Wednesday Reading Meme
What I Just Finished Reading: Just three short ones this week: Mirror Lake and Evergreen Chase by Juneau Black, and Murder in Cherry Hills by Paige Sleuth.
What I'm Reading Right Now: I'm about 3/4 through The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters. It's about a cop still trying to do his job as the world deals with the knowledge that an asteroid is on a cataclysmic collision course with Earth. Really enjoying it.
What I'm Planning to Read Next: I've been waiting for the other members of my reading team on a challenge to finish their most recent books so we can move on to the next challenge. I do have another library book out -- Kingdom of Needle and Bone by Mira Grant -- that I may get to if I'm still waiting. I'm leery of this one because I really disliked the one other Mira Grant book I read (her writing as Seanan McGuire -- sp?) but Kingdom is very short so I figured I can chance it.
143. Mirror Lake by Juneau Black
The third installment in the Shady Hollow series was just a smidge disappointing. While the mysteries are always obvious, there’s usually still a little something to sniff out beyond the usual. This one was pretty cut and dried by the 20% mark. Still though, I love the denizens of Shady Hollow so much. There is just something so charming about a rat, a fox and a chipmunk, who happens to be half of a same-sex couple that own the local B&B, all sitting down together for a cup of tea. Or fox Vera Vixen walking paw-in-paw with her beau, brown bear Orville Braun. I mean. I love this series.
Dates Read: November 01 to 03, 2023
Page Count: 228
4 out of 5 stars
Lost Challenges Pyramid of Books - Task 20 - read 20 books set on water/coastal town/water on cover (09/20)
144. Evergreen Chase by Juneau Black
This short story set in the Shady Hollowverse was a bit of a disappointment. I get why the authors didn’t want to include a murder in a holiday story, but what they came up with was just rather silly even for this type of story. And because it was so short, the bad guys were telegraphed immediately and there was no room for the charm and humour that makes the stories so special.
Date Read: November 03, 2023
Page Count: 59
3 out of 5 stars
Lost Challenges Pyramid of Books - Task 12 - read 12 books that you choose (06/12)
Challenge Factory Finish What You Started - November pick
145. Murder in Cherry Hills by Paige Sleuth
The author clearly loves cozy mysteries, so she’s taken the bare bones of the genre,.thrown in two rudimentary suspects, and called it good. I respect that she tried to put her own spin on things (the amateur sleuth here is a former foster child/product of the care system) but this is so basic as to be almost laughable. For example, someone rhymes off 3 people as possible suspects, but the author doesn’t even bother to include one of them before she barrels to her conclusion. I mean.
Date Read: November 04, 2023
Page Count: 75
2 out of 5 stars
Lost Challenges Pyramid of Books - Task 14 - read 14 books set in a state [Washington] (11/14)
Challenge Factory Dusty Bookshelf - November pick
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What I'm Reading Right Now: I'm about 3/4 through The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters. It's about a cop still trying to do his job as the world deals with the knowledge that an asteroid is on a cataclysmic collision course with Earth. Really enjoying it.
What I'm Planning to Read Next: I've been waiting for the other members of my reading team on a challenge to finish their most recent books so we can move on to the next challenge. I do have another library book out -- Kingdom of Needle and Bone by Mira Grant -- that I may get to if I'm still waiting. I'm leery of this one because I really disliked the one other Mira Grant book I read (her writing as Seanan McGuire -- sp?) but Kingdom is very short so I figured I can chance it.
143. Mirror Lake by Juneau Black
The third installment in the Shady Hollow series was just a smidge disappointing. While the mysteries are always obvious, there’s usually still a little something to sniff out beyond the usual. This one was pretty cut and dried by the 20% mark. Still though, I love the denizens of Shady Hollow so much. There is just something so charming about a rat, a fox and a chipmunk, who happens to be half of a same-sex couple that own the local B&B, all sitting down together for a cup of tea. Or fox Vera Vixen walking paw-in-paw with her beau, brown bear Orville Braun. I mean. I love this series.
Dates Read: November 01 to 03, 2023
Page Count: 228
4 out of 5 stars
Lost Challenges Pyramid of Books - Task 20 - read 20 books set on water/coastal town/water on cover (09/20)
144. Evergreen Chase by Juneau Black
This short story set in the Shady Hollowverse was a bit of a disappointment. I get why the authors didn’t want to include a murder in a holiday story, but what they came up with was just rather silly even for this type of story. And because it was so short, the bad guys were telegraphed immediately and there was no room for the charm and humour that makes the stories so special.
Date Read: November 03, 2023
Page Count: 59
3 out of 5 stars
Lost Challenges Pyramid of Books - Task 12 - read 12 books that you choose (06/12)
Challenge Factory Finish What You Started - November pick
145. Murder in Cherry Hills by Paige Sleuth
The author clearly loves cozy mysteries, so she’s taken the bare bones of the genre,.thrown in two rudimentary suspects, and called it good. I respect that she tried to put her own spin on things (the amateur sleuth here is a former foster child/product of the care system) but this is so basic as to be almost laughable. For example, someone rhymes off 3 people as possible suspects, but the author doesn’t even bother to include one of them before she barrels to her conclusion. I mean.
Date Read: November 04, 2023
Page Count: 75
2 out of 5 stars
Lost Challenges Pyramid of Books - Task 14 - read 14 books set in a state [Washington] (11/14)
Challenge Factory Dusty Bookshelf - November pick
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