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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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Recent Posts

  • Favorite Reads for the First Half of 2019
    It has been a strange, off reading year so far.  I've had some hard deaths and personal health issues to deal with, which have slowed do...
  • The Murder List by Hank Phillippi Ryan: Reading Room Review
    Sometimes an experience in life comes along that leaves you quite tongue-tied in describing its full effect. Those of us who consider rea...
  • 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...
  • The Tuscan Child by Rhys Bowen: Reading Room Review
    Last year, the prolific Rhys Bowen gifted us with a stand-alone book, Farleigh Field. Set in England during WWII, it was a smashing succ...
  • Author Guest Post: James Ziskin
          “The Same Thing…only Different”       by James W. Ziskin I write a series of traditional/noirish mysteries set in the...
  • The Night Visitors by Carol Goodman: Reading Room Review
    The Night Visitors , due out March 26th, is only the second Carol Goodman novel I've read, but it's the second one in the last...
  • The Dark Angel (Ruth Galloway Mysteries #10) by Elly Griffiths: Reading Room Review
    The Ruth Galloway series by Elly Griffiths is celebrating its 10th Year Anniversary this year with the publication of The Dark Ange...
  • The Chain by Adrian McKinty: Reading Room Review
    The Chain is the first Adrian McKinty book I've read. It won't be the last. The word "unique" is often tossed out t...
  • Author Spotlight on Anne Cleeland: Interview, Sneak Preview, and Giveaway
             One of the reasons that reading is such an amazing adventure is that it's full of discoveries, ones that make you wonde...
  • 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...

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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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  • Seasons of Reading
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  • bibliosue
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    4 years ago
  • Tattooed Books: A YA book reviewing, librarian-in-training
    Movie Trailer: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
    5 years ago
  • Literary Musings
    Recent Reads, Vol II
    6 years ago
  • The Passionate Bibliophile
  • The Year in Books
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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
  • Stop, You're Killing Me http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/
  • FantasticFiction https://www.fantasticfiction.com/

Author Blogs/Web sites

  • Martin Edwards Web site
  • Triss Stein blog
  • Triss Stein Web site
  • Jenn McKinlay Web site
  • Wendall Thomas blog
  • Wendall Thomas Web site
  • EJ Copperman/Jeff Cohen Web site
  • EJ Copperman/Jeff Cohen blog, Sliced Bread
  • Jess Loury blog
  • Jess Loury Web site
  • Terry Shames blog
  • Jen J. Danna Web site and Blog
  • Susan Elia MacNeal Web site
  • Rhys Bowen Web site
  • Hallie Ephron Web site
  • Julia Spencer-Fleming Web site
  • Lucy Burdette Web site
  • Hank Phillippi Ryan Web site
  • Anne Cleeland Web site
  • Laurie R. King Web site
  • Laurie R. King blog
  • Michael Sullivan blog
  • Jungle Red Writers blog
  • Anna Loan-Wilsey blog
  • Anna Loan-Wilsey Web site
  • Deanna Raybourn blog
  • Deborah Crombie Web site
  • Deborah Crombie blog
  • 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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