Mystery/Thriller Reading Friends discussion

Thanks to the eleven of us who posted our top reads: Barry, Sherry, Dawn, Jan O’Cat, Shomeret, Sandi, Ann, Melodie, Susie, Dan and moi . Thanks to the old faithful who keep participating, and welcome to those new to posting your “best of” lists -- the more the merrier! I hope to see more of you take part this year. All it takes is tracking your reads for the year, and Goodreads makes that it easy!

I’m always amazed at the breadth of reading we all do, while maintaining our shared group reads and keeping up with our old favorites. John Sandford seems to keep topping our best author list, so if you haven’t checked him out you really should. A couple of our group reads made the lists -- thanks to those suggesting, those participating, and most of all to Ann for keeping us organized and motivated!

Time to dive into the lists; have at it, and let’s have an even better year of good reads (see what I did there?) in 2019!!

Thank you for doing this Carol! Do you realize how long some of us have been "book buddies"? A looooong time!

Thanks, Carol!! Had to do something to keep yourself occupied today before the big game! ;-)

Thanks Carol! You are a peach to compile the group's lists!

For anyone interested in participating next year you can nominate any number up to the maximum per type -- so if narrowing yours to a top ten is hard or if coming up with ten is harder, your favorite votes will be welcome.

Thanks for all your work Carol. It is always fun to read the final lists.

If you grade your results every month, it makes the end of year decision very easy.
Personally, I like to see grades. If I see somebody who likes the same type of books I do grading something well, there is a good chance I will take a chance and read it,
There are, of course, a few of you I don't trust at all. You know who you are.

Melodie wrote: "Thanks, Carol!! Had to do something to keep yourself occupied today before the big game! ;-)"

You're right, Melodie, it sure did wile away the hours before the game!

Susie wrote: "Thank you for doing this Carol! Do you realize how long some of us have been "book buddies"? A looooong time!"

I know, Susie! Pretty wonderful, isn't it?

Barry wrote: "There are, of course, a few of you I don't trust at all. You know who you are.,..."

Hey, it's not my fault that you don't appreciate literary treasures like God Is a Bullet and Shutter Island!

Great job, Carol. It"'s always interesting to see what others consider "top" reads, authors, series.

Thanks, Dan. I agree. It's also interesting to see where more than one of us agrees on the best!

Actually, I liked both God is a Bullet and Shelter Island.

Me too!!! Lol
Barry wrote: "Actually, I liked both God is a Bullet and Shelter Island."

Susie: A long time and wonderful friends!
Susie wrote: "Thank you for doing this Carol! Do you realize how long some of us have been "book buddies"? A looooong time!"

Barry wrote: "Actually, I liked both God is a Bullet and Shelter Island."
Oh well, I picked the wrong bench. I'm sure we disagree on something...

Add my thanks, Carol, for compiling our lists. It’s fun to read them and remember our year in books. Not to mention, as Susie reminds us, of our many years talking books!

OMalleycat wrote: "Add my thanks, Carol, for compiling our lists. It’s fun to read them and remember our year in books. Not to mention, as Susie reminds us, of our many years talking books!"

Which reminds me, on to the task of teasing you all with our many glossary terms developed over the years!!

thanks for doing this again, carol. always so fun to read the list and see what everyone likes!

Agreed, it is fun! Hope the lists are giving our newer members some ideas!

Hi!

I’m new and cannot figure out how to access lists - like these, and for voting on upcoming group reads. Please help. Thanks.

Mary Connell

Mary wrote: "Hi!

I’m new and cannot figure out how to access lists - like these, and for voting on upcoming group reads. Please help. Thanks.

Mary Connell"

Mary, don't know if you are on the GR web page or using their app, but if you're on the web page go to the top of the page. There should be a hyperlink entitled "Best of Year Read." If you click on that you will get a list of all the topics for the years we've been posting our lists. Click on any one of them to get the list.

There is a separate topic for our group read suggestions. We don't vote so much as ask for ideas and have people weigh in on whether they are likely to read the book. Here's the link for the 2019 ongoing topic.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...