2024 #marchmysterymadness Announcement & Other March Reading Ideas

 

A "Healthy" February 2024 TBR - ...BOOKS } LOVE

 

J. D. Robb's Random in Death has FINALLY arrived!

 

#FridayReads: The Langoliers by Stephen King

So I'm keeping to my 2024 reading initiative idea so far. This month I've read a mystery, fantasy, even a non-fiction book. Now I'm taking the opportunity to read horror by specifically picking up my copy of The Langoliers by Stephen King. I think it's going to make a fantastic read over the weekend. But, having watched the mini series back when it aired in the 90s, I'm most super excited to finally get the full cake of King's creation via his own written words. 

Anyway, with all my personal and creative business pretty much settled, let's turn on the coffee maker and get to reading!

What're you reading this weekend? Share with me in the comments below!

Closing Thoughts After Reading The Woman in Me

 

Britney Spears went through hell. And to think–as a teenager–I wanted to be a popstar inspired by her. But, again, this is simply her story. Her tragic journey. It’s still sad, though. I couldn’t imagine working to achieve all that fame and money, only to one day find myself being outside the control of my own life. To be always controlled, subdued, and used by people who were meant to love and protect me. When you factor in her parents and their own family history, it starts to make sense. Either way, I don’t find too much I can say about Britney’s story because it’s almost classic in the expression of how “everything that glitters isn’t gold.”

Nonetheless, I have some deep, reflecting thoughts I can add regarding how much of a fan I was of hers from back in the day. So much nostalgia was happily activated as we recounted the beginning of her career on up. I suppose it was the terribleness behind her stage throughout her career is what left me frustrated and a bit sour. Still, as of closing her memoir, I’m left more with gratitude for my own life. While feeling strengthened and encouraged to keep going forward. To keep living and not so much in the past. And to pray. I think that was the number one thing I left receiving from the book is to pray. I need to do more of that outside of the routine means in which I pray before I drive and sleep. I need to pray more when I'm unsure and frustrated; lost and confused by thinking I'm in control when I'm actually not.

So, yeah. Reading The Woman in Me was absolutely great. And without a doubt, Britney's story reminded me how there is power in prayer.

2024 New Releases I’m Looking Forward To List (Just Might Be Considered the "Baddie" Version)

2024 New Releases I’m Looking Forward To List

Watch Where They Hide by Tamron Hall. It’s the second book in her TV journalist, Jordan Manning, series. This time Jordan is going to investigate the disappearance of a stay-at-home mom who recently left her abusive husband to live with her sister. Of course, as a TV journalist, Jordan uses her profession to not only bring awareness to the woman’s disappearance, but to also solve the crime. This comes out on March 12th.

Pay Dirt by Sara Paretsky. This is V. I. Warshawski’s 22nd case. This involve V.I. searching for a friend of her protegee who is later found remote house. Drugs are involved. The FBI is involved. Classic V.I. going after the bigwigs of Chicago. This comes out April 16th.

Circle in the Water by Marcia Muller. This is Sharon McCone’s 36th case. This has Sharon requested to solve a string of pranks surrounding occupants of an elite and wealthy neighborhood. What McCone finds throughout her search is not only murder, but a meth lab. So, what’s really going on in this neighborhood. This releases April 23th.

Forget me Never by Susan Wittig Albert. After about a three year break, Susan Wittig Albert’s China Bayles is back with her 29th investigation. As I’m writing this, there isn’t much information available on what the book is about (unless you scoured through the authors blog), but according to Amazon it is slated to release on May 29th. My only hope is that Albert is back to giving China a murderous crime to solve. Because, though I love all the ghost and New Age stuff, I really with the stories would go back to being these small-town high stake murder affairs.

Truth Be Told by Patricia Raybon. This is the third book in Raybon’s Annalee Spain mystery series. Taking us back to 1924, amateur detective and once schoolteacher, Annalee Spain, is going to be involved with a political-centric type murder mystery. This I due out on June 11th.

A Lethal Lady by Nekesa Afia. Book three in Afia’s Harlem Renaissance Mystery is due out July 30th. We’re back into the mind of her main character, Louise Lloyd, who thought trading Harlem for Paris would avail her of solving murders. Evidently, she’s dead wrong.

"2024 New Release Mystery Book Baddies I'm Looking Forward To," said the Zebra in the Blue Shirt.