Off-Topic Fall Reading

[difit]

It's hard to believe summer is over. I hope everybody had a great summer and gotten to read some great books. I thought I start a new thread for the fall reading.

Here are some September new releases:

2nd
Eyes Only (Sisterhood, book 24)-Firm Michaels
Phantom Limb (Daniel Rinaldi Mystery, book 4)- Dennis Palumbo
Tomorrow's Vengeance (Hannah Ives, book 13)- Marcia Talley
Hit and Run (Main Street Murders, book 3)- Sandra Balzo
The Darling Dahlias and the Silver Dollar Bush (Darling Dahlias, book 5)-Susan Witting Albert
Personal (Jack Reacher, book 19)- Lee Child
The Wolfe Widow (Book Collector Mystery)-Victoria Abbott
Night of the White Buffalo (Wind River Reservation mystery, book 18)-Margaret Coel
Haunted (Bishop: Special Crimes Unit, book 3)-Kay Hooper
The Drop-Dennis Lehane
Death Is Like a Box of Chocolates (Chocolate Covered Mystery, book 1)-Kathy Aarons
The Skeleton Takes a Bow (Family Skeleton Mystery, book 2)-Leigh Perry
Murder of a Needled Knitter (Scumble River, book 17)-Denise Swanson
Marked Down for Murder (Good Buy Girls, book 4)-Josie Belle
Nightmares Can Be Murder (Dream Club Mystery, book 1)-Mary Kennedy
Rebel Without a Cake (Piece of Cake Mystery, book 5)-Jacklyn Brady
The Twelfth Night Murder (Restoration Mystery, book 3)-Anne Rutherford
To Fudge or Not to Fudge (Candy-Coated Mystery, book 2)-Nancy Coco
Vampires, Bones and Treacle Scones (Liss MacCrimmon Mystery, book 7)- Kaitlyn Dunnett
Fat Cat At Large (Fat Cat Mystery, book 1)-Janet Cantrell
Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good (Mitford, book 10)-Jan Karon
Son of No One (Dark-Hunter, book 25)-Sherrilyn Kenyon
Angels Walking (Angels Walking, book 1)-Karen Kingsbury
One Night More (US Marshals, book 1)-Mandy Baxter
Groomed For Murder (Pet Boutique Mystery, book 2)-Annie Knox
All's Fair in Love and Cupcakes- Betsy St Amant
The Sweetheart Secret (Sweetheart Sisters, book 3)-Shirley Jump
The Wedding Soup Murder (Italian Kitchen Mystery, book 2)-Rosie Genova
Midnight Betrayal (Midnight, book 3)-Melinda Leigh

9th
Found (Mickey Bolitar, book 3)-Harlan Coben
Of Merlot & Murder (Tangled Vines Mystery, book 2)-Joni Folger
The Homecoming (Thunder Point, book 6)-Robyn Carr
Five Days Left- Julie Lawson Timmer
Hanging By A Hair (Bad Hair Day, book 11)- Nancy J Cohen
Dying for Love (Slaughter Creek, book 5)-Rita Herron

16th
The Blood of an Englishman (Agatha Raisin, book 25)-M.C Beaton
Raging Heat (Nikki Heat, book 6)-Richard Castle

23rd
To Dwell in Darkness (Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James, book 16)-Deborah Crombie
Bones Never Lie (Temperance Brennan, book 17)-Kathy Reiches
Shattered Secrets (Cold Creek, book 1)-Karen Harper
Embellished to Death (Faith Hunter Scrap This Mystery, book 3)- Christina Freeburn
Rooms- Lauren Oliver

30th
French Pastry Murder (Lucy Stone, book 21)-Leslie Meier
The Perfect Witness-Iris Johansen
Wicked Ways (Colony, book 6)-Nancy Bush & Lisa Jackson
Murder at Marble House (Gilded Newport Mystery, book 2)-Alyssa Maxwell
Literally Murder (Black Cat Bookshop Mystery, book 4)-Ali Brandon
The Lost Key (Brit in the FBI, book 2)- Catherine Coulter and J T Ellison
Jagged (Colorado Mountain, book 5)- Kristen Ashley
Stirring the Plot (Cookbook Nook Mystery, book 3)- Daryl Wood Gerber
Going Gone (Forces of Nature, book 3)-Sharon Sala
Gentlemen Prefer Curves (Perfect Fit, book 3)-Sugar Jamison
Innocent Prey (Brown and De Luca, book 3)-Maggie Shayne

[sherry7899]

Thank you for posting the release list! I really appreciate it.

Sherry

[Erica H.]

I have been reading too many dark books lately and need something lighter.

Right now I am reading, "An Untamed State" about a woman in Haiti who was kidnapped for ransom. It is very graphic and brutal. I'm not crazy about the writing, but the story does have me hooked. But the brutality is getting to me.

Just finished "Nordie's at Noon" which was written by four women who were diagnosed with breast cancer in their twenties and what they went through. Don't want to say too much about it, but this book broke my heart.

Also read "Ten Days in a Mad-House" which is an expose written in the late 1800s by a woman who pretended to be insane to be committed to a public mental institution. Very interesting and sad/scary.

Last time I checked in here, I was reading "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea." I finished that and found it very interesting. I knew nothing about North Korea before I read the book so I feel like I learned a lot. The next book I am going to read is "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" and I'm looking forward to learning more about the area. But I really need something lighter to read after that.

Erica

[toaster]

Hard to believe it's time for the fall reading thread already!

I haven't started a new book since I finished my vacation book last week, Breakfast with Buddha. Before vacation, I was reading the Fannie Flagg book Standing in the Rainbow. I do need to finish that one, but it's been kind of a slog b/c it's sort of all over the place--more of a collection of anecdotes than a true novel.

[topfitmama]

I just read Maeve Binchy's Week In Winter. I loved it. I'm waiting on Eat, Pray, Love and David Nicholls' One Day. Then I want to try something by Jojo Moyes. I discovered Marian Keyes this summer.

Right now I'm reading two non-fiction books: Boundaries in Marriage and Tired of Trying To Measure Up.

[Fit Gal]

I'm reading A Vision in Velvet by Juliet Blackwell from her witchcraft mystery series (I like this series a lot better than her haunted house series for some reason.)

Next will be Ghost of a Gamble by Sue Ann Jaffarian from her Ghost of Granny Apples mystery series.

I forgot to keep track of series I enjoy and was lucky to spot these at the library.

[difit]

DANGEROUS DESTINY, a e-short prequel to NIGHT SKY series is available for FREE for limited time, if you want to try out the series.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...RES4KXB5UACSWW

It's YA paranormal series written by Suzanne Brockmann with her daughter Melanie Brockmann thats coming out in October called Night Sky.

[Fit Gal]

Originally Posted by difit

DANGEROUS DESTINY, a e-short prequel to NIGHT SKY series is available for FREE for limited time, if you want to try out the series.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...RES4KXB5UACSWW

It's YA paranormal series written by Suzanne Brockmann with her daughter Melanie Brockmann thats coming out in October called Night Sky.

Thanks!

[BunnyHop]

I'm forcing my way through The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis, and honestly? It's put me in a bad mood!

A few simple bits of knowledge need to be shared in order to solve a problem, but will anyone ever just spit out the words? Stop talking about other stuff in order to let the important stuff make its way into the conversation? Noooo.
Dithering, delirium, arguing, broken phones, miscommunication, blithe indifference. Argh.

On the other hand, the basic idea of the story is really compelling.
(At some point in the future, historians can travel back in time to observe the past. A young woman gets sent back into the 1300s, and well, chaos reigns, bureaucrats bluster, people don't listen, past and present.)

I'm forcing my way through the book because I do want to know how it turns out, but wow, this is not helping my mood.

[donnamp]

Hi,

I just finished Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh - I recommend if you like family stories that ring true - no happy endings, life is bittersweet. It takes place in a PA mining town (Bakerton) and follows the Novak family from WWII through the 60's. There is a "sequel" of sorts - News from Heaven - which is a collection of short stories about the Bakerton characters.

Donna