"Again?" Rob Crosley mumbled as he made his way down the steps to the beach.
#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl
"Again?" Rob Crosley mumbled as he made his way down the steps to the beach.
#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl
My May 2024 #BookspinBingo #Bookspin #Doublespin
I've started reading Out With the Tide and look forward to reviewing it on my blog.
The Third Chapter (I'll fix my bingo card 😆) will be a reread for me. I read it several years ago.
@TheAromaofBooks
I'm reading Winter Tales II: Women on the Art of Aging. So, I'll continue with that book and also continue Find Out Anything From Anyone, Anytime by James O. Pyle & Maryann Karinch and Go Luck Yourself by Andy Nairn. I'll also start The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud.
@Andrew65 #AwesomeApril
I've never met any authors in person. But I'm friends and talk on the phone with Garrett James, a new indie author whose books I have blurbed here on Litsy recently.
I'd love to meet Neil Gaiman. I own a few of his books, but they're still residing in my humongous TBR piles. Yeah, that's piles with an s.
I wish I could have met Nathaniel Hawthorne and Robert Louis Stevenson.
#sundayfunday @BookmarkTavern @DaveGreen7777 @wanderinglynn
A love story with appeal to both sexes. As Long as I Breathe is such a story. James highlights characters that men and women can enjoy and see themselves in that situation. Steph Morgan is caught in an abusive relationship. Even so, she shows herself to be strong and capable as a single mom. Mason Cain seems to be what the outside world sees—a tough, tattooed ex-con. What will they go through as the jealous boyfriend goes haywire? (Some sex)
Want to read a great love story? Or give it as a gift to your significant other? Only Twice by Garrett James will fill that bill nicely.
This delightful ode to love highlights one man's life and how the simple act of telling one's story can change another person's life. The common outlook is that true love only happens once in a person's life. But is that really true? Only Twice will convince you otherwise.
Although I've read this poetry collection in the past, I've taken it off the shelf again. I'm still as enthusiastic as ever about this poet's insight and skill. After I finish this collection, I'll re-read her other collection, A Hinge of Joy. Fabulous, succinct poems.
1. My book reviews on my blog, janecairns.com, are coming along well
2. I'd love to meet a few of the authors whose books I have reviewed. I'd ask them when they knew they wanted to be a writer and which authors they like to read.
3. I love to read indie authors and write about their books on my blog - to spread the word about their work. The tagged book is an excellent example of a great indie author.
@Eggs @Andrew65 @CoffeeandaGoodBook
Loved this one. A novel of connected short stories about James Leipfold, private investigator. The stories deal with his somewhat younger years and how he became an investigator, and how he met Detective Inspector Jack Cholmondeley. Nicely done.
#mysteries #privateinvestigator
This is a new author for me. This is the first book in his Leipfold Mystery series. I'm enjoying it so far. Reading this for #serieslove23 and #MarvelousMarch
@Andrew65 @DieAReader @TheSpineView
Great first book in the Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne series. Fergusson is the priest of St. Alban's in an upstate New York town. Van Alstyne is the police chief. They team up to solve the mystery surrounding a newborn boy left at the church. Murder soon follows. As does a blossoming illicit romance between Fergusson and Van Alstyne (he's married).
I'll read more in this series.
@Andrew65 @TheSpineView #FabulousFebruary #SeriesLove2023
Great second book in the Wexford/Sloane mystery series. A strong historical mystery set in Regency London. Lord Wexford and Charlotte Sloane make a formidable, evenly matched pair. Friends of Raven and Hawk (Charlotte's wards) are a troupe of streetwise urchins who help gather information, similar to Holmes' Baker Street Irregulars.
Good characterization of both primary and secondary characters.
@Andrew65 #FabulousFebruary #SeriesLove2023
Great opener to Tom Fowler's series about CT Ferguson. CT is home from Hong Kong, where he worked as a hacker to help people emigrate from China surreptitiously.
His parents insist he do something to help people. He thinks he can be a detective based on his skills. Alice Fisher calls and CT is on his way.
Good characterization. I'll read more, including the prequel novella about CT's time in Hong Kong.
#serieslove2023 @Andrew65 @TheSpineView
Hey @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks, if you need a helping hand with book reviews for the #LitsyLove newsletter, I can chip in a review now and then, whenever you need it.
(Do you think I can find your email?! Lost in space, I guess.) 🤣😁
I finished The Drums of War by Michael Ward a few days ago. This is the third book in his Thomas Tallant series. It's a great book for lovers of historical fiction that's mixed with a little romance and a bit of mystery.
This series just keeps getting better.
#readathon #joyousjanuary #serieslove2023
@Andrew65 @TheSpineView @TheBookHippie
So sorry, @cinfhen, I need to back out of participating in #muglove23. Hopefully, I can join the action at the next mug swap. 🥺
My first foray in #serieslove2023 - the first book in the Philo Vance series. I'm only a few pages into it; so, we'll see. 👀
@Andrew65 @TheSpineView
Congratulations, @wanderinglynn, and Happy Birthday.
I'd love to receive Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf.
#300KBirthdayGiveaway
For the #WinterreadathonDailyChallenge @Andrew65 happened to post a photo of one of my favorite chocolate candies - M&Ms. I also love Cello chocolate-covered cherries (covered in dark chocolate, of course 😁). And almost anything chocolate from Bomboy's on Market St. in Havre de Grace, MD.
#Winterreadathon
Can't wait for spring and summer to arrive. Usually, I don't mind the cold weather too much. But not this year, I guess I'm getting older. 🤣🤪
#winterreadathon #WinterReadathonDailyChallenge
@Andrew65 @GHABI4ROSES
Here's a collage of some of our Christmas 🎄 decorations. #WinterReadathonDailyChallenge
I'm reading the tagged book for the #WinterReadathon
@Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES
Even though I love reading, I sometimes feel my brain is turning into mush. So, I decided to try and learn another language.
I took a few semesters of Spanish classes while in college and French in high school a bazillion years ago. I may try to refresh my memory 😅 and relearn them again in the future.
#winterreadathon @Andrew65
I'm chugging along reading this book for the #Winterreadathon . Interesting insights, but there's quite a bit about age discrimination in the workplace. While I agree with what's being said, I'm already retired (due to caregiver responsibilities) and don't want to go back to work full-time. Still, interesting stuff. As someone who's older and looking to work, I'm more interested in the gig economy (I do mystery shopping sometimes).
@Andrew65
Great book for those of us who are part of an older generation. (Including me 😁)
Even better, possibly, for those who may want to see what's in store for them.
In fact, the global population is trending older because of slowing birth rates worldwide.
Not everyone who is long-lived is a fuddyduddy.
#winterreadathon @Andrew65
Not exactly candles, but lit wreaths on the light poles, looking down the street towards St. Mark's United Methodist Church in Easton, MD.
Not exactly a craft, but I took this picture that I have on my calendar.
Haven't been to Maryland's Eastern Shore in several years, now. Wish I could go again. Maybe someday soon.
#winterreadaton #winterreadathondailychallenge
@Andrew65 @GHABI4ROSES @DieAReader
Four murders in a few months, all from the same software development company. Could it have anything to do with the software being developed for the National Security Agency?
The suspense starts early and ramps up. Characters are well drawn, and the sleuths become a tight-knit group by the end.
Although this is fiction, the premise is true to life. Remember Edward Snowden??!
@Andrew65 #winterreadathon @GHABI4ROSES @DieAReader #mystery
Read several more stories in this doorstop of a book plus a few magazines for last weekend's #20in4 #readathon. Still not finished yet! I'll keep plugging along reading a story or two here and there between my other book and magazine reads.
@Andrew65
My final read for the #OutstandingOctober #readathon.
I've made it about halfway through this monster.
Interesting stories by such folks as Edward D. Hoch, David Stuart Davies, and H. R. F. Keating, among others.
@Andrew65
So-so. Read about three-quarters of the way through. Then bailed.
#readathon #OutstandingOctober @Andrew65
Fabulous collection of short stories. 👌
Bought this book because I'd read her first story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, several years ago.
This collection did not disappoint. Excellent.
#readathon #OutstandingOctober @Andrew65 #shortstories
This is my second (or possibly third) reading of this book. Enjoyed the book but didn't like the ending and the way the author summed things up as much as during previous readings.
In the past, I've listened to some of her podcast posts of the same name (Speaking of Faith, renamed On Being). The podcast was very informative and interesting.
I'll read more of her books. And try to locate the podcast, again.
#OutstandingOctober @Andrew65
Very interesting take on where our country is and where it's headed. Essays by a number of leaders, scholars, journalists and activists.
Very much a pick.
If you read this book, you might want to also consider reading The Power of Awareness (the book in my previous post).
#readathon #OutstandingOctober @Andrew65
This was between so-so and a pick. Liked Steve Winslow, the lawyer who's the narrator.
Hated Sheila Benton, his first client. She was manipulative and a liar. Plus she came from a strange family situation.
Won't say anything more in order to avoid spoilers. I'll read further in this series.
Parnell Hall uses J. P. Hailey as a pseudonym. I have yet to read anything else by Hall. I'll check out his books.
@Andrew65 #OutstandingOctober
Meh. Both novels are sluggish and wordy. But The League of Frightened Men is the better of the two novels.
Meh. My first book by James Patterson. Will I read others of his vast oeuvre? Maybe, but maybe not.
Thanks so much Misty Malone for the great Halloween gift 🎁.
I am recuperating from bilateral knee replacement surgery and this surprise package 📦 certainly lifted my spirits.
#litsylove
Great fictional read about space travel and Earth in the near future. A spaceship sets off for the Alpha Centauri galaxy on a 10-year mission, but doesn't return for 40 years. What happens to the crew when they make such a surprising return?
A little slow at times, but a great read and good characterization. I recommend this book and look forward to reading Two Roads to Paradise, the second book in the series.
#jubilantjuly @Andrew65
Meh. An investigation into the death of Jason Jardine focuses on Lucy Freeman. Jardine was a member of the band, Dr Sweet, of which Daniel Freeman is a founder. Narration alternates between Lucy and Neil Slater, one of the detectives on the case. From the get-go it's evident that Lucy probably didn't commit the crime. Rather sluggish and slow-moving plot. Rather bland but happy-ever-after type ending.
#jubilantjuly readathon @Andrew65
What would it be like if everyone thought you were dead? What if people walked by you and didn't notice you? A few people, like your ex-girlfriend, Jolene, and her new boyfriend can see you. But Isabella, the medium, can‘t. You are solid enough to yourself—you can eat, drink and wear clothes. You swear you are alive and well. One moment you're at the ocean and the next you're in the Midwest. And no idea how you got there. This is Daniel's world.
Do humans, especially women, internalize the subliminal messages found in most fairy tales? Anne E. Beall, PhD, thinks so. Males are also fed covert messages. According to Beall, in Cinderella Didn‘t Live Happily Ever After, women bring beauty and men bring intelligence, status and wealth to most situations within fairy tales. Beall and her team analyzed 169 of the Grimm Brothers fairy tales and dig deep into who has beauty and who has power, etc.
Noah Grady, narrator of The Bones of Amoret, is the typical town doctor. Or not so typical. Noah helps immigrants who cross the southern border illegally. Two of those immigrants were Angelica, whom he marries, and her son. And he's good at keeping secrets. Like his 20-year affair with Blaine Beckett‘s wife. Now he's focused on finding out how Beckett has disappeared and why. And who killed his adopted son. Or so he says. Enjoyed this immensely.
Thanks again for the birthday wishes from @Lovesbooks87 - one of my @Litsylove friends.
Cupcakes and bookmarks - two of my favorite things. Besides books, of course. 😆 ❤️ 🍰
#litsylove