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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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  • Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt: Reading Room Review
      It seems that every so often a contemporary fiction book comes along that's not in my preferred mystery/crime genre, a book that touch...
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      Pain.   Everywhere you turn in this book, you find pain.   It’s inescapable. Of course, with a title like Notes on an Execution , you s...
  • The Lioness by Chris Bohjalian: Reading Room Review
        “Oh, I can’t speak for the dead. And I won’t speak for the missing. I can only tell you what I think happened. Others—the dead and the...
  • We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker: Reading Room Review
      Thirty years ago, when Vincent King was just fifteen years old, he accidentally killed seven-year-old Sissy Radley, the younger sister of ...
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      Do readers’ opinions influence authors? If you’re excited about there being a sequel to The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell , you can be g...

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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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  • FantasticFiction https://www.fantasticfiction.com/

Author Blogs/Web sites

  • Martin Edwards Web site
  • Triss Stein blog
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  • Jenn McKinlay Web site
  • Wendall Thomas blog
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  • EJ Copperman/Jeff Cohen Web site
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  • Jess Loury blog
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  • 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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