If you are what you eat, I’m probably doomed. If you are what you read, I probably have a light mind. I do like funny mysteries; Evanovich makes me laugh out loud. A lot. I like riveting characters; my current favorites are Ken Bruen’s Jack Taylor and Inspector Brant. I’m very loyal; seldom do I desert a series after I’ve read two or three books– you’ve got to lose it to senility and insipidness (alas, Lillian Jackson Braun), be pompous and redundant (Parker’s Spenser), or slip my mind (umm, can’t remember) to not get the ride home from the library. Right now I’m mainly reading through the Ken Bruen oeuvre and loving it.
I also love lists, like Amazon’s list of fabulous female sleuths, mysteries with recipes, lists like “funny but fatal,” (which I saw somewhere on the web but unfortunately cannot attribute), or lists such as “100 unusual ways to die,” (which I actually haven’t seen on the internet, but would like to have included therein death by icicle or frozen chicken (Alfred Hitchcock) and death by toaster in the tub, from whence, I know not.
This is an incomplete list who I continue to read:
- M.C. Beaton – the Hamish Macbeth series
- M.C. Beaton – the Agatha Raisin series
- Lawrence Block – the Matthew Scudder series
- Lawrence Block – the Bernie Rhodenbarr series
- Diane Mott Davidson – the Goldie the caterer series
- Janet Evanovich – the Stephanie Plum series
- J.A, Konrath – the Jack Daniels series
- Joan Hess – the Arly Hanks series
- Joan Hess – the Claire Malloy series
- Carl Hiassen
- Edward Marston – the Nicolas Bracewell series of Elizabethan theatre mysteries
- Stuart Woods – Stone Barrington, Holly Barker, NEVER his author comments
- Linda Barnes
- Sara Paretsky
- Nabokov, Borges, and the Brontes (well, once upon a time)
- Particia Cornwall – the Kate Scarpetti series
- Lillian Jackson Braun – the “Cat Who . . .” series
- Carolyn Hart – the Annie Dowling series
this are some of the authors whom I read sporadically:
- Joe R. Lansdale
- Charlotte MacLeod
- Sharyn McCrumb
I haven’t read in years, but remember fondly:
- John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee series
I read, and write, in waves. I’m a rather slow reader and careless writer. I can go for quite a while without a book of fiction going and will probably blog as sporadically as I clean. Among my other interests are cooking and eating, hiking, gardening (daffodils and machetes on bamboo, not advanced stuff), and traveling. Long walks on the beach and dry martinis.
I hope to actually finish this page and include a collage, but that may not happen soon. Cheers!
