NA, My name is Janie...and I am addicted to books, also (is this Books-Addiction Anonymous? BAA!) I'm an avid mystery reader. I'm very fortunate that I work in the local library on the weekends. I've been reading since age 3, and haven't found too many I didn't like. I've been outside the mystery realm just a big and read "PS, I Love You" by Cynthia Ahearn and "Good Grief" by Holly Winston...both about losing a loved one and coping...and extremely funny as well. Other favorite authors I have discovered are Jonathan Nasaw, Charlaine Harris, Edna Buchanan, Marcia Muller, Carl Haaisen (so funny), and I love Catherine Coulter (FBI series-The Edge, The Cove, Blowout, etc.), who can resist Janet Evanovich, Alex Kava is EXCELLENT--don't miss her books! Ridley Pearson, Susan Wittig Albert, (can't think of her first name...Lanier--she wrote the "Bloodhound" series--all good. She's in bad health, so I don't know if she has written anything in the past few months, Alafair Burke, James Lee Burke (her father), Perri O'Shaunessy (sp), Lisa Scottolini, Diane Mott Davidson, CJ Box, John Sandford, Kathy Reichs, Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston (co-authors, and Lincoln Child as a single writer); Robert Tanenbaum, JA Jance, have you tried PJ Tracy, or Karin Slaughter...both great authors and fairly new. I'm reading Bonnie Hill's "Killer Body", now...she also wrote "Intern" which was really good. Hope I've given you some good ideas...Happy Reading. Let me know if you like any of them... email me at home if you want [email protected] Have fun!!! It's always nice to run into another fellow mystery reader.. Janie Mathis

Hi Im new to this site, just found it a few minutes ago... Any of you read Westerns. I love the Wilderness series. And The Sacket Series by L. Lamour. Carmalla H.

I read a lot of Anne Rice in high school and in college but havent since then. Ive read about five of the cronicles and i need to read the rest but I think I want to start from the begining again. I acually have most of the comic books of the cronicles that were put out in the early 90's. If you can get your hands on them they are great. They didnt finish the Queen of the Damned series though. Great art work. I heard that Anne Rice was having really bad health problems. Have you heard anything about that? Thanks. Tara

Well I'm pretty new here. But I've seen more than one persons sign off say "In Loving Memory of Momma Angel" ~ Did you also post this on the Main Board - I didn't see it there. Hope that she is doing very well. = )

King Arthur's count has such a wonderful imagery with it! Did you ever rread the Mists of Avalon, about the women at that time and their doings? I personally liked it very much. In addition, Stephen King wrote a book for his daughter about knights and princesses and such, and it caused me to write him about how much I enjoyed his departure from his norm. Lawrence Block...what can I say, have been reading him for a long time. Haven't read anything of his lately, but some of my first books were Mr. Blocks. And their is nothing wrong with wanting to read no matter what! I used to get in trouble because I would go to bed, then get a flashlight and go "undercover" and read til morning. Reading still does not put me to sleep, instead if there is a decent story there, I will read til it is time to get ready for work. I read in the grocery store line, at the bank, in traffic jams, so no I do not for one moment think you were or are weird!