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More pictures if the cozy con..the murder mystery and the author panels.

Yesterday, I attended the Cozy Con South sponsored by Kensington Books. It was so fun! There was a murder mystery, author panels, food and amazing swag! I finally met the publisher, Larissa who I have been working with for four years.

First in a series featuring Nora, a small town bookstore owner that can give you the right books to help you through a difficult problem. Nora and three other women come together to solve the murder of a man trying to absolve his guilt about the work he does for a local land development co. Each of the women learn to trust each other with their secrets and will need that friendship to survive their investigation. Satisfying read at 3+/5 ⭐️.

#AboutABook #SetInBookShop @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

One of my high school friends gifted me with this wonderful bookish gift! 💗🤓💗

#ItTakesAllKinds

The tagged book is one #WithTherapist or a kind of therapist. The MC (Nora) is a bookseller & bibliotherapist who recommends specific books & book stacks to help her customers get through their issues. 📚

The author‘s website has the lists of book Nora recommends in this book https://www.elleryadamsmysteries.com/downloads/BibliotherapyBookTitlesfromTheSec...
& in the series https://www.elleryadamsmysteries.com/bookrx.html

I keep trying cozy mysteries & hoping to find one I like. This is pretty good. The non-detective investigation makes much more sense than any other cozy I‘ve read and that made me happy. Also, just gorgeous writing about the joys of reading.
When a suspicious death occurs in a small town filled with ppl escaping their past, 4 outcast women work together to solve the crime their sexist sherif won‘t.
3/5 read for the love of books

I enjoyed this new to me cozy mystery series. This was the first book in the series. It involves books as it's set in a bookstore a lot of the time. 5th book finished for #SummerEndReadathon

#serieslove2023 @TheSpineView @Andrew65
#bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

I have three going. The tagged is set in Miracle Springs, NC. Kindle Reykjavik set in Iceland. Audiobook Mission Impawisble set in Wagtail, W. Virginia. I would visit any one of these places.

#SundayFunday @BookmarkTavern

Bookish characters who create a found family. Crime solving. Coffee, tea, wine and baked treats? I found a new series to love.

I picked this up for my "cozy mystery" reading challenge. This story appealed to me, but I didn't get engaged enough to care about the characters. I kept ditching it as my hopeful new releases dropped and couldn't get back to this story. I think this is a me problem vs. a book problem.

This cozy mystery is disappointingly bad. The characters engage in way too much over-explaining while they are doing something, which makes the dialogue clunky and pedantic. The situations they insert themselves into strain credibility. And the characters are more like caricatures, especially the men. This ends on a cliffhanger and I don‘t care enough about any of them to continue. Moving on.

#12BooksOf2022 Day 6- June
There was so much I loved about this book! It's about four independent women who didn't necessarily understand their strength until they became friends and worked together to try to solve crimes in their usually quiet town.
@Andrew65

#Scarathlondailyprompt #secret #Scarathlon #TeamSlaughter @Clwojick

One of my favorite cozys! #secret #Scarathlon2022 #ScarathlonDailyPrompt #TeamMonsterMash @StayCurious @Clwojick

A perfectly nice cozy mystery where a bookstore owner with a traumatic past teams up with a couple of other women in need of friendship to solve a murder. Full review at http://booknaround.blogspot.com/2022/05/review-secret-book-and-scone-society-by....

Given to me ages ago by @cobwebmoth

#ArtfulAugust

For the #BookAboutBooks prompt I bring you the first book in the series of 16 (mostly) cozy mysteries on my Kindle that are set in bookstores, libraries, book clubs & other bookish places.📚📚📚📚📚

A cozy mystery with more substance than most. Set in Miracle Springs, North Carolina. Four women, who work in or own businesses catering to tourists, set out to investigate a murder that‘s related to real estate fraud. I loved all of the women, but especially Nora who is committed to bibliotherapy: hand selling books that address the pain her customers carry into her bookstore. To work together the women must share their truths. Fun read!

There was so much I loved about this book! Four independent women who didn't necessarily understand their strength until they became friends and worked together to try to solve the crimes in their usually quiet town.

This morning's #coffeeandabook. I've been looking forward to reading this one!

And it matches today's #BookMoods #FoodOnTheCover prompt, too! @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I listened to this from Hoopla and it had music in the background throughout the story that I found distracting. The story was Ok but I don't think I'll continue the series.

Thank you so much for the card, bookmark, and book, Kristen! I'm really looking forward to reading this one- I love a good cozy mystery!
@BookNAround

Finished one book early in the week. I enjoyed the mystery but wish the author would have given the MC a different back story. I was going to DNF Maybe but finally got interested at about 20% and want to know how each of the individual patient arcs wrap up. I have always been interested in Russian history and the Romanovs. Loving Boyne‘s HF on audio set in this time forward to the 80‘s. 8 days til tax seasons over and a couple days off…

Fun, cozy mystery. Loved the main character & will likely read more!

⭐⭐⭐⭐/⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

#Booked2021 - baked goods on cover
@cinfen @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft

Fun read. Love this series.

It is a light and fun read. I look forward to the next book in the series. It held my interest and I enjoyed the slow development of the characters who at first seemed rather cliche.

Currently reading Trying to read more fiction. I typically read non-fiction. 😀

Enjoying this cozy so far. Small town, mystery, bookstore, scones, some of my favorite things. One of my reading goals is to read books from my collection with “book*” in the title. It‘s also my #BookSpin # BookSpinBingo #BuzzWordBookathon

Hi Litsy community!! This sweet, wonderful and amazing author has had to start a new IG account. In doing so, she lost approximately 10k followers!

Can we help her out and go follow her on the new page @elleryadamsofficial ?

I know that we can help her rebuild!

Thanks so much!!

First book to check off from the July #bookspin BINGO board is the first book rented from LIBBY. Reads much like a cozy mystery, with a little town, some murders and a dedicated, interesting cast of characters that work hard for justice and an answer against corruption. I loved the setting, and would join the society in a heartbeat. Also, I want to visit that bookstore!! #recentlyread 4.5⭐️ @TheAromaofBooks 📚❤️💙

I liked the plot/characters in this mystery, but there were a few things that bothered me. First, our MC's irritation with her friends. Nora's new friendship pact feels forced at best. Second, several unlikable characters are described as "rotund," as if their being overweight is key to their sour personalities. Diversity is important, but this came across as fatphobic. Third, some of the accents were just too similar when read by the narrator.

My July ♋️🎉 #bookspin BINGO BOARD. Tagged is one of two LIBBY LOANS for the month, and although it‘s neither of the numbers this one is due 🔜 so it‘s where I will start. Thank you random.org for the adventure and @TheAromaofBooks for creating it! #tbr #bookspinbingo

Tonight the #ncbookstagrammers went to a party hosted by @Ellery_Adams ! I am so blessed to be a part of this group and call all of these amazing women friends! It was the first time doing anything since being vaccinated and it was wonderful to feel normal again, talking books with good food and drinks!

This one was a freebie on Hoopla last month. I started the first chapter tonight while working through some laundry and so far I'm having fun with it. I've only read one or two cozy mysteries (isn't that what they're called?) and they were quick and enjoyable reads. I think I'll probably like this one too.

21 #41 A new series. It was pretty good. Maybe not my favorite but passable. The characters might grow on me in the next one.

I had lunch with @Ellery_Adams today.

What a fun book! I got it on a whim after seeing it in Libby. I was hooked. It wasn‘t a huge head scratcher, but I loved the friendship and trust that was built in the book. All the women in the book had great personalities and it was refreshing to have a mystery with people who grow close. Great for a cozy evening.

Found a new series!

For February, I finally got a bingo again! #bookspin #bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

This is a #blameitonlitsy read & one that I received from a swap. Set near Asheville, NC (both books I‘m reading this weekend are set there), it‘s a cozy mystery about a group of women who become friends while solving a murder & sharing the burdens of their past that they hide from others. The MC is a bookshop owner, so there‘s great book references & love for books. Didn‘t know before that this is 1st in a series, but I will continue it.

“I prefer cinnamon twists over scones because they‘re easier to eat while I‘m reading. That‘s my main priority when it comes to food. Other people are obsessed with calories, nutritional value, antioxidants. I look at food and wonder: Can I eat that without having to put my book down?”

Me too, Nora, me too.

Thank you @Texreader for the #WondrousWednesday tag!🤗

1️⃣ I just read the tagged book by @Ellery_Adams & have the next 2 to read & I have 2 by @theladygreer I need to get to & I‘m probably forgetting someone.🤔

2️⃣ On my food blog http://kahakaikitchen.blogspot.com
I was good about posting on Goodreads but got out of the habit & sometimes Amazon & Audible.😬

3️⃣ The Charley Davison series by Darynda Jones & any of Gail Carriger‘s series.🙏🏼

This book was a slow burn. It took me awhile to get into it, but then I was hooked. The prose in this book made it feel as if it was written 50+ years ago but then something modern like Harry Potter would be referenced and I would be reminded that this is a fairly recent book (2017). Very different from anything else I have read this year.

Not gonna lie, it‘s pretty cool when an author likes your recipe & Instagram post about their book, follows you & also shares it on their story. Gets me to fangirl every time! 😍🤩🤗

The best of intentions but I still finished this the day before posts for my virtual foodie book club were due.🤷🏻‍♀️It‘s just been that kind of month.😬 I really enjoyed this 1st book in a food & book filled cozy mystery series (enough so that I got the 2nd & 3rd books on Kindle sales). Nora helps heal peoples‘ souls & hearts through books, Hester through baking comfort scones & they come together with 2 other women to solve a murder. I picked⬇️

I‘ve been a bit MIA this week & I‘m very behind on Litsy posts & life stuff. I may try to catch up on my #PemberLittens posts later on, but I‘m trying to have a semi-relaxing Sunday & make soup & hang out with this guy. Max🐱says he likes it best when his mom is at home for him to (mostly) ignore unless he wants snackies or scritches. Hope you all are having a good Sunday.
#catsoflitsy 😽❤️

Yes, I‘m having apple pie for breakfast—vanilla ice cream so that it hits more of the important food groups.😉The first piece cut is never a pretty one but it is delicious. My friend with a commercial bakery made me a mini pie after I admired her apple pies. (There‘s a pretty picture of the whole pie on my Instagram.) I am so behind on my reading, this one is for foodie book club & due with a recipe on 11/30 & I never even got to #sundaybuddyread

Leftover poke (Hawaiian Ahi, California Roll & Tofu) with jasmine rice was late lunch & early dinner. This book is the Oct/Nov pick for my virtual foodie book club. Trying not to wait until the last week to read & post but I am working on a project this weekend & not too much reading time. It‘s good so far though!

What a great book.... and the best part is, there are 2 more after it! Hahaha. Already in my Shopping cart!😉🤩🤗

What to read, what to read.... these 4 new books came. Used my Birthday gift card. 🤗🤗🤓