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.

Sue Townsend undergoes life-saving kidney transplant

From The Sunday Times
December 27, 2009

The author had the operation after her son gave up one of his organs.
Sue Townsend undergoes life-saving kidney transplant

Sue Townsend's body initially rejected the kidney donated by her son Sean

As Christmas presents go, it is even beyond the vivid imagination of Adrian Mole.

Sue Townsend, the best-selling author who created the aspiring teenage nerd, has received a life-saving kidney transplant thanks to her son, Sean, who donated the organ.

Townsend discloses for the first time today how the gruelling eight-hour operation has given her new hope after having to endure regular dialysis for the past two years.

The transplant, however, was not without complications. Townsend’s body initially rejected the donor kidney and a subsequent infection forced the 63-year-old author to return to hospital 17 times in the space of a week. Sean, the eldest of Townsend’s four children, volunteered to go under the knife when his mother’s two “dud” kidneys were on the brink of failure because of her long-term diabetes. She had been on a waiting list for a transplant for two years, but no other suitable donor emerged.

Books I have bought recently

I got a $150 gift Cert for Chapters/Indigo Books for my Birthday so I bought a few books I still have $50.00 left. :)

New Author I have started reading this week!

Heidi Betts

I started her first book a few nights ago and so far I really like it I have the second book in the trilogy and I think the thrid book comes out early 2010.

James Patterson Books

I have been busy reading a few James Patterson Books the last few weeks, and as per usual I LOVE them All !

I have been reading flat out

So on the weekend I will up-date this blog life is sort of hectic as I am working full time again and don't get online as often as I would like.

Books for my Mum

My Mum arrives next Friday from Australia for a 2 month visit, I have a huge pile of books for her, and when she called tonight she was telling me she is also bring up a pile of books for me, I guess I get my love of reading and also Knitting from my Mum! :)

Pollyanna By Eleanor H. Porter

I loved the Disney movie as a child but I had never read the book, so today I read it, and I loved it, I was doing a search online and I never knew there was a follow up book... Pollyanna Grows Up.

New Series/Author

I will have to checkout this new book/series/author.

Homicide in Hardcover
(The first book in the Bibliophile Mystery series)
(2009)
A novel by
Kate Carlisle




murder is always a bestseller...

first in the new bibliophile mystery series!

The streets of San Francisco would be lined with hardcovers if rare book expert Brooklyn Wainwright had her way. And her mentor wouldn't be lying in a pool of his own blood on the eve of a celebration for his latest book restoration.

With his final breath he leaves Brooklyn a cryptic message, and gives her a priceless - and supposedly cursed - copy of Goethe's Faust for safekeeping.

Brooklyn suddenly finds herself accused of murder and theft, thanks to the humorless - but attractive - British security officer who finds her kneeling over the body. Now she has to read the clues left behind by her mentor if she is going to restore justice.

Laura Childs Scrapbook Series

Tragic Magic
(The seventh book in the Scrapbooking Mysteries series)
(2009)
A novel by
Laura Childs

I have to buy this one!

I really enjoy Monica Ferris Books

Blackwork
(Book 13 in the Needlecraft Mysteries series)
(2009)
A novel by
Monica Ferris

I still need to track down and read her earlier books in this series I have read only the first 3 or 4 (Not sure?) I'll have to check my book journal and see how many I have read?

Finger Lickin' Fifteen By Janet Evanovich

OMG! this book was FANTASTIC! This series never fails to get me laughing and cheer me up, I love this series!

(The second book in the Cackleberry Club Mystery series)

Eggs Benedict Arnold


A novel by
Laura Childs

Another book I can't wait to get my hands on!

I can't wait for this one to come out in Nov 2009

Bookplate Special
(The third book in the Booktown Mystery series)
(2009)
A novel by
Lorna Barrett

Just started reading

Sucker Punch
(The fifth book in the Candy Shop Mystery series)

A novel by
Sammi Carter




Divinity Candy Shop owner Abby Shaw is enjoying her sweet life, until her friend is suspected of killing an actor. Now, Abby is determined to clear her name--before her newfound happiness is totally fudged.

The Diva Takes The Cake

The Diva Takes the Cake
(The second book in the Domestic Diva series)

A novel by
Krista Davis




The Domestic Diva has some wedding advice: Keep the food...lose the groom.

Sophie's sister Hannah is getting married. But when the groom's ex-wife is found hanging from a tree, the Domestic Diva fears her sister is about to wed a killer.


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I will have to see if I can buy this book at Chapters/Indigo Books?

15 Books Share

The rules:
Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.

I would love to know what my fellow book lovers have enjoyed reading in the past!..

1. The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
3.Across The Barricades
4.The Outsiders
5. The Hobbit
6.Little Women
7.The Diary Of Anne Frank
8. Pollyana
9 . The Secret Garden
10.The Diary Of Adrian Mole
11.Wind In The Willows
12.. Peter Pan
13.Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
14. Peter and Wendy
15 Black Beauty.

Finger Lickin' Fifteen By Janet Evanovich

This book is also in transit to the Library for me, so I better get off the computer and get reading!

Sucker Punch

By Sammi Carter

This is the book I have to go pick up at the Library this weekend.

Just stated reading...

By Hook or By Crook By Betty Hechtman.
This is the 3rd book in this Crochet Series, I like this series, it is a fun read , interesting characters and it always keeps you guessing as to who did it? LOL!

The Beach Street Knitting Society And Yarn Club

By Gil Mcneil .
I can't wait to read this book, as I loved her two other books in this series, and apparenty she is working on book number 4 now for this series. :)



SORRY! It's not book number 4 it is just the book Diva's Don't Knit with the U.S.A. Cover and tittle, man I hate when they do that it makes it so confusing.

The Sweetgum Knit Lit Society

By Beth Pattillo. This is a new series I have just started reading I am reading the first book now and I have the next book ready to read as soon as I have finished the first one.
The Sweetgum Knit Lit Society
The Sweetgum Ladies Knit For Love

Patterns In The Sand By Sally Goldenbaum

OMG! What a Great Book! The story line was fantastic, it had me guessing all the way to near the end as to who did it! It had a great twist that really had you not really knowing for sure who did it! I can't wait for the next book in this wonderful series to come out!

I just finished reading..

Dropped Dead Stitch By Maggie Sefton and now I am reading Patterns In The Sand By Sally Goldenbaum

I beter get reading!

I have 3 books all in on hold from the library so I need to get my act together and READ! In fact I need to read one of my own first as one of the books that is in, is the second in a series and I want to read number one first... I guess I will have to stop knitting for a few days so I can get my reading done.

Kate Jacobs

I read the first book in this knitting series...The Friday Night Knitting Club... last year and I loved it, I am now reading the second book in this series.. Knit two... I am not finding it as exciting as the first book but I am enjoying it. I see the Author..Kate Jacobs also has another book out called Comfort Foood ... so I will have to check this out also.

Kate Jacobs