Anonymous wrote:^^ don't worry I just found it on Amazon.
I grew up in Greenwich Ct and this book doesn't appeal!

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Anonymous wrote:Listening to the audiobook of Mean Moms, which is by the author of Bad Summer People. I liked that book as trashy fun but this one is even better.

Agreed. Like Bad Summer People, Mean Moms is over the top, almost campy. But fun.

I recommended Greenwich earlier in this thread. I just finished Culpability by Bruce Holsinger (author of the Gifted School which I think a lot of DCUMs have read.) Both books center around the fallout from violent/tragic events and I personally found them somewhat stressful reads. (Greenwich in particular does endless foreshadowing.) For me, Greenwich was a more compelling plot; Culpability does a nice job with themes around AI and tech billionaires.

Anonymous wrote:Listening to the audiobook of Mean Moms, which is by the author of Bad Summer People. I liked that book as trashy fun but this one is even better.

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Anonymous wrote:What is everyone reading this month?
What is it about?
What do you think of it?

I have started on a cozy mystery series about a caterer in Colorado. The first book came out in 1990 and the last one came out in 2013. There are 17 books total in the series.

So far all I have finished is the first book, which is called Catering to Nobody.
In the first book, Gertrude "Goldy" Bear is catering an event and someone ends up poisoned. Therefore her business is shut down, therefore she has no income, therefore she tries to figure out how the person got poisoned.

I read about five books in this series many years ago. Back when you had to physically go to the library to check out paper copies of books. I enjoyed them back then and have always wanted to read all the books in the series. So here I am. I am about 3/4 of the way through the second book in the series.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane OP. I read many from this series years ago and loved them.

Another cozy mystery series I enjoyed back then was by Rita Mae Brown, the Mrs Murphy series. The adventures of a post mistress in Albemarle county who solves mysteries with the help of her pets.

Rita Mae Brown also wrote the “Sister” Jane series , another cozy series this time about the Virginia Hunt Country.

Loved them all!

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Anonymous wrote:What is everyone reading this month?
What is it about?
What do you think of it?

I have started on a cozy mystery series about a caterer in Colorado. The first book came out in 1990 and the last one came out in 2013. There are 17 books total in the series.

So far all I have finished is the first book, which is called Catering to Nobody.
In the first book, Gertrude "Goldy" Bear is catering an event and someone ends up poisoned. Therefore her business is shut down, therefore she has no income, therefore she tries to figure out how the person got poisoned.

I read about five books in this series many years ago. Back when you had to physically go to the library to check out paper copies of books. I enjoyed them back then and have always wanted to read all the books in the series. So here I am. I am about 3/4 of the way through the second book in the series.

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Anonymous wrote:On vacation last week, I read:

Silver in the Wood and Drowned Country, 2 novellas by Emily Tesh. Very well written, easy to read, and rather delightful. I'm looking forward to her new book. Fantasy/fairytale based on the Green Man myth

The Second Life of Mirielle West. Interesting topic, pedestrian writing. In 1920s, fictional wife of famous Hollywood actor is diagnosed with leprosy and sent to the US's only leper colony in Louisiana.

I Have Some Questions for You. A page turner, but ultimately kind of forgettable. New England boarding school alum looks back on a classmate's murder and wonders if the right man is in jail

Forgot to say what they are about, so added in bold above.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm at my dad's beach house where, for the past two summers, I have tried to read "My Brilliant Friend" and could not get past the first 50 pages. I am giving it another go this summer, and . . . meh. I think I'm the only person who doesn't love this book. Is it something that gets better and is worth plowing through? I don't like the narrator's "voice," and I'm wondering if that's a translation thing.

I got into the series by listening to the audiobook while painting my kitchen during covid. If you still can’t get into the books, the HBO series is pretty spectacular.