2015: The New Year's Resolution will be to read one nonfiction for each five mysteries, one from my piles and piles of personally owned for each 3 library books, and at least one from the biography/history To Be Read List (on the laptop and/or Goodreads) each month ( Read more... )

Happy day, Nick Rosen!

A Plain Death - Amanda Flower 11/30/15 Chloe comes to Amish-country Ohio to become the very small Harshberger College’s Director of Computer Services. Just outside town, she rescues Becky, a young woman being harassed by two bullies, one of whom is a physical hulk (he thinks a hunk.) Becky has just left her Amish family, who wants her to marry a ( Read more... )

Pride v. Prejudice - Joan Hess 10/31/15 Claire Malloy is rejected from jury duty and humiliated by an idiot prosecutor and decides to help clear a woman being prosecuted for murdering her husband. She didn’t. They turn out to be fugitives from the feds, having been involved in a sit-in in 1970 in which an undercover FBI agent was killed. She is ( Read more... )

Happy birthday, filkferengi.

And thanks to stoutfellow for the reminder.

I'm still getting over shingles & don't want to do anythng but read. With one eye only. The right one is still too sore.

169. The Matters at Mansfield - Carrie Bebris 9/4/15 SPOILER Elizabeth & Darcy help Anne de Bourgh become independent of her mother: first she elopes with Henry Crawford, Lady Catherine has 46 fits, he is supposedly murdered but ( Read more... )

142. Clam Wake - Mary Daheim - sometime in June & forgot to record. #29 in B&B series. Judith & Renie go to another aunt's house on another island in Puget Sound & find another murder (as usual.) There is a proposed ordinance that has deliberately divided the residents into two camps just to keep the opposition up and keep the neighborhood ( Read more... )

The Mamur Zapt & the Girl in the Nile - Michael Pearce 7/31/15 The Mamur Zapt is the British head of the Egyptian Secret Police, a bit reined-in from the previous Mamur Zapt > less broad powers, in Edwardian times. Gareth Owen, the current holder of the office, also the only Mamur Zapt for the duration of the series, is a veteran of the British ( Read more... )

I have to read one dead tree book of mine for each kindle book - the tbr pile is waaaay out of control. At the moment, dead tree of mine/kindle = 1, library/mine (goal 3/1) = 1.0625 , mystery/bio-history (goal 3/1) = 5.3125.
More biography & history coming up.

This is getting too complicated.

Unlike dichroic & mmegaera, it was so chilly here on the Fourth that I wore turtleneck, sweatshirt, shoes, & socks all day & went to bed by 9 PM to get warm. Heavy overcast all day. Didn't go to sleep, didn't even try - fireworks by the dozen with me at the center of a 2 mile circle. I've gotten way too blasee about rockets - when I'm in Chi, I see glorious ones ( Read more... )