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Hello, Fellow  Book Worms and Book Dragons !   Tuesday Talks this week focused on how well did we do reading in February 2018. I was excited to report that I had read six books. Now that February is drawing to a close, I wanted to share my hopes for reading in March.   There are a few books on February's TBR list that I did not get to. I am hoping to add a few to March's reading. Here are my hopefuls for March 2018. If you are reading any of these, or if you want to share your thoughts if you have already read them, feel free to share. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones Catch Me by Lisa Gardner City of Brass by S.A. Chokraborty Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling Killman Creek by Rachel Caine Like a River Glorious by Rae Carson Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary Ramona and Her Mother by Beverly Cleary Right Behind You by Lisa Gardner The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn   Have fun reading this week. Let me know in the com me

Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons !   Tuesday Talks is an wonderful group on Goodreads that is a weekly discussion forum created by BookTubers Janie Johnson and her pal, Janelle. It is a fun and active group to be a part of.  Unfortunately this group's weekly topic ended in 2017. I would like to carry on this tradition by creating my own questions, or stepping back in time to answer those weeks that I did not.      This week's question is: It is the end of February 2018. How well did you do reading this month? I did very well reading in the month of February. In all I read six books ( book r eviews are linked to each title ) : 3 Truths and a Lie by Lisa Gardner Find Her by Lisa Gardner Harry Potter and the Cham ber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling   Look For Me by Lisa Gardner Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine   Two Girls Do wn by Louisa Luna   I was definitely leaning more towards suspense in February.    Have fun reading this week. Let

Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons !   T here is a song that children sing about rainbows and happiness . This song is heard in many families. But out there in the world there is a different song that some children sing, and it is about survival.    When I went into Look For Me I was excited to engross myself in another D.D. War ren suspense novel. And I was looki ng forward to seeing what Flora Dane has been up to since Find Her . I opened the book, sat down, and started what would be four hundred pages of not only suspense , but a n underlining message of survival served up many ways.      Look For Me is written by Lisa Gardner, and it is the ninth book in her exceptional thriller series , featuring Boston Detective D. D. Warren. It i s p ublished by Penguin Random House under their Dutt on Books imprint. In it we are reunited with Flora Dane. O ne year after she was integral in saving coll ege student Stacey Summers , Flora continues to seek out justice fo

Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons!   Tuesday Talks is an wonderful group on Goodreads that is a weekly discussion forum created by BookTubers Janie Johnson and her pal, Janelle. It is a fun and active group to be a part of.  Unfortunately this group's weekly topic ended in 2017. I would like to carry on this tradition by presenting my own questions.      This week's question is:  When it comes to suspense what authors do you recommend to other readers? 1.    Mary Higgins Clark-  I was introduced to Clark when I was in high school. My first book I read from her was the Cradle Will Fall. This book was the first to hook me on suspense. I remember being engrossed in it that I was reading it during math class (that really got me in trouble). I look forward to reading this book again as an adult. 2. Tami Hoag-  I have loved the Kovac and Liska crime thrillers from Tami Hoag. Her stories are contained, but she manages to stretch certain plots into other bo

Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons!    The thing about being bitten by the "Suspense Bug" is that you tend to go off course from your normal reading. In my case, I had several books planned for me to read. But one toe dipped in the lake of crime novels, and I found myself swimming, in over my head. Ironically after feeling this way, I travel south to investigate a new mystery on Stillhouse Lake.     Stillhouse Lake is written by Rachel Caine, and is published by Thomas and Mercer Publishers, an Amazon.com imprint. In it, we are introduced to Gina Royal, a suburban housewife in Kansas that would never hurt a fly. Her family is her everything. Her husband, Mel, asks her never to go into the garage after he makes it into a workshop, of course, she does not enter. Then one day Gina returns to her neighborhood and discovers that her home has become a crime scene. A drunk driver with an SUV has plowed into her home, knocking into part of the garage. In her v

Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons !   After putting down Find Her by Lisa Gardner, I was looking forward to reading more of novels featuring Detective D.D. Warren. I was happy to discover this little gem while shopping for more of Gardner's novels.   3 Truths and a Lie takes place prior to Find Her, and finds Warren and her husband, Alex, in Wisconsin attending a writer's camp for suspense authors. They are there to deliver seminars to the writers in order to separate fact from fiction, explaining police investigation in the real world.  D.D. wants to attend a few of the technical school's events, most of all the SWAT Team training course. The p roblem is that D.D. believes that her seminar will n ot be half as interesting as Alex's seminar on blood splatters.    Warren decides to wow her crowd, which includes Suspense authors Joseph Finder , Kathy Reichs, and Karin Slaughter, with a case that she feels will stump and wow her crowd of eager wri