You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

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JANUARY

You'll Love This One!
✔️The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot 1 Jan
✔️Running with Sherman 30 Jan
✔️Baby 25 Jan

PACKING HEAT
✔️The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder 19 Jan
✔️We Are Bridges: A Memoir 31 Jan
✔️Crying in H Mart 12 Jan
✔️All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten 20 Jan
✔️ The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change 29 Jan

HISSY-FIC
✔️The Man in the Iron Mask 13 Jan
✔️A Grandmother Begins the Story 6 Jan
✔️Atonement 25 Jan

GET A ROOM
✔️Santori 11 Jan
✔️🎧Out Of Control 24 Jan
✔️The Princess and the Fangirl 12 Jan

SIGH-FAN
✔️Heartless 11 Jan
✔️Every Anxious Wave 27 Jan
(view spoiler)[Time travel to Rock music concerts in the past; Galaxie 500 1990, Unrest 1993. Sterolab 1998, Altamont , The Cure 1989, Traveling Wilburys, , NYC 1990, Elvis Costello 1991, The Rat Pack 1963 , Sex Pistols 1976, Bruce Springsteen 1975, Woostock, Rolling Stones 1994, Frank Zappa 1977, REM 1980, etc. (hide spoiler)]
✔️The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes Neil Gaiman ,22 Jan
✔️Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles 21 Jan
✔️The Original 2 Jan
✔️Into the Heartless Wood 16 Jan
✔️The Lost Cause 7 Jan
✔️Waste of Space 30 Jan
✔️By Darkness Forged 2 Jan
✔️Wanted: A Superhero to Save the World 15 Jan
✔️The Faceless Old Woman Who Lives In Your Home 1 Jan
✔️A Winter's Promise 4 Jan
✔️Mask of Shadows 10 Jan
✔️The Devil's Bible 10 Jan
✔️Light from Uncommon Stars 19 Jan

BUMP IN THE NIGHT
✔️Valley of Shadows 9 Jan
✔️Devil's Island 7 Jan
✔️Into the Drowning Deep 20 Jan
✔️All That Consumes Us 21 Jan

Mystery, Crime and Thriller Group
✔️Reykjavík: A Crime Story: 20 Jan
✔️The River We Remember 17 Jan
✔️The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store 8 Jan

DYING TO READ
✔️The Waters of Eternal Youth 23 Jan
✔️Blood Salt Water 15 Jan
✔️ Mystery at Maplemead Castle 22 Jan
✔️The Skeleton Makes a Friend 18 Jan
✔️Birthday Pie Burial 8 Jan
✔️ E is for Evidence 2 Jan
✔️Body Movers 8 Jan
✔️The Lost Order 9 Jan
✔️Trouble in Paradise 29 Jan
✔️Poison in Paradise 28 Jan
✔️Home for the Haunting 3 Jan
✔️Murder on the House 3 Jan
✔️The Dragon Scroll 6 Jan
✔️The Iron Hand of Mars 14 Jan
✔️The Wolf in Winter 5 jan
✔️The Black Mask 12 Jan
✔️God Save The Child 17 Jan
✔️The Spy Coast 16 Jan
✔️The Echo of Old Books 26 Jan
✔️After the Fire 23 Jan
✔️People of Darkness 5 Jan
✔️A Legacy of Spies 31 Jan
✔️Up on the Woof Top 14 Jan
✔️2 Bodies for the Price of 1 27 Jan
✔️Soul Thief 18 Jan
✔️Ambush 24 Jan
✔️Murder On The Christmas Express 26 Jan
✔️The Black Mask 12 Jan

UNUSUAL SELLING POINT
✔️The Stranger in the Lifeboat 4 Jan
✔️The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ 13 Jan





Tineye - http://labs.tineye.com/color/

I'm all set for January, mostly

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot🎧 - group read 💬
Wool
A Land More Kind Than Home - yearly challenge 🚶‍♀️
either Priest of Bones or Deacon King Kong 🎧 - monthly challenge 📆
Cockroach - a book I own

Almeta wrote: . . . "



I have A Winter's Promise penciled in for the annual challenge (1st in a quartet) so let me know how you like it. Also considering Legend that a friend really likes. My monthly challenge book (Priest of Bones) was also an option but no way will I be on that task this month.

January's plans:

Call the Canaries Home (hike)
The Raven Spell (hike)
Crow Mary (hike)
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot (themed)
A Hard Day for a Hangover (series)
The Sans Pareil Mystery (series)
The Spaceship Next Door - (tbr audiobook)
Carniepunk - (tbr print)

Still undecided about monthly challenge and 2024 release.

JANUARY READING PLANS

YLTO Group Read
Undecided so far

YLTO Monthly Challenge
Priest

YLTO Yearly Challenge
Sweet Home Highlander
A Lord for the Lass
What a Scot Wants
Corrupt
Hideaway

Buddy Read
When Gracie Met the Grump

Serial Killing
Tintentod
Neon Gods - Eros & Psyche
Die Elite

January Plans:
Improbably Yours

Reviews:
The Expectant Detectives
The Heiress
No One Can Know
The Ferryman

RL book club:
✓NN - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
✓BLL - Remarkably Bright Creatures

YLTO January challenge: Festival of Fools
??

YLTO January theme: Baby, New, or Year in title
Group read: The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
Theme read: Bye, Baby, In a New York Minute

YLTO Yearly challenge:
Bring Them Home

NBRC: Maze: Task TBD
Direction TBD - Directional Task TBD

Vicki wrote: "Almeta wrote: . . . "



I have A Winter's Promise penciled in for the annual challenge (1st in a quartet) so let me know how you like it. ]..."

Unfortunately I disagree with the majority. I had a hard time keeping up with the political maneuvering. Disliked the constant physical abuse and forced isolation of the main character. AND found the book just too long with no plot advancement.

If you try it, let me know what YOU thought. So many people DID like it.

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✔️Ragged Company 23 Feb
✔️Acts of Nature 21 Feb
✔️🎧In the City 24 Feb
✔️Versailles 24 Feb
✔️Turtle in Paradise 21 Feb
✔️The City of Ember 22 Feb
✔️Paris Match by Stuart Woods ~ arc de triomphe 19 Feb
✔️Better Dead 21 Feb
✔️The Flight Attendant 18 Feb
✔️Night Theatre 17 Feb
✔️The Last Curtain Call 20 Feb
✔️Manhattan Beach 20 Feb
✔️Shark Heart 18 Feb
✔️Fish On!: A Jesse McDermitt Novel 22 Feb
✔️The Stench of Honolulu: A Tropical Adventure 19 Feb
✔️The Hike 20 Jan
✔️The Nature of Monsters 18 Feb
✔️Without a Trace 19 Feb
✔️The Snakes 17 Feb
✔️🎧A Bakery in Paris 23 Feb
✔️Shots Fired: Stories from Joe Pickett Country 22 Feb
✔️A Cold Day in Paradise 21 Feb
✔️🎧Left to Lapse 21 Feb
✔️The Souvenir Museum 22 Feb
✔️Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto 23 Feb

You'll Love This One!
✔️A Day Like This 12 Feb

PACKING HEAT
✔️My Detachment: A Memoir 24 Feb
✔️It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward 29 Feb
✔️Kiss Me Like A Stranger: My Search for Love and Art 3 Feb
✔️The Orchid Thief 4 Feb
✔️Driving the KING 5 Feb

HISSY-FIC
✔️The Quiet American 24 Feb
✔️The Doll Factory 26 Feb

LIL' GRAY CELLS
✔️Lying on the Couch 27 Feb

GET A ROOM
✔️The Bollywood Bride 26 Feb
✔️Under Locke 26 Feb

SIGH-FAN
✔️Sheepfarmer's Daughter 24 Feb
✔️Drachen 2: In the City 24 Feb
✔️Rogue Wave 5 Feb
✔️The Spy Master's Scheme 15 Feb
✔️The Night Garden 2 Feb
✔️Suicide Run 13 Feb
✔️Couch 28 Feb
✔️Fifty in Reverse 7 Feb

BUMP IN THE NIGHT
✔️A Certain Hunger 10 Feb
✔️Just Like Home 25 Feb
✔️Frozen Hell (The Thing) 4 Feb
✔️🎧White Tears 6 Feb
✔️Ghost Wood Song 2 Feb
✔️The King in Yellow 14 Feb
✔️The Devil's Breath 14 Feb
✔️DEAD Eleven 16 Feb

DYING TO READ
✔️The Mother-in-Law 26 Feb
✔️The Running Grave 15 Feb
✔️Binary 12 Feb
✔️The Cater Street Hangman 9 Feb
✔️Independence Square 6 Feb
✔️One of Us Is Back 26 Feb
✔️A Ghostly Light 1 Feb
✔️3 Men and a Body 8 Feb
✔️Death of a Heretic 11 Feb
✔️The Ghost Orchid 3 Feb
✔️15 SECONDS 9 Feb
✔️A Few Minutes Past Midnight 10 Feb
✔️A Darker Shade of Sweden 13 Feb
✔️The Golden Gate 16 Feb
✔️Dead Simple 22 Feb
✔️The Wedding Circle 25 Feb
✔️🎧The Blood Doctor 29 Feb
✔️Chomp 7 Feb
✔️The Girlfriend 8 Feb
✔️Murder on the Orient Express 11 Feb
✔️Kiss 25 Feb
✔️The Janissary Tree 28 Feb

UNUSUAL SELLING POINT
✔️Identitti 27 Feb



Tineye - http://labs.tineye.com/color/

February 2024:


Audiobooks:

The Spaceship Next Door - January's TBR
Plainsong - monthly challenge
The Heiress - 2024 release
Silent in the Sanctuary - Hike


Book/eBooks:

A Day Like This - Group Themed Read
The Stroke of Winter - Hike
A Dying Fall - Hike
Emily and Einstein - The Syndicate
Carniepunk - January's TBR

And somewhere in there, I have to fit in the toppler.

Almeta wrote: "Vicki wrote: "Almeta wrote: . . . "



I have A Winter's Promise penciled in for the annual challenge (1st in a quartet) so let me know how you like it. ]..."

Unfortunately I di..."

That's too bad you didn't like it. I don't think I will be reading it anytime soon, sounds like there are better options

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You'll Love This One!
✔️Camino Island 23 Mar
✔️The House Is on Fire 24 Mar

PACKING HEAT
✔️Here We Go Again: My Life in Televison 20 Mar
✔️The LOST Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder 17 Mar

HISSY-FIC
✔️A Suitable Boy 31 Mar
✔️Once Upon a Wardrobe 26 Mar
✔️The Best BAD Things 24 Mar

LIL' GRAY CELLS
✔️The Bridge Home 29 Mar

GET A ROOM
✔️Van 6 Mar
✔️In Your Wildest Dreams 7 Mar
✔️Sing Anyway 19 Mar

SIGH-FAN
✔️Bookshops & Bonedust 20 Mar
✔️To Hold the Bridge 29 Mar
✔️United as One 21 Mar
✔️We 14 Mar
✔️Toys 3 Mar
✔️The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi 21 Mar
✔️A Mirror Mended 15 Mar
✔️BAD Magic 25 Mar
✔️Son of a Trickster 5 Mar
✔️SKIN Folk 8 Mar
✔️Dragonfly 7 Mar
✔️Gifted 10 Mar

BUMP IN THE NIGHT
✔️Fevre Dream 11 Mar

Mystery, Crime and Thriller Group
✔️Five Survive 2 Mar

DYING TO READ
✔️Her Last Affair 8 Mar
✔️A Spy in the House 18 Mar
✔️Fear Itself18 Mar
✔️Fear of the Dark 19 Mar
✔️Quarry's Blood 17 Mar
✔️The Engagement Party 16 Mar
✔️Dying to Cruise 4 Mar
✔️In the Company of Cheerful Ladies 5 Mar
✔️Mint Chocolate Murder 21 Mar
✔️The Treasure Hunt 1 Mar
✔️🎧The Secret 6 Mar
✔️Wyllard's Weird 1 Mar
✔️The Window at the White Cat 2 Mar
✔️Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter 3 Mar
✔️The Blessing Way 6 Mar
✔️L is for Lawless 8 Mar
✔️Murder Under Her SKIN 9 Mar
✔️Finding Mrs. Ford 10 Mar
✔️Between You and Me 11 Mar
✔️Flashman 12 Mar
✔️The Last Flight 12 Mar
✔️The Wife Upstairs 13 Mar
✔️A Room Full of BONES 14 Mar
✔️The Wives 14 Mar
✔️Greedy BONES 15 Mar
✔️The LOST Notebook 16 Mar
✔️One by One 20 Mar
✔️City of the Lost 23 Mar
✔️The Narrows 26 Mar
✔️The Camera Man: A DC SMITH Investigation 27 Mar
✔️The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf 28 Mar
✔️Her Last Affair 8 Mar
✔️The ONE 22 Mar
✔️Cemetery Dance 25 Mar
✔️Look Closer 28 Mar

UNUSUAL SELLING POINT
✔️Life on the Refrigerator Door 6 Mar
✔️Maame 13 Mar
✔️ALEXANDER's Bridge 29 Mar

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You'll Love This One!
✔️A&R Bill Flanagan (published January 1, 2000, main character named Jim) 352 pp 24 Apr

PACKING HEAT
✔️The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade 24 Apr
✔️The Lost Train 1 Apr

HISSY-FIC
✔️The Lotus Eaters 6 Apr
✔️Dust Child Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai 12 Apr

GEEZER-LIT
✔️The History of Love 17 Apr

GET A ROOM
✔️🎧The Bookshop on the Corner (Kirrinfief, #1) by Jenny Colgan

SIGH-FAN
✔️We Unleash the Merciless Storm 27 Apr
✔️Brighter Than the Sun 12 Apr
✔️Shadows Over London 7 Apr

BUMP IN THE NIGHT
✔️🎧My Heart Is a Chainsaw 3 Apr

Mystery, Crime and Thriller Group
✔️Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect 5 Apr
✔️First Lie Wins Ashley Elston 22 Apr

DYING TO READ
✔️The Life We Bury 1 Apr
✔️All the Dangerous Things 19 Apr
✔️The Secret Child 20 Apr
✔️The Secret Garden of Yanagi Inn 21 Apr
✔️The Secret 21 Apr
✔️The Secret of Snow 22 Apr
✔️Blood on SNOW 24 Apr
✔️Spider Woman's Daughter 25 Apr
✔️Finding Moon 26 Apr
✔️Hide and Seek 27 Apr
✔️Let It Bleed 28 Apr
✔️Wings of Fire 29 Apr
✔️Sleuthing for a Living 30 Apr
✔️Drink with the Devil 26 Apr
✔️At Bertram's Hotel 2 Apr

UNUSUAL SELLING POINT
✔️ American as Paneer Pie 6 Apr



Tineye - http://labs.tineye.com/color/

You're so organized Almeta.

Janice wrote: "You're so organized Almeta."

I'm hiking through Middle Earth with gusto!

I see that. I'll be starting book 7 of the first badge once the toppler finishes. I'll wave at you over on the other mountain range.

Here's the plan for March so far.

An Impossible Impostor: Hiking challenge, series read
A Sinister Revenge: Hiking challenge
Prince Lestat: Hiking challenge
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things: TBR audio
Emily and Einstein: the Syndicate book club (currently reading)
Hurt Mountain: 2024 release
A Rhinestone Button: Group themed read
The Secret Woman: TBR print (so old and obscure search isn't finding it.)

Oh, that's why I couldn't find it. I was search for The, and not A...
A Secret Woman: A Novel

To be added - monthly challenge

April 2024 Plans:


The Good Wife of Bath, Hiking
Iron and Magic, Hiking
The Dance Tree, Readers Also Enjoyed,
All the Birds in the Sky, TBR audiobook
Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love, TBR Print
The Obsidian Chamber, Themed, Series
The Phoenix Crown, 2024 release

Toppler: TBA

May Plans

April was the longest month, and suddenly it's over. May's plans in no particular order:


Starter Villain, themed read
Lessons in Chemistry, Syndicate Book Club
Holly, hiking
Portrait in Death, series
All the Broken Places, hiking
Play of Shadows, hiking
The Unquiet Bones, 2024 release

It seems Almeta is not here to remind us to get our plan ready for next month. I took a bit of a break from reading but have since picked it back up. I'm way behind in the annual challenge goal but I don't want to overwhelm myself either so I have these 4 books (almost) picked out for July:

Group Read: Clytemnestra
Monthly Challenge: The Windup Girl or Rebecca
Annual challenge: A Winter's Promise
Annual challenge: The Winter of the Witch

I hope everything is okay with Almeta. She didn't participate in the last toppler whish was a first.

Janice wrote: "I hope everything is okay with Almeta. She didn't participate in the last toppler whish was a first."

I have been in the hospital or rehab since March 18th! Just got home Monday July 22nd.

I have been reading all of that time and have plenty of work to record into Goodreads!

You'll Love This One!
✔️How High We Go in the Dark 20 May
✔️#1170 Skybreaker 11 May

PACKING HEAT
✔️The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts Gary Chapman 24-May
✔️Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures Stephen Fry 15-May

HISSY-FIC
✔️The Seed KEEPER 7 May
✔️The White Lady Jacqueline Winspear 5-May

LIL' GRAY CELLS
✔️Elephant in the SKY 23 May
✔️A Little Life 25 May

GET A ROOM
✔️Dial A for Aunties 7-May
✔️The Guncle 2-May
✔️Delilah Green Doesn't Care 26 May
✔️Giovanni's Room 27 May
✔️In the Dream House 29 May
✔️A Curious Beginning Deanna Raybourn 24-May

BUMP IN THE NIGHT
✔️Snakes on a Plane 18 May

SIGH-FAN
✔️Consider Phlebas Iain M. Banks 14-May
✔️DARK Tide 1 May
✔️The Demon Lover 2 May
✔️The BEST of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories 3 May
✔️Grave Peril Jim Butcher 10-May
✔️LAGOON 11 May
✔️Timeline 15 May
✔️A Stitch in Time 17 May
✔️The FIRST Fifteen Lives of Harry August 19 May
✔️Before They Are Hanged 21 May
✔️SKY in the Deep 22 May

Mystery, Crime and Thriller Group
✔️The Honjin Murders 24 May

DYING TO READ
✔️Fatal First Edition Jenn McKinlay 26 May
✔️The Inheritance Games 29-May
✔️Naked Heat 9 May
✔️Last Bus to Woodstock 10 May
✔️KEEPER of the CASTLE 8 May
✔️BEST Cases of the Continental Op 4 May
✔️The Book Supremacy 5 May
✔️Dead LAGOON 13 May
✔️Ash Dark as Night Gary Phillips 11-May
✔️Arsenic and Adobo Mia P. Manansala 15-May
✔️The House Raelyn Drake 13-May
✔️Abandoned in Death J. D. Robb 12-May
✔️Dark Sacred Night Michael Connelly 4-May
✔️When No One Is Watching Alyssa Cole 3-May
✔️The Kind Worth Saving Peter Swanson 11-May
✔️Hot Pot Murder Jennifer J. Chow 1-May
✔️Lion & Lamb James Patterson, Duane Swierczynski 8-May
✔️Bury Your Dead Louise Penny 6-May

UNUSUAL SELLING POINT
✔️Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus Dusti Bowling 9-May


You'll Love This One!
✔️Lady Tan’s Circle of Women 3 Jun
✔️Little Fires Everywhere 18 Jun

PACKING HEAT
✔️The Game DON'T Change 11 Jun
✔️Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law 25 Jun

HISSY-FIC
✔️Stone Blind 15 Jun
✔️If the Creek DON'T Rise, 10 Jun
✔️Lessons in Chemistry Bonnie Garmus 2-Jun

GET A ROOM
✔️Emergency Contact 27 Jun
✔️You Can Die Rebecca Zanetti 15-Jun

SIGH-FAN
✔️Letters to Zell 17 Jun
✔️Mechanica 19 Jun
✔️The Collapsing Empire 28 Jun
✔️Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library Chris Grabenstein 1-Jun

BUMP IN THE NIGHT
✔️DON''T Look Now and Other Stories 8 Jun
✔️Don't Fear the Reaper 11 Jun

HICK-LIT
✔️The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 7 Jun

Mystery, Crime and Thriller Group
✔️None of This Is True 16 Jun

DYING TO READ
✔️ Run, Rose, Run 27 Jun
✔️Caught DEAD in Philadelphia 1 Jun
✔️Cupcakes, Lies, and DEAD Guys 2 Jun
✔️Little Tiny Teeth 3 Jun
✔️RED as Blood 4 Jun
✔️Treasure State 5 Jun
✔️The Old BRIDGE: A Joe Johnson Thriller 2 21 Jun
✔️Cinnamon Kiss 22 Jun
✔️Where Are You Now? 24 Jun
✔️A Reasonable Doubt Phillip Margolin 22-Jun
✔️The Darkest PlacePhillip Margolin 21-Jun
✔️Murder at Black Oaks Phillip Margolin 20-Jun
✔️Stormy Petrel 24 Jun
✔️The Third Victim Phillip Margolin 26-Jun
✔️The Perfect Alibi Phillip Margolin 25-Jun
✔️A Matter of Life and Death Phillip Margolin 24-Jun
✔️Killer Hooks Betty Hechtman 28-Jun
✔️The Secrets We Buried Becca Day 27-Jun
✔️Laws of Depravity Eriq La Salle 23-Jun
✔️Past Due for Murder Victoria Gilbert 19-Jun
✔️Laws of Wrath Eriq La Salle 18-Jun
✔️Shelved Under Murderr Victoria Gilbert 16-Jun
✔️Paws to Remember Sofie Kelly 10-Jun
✔️Some of Us Are Looking Carlene O'Connor 14-Jun
✔️Betrayal Phillip Margolin 13-Jun
✔️Fiddling with Fate Diane Kelly 12-Jun
✔️The Watchmaker’s Hand Jeffery Deaver 11-Jun
✔️Past Lying Val McDermid 9-Jun
✔️Thyme of Death Susan Wittig Albert 14-Jun
✔️Edge of the Grave Robbie Morrison 13-Jun
✔️A Murder for the Books Victoria Gilbert 10-Jun
✔️Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge Lizzie Pook 8-Jun
✔️A Troubling Tail Laurie Cass 8-Jun
✔️Death by Peppermint Cappuccino Alex Erickson 7-Jun
✔️Laws of Annihilation Eriq La Salle 6-Jun
✔️A Deadly Edition Victoria Gilbert 5-Jun
✔️Death in the Margins Victoria Gilbert 4-Jun
✔️Renewed for Murder Victoria Gilbert 3-Jun
✔️Murder Checks Out Victoria Gilbert 8-Jun
✔️The Lincoln Lawyer Michael Connelly 7-Jun
✔️Resurrection Walk Michael Connelly 7-Jun
✔️Wicked Appetite Janet Evanovich 2-Jun
✔️Long Road to Mercy David Baldacci 7-Jun
✔️The Wrong Side of Goodbye Michael Connelly 6-Jun
✔️The Gods of Guilt Michael Connelly 5-Jun
✔️Long Shadows David Baldacci 1-Jun
✔️Simply Lies David Baldacci 2-Jun
✔️The Fix David Baldacci 4-Jun
✔️Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun Elle Cosimano 3-Jun



You'll Love This One!
✔️Clytemnestra 29 Jul
✔️Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong 27 Jul

HISSY-FIC
✔️ROSE Under Fire 11 Jul
✔️The Frozen River Ariel Lawhon 6-Jul

I AM SOMEBODY
✔️Hill of Beans: A Novel of War and Celluloid 28 Jul
✔️The Howard Hughes affair 29 Jul
✔️Never Cross A Vampire 31 Jul

SIGH-FAN
✔️The Prisoner of Zenda 3 Jul
✔️Rupert of Hentzau 5 Jul
✔️The ROSE and the Thorn 10 Jul
✔️The Andromeda Strain 17 Jul
✔️Jurassic Park 19 Jul

BUMP IN THE NIGHT
✔️A House with GOOD Bones 7 Jul
✔️Gwen, in Green 20 Jul

HICK-LIT
✔️As GOOD as Gone 6 Jul

DYING TO READ
✔️When She Was GOOD 8 Jul
✔️Snow White and ROSE Red 13 Jul
✔️A More Perfect Union 14 Jul
✔️The Perfect Crime 15 Jul
✔️Deviled!: 21 Jul
✔️The Railway Detective 23 Jul
✔️Tail of Vengeance: A Chet and Bernie Mystery eShort Story Spencer Quinn 20-Jul
✔️The Mystery Guest Nita Prose 18-Jul
✔️Resurrection Walk Michael Connelly 16-Jul
✔️Murder by the Seashore Samara Yew 15-Jul
✔️Murder with Chocolate Tea Karen Rose Smith 14-Jul
✔️Crosshairs James Patterson, James O. Born 13-Jul
✔️The Overnight Guest Heather Gudenkauf 12-Jul
✔️Marion Lane and the Raven's Revenge T.A. Willberg 5-Jul
✔️Murder is a Piece of Cake Valerie Burns 4-Jul
✔️Going Rogue: Rise and Shine Twenty-Nine Janet Evanovich 11-Jul
✔️Honey Drop Dead Laura Childs 3-Jul
✔️Lost & Hound Rita Mae Brown 9-Jul
✔️Beyond a Reasonable Stout Ellie Alexander 10-Jul
✔️Deep Fried Death Maddie Day 21-Jul
✔️Strawberried Alive Jenn McKinlay 8-Jul
✔️The Spanish Diplomat's Secret Nev March 7-Jul
✔️To the Land of Long Lost Friends Alexander McCall Smith 1-Jul
✔️Feint of Art 16 Jul

UNUSUAL SELLING POINT
✔️To Night Owl from Dogfish 1 Jul



Tineye - http://labs.tineye.com/color/

You are a sight for sore eyes. It is so good to see you posting!!! I hope your rehab is going well and I can’t wait to see all your recorded reads.

Marnie wrote: "You are a sight for sore eyes. It is so good to see you posting!!! I hope your rehab is going well and I can’t wait to see all your recorded reads."

Home Care nurse discharged me Tuesday. I am having a bit of a hard time adjusting to being home. Have been surrounded by people for so long...the solitary life is different!

Sure is quiet.

Oh my goodness, Almeta! Glad to have you back. We were worried about you.

Almeta wrote: "Janice wrote: "I hope everything is okay with Almeta. She didn't participate in the last toppler whish was a first."

I have been in the hospital or rehab since March 18th! Just got home Monday Jul..."

I was worried about you. Here's to continued recovery.

It's good to see you Almeta. 😀

Thankyou Everyone for your "Welcome Back" thoughts.

Almeta! So very happy to see you!! ((((((((((A)))))))))))

I hope to read these in August, but there may be changes with the toppler.

At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities
Crossroads
The Sacrament
The Nanny
Somebody I Used to Know
The Cruelest Month
The Pale Horse
Thief of Hope

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✔️🎧At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities 5 Aug
✔️🎧Rainier 7 Aug

You'll Love This One! Toppler
✔️🎧MILK Run 345 pages 17 Aug
✔️🎧Outlawed 261 pages 18 Aug
✔️🎧Overdue or Die 304 pages 18 Aug

PACKING HEAT
✔️🎧What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley 320 pages 8 Aug
✔️🎧 All These Wonders:True Stories About Facing the Unknown 12 Aug
✔️🎧Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague 15 Aug

HISSY-FIC
✔️🎧Purple Hibiscus 28 Aug
✔️🎧The Great Divide 321 pages 22 Aug
✔️🎧A Long Petal of the Sea 1 Aug
✔️🎧Home 4 Aug
✔️🎧The Curse of Penryth Hall 2 Aug
✔️🎧When the Emperor Was Divine 7 Aug
✔️🎧Fatherland 28 Aug
✔️🎧Mercy House 30 Aug

LIL' GRAY CELLS
✔️🎧Allegedly 30 Aug

GEEZER LIT
✔️🎧Sipsworth 10 Aug

GET A ROOM
✔️🎧The Rules of Attraction 26 Aug
✔️🎧The Smoke Jumper 576 pages 25 Aug
✔️🎧 Strangers and Cousins 320 pp 16 Aug
✔️🎧Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail 20 Aug
✔️🎧My Year of Meats 26 Aug
✔️🎧The Olympian Affair 29 Aug
✔️🎧The Kingdom of Back 13 Aug
✔️🎧After Oz 19 Aug

BUMP IN THE NIGHT
✔️🎧The Return 23 Aug
✔️🎧Dread Nation 25 Aug
✔️🎧All Hallows 4 Aug
✔️🎧Hangsaman 29 Aug
✔️🎧What Moves the Dead 23 Aug

DYING TO READ
✔️🎧A Share in Death 27 Aug
✔️🎧Before We Say Goodbye 14 Aug
✔️🎧Mistletoe Man 9 Aug
✔️🎧Absent Feeling 25 Aug
✔️🎧Absent Remorse 24 Aug
✔️🎧MILK and Honey 204 pages 21 Aug
✔️🎧Three-Inch Teeth 30 Aug
✔️🎧Chaos Terminal 3 Aug
✔️🎧The Rum Diary 6 Aug
✔️🎧Invisible Dead 11 Aug
✔️🎧Murder Between the Pages 31 Aug
✔️🎧The Butcher's Boy 27 Aug
✔️🎧Murder on the Yellow Brick Road 27 Aug
✔️🎧The Man With a Load of Mischief 29 Aug
✔️🎧The Informant 24 Aug

UNUSUAL SELLING POINT
✔️🎧The Robber Bride 26 Aug
✔️🎧Moo 28 Aug



Tineye - http://labs.tineye.com/color/

Hi Almeta - glad to see you back and hear that you are doing well on your recovery!!!!

Cherie wrote: "Hi Almeta - glad to see you back and hear that you are doing well on your recovery!!!!"

Hello Cherie, It is good to see you here also. I am having a bit of a struggle getting back into the swing of things. Can't remember how to get in to certain files, but THEN I remember an HTML code without hesitation!

My wounds are getting better. Seems as though that last bit just wants to stay pink and irritated. I must practice patience. Lost 77 pounds during my long stay away. Feel so much better physically. Hope I can keep it off.

Will I be seeing you during the Toppler?

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You'll Love This One!
✔️🎧In My Dreams I Hold a Knife 22 Sep
✔️🎧Catherine House 11 Sep
✔️🎧Chess Story 21 Sep

PACKING HEAT
✔️🎧The Man in the Red Coat 1 Sep
✔️🎧Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World 30 Sep
✔️🎧Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension 25 Sep

HISSY-FIC
✔️🎧 Homegoing 13 Sep
✔️🎧A Passage to India 26 Sep
✔️🎧Jamaica Inn 21 Sep
✔️🎧Small Things Like These 20 Sep
✔️🎧The Nickel Boys 19 Sep
✔️🎧The Promise 6 Sep
✔️🎧The Lowering Days 1 Sep
✔️🎧The Flamethrowers 9 Sep
✔️🎧The Leopard 4 Sep
✔️🎧 The Lost Girls of Paris 29 Sep
✔️🎧 American Dirt 20 Sep
✔️🎧Let Me Hear a Rhyme 22 Sep

HICK-LIT
✔️🎧Land of WOLVES 25 Sep

LIL' GRAY CELLS
✔️🎧She’s Come Undone 21 Sep

GET A ROOM
✔️🎧The Pirate 10 Sep
✔️🎧 The List 8 Sep
✔️🎧The Vanishing 10 Sep
✔️🎧Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover 27 Sep
✔️🎧Curvy in College: The Jock and the Genius 2 Sep
✔️🎧The Cruelest Mercy 24 Sep
✔️🎧The Boy in the Black Suit 2 Sep
✔️🎧 The Wolf at Bay 15 Sep
✔️🎧Thrown to the Wolves 19 Sep
✔️🎧Wolf in Sheep's Clothing 19 Sep

SIGH-FAN
✔️🎧 The Genesis of Misery 14 Sep
✔️🎧River Woman, River Demon 14 Sep
✔️🎧The Body Finder 28 Sep
✔️🎧The Master Magician 29 Sep
✔️🎧At the Earth's Core 24 Sep
✔️🎧The School for Good Mothers 20 Sep
✔️🔥 A Light in the Dark 21 Sep
✔️🎧Spider's Bite 27 Sep
✔️🎧Aurora's End 21 Sep
✔️🎧 The Registry 15 Sep
✔️🎧Aurora Rising 16 Sep
✔️🎧 The Light Pirate 17 Sep
✔️🎧Thornhedge 19 Sep
✔️🎧Succubus Blues 24 Sep
✔️🎧William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope 30 Sep
✔️🎧Succubus Revealed 30 Sep
✔️🎧Succubus Shadows 30 Sep
✔️🎧Mirrored Time 17 Sep
✔️🎧Vengeful 12 Sep
✔️🎧Vicious 13 Sep
✔️🎧Even Though I Knew the End 16 Sep
✔️🎧 Ghost Hunter 24 Sep
✔️🎧 Last Sword Maker 11 Sep
✔️🎧Promised 27 Sep
✔️🎧Severance 7 Sep
✔️🎧Our Wives Under the Sea 2 Sep
✔️🎧 Last Sword Maker 11 Sep
✔️🎧Girl in Landscape 1 Sep
✔️🎧The Invisible Hour 17 Sep

BUMP IN THE NIGHT
✔️🎧The Ballad of Black Tom 13 Sep
✔️I Am Not a Serial Killer 20 Sep
✔️🎧Your Heart Belongs to Me 18 Sep
✔️🎧Psycho 18 Sep
✔️🎧The Phantom of the Opera 19 Sep
✔️🎧 The Policy 14 Sep
✔️🎧 Becoming the Boogeyman 12 Sep
✔️🎧Deadline 8 Sep
✔️🎧The Other 4 Sep
✔️🎧The Troop 6 Sep
✔️🎧Kingdom of Needle and Bone 5 Sep
✔️🎧The Coven 7 Sep
✔️🎧The Blacktongue Thief 12 Sep

Mystery, Crime and Thriller Group
✔️🎧The Teacher 9 Sep
✔️🎧The It Girl 23 Sep

DYING TO READ
✔️🎧The Teacher 9 Sep
✔️🎧The Fury 5 Sep
✔️🎧What Janie Found 2 Sep
✔️🎧Love Lies Bleeding 3 Sep
✔️🎧The Last Chance Olive Ranch 3 Sep
✔️🎧Murder w/ Macaroni &Cheese 18 Sep
✔️🎧GHOST a la Mode 23 Sep
✔️🎧The Bachelors 7 Sep
✔️🎧Dismantled 23 Sep
✔️🎧The Teacher 9 Sep
✔️🎧The Overnights 8 Sep
✔️🎧Sleeping Dogs 29 Sep
✔️🎧The Complaints 9 Sep
✔️🎧The Collectors 5 Sep
✔️🎧The Heiress 5 Sep
✔️🎧The Prisoner 6 Sep
✔️🎧Good Bad Girl 26 Sep
✔️🎧The Deeds of the Disturber 28 Sep
✔️🎧A Treacherous Curse 29 Sep
✔️🎧The Complaints 9 Sep
✔️🎧The Therapist 10 Sep
✔️🎧The Project 10 Sep
✔️🎧The Hunter 13 Sep
✔️🎧Murder with Macaroni and Cheese 18 Sep
✔️🎧The Trees 7 Sep
✔️🎧The Mother 8 Sep
✔️🎧Stray Fears 17 Sep
✔️🎧Fever Season 16 Sep
✔️🎧Double Dexter 18 Sep
✔️🎧The Last Devil to Die 22 Sep
✔️🎧Dread Journey 22 Sep
✔️🎧Black Widow 25 Sep
✔️🎧Witch Miss Seeton 25 Sep
✔️🎧Counterfeit 26 Sep
✔️🎧Miss Seeton Draws the Line 28 Sep
✔️🎧Bring Me Back 15 Sep

UNUSUAL SELLING POINT
✔️🎧 The Sellout 6 Sep
✔️🎧The Tragedy of Arthur 1 Sep
✔️🎧The Plague 7 Sep
✔️🎧The Fall 9 Sep
✔️🎧The Corrections 4 Sep
✔️🎧Woodcutters 18 Sep
✔️🎧Cat’s Eye 28 Sep



Tineye - http://labs.tineye.com/color/

Hi Almeta,

No, I have not been group toppling this year. My reading/listening is all over the place, mostly listening to series available via Libby from my library, and as I have discovered crocheting again, after AmyK taught herself to do it.

Interesting about HTML. I can still remember two-finger commands for an early CADD program and I cannot remember how to access some files at all. Our work group has to write OKR's quarterly and there is a tool to access the current and old files, but once a quarter only makes it more frustrating to remember how to access the tool and write the stupid things. I have written my last though. As of Sept 30th, I will be officially RETIRED - after working for the same company for 43 years.

Cherie wrote: "Hi Almeta,

No, I have not been group toppling this year. My reading/listening is all over the place, mostly listening to series available via Libby from my library, and as I have discovered croch..."

43 years? That's a long time!!!

Sure hope to see you around GoodReads some time though.

I'm retired also; that's why I read so much. Enjoy your retirement.

Congrats on your retirement Cherie!

Janice wrote: "Congrats on your retirement Cherie!"
Thanks, Janice.
It does not seem real yet. I have 5 weeks to take care of so many tasks before all of the plans expire (health, vision, dental, etc). I have to apply for Medicade as soon as the HR folks send me some form to submit with my request. I got my glasses fixed (fell down 3 weeks ago and smashed them up pretty well). I have been wearing my old ones, and I can really tell the difference now that I am wearing the ones I got last year. I have a new appointment on Wednesday. Aghhhh. So much to think about. I need to buy a computer!

Cherie wrote: "Hi Almeta,

No, I have not been group toppling this year. My reading/listening is all over the place, mostly listening to series available via Libby from my library, and as I have discovered croch..."

Congrats on your upcoming retirement, Cherie!! More reading time :)

It will be a busy month, Cherie.

Oh that's so exciting Cherie, congratulations!

I'm definitely going to start reading more.

I've got Catherine House for the group read (I could not resist that cover!)
Shady Hollow for the monthly challenge,
Senlin Ascends for fun/ the annual challenge I won't finish. I want to keep going with the series.
Maybe Elektra?
Maybe something else. September has a big book fair here

I am hoping to read:
Iron Flame (yearly challenge)
The Happy Ever After Playlist (yearly challenge)
Pumpkin Everything (yearly challenge)
Something Wilder (monthly challenge)
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife (group read)
The Keeper of Stars (review)
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife (review)
The Old Place (maybe, sounds cute, from library)

My plans :

Elektra (buddy read)
The Briar Club (Syndicate book club)
Somebody I Used to Know (TBR Audio)
Orlando People (hiking)
Plague Pits & River Bones (hiking)
Murder in Park Lane (hiking)
My Dark Vanessa (themed read)
Her Final Breath (challenge)
The Sandman Omnibus, Vol. 1 (TBR Print)

I haven't been to this thread in a while. Wow!
I did notice your absence, Almeta, but thought you were just being quiet and doing your thing. I'm glad to hear you're on the mend and getting your health back.
Retirement! Yay, Cherie! You've worked for a long time. I think the best thing about retirement (3 years now) is planning my days around the things I want to do rather than have to do. Some days I can do absolutely nothing except read. Less stress.
Enjoy!

Thank you all for the congratulations on my upcoming retirement.
I am still a little shocked and trying to get my head around it all.

My daughter mentioned how strange it will be for her not to call my office number, then my home number and then my cell phone number (in that order) when she wants to get a hold of me.

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You'll Love This One!

You'll Love This One! Toppler
✔️🎧The Bookwoman's Last Fling 12 Oct
✔️🎧The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend 13 Oct
✔️When You Are Engulfed in Flames 29 Oct
✔️The Club Dumas 14 Oct
✔️The Haunted 15 Oct
✔️Don't Go Home 16 Oct
✔️The Quickie 17 Oct
✔️Secret Lives of Booksellers & Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading 17 Oct
✔️Not the Killing Type 18 Oct
✔️A Fatal Chapter 19 Oct
✔️The Ghost and Mrs. McClure 19 Oct

PACKING HEAT
✔️Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold 31 Oct
✔️ Boys in the Boat:NineAmericans& EpicQuestfor Goldat 1936Berlin Oly 22 Oct
✔️Brat: An '80s Story
✔️Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder 25 Oct
✔️Life on the Mississippi 6 Oct
✔️'Tis 23 Oct
✔️Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: Memoir 22 Oct
✔️Long Walk to Freedom2 Oct
✔️Greenlights 24 Oct
✔️Teacher Man: A Memoir 24 Oct
✔️A Moveable Feast 26 Oct
✔️Long Walk to Freedom 22 Oct
✔️The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World 28 Oct
✔️ The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family 23 Oct
✔️Relativity: The Special and the General Theory 11 Oct

HISSY-FIC
✔️Under the Skin 29 Oct
✔️ Goodbye Mr. Chips 18 Oct
✔️The Bookseller 16 Oct
✔️The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett 25 Oct
✔️China Dolls 14 Oct
✔️The Mill on the Floss 4 Oct
✔️Death Comes for the Archbishop 4 Oct

HICK-LIT
✔️Riders of the Purple Sage 25 Oct

GET A ROOM
✔️The Bookstore 17 Oct
✔️Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match 1 Oct
✔️Graveyard Shift 9 Oct
✔️Monoceros 10 Oct
✔️The Gravity of Us 27 Oct
✔️A Sicilian Romance 11 Oct

SIGH-FAN
✔️Ash and Quill 16 Oct
✔️The Book of Doors 14 Oct
✔️Smoke and Iron 13 Oct
✔️Rogue Protocol 21 Oct
✔️The Wicked King 11 Oct
✔️Weyward 1 Oct
✔️The Aeronaut's Windlass 28 Oct
✔️Rebel of the Sands 8 Oct
✔️Jack, the Giant Killer 8 Oct
✔️Terror on the Moon 9 Oct
✔️The House on the Strand 10 Oct
✔️My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece 10 Oct
✔️Reef Road 6 Oct
✔️When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain 27 Oct
✔️The Grace of Kings 7 Oct
✔️Pirates! 8 Oct
✔️Dead Man's Chest : The Sequel to Treasure Island 12 Oct
✔️The Green MAN's Heir 266 pages
✔️The Ogress and the Orphans 26 Oct
✔️Halfway to the Grave 2 Oct
✔️The Darkest Road 4 Oct
✔️The Reckoning 6 Oct
✔️The Wandering Fire 7 Oct
✔️Pirate 7 Oct

BUMP IN THE NIGHT
✔️The Saturday Night Ghost Club 28 Oct
✔️Breaking Dawn 3 Oct
✔️The House Across the Lake 12 Oct
✔️Rouge 7 Oct
✔️The Devil Rides Out 2 Oct
✔️Damned Chuck Palahniuk 18 Oct
✔️Cold Shadows 20 Oct
✔️Walking Practice 27 Oct
✔️In a Glass Darkly 20 Oct
✔️Grave Sight 20 Oct
✔️Leech 18 Oct
✔️The Haunting of Ashburn House 17 Oct
✔️Summer Sons 20 Oct
✔️The Carrow Haunt 19 Oct
✔️Unseen 16 Oct
✔️Uncle Silas 12 Oct
✔️The Whispering Dead 20 Oct

DYING TO READ
✔️The Body from the Past 31 Oct
✔️Blonde Faith 31 Oct
✔️ Something Wicked 19 Oct
✔️Exit Strategy 9 Oct
✔️Body on Baker Street 10 Oct
✔️Guardian of the Horizon 24 Oct
✔️ L.A. Confidential 15 Oct
✔️A Good Day for Chardonnay 23 Oct
✔️Made for You 24 Oct
✔️The Bounty 25 Oct
✔️Tick Tock #34) Fern Michaels 5 Oct
✔️The WOLVES 1 Oct
✔️Quarry in the Black 3 Oct
✔️Murder in the CIA 4 Oct
✔️A Perilous Undertaking 1 Oct
✔️A Scandal in Scarlet 10 Oct
✔️The Serpent on the Crown 5 Oct
✔️Step on a Crack 5 Oct
✔️The Murder on the Links 5 Oct
✔️Murder on Gramercy Park 7 Oct
✔️The Voice on the Radio 9 Oct
✔️Murder on Astor Place 9 Oct
✔️Murder on the Half Shelf 10 Oct
✔️Death on Demand 13 Oct
✔️The Sanatorium 28 Oct
✔️Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead 2 Oct
✔️The Waters 21 Oct
✔️Sentenced to Death 18 Oct
✔️Bookmarked for Death 19 Oct
✔️Book Clubbed 19 Oct
✔️Break No Bones 2 Oct
✔️The Plinko Bounce 21 Oct
✔️Peril at End House 26 Oct
✔️The Fallen Man 22 Oct
✔️Looking Good DEAD 12 Oct
✔️The Treatment 30 Oct
✔️Aged for Acrimony 13 Oct
✔️Murder on St. Mark's Place 5 Oct
✔️Death on a Moonlit Night 6 Oct
✔️The Calling 8 Oct
✔️Murder on Trinity Place 8 Oct
✔️Homecoming 3 Oct
✔️The Bookman's Promise 13 Oct
✔️The Bookman's Wake 14 Oct
✔️Chapter & Hearse 14 Oct
✔️The Sayers Swindle 15 Oct
✔️The Nature of the Beast 18 Oct
✔️Rest in Pieces 30 Oct
✔️Death Overdue 31 Oct
✔️Scared Stiff 31 Oct

UNUSUAL SELLING POINT
✔️Bodily Harm 9 Oct
✔️The Door-to-Door Bookstore 16 Oct



Tineye - http://labs.tineye.com/color/

October:

Hiking Challenge:
Murder in Park Lane
Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens
Only the Beautiful
Vampire on the Orient Express (also monthly challenge
Her Little Flowers
Murder at an Irish Wedding

Themed Read - Mrs. McGinty's Dead

TBR print - The Stonecutter

2024 Release - Hill of Secrets

Man, I could practically just copy and paste last month's plans for this month. I hardly read anything this month. I do have two that I'm in the middle of and I'm still hoping I finish them both. They are my monthly group read and challenge reads.

I feel like I've been dragging my feet this month two and I think that's because there were three books I gave up on.