A Jesse Stone novel by Mike Lupica. G.P. Putnam's Sons. 2022
Friday, December 9, 2022
Thursday, December 1, 2022
Christmas Cupcake Murder
A Hannah Swensen Mystery by Joanne Fluke. Recorded Books. Narrated by Suzanne Toren. 2020
Monday, November 21, 2022
Beating About the Bush: an Agatha Raisin Novel by M.C. Beaton
Published by Blackstone Publishing, 2019. Narrated by Penelope Keith
Friday, November 11, 2022
Saturday, November 5, 2022
Robert B. Parker's The Devil Wins a Jesse Stone novel
By Reed Farrel Coleman. Penguin Random House Audio narrated by James Naughton. 2015
Friday, October 28, 2022
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Robert B. Parker's Damned if You Do
A Jesse Stone Novel by Michael Brandman. Random House Audio. Read by James Naughton. Pub. 2013
Tuesday, October 4, 2022
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Left on Tenth: a Second Chance at Life
By Deliah Ephron. Hachette Audio. Narrated by the author. 2022
Thursday, September 22, 2022
Sunday, September 18, 2022
Monday, September 5, 2022
Sunday, August 28, 2022
Stabbing in the Senate starring Kit Marshall
A Washington Whodunit by Colleen J. Shogan. Published 2016
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Where the Sky Begins: a novel
By Rhys Bowen. The story of Josie Banks and her incredible transformation during her experience living in the country after surviving the Blitz in London during World War II. 2022
Sunday, August 21, 2022
Saturday, August 13, 2022
Aurora Teagarden mystery
Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris. Published 1994. Recorded Books audio, narrated by Therese Plummer, 2009.
Saturday, August 6, 2022
Thursday, August 4, 2022
A Bone to Pick
Aurora Teagarden mystery by Charlaine Harris. Narrated by Therese Plummer. Book 1992. Audio book 2009. Recorded Books audio.
Sunday, July 24, 2022
West With the Night
By Beryl Markham. Published 1942. North Point Press. San Francisco reprinted 1983.
Thursday, July 21, 2022
Aurora Teagarden mystery
Real Murders by Charlaine Harris. Recorded Books audio. 2009. Narrated by Therese Plummer.
Thursday, July 14, 2022
Endurance: a year in space. A lifetime of discovery
By Scott Kelly, retired American astronaut, former military fighter pilot, and a retired U.S. Navy Captain. Penguin Random House audio. Narrated by Scott Kelly. 2017
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Monday, July 11, 2022
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Shoot for the Moon
: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11 by James Donovan. 2019. Read by Allan Robertson. Hachette Audio
Sunday, June 26, 2022
Susan Branch
"A Fine Romance: Falling in love with the English Countryside" Susan Branch and Joe Hall are on their way back from England on the Queen Mary II now, ten years after this trip in 2012.
Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Saturday, June 11, 2022
Love, Lies, and Liquor by M. C. Beaton
Agatha Raisin and James Lacy take off for a romantic holiday only to be interrupted by murder. 2006.
Just Kids by Patti Smith
A Memoir of Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe from their chance meeting in Brooklyn in the late sixties until his untimely death of AIDS at the age of 41. " Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, it's hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artist's ascent, a prelude to fame. " * 2010
*from the cover
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Night and Day by Robert B. Parker
A Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall mystery published 2009. Narrated by James Naughton Random House Audio.
Saturday, May 28, 2022
Murder is Binding by Lorna Barrett
First in the Booktown Mystery series starring Tricia Miles., 2008
Thursday, May 19, 2022
Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
Agatha Raisin by M. C. Beaton. audio book narrated by Penelope Keith on Libby
Friday, May 6, 2022
A Sunlit Weapon : a Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear
Harper Audio Recording performed by Orlagh Cassidy. Published 2022
Sunday, May 1, 2022
Sunday, April 24, 2022
All Fudged Up by Nancy Coco
Candy-Coated Mystery book 1 with Allie McMurphy as the new owner of a hotel in beautiful Mackinac Island where she is a culinary trained chocolatier. Published 2013. With fudge recipes.
Sunday, April 17, 2022
Friday, April 15, 2022
Monday, April 11, 2022
Saturday, April 9, 2022
Thursday, April 7, 2022
Lana Lewis : A Coffee Lover's Mystery by Tara Lush
Cold Brew Corpse: A Coffee Lover's Mystery by Tara Lush. Published 2021
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Caramel Pecan Roll Mystery
A Delicious Culinary Cozy Mystery ( a Hannah Swensen mystery) by Joanne Fluke. 2022
Monday, March 21, 2022
Saturday, March 12, 2022
Sunday, March 6, 2022
A Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James novel
Kissed a Sad Goodbye by Deborah Crombie. Bantam Publishing.1999
Sunday, February 20, 2022
Jesse Stone
Robert B. Parker's Fool Me Twice by Michael Brandman. Narrated by James Naughton. Random House Audio. 2012
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies by Alexander McCall Smith. narrated by Lisette Lecat. Recorded Books, LLC. 2005
Sunday, February 13, 2022
Sunday, February 6, 2022
Claire Watkins Thriller
Bone Harvest: a Claire Watkins thriller by Mary Logue. Part police procedural, part mystery, part suspense, and part thriller.
Saturday, February 5, 2022
Jesse Stone
Robert B Parker's Stone's Throw a Jesse Stone novel by Mike Lupica. Narrated by James Naughton per Penguin Random House audio. 2021
Friday, February 4, 2022
Sunday, January 30, 2022
Friday, January 14, 2022
Reunion Beach
Reunion Beach: Stories inspired by Dorothea Benton Frank by Elin Hilderbrand et. all. 2021
Tuesday, December 28, 2021
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Thursday, November 25, 2021
Friday, November 19, 2021
Friday, November 12, 2021
Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery
Elementary, She Read by Vicki Delany, a Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery, 2017 starring Gemma Doyle
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Thriller by John Grisham
The Whistler by John Grisham. Read by Cassandra Campbell. Penguin Random House Audio. 2016
Sunday, October 10, 2021
Inspector Ian Rutledge
A Test of Wills: An Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery by Charles Todd and Caroline Todd. Published 1996.
Thursday, September 23, 2021
The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro published 1989. Booker Prize for Fiction 1989
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Summerland by Elin Hilderbrand
Summerland by Elin Hilderbrand unabridged Cd, read by Erin Bennett. Hachette Audio. Published 2012
Tuesday, September 7, 2021
Monday, September 6, 2021
Friday, September 3, 2021
Thursday, September 2, 2021
Jerry Seinfeld
Is This Anything? By Jerry Seinfeld. Narrated by Jerry Seinfeld. Published by Simon and Schuster audio. 2020
Thursday, August 26, 2021
Elin Hilderbrand novel
The Rumor by Elin Hilderbrand. Hachette Audio Narrated by Kathleen McInerney, Erin Bennett, and Rick Zieff. Published 2015
Friday, August 20, 2021
A Sharon McCone Mystery
Coming Back: a Sharon McCone Mystery. By Marcia Muller. BBC America Audio. Narrated by Deanne Hurst. Copyright 2010.
Sunday, August 15, 2021
Reflections on a Writing Life
A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life by Pat Conroy. 2016 Published after the death of Pat Conroy. Introduction by his wife, Cassandra King
Sunday, August 8, 2021
A Hannah Swensen Mystery
Wedding Cake Murder: a Hannah Swensen Mystery by Joanne Fluke. Narrated by Suzanne Toren. 2016
Wednesday, August 4, 2021
Winston Churchill's daughter
A Daughter's Tale: The Memoir of Winston Churchill's Youngest Child by Mary Soames. Copyright 2011. The war years and up to 1947 when Mary Churchill meets her husband.
Saturday, July 31, 2021
Friday, July 30, 2021
A Hannah Swensen Mystery
Double Fudge Brownie Murder by Joanne Fluke. Audio by Suzanne Toren. Recorded Books. Published 2015
Sunday, July 25, 2021
Introducing Imogen Quy of Cambridge University
The Wyndham Case: a mystery by Jill Paton Walsh. Published 1993.
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Sunday, July 11, 2021
Saturday, July 3, 2021
A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson. Narrated by John Lee. Published by Penguin Random House audio. 2020
Sunday, June 27, 2021
Monday, June 21, 2021
The Crime of the Century
The Crime of the Century: The Lindbergh Kidnapping Hoax by Gregory Ahlgren and Stephen Monier. Published 1993.
Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers
Clouds of Witness: a Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery by Dorothy L. Sayers. 1926
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
A Jesse Stone Novel
Split Image: a Jesse Stone Novel by Robert B. Parker. Narrated by James Naughton. Published 2010 by Random House Audio.
Sunday, June 13, 2021
A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery
"Whose Body?: a Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery" by Dorothy L. Sayers. Published 1923
Wednesday, June 9, 2021
A New Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane Mystery
The Attenbury Emeralds: a New Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane Mystery by Jill Paton Walsh. Published 2010. Audio book narrated by Edward Petherbridge BBC audio
Sunday, May 30, 2021
Maisie Dobbs Novel
2021. The Consequences of Fear : a Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear. The year is 1941, London, the war is on with the bombing of England by the Germans. France has been invaded and the French are in England planning the resistance. Maisie is involved with war work. Her daughter is in the country with Maisie's Dad Frankie and his wife Brenda.
Friday, May 28, 2021
A New Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane Mystery
A Presumption of Death: a New Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane Mystery by Jill Paton Walsh and Dorothy L. Sayers. Finished on May 27, 2021. Audio book on CD with Edward Petherbridge as the narrator, published 2003.
Friday, May 29, 2020
Loved Anne Bogel's book "Don't Overthink It. Loved her book recommendations at the end of the book. I definitely subscribe to the " buy experiences rather than things" philosophy of life. I have never regretted my decision to join my sister in her trip to the Netherlands. Nor my camping trips with my husband to Colorado, Utah, or Michigan. Been lucky that I never regretted my decision to leave Penneys for the experience to work in a library. It changed my life for the better. And my decision to continue my education. And I am grateful for our decision to buy this house and move to Troy, Ohio and be near my children. This book is about finding the joy in our daily decisions.
Monday, April 13, 2020
Carolyn Hart wrote "Set Sail for Murder" after she took a cruise along the Baltic in preparation for the writing and research for this book. The details of the travel itinerary make for an interesting backdrop to the story. The Riordian family is set on taking a family vacation with their stepmother and her husband. The husband, James A. Lennox, is an old friend and lover of Henrietta O'Dwyer, or Henry O to her friends. Jimmy asks Henry O to go along on the Baltic cruise to help him protect his wife, the famous documentary filmaker, Sophia Montgomery, from her own family. After Sophia has been murdered, Henry O has to prove who was the murderer to protect Jimmy from going to prison.
Thursday, September 5, 2019
Jack, 1939
I have just finished reading Francine Mathews' excellent historical fiction of Jack Kennedy's trip to Europe in the summer of 1939, researching his senior thesis, "Why England Slept" while he carries out a secret spy trip for Franklin Roosevelt, unbeknownst to his father, Joseph Kennedy, the ambassador to England. His trip takes him to Paris, Berlin, Prague and other itineraries that were actual travel destination of the actual Jack Kennedy.. The spying is all fiction, but believable. The Book makes Jack Kennedy a real hero, interesting. In the epilog, Francine Mathews gives a list of books to read about young Jack Kennedy. More food for thought. It was a very interesting and thrilling book to read. Published 2011. Title: Jack 1939
Sunday, August 25, 2019
I have read 46 books in 35 weeks. Just finished "N" is for Noose by Sue Grafton. Excellent book, nice surprise ending. Just couldn't wrap my head around the motive for the murders. I like the way she set up the detective work, as she moves closer to the danger, the tempo increases, the tension increases. This time around, Kinsey is out of her league. She's up against the whole town where she is a stranger. Rumors circulate about her, and she feels she needs to have an ally, but who can she trust? Being out of her own turf is unsettling. I feel for her, I feel the fear. One of Sue Grafton's best.
Saturday, August 17, 2019
Sometimes I read a book again. I just did that with "Sister Mother Husband Dog (etc.)" by Delia Ephron. I was making a suggestion to a friend about books that could be read out loud to seniors. This book came to mind because I had a fond memory of the book. Rereading it, I am not sure if it would work. I loved it again because I love her voice. She's a likeable person and she describes her own pain so perfectly. Maybe that's why reading it aloud won't work. There is pain, but I love it because it has soul.
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