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For this final day of #20Series20Days I thought I would highlight just a SMALL sampling of series owned, either in their entirety or almost, but not yet started. I could probably do 3 more collages like this. 😂 This was great fun, Andrew despite what you may have heard from my bank account.

This is on the lower end of the pick scale. I enjoyed it, but some characters weren‘t as clearly drawn as they could have been. This is the first in a series, and I‘ll read more. #audiowalk

I should be through with this book soon. It‘s my walking book, and it‘s been raining for many days (the last time I got to walk was last Thursday), so I haven‘t been listening to it. The sun was out today and there was a lovely breeze for this walk in the woods with my daughter. #audiowalk

It rained too hard today to go out and walk, so I did indoor cycling, yoga, and weight training instead, while continuing to listen to Elouise Norton work on solving a murder that was staged as a suicide. The victim has a lot in common with Lou‘s sister who disappeared when the two were young. #audioexercising

More LA detectives. It was a tad warm outside today. #audiowalk

I took a course on diversifying library collections. One of the things discussed was readers advisory services often offered at public libraries. The instructor talked about diverse books to recommend when a patron tells you their taste in books. This book was given as an example of books to recommend if a patron likes Michael Connolly‘s Bosch books. I love those books so I immediately went and checked it out. So far, so good.

Good mystery, first in series. An LAPD detective investigates the murder of a teenager girl. One of her main suspects is also the neighborhood man she suspects of killing her older sister twenty some years ago. Meanwhile she has to put up with her new partner who is a clueless white transplant from Colorado, and deal with her imploding marriage.

TBR #Shadow

#screamathonphotochallenge

Dentist. Bleh. At 7:00 AM. Double bleh.

Husband and I are spending a few days at the beach! Puzzles, hiking, hot tubbing, shell searching, and of course, reading!

Next up for #Booked2019 (a #femaledetective) and #ReadingWomen2019 (mystery or thriller by a woman of color.) This first in a series has been on my TBR for years, and I'm excited to see the author speak on a panel at #alamw19 next weekend.

4/5
I love discovering new authors through reading challenges. I came across this book looking to fill the #ReadHarder prompt for mystery by POC and really enjoyed it! It was also a nice surprise that it was set in my hometown of Los Angeles as well. This has all the makings of a mystery that I love: a badass female detective, twists, and a little bit of crazy.

#ReadHarder2018
#LRC2018
#MurderinoChallenge

My picks for the #Booked2019 Winter season. All are subject to change at my whim. 😄
1. Female Detective: Land of Shadows
2. Fairytale Retelling: When Beauty Tamed the Beast
3. Happy Place: The Library Book
4. Podcast Related: We Should All Be Feminist
5. Irish Author: Frog Music
6. New to Me Author: The Thorn Birds

I still have two prompts to complete for #Booked2018 , but planning is part of the fun!

Here‘s another detective series I love that is set in L.A. and come on that price!

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Our festivities end on mid January with Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastián.So I continue surrounding with this season decorations.This is part of my @BookBabe beautiful art collection.This novel get you interested since page one.There is a storm & characters decided to find another train station but ended in a house, mystery continue with a murder.However in the middle of the novel it became monotone.I still liked it.I love this Golden Age.2.95/3⭐️

Reading while cold. (Really loving this book)

Pouring outside. Reading inside.

#junebookbugs Day 8 I think this is dusk and not sunrise. I'm not 100% sure. #dusk

#maybookflowers Day 2 The book has sunshine on it and the sign says "sunshine." ? #sunshine

The second panel I attended at the festival was Nasty Women Who Fight Back: Thrilling Female Detectives with Rachel Howzell Hall, Kathleen Kent and Minerva Koenig. I could have spent the entire afternoon listening to these women talk about their books and being female crime writers. I haven't read anything by them so I picked up a book by each. (This where I blew my book budget, lol.)

After finally finishing this book, I'm feeling kind of *meh*

It felt like the author had to reform her bad guys to make them fit their assigned roles. 😕

⭐⭐⭐ My full review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1636416749

Max wasn't feeling this book, either, so here's a picture of him looking outside instead.

#dogsoflitsy #ReadingWithDogs

Slow start but a strong finish which is fairly typical for a police procedural. Excellent MC - smart, strong and slightly snarky black woman. Slightly uneven but I'm intrigued enough to read book 2. Great way to end the reading year.

Fantastic police procedural set in Los Angeles. Detective Eloise Norton is on the trail of a killer, one that may have killed her sister 25 years earlier. This is my #Recommendsday read, because I would have never picked this up without reading the article that recommended it first. 🌇

"Your little girl got around." Infuriating passage. Thirteen yr old Lou recalls the detective interviewing her mother, after her sister's disappearance. So much was said here without the author needing to explain it.

I'm not big on reading police procedurals, but I'm loving Lou's voice. Glad I picked this up.

I wish I could remember who on Twitter called out this series, I'm grateful! I love a good crime/police series but the ones I follow are very....white. Book 1 in Hall's Elouise Norton series is full of interesting, smart, diverse characters, a great who done it murder. I already started book 2.