Happy Tuesday! I’m linking up with That Artsy Reader Girl for Top Ten Tuesday & the topic this week is: “Extraordinary Book Titles.” Extraordinary simply means very unusual or remarkable. They could be ridiculously long or incredibly cute or beautiful. But today, I'm going with punny. Cozy mysteries have some of the best titles. Some I've read, some I haven't, some are on my to be read list.
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Happy Tuesday! I’m linking up with That Artsy Reader Girl for Top Ten Tuesday & the topic this week is: “Character Traits I Love.”
Common Sense - I don't want my amateur detectives to head off into the dark woods without flashlights in high heels without telling anyone where they're going.Witty - Someone who's clever and funny and has good timing with their commentsIntelligent - I read a lot of mysteries. The detective, amateur or professional, needs to be smart enough to see the connections and learn from their mistakes.Quirky - Has that peculiar trait or traits that makes them stand outSelf Control - Knows they can punch your lights out but doesn't have to. Or doesn't sleep with the married man.Resourceful - Gets things done even if there are difficulties in the wayFurry - I tend to like the pets in cozy mysteries, but I'd rather they not talk.Romantic - The people who wear rose-colored glasses, who thinks every young couple should...
Happy Tuesday! I’m linking up with That Artsy Reader Girl for Top Ten Tuesday & the topic this week is: “Book Titles with Numbers in Them.”
My current read fits the category.
Dorothy L. Sayers also wrote another "number mystery" that I haven't read.
I always love Agatha Christies' books.
And a Holmes, of course.
These are not quite as vintage, but all good.
What are some of your favorite "number" mysteries?
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For this week's Top Ten Tuesday, the folks over at The Broke and the Bookish are asking us to name the top ten authors we've read the most books from. Turns out Goodreads.com has a nifty little button, "most read authors." So this is the list of my most read authors since joining Goodreads in September of 2007. I think I've logged most of the books I've read since then.
1. Ngaio Marsh - 16 (Roderick Alleyn series)
2. Louise Penny - 11 (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series)
3. Janet Evanovich - 10 (none of which were her Plum series)
4. Donna Leon - 9 (Commissario Brunetti series)
4. Kate Wilhelm - 9
6. Jim Butcher - 8 (Dresden Files)
7. Jon Cleary - 7 (Scobie Malone series)
7. Getrude Chandler Warner - 7 (Amber went through a boxcar children phase)
9. Agatha Christie - 7
10. Linda Castillo - 6 (Kate Burkholder series)
10. Ruth Rendell - 6 (Inspector Wexford series)
10. Christine Feehan - 6 (Drake Sisters)
Yes, I know there are...
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted at The Broke and the Bookish. Today's topic is the Top Ten books We've Read so far in 2015. Here's my list, based on how I rated them when I wrote my reviews.
1. The Autumn Republic (Powder Mage Trilogy #3) by Brian McClellan
2. Things Half in Shadow by Alan Finn
3. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
4. Day Shift (Midnight Texas #2) by Charlaine Harris
5. Flat-Out Sexy (Fast Track #1) by Erin McCarthy
6. The Cairo Affair by Olen Steinhauer
7. The Ice Queen (Bodenstein & Kirchhoff #3) by Nele Neuhaus
8. 7 Simple Choices for a Better Tomorrow by Bob Merritt
9. Shadow and Light (Berlin Trilogy #2 by Jonathan Rabb
10. Night Film by Marisha Pessl
It's actually an interesting collection. There's paranormal and non-fiction, mystery and contemporary romance, even a spy novel. I think I'm happier with my reading...
I like lists. I have To Be Read lists - for both books I own and books I wish I owned. I have a bucket list and am working on a couple of local to-do lists. I make grocery lists, even if
Every once in a while I partipcipate in Top Ten Tuesdays - because I like lists.
Today's topic is Top Ten Inspiring Quotes from Books (anything that inspires you, challenges you, makes you think, encourages you, etc.). When I'm reading/listening to a book, often a passage will catch my attention, but I'm usually lousy about actually writing them down. I should fix that. Today I'm sharing some quotes I like by authors I've read, but not necessarily quotes that I marked at the time I read them, if that makes sense. And they're not necessarily inspirational, just ones I like.
1. “Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on...
