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Wednesday, March 12, 2025

March Reads - First half

I checked off   prompts this month for the 52 Books Reading Challenge. My favorite genres continues to be  Cozy Mysteries, Historical Mysteries and Detective Mysteries.

Prompt: I think it was blue (referring to the cover!) - Pretty generic mass market cozy mystery. 2 stars out of 5.


Prompt:Set in summer - A decent beach read. 3 out of 5 stars because I wanted to keep reading.

And then there were the library mystery book club read.

I did not enjoy this one as I don’t like dithering, waiting to be rescued female main characters. I do see how she was a representative of cultural and family norms though. That trope is also common to Romance novels which this was primarily with a side of a mystery. It will be interesting to hear the discussion next week.



 

6 comments:

  1. How literary of you -- and quite an accomplishment!

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  2. I've never liked reading mysteries and I don't know why. But they sure seem to sell. None of these books would appeal to me.

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  3. I had admired the cover of the Aunties book but I'm not a big mystery fan. Will need to find something to cover that prompt, though. Hope the discussion at the book club is lively.

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  4. I left a reply to your comment on my blog about my reads this week, but forgot to mention something kind of important if you are looking for the ones I mentioned. I haven't seen The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules anywhere except on Amazon; I don't think it was widely released in the US. But I did want to let you know that if you are a Kindle Unlimited subscriber, it is available there to borrow instead of having to buy it. And if you're not a subscriber, it's possible you could get a free trial period.

    I'm not much of a fan of 'heist' books, or movies for that matter, so was happy to see this one. It is a little along the lines of A Man Called Ove type story.

    The Searcher is by Tana French who is pretty widely available, so it should be easily found.

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