@DGRachel and I opened our Jolabokaflod and Christmas presents early so she could enjoy while she is off work. And like she said there was nothing to stop us. Started Book Woman last night. I hope you all have lovely holidays and/or great days and a Happy New Year!

While Bailey is sleeping I didn‘t snooze with this one. I love a well written and everyone‘s points of view. I did think half way through that the end was certainly going to be very important to me with all these chart. Ms. Reid did not disappoint.

This the first Georgette Heyer I‘ve read. It was a fun and entertaining mystery even though it was easy enough to guess the villains.
Scooter is sleeping soundly.

1. Mysteries, thrillers
2. Not fond of heights
3. Lots of things depending on what I was reading
4. Doubt we will get to 50F
5. Hey!!
#friyayintro
@howjessreads

📚
Zane Grey
Z (1969 movie, a thriller)
Zucchini
#manicmonday #letterZ
@JoScho

1. Totally Teleport!!
2. Not sure why but I‘m struggling to finish this.
3. No, didn‘t want to waste time 😏
4. Did the Derby Girls (hysterical) and Bodyguard (6 part series)

#friyayintro
@howjessreads

1. Just read and do my book journal
2. Yes! Black-eyed peas and ham. And when my brain is working there‘s also corn bread.
3. RGB and Wonder Woman
4. July
5. High five to the Jans
#friyayintro
@howjessreads

1. Bailey keeping watch for when I move as it will be walk time.
2. Probably not as much as I would like.
3. Gray
4. Bed, dresser, nightstand, bookcases
5. Ham, pineapple, sweet potatoes and rolls. A truffle for dessert.

I asked Bailey if she‘d model my some of my Christmas pile. I‘m not sure if that was a yes. @DGRachel and I decided we were sleeping in and we‘d open everything!!! Why? Because we can. 😘

Thanks to my darling daughter for the Jolabokaflod books! We‘ve had a lovely day doing some reading in between running to McD for the hopeful cure all (the cheeseburgers always cured Samia‘s) stomach issues and walking the pacing Bailey. Loving these James‘ shorts. She has been a favorite author of mine. And the ears belong to Scooter who I inherited from my Mom.

I seriously love this series and all of the characters. I always feel so better after reading one of these novels even if tears are making their paths down my face. Kindness.

C. A Curious Beginners
C. Agatha Christie
C. Code Black
C. Chicken, Chocolate, Cake.
#ManicMonday
@JoScho

1. My old Betty Crocker
2. Well, it is between bread
3. I would have loved Julia Child
4. The only thing that might qualify are Ruffles potato chips with GS thin mints. Yum.
#manicmonday
@JoScho

1. I‘ve grown fond of Maleficent!
2. Monsters Inc!!!
3. Sunset is 7:42
4. Not fond of relish

Thanks @DGRachel and @thereadingowlvina for the tag
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@jesshowbooks

1. Ages since I‘ve had a snow cone. Prefer ice cream
2. Swimming at the pool
3. Hot and dry
4. Lemonade that‘s not too sweet
5. Racing on our bikes and finding cool spots to read.

#TellmeTuesday
@Ke633

Been in a reading slump so I was happy to get a new Russell and Holmes as I have enjoyed Laurie King‘s stories. This one did not disappoint as Mary agrees to help her friend find her aunt who did not return to Bedlam with her nurse after a party.

1. None
2. Shorts
3. Neither
4. In Arizona it‘s coconut rum cake, In North Carolina it‘s either chocolate cake or chocolate pistachio meringues.
@BarbaraTheBibliophage
#sassysunday

1. Introvert, though I try to “extrovert” on occasion.
2. Do more, time is ticking
3. Movie
4. Clean. It is kind of sad that one of the things I really detest is the thing I have to do every where. Found wild caught catfish so cooking was good.
5. Re-reading a favorite or if I am lucky one of my favorite authors has a book come out that sucks me in. And I think I am coming out of a major slump caused by that lack of focus brought on by stress.

1. Today I think Peter‘s Amelia Peabody series
2. Code Black, Dr Who
3. Yes
4. I fear breakfast sausage & eggs
5. Yes, he was a reader
#friyayintro
@jesshowbooks

1. I think a total of 13 moves
2. About 4,000 miles. A little move from Maryland to Germany
3. Not as many as I used to have before these last moves.
4. Wouldn‘t be surprised but I hope not for at least a couple of years
5. Some movers have been good but others were not so great. Prefer to do the packing.
#packingdistraction
@JoScho

1. Ice cream 🍦
2. Pool
3. Watermelon 🍉
4. Would like to be able to do some road trips
5. Print & ebooks
#manicmonday
@JoScho

1. Chilling with @DGRachel on Monday
2. 1 living, 2 have passed.
3. Unfortunately no
4. Why, yes I am. Try to do a little research every day.
5. US Eastern for a couple more weeks and then out to Arizona where I think they are on Pacific this time of year. They don‘t do daylight savings time.
#friyayintro
@jesshowbooks

A young man back from Korea, an amputee who is running moonshine in the western hills of North Carolina. He is living with his bad ass Granny Mae, a former prostitute who is now a herbalist. There is a dark secret that affects them all. Wonderful characters and a lyrical author.

Enjoy your Memorial Day.
Today I want to honor my 3xGreat Grandfather David Van Wormer who died fighting in the Civil War at the age of 56.
1. Still reading and the goal is to finish today!
2. Reading
3. I love it all, steak, chicken, burgers, veggies 🌽, watermelon.
#manicmonday
@JoScho

This is the eleventh in the Faye Longchamp series, she is an archeologist who discovers a woman beaten & buried alive while on a project in Memphis. The woman dies and Faye becomes involved in the search for the killer. A suspenseful tale as the killer is stalking Faye and the dead woman‘s 11 year old daughter.

1. Yanny
2. Music
3. No idea
4. Don‘t think so
5. Ok

#friyayintro
@jesshowbooks

This is very hard. @amber_ldsmom
1. Alice Hoffman
2. JK Rowling
3. Stephen King
4. Martha Grimes
5. Sharon Kay Penman
6. James Michener
7. Ausma Zehanet Khan
8. Fredrik Backman

1. Trying to get my address corrected on a 1K tech order, FedEx, and my 2 year old Samsung dryer deciding not heat. And doing this again as I hit the wrong button!!!
2. Anything
3. Done
4. A maple sausage and egg sandwich
#friyayintro
@jesshowbooks

A BIG thank you to @vkois88 for the incredibly generous giveaway package that I won. I was blown away and really excited to read these!

1. Flying home, meeting the new granddog, going to the art festival, getting a hug from @DGRachel
2. Donuts
3. Not that I‘ve started this month
4. My sister will fly out in June

#friyayintro
@jesshowbooks

Cracking me up. I am not prejudiced at all 😜

Sandford doesn‘t disappoint. I was a little worried as I didn‘t think it would be as good as the last one in the Lucas Davenport series but it was another page turner. Assignation, murder, corruption, just another day for the Senate in Washington.

I found these women‘s stories fascinating (and these were women, not girls). I was not surprised at some of the treatment they received especially after WWll was over. I was surprised by the very large numbers and the jobs involved. Great read.

Van Gogh and Manet ( love the Impressionists
Starry Night
National Gallery of Art

#manicmonday
@JoScho

I got totally sucked into this one which is the 9th of the series. Most of the story centers around Max and her plans and historical activities in a couple different places & times.

☕️ I‘ve only been to signings
☕️ Funnel cakes
☕️ Not so much

#weekendchat
@CSeydel

Another entertaining story, this is the third in the series. Other than a couple of leaps that I found a little hard to understand the mystery was complex. Also interesting about how the laborers lived while building the railroad.

1. @DGRachel aka daughter recommended
2. Never have tracked books until this year though I am currently behind in my journal.
3. Yes, thank you Litsy!
4. The tagged book
@Chellebearss

1. Sunshine and cool on the morning dog walk with balloons floating around.
2. Horror
3. Visit people & sites
4. Yellow
5. One??? I don‘t think I can pick just one.

#HumpDayPost
@MinDea

1. Diane Mott Davidson‘s mysteries
2. That is tough. Hate to do without my eggs.
3. Canned peas
4. Christmas
5. Waldhorns ( a great German restaurant close to us)
#manicmonday
@JoScho

Congratulations Barbara!!!
#2468giveaway
@BarbaraTheBibliophage

1. Summer over winter in NCarolina but reversed when I‘m in Arizona
2. Fiction
3. Only Litsy
4. Both!
@SilversReviews

I love this series with Scotland Yard detective Richard Jury and the his eccentric cohorts. Great dialogue and a crazy murder mystery combine to make a satisfying story.

1. Oldest
2. At times less
3. 1 sister living
4. The Weasleys pop into mind
5. @tournevis looks good

#friyayintro
@jesshowbooks

2. Murder, scary children, Jury
3. 18
4. Earl in Pickles
5. Cancer

#HumpDayPost
@MinDea

1. Born in England, raised in MD, 5 years in Germany, a couple years each in GA & TX, 32 years in Florida and now dividing time between home in N Carolina and AZ.
2. A Man Called Ove
3. Inspector Gamache, Sandford‘s Prey & Flowers, Raybourne‘s Victoria Speedwell
4. Hacksaw Ridge & Wonder Woman
5. Young Sheldon
6. Johnny Cash
7. Green
8. Mystery
9. Living room
10. Very recently lost our beloved lab mix. Expect to be rescued by a new one soon.

Another good story with Sebastian and his wife Hero working to solve the mystery of a piano teacher‘s death. A time of great hardship for most of the citizens during terrible snowfalls and freezing temperatures. Lots of threads to follow.

1. Flavia in The Grave‘s a Fine and Private Place
2. Mostly flowers and herbs
3. Yikes, I am going to guess Wicked
4. Elizabeth Peters, John Sandford

#weekendchat
@CSeydel

#coffeecoffeecoffee
@hermyknee

A great giveaway!!!