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I have especially loved Carol OConnell's latest stand-alone, BONE BY BONE, and Stieg Larsson's Girl With A Dragon Tattoo
Honorable mentions go to The Given Day A Novel, The Brass Verdict, The Shanghai Moon, A Rule Against Murder, Whisper To The Blood, Among the Mad, Dead Silence, and A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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My favorite MT's, off the top of my head, have been Shanghai Moon and Winter's Bone. The latter is a stretch to call an M/T, but there is a mystery involved and a mysterious story that pulled me along. The writing was wonderful.
Jan O'Cat
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the link to Winters Bone goes to a different book! I think you meant to link to this one instead Winter's Bone?
JanOMalleycat wrote: "I've read 22 books so far this year, which is low.
My favorite MT's, off the top of my head, have been Shanghai Moon and Winter's Bone. The latter is a stretch to cal..."
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15 books I bought new, 24 I borrowed (swapped), 11 came from the library, and 23 from the "buck-a-book"
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15 books I bought new, 24 I borrowed (swapped), 11 came from the library,..."
geeze, barry. the lowest count?
i've read 43 so far.
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the link to Winters Bone goes to a different book!
No, Ann, I meant Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell. I guess I'll go to the Librarians and report this oddity, especially as Winter's Bone is a book I'd definitely recommend.
Jan O'Cat
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Bone Crossed is on my TBR pile, but that's probably of more interest to Melodie than to Jan.
Shomeret
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If I had made my list of top books so far this year today instead of yesterday, I would have included Dead and Gone too. I am ready for the next book NOW! :)
I finished the latest Sookie book last night and then watched episode 6 of the first season of True Blood on DVD.
Melodie wrote: "I've read 66 books so far this year and have 7 that I have rated 9.5. In no particular order they are:
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If I had made my list of top books so far this year today instead of yesterday, I would have included Dead and Gone too. I am ready for the next book NOW! :)
I finished th..."
I'm ready for the next one, too! How did you like True Blood? I'm planning to reread Living Dead in Dallas this week before the 2nd season kicks off next Sunday. And Weeds starts tomorrow. Lots of good TV!
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I am really enjoying the first season of True Blood on DVD. I am trying to pace it out since I won't be able to watch the second season for a while (though it has tempted me to want HBO) The visual depictions of the Sookie Sackhouse series are very vivid and were a bit startling at first, but I love it.
Melodie wrote: "I'm ready for the next one, too! How did you like True Blood? I'm planning to reread Living Dead in Dallas this week before the 2nd season kicks off next Sunday. And Weeds starts tomorrow. Lots of good TV! "
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Shomeret,
I posted about this problem on Goodreads Librarians and got several messages suggesting using the "add book/author" link instead of the brackets & title method. Apparently the brackets method is notoriously unreliable. I wasn't aware that you could search for the specific book when you used the other.
Apparently it's one of those Goodreads search glitches that you were researching earlier . I'll probably continue to use the brackets method as it's so easy and, this being the first time I've known of a problem, not very unreliable.
Jan O'Cat
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I agree the type into the brackets method should work and does work usually. I have run into a couple of case where doing that hasn't worked, so I started using the search method from add book/author. It returned both your Winter's Bone by Woodrell and Bone Crossed as choices. From what I understand, the search by name method attempts to match the search with books with similar traits and the most activity first.
Typing the brackets is definitely easier. It can take a bit of manipulation to eventually scroll to the right book when adding. The mutiple language versions can complicate the search. If "add book" doesn't work right away, I usually change to "add author" which narrows the list of books to scroll through.
JanOMalleycat wrote: "Apparently it's one of those Goodreads search glitches that you were researching earlier . I'll probably continue to use the brackets method as it's so easy and, this being the first time I've known of a problem, not very unreliable."
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My favorite MT's, off the top of my head, have been Shanghai Moon and Winter's Bone. The latter is a stretch to cal..."
Thru May I've read 38 books. I think June might be pretty good. I've had a little more time to read since I've retired but I might be pretty busy this summer. We shall see...
Books mentioned in this topic
Bone Crossed (other topics)The Shanghai Moon (other topics)
Bone Crossed (other topics)
Winter's Bone (other topics)
A Darker Domain (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Daniel Woodrell (other topics)Stieg Larsson (other topics)
Carol O'Connell (other topics)
The best M/T I've read in the first six months is Wild Sorrow by Sandi Ault, the most recent in the Jamaica Wild series which is continuing as strong as it started.
Does anyone else have a M/T favorite for the first six months?
Shomeret