Monday, March 9, 2009

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

Monday, March 2, 2009

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

Thursday, February 12, 2009

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.

Monday, January 5, 2009

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.