Yup. I love Stephanie! If you know of any other humorous mystery/adventure/suspense types of books, let me know!
I’m also a fan of Joanne Fluke’s Hannah Swenson series. She owns a bakery and is constantly finding dead bodies, which she then must investigate to find the murder. 
All the books are titled with baked goods and contain some very good recipes. (I’ve tried a few.) Her latest book Carrot Cake Murder is waiting for me to pick up at the library. :: bounces :: I might forgo my lunch time walk to pick it up.
I’ve tried some other series, but didn’t like them as much.
What else do you like?
Hah, are you a matchmaker now?!
I am definitely a Hazel fan. I may even see her next time I go to Chicago. At the moment though I’m taken.
Well, eventually I’ll get to read that. I just requested it from my library, but there are 160 requests in line ahead of me. So it might be a couple years!
I’m also requesting one of the Hannah Swenson books, mousie. Do you know off the top of your head which one comes first?
I’m still working my way through the Sue Grafton alphabet series. I’m up to P, and I think T is the latest one so I’ve almost run out of those. Otherwise I don’t have too many mystery series that I like. I’ve tried the Midnight Louie series (which I think someone else here mentioned once long ago), and they’re fun beach reads but not much more than that.
Aside from that, I’ve been sticking to non-fiction like the above Geography of Bliss, Jonathan Haidt’s Happiness Hypothesis (recommended by Shadow and a really interesting book), Dan Gilbert’s Stumbling on Happiness, and a few of Stephen Pinker’s books. All sort of brain/behavioral/cognitive science-y. Oh, and in that same vein, David Sloan Wilson’s Evolution for Everyone.
Yup. Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder is first.
ETA: If you like it, here’s the ordered list.
Thanks! I’ve got a request in for that now too!
I choose the guy who has the office down the hall from me.
Let me know what you think! I’m off to the library.
Is he one of your competitors for the Chair?
Or do you just want his office…?
ArgentT, you know what I think about the beard. :: disapproving look ::
And yes, we have met, thankyouverymuch. Geez, you guys are worse than my mother.
rigs, tar and feathers it is. MBG’s place, midnight.
I guess my perspective is a little skewed since I only see the more celebratory holidays which involve lots of eating and drinking, like Rosh Hashanah or Passover, and let The Boy go solo for the more reflective or somber types of holidays. He’s not a particularly observant jew, either, so I’m guessing that also affects what I’ve absorbed so far.
Thanks for setting the goy straight.
I’m in zombie mode today. That’ll learn me to go out late on a schoolnight… though it’s sad to think that I’m usually ready to pack it in by midnight, when back in the day I usually wasn’t even arriving until midnight. And let’s not talk about the sobering realisation that the current crop of freshly-legal clubbers were still in diapers when I was starting high school.
Ugh. I’m getting too old for this crap.
LiLi, stick it to the man. I got rightly PO’ed when a colleague was “gently forced” to cut her mat leave short by 2 months due to a technicality… but at least her daughter was 10 mths by then. Being asked to leave a 3.5 mth old behind to go to work is barbaric, IMO, even if it’s just part time shifts.
Argent, I vote no beard. I always believe that attractive young men shouldn’t be masking Teh Hot with scruff, unless of course they’re doing it for a cause like hockey playoffs or facial hair competitions or suchlike.
World is not so much caving in but we have mearly managed to prop it up with a couple of 2x4’s and some duct tape.
In the past week we have had 6 ‘Serious’ incidents for the same client for one of my groups. The manager of that group that reports to me is falling apart and I think the ramp up in activity is to much for him. I had two ass chewings from my boss yesterday because of what is happening and now they are parachuting someone in to come help me out - which hopefully will be good.
Other than that Mr ems-to-be and I are still getting along famously having never lived together before we are the epitomy of almost wedded bliss 
That’s my absolute favorite!
I listen to audiobooks before I fall asleep and it goes off by timer, so I’m sleeping as it’s playing. For some reason, many audiobooks give me nightmares. I dream about the content of the book and get up feeling bummed. But for the most part, this series hasn’t given me many nightmares, so I download them from the library and play them whenever I’m afraid that I won’t get a good night’s sleep–often lately.
The other series that seems to be a good sleeper (heh) is Jan Karon’s Mitford series.
I used to work with a guy who has a beard phobia (hm…pogonophobia, neat.) He once had me greet a visitor to our office for him to report on his beard status. He had ‘the type of voice bearded men have’. Ridiculous.
Vacation is coming along great. I’ve never skiied better than I did yesterday and I have the aches and pains to show for it. I’ll prolly get back out in a little bit.
Grumble1: Feeling a bit under the weather today thanks to St. Patrick. Get in me, coffee.
Grumble2: While chopping tomatoes for bruscetta last night, I managed to slice my left thumbtip. It’s stingy, itchy, throbby & bleedy all at once. Thumbs up! (ow)…
Grumble3: I decided to hold off on a haircut until after my ski trip. I was hoping it would be warm enough to forgo a hat but no. Now, every time I check a mirror, I see Rick Moranis: Ghostbusters, post-Gozerian dog attack. Red hawt.
Grumble4: They disabled searching?!
Listening to: some old house music mix. Bass is pumping, bumping, stompin’
I usually finish the book before I go to sleep, Roo . Even if that means that I go to sleep at 3am.
We do what we can, Haze.
mmmmmmmm good luck with the new help.
Jingle definately has the MMP vibe down.
but I’m feeling MUCH better now! …
Howdy Y’all! Home for a while. My sinuses hurt…AAAARRRGGGHHH!!!
Let’s see now… ok… hugs as needed.
BBBobbio when I was reading your post and saw “what’s that smell” my first thought was chicken house. Yep, I is countrified. Chickens are amongst natures dumbest critters but still that’s no way for any animal to go, poor things.
The reuben sammich (actually I had one and a half… they were biiiiiiiiiig sammiches!) and cold beerverages last night were top notch. No I did not get all drunken, just nicely filled up with a little buzz which I could do cause I didn’t drive. I even helped make and grill sammiches. We discussed the next upcoming cookfest last night also. My church is hosting the area convocation on April 19th, which is a Saturday. As is tradition, the host church always cooks up sump’n and there is a big ol’ feast for a modest fee which essentially covers the price of food. We’re gonna smoke boston <snerk> butts <snerk>, and serve it bbq style along with slaw, baked beans (yay, I get to make great big piles of our famous baked beans!), bbq bread and probably pound cake. There will also probably be some beer and wine on hand that one may consume for a modest donation.
Yeah, my life is so excitin’ that I get all jazzed over the idea of spendin’ all day on a Saturday cookin’ at church. Envy me.
Oh and the new liner is in the pool. As I post, I have three hoses all hooked up and runnin’ water into the pool. It’s gonna be an all night thing. :eek: I’m not real thrilled about the idea of water runnin’ while I’m asleep but it’ll take that to fill the dang thing up. No I don’t know why I don’t like the idea, I just don’t.
Ok, time to get back to being a productive member of society.
Later Y’all!
Well, I’ve always been a fan of the big beard, tosseled hair look… ask my hubby.
So, if we really get to vote- beard, shaggy hair. (Although the clean cut look is nice too!)
ETA: I keep hitting the “calendar” button, because that was where “new posts” used to be. Talk about force of habit!
Hannah Swensen rocks!!!
That’s all. 
I haven’t been in a big reading mood lately, maybe I ought to pick up something at the library today.
Hope the new guy can help, mmmmmmmm.
Argent, How you doin’? I think all 3 pics are hot, but the biggest “whoa” came out of me in the no beard shot, and I usually prefer facial hair on men.
I have a surplus of hugs here, so I have some for anyone in want or need.
I get to play single lady today.L made plans with her husband J today. I’ve been naughty and monopolizing her time, we spent all day together yesterday, so I told her to go reconnect. We have a date for next week Tuesday, so I will just have to try to hang on to my patience. Not easy, but I really do understand that, even though I have to be second to others in the amount of time we can be together, I am not playing second fiddle in her heart.
Screw bein’ a productive member of society. My sinuses hurt! I’ma take Benadryl[sup]TM[/sup] and sleep a while.