Author Topic: Mystery Corner ~ 2 (Read 897589 times)

JoanK · « **Reply #5920 on:** November 16, 2013, 05:24:27 PM »

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JoanK · « **Reply #5921 on:** November 16, 2013, 05:27:08 PM »

If you haven't voted yet, December's book discussion is a mystery short story; either Hercule Poirot or Father Brown. Vote here:

http://seniorlearn.org/forum/index.php?topic=309.1080

ANNIE · « **Reply #5922 on:** November 16, 2013, 09:05:18 PM »

Ellen Crosby does try to interest us in wine making but I thought her stories were pretty good for a cozy. So, I have two more of her books on hold and also two Charles Finch books so I am ready to try a new author also.

Steph · « **Reply #5923 on:** November 17, 2013, 11:49:59 AM »

I feel that Margaret Marons fictional family is as familiar as people in my long ago hometown. We had any number of large farming families, all interrelated.. So I enjoy the antics and remember my growing up.

MaryPage · « **Reply #5924 on:** November 17, 2013, 01:38:50 PM »

I have thoroughly enjoyed every single Judge Knott book by Margaret Maron.

Steph · « **Reply #5925 on:** November 18, 2013, 09:06:48 AM »

yes, I truly do understand and like her family and the town.. Its silly, but I would love to meet Maron and mostly I dont care about the authors, but she writes so knowingly of a life that I lived as a ytoung woman.

MaryPage · « **Reply #5926 on:** November 18, 2013, 03:54:01 PM »

E-mail her, Steph. I did, several years ago, and she emailed me back! Now I am on her fan emailing list, and I get a couple of emails every year.

Steph · « **Reply #5927 on:** November 19, 2013, 08:50:27 AM »

Thanks MaryPage, I will do just that.

pedln · « **Reply #5928 on:** November 27, 2013, 01:22:17 PM »

Margaret Maron, one of my favorites.

hope someday to get to Sea Grove, the setting for her Uncommon Clay, with all the folk art pottery.

have just started Gone Girl. it's supposedly set in my town, and David Fincher a and crew spent six weeks filming here. son and I both claim there are no mansions along the river as the author claims.

happy Thanksgiving to all.

FlaJean · « **Reply #5929 on:** November 28, 2013, 12:24:55 PM »

Happy Thanksgiving!

It is cold here in Florida today and really feels like Thanksgiving.

Steph · « **Reply #5930 on:** November 30, 2013, 08:13:20 AM »

Saturday in Florida and still cool.

MaryPage · « **Reply #5931 on:** November 30, 2013, 10:41:49 AM »

Downright cold here on the Chesapeake Bay.

JoanK · « **Reply #5932 on:** November 30, 2013, 02:28:26 PM »

Had a wonderful thanksgiving. Home from the hospital with all my problems "antibioticed" away (I know it was really the Seniornet chicken soup that did it!).

Long story short, I had an infection that had some scary side effects. I was sent to the hospital and pumped full of every antibiotic known to man. they wouldn't let me go until all my "numbers" were normal. Came home cured, except for some minor problems caused by the hospital stay (my daughter said "I'm getting you out of here before they do anything more to you")

But I'm weak as a kitten from being in bed so long. Probably won't post much for awhile, but I'll be here. I felt all the love coming my way from you all, and I treasure it. Love ya.

FlaJean · « **Reply #5933 on:** November 30, 2013, 02:50:29 PM »

Joank, it's good to know you are home and enjoyed your Thanksgiving. We had a quiet but pleasant Thanksgiving.

mabel1015j · « **Reply #5934 on:** November 30, 2013, 11:13:31 PM »

Hope everything continues to go well, Joan. We'll miss your comments.

Jean

MaryPage · « **Reply #5935 on:** December 01, 2013, 10:52:44 AM »

Aw, Joan. Tough going. Glad you came through that ghastly patch, and hope all will be easy going for you from here til Christmas day in the morning. Upwards and onwards!

maryz · « **Reply #5936 on:** December 01, 2013, 11:23:40 AM »

Glad you're back with us, Joan. Take it easy, and get better.

marjifay · « **Reply #5937 on:** December 01, 2013, 01:18:11 PM »

Cheers, Joan! So happy you are out of the hospital and back with us. Hope you have someone at home to help you. I know how weak one gets from being in bed so long.

Marj

JoanK · « **Reply #5938 on:** December 02, 2013, 02:52:58 PM »

Thanks guys. I have loads of help. There was a moment in the hospital when I didn't have anything to read, but friends rushed into the gap with two new Evonovitches.

I enjoyed Twenty: those of you who don't like Lula wont. it's Lula all the way. There's also a new series. Evanovitch pairs with the guy who writes the Monk series of books. The book is called "The Heist". If you've read the Monk books, you know his style has as much verve as the instructions for assembling something. I didn't finish it.

Steph · « **Reply #5939 on:** December 02, 2013, 09:39:38 PM »

Oh darn, I dislike Lula.. Oh well.

mabel1015j · « **Reply #5940 on:** December 03, 2013, 11:55:42 AM »

I like Lulu, but sometimes she's just toooooo much. But it is fiction and many of my LOL moments came via Lulu. I got the "Bordeaux" mystery of Ellen Crosby yesterday at the library. I read the "Merlot" one and liked it o.k.

I also got The Christmas Quilt. I read it before but thought i'd have another go at it in this season.

Steph · « **Reply #5941 on:** December 03, 2013, 12:57:59 PM »

My bed book just now is "Earthly Delights" by Kerry Greenwood. Love it.. Good writer.

PatH · « **Reply #5942 on:** December 03, 2013, 01:00:15 PM »

Quote from: JoanK on December 02, 2013, 02:52:58 PM

If you've read the Monk books, you know his style has as much verve as the instructions for assembling something.

You gave me my laugh of the day with that one, Joan.

I read Notorious Nineteen on the plane coming home. It seemed a little thin to me, but still had plenty of the good Evanovich touches.

salan · « **Reply #5943 on:** December 03, 2013, 06:55:33 PM »

Steph, I just ordered Earthly Delights. It was free on Kindle.
Sally

Steph · « **Reply #5944 on:** December 04, 2013, 09:04:31 AM »

good. I have been looking for more of her Corinna books.They are on thrift books, but are 12.00 each. Darn..

mabel1015j · « **Reply #5945 on:** December 08, 2013, 01:32:10 PM »

I'm really enjoying my second Ellen Crosby "wine" mystery. This one is Bordeaux Betrayal. A running theme is that one of the wine collectors is supposed to have a bottle of wine that Jefferson gave to Washington - or is it??? How would one know?

Jean

JoanK · « **Reply #5946 on:** December 08, 2013, 03:33:38 PM »

I enjoyed the first one, and have the second one in my queue.

Steph · « **Reply #5947 on:** December 09, 2013, 09:11:09 AM »

Just started my first Longmire book. Craig Johnson can write and hold you.. A darker Tony Hillerman.

maryz · « **Reply #5948 on:** December 09, 2013, 10:22:39 AM »

Steph, you'll enjoy all of them. Have you see the TV series based on the characters? It's good, too. It's on A&E - probably available On Demand or online or elsewhere. It's not currently being shown, but I hope will be back in the spring sometime.

FlaJean · « **Reply #5949 on:** December 09, 2013, 11:32:46 AM »

I watched the Longmire series on Netflix, but they are always running behind the Series on TV.

Steph · « **Reply #5950 on:** December 10, 2013, 08:50:18 AM »

Net Flix.. Aha.. I will check it out there.

JoanK · « **Reply #5951 on:** December 11, 2013, 03:15:55 PM »

I've been catching up on the Miss Zukas series, and enjoying them.

pedln · « **Reply #5952 on:** December 11, 2013, 11:05:06 PM »

Sally, thanks for the info about Earthly Delights. After I saw your post about it being a freebie, I downloaded it to my Kindle

Was it here where you all were talking about Phryne Fisher -- I just finished watching the first disc of four discs. What a fun series! The other discs are all in my Netflix queue. Is this series still ongoing on TV?

MaryPage · « **Reply #5953 on:** December 12, 2013, 06:42:27 AM »

It is an Australian import, and I have not read a word about it, but have just enjoyed. It is fun and perky and I adore the clothes. I will always be looking for it to be listed as an offering on my PBS channels and catch it when it does. If it does.

Steph · « **Reply #5954 on:** December 12, 2013, 09:01:34 AM »

Interesting what does and does not make netflix. I wanted to watch " Harry's Law" and put it in the queu, but it remains as a dont have at the bottom of the page. Darn darn darn.

FlaJean · « **Reply #5955 on:** December 12, 2013, 12:29:58 PM »

There is a second series in the Phryne Fisher series--started showing in Australia in Oct., if I remember correctly. That means months away for showing in US (if PBS buys it) and probably longer if Netflix can pick it up.

JoanK · « **Reply #5956 on:** December 12, 2013, 02:25:34 PM »

Sigh. My local PBS stations don't have it. Maybe next year.

MaryPage · « **Reply #5957 on:** December 13, 2013, 09:24:19 AM »

The list of the best crime novels of 2013 has come out, and here it is:

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

Harvest by Jim Crace

A Man Without Breath by Philip Kerr

The Hired Man by Aminatta Forna

Every Contact Leaves a Trace by Elanor Dymott

The Infatuations by Javier Marias

Visitation Street by Ivy Pochoda

The Uninvited by Liz Jensen

The Andalucian Friend by Alexander Soderberg

Gods and Beasts by Denise Mina

Denise Mina is the only author I know well here. I have heard of Kerr.

I also want to read Empress Dowager Cixi by Jung Chang. Non-fiction. I have read an awful lot about her before, but it is always fascinating and delicious.

Steph · « **Reply #5958 on:** December 13, 2013, 02:36:43 PM »

Finishing the First Longmier.. Author into stoic and pain.. hmm.

FlaJean · « **Reply #5959 on:** December 14, 2013, 11:44:51 AM »

Just got Julia Spencer Fleming's "Through the Evil Days" from the library and realize I've read it. Oh, well, not interesting enough to re-read---means another trip to the library. I used to keep a list but have gotten lazy.

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