It's Monday: Here's What I'm Reading

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Dead Cold Brew by Cleo Coyle, to be released January 10, 2017, Berkley.

Very enjoyable and complex plot, intriguing characters. Love the NYC setting of the coffee shop mystery series.  I finished this book while I was recovering from surgery. It was a great comfort during that trying time! I am reading a galley of When All the Girls Have Gone by Jayne Ann Krentz, November 29, 2016, Berkley  A fairly suspenseful story of a woman trying to find her stepsister and solve the murder of her sister's best friend.  Metaphors Be With You: An Z to Z dictionary of history's greatest metaphorical quotations by Dr. Mardy Grothe,  December 6, 2016, Harper A book to open at random and savor a few pages at a time. Here's a quote from the section on Poets: To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession. - Robert Graves And on Writing: Writing is seduction. - Stephen King On Committees: A camel is a horse designed by a committee. - Author Unknown Add a cozy to my reading list: Pop Goes the Murder: A Popcorn Shop Mystery by Kristi Abbott, January 3, 2017; Berkley First paragraph: I knocked on the hotel room door. No  one answered. I glanced at my watch. Seven forty-five in the morning. I was right on time.... Building suspense from the start, this cozy mystery is next on my reading list. How about your reading?

Sunday Salon: Fireflies on the Lawn

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I was distracted from the fireworks on TV tonight by the natural fireworks going on outside my window - fireflies on the lawn. I actually enjoyed them just as much as the televised show. 

I finished reading these two books last week:
1.  Scents and Sensibility: A Chet and Bernie Mystery  by Spencer Quinn, to be released July 14, 2015, ARC compliments of Atria Books.

My comments: Humor, mystery, suspense, pathos in Arizona. Chet the dog and his human partner Bernie nearly broke my heart in this latest novel. I'd like to see at least one more adventure before the two retire from the PI business, if they do.....in London, maybe. Five stars to this mystery novel!

2.  X (Kinsey Millhone #24) by Sue Grafton, to be published August 25, 2015; a win - ARC compliments of Putnam. 

My comments: Kinsey tackles three problems at the same time, all three unrelated. This means the reader works at keeping the characters and situations separate, but the novel, as all her others, comes out as far more realistic than many mystery books. In this one, she tries to bust some stereotypes about the wealthy and about the elderly. I gave this 4 stars!

Arrived in the mail:

The Coincidence of Coconut Cake by Amy E.Reichert, to be released July 21, 2015; novel compliments of Gallery Books.
YOU'VE GOT MAIL meets HOW TO EAT A CUPCAKE in this delightful novel about a talented chef and the food critic who brings down her restaurant—whose chance meeting turns into a delectable romance of mistaken identities.

I'm eager to start this one, but first......books for tours, which I am also enjoying..!
Bum Rap by Paul Levine, July 13 book tour
The Festival of Insignificance by Milan Kundera, July 16 book tour

What are you reading?