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Old 12-06-2013, 05:47 PM   #18257
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Cool Now on to Robert B. Parker...and Spenser!
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Ah freebies. After finishing the freebie, Tall Man in Ray-Bans yesterday evening (I had quite enjoyed it) I was all but decided to start reading the very first book of Robert B. Parker's Spenser series since Jim Butcher almost always refers to this series as his favorite and I have never read even one of them nor ever seen any of the 'Spenser for Hire' TV shows. But I got a freebie this morning that appealed to me enough to make it next on my TBR list. From its metadata this paragraph both grabbed and excited me:

A chilling series of deaths strikes a writers' group in New York, leaving the remaining members to face the suspicion - and finally the certainty - that one of them is a psychopathic killer. Is a sequel to Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None" being played out in their lives?

So, later today I'll beging reading the Amazon freebie, The Muse of Violence by Bruce Hartman.
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I was half-way through that freebie I got from Amazon, The Muse of Violence and was wondering if I should abandon it and try reading something else instead. So last evening I had Showtime on the TV and a movie started started playing that was called Beautiful Creatures. The title rang a bell in my head and I looked it up in my Calibre ebook library and found Beautiful Creatures (Caster Chronicles #1) by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl. I believe I'd added it when the advertising for the movie's release was on TV, maybe six months ago. So this morning I put The Muse of Violence aside and began reading Beautiful Creatures. So far so good!
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This morning I was 1/4 of the way into Beautiful Creatures and enjoying it. Well, I decided to take a short break to read a Jim Butcher short story that I'd been waiting for. The story takes place between Ghost Story and Cold Days. It's in the new anthology called Dangerous Women by George R.R. Martin and Gardiner Dozois. The name of the short story is BOMBSHELLS! The story is told from Molly Carpenter's viewpoint. I loved it!
I completed reading Beautiful Creatures this morning and as it was highly enjoyable I will be shopping for the next book in this series after Christmas. I really liked BOMBSHELLS as well!

Now I've finally launched into reading that very first book of Robert B. Parker's Spenser series, The Godwulf Manuscript

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