I agree about the Odd Thomas stories being very good: I will have to try Jane Hawk, but have also been distracted by Matt Haig's wonderful yarns...

Currently trying what I think is an earlier tale from Robert Jackson Bennett, The Company Man

I liked the Odd Thomas series and the Frankenstein one. I actually liked every book of his that I have read, but I still think the older stand alone books were the best. These posts are making me want to re-read his books but, like with my games, I have so many unread I sort of don't want to start on re-reads. That being said, there are 4 authors books I do plan to try to re-read one of these days. Dean Koontz, John Saul, Ed McBain 87th Precinct series, and Agatha Christie.

I've finally reached a book in the Honor Harrington series where I'm skipping whole paragraphs. This must be where I left off reading the series decades ago. David Weber apparently succumbed to the same bloated writing disease that overtook Robert Jordan.

Reading reviews, the following books in thee series are better, thankfully.

Ob, I have the complete Agatha Christie Mystery Collection that I got through a Bantam Books club subscription decades ago. I believe it's about 92 volumes in all. It also includes her autobiography and one of the books she wrote under the name of Mary Westmacott. I enjoy picking one up every so often and reading/rereading them.

Marian, I'm pretty sure I have all of the Agatha Christie books also (not the autobiography) and several Mary Westmacott books.

I picked up a bunch of free Nook books that I think are described as "cozy" books. Most of them are the first in a series books. I started one yesterday called Murder at High Tide by Nora Denham. I never watched Murder She Wrote but I'm thinking it may be that type of feeling. A short light little murder mystery. So far, so good.

Wow, you also have a huge Christie collection then, ob.

I am still reading the Koontz book The Servants of Twilight.

I borrowed one of the Agatha Christie books (and shame on me) never returned it. This is why I never like to loan anything out (or borrow anything). Rather than loan a book out, I have purchased the book for the other person instead.

Wow, oldbroad, I like your style!

That said, I no longer attach any value to keeping books unless they are really old or contain illustrations: otherwise it's kindle all the way.😄

I'm quite the hoarder, Lex, and can't seem to part with anything. I do not have plans to add to my physical books though as I just don't have the room. I have sat here many a day wondering what I would take and what I would leave if the time comes that I have to do that, including thinking about the books. When I was a young girl I had a set of Peanuts/Charlie Brown books and somebody borrowed some of them. I never got them back and was very upset about it. I think that may have set me on this path. In retrospect, I really think it was done on purpose to me to just get rid of them, by one of my brothers? I don't know.

Lex, I much prefer a physical book but honestly, unless it's a full-size paperback (as opposed to a little trade paperback) or a hardcover, I can't read the type any more, even with reading glasses. So sadly, I am mostly reading on Kindle.

Oldbroad, it's hard to part with stuff sometimes. I've had to force myself to get rid of things that have memories attached but otherwise serve no purpose. And I hate clutter. It makes me feel antsy.

I finished The Servants of Twilight. I found it to be very interesting and suspenseful.

Now starting another Koontz book: Midnight.

Marian, those both fall into the bunch of books I read that I really enjoyed and may someday re-read.

Space Quest Fan, did you ever decide on a Dean Koontz book?

I have started reading Bullet, #19 in the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series, by Laurell K Hamilton.

I went with Watchers oldbroad but I have not started it yet.

I hope you like it! I'm sure I read it but don't remember anything about it.

I have been reading the Koontz posts with interest, as I have never read anything of his.
I settled on Intesity and am looking forward to it 👍

Ditto my response to Space Quest.

No Koonz for me. I'm still doing the Decline and Fall. Just finished the part with Attila the Hun.

I just finished this book by Reyna Favis. I couldn't put it down. A sin-eater, an immortal red hound, Wampuses in the woods, moonshine... I was sorry to see it end. It says Book One so I'm hoping there will be more. There are previous books about the red hound, but I'd love to continue with the characters in this book!

From the Blurb:

Up in the back hollers of 1970 Appalachia, 81-year-old Lummie Sinclair minds her own business and tends to the dead in the old way. She’s a sin-eater by blood and by habit, and folks give her a wide berth on account of it. That suits her fine. She lives alone in her cabin with an old woodstove, a sharp tongue, and an immortal red hound who knows the roads between this world and the next.

When Earl Eskew, a rich mine owner with more money than sense, sends for Lummie to clear a violent haunting from his house, she knows trouble’s fixing to follow. Spirits don’t turn mean without cause, and men like Earl don’t go asking favors unless they’re scared clean through.

With young Cam Ramsay—distant kin with the Sight and more nerve than is strictly wise—Lummie sets to work. What she finds isn’t just a restless spirit, but a mess of buried wrongs: dead miners, a child left to freeze, and a whole town willing to look the other way so long as the money keeps flowing.

To set things right, Lummie must outwit these men who think the mountain, the law, and the truth all belong to them. But when Earl’s inflated pride is pricked after she bests him, his revenge is nasty and personal. By Lummie’s reckoning, she’s done being neighborly.