I Should Be Packing

This morning I did some packing, taking all the stuff I had in my parents’ kitchen cabinets out while Mom packed the stuff up. I had two bottles of wine I had completely forgotten about in there. I have a feeling that I’m going to have a lot of little discoveries like that. Hey, look! [...]

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Series Challenge Season 2

I love the series challenge that is being hosted by Kathrin, because I can be really horrible about not keeping up with series. I start lots of new ones, but end up neglecting ones I’ve already started in the process. I didn’t participate in the first season (it’s entirely possible I just didn’t know about [...]

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Some Like It Hot-Buttered

Over the last year or two, I’ve really tried to slim down my book-buying budget, taking advantage of the library as much as I can. But I still browse the new releases shelves in Barnes & Noble’s mystery section on a regular basis, and sometimes a title just grabs me and demands I take the [...]

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The Disappeared

The reading time is decreasing even more this month (I can’t wait for summer!), but as I’m finally nearing the end of my second book, I wanted to say a little something about the first, The Disappeared by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
Any fiction involves the author’s vision of the world their characters live in, but I’ve [...]

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The Rest of February

Since it is now March and I’ve already finished a book this month, I’m just going to roll the rest of my February reads into one last post.
No Time for Goodbye – Linwood Barclay. Basic plot: Fourteen-year-old Cynthia Bigge’s parents and brother disappear one night, and wondering what happened to them has haunted her for 25 [...]

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Dying to Sell

Maggie Sefton is the author of a cozy mystery series with a knitting theme that I really enjoy despite not being a knitter, so I was looking forward to the first (and at this time, only) book in her real estate series, Dying to Sell. It was certainly an okay book, and I don’t [...]

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Inside Straight

Before I write about the first book I finished in February, a little background.
Back in August, my high school held an all-class reunion for its 40th anniversary celebration. Now, my closest friends from high school are not from my graduating class, and it was great seeing all sorts of people, most of whom were the [...]

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January Reads

I had sort of intended to start blogging more regularly about what I’m reading, but January ended up being a month where I read more than I spent time on the computer (outside of work, that is). So, just a rundown instead. I’ll try to start doing better soon!

I read a surprising (for me) number [...]

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The Long Weekend

Having four whole days away from work was wonderful. There are just a lot of little things there right now that are perturbing, though I’m sure they’ll work themselves out soon.
On Wednesday evening I finished reading a couple of books. First, The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood is the first of three books written about [...]

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Where does the time go?

I really had planned to update this a bit more frequently, so how have I not posted for over a month? Where does the time go, anyway?
In a last Cozy Mystery Challenge update, I actually won one of the books that authors had contributed as prizes. I received Deadly Advice, signed by author Roberta Isleib, [...]

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