one was 99 cents and looked interesting so downloaded it.
The story is very much a 50s type of romance and reminded me of the romances I read when I was about 13 or 14 at the end of that decade: Elizabeth Cadell, Emilie Loring, and Barbara Cartland. It did give me what I was looking for that day and got me to remembering all the kinds of books I was reading then.

58. Never Pick Up Hitch-Hikers by Ellis Peters - finished June 4 - ebook
For the Mystery category
c. 1976; this edition 2016; 257 pages

A seemingly stand alone novel by Ellis Peters about what happened to a young man, William Banks, who decided to leave home and the sheltered existence his mother had provided. While intelligent, he was rather naive and rather than catch a bus or train he tried hitch-hiking. The driver who offered him a lift wasn't the helpful person that Willie Banks took him for and Willie was soon embroiled in an adventure with several criminals after him. I enjoyed the story, even the romance he found, and I'll probably try one of Ellis Peters other contemporary mysteries to see if I like them.

59. The Thin Woman by Dorothy Cannell - finished June 6 - ebook
For the Mystery category
c. 1984; this edition 2023; 318 pages

Ellie begins by telling us about her invitation to a family reunion at Merlin's Court, why she doesn't want to attend and how she came to hire Bentley to act as her escort to the event. I did enjoy reading about her dysfunctional family, the unusual will and the quest it set up. I might give Cannell another try although I'm a little ambiguous about the type of humor she writes.

60. The Widening Stain by W. Bolingbroke Johnson - finished June 9 - ebook
for the Mystery category
c. 1942; this edition 2020; 252 pages

A one-off mystery novel written by a professor at an American University who wrote this under a pseudonym as he describes typical maneuvering for position in a university department. Most of the action takes place in the library as told by Miss Gilda Gotham, Chief Cataloguer. Not only are there dead bodies but Professor Parry's limericks for every occasion. I read this after seeing an LT mention of it.

61. A Meditation on Murder by Robert Thorogood - finished June 12 - ebook
For the Mystery category
c. 2015; this edition 2018; 320 pages

Based on the TV show Death in Paradise the book is just like an episode the show and is written by the show's screenwriter. It had been a while since I had seen any Death in Paradise and I loved becoming reacquainted with Richard Poole and his team on the Caribbean island of Saint-Marie. This is part of a 4-book series and I will probably read the second one.

Edited to add comments.

>75 hailelib: I think your husband has good taste! I'm putting this on my WL!

>75 hailelib: - I'm adding it too.

>77 Tess_W: and >78 dudes22:
I hope you enjoy the book when you get it. The actual book is very well done with a nice book jacket. I really liked the opening story and hope to get to another one soon.

>76 hailelib: I started with the wrong Elizabeth Cadell book, Parson's House, which was just awful, so I wrote her off. But after reading some positive reviews here I gave her another try. I liked The Corner Shop and The Lark Shall Sing - gently humorous, pleasant and undemanding.

>80 pamelad: I remember The Lark Shall Sing as being pretty good but my rather old copy has the title The Singing Heart.

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Currently reading:

Paper books in small sections - Galileo's Daughter & Stories of Books and Libraries

ebooks (iPad) - The Cross-legged Knight & The Locked Tomb Mystery

Finished my ebooks and started After the Fall Before the Fall During the Fall and a "new" paperback that just arrived from Thriftbooks (Last Seen Wearing ...).

Got some catching up to do.

62. The Cross-Legged Knight by Candace Robb - finished June 15 - own - ebook
For the Mystery category
c. 2018, this; 386 pages

Not my favorite in this series but OK. We're back in York with all sorts of people at odds with one another and that includes Owen and Lucie.

62. The Locked Tomb Mystery by Elizabeth Peters - Finished June 16 - own - ebook
For Miscellaneous Fiction
This edition published 2023: c. 2018 (by estate of Elizabeth Peters) 107 pages

Four short stories with introductions. The stories are by Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels aka Barbara Mertz. I like the Vengeance of Sekhmet best, probably because it was a Peabody/Emerson story. All four had been published previously in various anthologies. This volume is really only for completists who love Peters' writing.

Just waving hey! Hope you are doing well.