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Welcome to The Reading Room Blog. My purpose is to share what I've read and reviews of those books. I will include posts on upcoming books to help readers keep abreast of new publications and their dates. I will also have author interviews and author related pieces to enrich the reading experience of that particular author's works. I read mostly mystery/crime and psychological thrillers.

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  • Striking It Rich in the Reading World: The Sleeping Dictionary Author Interview and Giveaway
    Those of us who are addicted to reading constantly yearn for the moments of striking it rich, where that nugget of gold appears and give...
  • Interview with Karin Salvalaggio
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  • Back to Sookie and Bon Temps
    Well, it's May and that means time for another Sookie Stackhouse adventure from Charlaine Harris.  There has been some dissatisfactio...
  • Favorite 2014 Reads
    As usual, I have lots of favorites out of the 82 books I read this past year.  Here are some of the best.  Seven for a Secret by L...
  • Banned Books Week 2012
    I hope that all book lovers are celebrating the freedom to read what we choose this week and every week.  What disturbs me most about bo...
  • One Last Look at 2013, Books That Pleasantly Surprised Me
    In talking to a fellow bookaholic the other day about a book from 2013, I realized that I talked a lot on the blog about series books and B...
  • Bouchercon Book Revirews #5
    I'm excited to share two more reviews with readers, reviews of books that include one long-time favorite author in Louise Penny and one ...
  • September's Explosion of New Books
         September 2016 brings so many new books to my reading wish list that I easily have over twenty exciting titles to share.  I would no...
  • Bouchercon Book Reviews #7
    Tonight, I'm posting my review of Tess Gerritsen's most recent Rizzoli and Isles book, published last year and read by me then.  I h...
  • Bouchercon 2016 Vignettes
    Instead of writing out a piece on Bouchercon in my usual style of writing, that includes complete sentences and attention to grammar, I am o...

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From My Goodreads.com Lists

Kathy's highly-recommend book montage

The Last Dickens: A Novel
My Sister's Keeper
Rules
The Graveyard Book
Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins
Gargoyle on the Roof
The Dragons Are Singing Tonight
The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories: The Whole Story
The Hound of the Baskervilles
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
Drums of Autumn
Voyager
Outlander
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
The Loop
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Belong to Me: A Novel
Love Walked In
An Abundance of Katherines
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Death of a Cozy Writer: A St. Just Mystery
Rebecca
All Alone in the Universe
The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
The Metamorphosis
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Sun Also Rises
Things Fall Apart
Invisible Man
Fahrenheit 451
The Castle in the Attic
Pride and Prejudice
Beach Music
Spoon River Anthology
Places I Never Meant To Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers
The Day They Came to Arrest the Book
The BFG
The Westing Game
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
The Grave Tattoo
Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-gazer: A Novel
Bel Canto
Saving Fish from Drowning: A Novel
The Hobbit: Or, There and Back Again
The Falls: A Novel
Whirligig
Elsewhere
Ordinary Heroes
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
The Secret Life of Bees
Jane Eyre
Ethan Frome
Winesburg, Ohio
Stones from the River
The Dante Club: A Novel
The Girls
In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
Life of Pi
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Kite Runner
The Good German
The Heretic's Daughter
The Call of the Wild
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel
The Historian
A Widow for One Year
The Hound of the Baskervilles
To Kill a Mockingbird
People of the Book
Year of Wonders
Dead Until Dark
Locked Rooms
A Letter of Mary
The Beekeeper's Apprentice
To Say Nothing of the Dog
Doomsday Book
Grave Goods
City of Shadows: A Novel of Suspense
The Serpent's Tale
Mistress of the Art of Death
Night
Nineteen Minutes


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Blogs Great for Listings of New Books and Order of an Author's Series

  • Bloodstained Bookshelf http://www.mirlacca.com/Bookshelf.html
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Author Blogs/Web sites

  • Martin Edwards Web site
  • Triss Stein blog
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  • EJ Copperman/Jeff Cohen Web site
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  • Louise Penny Web site
  • Diana Gabaldon Web site
  • Diana Gabaldon blog

Favorite Reading Quotes

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"What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul."— Neil Gaiman

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