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CatLass007
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Pickpick

#ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 There is a different, newer cover on the audiobook, but I like this cover so much more. This is the tenth entry in the Mrs. Murphy Mystery series. Just because the animals talk doesn‘t make this a cozy mystery. Both humans and animals cuss. But all the violence takes place “offstage” and there‘s no graphic sex.

DieAReader 🥳Great 1mo
TheSpineView Fabulous! 1mo
Andrew65 Brilliant 🎉🎉🎉 1mo
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Monica5
Wish You Were Here | Rita Mae Brown
Bailedbailed

I read this series before, but I never noticed the language I guess. I can't listen to it anymore. I despise the F word and you should never take God's name in vain. There is a lot of that in the first hour I listened to this book. No thank you!

dabbe #hailthebail! 🤩🤩🤩 2mo
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CatLass007
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Mehso-so

#ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 The 9th book in Rita Mae Brown‘s Mrs. Murphy Mystery Series. It‘s been a while since I read the 8th book, and now I remember why. I guess I‘m tired of talking animals. I don‘t know when or if I‘ll get back to this series.

TheSpineView I get bored sometimes with series too. It happens! 2mo
DieAReader 👋🏻Our mood change, it‘s normal😉 2mo
CatLass007 @TheSpineView @dieareader I just figured that since I haven‘t read anything in the series since 2021, I‘d find it some relatively light entertainment. I guess I‘ll wait another few years and try again. 2mo
Deblovestoread I gave up on these awhile ago but because she started throwing her politics into her stories and it was a big NOPE from then on. 2mo
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ImperfectCJ
Murder at Monticello | Rita Mae Brown
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This isn't a great book, but it's a diverting read. It's moderately interesting to read how race was written about in the early 1990s and especially interesting (and somewhat cringy) that the Sally Hemings/Thomas Jefferson connection wasn't necessarily accepted as fact at that time. I guess it's been so long since it was just a part of the story of TJ that I forget it ever wasn't.

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ImperfectCJ
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Pickpick

Cute, low-commitment novel in a cute, low-commitment series. Great for a travel recovery day. Two books in, though, and I am wondering how long until the "crime-solving pets" gimmick gets old for me.

Ruthiella The trick for me is to not read the books too close together. 7mo
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ImperfectCJ
Wish You Were Here | Rita Mae Brown
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Pickpick

I think I have a better sense of what a "cozy" mystery is after reading this novel. Now I'm wondering if my cats are trying to help me solve mysteries and I'm just too dense to realize it.

Aimeesue Oh, they totally are, but they‘re terrible communicators. 😸 (edited) 7mo
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Goleemn
Puss 'n Cahoots | Rita Mae Brown
Pickpick

Always a pleasure to sit back, read a cozy mystery for fun, and laugh at Pewter! Nothing difficult about RMB‘s Mrs. Murphy series, but always a good, escapist read.

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psalva
Murder at Monticello | Rita Mae Brown
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Panpan

This is the third book in the Mrs. Murphy series and I find myself disliking it more as I go forward. This one, which centers around a historic victim found in a slave quarters at Monticello, is the hardest to like so far. Characters with sanitized/racist views of slavery in the U.S? Check. Trying to depict a nuanced view but being tone deaf? Check. I want to like this series but it‘s been a downhill ride so far.

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jen_hayes7
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I can‘t quit cozy mysteries!! Especially when they coordinate so well with my nail color. 😂 Seriously though, Mrs Murphy, Tucker, Pewter, et all really make this series fun. A few of the humans (like Mrs H) do too.

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Goleemn
Nine Lives to Die | Rita Mae Brown
Pickpick

As always, when I want a light, fluffy, fun mystery that anthropomorphizes animals, Rita Mae Brown is my go-to. Her books with Sneaky Pie are my “Give me something well-written that I don‘t have to think about” books. This one was better than the last one I read. Go Sneaky Pie, Tucker, and Pewter!