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

Book Notes September 6, 2021

Author Steven Womack writes at CrimeReads of his early critical success writing a series that he's decided to bring back.  It's really interesting. You'd think getting awards for your novels early on would lead to financial success, but apparently it's not a guarantee.

https://crimereads.com/i-stopped-writing-my-series-years-ago-but-something-kept-calling-me-back/

 

 

How nice to have a statue outside of your home, which includes your cat.

Goodreads Most Anticipated YA Books for September:

https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/2153-the-most-anticipated-ya-books-of-september

 

 

Ready for some mysteries within a Mystery?  Murder and Mayhem presents murders that happen while characters are involved in solving other murders or crimes.  I'm glad to see Maureen Johnson's Truly Devious on the list.  In it, a teen working to solve an old murder is suddenly seeing current day murders occur around her, somehow tied to the past.

 https://murder-mayhem.com/meta-mystery-novels

 

 

Fashion Statement

From Novel Suspects, seven novels about the perils of going back home.

https://www.novelsuspects.com/book-list/revisit-the-past/

 

 

Modern Mrs Darcy has sixteen ideas for your mystery reading pleasure she deems "not too dark and gloomy".

https://modernmrsdarcy.com/page-turning-mysteries-hopeful-not-dark-gloomy/

 

I think these Never Have I Ever memes are weird, yet here I have one. There are 15 I have not done, ever.