Sunday, December 25, 2011

Books read 2011

My list keeping was lousy but here are the few that I listed.Books Read 2011

The Alpine Vengeance by Mary Daheim
Death of a Chimney Sweep by MC Beaton
Wicked Witch Murder by Leslie Meier
A Pale Horse by Charles Todd
Where Old Bones Lie by Ann Granger
Art of Detection y Laurie R. King
A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters (BA)
Rose in a Storm by Jon Katz
A Lonely Death by Charles Todd
A Season for Murder by Ann Granger

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Books Read 2010

* Foreign Country/ The life of LP Hartley by Adrian Wright****
* Kisser by Stuart Woods ***
* An Expensive Education by Nick McDonell****
* Testament by Alis Hawkins **
* Gilead by Marilynne Robinson ****
* A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg ****
* A Test of Wills by Charles Todd ****1/2

Children's books 2010

* A World of Colors* by National Geographic
* Bad Boys Get Cookie
* Can't Catch Me by John and Ann Hassett
* Children's Book of Art
* Gingerbread Pirates
* Hot Rod Hamster by Cynthia Lord *
* Little Cloud and Lady Wind* by Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison
* Night Lights* by Susan Gal
* The Cajun Cornbread Boy
* The Gingerbread Boy by Richard Egielski
* The Gingerbread Pirates
* There was an Old Lady who swallowed Fly Guy by Tedd Arnold *
* Waiting for Winter by Sebastian Meschenmoser*
* We Little Bunny by Lauren Thompson*
* While the World is sleeping by Pamela Duncan Edwards *

Monday, December 28, 2009

a list for me only/not worth a read

Twlight
Comforts of Home - simple knitted accents by erika knight
The House on Tradd Street by Karen White
Night and Day by Robert B Parker
April
Bad Boys Get Cookie by Margie Palatini
By the Pricking of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

First Lines of Books

1. Bright Futures by Stuart Kaminsky

Twelve hundred years before I drove my dying car into the parking lot of the Dairy Queen on 301 in Sarasota, saber-tooth tigers, mastodons, giant armadillos, and camels roamed what are now the high-end malls that house Saks, Nieman-Marcus, Lord & Taylor and twenty-screen movie theaters.

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Books 2008

Unfortunately I did not write down every book that I read. Will try for better in 2009.

1. The House at Riverton
2 The Scythe by Ray Bradbury - a short story
3. Now and Then by Robert B. Parker
4. Mrs. Daffodil by Gladys Taber
5. Plum Lucky by Janet Evanovich
6. Uniform Justice by Donna Leon
7. Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson
8. Home to Holly Springs by Jan Karon
9. East of the Mountains by David Guterson
10. Late Climbs the Sun by Gladys Taber
11. T is for Trespass
12. Shultz and Peanuts by David Michaelis
13. The War Against Miss Winter by Kathryn Miller Haines
14. Down the Kitchen Sink by Beverley Nichols
15. The Happy Lion by Louise Fatio - childrens
16. Private Demons the Life of Shirley Jackson by Judy Openheimer
17. The Sisters Grimm, the fairy tale detectives by Michael Buckley
18. Death of a Gentle Lady by M C Beaton
19. Mausoleum by Justin Scott
20. Digging to America by Anne Tyler
21. Murder with Reservations by Elaine Viets
22. Stranger in Paradise by Robert B Parker
23. Murder Unleashed by Elaine Viets
24. Mummy Dearest by Joan Hess
25. Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
26. Cockatiels at Seven by Donna Andrews
27. Hounded to Death by Lauren Berenson
28. Six Geese A Slaying by Donna Andrews

Thursday, December 27, 2007

List of Books Read in 2007

From the Ground Up - By Amy Stewart
The Book of Lost Things
Middlesex
Murder With Puffins - By Donna Andrews
Set Sail for Murder - Carolyn Hart
Alpine Scandel by Mary Daheim
A Three Dog Life by Abigail Thomas
A Cup of Tea by Amy Ephron
No Nest for the Wicket by Donna Andrews
Unhinged by Sarah Graves
84 Charing Cross Road
Savannah Blues
Hard Row
The Christmas Jar
Up High in the Trees by Kiara Brinkman
The Virgin Suicides
Revenge of the Wrought Iron Flamingoes
The Thin Man