Cozy Mysteries discussion

Total books for the year

2023 - 59/200
2022 - 297/200 completed
2021 - 315/200 completed
2020 - 329/200 completed
2019 - 354/200 completed
2018 - 339/100 completed
2017 - 347/100 completed
2016 - 136/100 completed
2015 - 276/100 completed
2014 - 206/100 completed
2013 - 134/100 completed
2012 - 104/100 completed
2011 - 156/100 completed

. 2023 - Read 12 Non-fiction Books 0/12

2023 - Read 100 books set outside the U.S. 24/100

Chile - 1
England - 17
France - 1
Germany - 1
India - 2
Italy - 1
Romania - 1
Scotland - 8

2023 - Read 1 Book of Poetry 0/1

2023 -

.2023 - Read the following books

Basque? Where from? I'm Spanish (from Madrid)

2011 Books Read - January


Susan Wittig Albert
Love Lies Bleeding

Madelyn Alt
The Trouble With Magic

Joan Anderson
A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman

Juliet Blackwell
A Cast-Off Coven

John Vaillant
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

2011 Books Read - February


Madelyn Alt
A Charmed Death
Hex Marks the Spot
No Rest for the Wiccan
Where There's a Witch
A Witch in Time

Yasmine Galenorn
Blood Wyne

Candace Havens
Charmed & Dangerous
Charmed & Ready

Laura Levine
This Pen For Hire

2011 Books Read - March


Jim Butcher
Storm Front
Fool Moon

Lee Child
Killing Floor
Die Trying

Shirley Damsgaard
Charmed to Death

Candace Havens
Charmed & Deadly
Like a Charm

Erin Hunter
Into the Wild
Fire and Ice

Dolores Stewart Riccio
Charmed Circle
Divine Circle Of Ladies Making Mischief

2011 Books Read - April


Agatha Christie
Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories

Patricia Harwin
Arson and Old Lace

Erin Hunter
Forest of Secrets
Rising Storm
A Dangerous Path
The Darkest Hour

Alice Kimberly
The Ghost and Mrs. McClure

Lisa Lee
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Maggie Shayne
Eternity
The Gingerbread Man

2011 Books Read - May


Arthur Golden
Memoirs of a Geisha

James Patterson
Honeymoon
Lifeguard

Carol Lynn Stewart
Door in the Sky

Amy Tan
The Bonesetter's Daughter
The Kitchen God's Wife

2011 Books Read - June


Steve Berry
The Amber Room

Juliet Blackwell
Hexes and Hemlines

Rick Carroll
Hawaii's Best Spooky Tales: The Original

Victoria Heckman
KO'd in Honolulu

Frances Mayes
Under the Tuscan Sun

Daniel Silva
The Rembrandt Affair

2011 Books Read - July


Carlos Andrade
Haena: Through the Eyes of the Ancestors

Lilian Jackson Braun
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern
The Cat Who Turned on and Off

Lowell Charters
Thunderheart

Mary Higgins Clark
The Second Time Around

Michael Crichton
Disclosure
A Case of Need

Diane Mott Davidson
Catering to Nobody
Dying for Chocolate
The Cereal Murders
The Last Suppers

Janet Evanovich
Sizzling Sixteen

Helen Fielding
Bridget Jones's Diary

Yasmine Galenorn
Night Veil

Caren Loebel-Fried
Hawaiian Legends of Dreams

G.M. Maillet
Death of a Cozy Writer: A St. Just Mystery

Martha Noyes
Then There Were None

James Patterson
The Midnight Club
Along Came a Spider
Jack & Jill
See How They Run

Nora Roberts
Blood Brothers

Tim Winton
Blueback: A Contemporary Fable

@ Marisa - Hi, my Basque ancestors come mostly from Vizcaya and also above the border around Soule, France.

What a list or lists. I'm impressed. May show this to my book club!!

Nice place! Very green, a lot of sea and very, very good food! ;)

@Elizabeth - Thanks! I got most of my challenge ideas from other members of this group.

@Marisa - I haven't been exactly where my family came from. I've been to Torrejon AFB right outside Madrid, and I've been to Paris, but never to the Basque Country...yet!

Did you know you can also setup your yearly reads as bookshelves? I've done this as it makes it easy to keep track of the books I've read by year and you can keep track of them by the month within that shelf by using a date finished for classification. I've got all mine here on Goodreads. The yearly shelves start with 2003 as that's when I started tracking my books by year and anything before that is on a "pre 2003" shelf. You can actually setup all kinds of shelves!

Oh, wow. That sounds like it would keep me better organized!

@Naomi, have you been at Torrejón? I was there last night with some friends of mine (one of them lives there) watching at a show with fonts, music and light at a new park :D

@Marisa - I was only there for a few days, we were trying to get back to the States from Iran during the revolution. Our plane landed at Torrejon, and it took a couple of days to get another flight out.

@Naomi, sorry you had those problems.

Thanks, Kari :)

2011 Books Read - August


Cornwell, Patricia
Postmortem
All That Remains

Davidson, Diane Mott
Killer Pancake
The Main Corpse
The Grilling Season
Prime Cut
Tough Cookie
Sticks & Scones
Chopping Spree

Evanovich, Janet
Wicked Appetite

Koontz, Dean
The Face

Leigh, Lora
Dangerous Games

Malone, Nancy M.
Walking a Literary Labyrinth: A Spirituality of Reading

Patterson, James
Violets Are Blue (Alex Cross, #7)
2nd Chance
3rd Degree
4th of July
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
Cat & Mouse

Shayne, Maggie
Infinity
Destiny

Townsend, Kari Lee
Tempest in the Tea Leaves

Naomi wrote: "Oh, wow. That sounds like it would keep me better organized!"

Have you had at chance to look at the bookshelves? It's a much easier place & way to keep track of your books there and you also have a running total for the year there.

2011 Books Read - September


Allen, Sarah Addison
Garden Spells

Christie, Agatha
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Murder on the Links

Davidson, Diane Mott
Double Shot
Dark Tort
Sweet Revenge
Fatally Flaky

Greenway, Alice
White Ghost Girls

MacInerney, Karen
Murder on the Rocks

O'Brien, Edna
A Pagan Place

Radclyffe
When Dreams Tremble

Stamps, Laura
The Witches of Dixie

Swendson, Shanna
Enchanted, Inc.

Wesselman, Hank (Henry Barnard Wesselman)
Spiritwalker: Messages from the Future

2011 Books Read - October


Alt, Madelyn
Home for a Spell

Blackwell, Juliet
If Walls Could Talk

Blair, Annette
Larcency and Lace
Death by Diamonds
Skirting the Grave

Childs, Laura
The Teaberry Strangler
Scones & Bones

Christie, Agatha
Poirot Investigates: Eleven Complete Mysteries
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Dams, Jeanne M.
A Dark and Stormy Night

Davidson, Diane Mott
Crunch Time

de Lint, Charles
Moonheart

Evanovich, Janet
Smokin' Seventeen

Fluke, Joanne
Cream Puff Murder
Plum Pudding Murder
Apple Turnover Murder
Devil's Food Cake Murder

Grafton, Sue
T is for Trespass

Hunter, Maddy
Hula Done It?
G'Day to Die
Norway to Hide

Lewis, Matthew Gregory
The Monk

Michaels, Fern
Sugar and Spice

Myers, Tim
Innkeeping with Murder

Starbird, Margaret
The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail

NaNoWriMo starts in 6 minutes, and this is the first time I'm attempting it, so I don't know how much reading I'll get done in November. Hopefully some!

2011 Books Read - November


Andrews, Ilona (Yasmine Galenorn, etc.)
Hexed

Damsgaard, Shirley
The Trouble With Witches
Witch Hunt
The Witch Is Dead
The Witch's Grave
The Seventh Witch

Evanovich, Janet
Explosive Eighteen

Galenorn, Yasmine
Courting Darkness

Royal, Brandon
The Little Red Writing Book: 20 Powerful Principles of Structure, Style, & Readability

Staub, Wendy Corsi
Awakening
Believing
Connecting
Discovering

I've completed the 2011 NaNoWriMo Challenge, and even though my novel still needs a lot of work, I have more time to read again (YAY!) I've actually done better than I thought I would this month. I only need to read 10 more books to meet my yearly goal of 150. :)

2011 Books Read - December


Adams, Ellery
A Killer Plot
A Deadly Cliché
The Last Word

Alderman, P.J.
Haunting Jordan
Ghost Ship

Balzo, Susan
Uncommon Grounds

Coyle, Cleo
On What Grounds

Grafton, Sue
V is for Vengeance

Kaelin, Lauren & Fraioli, Sophia
When Parents Text: So Much Said...So Little Understood

Lafayllve, Patricia M.
Freyja, Lady, Vanadis: An Introduction to the Goddess

Challenges reset for 2012. Had a great reading year last year and hope to meet or surpass it this year!

Happy reading!

2012 Books Read - January


Chittenden, Meg
Snap Shot

de Lint, Charles
Spiritwalk
The Harp of the Grey Rose

Waters, Sarah
Fingersmith

Feb 2012 Mini-challenge 5/5 DONE


Feb 13 - Murder is Binding

Feb 2 - It Takes a Witch

Feb 14 - Casting Spells

Feb 29 - Double-Booked for Death

February is An Affair to Remember Month Shaded Vision

BONUS: Watched An Affair to Remember...cried!

2012 Books Read - February


Barrett, Lorna
Murder is Binding

Blackwell, Juliet
Dead Bolt

Blake, Heather
It Takes a Witch

Brandon, Ali
Double-Booked for Death

Bretton, Barbara
Casting Spells

Childs, Laura
Keepsake Crimes

Galenorn, Yasmine
Shaded Vision

Herr, Michael A.
The Bones of the Kuhina Nui

Hunter, Maddy
Dutch Me Deadly

Cozy Theme Challenge - 2012 10/10 DONE


Duration: Starts Feb 16th - July 31st (Started 2/17, finished 3/24)

#1 British - English - The Big Four

#2 Historical/Period - The Alehouse Murders

#3 Animals - Murder Past Due

#4 Culinary/Cooking - Cinnamon Roll Murder

#5 Paranormal - Dead Bolt

#6 Vacation Mysteries/Exotic Locations - Dutch Me Deadly

#7 Holidays - Christmas Cookie Murder

#8 Hobbies - Keepsake Crimes

#9 Professions/Careers/Jobs/Occupations - The Pot Thief Who Studied Pythagoras

#10 Senior Sleuths - They Do It With Mirrors

Mar 2012 Mini-challenge 5/5 - DONE


March is National Craft Month - A Crafty Killing

March 2 - Old Stuff Day -The Big Four

Mar 3 - If Pets Had Thumbs Day - Classified as Murder

March 10 - Middle Name Pride Day - Darkness on the Edge of Town

March 12 - Plant a Flower Day - The Walled Flower

2012 Books Read - March


Ash, Maureen
The Alehouse Murders

Bartlett, Lorraine
A Crafty Killing
The Walled Flower

Black, J. Carson
Darkness on the Edge of Town

Childs, Laura
Eggs Benedict Arnold

Christie, Agatha
They Do It With Mirrors
The Big Four

Fluke Joanne
Cinnamon Roll Murder

James, Miranda
Murder Past Due
Classified as Murder

Le Guin, Ursula K.
Catwings
Catwings Return
Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings: A Catwings Tale
Jane on Her Own: A Catwings Tale

McBride, Karyl
Will I Ever Be Good Enough?: Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers

Meier, Leslie
Christmas Cookie Murder

Orenduff, J. Michael
The Pot Thief Who Studied Pythagoras

Apr 2012 Mini-challenge 2/2 DONE


April 1st - April Fool's Day - Spying in High Heels

April 15th - 100th Anniversary of Titanic's sinking. Bonus: Depth of Deception

2012 Books Read - April



Beaton, M.C.
The Quiche of Death

Bretton, Barbara
Laced with Magic

Brink, Barbara Ellen
Entangled
Crushed

Claire, Edie
Never Buried

Copperman, E.J.
An Uninvited Ghost

Cornwell, Patricia
Body of Evidence

Dees, Marie
Tea and Witchery

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
A Study in Scarlet

Fenech, Karen
Unholy Angels

Galant, Alexander
Depth of Deception

Groundwater, Beth
Deadly Currents

Halliday - Gemma
Spying in High Heels

Hughes, Mary Ellen
Resort To Murder

Jaffarian, Sue Ann
Ghost a la Mode
Ghost in the Polka Dot Bikini
Too Big to Miss

McClendon, Lise
Painted Truth: An Alix Thorssen Mystery

McCourtney, Lorena
Invisible

Robertson, Michael
The Baker Street Letters

Ruiz, Don Miguel
Prayers: A Communion with Our Creator

Smith, Alexander McCall
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

May 2012 Mini-challenge 2/5 - FAIL


May 4 - Renewal Day - Wild Mary: The Life of Mary Wesley

May 11 - Twilight Zone Day - Ghost Hunt: Chilling Tales of the Search for the Unknown

May 16 - Wear Purple for Peace Day - Read a book with the color purple somewhere on the cover.

May is Older Americans Month - Read a book with a main character that is 55 or older.

May 29 - Briansgirl's Birthday! - Click on me and read any book off any of my shelves. Seeing as I have 591 mysteries and a total of 5,739 books on my GRs shelves, I'm sure you can find something you'd like to read.

Rats, ran out of time this month.

2012 Books Read - May


I might as well post this, even though there are still a few days left in the month. With Camp NaNo 2012 starting on Friday, I've been spending the last couple of weeks in preparation and plotting. The only reading I've done are the non-fiction books on the craft of writing.

Balzo, Sandra
Grounds for Murder

Baty, Chris
Ready, Set, Novel!: A Workbook
No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days

Bell, James Scott
The Art of War for Writers

Childs, Laura
Agony of the Leaves

Gifford, Lazette
NaNoWriMo for the New and the Insane (an e-book)

Hawes, Jason
Ghost Hunt: Chilling Tales of the Search for the Unknown

Marnham, Patrick
Wild Mary: The Life of Mary Wesley

Wesley, Mary
Not That Sort of Girl

2012 Books Read - June


Had a short reading month, since I was concentrating on Camp NaNo (which I won!). The next two month will probably be short also, as I'll be spending July rewriting and plotting, and August will be busy with Camp NaNo again.

Dereske, Jo
Savage Cut

Dullemond, Tom
The Complete Guide to Writing Fantasy: Volume One

George, Anne
Murder on a Girls' Night Out

Morris, Tee
The Fantasy Writer's Companion

2012 Books Read - July


Brown, Renni & King, Dave
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print

Exum, Wallace L.
Murder at Hogan's Corner

Harris, Charlaine
Real Murders
Shakespeare's Landlord

Kimberly, Alice
The Ghost and the Dead Deb

O'Connell, Glenys
Naked Writing

Pickard, Nancy
The Virgin of Small Plains

Richards, Emilie
Blessed Is The Busybody

Stabenow, Dana
Wiley's Lament: A Novel

2012 Books Read - August


Alderman, P.J.
A Killing Tide

Arlington, Lucy
Buried in a Book

Blair, Annette
Cloaked in Malice

Freethy, Barbara
All She Ever Wanted

Galenorn, Yasmine
Night Seeker

Lavene, Joyce
Wicked Weaves

Waiwaiole, Lono
Wiley's Lament: A Novel

I can get back to reading now! Camp NaNo June and August are finished, and I won both months, so I'm 3 for 3 in NaNo events. Can't wait until November's NaNo. In the meantime, I'm going to try to get caught up on my reading. Not sure if I'll make my goal for the year, but I'll try!

September 2012 Mini-challenge 5/5 DONE


Sept 2 - National Beheading Day - Cruel and Unusual

Sept 6 - Fight Procrastination Day - The Secret Adversary

Sept 11 - No News is Good News Day - Peril at End House

Sept 19 - International Talk Like A Pirate Day - Aargh! I've read The Girl Who Came Home: A Titanic Novel

Sept 28 - Ask a Stupid Question Day - Wicked Business

2012 Books Read - September



Allen, Sarah Addison
The Peach Keeper

Allison, Dorothy
Dorothy Allison: A Psychic Story

Andrews, Ilona
Magic Bites

Arthur, Keri
Darkness Unbound

Ashley, Jennifer
Pride Mates

Atherton, Nancy
Aunt Dimity's Death

Blackwell, Juliet
In a Witch's Wardrobe

Childs, Laura
Bedeviled Eggs

Christie, Agatha
The Secret Adversary
Peril at End House

Cornwell, Patricia
Cruel and Unusual
The Body Farm

Dams, Jeanne M.
The Evil that Men Do

Evanovich, Janet
Wicked Business

Gaynor, Hazel
The Girl Who Came Home: A Titanic Novel

Stockett, Kathryn
The Help

October 2012 - Mini-challenge 2/5


Breast Cancer Awareness Month - Read a book that has the color pink on the cover.

Computer Learning Month - Read an ebook. There are many sites where you can get some ebook novella's free, or older books out of copyright. Authors sometimes give away a short ebook novella on their official websites. Library's are now offering ebooks that you can check out and download to your ereaders for two weeks. If you don't have an ereader, you can read ebooks on your computer. (I know not everyone will be able to do this one, but it's good to try new things now and then.)

Oct 11 - Teddy Bear: A Short Story

Oct 13 - International Skeptics Day - Give a book another try. Try to finish a book you put down and didn't finish, or give an author another try if you didn't like one of their previous works.

Oct 27 - Veiled Eyes