Cruisin' thru the Cozies Reading Challenge discussion

Hi, all: Saw the challenge and just had to join in! Love reading cozies and have so many in my kindle tbr that I think I can do this. =) Quick question, though: How or where do we keep track of what we've read?

Dagny wrote: "Welcome, Meg! Another at Level 4 too.

You can keep track right here on your thread

Some people also do it on a blog and/or set up a special "shelf" here at Goodreads. I was doing it last year bo..."

Dagny wrote: "Welcome, Meg! Another at Level 4 too.

You can keep track right here on your thread

Some people also do it on a blog and/or set up a special "shelf" here at Goodreads. I was doing it last year bo..."

Thanks Dagny, will start setting things up here after the fun but hectic holidays!

Welcome. Glad you have joined us. Can't wait to see what you read.

Thanks! I'm excited to get going.

Done! Whoo hoo!

Culinary
1. Joanne Fluke - Wedding Cake Murder (Hannah Swensen) ****
2. Connie Shelton - Sweets Galore (Sweet's Sweets) ****

Animal related
1. Sparkle Abbey - Fifty Shades of Greyhound (Pampered Pets) ****
2. Sparkle Abbey - Downton Tabby (Pampered Pets) ****

Craft related (any kind of hobbies)
1. Gin Jones/Elizabeth Ashley - Four-Patch of Trouble (Danger Cove) ***
2. Mary Marks - Forget Me Knot ****

Paranormal (witches, vampires, etc.)
1. Angie Fox - Southern Spirits (Southern Spirits) *****
2. Raven Snow - Shake Your Green Thing (Harper Foxxy Beck) ****

British cozy mysteries
1. Rhys Bowen - Royal Flush (Her Royal Spyness) ****
2.Amanda Quick - The Perfect Poison (Arcane Society) ****

Career-based cozy mystery (housekeeping, wedding planner, etc.)
1. Gemma Halliday - Hollywood Scandals (Hollywood Headlines) ****
2. Julie Moffett No Biz Like Showbiz (Lexi Carmichael) ****

Holiday based
1. Rhys Bowen - The Twelve Clues of Christmas ****
2. Emily Brightwell - Mrs. Jeffries and the Merry Gentlemen ****

Travel mystery
1. Maddy Hunter - From Bad to Wurst (Passport to Peril) ****
2. Maddy Hunter - Bonnie of Evidence *****

Historical mystery
1. T. E. Kinsey - A Quiet Life in the Country (Lady Hardcastle Mystery) ****
2. T. E. Kinsey - In The Market For Murder (Lady Hardcastle Mystery) ****

Your choice (freebie!)
1. Donna Andrews - Lord of the Wings (Meg Langslow) ****
2. Joyce Tremel - To Brew or Not to Brew (Brewing Trouble) ****

Additional 20:
1. Melanie Jackson - Murder by the Book (Chloe Boston) ****
2. Jennifer Marts - Just Another Maniac Monday (Page Turners) ****
3. Connie Shelton - Sweets, Begorra (Sweet's Sweets) ****
4. Paula Boyd - Killer Moves (Jolene Jackson) ****
5. Cindy Blackburn - Five Spot (Paradise Florida Keys) ****
7. Kennedy Chase - Murder in the Mine (Harley Hill) ****
8. Carolyn Dean - Bed, Breakfast and Bones (Ravenwood Cove) ***
9. Deborah Brown - Revenge in Paradise (Paradise Florida Keys) ****
10. Rhys Bowen - Royal Blood (Her Royal Spyness) ****
11. Harper Lin - Cappuccinos, Cupcakes, and a Corpse (Cape Bay Cafe) ****
12. Susan Furlong - Peaches and Scream (Georgia Peach Mystery) ****
13. Laura Levine - Killing Cupid (Jaine Austen Mystery) ****
14. Dawn Eastman - Pall in the Family (A Family Fortune) ****
15. Chelsea Field - Eat, Pray, Die (Eat, Pray, Die) ****
16. Maddie Day - Flipped for Murder ****
17. Karen MacInerney - Murder on the Rocks ****
18. Raven Snow - Murder on the Dance Floor ****
19. Chelsea Field - Poison and Prejudice ****
20. Amanda M. Lee - Landon Calling 3.5* (light on mystery)

Extra reads (with some used for Read the USA or Follow the Clues)
21. Ellen Byron - Body on the Bayou *****
22. Delia James - A Familiar Tail ****
23. Helen Haught Fanick - Moon Signs 3.5*
24. Earlene Fowler - Kansas Troubles (Benni Harper) ****
25. Carolyn G. Hart - Ghost Gone Wild 3.5*
26. Angie Fox - A Ghostly Gift (short story) ****
27. Angie Fox - Ghost of a Chance (short story) ****
28. Raven Snow - Counterfeits and Cauldrons ****
29. Melanie Jackson - The Davenport Caper 3.5*
30. Gemma Halliday - Bond Ambition: a Jamie Bond Mysteries short story ****
31. Mary Nealy - Bury the Lead 3.5*
32. Kathi Daley - Halloween Hijinks ****
33. Wendy Meadows - The Snowman Killer 3.5*
34. Chelsea Field - Taste of Christmas: A Holiday Short Story ****
35. Christina Burke - Pass the Eggnog 3.5*
36. Melody Carlson - The Christmas Bus ****

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Welcome Meg! Hope you have fun with this!

Thanks, I've got lots of books lined up, and am raring to go!

I know, I keep backing off from all sorts of books in my tbr since I won't get 'points' if I read them now. =) I keep reminding myself that there is less than a couple weeks to go. So working my way thru shorter holiday-themed stories instead.

I think we are all ready to start the challenge. There are still some that I'm trying to decide what to read. Guess I don't have to decide that before hand.

I may end up slotting books into the categories as I read them (or when I'm done). It might get too inhibiting to put titles in beforehand, even if we can change them. I usually pull a book out based on my mood at the moment...

I'm so sorry, it seems I've been remiss in posting what I've read! I've just gone merrily along filling in my list above but not saying anything in a post! =\ I'll try to keep up, lol. In the meantime the last two books I read for this challenge are:

10. Rhys Bowen - Royal Blood (Her Royal Spyness)
11. Harper Lin - Cappuccinos, Cupcakes, and a Corpse (Cape Bay)

Dagny wrote: "I'm just now reading a Georgie book! Behind in the series, but ahead of you with #8 Queen of Hearts. Really enjoy this series."

I have my next one downloaded, Naughty in Nice. I need to read a few more for a couple of other challenges before I dare start on it, tho!

Great job Meg! Keep up the good work. I see some books I would like to read from your list.

Reading my first craft-themed book of the year to finish off another challenge - called Basket Case and so far so good.

Added that a couple of weeks ago. I love stories about crafts. Always looking for new projects.

Though there weren't any instructions of projects in this one, there were a couple of recipes, interestingly enough, as food played a big part. However, the talk of crafts were definitely part of the story.

Just finished Peaches and Scream as part of my additional twenty. Very good start to a series. Love the setting of a peach farm.

Have finally started catching up with a series I started from the time it first came out in the early 2000s, the Jaine Austen mysteries. (Not Jane the Regency author but rather Jaine, an L.A. freelance writer -- her mother loved the classics but misspelled her first name!) I just read the 12th in the series, Killing Cupid and it was fun to revisit the main characters, which includes Jaine's sometimes uppity cat, Prozac. Have added it as my 13th additional book.

I hear that's a good series

Meg wrote: "Reading my first craft-themed book of the year to finish off another challenge - called Basket Case and so far so good."

I found that it took too long to get to the murder. I did like the "Silver Six" though.

Oddly I've into that in a couple other books recently.

I liked the Silver Six, too. So nice to see such solid, supportive friendship among such a diverse group.

Finished the first books in three series and really enjoyed them all. I would recommend them:

(paranormal)
(MC has a really different occupation)

=)

I think I just have five more to go! The two holiday books I'll read closer to Christmas; the three "own-choice" ones will be coming soon. I've joined so many challenges (faking myself into thinking that I'm knocking down the fun TBR that I keep adding to!) so have been spreading out my reading. I also aim to read different/unique books for each challenge so it takes a bit to fill in open spots. Totally enjoying it all, tho!

One of my latest reads was Forget Me Knot.

Very good, imo. Quilting theme. It addresses an unpleasant subject matter but I felt the author handled it quite well.

Meg wrote: "One of my latest reads was Forget Me Knot.

Very good, imo. Quilting theme. It addresses an unpleasant subject matter but I felt the author handl..."

Have this one on my TBR. Glad to hear this is good.

Hooray, posted the last of my additional 20, which is also no. 208 in my 250-book 2017 Goodreads Reading Challenge. (Hope that made sense!)

I intended from the start to read and post books for this group challenge that did not get used in other group challenges, so it took awhile to get the 20. =)

Just two more to go for the total 40...have held off reading the holiday-themed books until close to Christmas.

Meg wrote: "Hooray, posted the last of my additional 20, which is also no. 208 in my 250-book 2017 Goodreads Reading Challenge. (Hope that made sense!)

I intended from t..."

Wow, I am so impressed with your 250 book challenge for 2017, and that you're at 208 for the year--way to go!

Thank you, Donna. =) It helps to be retired. LOL. I promised myself eons ago that as soon as I retired that I would read, read, read. It's been so much fun to really dive into my TBR this year!

Thanks, Joanne!

Yay, I've finished! Can't wait until the 2018 challenge.

Meg wrote: "Yay, I've finished! Can't wait until the 2018 challenge."

Congratulations!!! :)

Thank you, Katherine!