Week Fifty-Two

This Christmas themed cozy reads like a long short story. While it lacks substance, the recipe book element makes it worthwhile.

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David Baldacci fourth book in the Puller series starts with two stories, both of which started nearly thirty years ago. The Puller brothers and some of their old acquaintances work cooperatively to permanently resolve these  three decade old accounts. The reader should not be discouraged by the zigging and zagging story line because Baldacci provides a satisfactory closure.

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Likable protagonists, Annie and Max Darling, coupled with curious locals become involved in solving a murder in Broward’s Rock. A good story, a multitude of characters and intrigue fired by passion make for a very readable mystery. Hope Hart features Hyla Harrison more in future books.

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The Philosopher Stone Reading List

January 2016 Reviews

#1 - No Rest for the Dead - A Novel (Twenty-Six Writers. One Mystery.) Edited by Andrew F. Gulli and Lamia J. Gulli

#2 - The Crossing - A Bosch Novel by Michael Connelly

#3 - All Dressed in White by Mary Higgins Clark & Alafa Burke

#4 - Copy Cat Murder - A Hat Shop Mystery - by Jenn McKinlay 

#5 - Scandalous Behavior - A Stone Barrington Novel - by Stuart Woods

#6 - Sam Phillips - The Man Who Invented Rock ’n’ Roll by Peter Guralnick 

#7 - Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder - A Hannah Swensen Mystery by Joanne Fluke

#8 - Blueberry Muffin Murder - A Hannah Swensen by Joanne Fluke  

#9 - Wildlife Photographer of the Year: 50 Years by Rosamund Cox (Editor)

#10 - NYPD RED 4 by James Patterson & Marshall Karp

February 2016 Reviews 

#11 - iPhone for Dummies (ebook) by Edward C. Baig

#12 - Capturing Better Photos & Video with your IPhone by J. Dennis Thomas 

#13 - The Plague of Thieves Affair - A Carpenter And Quincannon Mystery by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

#14 - The iPhone Photographer - How To Take Professional Photographs with Your iPhone by Michal Fagans 

#15 - Once A Crooked Man - A Novel by David McCallum

#16 - Double Fudge Brownie Murder - A Hannah Swensen Mystery by Joanne Fluke  

#17 - Carpenter & Quincannon, Professional Detective Services by Bill Pronzini

#18 - The History of Rock ’N’ Roll in Ten Songs by Greil Marcus 

#19 - This Old Man - looking back at a literary life by Roger Angell 

#20 - The Black Dudley Murder - An Albert Campion Mystery - by Margery Allingham 

#21 - Learning to See Creatively Third Edition Design, Color, and Composition in Photography by Bryan Peterson

#22 - Here Comes Valentine CAT by Deborah Underwood pictures by Clauida Rueda 

#23 - Robert B. Parker’s Blackjack - A Novel by Robert Knott

#24 - When That Rough God Goes Riding - Listening to Van Morrison By Greil Marcus 

#25 - Midnight Sun by Joe Nesbø

March 2016 Reviews 

#26 - Violent Crimes - Ann Amanda Jaffe Novel by Phillip Margolin

#27 - The Practice of Contemplative Photography - Seeing the world with Fresh Eyes by Andy Karr & Michael Wood

#28 - The Waters of Eternal Youth - A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery by Donna Leon 

#29 - My Granny is a Pirate by Val McDermid

#30 - Off the Grid - A Joe Pickett  Novel by C.J. Box

#31 - Splinter the Silence by Val McDermid 

April 2016 Reviews

#32 - PRIVATE PARIS, by James Patterson and Mark Sullivan

#33 - Historic US Route 20 - A Journey across America’s Longest Highway by Bryan Farr

#34 - Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher - the Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan

#35 - No Shred of Evidence - An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery by Charles Todd

#36 - Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben

#37 - Hour of the Wolf: Inspector Van Veeteren Series, Book 7 by Håkan Nesser

#38 - Beneath the Bleeding by Val McDermid

#39 - Blood Brothers - The Fatal Friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X by Randy Roberts & Johnny Smith 

#40 - Bears in the Bath by Shirley Parenteau illustrated by David Walker

#41 - Duck's Vacation by Gilad Soffer

#42 - Split! Splat! by Amy Gibson illustrated by Steve Bojørkman 

May 2016 Reviews

#43 - A Morbid Taste for Bones - The First Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, at Shrewsbury by Ellis Peters

#44 - Nobody’s Mother is in Second Grade by Robin Pulver pictures by G. Brian Karas 

#45 - 15th Affair (Women's Murder Club) by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro 

#46 - The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman

#47 - The Steel Kiss by Jeffery Deaver 

#48 - Family Jewels by Stuart Woods

#49 - Geocaching - Hike and Seek With Your GPS by Erik Sherman 

June 2016 Reviews

#50 - Suspicion of Vengeance by Barbara Parker

#51 - The Last Mile by David Baldacci

#52 - Extreme Prey by John Sandford 

#53 - The Snatchabook by Helen Docherty

#54 - Our Great Big Backyard by Laura Bush and Jenna Bush Hager

#55 - When Falcons Fall (Sebastian St. Cyr) by C.S. Harris 

July 2016 Reviews 

#56 - Charcoal JOE by Walter Mosley

#57 - The Pursuit by Janet Evanovich & Lee Goldberg

#58 - As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust by Alan Bradley 

#59 - Diary of a Spider by Doreen Cronin • Pictures by Harry Bliss

#60 - Dishonorable Intentions (Stone Barrington #38) by Stuart Woods 

#61 - The Games - A Private Novel by James Patterson & Mark Sullivan

#62 - Devious - A Bentz and Montoya Novel (#7) by Lisa Jackson 

#63 - Let’s Have A Tree Party by David Martin

#64 - Murder at the Loch - A Langham & Dupré Mystery by Eric Brown

August 2016 Reviews

#65 - Beaks, Bones & Bird Songs by Roger J. Lederer

#66 - Bobby Kennedy: the making of a liberal icon by Larry Tye

#67 - Baby Birds: An Artist Looks into the Nest by Julie Zickefoose 

#68 - Bear and Duck by Katy Hudson

#69 - Phantom Instinct by Meg Gardiner 

#70 - Hummingbirds and Butterflies by Bill Thompson III and Connie Toops 

#71 - Robert B. Parker’s Slow Burn - A Spenser Novel by Ace Atkins

September 2016 Reviews

#72 - Killer Look - A Novel by Linda Fairstein 

#73 - Bullseye - A Detective Michael Bennett Thriller by James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge

#74 - The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School by Laura Murray

#75 - Kill Chain (Evan Delaney #5 - 2007) by Meg Gardiner 

#76 - The Trial: A BookShot by James Paterson & Maxine Paetro 

#77 - Explorer's Guide Finger Lakes (5th Edition) by Katharine Delavan Dyson

#78 - The Shattered Tree - A Beth Crawford Mystery by Charles Todd 

#79 - Tribe - On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger

October 2016 Reviews

#80 - A Great Reckoning - A Novel ((Chief Inspector Gamache Novel) by Louise Perry 

#81 - Thirteen Guests - J. (Joseph) Jefferson Farjeon

#82 - Suspect by Michael Robotham 

#83 - Fishbone’s Song by Gary Paulsen

#84 - The Last Detective - by Robert Crais

#85 - Revenge In a Cold River by Anne Perry 

November 2016 Reviews 

#86 - Painting Without Paint by Matthew Palmer

#87 - Sex,Lies, & Serious Money (Stone Barrington #39) by Stuart Woods 

#88 - Big Bad Breakfast - The Most Important Book of the Day by John Currence

#89 - And They Found No Witches - A True Police Story by Tom Alessi 

#90 - The Jealous Kind by James Lee Burke 

#91 - The Wrong Side of Goodbye by Michael Connelly 

#92 - Escape Clause - A Virgil Flowers Novel by John Sanford

#93 - How To Catch Santa by Jean Reagan 

#94 - Don’t Go Home (Death On Demand #25) by Carolyn Hart 

December 2016 Reviews

#95 - Night School - A Jack Reacher Novel (#21) by Lee Child

#96 - Wines of the Finger Lakes by Peter Burford 

#97 - Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen 

#98 - My Special One and Only by Joe Berger 

#99 - A Christmas Message by Anne Perry 

#100 - The Road to Character by David Brooks 

Be careful about reading health books.

You may die of a misprint.

 - Mark Twain

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Week Forty-Nine - 3 to go

If you are a newcomer to Finger Lakes wine, this all-encompassing book by Peter Burford is for you. This is not a travel book, but an informative history of Finger Lakes wine makers and an up-to-date current listing, including our favorites, Hazlitt 1852 Vinyards and Glenora Wine Cellars.

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