Reindeer Games Tree Farm looks to establish the new world record for largest gingerbread man. But when a body is found in the cookie cutter, murder takes center stage.
🎄Christmas theme
🎄Great characters
🎄Solid mystery
🎄Book 5 in a series
🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄/5
🎄I love this series that takes place in Mistletoe, Maine.
#cozymystery #Christmas #NetGalley #IllBeHomeForMischief
🎄This book releases tomorrow.

A Tale Of Three Trees
One tree clinging to summer.
A second tree conceding it is time for fall.
The third tree embraces fall in red-leafed glory.

These three trees caught my attention yesterday at our local park. Each in different stage of fall, despite their close proximity to each other. 🍃🍂🍁

#fall #falltrees #October #fallcolors

4/5 ⭐️
When an old college acquaintance ends up dead in a secret room at The Secret Bookcase bookstore, bookseller Annie Murray is swept up in the investigation.
This book is a quick read. There are several plausible suspects, a plot that twists and turns, and an ending that ties up all the loose ends. I‘ll be reading the second book in the series.
#cozymystery #bookstore #secretbookcasemystery

“When your best friend is murdered, it can be kind of hard to get over.”

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

Corn maze
Pick apples
Nature walk
Bonfire
Curl up with a book
No apples 🙂
Chili and cornbread
Apple cinnamon

#WonderousWednesday

@Eggs

5/5. Based on the shipwreck of the Essex. A whaler based out of Nantucket, it was sunk when an angry sperm whale rammed it. This story was the inspiration for Moby Dick. The portrayal of cannibalism the crew was forced to resort to in order to stay alive is horrifying. (Side note-apparently cannibalism became so common after shipwrecks that when survivors were rescued they were quick to say when they hadn‘t resorted to cannibalism 😳)

#FirstLineFridays

Like a giant bird of prey, the whaleship moved lazily up the western coast of South America, zigging and zagging across a living sea of oil.

5/5 ⭐️ for me. The first in a new-to-me cozy mystery series. It ticked a lot of my boxes even though I solved the killer‘s ID early on. Boxes ticked: witty dialogue, solid relationship between main characters, well-developed setting. There are a total of 11 books in the series, at least so far. I‘ve ordered the next two. 🙂

#cozymysteries #cozymystery #EnglishVillage #LadyHardcastleMystery

I finished this book because I wanted to know the murderer‘s identity. And now that I think about it, I can‘t remember who that was. I only finished a short time ago. 😳 I didn‘t much care for the characters, and I won‘t be reading any more in this series. This is the first book in the series.

I‘m emptying out bins of books-stored because of drywall work and painting in my office. I forgot about this one. Small book, but full of bookish art and essays. 🙂 I‘m putting it on my desk where I can easily reach it.

#WonderousWednesday

1) Leaving with 4 or so books. My mom would drop me off at the library while she went to the grocery store around the corner. Every Saturday morning.

2) ARCs and various online bookstores.

3) Currently reading The Busy Body. It‘s not wowing my sock off or anything, but it‘s a good read. Will pass it on to my daughter when I am done.

I read this last night before bed. Mistake. I had weird dreams all night. 🤣 Now I‘m dragging today. If I had really enjoyed the book the dragging today would‘ve been worth it. But at best I can say it was so-so. I enjoy reading different takes on fairy tales, but not this one. The world building didn‘t draw me in, and I didn‘t care about the characters-even the dying one. 😬 I think it was too short for what it was trying to accomplish. ⬇️

After hearing about this book for years, I finally bought a copy and read it yesterday. I enjoyed the epistolary format. It was a different and fun way to get to know the characters. I‘m glad I finally read it. 5/5 ⭐️

#nationaleggmonthchallenge

1) Tag a favorite mystery you read
Just one?! 🤔 Okay. The Thursday Murder Club

2) What is your favorite way to prepare eggs?
Scrambled. With lots of cheddar cheese. 😋

I finished this last night. 4.5/5 ⭐️. Preachy is a spot or two, but overall I enjoyed it. Book addresses poverty, racism, class and other issues. A lot of characters to keep straight. The book is also a mystery when a dead body is discovered during construction. The who, how, and why is an unexpected twist that I enjoyed. James McBride can be difficult to read, but he‘s one of my autobuy authors. The Good Lord Bird remains a favorite. ❤️

#WondrousWednesday

1) family, 📚, 🏔️

2) 📝 🛫🌄 (my writing, spending summer with family, Colorado sunsets)

#WonderousWednesday

1) Tulips

2) The Angel of Indian Lake by Stephen Graham Jones

3) Spend time with the grandkids

#Two4Tuesday

1) Done

2) It‘s a toss up between The Demon of Unrest by Eric Larson or The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride.

#Two4Tuesday

🐴🐔Country/farm

🌋🏔️ Split time between Alaska (currently) and Ohio. 🏈(Grandkids in both places)

#WondrousWednesday

1) Alone time (says introvert me 🤣)
2) Writing time
3) My family ❤️

5/5⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Wow. This book. What. A. Ride. I don‘t read a lot of horror, but this book/trilogy pulled me in from page one. This is book 3 of The Indian Lake trilogy. These aren‘t stand alone books.
Jade has returns to her hometown of Proofrock, Idaho after her release from prison. When the horrors of the lake arise once more, Jade must find it within herself, again, to fight for the hometown that has betrayed her over & over. #horror #IndianLake

Read the #NetGalley ARC in two days. Addie Greyborne spends a year in England after the implosion of her wedding back in the States. Right before she‘s ready to come back home (again), she‘s pulled into a murder investigation. This is book 10 in the series. Moving the Addie to another country with a new cast of characters, while keeping #cozymystery elements really worked. And the ending! Ready for #11.
5/5⭐️ ❤️ Pub date 5/21/24
❤️ the cover

#FirstLineFridays
#horror
#StephenGrahamJones
#IndianLakeTrilogy

The Savage History of Proofrock, Idaho opens looking through the eyeholes of a mask, with some heavy, menacing breathing amping up the menace.

#WonderousWednesday

📚Hardcover
📚Fiction
📚Historical
📚Recent
📚Water when reading 🙂
📚Physical
📚Print

Yay for book mail! Also-book whiplash. Amanda Flower‘s book is a historical/cozy mystery mashup and SGJ‘s book is a horror novel.

#FirstLineFridays

Because he had enjoyed almost every advantage since birth, one of the few privileges denied to Benjamin Rask was that of a heroic rise: his was not a story of resilience and perseverance or the tale of an unbreakable will forging a golden destiny for itself out of little more than dross.

#TLT
#ThreeListThursday

1) Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. Just finished it several days ago. 🙂

2) Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder

3) Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

#WonderousWednesday
1) Craig Johnson, Louise Penny, Carlene O‘Connor, Amanda Flower, Heather Weber, Kate Khavari,

2) Right now, the tagged book

3) Craig Johnson, Louise Penny, Amanda Flower, and Carlene O‘Connor (sorry. Choosing one was too stressful. 🙂)

Started this one last night. Anyone else read it? I was drawn in by “At once an immersive story and brilliant literary puzzle…” from the description. I‘ll see if it lives up to the hype. 🙂

5 star read for me. Genres: Historical (WWI), literary. The novel follows identical twin sisters Peggy and Maude, bindery girls for Oxford University Press. Issues of class, women‘s rights (or lack thereof) are woven throughout the book. What this novel brings to the forefront is the erasure of women and their contributions in history. If interested, read Williams other book The Dictionary of Lost Words first-there is crossover between the books

#FirstLineFridays

Scraps. That‘s all I got. Fragments that made no sense without the words before or the words after.

This was a quick cozy mystery read. Juni Jessup owns Sip and Spin, a vinyl record shop/coffe shop with her three sisters. When an aggressive potential investor ends up dead in front of the shop, Juni is determined to solve the mystery. The characters are well written. Plenty of suspects and motives kept me guessing. 📚e-copy provided by NetGalley & St. Martin's Press for review.
📚Pub date 3/26/24 📚 4/5 stars #cozymystery

Currently reading this one and enjoying it. Love the cover as well. #historicalfiction #oxforddictionary

1) Fairy

2) Emily Wilde‘s Encyclopaedia of Faeries and Emily Wilde‘s Map of the Otherlands. Looking forward to Emily Wilde‘s Compendium of Lost Tales

#TwoForTuesday

#FirstLineFridays

From the prologue: The night before he went to London, Richard Mayhew was not enjoying himself.

From Chapter One: She had been running for four days now, a harum-scarum tumbling flight through passages and tunnels.

#TLT #ThreeListThursday

1) Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones

2) Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

3) The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

#ThreeListThursday
#TLT

1) Quiet by Susan Cain. Life-changing book for me.
2) Hamilton by Ron Chernow
3) Killers of The Flower Moon by David Grann

Hard to limit to 3! 😄

#WonderousWednesday

1) Emily Wilde and Siobhan Flannery
2) Wendell Bambleby and Walt Longmire
3) Emily Wilde‘s Encyclopedia of Faeries (recent) Crime and Cherry Pits (current) Emily Wilde‘s Map of the Outherlands (current)

Excited to start this book today! I finished “Emily Wilde‘s An Encyclopedia of Faeries” last night and loved it!

Any other Shaun Tan fans here? I‘m packing up books because we have dry wall repair/painting in several rooms-mainly the rooms w/the books. Before I pack away these I had to look at some of them again. 🙂📚❤️

I really enjoyed this book! Historical fiction w/ mystery and supernatural elements.
WWI nurse Laura Iven lost her parents when a ship exploded in Halifax, Nova Scotia's port. She returned to the battlefields in search of her brother, her only remaining family member. In her search, she comes across the mysterious Faland, a being who comes & goes at whim, feeding off the despair surrounding
him. 5/5 ⭐ #NetGalley #TheWarmHandsOfGhosts

Thanks to Netgalley and Ballentine Publishing for providing a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.
New release! This book is a mystery/fantasy combo. It took me a bit to get into it, but once I did, it was hard to put down.
The initial murder sets off a chain reaction with horrific unintended consequences. Even though the murders may be solved, what they set in motion may be impossible to stop. #NetGalley

@Eggs
1) No. But my kids‘ middle names come from family.
2) 3
3) Murder in an Irish Village, book 1 in the Irish Village series. The MC is raising her brood of siblings after the deaths of their parents. Hijinks ensue. 😂

I really enjoyed the growth half-sisters Violet and Sephora Manville have in this series. Polar opposites, they grate on each others‘ nerves, a problem when it comes to solving a murder.
🔍family relationships
🔍humor
🔍pub date 1/30/24
#cozymystery, #historicalfiction, #netgalley, #series

One of the books I got for Christmas. It‘s 1969 in the Causeway Housing Project in south Brooklyn. Heroin is just starting to gain a foothold before it spreads to the wealthy areas of New York. Sportcoat, deacon at Five Ends Baptist Church and a perpetual drunk, shoots the local drug dealer at point blank range in front of a crowd of witnesses. His actions set off a ripple effect that reaches into the past & fundamentally changes the present. 5🌟

@Eggs #WondrousWednesday

1) Yes. Usually horror author Stephen Graham Jones or a cozy mystery (can I get any further apart than those?)

2) Craig Johnson

3) Only one? 😬 Amanda Flower (cozy mystery writer)

#wonderouswednesday

1) Yes and yes. One of my goals was to read more of my TBR stack. I did, but probably not as much as I expected. Still, it‘s a start. 🙂

2) Nope, no five star reads for Dec. closest was At The Coffee Shop of Curiosities in late November.

3) Book I hope to read soon is Trust by Hernan Diaz. One of the books I got for Christmas.

#Two4Tuesday

1) Yes to both. I got four books and gave books to my grandkids and husband.

2) Bookish T-shirts. Bookmarks. Book pillows for the grandkids (pillow cover with a pocket to hold a book)

#Top23of23
Not in graphic
My Heart is a Chainsaw
Anxious People
To Hell & Back
Dating Can Be Deadly
Murder at an Irish Bakery
I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died
Some of Us Were Looking
Salt A World History
All the Devils Are Here
The Madness of Crowds
A World of Curiosities

4/5🌟Jade, now going by Jennifer, Daniels, recently released from prison, returns to her hometown of Proofrock, Idaho, just as a monster of a blizzard hits and a serial killer escapes federal custody. As the bodies begin to pile up, Jennifer finds herself again fighting to save her hometown against a powerful evil.
This is book #2 in the Indian Lake Trilogy. Book 3 comes out in March.
I read very little horror, but SGJ is the exception.