Categorical Reading Lists

The April Dead by Alan Parks

A Harry McCoy Thriller #4

This time around: While Harry is hunting for a missing sailor and investigating a string of Glasgow bombings that are tied to a secrective group with a fanatical leader---his criminal friend Stevie Cooper reaches out in need of a favor causing him to be pulled into the middle of a gangland war. Once again a book of non stop action and once again a series that continues to be a must read, it certainly continues to be well spent reading time.

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Once Around The Categories Challenge: April, Book of the Month Club, Dead

Snow In April by Rosamunde Pilcher

2022

Way back in '80's I was a huge fan of Ms. Pilcher but many years of passed since I have read any of her books. I love the Englishness but lately "romance" has begun to irritate me...I may have to stop reading them altogether. I have these silly notions that sometimes being sensible is the way to go...and what's wrong with finding yourself before you worry about finding a man. But apparently here the heroine must be saved from herself by manly intervention. This was a bit hard to take, Ms. Pilcher, aside.

Between Here and April by Deborah Copaken Kogan

2024

It is a shame. Ms. Kogan has a way with words and this book is quite readable in each of its MANY segments but as a cohesive story not so much. As I often find myself think as I read books today--PICK A LANE, if you can't figure how to advance a plot line then DROP IT--don't just let it dangle. My lesson is to put more value on my reading time, it is a precious commodity. 

April's Desires by A. E. Howe

2023

Larry Macklin #6. Larry's ex partner Pete gets himself in a spot of trouble and the prime suspect in a murder investigation when his daughter's ex boyfriend turns up dead. Mr. Howe doesn't disappoint and this is another entertaining go round with Larry and the gang.

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

2021

I have wanted to read this for several years now. Glad that I finally have--plan on reading more of her books after this. Light springy and romantic. It was reminiscent of The Durrells of Corfu. If not for COVID I'm sure I would be off to the Mediterranean Sea right now.

April

One of my reading projects is the Book of the Month Club where my goal is to read a book with that particular month in the title for as long as the books hold out. As it looks cleaner, I have separated out this reading lists so that the months appear separately.

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