Greetings, my fellow readers!
Can you believe it's almost Thanksgiving???? Wow! Where has the year gone? I am busy reading my 59 book for the year and I'm behind the curve for last year's total. I believe I read 73 or 75 books, but I probably could get busier, huh?
Just read a new author, Meg Gardiner. Great novel, The Dirty Secrets Club! Authors Stephen King, Tess Gerritsen and Jeffery Deaver are raving about her works. I'm going to read her other five books that have recurring character Evan Delaney. I love finding new authors and with that statement I have! Mayhem in the Midlands is on tract and has already found the Host, The Toast Master and an International guest author for next May. So Dana Stabenow is the host and she has written quite a few books with character Kate Shugak. Sixteen to be exact, with the newest one coming out in 2009. Check out her web page www.danastabenow.com and watch her YouTube funny describing all the books in order. I got a deep chuckle out of it and promptly went to the library to grad the first three books in the series. I plan to have plenty under my belt when I get to the Mayhem event.
Yes, Of Course, I'm attending this shindig again! What fun it was last year meeting so many neat and intelligent souls. I had a huge problem not getting out of the rooms that had to do with crime so maybe I can check out a few more seminars. LOL! It's all Alex's fault for inviting the Douglas County Crime Scene team and a Douglas County Prosecutor for the day. I learn tons of great facts and how much fiction is used in the CSI shows. <---------still love them though. Oh who is Alex? Alex Kava an Omaha Native and one of the greatest writers ever! Along with Erica Spindler, Jan Burke, Jeff Abbott, J.A. Konrath, Charlaine Harris, J.T. Ellison and all the rest of the authors I met last May. Seriously, though I'm trying to read a book by each author that attended last year and so far the above mentioned have been tried and LOVED! I would like to get a few more authors read before the next Mayhem because I'm sure several of them will be repeats to this awesome event.
So I am now reading a Michael Connelly book, A Darkness More Than Night and I had just finished Orchid Blues by Stuart Woods. A Holly Barker novel......with only two more to go in that series. In 2009 I will attempt to read all the Will Lee character books by Stuart and I shall be caught up with his writing. I need to also concentrate on the Harry Bosch series, The Reacher series, the Tempe series, the Cross series, the Lincoln series and several more. I love series books! What more can I say?
Christmas will be around the corner and I hope you all think of buying books for your friends and family. They make the best presents ever and on the inside you could put a special poem for that person. Some special coffee beans, a coffee mug or tea mug and of course a new bookmark would just be great for something extra with the book. Not sure what they are reading? Try getting a gift card than.
Well, I my books are calling me and my son is begging to use the computer and you need to do something else besides reading all my ramblings on and on about authors and novels. I hope I have given you a new author to try and if you want more please e-mail me at magentas_85@hotmail.com I do love to get mail!
TTFN my Reading Friends
"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors." ~Henry Ward Beecher
Happy Thanksgiving Thought:
Books had instant replay long before televised sports. ~Bern Williams
