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Read 8 of your comfort / guilty pleasures books
All are Paranormal, although the first 4 are also Cozy Mysteries.
1. Bewitched, Bothered, and Biscotti
2. A Cast-Off Coven
3. The Ghost and the Dead Deb
4. A Vision of Murder
5. Fire Touched
6. Linger
7. Magic Breaks
8. Sweep of the Heart
Prompt 8: Oxygen - completed.Read 8 comfort/ guilty pleasure books.
1. Bake, Borrow, and Steal, Ellie Alexander, 20 Jan 2023, cozy mystery
2. The Skeleton Garden, Marty Wingate, 2 Feb 2023, cozy mystery
3. Fogged Inn, Barbara Ross, 9 Feb 2023, cozy mystery
4. The Painted Veil, W. Somerset Maugham, 23 Feb 2023, classic/romance
5. Mousse and Murder, Elizabeth Logan, 27 Feb 2023, cozy mystery
6. The Other Alcott, Elise Hooper, 7 Mar 2023, historical fiction
7. Wild Strawberries, Angela Thirkell, 10 Mar 2023, classic/humor
8. The Light Years, Elizabeth Jane Howard, 16 Mar 2023, modern classic
Prompt 8: OxygenRead 8 comfort/guilty pleasure books.
Read: 8/8
1. Misbehaving Read: 2/19/23
2. Illicit Read: 2/27/23
3. The Anatomy of Jane Read: 5/2/23
4. Darling Discovered: A True Story of Submission Read: 5/20/23
5. Simon Says: Mine Read: 6/8/23
6. Stealing His Thunder Read: 6/18/23
7. Web of Desire Read: 7/4/23
8. Fueling His Hunger Read: 1/16/24
Prompt 8: OxygenRead 8 comfort/guilty pleasure books. (all rereads)
Read: 8/8
1. Nimona✔️
2. Carry On✔️
3. The Shadow of the Wind✔️
4. The Perks of Being a Wallflower✔️
5. Matilda✔️
6. One Hundred Years of Solitude✔️
7. The Joy Luck Club✔️
8. Room✔️
Prompt #8: Oxygen ~ COMPLETERead 8 comfort/guilty pleasures books ~ heartwarming, feel good stories
1. Midnight at the Blackbird Café by Heather Webber Read: 2/8/23
2. Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World by Benjamin Alire Sáenz Read: 2/16/23
3. Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree Read: 3/12/23
4. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna Read: 3/16/23
5. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Read: 3/31/23
6. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Read: 4/30/23
7. Book Lovers by Emily Henry Read: 5/4/23
8. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman Read: 5/17/23
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Fifteen for FifteenPrompt 8: O2
Read 8 of your comfort / guilty pleasures books:
20th-century mysteries and M/M romance
� 1. Other Half by Jordan Castillo Price, 31 Jan 23 (M/M romance)
� 2. Vintage Murder by Ngaio Marsh, 2 Feb 23 (1937 mystery)
� 3. Murder While You Work by Susan Scarlett, 9 Feb 23 (1944 mystery)
� 4. Lessons in Desire by Charlie Cochrane, 22 Feb 23 (M/M romance)
� 5. Subtle Bodies by Jordan Castillo Price, 1 Mar 23 (M/M romance)
� 6. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, 5 Mar 23 (1927 mystery)
� 7. Banker by Dick Francis, 21 Apr 23 (1982 mystery)
� 8. The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown & Other Stories by Peter Lovesey, 25 Apr 23 (1994 mysteries)
O2 comfort or guilty pleasureFor me this will be rereads and historical romance
1. The Montesoro Legacy completed Jan 23
2. Penric's Demon completed Jan 26
3. Penric and the Shaman completed Jan 27
4. Penric's Fox completed Jan 28
5. The Haunting of Tram Car 015 completed Feb 12
6. Under a Dark Moon completed Feb 17
7. The Wicked Cousin completed Feb 21
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Read: 8/8
1. Doom and Bloom (The English Cottage Garden Mysteries #3) by H.Y. Hanna -Read 01/23
2. Trowel and Error (The English Cottage Garden Mysteries #4) by H.Y. Hanna -Read 01/28
3. Fronds and Enemies (The English Cottage Garden Mysteries #5) by H.Y. Hanna -Read 01/28
4. Too Mulch to Handle (The English Cottage Garden Mysteries #6) by H.Y. Hanna -Read 01/29
5. Finding Mercy (Home Valley #3) by Karen Harper -Read 24/02
6. The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes #6) by Arthur Conan Doyle -Read 02/25
7. The Convent's Secret (Glass and Steele #5) by .J. Archer -Read 03/14
8. The Bone Season (The Bone Season #1) by Samantha Shannon -Read 03/20
Fifteen for Fifteen - Prompt 8: O2
January 18 - December 2023 � COMPLETE
My Prompt 8 Plan (msg 11)
Prompt🔹Read 8 of your comfort / guilty pleasures books
Guilty Pleasure: Kristen Ashley
💟Jagged🔹04.25 ★★★★
💟Knight🔹04.12 ★★★★
💟Until the Sun Falls from the Sky🔹03.25 ★★★★
Comfort Reads: Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb books
💟The Becoming🔹02.24 ★★★★�
💟The Collector🔹05.20 ★★★★
💟Heart of the Sea🔹05.04 ★★★★
💟Under Currents🔹02.21 ★★★★
💟The Choice🔹07.27 ★★★★
Prompt 8: O2 - completed 08/07
Read: 8/8Childhood rereads:
Favorites rereads:
Prompt 8 -- O2Read 8 of your comfort / guilty pleasures books
1. Magic Tides 2/2/23
2. Veils 3/6/23
3. No Mercy 3/21/23
4. Encore in Death 3/23/23
5. My Lucky #13 3/25/23
6. At Peace 4/17/23
Reread 8 of your comfort/guilty pleasure books1) Eye Spy 02/5/23
2) Reserved for the Cat
Completed
3) One Good Knight 04/22/23
4) The Joy Luck Club completed 4/11/23
5) Explosive Eighteen
6)Iron Kissed completed 3/21/23
7)Dead to the World 06/25/23
8) Plum Spooky
Prompt 8: OxygenRead 8 comfort reads/rereads.
1. Cair 1-27-23
2. Keeper of Enchanted Rooms 1-28-23
3. Natural Twenty 1-28-23
4. Pitcher Perfect 1-29-23
5. Devil's Mark 1-30-23
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Prompt 8: OyxgenRead 8 comfort/guilty pleasure books - latest in series
1. A World of Curiosities - Completed 3/3/23
2. Triple Cross - Completed 2/13/23
3. Righteous Prey - Completed 3/11/23
4. Racing the Light - Completed 3/7/23
5. The Zero Night - Completed 3/17/23
6. A Stranger in Town - Completed 2/7/23
7. Long Shadows - Completed 3/18/23
8. The Last Orphan
Prompt 8: Oxygen Read 8 of your comfort / guilty pleasures books - Romance
1. Hero, 2/2/23, 4 stars
2. Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail, 2/4/23, 4 stars
3. Infamous, 2/5/23, 4.5 stars
4. Meet Cute, 2/12/23, 4 stars
5. Girl Gone Viral, 2/22/23, 4 stars
6. Rescue You, 4/11/23, 3.5 stars
7. In the Dog House, 4/22/23, 3 stars
8. Before I Let Go, 5/10/23, 4 stars
Prompt 8: OxygenRead 8 of your comfort / guilty pleasures books
Re-read of favourites highly recommended!
1. To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
2. Passage by Connie Willis
3. The Masqueraders by Georgette Heyer
4. Ravenous by Sharon Ashwood
5. Bellwether by Connie Willis
6. Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann
7. Artemis by Andy Weir
8. Archangel's Light by Nalini Singh
Read 8 of your comfort / guilty pleasures booksRead 5/8
1.)Tuesdays with Morrie
2.)Girl in Translation
3.)The High Desert: Black. Punk. Nowhere. �2/18
4.)Paper Girls: The Complete Story
5.)Hakim's Odyssey: Book 2: From Turkey to Greece � 1/31
6.)Hakim's Odyssey: Book 3: From Macedonia to France � 1/31
7.) Are You Listening? �2/19
8.) Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands � 3/19
Prompt 8 - OxygenRead - 3/8
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3. Number the Stars
4. Moloka'i
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7. A Little Princess
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Fifteen in Fifteen - Prompt #8: O2 - CompleteCozy Mysteries (Historical & Contemporary)
✔︎ 1. A Lady's Guide to Gossip and Murder by Dianne Freeman
Read: March 11, 2023
✔︎ 2. The Last Camel Died at Noon by Elizabeth Peters
Read: April 24, 2023
✔︎ 3. The Plot and the Pendulum by Jenn McKinlay
Read: February 18, 2023
✔︎ 4. The Wedding Plot by Paula Munier
Read: February 11, 2023
✔︎ 5. To Davy Jones Below by Carola Dunn
Read: March 3, 2023
✔︎ 6. A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Murder by Dianne Freeman
Read: April 29, 2023
✔︎ 7. The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog by Elizabeth Peters
Read: May 20, 2023
✔︎ 8. A Fiancée's Guide to First Wives and Murder by Dianne Freeman
Read: June 21, 2023
Prompt 8: O2
1. Barbarian's Redemption (2/28)
2. Barbarian's Lady (3/5)
3. Barbarian's Rescue (3/13)
4. Barbarian's Tease (3/23)
5. Barbarian's Treasure (5/8)
6. Below Zero (9/17)
7. Love on the Brain (9/20)
8. Love, Theoretically (10/30)
1. Barbarian's Redemption (2/28)
2. Barbarian's Lady (3/5)
3. Barbarian's Rescue (3/13)
4. Barbarian's Tease (3/23)
5. Barbarian's Treasure (5/8)
6. Below Zero (9/17)
7. Love on the Brain (9/20)
8. Love, Theoretically (10/30)
READ 8 COMFORT /GUILTY PLEASURE BOOKSFeel Good/ Romance and crime
FEEL GOOD
✔️1As You Walk On By
31/3 🌟🌟🌟🌟
✔️2. The Reading List
25/3 🌟🌟🌟
ROMANCE
✔️3. Lord Livesey's Bluestocking: A Regency Romance3/4 🌟🌟🌟🌟
✔️4.A Perfect Equation
6/4 🌟🌟🌟🌟
✔️5.Josh and Gemma the Second Time Around
31/1 🌟🌟🌟🌟
✔️6.Mr. Fixer Upper
14/2 🌟🌟🌟
CRIME
✔️7. Murder at the Book Club 15/4 the 🌟
✔️ 8.The Wrong Turn
8/4 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Deeprompt 8 - comfort/guilty pleasure books
my comfort reads or go-to genres tend to be WW2 historical fiction, cozy mysteries and romance novels with enemy/rival to lover tropes. If i want something non-fictiony around this time, i look to humerous non-fiction (a la Mary Roach)
1. The Curious Case of Emily Lickenson (Cozy Mystery) - Finished - 5/21/23
2. Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality (humerous non-fiction) - finished - 5/30/23
3. The Librarian Spy (ww2 hist fic) - finished - 6/4/23
4.Like Cabins On Fire: A Sweet Romantic Comedy (enemies to lover romance) - finished - 6/12/23
5. Murder Takes a Bow: An Olivia Morgan Cruise Ship Mystery (cozy mystery) - finished - 7/9/234. 6. Stateless (YA hist fiction) - Finished - 7/26/23
7. The Woman With the Cure (lesser known women in history hist fic) - finished - 7/28/23
8. Secrets of the Italian Island (WW2 hist fiction) - finished - 7/30/23
Fifteen in Fifteen DONEPrompt #8 - Read 8 of your comfort / guilty pleasures books
Cozy Mysteries
1.Purrfectly Deadly 2/16/23
2.Demons of Bourbon Street 3/15/23
3. Strawberry Shortcake Murder 7/29/23
4. One for the Hooks 8/1/23
Sexy Romance
5. Resurrection 5/2/23
6. Nocturnal Whispers 3/31/23
7. Claimed by Desire 1/24/23
Doctor Who Books
8. Doctor Who: Code of the Krillitanes 1/14/23
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Read 8 of your books by favorite authors
�1. Beaker's Dozen, Nancy Kress - fin 2/19
�2. Golden Fool (Tawny Man #2), Robin Hobb - fin 2/6
�3. Seveneves, Neal Stephenson - fin 3/14
�4. Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch #2) - fin 4/9
�5. Pastwatch, Orson Scott Card- fin 6/29
�6. Night’s Slow Poison, Ann Leckie - fin 7/5
�7. Future Perfect, Nancy Kress - fin 7/10
�8. The Labyrinth of the Spirits, Carlos Ruiz Zafón - fin 10/3
COMPLETED 10/2
Fifteen in Fifteen - Prompt #8: O2 Read 8 of your comfort / guilty pleasures books : classic crime OR mystery series
1. Urn Burial by Kerry Greenwood 22/1/23
2. Verdict of Twelve by Raymond W. Postgate 26/1/23
3. The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin 4/7/23
4. Death of a Train by Freeman Wills Crofts 30/8/23
5. Raisins and Almonds by Kerry Greenwood 30/1/24
6. Enter a Murderer by Ngaio Marsh 3/9/24
7. Laurels are Poison by Gladys Mitchell 28/12/24
8. The Council of Justice by Edgar Wallace 30/1/25
COMPLETED 30/1/25
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Books mentioned in this topic
Urn Burial (other topics)Verdict of Twelve (other topics)
The Moving Toyshop (other topics)
The Council of Justice (other topics)
Death of a Train (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Edmund Crispin (other topics)Raymond W. Postgate (other topics)
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Read 8 of your comfort / guilty pleasures books
Re-read of favourites highly recommended!