Bitter Tea and Mystery

In this story the narrator, John Smith, is invited to a country house weekend by an old coworker who he can hardly remember, although he knows that he did not like him very much.

I only read 5 books this month.

The Planned Parenthood Book Sale is held in September every year, and we have attended the sale for many, many years.

Every year in September we attend the Planned Parenthood book sale, which lasts ten days.

This short story collection is divided into 5 sections.

This description at Goodreads is excellent: Forrest County, Mississippi, became a focal point of the civil rights movement when, in 1961, the United States Justice Department filed a lawsuit against its voting registrar Theron Lynd.

Since I already own so many short story collections and anthologies, not to mention all my husband's short story books, I always plan to avoid those books at the Planned Parenthood book sale.

I read a lot of good books in June and July.

I read Middlemarch by George Eliot for my 20 Books of Summer list.

Summary from the back of the book: Welcome to the Grand Abeona Hotel: home of the finest food, the sweetest service, and the very best views the galaxy has to offer.

The latest Classics Club Spin has been announced.

I was initially attracted to Midsummer Mysteries: Short Stories, edited by Martin Edwards, because of its striking cover and the lovely sprayed edges.

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.

Summary from Goodreads...

I discovered this story accidentally when I ran across some short story collections by Katherine Mansfield on Amazon.

The Toby Peters mystery series is set primarily in Hollywood, California.

I read "Kill Now—Pay Later" in June, I think.

The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century is an anthology edited by Tony Hillerman and Otto Penzler and published in 2000.

I read nine books in May, more than I expected to, but it is a good thing, because with only 3 days left in June, I have only read three books.

My son read this book first.

This story is about a young woman, Mary Grey, who bears a strong resemblance to the heiress to a fortune, Annabel Winslow, who disappeared several years before the story starts.

The Six Degrees of Separation meme is hosted by Kate at booksaremyfavoriteandbest.

Murder and Other Acts of Literature is an anthology of 24 short stories that include a crime but are written by authors who are not crime fiction authors.

The story I am featuring comes from the collection Killer Come Back to Me: The Crime Stories of Ray Bradbury.

This is my eleventh year of participating in the 20 Books of Summer reading challenge.

Basically in April I read four mystery novels and one graphic novel.

The latest Classics Club Spin has been announced.

A brief overview of the Nero Wolfes series by Rex Stout: Nero Wolfe is a genius who supports himself (and his household) as a private detective.

In late April, I read Tatiana by Martin Cruz Smith, the eighth book in the Arkady Renko series.

The Six Degrees of Separation meme is hosted by Kate at booksaremyfavoriteandbest.

Description on the back of the book: Set in the 1930s, Goodbye to Berlin evokes the glamour and sleaze, excess and repression of Berlin society.

March was a very good reading month for me.