I listened to this book. I loved it! I had no clue that the person who killed Roger Ackroyd. I was so surprised. This book was intriguing and had humor in it. If you have never read an Agatha Christie book, you need to read this one. It's a classic for a reason!

🙂 Happy Reading 🙂

#Classics #BookSpinBingo

This book is too vulgar for me

The Wonder of It All is the final book in the House of Falconer Trilogy. I have read all the books in the trilogy and enjoyed them all. It is a historical fiction story. The trilogy expands from the end of the Victorian Age to the beginning of the 20th Century.

James Falconer is a tycoon in England. It opens with James in WWI. He faces many things in this book and has to make decisions concerning his business. James fights to return ⬇️

Noah is the all American boy. Perfect in everyway, at least that's what his parents think. They have the perfect family, and then Noah confesses. What he confesses to will tear their family apart.

A don't think this book was proofread very good. There were a lot of sentences that were missing a word. Very irritating to me. There are a lot of heavy topics in this book. Some disgusted me. I thought about DNFing it a couple of times, but ⬇️

November Wrap-up
15 Books Read!!!

5⭐:
Blood Betrayal - Ausma Zehanat Khan
Sycamore Row - John Grisham
The Mystery Guest - Nita Prose
The Girl in Apartment 9 - A. J. Rivers

4⭐:
She Lies in Wait - Gytha Lodge
The Coworker - Fredia McFadden
The Midnight Lock - Jeffery Deaver (Book Spin)
Written in Blood - Chris Carter
The Janus Stone - Elly Griffiths
The Porcelain Maker - Sarah Freethy (Double Spin)
Helter Skelter - Vincent Bugliosi

⬇️

Noah being charged as a sex offender sucker punched our entire suburban community.

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

My Goal is to hopefully read 20 hours.

I plan on reading:

Starting: Saving Noah
The Wonder of It All
Cold Noses at the Pearly Gates (bc we lost Our dog last Wednesday night. He was almost 13)

Good Luck to All who are joining in.

Thanks @Andrew65 for hosting #20in4 Readathon

This True Crime book has been on my TBR list, forever. The book showed me what I already figured out: Mason was crazy as shit! He had already been in jail a ton of times before he became an adult.

This book is a chunkster. It was interesting but very hard to read. I had to take a lot of breaks while reading it. It just showed how evil some people are.

😊 Happy Reading 😊

#truecrime #bookspinbingo #chunkster

#TLT #Three-List-Thursday @dabbe

📚 Charlie Brown's Christmas; A Christmas Carol; How the Grinch Stole Christmas

🍿 Charlie Brown's Christmas; A Christmas Story; Home Alone

🎵 Silent Night; Away in a Manger; Mary Did You Know

Join @Andrew65 as he hosts the first Readathon of December this weekend. #20in4 Readathon is simple. You just pick 20 chapters, 20 books, 20 hours or whatever works for you. Come join the fun. Remember to post your daily accomplishments. Which I sometimes forget to do🤦

#20in4 Readathon @Andrew65

Sharing dates for December Readathons @Andrew65 is hosting. I hope I do better than I did in November.

WWII story that looks at the life of two artist who met when they were young. They fall in love but Hitler takes control of Germany and soon Max is in fear of his life. Not only is he an artist, but also a Jew. Bettina is an abstract artist that is at odds with her family. If artists weren't a certain type in Germany at this time, they also feared for their life. Max tries to get Bettina to leave, but soon it's to late. ⬇️

#bookspinbingo

I listened to this 2nd book in the Ruth Galloway series. Ruth is a forensic archaeologist. She helped with a missing person case.and barely escaped with her life a few months ago. Now, she is called to a site in Norfolk when a child's skull is found she is called in again.

Griffiths kept me interested in the story throughout. She had good character development with Ruth.

#bookspinbingo #serieslove2023

A book of short stories of Poirot Investigating different situations. It didn't really keep my interest but I thought the next story would be better. I kept reading it and finally finished it.

#audiobook #classics #bookspinbingo

Agatha Raisin goes to Turkey on a vacation to find James and make up with him. While there she gets involved in a murder of a British citizen. I got so frustrated with Agatha during this audiobook. I just wanted her to forget him. He treated her so badly. Hopefully, it's the end of them as an item. I hope her and Charles get together. I liked him.

#bookspinbingo #serieslove2023

Another good one in the Detective Robert Hunter Series!!!

#bookspinbingo #serieslove2023 #chunkster

❤️My Lord and Savior, Jesus
❤️My husband and our furbabies
❤️ The wonderful group on Litsy that understands my book obsession

Want to play? @CoverToCoverGirl @mom_of_4

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

I listened to this Lincoln Rhyme book. There were actually 3 story lines going that converged into 2 about 3/4 of the way thru. Lincoln Rhyme botches a case according to the defense of a crime boss, who ends up getting off for a murder. He is then told he could no longer consult for the NYPD. There's also someone breaking into apartments and leaving signs that he/she was there while the owner was asleep in bed. Amelia is on the case and ⬇️

📚 I have to have the toilet paper roll going a certain way.

📚 (Tagged) Mr. Clumsy. Wish it was named Mrs. Clumsy, because I am the clumsiest person.

Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView

Want to play? @Tove_Reads @RamsFan1963 @mom_of_4 @SilversReviews

#Two4Tuesday

I always wonder if an authors second book is going to live up to their first. In the case of The Mystery Guest, Prose's second book, does live up to her first The Maid.

In The Mystery Guest, we are reunited with Molly, the maid. She is now head maid and takes her job seriously. While training Lily, a new maid, a guest of the Regency is murdered. Molly is thrust into the middle of the investigation by her friend, Angela. Of course, there ⬇️

Not my favorite Lisa Jewell book. The middle drug and the ending was unrealistic and unbelievable, to me at least.

#bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

The baby is starting to grumble.

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

I actually finished this Tuesday night late 😊

Grisham takes us back to where it all began, with Sycamore Row. A Time To Kill introduced us to Ford County Mississippi, Jake Brigance, Carla Brigance, Lucien Willbanks, Harry Rex and Sheriff Ozzie. Three years later, Jake is still waiting on the insurance to pay for the loss of his house, when he is dragged into another major case. ⬇️

#bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

🍁 Yes

🍁 Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys

Want to play? @CoverToCoverGirl @mom_of_4 @Clwojick @Tove_Reads

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

Khan writes books that hit on hot topics in America. Her books are engrossing and makes me think about race issues. Two boys, a Latino and a African American, are shot one night at two different locations by the police. Inaya and the Community Response Unit are called in to investigate the African American case. She is soon asked by a past Chicago policeman to investigate the Latino killing. She works her boss where she can. ⬇️

This one was weird. I thought it would deal with a murder while golfing. Nope! It is really crazy. Each time I thought Poirot and Hastings had the killer arrested, I was wrong. It didn't keep my attention as much as the other one, but it was still good.

😊 Happy Reading 😊

#libbyapp
#carlislepubliclibrary
#lonokecountylibrarysystem
#agathachristie
#murderonthelinks
#classics
#bookspinbingo #serieslove2023

Boy, I didn't want to put this one down. It had twists in it. I did not expect what happened to happen. If you like psychological thrillers, you should read The Coworker. McFadden looked at a serious subject with this one: bullying. It doesn't just happen to kids, it happens to adults too.

#bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

30 years after going missing, one night on a camping trip, Aurora is found. In 1983, a intense investigation happened, but her body was never found. Now 30 years later, the past is being drug back up. Jonah Sheen was just a small town new cop then. It's the one case that has haunted him because it was never solved.

First in a new series by Gytha Lodge. It is full of red herrings and twists. A police procedural that has a⬇️

Got one bingo in October

#bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

October
5⭐
Holy Bible
Payback In Death
Charlie Brown's Christmas Miracle
The Girl and the 7 Deadly Sins
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
4.5⭐
The Crossing Places
The Gallery of the Dead
4⭐
The Air Raid Book Club
The Caller
3.5⭐
The Girl and the Last Sleepover
3⭐
The Girl and the Silent Night
Marple
2.5⭐
Snow Place for Murder
1.5⭐
The Case of the Bleus
1⭐
The Christie Affair
DNF
West Heart Kill
The Paris Agent
Unlocking Your Inner Zelensky

November #bookspinbingo board. Hard to believe it's fixing to be November🤯

@TheAromaofBooks

Took me 9 days to read 36% of this book. I kept falling asleep. Too many books to read to waste my time on this book. Especially, since I keep falling asleep.

I couldn't get into this book. Probably me and not author, as I have had headache that comes and goes for 2 1/2 weeks. A lot of people have enjoyed it. I'll have to give it another try another time.

I usually watch 'It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown' every year on TV, but this year it's only showing on AppleTV. I love the Peanuts Gang and decided since I wouldn't be able to watch it this year, I would read it.

This book focuses on Linus. He decided to spend Halloween in the pumpkin patch. Why? Because he is waiting on the Great Pumpkin, who is supposed to bring gifts to kids in pumpkin patches.

#bookspinbingo #Rushathon

19th book in the Emma Griffin FBI Series, 'The Girl and the 7 Deadly Sins' is a great read to me. Someone from Emma's early days in the FBI returns to pay a visit. Only the visit deals with the 7 Deadly Sins. Pride. Greed. Lust. Envy. Gluttony. Wrath. Sloth.

Xavier is off to prison to see if he can figure out how Jonah escaped. Emma is pulled in multiple ways, as she is trying to work on multiple cases at a time. ⬇️

Library Haul today. Went to pick up one hold. Came out with 3 more. 😂🤣😂

enjoyed the first book in the Ruth Galloway Series. I listened to it. Ruth is an anthropologist. She gets dragged into a murder investigation when bones are found in the marsh. The Detective calls, bc he thinks it's the body of a missing girl. Soon Ruth is entangled in the mystery. Good start to the series. It kept my attention and there was a few red herrings .

#bookspinbingo #rushathon #outstandingoct Readathon

Don't care for the writer's writing style. I don't want to be told what I should be thinking about the mystery while I am reading the book.

Tentative Publishing Date October 24, 2023

Thanks to Netgalley and Knopf for the E-ARC. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

#18 in the Emma Griffin FBI Series and still going strong, at least I think so. Started off real slow and finally picked up after the 1/2 way point. Light pick. 🌕🌕🌕🌗

#bookspinbingo #serieslove2023 #Rushathon #OutstandingOct Readathon

A Charlie Brown Christmas, I have every year of my 51 years on earth. It doesn't seem like Christmas, until I watch it. 'Charlie Brown's Christmas Miracle' takes a behind the scenes look at, in my opinion, one of the all time best TV specials. In 1965, Schulz was approached with doing a Peanuts Christmas Special. There were only 6 mins to get it done in and amazingly it got down. It almost didn't get made because two CBS executives ⬇️

A book of short stories about Mrs. Marple that I found just okay. There are twelve short stories ranging from a couple chapters to ten chapters each. I think Mrs. Marple belongs in England, unless she is on a cruise. One story was set in America and I didn't care for it. Twelve different authors. My favorite was from Ruth Ware.

#bookspinbingo

I plan on reading my 5 books from the library, plus some ARC's.

Come join the #OutstandingOctober Readathon hosted by @Andrew65 It's a choose your own goals Readathon.

The first arrow hit a child.

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

Took.me a week to read this book. I still don't know why she gave Yeti, the cat, chapters. He didn't add to the book at all.

Tentative Publishing Date October 24, 2023

#netgalley #stmartinspress #cozies #bookspinbingo

Carter's Robert Hunter Series is so good. This one grabbed me at the beginning and then he left me hanging at the end! Ugh! Now I have to wait until my library gets the next one in the series from another library. My library is wonderful, they do an interlibrary loan from libraries across the U.S.A. I love that they do that for us bookaholics. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗

#serieslove2023 #bookspinbingo #rushathon #chunkster

🎃 I'm allergic to pumpkin spice, so pumpkin dessert with vanilla in it instead of the spice

🎃 Even though I read a lot of serial killer books, I prefer cozy mysteries to horror

Want to play? @Clwojick @dabbe @RamsFan1963

#Two4Tuesday
@TheSpineView

The Girl and the Silent Night is the 17th book in the Emma Griffin FBI Series. I have to saw it's not my favorite one. There is a lot going on this time. As always there is a look at a past case Emma has been involved in, but also there is a look into the future with one of the characters in the book. That took away from the book, to me, because there wasn't a surprise. I knew something was going to happen to the person already. ⬇️

Week Wrap Up

I got 6 books read this week😊

Favorite two were The Holy Bible and Payback In Death

57 books in this series and it's still good and going strong, in my opinion. Eve and Roarke just gets back from their 3 year anniversary trip, when Eve gets notified about a death. An IAB retired cop is found died at his house, that appears to be a suicide. Soon, Eve is enthralled in the investigation.

Eve and Peabody investigate with the help of the bullpen, EDD, and Roarke. The Magic Lining saves a cop. Mav's and Peabody's house is coming ⬇️