No. 2

Second book of the year - woohoo!

Joanne Fluke's culinary mysteries are just fun. This one's about a murder in a small-town health club. And cream puffs. YUM!

I should make some of the recipes in her books... they all look so good :)

No. 1

My first book of 2015! Actually, I started Joanne Fluke's Fudge Cupcake Murder the last week of 2014 and hoped it would be my final book of the year. But I couldn't quite stay up long enough on New Year's Eve, so I finished it on Jan. 1.

I really like these simple murder mysteries - easy to read and entertaining. The main character, Hannah, owns a small-town cookie shop and solves mysteries in her spare time. She also includes recipes for the mouth-watering cookies and other treats she whips up in her home and commercial kitchens. I always get hungry when I read these :)

Welcome Friends!

Welcome to the "It's Not Really A Contest" Reading Contest!

For 2015 (and beyond?) let's have some fun and keep track of what we read and talk about those books. Here are my suggested ground "rules":

• List the title, author(s) and date you finished the book
• Write a brief, one paragraph or so, description of the book you read
• Write briefly about what you thought of the book - your opinion
• Be kind and polite to one another
• No judging - all genres are welcome, from Young Adult to Fiction, Non-Fiction, Religious, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Graphic Novel, Romance, How-To, Cookbooks, whatever
• Size doesn't matter. A Christmas Carol is super short and super great. Brokeback Mountain is really super short and still great. Infinite Jest is well over 1,000 pages and also great. Blog it! 
• Hard copy books, Kindle, Nook, on your phone, audio books - all welcome
• If you start a book and it's so bad you can't finish it - it still counts. Blog it and tell us why it was so bad you had to quit. Just date it for the day you abandoned it
• Please invite friends who might enjoy this
• There may be prizes for whomever reads the most, even though this isn't really a contest - we can still have fun, right? What will the prize(s) be like? It depends on my mood when we get to the end of 2015 and whether or not I'm the "winner"

So...starting January 1st, start blogging what you read. If you started it in 2014 (or before!) and finish it in 2015, it counts, so blog it. If you abandon it because it's horrible, it counts, blog it. If you've read it before and just had to read it again, it still counts, blog it.

Legal Jargon:

I'm not a blogger and don't really know what I'm doing. I hope I've invited people correctly, but if not, I'll figure it out and correct it. I, Bill Ervin, will be the Administrator and everyone else will be a contributor, or author or whatever they call it. I may invite someone else to be a co-administrator if the need arises, but for now it'll just be me. Let's have fun!