( Reading in 2013 )

I read 27 books in 2011, the most I've read in one year since I started chronicling my reading on LJ. And even more surprising is that I liked all of them and loved many.

( The full list )

This post contains spoilers for the entire book up to and including the last sentence, as well as some speculation about the future. Please don't read this if you haven't read the book and ever have any intention of doing so, which I obviously recommend (though you should read the series in order - trust me). This post is mostly for txduck :)

( You have been warned *ominous laugh* )

After not-so-patiently waiting for several weeks, I finally got Julia Spencer-Fleming's new book, One Was a Soldier, from the library. Despite my goal to savor it, especially since it may be a year or two before the next one is published, I couldn't help myself and just devoured it ( Read more... )

As I expected, I finished I Shall Not Want on Thursday night. ( cut for incoherence and spoilers... )

Two Mondays ago, txduck recommended a mystery series by Julia Spencer-Fleming. The series is set in the small upstate New York town of Millers Kill ("kill" is an old Dutch word for creek or river and often used in that area, though it is certainly also apt as the setting for murder mysteries) and focuses primarily on the town's new Episcopal priest, ( Read more... )