#joanne fluke

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Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke

I first read this book years ago in high school. It was kinda the "book that got away" because I wanted to continue but didn't for some reason. Recently, a coworker asked about it, and I suggested we read it side by side so we could talk about it. They agreed!! So, getting back into it with a social aspect.

Also, this comes with recipes for baked goods!

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Hannah Swensen (and Moishe)

Hannah Swensen mystery novels by Joanne Fluke

Owner of The Cookie Jar bakery in small town Minnesota, Hannah stirs up more than cookie dough with her knack for discovering dead bodies (and catching the murderer).

(But the recipes are really good too).

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Próxima lectura

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Joanne Fluke: Der Kirschkuchen Mord

Band 7: Dass es in Lake Eden wenig Privatsphäre gibt, ist Hannah Swenson wohlbekannt. Doch nie hätte sie für möglich gehalten, sich Ratschläge von allen Seiten anhören zu müssen, seit sie zwei Heiratsanträge gleichzeitig erhalten hat. Ein Glück, dass der Ort eines Tages zum Filmset einer Hollywood-Produktion wird.

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Joanne Fluke

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Books With Orange Covers

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want. Everyone is welcome to join but…

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My March Books

Hi! Everyone these are the books I have read this month, there are 8 of them. As you can see most of them are romances short stories, and a mystery. As always I have the Goodreads links for you to check out:

Snowed Inn (Freedom Valley#6) (Erin Branscom): The last installment of this series had glimpses of our couples from the previous books and introduced us to a new one with great chemistry and a love for food. Holly was funny, spunky, and a great cook and Beau was the perfect example of a grumpy exterior and soft interior protagonist with a painful past. I also loved the side characters of Hank, Beau’s brother, and Ophelia, Holly’s best friend, and their respective romance. I want a short story of their relationship after this book so that I can return to Freedom Valey. I liked that this book was in the winter and the Golden Gable Inn and the scenes with Sasha, the cook, and the igloos in the yard. I recommend all the series. You can only read this one but the whole series is amazing.

Lemon Meringue Pie Murder (Hannah Swenson #4) (Joanne Fluke): I like this series of cozy mysteries as I love Hannah Swenson and her family in Lake. I like the recipes the author gives every five chapters or so. I like that the mysteries are easy and if you think a little you can help Hannah solve them. I loved in all of them to see how Hannah’s relationships with her neighbors are faring, especially those with Mike and Norman. I loved her little sister Michelle whom we were introduced to in this one. Overall, it was a delightful book to read.

The Undercover Santa (Spying on Love #1) (Jo Davies): That was a fun short story with a double point of view and a fun open ending. I read both in the same morning on my commute to work, so it was a great and fun start for me.

The Undisclosed Panda (Spying on Love #2) (Jo Davies): The second part of the previous story with a happy ending and unexpected twists, but not too many for a six-chapter short story, to the story's mystery. It was a great detour of the tea district in Shanghai too, as the two go there to solve the mystery and have their first date.

Pardon My French Press (Coffee Loft #2) (J. P. Sterling): The second short story of the Coffee Loft series was based in New York City, which I loved as it was a good development of the characters and the shop itself. I liked the personalities of the two protagonists, Portia and Christian, who have a sense of humor with lots of sarcasm. I loved the relationships of the two protagonists with their families and neighbors. It is a classic enemies-to-friends-to-lovers romance in a coffee shop in New York something that made it special to me as one of my films, You’ve Got a Mail. I will recommend it to someone who is searching for something small to it.

A Pinch of Salt (Lucy Marin): This retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice set in a Canadian cooking show was pretty good and has the preceptive of many of the characters, especially those who participate in the competition. I loved that the author did not include the affair between Lydia and Wickham but had their characters as close to them as she could in these circumstances.  It also has the main themes and the personalities of the characters are the same as the original. It was really with good description of the food and the emotions of the two protagonists. It was a good modern retelling of a classic.

The Sitcom Star (Chu’s Restaurant #1) (Jackie Lau): This was a cute novella with two former classmates who reacquainted and started to spend time together. The difference in the novella is that the female protagonist is a famous star of an Asian- American sitcom which she produces and writes the script. I loved the fun and cute moments the protagonists had with each other, their friends, and their families too.

The Reluctant Heartthrob (Chu’s Restaurant #2) (Jackie Lau): This cute novella and second story of this series surrounds the male protagonist of the series who is a grumpy Shakespeare-loving actor. The female protagonist is a data scientist who might have autism but she hasn’t had a formal review, so she doesn’t know for sure. I loved the representation in this one and the relationship between them as I love the grumpy/ sunshine type of books.

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Jan-Feb Reading Challenge: Current Thoughts

Dracula | Bram Stoker

Good with the caveat that you have to read it with the context of it being a product of its time. Also, post-vampire Lucy Westenra can GET SOME.

8/10

Heartbreaker | Julie Garwood

I hated reading this book so much. The main male character (not the antagonist) came across as a creep the whole time. I hated him very much.

3/10

Strawberry Shortcake Murder | Joanne Fluke

This one...aged a little poorly in some aspects. I might skip into more modern entries to the series rather than trudge through the older stuff to get there.

7/10

The Puppets of Spelhorst | Kate DiCamillo

One of two Juvenile-level books and one of three non-Adult books on my list. Adorable story, great illustrations, and plenty of drama for the 8 to 12 year old in your life. Or for you, if you want a touching low-stakes story.

9/10

Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under The Sea | Dav Pilkey

One of two Juvenile-level books and one of three non-Adult books on my list. From the guy who brought us Captain Underpants comes an adorable graphic novel about...honestly a lot happening, there was a lot. Luckily, even though it's late in the series, there's enough context provided that you can get a good grasp of the characters. Doesn't have much to do with Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, though, so I'm deducting a point for that.

9/10

Sigil Magic for Writers, Artists, & Other Creatives | T Thorn Coyle

With all due respect to Mx T Thorn Coyle...this book sucked. It originated as a zine and tbh it should have stayed that way. There was a lot of fluff to get the page count up that could honestly have been removed (and should have been). I didn't feel like I came away from this one learning anything new about sigils or how to incorporate them or my writing into my craft. Sorry, Mx Coyle. Maybe your other works are more succinct and to my liking? Not counting on it, though.

5/10

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I'm all booked up for Christmas!🙃🎄⛄

I love my library Libby app! I just got hooked on this series. Love that you can read them out of order. She has quite a few Christmas themed ones. And they have yummy recipes too!

I'm a shutin, cause of poor health, and no family. Books are my life. I liked to read Christmas themed books, but not the god saved me kind. These are perfect. Any #joannefluke fans?

Merry Christmas!🎄⛄🖖💖

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Blackberry Pie Muder by Joanne Fluke

Blackberry Pie Murder by Joanne Fluke is the seventeenth novel in the Hannah Swensen series. It was a pull from my personal shelves and got me out of a reading slump. The novel opens with Hannah helping her sisters plan their mother’s wedding when she is side-tracked to go pick-up her business partner in the middle of a severe thunderstorm. As they are returning back to the cookie shop, Hannah…

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Hannah Swenson mysteries are back. Thank you Hallmark. Covid, along with popular actors signing with Great American Family, meant a lot of their series didn't make it back. I've read most of the books, by Joanne Fluke, and I enjoyed them enough to keep reading the next book in the series. Culinary mysteries are a favorite of mine & there are lots of them out there. Alison Sweeney & Cameron Mathison are the perfect fit for Hannah & Mike.

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post a poll with five favorite characters and let others decide which is their favorite

tagged by @schrodingersbabe !! thank you :3

i'm gonna tag @yaffles-world @medeaspring @schrodingers-catgirl @dragoncatlilly and whoever else wants to do it :)

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i need more cozy mysteries where the amateur sleuth isn't married to a fucking cop and doesn't fucking have one as a love interest. and also doesn't have random fatphobia for no reason

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Moon, you like reading, right? What’s your favorite book?

I don’t have a specific favorite.

(I genuinely have no idea what it would be but I think he’d like mystery, which I don’t read 👍)

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Joanne Fluke: Ein pfirsichsüßer Mord

Das sechste Buch der Krimi-Reihe. Das Original ist bereits 2005 erschienen, aber die deutsche Version erst 2024.

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I'm going to be engaging in a reading bingo thing for the library I work at (though I won't be eligable to win any prizes) for January and February. There aren't any rules about only counting one book per square, so there's a lot of fun overlap. The books are as follows:

Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Rebecca Thorne)

Diadem: Book of Names (John Peel)

Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under The Sea (Dav Pilkey)

Dracula (Bram Stoker)

Give-A-Damn Jones (Bill Pronzini)

Gods of Jade and Shadow (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)

Heartbreaker (Julie Garwood)

Hide (Kiersten White)

Marrying the Ketchups (Jennifer Close)

Practical Gods (Carl Dennis)

Sigil Magic: For Writers, Artists, & Other Creatives (T Thorn Coyle)

Strawberry Shortcake Murder (Joanne Fluke)

The Leftover Woman (Jean Kwok)

The Midnight Library (Matt Haig)

The Puppets of Spelhorst (Kate DiCamillo)

The Whittiers (Danielle Steel)

Zendikar: In The Teeth Of Akoum (Robert Wintermute)

17 books in 60 days, most of which are over 300 pages. Let's fucking gooooo!