I have been reading lots :)

So I need to copy and paste my Goodreads reviews to here :)

Now that we have moved back to Vancouver, ( North Delta )

I hope I will finally get my act together and keep my book blog up to date :)

Book Clubbed By Lorna Barrett

Book Clubbed by Lorna Barrett
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I can't get enough of this series, it has to be one of my faves1 I Love the Characters, I just want to stop by and hang out with them1 I enjoyed this storyline and found the twist and turns involving some of the regular characters was a wonderful way to add a bit of suspense to the series.

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Murder at Marble House By Alyssa Maxwell

Murder at Marble House by Alyssa Maxwell
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I received an advance copy of this book from the Author, (thank you Alyssa Maxwell) this is the second book in a wonderful new series. After starting this book, I felt like I was visiting and old friend, I'm sure I could hang out with the main character Emma Cross and help her solve any Murders that she becomes involved in. The detail that the Author goes into to describe places and characters, really helps you step back in time and truly feel that you are right there watching it all play out. I can't wait for the next book in this series to come out.

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One of my Fave Blogs!

Mystery Lover's Kitchen Blog

Peach Cobbler Murder By Joanne Fluke

Peach Cobbler Murder by Joanne Fluke
My rating: 5 of 5 stars



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Murder At The Breakers By Alyssa Maxwell

Murder at the Breakers by Alyssa Maxwell
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is the first book I have read by this Author, needless to say I will be reading MORE! I enjoyed this book as I found the time setting interesting, I felt like I was stepping back in time, like I was actually there. A great plot with interesting Characters.
I Won this book from the Authors WebSite, I think it is wonderful when Authors have promotions like this. :)

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Sweet Tea Revenge By Laura Childs

Sweet Tea Revenge by Laura Childs
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Loved it! Another great book, and I had no idea who did it! I was so shocked!

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W for Wasted By Sue Grafton

W is for Wasted by Sue Grafton
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I found this book difficult to get into, but I did enjoy it in the end. Though it took me ages to read.

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Cora's Heart By Rachael Herron

Cora's Heart by Rachael Herron
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

What a lovely book, the Characters felt so real, it made you feel like you were reading about friends. I actually won this book on Goodreads, I'm so glad I did :) I have other books by this Author in my large pile of to read books, I will be digging them out to read.

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The Killing Type By Lorna Barrett

Not the Killing Type by Lorna Barrett
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I can't get enough of this wonderful series! I would love to live in Stoneham.

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I need to do an up-date here

I need to get my act together here and do my up-dates! I will try to do that in the next week or so I promise :)

Free Dishcloths & Washcloths Knitting Patterns | KnittingHelp.com

Free Dishcloths & Washcloths Knitting Patterns | KnittingHelp.com

Angus Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging By Louise Rennison

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I love this series, and truly enjoyed reading this book even though I am in my 40's! :)

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Skeleton Letters By Laura Childs

Skeleton Letters by Laura Childs
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I really enjoyed this book! I guessed the wrong person for the Murder! LOL! I had no clue it was who it ended up being, I was fooled!

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Agony Of The leaves, By Laura Childs

Patty Heast-Her True Story

Patty Hearst Her Story by Patricia Campbell Hearst
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I read this book for the first time in 1986, and I really enjoyed it! So I read it again in 1997! I may just have to read it agin soon!

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Kinsey and Me By Sue Grafton.

Kinsey and Me: Stories by Sue Grafton
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I just finished this book! I enjoyed the first half of the book, but I did not care for the rest of the book!

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Illegally Iced By Jessica Beck

Illegally Iced by Jessica Beck
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Another Great Book in one of my Fave Series! I Love the Characters in this series, they all feel like I know them and I look forward to reading about their adventures with each new book in the series.

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A Crafty Killing By Lorraine Bartlett

A Crafty Killing by Lorraine Bartlett
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

It took me a few chapters into this bokk, before I started to enjoy it. It was just a little slow starting, but once I got ast those first few chapters I Loved It!

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Tragic Toppings By Jessica Beck

Tragic Toppings by Jessica Beck
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I can't get enough of this series! I Love it!

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Red Velvet Revenge By Jenn McKinlay

Red Velvet Revenge by Jenn McKinlay




Loved this book, it was interesting being in a different setting other than their home Town or the Cupcake Shop.

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Murder on The Half Shelf By Lorna Barrett

Murder on the Half Shelf by Lorna Barrett
My rating: 5 of 5 stars



I enjoyed this book, it was great to visit with all the familiar characters. I had no idea who the killer was though like usual I suspected everyone! LOL!

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Killer Crullers By Jessica Beck

Killer Crullers by Jessica Beck
My rating: 5 of 5 stars



Loved this book! It was exciting and kept me guessing who did it? I was thrilled with the ending :)

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Drop Dead Chocolate By Jessica Beck

Drop Dead Chocolate by Jessica Beck
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Another great DonutMystery Solved!

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Powdered Peril By Jessica Beck

Powdered Peril: A Donut Shop Mystery by Jessica Beck
My rating: 5 of 5 stars



Another great book in this wonderful series.
I can't wait for the next book in the series to come out!

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Notorious Nineteen By Janet Evanovich

Notorious Nineteen by Janet Evanovich
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Another great book in one of my Fave series!This series never fails to make me laugh and cheer me up when I am down.

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The thirteenth Santa By Joanne Pence

The Thirteenth Santa by Joanne Pence
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This was a FuN quick xmas read! Lots of laughs and intersting.

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Now that I have a new Lap Top.....

I will hopefully keep my Blogs updated!

I will get busy updating here....

Over the next little while. I feel bad that I have not kept this blog up to date, I will get my act together and start adding books I have read so far this year, plus I will include a lust of books I have been buying of late.

I have been buying lots of books!

Ihave so many to read I will be reading until the cows come home! LOL!

Charmed: A Sugar Maple short story by Barbara Bretton
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Short and sweet, it set the storyline up for the next book in this wonderful series!

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Spells & Stitches by Barbara Bretton




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The plan is........

to try and up-date here more often in 2012

The Books - Sophie Kinsella

The Books - Sophie Kinsella

What I have been reading of late....

Jan  20011
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The Teaberry Strangler  By  Laura Childs
Confessions Of  Adrian Mole  By  Sue  Townsend
Fire and  Brimstone  By  Laura  Childs
Mini  Shopaholic  By Sophie Kinsella

Feb 2011
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The 9th Judgement  By  James  Patterson
The  Postcard  Killers By  James  Patterson

March 20011
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Don't  Blink By  James  Patterson
Sprinkle With  Murder By Jenn  Mckinley
Buttercream Bump Off  By  Jenn  Mckinley
Abused- A  Daughter's Story  By L.L. Barrlett

April 2011
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Gingerbread Cookie  Murder  By Joanne  Fluke
Devil's Foodcake  Murder By  Joanne  Fluke
Glazed  Murder  By Jessica  Beck

May  2011
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Sinister  Sprinkles By  Jessica  Beck
Scones   and  Bones  By  Laura   Childs
Crunch  Time  By  Diane  Mott  Davidson

June  2011
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10th  Anniversary  By  James  Patterson
Bedevilled  Eggs  By  Laura   Childs
Skein  Of The  Crime  By  Maggie  Sefton
Unraveled  By Maggie  Sefton

July 2011
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Sentenced To Death  By  Lorna  Barrett
Smokin Seventeen  By  Janet  Evanivoch
A  Crafty  Killing  By   Lorraine   Bartlett

August  2011
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Evil  Eclairs  By  Jessica  Beck

James Patterson Books

I  recently   read   The  Postcard   Killers  and   I  just    finished    Don't   Blink!  Both   fantastic   books  :)  I  just  Love  James  Patterson  Books. :)

Alice's Tea Cup: Delectable Recipes for Scones, Cakes, Sandwiches, and More from New York’s Most Whimsical Tea Spot by Haley Fox, Lauren Fox

Alice's Tea Cup: Delectable Recipes for Scones, Cakes, Sandwiches, and More from New York’s Most Whimsical Tea Spot by Haley Fox, Lauren Fox

BibliOZ.com Birthday Best Sellers

BibliOZ.com Birthday Best Sellers

Another Author that I am going to start reading

So many friends have suggested that I would LOVE this Author, so the plan is to read a few of her books and see how I like what she writes! I have a feeling I am really going to like her style as so many friends hae suggested her to me :)
Denise Swanson

Twain classics to drop racial slur - Yahoo! News

Twain classics to drop racial slur - Yahoo! News

Now I am reading!

The true confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Margaret Hilda Roberts and Susan Lilian Townsend /
by Townsend, Sue.

The True Confessions Of Adrian Mole

New Author I am trying out

Jenn McKinlay I picked up her book ..Sprinkle With Murder... today from the Library :) If I like it then I will try to get her next book out...Buttercream Bump Off....
Jenn McKinlay

What are you Reading?

I just finished reading... Chapter and Hearse (Booktown Series #4) by: Lorna Barrett... and now I am reading... The Teaberry Strangler By Laura Childs!

I got a Amazon Kindle for Christmas!

Does my Hubby know me or what? LOL! So now I need to get busy reading all my Library Books before I can start using my Kindle, I have already managed to down load a pile of books that I had been unable to get here in Port Hardy. Having no major book chain here really sucks!

I haven't been reading much lately :(

It is so difficult living here in Port Hardy as I can't get the new books by the Authors I read as I guess they are not so well known Authors or a still pretty new so the bookstore up here doesn't get them in :(

Now this is a Cool Blog!

Nancy Drew Sleuth Blog
I loved to read Nancy Drew Books when I was growing up!

What does reading do for you?

I find reading helps me when I am feeling stressed out, it makes me happy. :) I love to read it makes my day :)

Sally Goldenbaum

Sally Goldenbaum
This is another wonderful new Author.
Moon Spinners
(The third book in the Seaside Knitters Mystery series)
April (2010)
A novel by
Sally Goldenbaum
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by
Sally Goldenbaum



Stitch and sleuth in the third delightful knitting mystery from the author of Patterns in the Sand.

In the quaint fishing village of Sea Harbor, Massachusetts, the Seaside Knitters are always looking for a new project. Their latest is helping their friend Gracie Santos open the Lazy Lobster and Soup Café on Pelican Pier. But they get sidetracked when Gracie's aunt Sophia goes flying off the cliff in her red Ferrari-and it was no accident. As gossip builds, and rumors circulate, the Seaside Knitters must stitch together the clues if they're to understand a killer's strange pattern.

Anne Canadeo

Anne Canadeo


Description
Knit Purl Die
Counting on each other...

Meet the Black Sheep knitters -- five smart, funny
women who love to knit, gossip, and solve crimes.

Gloria Sterling had it all -- money, looks, and a new sexy young husband. So when she's found floating face down in her own swimming pool, shock waves ripple through tiny Plum Harbor. At the Black Sheep Knitting Shop, Maggie Messina and her circle are devastated to lose their dear friend -- a woman as colorful as her fabulous yarn creations.

The police are quick to call it an accident, but sorting out Gloria's final hours leaves too many loose ends to satisfy her friends. The vivacious, fiftysomething cougar had her French manicured tips in more than a few pots, and the threads of some inside deals stashed in her chic knitting tote.

Who was the last person to see Gloria alive on that quiet summer night? Two empty wine glasses suggest she wasn't home alone knitting the entire evening.... The Black Sheep need to know the truth and set out to unravel -- stitch by stitch -- the weighty secrets that pulled poor Gloria under.


While My Pretty One Knits

Description

The Black Sheep Knitters -- Maggie, Lucy, Dana, Suzanne, and Phoebe -- meet once a week without fail, sharing the varied and colorful skeins of their lives as much as knitting tips, recipes, and small-town gossip, and creating an intricate, durable pattern of friendship. Now a shocking murder has peaceful Plum Harbor, Massachusetts, in knots -- and the Black Sheep women must herd together to protect one of their own from a scandalous frame-up.

Maggie Messina, beloved owner of the Black Sheep Knitting Shop, is thrilled to be hosting a workshop for one of her former students, now a celebrity in the knitting world. But the celebration is upstaged when Amanda Goran, the owner of the rival Knitting Nest, is found dead in her shop on the other side of town.

Maggie had reasons to dislike Amanda, a thorn in her side ever since Maggie's shop surpassed Amanda's in popularity. Then again, it wasn't hard to dislike Amanda -- the contentious woman, whose marriage was on the rocks, seemed to specialize in causing misery all over town. But the pointed evidence has a detective casting a suspicious eye on Maggie. She may be a whiz at knitting, but can she keep the police from needling her before her shop, her reputation, and her circle of friends become unraveled?


next book is
A Stitch Before Dying but it is not avaliable yet.

Maggie Sefton

Maggie Sefton
Skein of the Crime
(The eighth book in the Knitting Mystery series)
June(2010)
A novel by
Maggie Sefton
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by
Maggie Sefton



The newest installment in the series, with knitting patterns and recipes included!

Fall has come to Fort Connor, Colorado, and the cool air has inspired the knitters at the House of Lambspun to start on their hats and mittens. It's also brought an influx of students to the university town-and into the shop for knitting classes. Kelly Flynn is happy to teach them the tricks of the trade-until one of them is found dead on the river trail near Kelly's house. Compelled to investigate, Kelly finds herself following a path that twists more easily than the yarn with which she knits. Knowing the killer could be close, Kelly must work fast to unravel the skein of this crime.

Barbara Bretton

Barbara Bretton


CASTING SPELLS
Tongue-in-cheek humor lifts this weird but fun hybrid, part knitting cozy, part paranormal romance, from romance veteran Bretton (Just Desserts). After a classy female tourist drowns mysteriously in an icy lake in remote Sugar Maple, Vt., the Montpelier authorities ask Boston homicide cop Luke MacKenzie to investigate. As Sugar Maple's temporary police chief, Luke soon notices the village's odd ambience. Originally a haven for witches who fled the Salem witchcraft trials three centuries earlier, Sugar Maple is now home to witches, vampires, fairies and trolls. Luke is also attracted to Chloe Hobbs, the half-human owner of the knitting shop Sticks & Strings, who must find Mr. Right if she's to preserve the spell that sustains the town's unusual residents. As sparks literally fly between the two, Chloe's "magickal" side stirs into life. Bretton charmingly depicts how love empowers Chloe and awakens Luke to some major surprises.


I LOVED the first book... Casting Spells and have been waiting for the 2nd book to come out, and yesterday I came across it at Chapters Book Store so of course I bought it :) I plan to read this book next!

Terri Thayer

Terri Thayer
Bought this a while ago and read it in lke a day! Couldn't put it down! Loved it!

Knit The Season

By Kate Jacobs
Need to get this read so I can mail it off to my Mum in Australia.

Monica Ferris

Monica Ferris
Bought a few Monica Books recently Sew Far So Good(Just finished reading this and as per usual it was Great, three books in one :)
Embroidered Truths and Blackwork

A Stitch In Crime

By Betty Hetchtman

Picked this book up a few weeks ago, once we move next month I will get to reading it.
I find this new series to have really interesting Characters that fit together well. Thogh I am more of a Knitter, and this series is a Crachet Mystery I still really enjoy it.

Bookplate Special

By Lorna Barrett
Can't wait to start this one, I find this series has me reading non stop from start to finish of each book, I would love to own a little bookstore just like the one in the series, it is so me :)

The Diva Paints The Town

By Krista Davis


Also bought this book a few weeks ago, so plan to read it soon!


I read The Diva Takes The Cake a month or so ago, and LOVED IT! This is such a FUN Series :)

How to Knit a Love Song

By Rachel Herron.
I can't wait to start reading it :)

Apple Turnover Murder By Joanne Fluke

Bought this book yesterday and started this morning! I love The Hannah Swensen Series. They are always fun to read and the yummy recipes are the BEST!
The other week I also read .. Plum Pudding Murder.

Nanny Returns

By Nicole Kraus, Emma McLaughlin

I am not enjoying this book at all, I will finish it, but I do not think I will be passing it on to any friends!
The first book was great.. this book... Not So Great!

Thursdays at Eight by Debbie Macomber

Every Thursday at eight, four women meet for breakfast--and to talk. To tell their stories, recount their sorrows and their joys. To offer each other encouragement and unstinting support.

Clare has just been through a devastating divorce. She's driven by anger and revenge ... until she learns something about her ex-husband that forces her to look deep inside for the forgiveness and compassion she's rejected--and for the person she used to be.

Elizabeth is widowed, in her late fifties, a successful professional--a woman who's determined not to waste another second of her life. And if that life should include romantic possibilities--well, why not?

Karen is in her twenties, the years for taking risks, testing your dreams. Her dream is to be an actor. So what if her parents think she should be more like her sister, the very respectable Victoria?

Julia is turning forty this year. Her husband's career is established, her kids are finally in their teens and she's just started her own business. Everything's going according to plan--until she gets pregnant!

Now Reading... Adrian Mole.. The Prostate Years!

This book is Great! I love the Adrian Mole Series.