Tuesday Meme Things: Summertime is the right time for crime…

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Back to our regularly scheduled program, where I participate each Tuesday (this week Wednesday because of a busy day yesterday) in book blogging meme activities:

It’s Tuesday … Where are You as hosted by raidergirl3:

This Tuesday, I’m still with private detective Harry Bosch as I was last week, but with him in Los Angeles a different book on a different case in The Closers. Bosch is back with the LAPD with former partner Kiz Rider and he’s on a mission of closing unsolved cases. First case: a 1988 case where a 16-year-old girl, who disappeared from her home, was later found dead of a gunshot wound to the chest.

I also am in Brooklyn with Parker in The Outfit, a Parker novel by Richard Stark, a pseudonym of Donald E. Westlake. Even though he has a new face, The Outfit, the mob, has found him and still want him dead, but he’s turning the tables and going after them with heist after heist.

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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading, with the rules pretty simple: Grab your current read, open to a random page, share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page, BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!), and then share the author too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers! Like last week, I’m going to cheat slightly. Instead of a random page, I’m going to share the opening lines of the Parker novel I’m reading:

When the woman screamed, Parker awoke and rolled off the bed. He heard the plop of a silencer behind him as he rolled and the bullet punched the pillow where his head had been.

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Next up, I’m combining Library Loot hosted by Eva and Marg and Friday Finds also hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. The first focuses on books that you’ve checked out from the library; the second, books that you’ve come across that you want to read.

Since I got quite a load of loot (and here) from the library last week, this week I only have two books:

• Look Again by Lisa Scottoline, which I thought I’d never get. I was put on a waiting list a month or two ago and now finally it is here.
• Murder at Hazelmoor by Agatha Christie, which is an unexpected find.

How so?  Last week I mentioned getting four by Agatha Christie: Murder at the Vicarage, Peril at End House, Thirteen at Dinner and Murder on the Orient Express. I also mentioned how I had to order The Sittaford Mystery, which chronologically comes between the first two mentioned, through interlibrary loan and would have to await reading them in order for the Agatha Christie Reading Challenge in which I am participating.

On my Challenges page, I had listed all the Christie books in order, but unlike with some other titles, I neglected to add the alternate title for The Sittaford Mystery: Murder at Hazelmoor. Luckily, Sandy, one of the librarians at the Green Free Library in Wellsboro, Pa. (our library :) caught my error and found the book in the Green Free’s own collection. Sandy was nice enough to attach this note from information she found online:

The Sittaford Mystery is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1931 under the title of The Murder of Hazelmoor and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on September 7 of the same year under Christie’s original title. It is the first Christie novel to be given a different title for the US Market.

The US edition retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at seven shilling and sixpence.

Whew! Now I can get back to reading her novels in order. Thanks, Sandy.

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Last but not least is this week’s Weekly Geeks, brought to us this by Wendy of Caribousmom, where this week’s “task” is, to paraphrase Wendy, to talk about the Fourth of July and summertime reading.

As I already gave away in the title of this post, “summertime is the time for crime” for me with my reading. Of course, I guess I should add that I read mostly crime novels year-round, one only has to look at my reading last year and so far this year to see that. In addition to continuing the Agatha Christie Reading Challenge this summer, I also am undertaking my own personal challenge to read all of the Harry Bosch novels written by Michael Connelly. I am on No. 11 of 14 written so far with a 14th, Nine Dragons, to come out this October. Besides Christie and Connelly, I am especially looking forward to getting the Scottoline book from the library today. Mentioning that, I think I need to go…

RIGHT NOW.

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