Books Finished in 2000

1. More Holmes for the Holidays - edited by Martin Greenburg
2. The Cat Who Robbed a Bank - Lilian Jackson Braun
3. ? (I know a finished a book by her, but if I wrote the title down, I don't know where I put it) - Cassie Edwards
4. In the Still of the Night - Jill Churchill
5. Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone - J. K. Rowling
6. The Dime Museum Murders - Daniel Stashower
7. The Adventure of the Ectoplasmic Man - Daniel Stashower
8. Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled - Dorothy Gilman
9. Murder with Peacocks - Donna Andrews
10. Murder with Puffins - Donna Andrews
11. Elementary Cases of Sherlock Holmes - Ian Charnock
12. House of Many Shadows - Barbara Michaels

Books Finished in 1998

1. No Honeymoon for Death - Mary Kruger
2. Death at Devil's Bridge - Robin Paige
3. Peril Under the Palms - K. K. Beck
4. Peril at End House - Agatha Christie
5. Aunt Dimity's Death - Nancy Atherton
6. The Cat Who Sang For the Birds - Lilian Jackson Braun
7. White Eagle's Touch - Karen Kay
8. Death at Bishop's Keep - Robin Paige
9. The Midnight Before Christmas - William Bernhardt

Books Read in 1997

1. The 39 Steps - John Buchan
2. Cat Crimes Takes a Vacation - anthology by different authors
3. Aunt Dimity's Good Deed - Nancy Atherton
4. The Strange Files of Fremont Jones - Dianne Day
5. Partners in Crime - Agatha Christie
6. Hickory Dickory Stalk - Susan Rogers Cooper
7. Mrs. Pollifax and the Lion Killer - Dorothy Gilman
8. Savage Paradise - Cassie Edwards
9. Ticktock - Dean Koontz
10. The Funhouse - Dean Koontz
11. Fire and Fog - Dianne Day
12. Take My Breath Away - Meg O'Brien
13. The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories - Agatha Christie
14. Irene's Last Waltz - Carole Nelson Douglas
15. The Cat Who Tailed a Thief - Lilian Jackson Braun
16. Destiny's Warrior - Kit Dee
17. Seeing a Large Cat - Elizabeth Peters
18. Mrs. Jeffries Questions the Answer - Emily Brightwell
19. Indiana Jones and the Philosopher's Stone - Max McCoy

Books Read in 1996

1. The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie
2. Too Tough to Tame by Deborah Camp
3. Mystery Cats 3, anthology by different authors
4. Wild Bliss by Cassie Edwards
5. Savage Mists by Cassie Edwards
6. Grey Mask by Patricia Wentworth
7. The Cat Who Said Cheese by Lilian Jackson Braun
8. Wild Whispers by Cassie Edwards
9. The Phantom by Rob MacGregor
10. Good Morning, Irene by Carole Nelson Douglas
11. Savage Pride by Cassie Edwards
12. Savage Surrender by Cassie Edwards
13. The Alington Inheritance by Patricia Wentworth
14. Irene at Large by Carole Nelson Douglas
15. Savage Passions by Cassie Edwards
16. The Hippopotamus Pool by Elizabeth Peters
17. The Haunted Hour, anthology by different authors
18. Feline and Famous: Cat Crimes Goes Hollywood, anthology by different authors
19. Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie
20. Street of the Five Moons by Elizabeth Peters
21. Ties That Bind by Barbara Nickolae
22. Rolling Thunder by Cassie Edwards
23. Red Sky Warrior by Genell Dellin
24. Death in the Air by Agatha Christie
25. The Frightened Wife by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Ghost Stories

I like to read true ghost stories and I collect books of them. I bought some when I went on vacation to Indianapolis, Williamsburg, Virginia, and Toronto. I just ordered a book from PaperBackSwap by John J. Lamb that is about San Diego specters. The author writes a mystery series about teddy bear collectors and while looking those up, I found out about the ghost book he wrote. I will have to list the books of ghost stories here that I own so I'll know which books I have!

The Complete Idiot's Guide to .... by Tom

Mystery Shows and D.V.D.'s

This is about the classic type of mystery, and not the newer/modern type of shows that you see on T.V., which I don't like. I like the detective/mystery shows that they used to have in the 1980's and some from the 1990's:

1980's: Remington Steele, Crazy Like a Fox (wish they had this on D.V.D.), and Hart to Hart.

1990's: Murder, She Wrote (also from the 80's) and Diagnosis Murder.

I would like to get the D.V.D.'s of Diagnosis Murder (there are three seasons on D.V.D.) and Hart to Hart. Eventually I might buy Remington Steele (one of my favorite mystery shows from the 80's).

The Hallmark Channel has some mystery movies and I liked the Mystery Woman series and they have one Dear Prudence movie, with at least another one to come.

I have some British mysteries on D.V.D. I have a set of four Inspector Alleyn mysteries and also six of eight Campions. I have a Dorothy L. Sayers set of Lord Peter Wimsey (Edward Petherbridge) and Harriet Vane mysteries. I have some Sherlock Holmes D.V.D.'s (Jeremy Brett) and The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire (Matt Frewer) that aired on the Hallmark Channel.

Advice to a Bookworm

Keep a list of all the books you read. It's great to go back five or ten years to see what you read back then. On my lists I also write down a L with a circle around it if it was a library book that I read so I know that I don't have that book in my collection. I may want to buy the book later on at a library book sale.

Keeping a list is helpful so you know what books you've read in a series. I read the Mrs. Jeffries Victorian mystery series and so far there are about 24 in the series! There are probably that many in the Murder, She Wrote series.

Books Read in 2009

1. The Cracked Pot by Melissa Glazer
2. Dog Gone by Eileen Key
3. The Telltale Turtle by Joyce and Jim Lavene
4. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
5. Fleece Navidad by Maggie Sefton
6. Dolly Departed by Deb Baker
7. The Matters at Mansfield by Carrie Bebris
8. Where the Truth Lies by Elizabeth Ludwig and Janelle Mowery
9. The Sudoku Puzzle Murders by Parnell Hall
10. For Whom the Wedding Bell Tolls by Nancy Mehl
11. Cream Puff Murder by Joanne Fluke

I got to page 320 in Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer, but didn't finish it. It was a library book and I got stuck in one part (Jacob's narrative that went on and on and eventually got kind of boring). I couldn't renew it because the series is so popular that there are always holds on the books. I also didn't finish the third in the series, but got most of the way through (another library book). I finished the first two in the series.

Books Finished in 2004

1. Paint by Murder (Kate Kingsbury)
2. Murder, Mrs. Hudson (Sydney Hosier)
3. The Clock Strikes Twelve (Patricia Wentworth)
4. The Cat Who Talked Turkey (Lilian Jackson Braun)
5. Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House (M. C. Beaton)
6. Aunty Dimity: Snowbound (Nancy Atherton)
7. Destination Murder - a Murder, She Wrote book (Donald Bain)
8. A Bicycle Built for Murder (Kate Kingsbury)
9. Shades of Earl Grey (Laura Childs)
10. For the Love of Mike (Rhys Bowen)
11. Photo Finished (Laura Childs)
12. Fudge Cupcake Murder (Joanne Fluke)
13. Guardian of the Horizon (Elizabeth Peters)
14. It Had to Be You (Jill Churchill)
15. Die Laughing (Carola Dunn)
16. Room for Murder (Tim Myers)
17. Spider-Man 2 (Peter David)
18. We'll Always Have Parrots (Donna Andrews)
19. Mrs. Jeffries Sweeps the Chimney (Emily Brightwell)
20. With This Puzzle, I Thee Kill (Parnell Hall)
21. Wedding Day Murder (Leslie Meier)
22. Pilgrim's Rest (Patricia Wentworth)
23. Last Puzzle and Testament (Parnell Hall)
24. Hasty Death (Marion Chesney)
25. Father's Day Murder (Leslie Meier)
26. The English Breakfast Murder (Laura Childs)
27. Booked for Murder (Tim Myers)
28. Birthday Party Murder (Leslie Meier)
29. The Cosmic Clues (Manjiri Prabhu)
30. Trick or Treat Murder (Leslie Meier)

Books Read in 2005

1. Snuffed Out (Tim Myers)
2. The Christmas Thief (Carol and Mary Higgins Clark)
3. And a Puzzle to Die On (Parnell Hall)
4. The Jasmine Moon Murder (Laura Childs)
5. A Mourning Wedding (Carola Dunn)
6. Berried Alive (Kate Kingsbury)
7. In Like Flynn (Rhys Bowen)
8. Aunt Dimity Takes a Holiday (Nancy Atherton)
9. Aunt Dimity and the Next of Kin (Nancy Atherton)
10. Death by Darjeeling (Laura Childs)
11. The Cat Who Went Bananas (Lilian Jackson Braun)
12. Peach Cobbler Murder (Joanne Fluke)
13. The Tale of Hill Top Farm (Susan Wittig Albert)
14. Chamomile Mourning (Laura Childs)
15. Sick of Shadows (Marion Chesney)
16. Murder on the Salsette (Conrad Allen)
17. Murder on the Marmora (Conrad Allen)