Books Read in October 2011

Alt, Madelyn

- Home for a Spell 

Blackwell, Juliet

- If Walls Could Talk 

Blair, Annette

- Larceny and Lace

- Death by Diamonds 

- Skirting the Grave 

Childs, Laura

- The Teaberry Strangler 

- Scones & Bones 

Christie, Agatha

- Poirot Investigates 

- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 

Dams, Jeanne M.

- A Dark & Stormy Night 

Davidson, Diane Mott

- Crunch Time

de Lint, Charles

- Moonheart 

Evanovich, Janet

- Smokin’ Seventeen 

Fluke, Joanne

- Cream Puff Murder 

- Plum Pudding Murder 

- Apple Turnover Murder 

- Devil’s Food Cake Murder

Grafton, Sue

- T is for Trespass 

Hunter, Maddy

- Hula Done It

- G’day to Die

- Norway to Hide 

Lewis, Matthew Gregory

- The Monk 

Micheals, Fern; Barton, Beverly; Fluke Joanne; Jump, Shirley

- Sugar and Spice 

Myers, Tim

- Innkeeping with Murder 

Starbird, Margaret

- The Woman with the Alabaster Jar

Holy cow!

I'm actually going to do NaNoWriMo this year!!!!!!!!!!!!

Books Read in September 2011

Allen, Sarah Addison

- Garden Spells 

Fiction.  Story of two sisters who followed very different paths in life, only to have them reunite as they grow as adults and as sisters.  Two sisters, a girl, and a temperamental apple tree.  Very magical.

Christie, Agatha

- The Mysterious Affair at Styles 

- Murder on the Links 

- Poirot Investigates 

Fiction.  The first three Hercule Poirot mysteries.

Davidson, Diane Mott

- Double Shot 

- Dark Tort 

- Sweet Revenge

- Fatally Flaky 

Fiction.   Books 12-15 of the Goldy Culinary mystery series.

Greenway, Alice

- White Ghost Girls 

Fiction.  Story of two  American sisters who grow up in Hong Kong during the Vietnam War.  Surprise ending.

MacInerney, Karen

- Murder on the Rocks 

Fiction. First book in the Gray Whale Inn mysteries set in Maine.  Natalie Barnes starts life over as an innkeeper and finds her livelihood in danger from a greedy land developer.

O’Brien, Edna

- A Pagan Place 

Fiction. Story of a young Irish girl's life in the early 1900's Ireland.

Radclyffe

- When Dreams Tremble 

Fiction. Lesbian love story of young love, loss, growth, and renewal.

Stamps, Laura 

- The Witches of Dixie 

Fiction. Book 1 in the Witchery trilogy.  Paranormal tale of four southern bell witches.

Swendson, Shanna

-  Enchanted, Inc.

Fiction. Book 1 in the Katie Chandler paranormal comedy treat.  Very light and magical.

Wesselman, Hank

- Spiritwalker: Messages from the Future

Non-fiction. Anthropologist Hank Wesselman's account of a series of visions he has while living on the Kona coast.  Written like a fictional story, I had to keep reminding myself that these were his true visions.

Books Read in August 2011

Cornwell, Patricia

- Postmortem 

- All That Remains 

Fiction, books one and three in the Kay Scarpetta medical examiner mystery series.

Davidson, Diane Mott

- Killer Pancake 

- The Main Corpse 

- The Grilling Season 

- Prime Cut 

- Tough Cookie 

- Sticks & Scones 

- Chopping Spree

Fiction, books five through eleven in the Goldy Culinary mystery series based in Colorado.

Evanovich, Janet

- Wicked Appetite 

Fiction, first in the new funny and hunky Diesel mystery series.

Koontz, Dean

- The Face 

Fiction, creepy tale surrounding the son of a world famous actor, whose only protectors are the head of security on his father's staff, and the newly dead friend of the security chief.

Leigh, Lora

- Dangerous Games 

Fiction, steamy tale about a Navy SEAL's relationship with a DEA agent he's known all his life, and their assignment to end a reign of terror by a Colombian drug cartel.

Malone, Nancy M.

- Walking a Literary Labyrinth: A Spirituality of Reading 

Non-fiction, the relationship between a recovering alcoholic Ursuline nun and her love of books and reading.

Patterson, James

- Violets are Blue 

- 2nd Chance 

- 3rd Degree 

- 4th of July 

- Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas 

- Cat & Mouse 

Fiction, books four and seven of the Alex Cross series, books two through four of the Women's Murder Club series, and a wonderfully romantic novel of love, loss and second chances.

Shayne, Maggie

- Infinity 

- Destiny

Fiction, books two and three of the Immortal Witch series of three related couples of High Witches battling Dark Witches.

Townsend, Kari Lee

- Tempest in the Tea Leaves
Fiction, cozy about an immature tea leaf reader who moves to a small town and begins to solve mysteries.

Notes on Walking a Literary Labyrinth: A Spirituality of Reading

By Nancy M. Malone.


"While the line of print in a novel, for instance, proceeds mostly in unbroken fashion from one margin of the page to the other, and plot and character development drive us forward until we reach a sense of wholeness at its end, to read a poem well we must go slowly, attend more carefully to all its elements.  Line breaks and their meaning arrest us.  Our innate sense of rhythm and, in some poems, our appetite for rhyme, though less robust in us than in readers of the past, are fully satisfied.  Above all, we must savor the words themselves for their full import, their sound and resonances, their relationship to other words in the line, the poem."


"...reading is a keenly personal act...reads a book against the template of his own personality, experience, tastes, and dispositions at the moment, so that in a very real way each reader is the co-creator of the work being read; it is not a one-sided affair."

"Accept" rather than "tolerate", Quotations

I don't like the word "tolerate".  It sounds like you're saying that there's something wrong with someone, but you're okay with them in spite of their faults.


I much prefer the word "acceptance".  You accept that there are differences between people, but you don't think of them as faults.


Here are some of my favorite quotes:


"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." ~ Albus Dumbledore


"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." ~ Immanuel Kant


"Be open to the possibilities!"


"Real men aren't bullies."


"People may forget what you said, forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel."


"Not all the law, Inspector, is written in books."


"How you treat me is your karma, how I react is mine."


"If you spend too much time thinking about the future, you aren't living your life."


"Be the change you want to see in the world."


"The path to fearless living goes straight through the roadblocks, not around them."


"An ending doesn't have to be said.  It's the only way to begin something new."


“Tears are words the heart can't express” ~ Unknown


"For Creativity to thrive, it needs a place to call home."


"A true outlaw finds the balance between the passion in his heart and the reason in his mind. The outcome is the balance of might and right." ~ John Teller


"The message is that there are known "knowns."  There are things we know that we know.  There are known unknowns.  That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know.  But there are also unknown unknowns.  There are things we do not know we don't know."
~ Donald Rumsfeld.

Books Read in July 2011

Andrade, Carlos
- Ha’ena: Through the Eyes of the Ancestors
Non-fiction, about the Ha'ena area of northern Kaua'i.

Braun, Lilian Jackson
- The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
- The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern
- The Cat Who Turned On and Off
Fiction, first three cozy mysteries in the Cat Who series starring a newspaper reporter and his cats.

Charters, Lowell
- Thunderheart
Fiction, half-native FBI agent is assigned to solve the murder of a Native American man on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota.  Great movie starring Val Kilmer and Graham Greene.

Clark, Mary Higgins
- The Second Time Around
Fiction, financial correspondent is assigned to report on a murder case of a prominent cancer researcher.

Crichton, Michael
- Disclosure
- A Case of Need
Fiction, mystery revolving around a Seattle company merger and a sexual harrassment case, movie starring Michael Douglas and Demi Moore; medical mystery.

Davidson, Diane Mott
- Catering to Nobody
- Dying for Chocolate
- The Cereal Murders
- The Last Suppers
Fiction, first four books in the Goldy Culinary cozy mystery series with recipes.

Evanovich, Janet
- Sizzling Sixteen
Fiction, sixteenth book in the very funny Stephanie Plum bounty hunter cozy mystery series.

Fielding, Helen
- Bridget Jones’s Diary
Fiction, diary of a year in a woman's life, movie starring Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, and Hugh Grant.

Galenorn, Yasmine
- Night Veil
Fiction, second book in the Indigo Court paranormal urban fantasy series (great series, as are all of her books!)

Loebel-Fried, Caren
- Hawaiian Legends of Dreams
Non-fiction, book of Hawaiian legends that involve dreams, along with narrative explaining the Hawaiian deep connection with dreams.

Maillet, G. M.
- Death of a Cozy Writer
Fiction, first book in the St. Just English cozy mystery about a lord of the manor and his offspring.

Noyes, Martha
- Then There Were None
Non-fiction, chronicles the effect of non-natives on the Hawaiian people, very informative, short book, documentary movie by the same name.

Patterson, James
- The Midnight Club
- Along Came a Spider
- Jack and Jill
- See How They Run
Fiction, first four books in the Alex Cross mystery series, dark and very intricate.

Roberts, Nora
- Blood Brothers
Fiction, first book in the Sign of Seven paranormal trilogy involving three young boys who become men, the women in their lives, and the terrible force they have to fight.

Winton, Tim
- Blueback
Fiction, charming tale about an Australian woman and her son living off the ocean.