The Bishop/SCU series has several trilogies connecting together: Shadows, Evil, Fear, Blood, Haven, and Dark. Jump in with the first book in one of the trilogies, but they are all so so good. Aw, so sweet!!!

Finished Nightwork and really enjoyed it. Currently reading Hidden Salem which is #19 in the Bishop/Special Crimes paranormal series by Kay Hooper. “Nellie Cavendish has very good reasons to seek out her roots, and not only because she has no memory of her mother and hardly knew the father who left her upbringing to paid caregivers. In the eight years since her twenty-first birthday, very odd things have begun to happen. Crows gather near her wherever she goes, electronics short out when she touches them, and when she’s upset, really upset, it storms. At first, she chalked up the unusual happenings to coincidence, but that explanation doesn't begin to cover the vivid nightmares that torment her. She can no longer pretend to ignore them. She has to find out the truth. And the only starting point she has is a mysterious letter from her father delivered ten years after his death, insisting she go to a town called Salem and risk her life to stop some unnamed evil. Before her thirtieth birthday. As a longtime member of the FBI's Special Crimes Unit, Grayson Sheridan has learned not to be surprised by the unusual and the macabre--but Salem is different. Evidence of Satanic activities and the disappearance of three strangers to the town are what brought Salem to the attention of the SCU, and when Gray arrives to find his undercover partner vanished, he knows that whatever’s hiding in the seemingly peaceful little town is deadly. But what actually hides in the shadows and secrets of Salem is unlike anything the agents have ever encountered.” Middlemarch is still slowly in process.

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Happy Sunday! This week we celebrate our dads. From the serious to the silly, from thoughtful to chatty, from gregarious to introverted. We honor those who we miss and hold close to our hearts. A Brief History of Father’s Day Fatherly Advice Given From Famous Dads in Literature Celebrate Dads Everywhere With These 10 Books The 8 Best Dads in Literature, According to Readers 12 most memorable fathers from literature A Book for Every Kind of Dad on Father’s Day Read a book with father or Dad in the title. Read a book about Fantastic Dads and Father Figures Did your dad ever read to you when you were little? Share memories of books given to you by your father. Which literary father do you like the best? Our letter and word of the week are Y and Yesterday Happy Father's Day to all our dads! Link to Book Week 24 Visit 52 Books in 52 Weeks where you can find all the information on the annual, mini and perpetual challenges.

Not yet! Soon though.

I have a book hangover. I finished #2 in Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive - Words of Radiance - a chunkster of a book at 1328 pages. Really good and so full of twists and turns, didn’t know how it was going to end. The third book Oathbringer is waiting in the wings. In between I read Julia Spencer Flemings first book in the Clare Ferguson/Russ Van Alstyne mystery series – In the Bleak Midwinter. I really enjoyed, although Clare struck me as a bit of a twit, err, um, rash, no... impulsive and passionate with jumping in to try and help the police chief. Middlemarch is still slowly in process. For our clef notes read, we have several books about music including Paul McCartney’s Lyrics which is a huge two volume coffee table book with 154 songs and his personal notes about each one. It will be a perpetual read. Also have David Grohl: The Storyteller which I’m looking forward to reading. Started Nora Robert's Nightwork and enjoying the heck out of it.

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Happy Sunday! Whenever I think of religious characters, I think of chanting monks which brings us to our next 52 Books Bingo category - Clef Notes. Music comes in all shapes and forms so read books about music, learning to read music, musicians and singers, Tibetan monks and singing bowls, Gregorian chants in a church, or just go with the flow and see where your mind takes you. Read a book with Clef or Notes in the title. Read a book about Musicology Read a book with musical notes or instruments on the cover Read a book from The Capitol Theatre's list of 10 Books That Every Music Lover Should Read. Read a book from About Great Reads list of 50 Great Novels about Music. Our letter and word of the week are X and Xango. Have fun following musical rabbit trails! Link to Book Week 23 Visit 52 Books in 52 Weeks where you can find all the information on the annual, mini and perpetual challenges.

Hugs and prayers!

Please don't feel guilty. I had planned to end ban this month. Y'all just helped to jump start it. 😘 Thank you! Added a couple to my want list, plus picked up one not on the list from Writer's Digest: Fight Write: How to Write Believable Fight Scenes. Several people over the past week on different forums have mentioned Bobiverse. Added it to my wishlist.

I’m still in between with Brandon Sanderson’s Words of Radiance in his Stormlight archive series, and George Eliot’s Middlemarch. My buying ban is officially over since I added Ellis Peter’s Cadfael #2 One Corpse Too Many, Peter Tremayne’s Absolution by Murder, and Julia Spencer Flemings In The Bleak Midwinter to my ebook stacks for our June crime spree read.

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Happy Sunday! June is upon us and our newest Crime Spree category brought to us by Sandy and Amy is one of my favorite to read. There’s something so appealing about a man (or woman) of the cloth who isn’t just trying to save our soul, but also our life. Religious Characters feature in cozy mysteries, usually as a reluctant amateur sleuth but sometimes as the unexpected villain. Authors to explore: GK Chesterton – Father Brown Ellis Peters – Brother Cadfael Cassandra Clark – Abbess of Meaux Julia Spencer Fleming - Clare Ferguson James Runcie - Sidney Chambers GM Malliet - Max Tudor Harry Kemelman – Rabbi Small Challenge: See how the other half lives by reading a mystery with a man or woman of the cloth as a sleuth. Our letter and word of the week are W and Wisdom Link to Book Week 22 Visit 52 Books in 52 Weeks where you can find all the information on the annual, mini and perpetual challenges.

Added it to my wishlist. Sounds good! Thanks ya'll. Feeling much better, although I am taking a lot of naps. Letting the guys do all the lifting. Hubby went grocery shopping with me yesterday which was quite amusing. Oh Donuts!!! LOL!

Rest and get well. The latest cold is the worst. We all just had it so completely understand feeling miserable. Adding to Karen's list, Jodi Taylor's Chronicles of St Mary's or Drew Hayes Super Powereds.

I’m in between as well. Reading Brandon Sanderson’s Words of Radiance in his Stormlight archive series, and George Eliot’s Middlemarch. Inbetween reading, I’m still binging on Korean Drama’s. This week, it’s Her Private Life.

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Happy Sunday! We’re right at that in between stage between May and June, so instead of starting something new, here’s a poem in honor of Memorial Day. We Honor You Today By Susan R. Smith To all of our veterans Far and near. We thank you for your service For all those years. You sacrificed your time, And some gave your life. You preserved our freedom By willingly paying the price. Many of you Were sent overseas. You were wounded in battle, With scars and disease. But courageous and brave, You weathered the storm. You faced every battle With faith and beyond. We honor you with joy For all that you've done. You stood strong for our country, For our daughters and sons. So no one stands alone, We walk hand in hand. Remember, we are with you. Together we shall stand. We salute you today. Hear what we say. Let our words speak eloquently In this special way. On this day, Let us express our love and thanks For the sacrifice you paid. You served in honor For many years and days, And we will never forget How you were strong and brave. Link to Book Week 21 Visit 52 Books in 52 Weeks where you can find all the information on the annual, mini and perpetual challenges.

I spoke too soon. Xrays revealed fractured 10th rib. No heavy lifting for a while. My technicians are going to love me.

I finished my reread of S.K.Dunstall’s Stars Uncharted and started the 2nd book in the series, Stars Beyond. (ebook) Finished Jodi Taylor’s 4th book in her Chronicles of St. Mary’s series with A Trail through Time. And thanks to my son for buying me Brandon Sanderson’s Words of Radiance in his Stormlight archive series, which will take me a while since it’s quite chunky. I think my sip read of George Eliot’s Middlemarch is probably going to take me the rest of the year. I did a stupid thing on Thursday. Forgot I’m not as flexible as I used to be. I attempted to shave my legs by resting my foot up on the bathroom counter. I lost my balance and landed flat on my back. Ouch! Ever felt like you were falling in slow motion? Weird. But nothing broken fortunately. Heating pad whenever I’m sitting; Tylenol, and Salonpas patches have kept me mobile. Oy! Watched the remainder of Romance is a Book, Sandra Bullock’s Lost City which was hilarious, as well as Jennifer Hudson’s Respect which wasn’t so hilarious. Plus got sucked into the Dep/Heard thing for a bit.

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Happy Sunday! I'm in a mood. Can't tell you which one, but a mood. So today, you get a bit of this, a bit of that. A bit of this from my wild mind as well as a bit of that from the world wide web. One of the dusty books in my virtual shelves is A.S. Byatt's The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye. It's one of those one day I'll get round to it. Saw George Miller Presents His “Anti-Mad Max” in Three Thousand Years of Longing Trailer on Tor which is based on Byatt's book and is quite intriguing. Especially since Idris Elba is in it. Yum. I'll be diving into The Djinn soon. I recently got sucked into a Korean drama on Netflix, Romance is a Bonus Book which is set in a publishing company. It was quite fascinating and wondered if any of the books mentioned were real. Quite pleased to discover they are! Discovered there are a few K drama's that are based on books. Stumbled across Lessons Learned from a Year Listening to the Fictional Octopus in My Head by Shelby Van Pelt. Reminded me of my very literal minded son when he was young and how I had to rethink each sentence and learn how to talk to him without slang or metaphor. Will definitely be reading Remarkably Bright Creatures this year. As we all know, Nora Roberts is one of my favorite authors. Her assistant Laura recently posted her latest Notes from a Cranky Publicist in which she mentioned books she read while recovering from hip surgery. Besides Nora of course, she listed several great books including other authors I love such as Nalini Singh and Sarah Addison Allen. She talked about some new to me authors and Beach Read by Emily Henry and Every Summer After by Carley Fortune immediately went on my wish list. My ever growing wish list because my buying ban is still in force. Maybe I'll break down in June. Okay, enough about me. LOL! Several interesting things happened in history on May 22. 1819: The steamship SS Savannah set sail from Savannah, Georgia for Liverpool, England on the first trans Atlantic crossing. Read a book about a steamship. 1859: Birth of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Read about the author or read a book about his character, Sherlock Holmes. 1868 - The Great Train Robbery: Read Michael Crichton's Great Train Robbery, or other fiction and non fiction books about train robberies 1906 - Patent 821,393 is to Wilbur and Orville Wright for “new and useful improvement in Flying Machines.” Read a book about how airplanes were invented and/or the Wright Brothers. 1933: first declared by U.S Congress to be National Maritime Day in honor of the Merchant Marines. Read a book about marine heritage. 1933 - First reported sighting of the Loch Ness Monster. We enjoyed reading the book written by Dick King-Smith, The Water Horse as well as watching the Movie. 1967 - The debut of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: We recently enjoyed both the movie and the book tie in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood based off of Tom Junod's article about Mr. Rogers for Esquire magazine. It touched our hearts and gave us a new appreciation for Mr. Rogers. 1977 - the Orient Express takes it's final trip across Europe. Read a book about or which takes place on the Orient Express. Hint, hint - Agatha Christie. Have fun following rabbit trails!!!! And if you are still following along with our letter of the week, we are back on track with the letter U. ************************** Link to book week 20 Visit 52 Books in 52 Weeks where you can find all the information on the annual, mini and perpetual challenges.

This year: Super Powereds Year One through Four by Drew Hayes. Superhero science fiction. Kind of an adult Harry Potter Wolf Hall - Loved Cromwell's Wit Bone Shards Daughter by Andrea Stewart - Historical Fantasy The Starless Crown by James Rollins. He usually writes thrillers but took a stab at fantasy which was really good.

Yes, I think I would.

I finished Jayne Castle’s The Hot Zone in her Rainshadow series this week and look forward to reading the rest of the series. Stephen Lawhead Taliesin –I don’t particularly enjoy Lawhead’s writing which I remember now is what stopped me when reading the King Raven Series, so reshelving it for now. My sip read is George Eliot’s Middlemarch which I’m reading at breakfast and very slow going because Eliot tends to be very wordy. Rereading S.K.Dunstall’s Stars Uncharted (ebook) before I start the 2nd book in the series, Stars Beyond. Started Jodi Taylor’s 4th book in her Chronicles of St. Mary’s series with A Trail through Time. We watched the 2nd movie in the Hobbit trilogy - The Desolation of Smaug which was quite intense and enjoyable.