Annual Book Count 2024

Jan 01, 2025 16:29

So in 2024 I read and finished 75 books, plus 3 short stories, and didn't finish 5 books for various reasons. All of this doesn't include any Bible or fanfic reading ( Read more... )

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meathiel January 1 2025, 16:47:00 UTC

Still ... any recommendations for historical mysteries???
I'm always on the look out for new ones.

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leesa_perrie January 1 2025, 17:28:36 UTC
LOL!! There's never enough time for all the books, but why should that stop us buying more? :D :D :D ( ... )

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meathiel January 2 2025, 17:43:48 UTC
I think I've read at least one or two of most of the series you mentioned, some of them years ago, and then got distracted. Apparently. *lol* I've read all of the Steven Saylor ones, though, I'm pretty sure about that. (In times before I had Goodreads, so it's hard to check!)

I don't know if I've ever mentioned them but have you red the Marcus Corvinus books by David Wishart? I really love(d) those as well but I think I also haven't finished THAT series.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/287105.Ovid?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=eEH8osELpO&rank=1

Oh, and 1st person narratives are okay.

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leesa_perrie January 2 2025, 18:00:49 UTC
I'll check out David Wishart, though someone says it's full of swearing. I don't mind a bit of that, but it depends on how much and what type it is. Did you find it very sweary?

The 1st person one that I'm really enjoying is the Master Mercurius Mysteries by Graham Brack, set around the time of Charles II of England, but set in The Netherlands (mainly). Master Mercurius is a grumpy old man dictating his adventures to his clerk, and he makes me smile! Good plots usually (though I did figure out the killer in one book well before I should have, but then, I do read and watch an awful lot of detectives books/shows, lol). There's some humour at times in the way he tells the stories too.

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spikesgirl58 January 2 2025, 14:25:14 UTC
Wow, that's fabulous!

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leesa_perrie January 2 2025, 14:41:19 UTC
Thank you! :D

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