Christmas book club for fun.................

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Last year we discussed Christmas-themed books and I found that I have one of Donna Andrews novels that I put aside in anticipation of reading it this year: Lark ! The Herald Angels Sing ( A Meg Lanslow Mystery). Her titles are very clever, though I've not read any of her mysteries.

I decided I am going to get into the spirit :0)

Anyone else game to read one of Donna Andrews' Christmas novels ?

If so, here is a list :

How The Finch Stole Christmas

The Nightingale Before Christmas

Duck The Halls

Six Geese A-Slaying

Owl Be Home For Christmas

The Gift Of The MagPie

The 12 Jays Of Christmas

Dashing Through The Snowbirds

Let It Crow! Let It Crow! Let It Crow !

Rockin' Around The Chickadee

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Rosefolly z5

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I'll play! I'll play. I chose Dashing Through the Snowbirds.

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kathy_t
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Sounds like fun, Yoyobon. I just put a hold on The Gift of the Magpie. I will read and report back on it for our Christmas Book Club.
Carolyn Newlen
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Yoyo, I just checked out How the Finch Stole Christmas.
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yoyobon_gw
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I'm enjoying my choice in this series so far.......it's a nice cozy mystery.
J C
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I was pleased to find The Nightingale Before Christmas at my local library! Looks good!
annpanagain
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I have a Large Print of The Twelve Jays of Christmas from my library but have other books I need to read first. I thought I would grab it while available though.

I have a DVD or video somewhere of The Twelve Days performed in London with every one of the gifts included, pipers, dancers etc. Awesome! I must locate and dust it off for a replay.
yoyobon_gw
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This is hilarious and clever.......Boston Pops and Tanglewood Choir

https://youtu.be/b39-JvglZic
vee_new
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yoyo, I have never heard this before: excellent!
kathy_t
last year
I've picked up my Christmas book from the library and started reading it. Just 30 pages in, I'll say it seems like a pleasant cozy mystery. Once I got to the library though and was able to look over the selection of Donna Andrews Christmas mysteries, I changed from The Gift of the Magpie to Owl Be Home for Christmas. I decided I'd rather read about murder among ornithologists than murder among computer programmers.
yoyobon_gw
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last year
I finished Lark ! The Herald Angels Sing ! and it was a nice , feel good mystery set in a small town with very likable characters. I am going to read Owl Be Home For Christmas just to stay in the Christmas-y mood !
kathy_t
last year
I finished Owl Be Home for Christmas. I enjoyed it, though it was a pretty simple and formulaic mystery, but with lots of Christmasy stuff going on. The story is set in a luxurious mountain inn where a scientific conference of ornithologists (specifically, owl experts) are meeting the week before Christmas. They get snowed in and when one college professor keels over at dinner and quickly dies, suspicion sets in. Since no one can come or go due to the snow, if it's a murder (which of course it is), the perpetrator must be present among them.
Rosefolly z5
last year
A bit late, I just finished Dashing Through the Snowbirds. Lightweight but pleasant. Ten Chrisstmas titles means ten years must pass to make the series fit a timeline. If anyone else has read them all, can you let me know if this happens,

I remember that Sue Grafton was careful to create a formula by which her heroine Kinsey Milhone aged slowly through the series.
yoyobon_gw
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last year
I agree, they are cozy mysteries without too much horror and angst. Reminds me of the Miss Julia series.
Carolyn Newlen
last year
I just love Miss Julia! I finished A Death in Cornwall, read Louise Penny's The Grey Wolf, and have started A Mansion for Murder by Frances Brody (which is a lower star rating on Goodreads than the other two).