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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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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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  • Between the Covers
    How to Avoid Falling Asleep When Driving - Tiredness and drowsiness when driving often leads to road accidents and serious consequences; staying even a second with your eyes closed at a speed of 1...
    4 months ago
  • bibliosue
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    7 years ago
  • BOLO BOOKS
    Mango, Mambo, and Murder – The BOLO Books Review - Like all corners of the crime fiction community, the cozy mystery sub-genre has recently seen an influx of new, diverse voices creating a sense of vitality...
    1 week ago
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  • BOOK RIOT
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    5 hours ago
  • Carstairs Considers....
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    5 hours ago
  • Chrisbookarama
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    1 year ago
  • Clothes In Books
    The Case of William Smith by Patricia Wentworth - published 1948 Katharine dressed for her wedding with as much care as if the congregation in whose face she was going to be married to William wou...
    1 month ago
  • Coffee and a Book Chick
    Who's Your Daddy, by Arisa White - First, an overview because I loved it when I read it: A lyrical, genre-bending coming-of-age tale featuring a queer, Black, Guyanese American woman who,...
    7 months ago
  • 'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'
    Get Carter - 1971 film review - I've mentioned *Get Carter* several times in blog posts over the years. As I've said, it is, along with *The* *Long Good Friday*, one of my all-time favo...
    5 hours ago
  • Down the Writer's Path
    NaNoWriMo: Catch the Power of the World’s One Top Writing Challenge Today! - Worldwide NaNoWriMo writers produce finished first drafts Are you ready for the biggest writing competition ever? Blast through your fear and produce tha...
    2 weeks ago
  • dru's book musings
    Shane Gambrazzo by Maria DiRico - Shane Gambrazzo sits down for a question-and-answer session with dru’s book musings so that we, the readers, can get to know him better. Shane, take it awa...
    7 hours ago
  • Happiness Is a Warm Book
    Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Tipster by Gerald Verner - Gerald Verner (1897-1980) was born John Robert Stuart Pringle. He also wrote under the names Donald Stuart, Nigel Vane, Derwent Steele, and Thane Leslie. H...
    5 days ago
  • Jen J. Danna - Skeleton Keys
    SHOT CALLER Release Day! - [image: SHOT CALLER Launch Day FB Post.png] I'm happy to announce that NYPD Negotiators #2, SHOT CALLER, releases today! In SHOT CALLER, NYPD Detective G...
    1 month ago
  • Jungle Red Writers
    Getting historical: Susanna Kearsley and VANISHED DAYS - HALLIE EPHRON: I recently had the distinct pleasure of interviewing Susanna Kearsley for her book (The Vanished Days) launch event at Houston's Murder B...
    5 hours ago
  • Kevin's Corner
    Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Nevermore: Cattle Kingdom, Boop and Eve's Road Road Trip, Perestroika in Paris, Denali - Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Nevermore: Cattle Kingdom, Boop and Eve's Road Tr...: Reported by Garry This week’s Nevermore book club selections includ...
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  • Lesa's Book Critiques
    Terrie Farley Moran – An Interview - Terrie Farley Moran has been a cozy mystery writer for quite a while. She’s also written with author Laura Childs. But, it’s her current co-writer who may ...
    10 hours ago
  • Literary Musings
    Recent Reads, Vol II - *The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz*: I'm not sure what took me so long to read this one, but as the Pulitzer season approached I wanted ...
    8 years ago
  • My Four Bucks
    Review: Old Vintage Melbourne by Chris Macheras - *[image: Old Vintage Melbourne by Chris Macheras book cover]* Copy courtesy of Scribe Publications ** *Old Vintage Melbourne* by Chris Macheras is a stun...
    11 hours ago
  • Mystery Fanfare
    Cartoon of the Day: Dogs -
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  • Mystery Playground
    THE CORPSE WITH THE IRON WILL and Bombay Bramble Breakfast Bubbles - *Cathy Ace is back with the latest installment of her Cait Morgan mysteries with The Corpse with the Iron Will and a delicious beverage that breathes s...
    3 months ago
  • Reading on a Rainy Day
    Chicago, more renovation, and Squid Game | Weekly Snapshot - I think I can say that Fall is finally here. Or at least the crisp Fall air is finally here. The colors not so much. We still haven't gotten around to an...
    1 week ago
  • Seasons of Reading
    FrightFall Readathon - Mid-Event Check-In - A few days past mid-event. I've been on vacation in Salem, Massachusetts (and Fall River and Sleepy Hollow, NY). Just got home on Monday. The perfect tri...
    1 week ago
  • Tattooed Books: A YA book reviewing, librarian-in-training
    Movie Trailer: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green - Here is the Official Trailer!! I listened to the audiobook over Christmas & it was amazing. I'm hoping to have a review up in the next week. Until then, en...
    7 years ago
  • The Book Stop
    Top Ten Online Book Resources - This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) is our favorite online book resources, which is something I have lots of opinions abou...
    1 week ago
  • The Book Whisperer
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    1 year ago
  • The Bookish Type
    Falcon 5 - *Welcome Back to the Explorer Academy!* *Welcome to Day #5 of the Explorer Academy: The Falcon's Feather Blog Tour!* To celebrate the release of *Explor...
    2 years ago
  • The Broke and the Bookish - A Book Blog For The Eclectic Reader
    10th Annual Broke & Bookish Santa Will be At That Artsy Reader Girl - Hi everyone! Jana here! I'm excited to announce that I will be hosting the 10th Annual Broke & Bookish Secret Santa over at my personal blog, That Artsy...
    2 years ago
  • The Novel Life
    Hello Kitty Sunglasses with Prescription from Visio Optical - My new sunglasses shaped as Hello Kitty and with my own prescription – I can’t stop looking at myself wearing them. One more reason for me to enjoy windo...
    2 years ago
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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

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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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