Book Notes January 4, 2021

 Record cold temperatures can't faze you when you have a cozy chair, a beagle, cocoa, and a perilously wonderful pile of good books to read.

 

New and intriguing science fiction and fantasy from DAW.

More new books, mysteries and suspense from CWA authors.

From CrimeReads, ten new books out this week:

https://crimereads.com/10-new-books-coming-out-this-week-january-3-2022/

 

My potential picks:

Luckenbooth Jenni Fagen

Murder on B Deck Vincent Starrett

The Maid Nita Prose (I'm surprised I don't have this on order yet.  I guess I'm waiting for reviews.)

The Narrow Door Joanne Harris

 

Stop You're Killing Me has a good list of the best Mystery Debut Novels from 2021.  It's impressive how many of these turned up on best of lists everywhere for the year.

www.stopyourekillingme.com/Reviews_Debut_2021.html

 

Book Notes October 25, 2021

 It’s a mystery!

From Murder & Mayhem, thirteen historical mysteries.  An interesting list.

https://murder-mayhem.com/historical-mysteries-thrillers

 

 

Big story, tiny readers.

From CrimeReads, some mysteries set in book stores. Always intriguing.

https://crimereads.com/murder-in-the-stacks-mysteries-that-take-place-in-bookstores 

 

 

T. A. Barron's excellent book series on Merlin is being adapted by Disney.  I hope for good things! I read the series quite awhile ago and enjoyed it.

https://britishperioddramas.com/news/disney-new-merlin-movie-michael-matthews-t-a-barron-novels/ 

 

 

Book Notes October 4, 2021

 Novel Suspects shares the Highest Rated Stephen King Novels "according to Goodreads".  

 https://www.novelsuspects.com/book-list/highest-rated-stephen-king-books-according-to-goodreads/

 

Of the five they list, two would be on my personal favorites list.   The Shining and The Stand.  Neither have been well adapted for film or television, in my opinion.  The novels themselves are great, intense, scary books.

My top five:

Salem's Lot

The Stand

Cujo

The Shining

Pet Sematary

My other favorites:

The collections Different Seasons and Night Shift, The Tommyknockers, It, The Dead Zone, The Dark Half, Doctor Sleep.

Though the list is from 2019, Murder & Mayhems Historical Mystery list has a few novels for me to jot down in my ever growing Consider Reading This List.

https://murder-mayhem.com/historical-mystery-books-set-in-different-decades

 

The Mustaches!

The dire predictions of book shortages and supply line problems goes on.  Rose Levy Beranbaum's The Cookie Bible now has a publication date of fall 2022.  Yikes.

A new blog I added to the Blogroll has a feature where he lists what he plans/hopes to read each month.  Stealing his idea:

Librariandoa's October Books To Read

 King's Cage Victoria Aveyard (already started reading)

Road of Bones by James R Benn

Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie

Credible Threat by J A Jance (Book Group)

The Last Graduate Naomi Novik

Cold Blooded Myrtle by Elizabeth C. Bunce

What's Cooking August 25, 2021

 From the English Kitchen, a set of small batch cookies and bars.  It makes sense to bake in these smaller quantities so your home baked goods are always nice and fresh.

https://www.theenglishkitchen.co/2021/05/small-batch-baking.html

Some of us wake up more slowly in the morning...

Did you know parmesan cheese (Well, the Kraft grated I use mostly) is pretty low calorie?  Yum!

A strange yet sweet character.

I meant to get the ingredients for these Pumpkin Pie Streusel Bars last week. Try try again.

https://chocolatewithgrace.com/pumpkin-streusel-bars/