Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Saturday, January 13, 2024
I Think I Have a 2024 Reading "Initiative" Plan
WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO ACHIEVE EACH MONTH WHEN IT COMES TO READING IN 2024?
(USING GOOGLE DEVICE TO CHOOSE THE NUMBER IF I CAN'T MAKE A PATH.)
Read at least one NEW RELEASE (or NEW ARRIVAL) book from the library each month
JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
Read at least one book in a MYSTERY series I’m currently in the middle of (or one I’m not)
JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
Read at least one book in a FANTASY/SCI-FI/URBANFANTASY series I’m currently in the middle of (or one I’m not)
JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
Read at least one NON-FICTION book each month
JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
Read at least one CONTEMPORARY or ROMANCE or HORROR book each month
JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
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BOOK SERIES I’M CURRENTLY IN THE MIDDLE OF (IN WHICH I OWN ALL THE
REMAINING BOOKS OR AM CLOSE TO AND THAT I FEEL CAN BE WRAPPED UP
BEFORE THE END OF 2024):
MYSTERY
P. D. James: Adam Dagliesh (5 Books Remaining)
Patricia Raybon: Annalee Spain Mystery (1 Book Remaining)
Dorothy L. Sayers: Lord Peter Wimsey (8 Books Remaining)
Carolyn G. Hart: Dead on Demand (Anytime Pick Up)
Chester Himes: Harlem Detectives (5 Books Remaining)
Michael Nava: Henry Rios (2 Books Remaining)
Peter Tremayne: Sister Fidelma (Anytime Pick Up)
Margaret Maron: Judge Deborah (Anytime Pick Up)
FANTASY/SCI-FI/URBAN FANTASY
Claire O’Dell: Janet Watson (1 Book Remaining)
Patricia Briggs: Mercy Thompson (Anytime Pick Up)
Juliet Marillier: Sevenwaters (Anytime Pick Up)
Max Gladstone: Craft Series (3 Books Remaining)
David Weber: Honor Harrington (4 Books Remaining)
Daniel Jose Older: Bone Street Rumba (2 Books Remaining)
Phillip Pullman: Dark Materials (1 Book Remaining)
Mercedes Lackey: Anything (Anytime Pick Up)
Lynn Flewelling: Nightrunner (Anytime Pick Up)
Ilona Andrews: Kate Daniels (Anytime Pick Up)
Seressia Glass: Shadowchasers (Full 3-Book Read)
Seanan McGuire: Rosemary & Rue (Anytime Pick Up)
Tanya Huff: Anything (Anytime Pick Up)
M. H. Boroson: Daoshi Chronicles (1 Book Remaining)Tolkien: Lord of the Rings (3 Books Remaining)
Modesitt: Spellsong or Another (Anytime Pick Up)
Brandon Sanderson: Stormlight (3 Books Remaining)
L. A. Banks: Crimson Moon (6 Books Remaining)
Jennifer Fallon: Hythrun (2 Books Remaining)
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
First November 2023 New Releases are in...
November is already feeling kind of spicy and exciting. Don't quite know where to start. But these are at least four books on my November 2023 Reading Menu! FYI. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros made a surprise TBR visit, after having been recommended/suggested to me multiple times by different people since its release back in May. For once--which rarely EVER happens--I decided to bite the bullet and see what all the hype is about. Either way, let's go NOVEMBER Reading!
Edit: I'm about to go finish playing Alan Wake II while I'm between books!
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
Monday, May 31, 2021
Friday, January 1, 2021
Friday, November 20, 2020
Final Non-Fiction November Pick ~ TURN UP
Friday, May 15, 2020
New Valerie Wilson Wesley Book & Series on the WAY!
"Odessa Jones doesn't trust her second sight. The extrasensory "gift" that her Aunt Phoenix claims will always protect her let Dessa down in a major way when she was blindsided by the death of her husband. Now, with her failing catering business looming over her, not to mention the possible loss of her home and continuing grieving, Dessa's last chance to keep her life together is a job at a real estate agency with a shady past.
With volatile boss Charlie Risko and a ramshackle operation, it's far from a dream job, but working at Risko Realty veers more into nightmare territory when Charlie is found murdered. Dessa knows she had a "glimmer"--or premonition--of death the day before, and is troubled to think she could have predicted Charlie's death. Her second sight kicks in again when a coworker is arrested for Charlie's murder - and Dessa knows for certain that he's innocent. This time, Dessa doesn't want to ignore her gift. She teams up with friend, former detective, and current barbeque cook Lennox Royal to help her track down the killer - but will her glimmers help save her before the killer strikes again?"
Monday, May 11, 2020
Muller & Paretsky Short Story Haul
Tuesday, May 5, 2020
"ABCD" May Reading TBR
My first shelf was my “A” shelf. Unread books with "A" last name authors. Alphabet order through the pickings. Let's go! Maya ANgelou’s autobiography, A Song Flung Up to Heaven, beat Margaret ATwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. True enough. Yet, I took a little concession and choose the latter. Why? Two reason. One: never read an Atwood, but read plenty Angelous. Two: because this is an alarming time to explore some disturbing dystopian/totalitarian state novels. And I’m going to throw this out there: Gilead (do your research on that). So let's keep it real with the potential parallels we all fear on the horizon. The phrase "It'll never happen here" comes to mind.
Monday, December 16, 2019
Friday, October 4, 2019
Tuesday, January 1, 2019
Sweet 16 - Tentative High School Revisited Reading TBR
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Let's kill some cheerleaders with R. L. Stine, baby! |
Friday, December 14, 2018
(PART 2) Short Days/Cold Nights Cozy Reading TBR
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Forget Sleeping. Let's READ! |
2. Gunpowder Green, by Laura Childs, is the second book in her Teashop Mystery. The series features a cozy mystery favorite amateur sleuth, Theodosia Browning. I read the first book (Death by Darjeeling) this past summer. I was looking for a Susan Wittig Albert China Bayle fix at the time. It more or less provided, but was promising enough to come back for more.
3. 1966’s The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman will close this TBR out. And I’m going to keep this list short because I have coffee brewing, while I’m ready to read!
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
CHOP IT UP: Them Bones by Carolyn Haines
"No self-respecting lady would allow herself to end up in Sarah Booth's situation. Unwed, unemployed, and over thirty, she's flat broke and about to lose the family plantation. Not to mention being haunted by the ghost of her great-great-grandmother's nanny, who never misses an opportunity to remind her of her sorry state--or to suggest a plan of action, like ransoming her friend's prize pooch to raise some cash.
But soon Sarah Booth's walk on the criminal side leads her deeper into unladylike territory, and she's hired to solve a murder. Did gorgeous, landed Hamilton Garrett V really kill his mother twenty years ago? And if so, what is Sarah Booth doing falling for this possible murderer? When she asks one too many questions and a new corpse turns up, she is suddenly a suspect herself...and Sarah Booth finds that digging up the bones of the past could leave her rolling over in her grave."
Monday, November 26, 2018
CHOP IT UP: Fool's Puzzle by Earlene Fowler
"Leaving behind memories of her late husband, Benni Harper is making a fresh start...Moving to the trendy California town of San Celina, she takes an exciting new job as director of a folk-art museum. While setting up an exhibit of handmade quilts, she stumbles upon the body of a brutally stabbed artist. Hoping to conduct an investigation on her own, she crosses paths with the local police chief, who thinks this short and sassy cowgirl should leave detecting to the cops and join him for dinner. But it's hard to keep a country girl down, and soon Benni uncovers an alarming pattern of family secrets, small-town lies--and the shocking truth about the night her husband died..."
It just so happens I bought the second book in the series for a dollar the other day. She's getting one more shot, dude.
One more...
SHOT...