As I just finished the last book of Josephine Tey's Inspector Grant series (and have also read both of her nonseries mysteries, Brat Farrar and Miss Pym Disposes), it occurred to me that there is a third "series reading" master post I should keep, in addition to the First in Series and Ongoing Series posts that I created a while ago, as inspired by Moonlight Reader; namely, one to collect all my completed reading. So this post collects everything from books / series recently finished to those that I read a long time ago in a galaxy much further away than I care to think about: in the latter case, if fiction, I can't guarantee that I remember much about the plot or the characters (which just might mean that it's time for a reread, but that's a different matter); if nonfiction, whatever I remember of their contents has long merged into the general muddle of information about our world, past and present, that has passed through my brain over the years, mostly without taking permanent residence and definitely without me still being able to pinpoint any specific source. But so help me, I did read all of these -- some only once, some have become favorite comfort reads.

 

I'll only be collecting completed series or other similarly definable groups of books here (e.g., "all novels / short stories by ..."); beginning with actually completed books and concluding with a section listing the series I have abandoned.  This is not intended as a master post listing all of my completed reading.

 

COMPLETED

MYSTERIES

Dermot Bolger

- Finbar's Hotel (ed.)

 

G.K. Chesterton

- Father Brown

 

Agatha Christie

- all mystery novels and short stories:
     - Miss Marple
     - Poirot
     - Tommy & Tuppence
     - Superintendent Battle (incl. Bundle Brent)
     - Colonel Race
     - Parker Pyne
     - Qin & Satterthwaite
     - Nonseries mysteries

 

Arthur Conan Doyle

- Sherlock Holmes

 

Michael Connelly

- Terry McCaleb

 

The Detection Club

- The Floating Admiral

 

Colin Dexter

- Inspector Morse

 

J. Jefferson Farjeon

- Inspector Kendall

 

Caroline Graham

- Midsomer Murders

 

George Heyer

- All mysteries:
     - Inspector Hannasyde
     - Inspector Hemingway
     - Nonseries

 

Tony Hillerman

- Leaphorn & Chee

 

P.D. James

- Adam Dalgliesh
- Cordelia Gray

 

Stephen King

- The Green Mile

 

Stieg Larsson

- Millennium (original series)

 

Dennis Lehane

- Kenzie & Gennaro

 

Henning Mankell

- Wallander

 

Ngaio Marsh

- Roderick Alleyn

 

Denise Mina

- Garnethill Trilogy

 

George Pelecanos

- Derek Strange & Terry Quinn

 

Catherine Louisa Pirkis

- Loveday Brooke

 

Edgar Allan Poe

- Dupin Tales

 

Ian Rankin

- Jack Harvey Thrillers

 

Dorothy L. Sayers

- Lord Peter Wimsey (incl. Wimsey & Vane subseries)

 

Josephine Tey

- All mysteries:
     - Inspector Grant series
     - Nonseries mysteries (Brat Farrar & Miss Pym Disposes)

 

 

HISTORICAL FICTION (ICNL. HISTORICAL MYSTERIES)

Robert van Gulik

- Judge Dee

 

Anthony Horowitz

- Sherlock Holmes sequels

 

John Jakes

- North and South Trilogy

 

Patrick O'Brian

- Aubrey & Maturin

 

Ellis Peters

- Brother Cadfael

 

David Pirie

- The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes

 

Jean Plaidy

- Mary Stuart

 

Tony Riches

- Tudor Trilogy

 

 

FANTASY / FAIRY TALES / SUPERNATURAL

Hans Christian Andersen

- Complete Fairy Tales

 

Brothers Grimm

- Complete Fairy Tales

 

Wilhelm Hauff

- Complete Fairy Tales

 

C.S. Lewis

- Chronicles of Narnia

 

Tamora Pierce

- Song of the Lioness

 

J.K. Rowling

- Harry Potter (minus The Cursed Child, which contrary to the sales hype wasn't actually written by Rowling)

 

J.R.R. Tolkien

- Middle Earth: The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings

 

T.H. White

- The Once and Future King

 

Tad Williams

- Memory, Sorrow & Thorn

 

 

CLASSICS & LITFIC

Aeschylus

- Oresteia (Agamemnon / The Libarion Bearers / The Eumenides)

 

Louisa May Alcott

- Little Women (incl. Good Wives, Little Men & Jo's Boys)

 

Margaret Atwood

- Gilead (The Handmaid's Tale & The Testaments)

 

Jane Austen

- Novels and fragments (minus juvenalia, except for The History of England)

 

Gabriel Chevalier

- Clochemerle (Clochemerle & Clochemerle Babylon)

 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

- Faust (Parts I & II and Urfaust)

 

Lewis Grassic Gibbon

- A Scots Quair

 

Robert Graves

- I, Claudius

- Books on Greek mythology (The Greek Myths; Greek Gods and Heroes)

 

Selma Lagerlöf

- Jerusalem

 

D.H. Lawrence

- Brangwen Family (The Rainbow & Women in Love)

 

Naguib Mahfouz

- Cairo Trilogy

- Novels & stories of Ancient Egypt (Khufu's Wisdom, Rhadopis of Nubia, Thebes at War, Akhenaten, Voices from the Other World)

 

Thomas Mann

- All novels and short stories

 

Edna O'Brien

- Country Girls Trilogy

 

William Shakespeare

- All plays, sonnets and short poems

 

Sophocles

- Theban Plays (Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonnus, Antigone)

 

Wallace Stegner

- Joe Allston (All the Little Live Things & The Spectator Bird)

 

Anthony Trollope

- The Pallisers

 

 

HISTORY, (AUTO)BIOGRAPHY & OTHER NONFICTION

Will & Ariel Durant

- The Story of Civilization

 

Fischer Weltgeschichte

(various authors; elsewhere known as Universal History and Storia Unversale)

 

Antonia Fraser

- A Royal History of England (ed.)

 

Hugo Hamilton

- Childhood Memoirs

 

Hans J. Massaquoi

- Destine to Witness

 

Hans Silvester

- Cats in the Sun

 

 

ABANDONED

SERIES

Renée Ahdieh: The Wrath and the Dawn (after book 1, The Wrath and the Dawn)
Alan Bradley: Flavia de Luce (after book 1, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie)
Dan Brown: Robert Langdon (after book 2, The Da Vinci Code; no other books from series read)
Miles Burton: Desmond Merrion (after book 1, The Secret of High Eldersham)
Trudi Canavan: Black Magician Trilogy (after book 1, The Magicians' Guild)
Zen Cho: Sorcerer to the Crown (after book 1, Sorcerer to the Crown)
Jennifer Estep: Crown of Shards (after book 1, Kill the Queen)
Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones's Diary (after book 1, Bridget Jones's Diary)
James Forrester: Clarenceux Trilogy (after book 1, Sacred Treason)
Elizabeth George: Inspector Lynley (after book 16, This Body of Death)
Lee Goldberg: Even Ronin (after book 1, Lost Hills)
Kerry Greenwood: Phryne Fischer (after book 1, Cocaine Blues, aka Miss Phryne Fisher Investigates)
Philippa Gregory: Tudor Court (after book 3, The Other Boleyn Girl; no other books from series read)
L.B. Hathaway: Posie Parker (DNF book 6.5, A Christmas Case; no other books from series read)
Martha Grimes: Richard Jury (after book 21, Dust)
Dorothy B. Hughes: Griselda Satterlee (after book 1, The So Blue Marble)
E.L. James: Fifty Shades (after book 1, Fifty Shades of Grey)
Carole Lawrence: Ian Hamilton (after book 1, Edinburgh Twilight)
Edward Marston: Christopher Redmayne (after book 1, The King's Evil)
Francine Matthews: Caroline Carmichael (after book 1, The Cutout)
Pat McIntosh: Gil Cunningham (after book 1, The Harper's Quine)
Stephenie Meyer: Twilight (after book 1, Twilight)
S.J. Parris: Giordano Bruno (after book 1, Heresy)
Louise Penny: Armand Gamache (after book 1, Still Life)
Elizabeth Peters: Amelia Peabody (after book 1, Crocodile on the Sandbank)
Valerie Plame Wilson & Sarah Lovett: Vanessa Pierson (after book 1, Blowback)
Patrick Senécal: Le vide (after book 1, Vivre au Max)
Helene Tursten: Inspector Irene Huss (after book 2, Night Rounds)

 

AUTHORS

Anne Rice

Read:

- Maifair Witches through book 2 (Lasher)

- Vampire Chronicles through book 6 (The Vampire Armand)

- Stand-alones: Cry to Heaven, Violin, Vittorio the Vampire

 

Book: The Hunted (The Abandoned Series #1)
Author: C.J. Hart
Publication Date: 3/31/2015
Reviewed by: Tammy Payne- Book Nook Nuts
My Rating: 5 Stars


REVIEW
This is a new to me author.

In this story we have a young guy named Seb who is a shifter. The tribe he is from has many varied shifters from Puma's to Wolves and more. Although called skinwalkers as they are a navajo tribe.

There are hunters who do not want these beasts within their towns and homelands.

Cassie is a human who has been raised by her dad after the death of her mom. She has a pull towards Seb and she is not sure why.

Although they know they should not be friends or anything else. These 2 young people are drawn to each other. But when humans start to go missing of course its the tribe of shifters who are taking the fall or are they?

Seb is Alpha of his pack but that will not stop them from wanting to kill Cassie.
Can he save her from his own kind?
Why is Cassie's dad in on this?
And just who is Marcus really?

The story was well written, very detailed, we have action as well as heart. Really good book for young adults or even us older adults. The book does leave us with a big cliffhanger so I can't wait already for the next one.

I was gifted a copy of this book for my honest review
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I am done! Done, done, done with this novel. I am hugely disappointed with Hoover.

THIS IS NOT OK!

 

I hate when authors use other people's illness to build up their main character. It's wrong on so many levels, it's completely disrespectful and insulting. Hoover inadvertently says it's ok to lie to people if they are sick, it's ok to treat them differently because of it. It's ok to set them apart. That has another name, too..

 

Let's talk about Maggie, Ridge's sweet girlfriend who is sick with a terminal illness. Came to the point where she got so sick and had to be taken in to hospital, where Sydney finds out about her. I FLIPPED OUT!

 

So this is the reason why Ridge is so hell bent on staying with Maggie, she's sick. And we are supposed to say what? Awww Ridge you're a guy and a half! Living with the woman you are falling in love with and lusting over, but not being honest to the sick girl because of your guilt trip. Well here's a news flash: Maggie is a person, Maggie is not pathetic because she's sick, Maggie deserves the same consideration you give to the other cheating bastards in this story. She is used as a backdrop to highlight Ridge's maturity, her illness a cliché tearjerker that is supposed to enhance the angst in this novel. Low blow.

 

Ridge is placed up on a pedestal because of his choice of not leaving a sick girlfriend behind, no matter how he truly feels about her, because he RESPECTS Maggie.

 

If he really respected Maggie, and her illness he would have been honest, and given her the benefit of a doubt that she can think for herself. What do you think Maggie's choice would be? Would she like to be in a relationship with a dishonest cheating asshole, that is only staying in a relationship with her because he feels guilty, and he believes that's what's expected of him? Or do you think that she deserves enough RESPECT to make her own choices in her life, and to maybe find somebody that's not lying to her face because of imagined obligations? Here's a quote:

 

She sighs and turns her head, looking straight up to the ceiling. “I’m fine. It was just an insulin issue.” She turns back to face me. “You can’t baby me every time this happens, Ridge.”

My jaw clenches at “baby me.” “I’m not babying you, Maggie. I’m loving you. I’m taking care of you. There’s a difference.” - oh really? What about all the touching, all the kissing, all the messaging with Sydney? All the lyric writing, and singing?

Loving you? Taking care of you? UP YOURS RIDGE!

 

Just how do you think that poor Maggie would feel if she knew the truth? Would it make her happy to know her boyfriend thinks she's so pathetic because she's sick, she doesn't deserve to be treated equally? That all of his lies, and taking care of her comes out of his inability to deal with HIMSELF in this situation, to know he's not moving on with his life because he couldn't live with himself if he did. And finally after knowing all that, realizing that no matter what he says, this is not even remotely about her, it's all about him. Wow what a man, what a keeper, what a fucking hero.

 

Ridge knew he was attracted to Sydney when he moved her in. If he wanted to do the right thing, he would have helped her find a place to stay. Sydney knew she had the hots for Ridge, and after she found out he had a girlfriend, she should have done the respectable thing and pissed off. Ridge and Sydney are Tori and Hunter. Double standards? Hell yes, and I HATE DOUBLE STANDARDS! And the rest? What kind of message is Hoover trying to send? 

They knew what they were doing. Ridge is a cheating, pitiful asshole, and Sydney a self-absorbed hypocrite. I had enough of this shit.

This is it...this is where i say goodbye to Tijan for some time. I have tried, with two consecutive novels, and just eventually gave up.

 

As a paranormal romance novel, "Davy Harwood" is predictable and boring as hell.

Davy faces off a vampire, whom she hates(lusts over), and he is holding captive another guys with his eyes. She's fuming, she needs to do something. Sooooo.... she fists her hands in his shirt and kisses him.

 

How...very....original.

 

The background story is barely there, the world-building non existent. I waited for a story, for something to happen, anything...it didn't. Drama, drama, drama, boyfriends, drama...

By the time she had the dream in witch the suicide girl says "I chose you", i knew exactly where this was going. The prophesied Immortal is here, and she has a Destiny to fulfill, weather she likes it or not. Hunted by everyone, but protected by one man alone..

 

 

Again, how very, very, very original...

 

 

 

That's it for me....

 

::sighs contently::

Why, oh why, have I waited so long to read another historical romance novel? Seriosuly, I know many of you won't understand it, but it's like comimg home. I think it's because no matter what, I know when I start one it will have a happy ending and it will make me laugh and smile and maybe even cry along the way. I vow never to go this long without reading a romance novel ever again.

This one follows Lady Julia Yardley after her divorce is final. She was stuck in a very bad marriage and to get out of it, she timed things just right so her husband would walk in on her having an affair with Aiden Carr, Duke of Trathen and finally divorce her. After all is said and done, she finds that she though she doesn't regret her decisions, she is not proud of having used Aiden. Aiden, a gentleman with a high code of honor, cannot get over having done something so unhonorable and yet is still drawn to Julia, obsessed might be a better word. But another affiar with her is out of the question because he is searching for a wife, determined to actually make it to the altar this time, after 2 failed previous attempts. This sets up the basics of the story. We get to watch them flirt, watch him fight his attraction and watch her be amused by it before becoming terrified of it. Things happen and we get our happily ever after. Laura Lee Guhrke has yet to disappoint me in this regard.

I must say that I love Julia because she isn't your typical historical romance heroine. She smokes, she drinks, she swears, and she truly doesn't give a damn what society has to say about it. She reminded me a bit of Lily from Then Came You by Lisa Kleypas. I truly enjoyed watching Aiden slowly peel back her layers to see the person she hids underneath the uncaring mask. Aiden, while he may not be my favorite hero, he does the job well. His upstanding character is the perfect compliment to Julia's wild ways.