Only 17 books read, not telling you about all of them - distractions: WFMT pledge drive for 12 days, out-of town friends visiting - we went to Hyde Park to see Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House. Afraid I won't reach my goal of 300 this year - more than 25 to go.

A Death in Vienna - Daniel Silva 11/28/16 Gabriel Allon #4 He is an agent for Israel's ( Read more... )

Wow, a new month already. I feel like it's still mid-July.

Total for the year so far: 202
New: Library = 72, mine = 94, loan from friend = 3, kindle unlimited = 1; fiction = 123, mysteries = 74, nf = 35, biography = 11
Rereads: total = 32, M = 31, L = 1
Selected new of 25 this month:
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot 8/23/14 ( Read more... )

I've been going to Chicago Symphony concerts & Folkstage concerts at WFMT (when it wasn't too cold for the brass monkeys), plus physical therapy for my back (& orders to Keep Up The Exercise), instead of reading > production down.

M 31. In Praise of Tomatoes - Steven Shepherd 2/25/14 Nonfiction: San Diego man writes about his wife & son, their ( Read more... )

Mysteries: 147 new, 32 rereads, = 179 mysteries for the year
Total books  290
235 new + 65 rereads, L=159 + 1 old, M=76 n + 64 old, F=184 n + 64 old, nf=50 n + 1 old
Next year no resolution about new/old/library/mine, will just note for personal information.

235. Drinker of Blood - Lynda S. Robinson 12/31/13 #5, 1 to go. Lord Meren is on the ( Read more... )

219. How to Murder a Millionaire - Nancy Martin 11/28/13 Philadelphia Main Line trio of daughters all widowed, one remarried, parents absconded without paying mucho taxes. Newspaper publisher friend of grandpa gave one widow a job as asst society editor, then is smothered a week later at a cocktail party at his home. Tons of suspects, society & ( Read more... )

Confession: I have about 60 regencies & contemporary-romances-disguised-as-regencies in my possession that I want to get read & post at bookmooch & paperbackswap to unload. Not going to summarize, may mark as wallbangers when Just Too Wrong.

L 111. Plotting at the PTA - Laura Alden 6/29/13 Local woman dies of bee stings, but was known to carry bug ( Read more... )

16. Dread on Arrival - Claudia Bishop #17 1/31/13 An Antiques Roadshow knockoff comes to Hemlock Falls. Its host, a pinchpenny multimillionaire, is about to marry a local antiques dealer, with an engagement party at the Inn and a reception at Bonne Goute. His television rival, who runs Pawn-a-rama, comes too, tries to horn in & is bounced. They ( Read more... )

Books Read 2012: 378 Goal = 366   I did it!

2011 = 330, 2010 = 332     at 336 books not counting rereads, 279 are mystery, as are 17 of the 42 rereads, making 296 mysteries.

Rereads = 42, only listed here for scorekeeping

New

336. Spence at Marlby Manor - Michael Derek Allen 12/31/12 Someone kills Lady Dinnister’s companion. By accident, or did ( Read more... )

Should be 335 by end of November,

Rereads YTD = 39, 2 in Nov

New

301. Miss Carlyle’s Curricle - Karen Harbaugh 11/30/12 regency. Uncle-the-earl dies in a curricle accident, leaving niece-the-heroine 75 pounds annually until she marries his heir, who is not the expected one. New earl suspects the curricle accident was no accident, having been an ( Read more... )

I spent today watching Netflix while working on felt Christmas ornaments instead of reading --- the family Christmas party is December 1 this year. Aaack!
2012 Books Read --- 2011 = 330, 2010 = 332
So far 296, at end of October, 9 short. Hmm. 
Should be 305 by end of October, 335 November, 
Rereads YTD = 37, 3 in Oct
New
259. The English Breakfast Murder ( Read more... )