Movin' Out

For anyone who might read this blog and is interested in continuing to read stuff made by me, I have moved over to a new blog.  I have decided that I need A New Start.  So if you are interested head over to A Book and Two Sugars.

Valentine Murder

In order to restore my pride, I buckled down and read a cozy mystery to make up for my January failure.    

Valentine Murder by Leslie Meier

There wasn't very much of a Valentine's Day theme to this book.  It had more to do with a library, antiquing, and construction.  It was a pretty good read however, at least it was MUCH better than the previous cozy mystery that I attempted.  It was a cute, light read and I could see myself recommending this series to someone who is looking for a quiet mystery.  It also made me want cupcakes. Pink cupcakes with conversation heart candies on top, to be specific.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

True Crime
Fantasy
Horror
Mystery - “Cozy”
Mystery - other
Romance
Science Fiction
Western
Thriller
Christian Fiction
Paranormal

Failure

I must admit to failure.  The first month of my reading challenge I dropped the torch.  I tried, I really did!  I started reading...gosh I can't even remember the name.  It was a cozy mystery with a clever, punny title about death and books.  It just wasn't for me.  It lost me when the heroine found the body and the last lines of the chapter were something like "I saw him lying on the thick purple Parisian carpet with his throat slit.  He was dead."  All I could think was (and excuse my meme-ing):

Really?  His throat is cut, and he died?  That almost never happens, except for pretty much always.

 

Moving on to February, in which I successfully read a book from my challenge!  

Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes

This book was split into two timelines.  There was the story going on in 2003-4 and followed Catherine Bailey as she met the man of her dreams, and we witness through her eyes as he you discover how crazy and violent he is.  The second storyline follows Cathy Bailey as she is dealing with OCD and PTSD as she struggles to deal with the trauma of her past.  The suspense aspect comes in when she starts to suspect that he is coming back for her.

Haynes delivered an extremely suspenseful and gripping read.  It started out slow, but it built up the small details which made the suspense even that more heart pounding.  I will admit this isn't terrible outside my normal reading, I do love suspenseful books, I just rarely pick them up.  I am very thankful to my goodreads friend who reviewed this book.  I have been telling my friends all about it in person, and I know I have at least one adding this to their goodreads now.

This fits into my "thriller/suspense" catagory.

True Crime
Fantasy
Horror
Mystery - “Cozy”
Mystery - other
Romance
Science Fiction
Western
Thriller
Christian Fiction
Paranormal

The Dreaded Cowboy

For this coming year, I have decided to challenge myself.  As a reference/fiction services worker I feel I ought to expand my knowledge base.  Every month this year I am challenging myself to read a book from a genre that I generally don't touch.  And in some cases it will be the first book of the sort I have ever read. (*cough* Westerns *cough*)  I am mostly excited, except for a couple of genre's that I am a little more hesitant towards...(*cough* Westerns *cough*).

The list, in no particular order, is as follows:

True Crime
Fantasy
Horror
Mystery - “Cozy”
Mystery - other
Romance
Science Fiction
Western
Thriller
Christian Fiction
Paranormal

The last month is reserved for a genre of my choice.  I will keep track of my progress here.  I hope this proves to be a valuable exercise and not the portrait of one girls decent into madness (*cough* Westerns *cough*).