Author: CMash

An avid reader for many years. Married for 31 years with 2 fantastic adult sons who I am so very proud of with great gfs. Am disabled. Found this wonderful community of book blogging in approximately December 2009 and have loved every minute of it. Am now a reviewer for authors, publishers, publicists, etc. And am also a partner in a Virtual PR tour company, Partners In Crime Tours for authors of novels of mystery, suspense and crime (www.Partnersincrimetours.net)

Enquiring Minds

THURSDAY
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I would like to ask a small favor of all that live in freedom.   Please take time today, and offer a prayer for or say Thank You to, all that have served and gone before us and another one for those who are currently serving to protect that very freedom.  To all the men and women in the military, from the bottom of my heart, Thank you. You truly are heroes!
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Hosted by Lori from Dollycas’s Thoughts

From Lori’s site:
  It struck me recently how much time I spend on this computer every day, blogging, chatting or playing games on Facebook, emailing friends and relatives, making cards and calendars, etc. etc. etc.
  We depend on each other for book reviews, giveaways, encouragement, friendship, but how well do we really know each other?
  We depend on each other for book reviews, giveaways, encouragement, friendship, but how well do we really know each other?

  So that is what this meme is all about, getting to know each other.

Today’s Questions:
1. Do you have a Veteran in your family? (living or in the past)
Veterans Day Banner Ruth
Yes.  Not only is today Veteran’s Day, it was also my Dad’s birthday.  He fought in WWII as a staff sargeant in the Air Force flying B52 Bombers.  My father-in-law fought in the Korean War.
Thank you, you are both very much missed. 
2. Where were you born?
Rhock Island

3. Have you seen an good movies lately, in the theater or on DVD? Recommend one for us to watch.
No….am not a movie person.

W.W.W. Wednesdays

WEDNESDAY
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Hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading
What are you currently reading?

What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

W.W.W. Wednesdays

WEDNESDAY
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Hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading
What are you currently reading?

What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

Tuesday Memes

TUESDAY
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Hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
*Grab your current read
*Open to a random page
*Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
*BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
*Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers.

“Don’t shoot!” Decker screamed. 
And then the night turned deathly quiet. 
He dropped his voice to a whisper “Can you hear me?”
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Hosted by Katrina from Callapidder Days
This week’s question somes from Chad, Katrina’s hubby.  Thanks Chad!!

Today’s Question-Week #7
How did you get into reading? When and how/why did you really become “a reader”?
My Response:
Since I don’t remember and am not sure if this is the truth, but my mother would tell everyone, that it was due to her.  She would relate how she would put me on the potty for training, give me a book, and I would sit there a lot longer than the usual allotted time, and be very content.  Ironic thing is that I did the same thing with my boys during that toddler stage.  I do remember, however, always loving the smell of a new book and having the ability to visualize the story in my mind.  I’m not sure how old I was at that time but I can still remember reading The Diary of Anne Frank in elementary school and to this date, many, many years later, I can still recall the visuals created for that book. 

Tuesday Memes

TUESDAY
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Hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
*Grab your current read
*Open to a random page
*Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
*BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
*Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers.

“Don’t shoot!” Decker screamed. 
And then the night turned deathly quiet. 
He dropped his voice to a whisper “Can you hear me?”
.

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Hosted by Katrina from Callapidder Days
This week’s question somes from Chad, Katrina’s hubby.  Thanks Chad!!

Today’s Question-Week #7
How did you get into reading? When and how/why did you really become “a reader”?
My Response:
Since I don’t remember and am not sure if this is the truth, but my mother would tell everyone, that it was due to her.  She would relate how she would put me on the potty for training, give me a book, and I would sit there a lot longer than the usual allotted time, and be very content.  Ironic thing is that I did the same thing with my boys during that toddler stage.  I do remember, however, always loving the smell of a new book and having the ability to visualize the story in my mind.  I’m not sure how old I was at that time but I can still remember reading The Diary of Anne Frank in elementary school and to this date, many, many years later, I can still recall the visuals created for that book. 

Review "Blindman’s Bluff" by Faye Kellerman

Blindman’s Bluff by Faye Kellerman
Published by Harper Collins
ISBN 978–06-170241-9
At the request of Bestsellersworld, a PB copy was sent, at no cost to me, for my honest opinion.

Review format at the request of Bestsellersworld.

Detective Lieutenant Peter Decker, LAPD Homicide, and his wife Rina Lazarus are awakened to a late night call. As Rina hands him the phone, knowing that this is going to bad for the force to call “The Loo” during the night. And she was right. Not only does he come upon a gruesome multiple homicide but it’s of a very well known, high profile and extremely wealthy family. The CEO and real estate tycoon, Guy Kaffey, his wife, Gilliam, and one of his son’s, Gil, are shot during what appears to be a robbery as they sat in the massive home’s living room. Bodyguards and staff have also been killed. But Gil, one son, is critically injured but has survived and gives the police a few things that he remembers from those awful seconds. But how could this have happened with so many types of security in place? Could this be an inside job? Guy has very strong family bonds and believes in giving some a second chance. Was that his downfall? Mace, his brother, and other son Grant, travel immediately to LA from the East Coast, where they oversee the family’s holdings there.

As Decker and members of his force are working around the clock to solve this murder, with a laundry list of suspects and growing, of what also resembles another type of family, his wife Rina is sitting on the jury of a local trial. Rina and some of the jurors notice a man, as they nickname him Mr. Tom (for Tom Cruise), in court everyday, smartly dressed, his dark tinted glasses and his bright smile. Who is he? Why is he in the courtroom? Why the glasses? A mystery in itself until he approaches Rina to ask her to describe two men that he has just overheard talking about a murder. Within days, he contacts Rina at her home because he feels he is being followed. And has he now put Rina in danger?

Can these two mysteries be connected? What constitutes family loyalty? Who is “the boss” of this operation? Who can be trusted within each family? And the biggest question, why? Can Detective Decker protect the innocent and locate the guilty in time before another attempt is made?
Another true to form, Decker and Lazarus Novel that will have you turning the pages.

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Review "Blindman’s Bluff" by Faye Kellerman

Blindman’s Bluff by Faye Kellerman
Published by Harper Collins
ISBN 978–06-170241-9
At the request of Bestsellersworld, a PB copy was sent, at no cost to me, for my honest opinion.

Review format at the request of Bestsellersworld.

Detective Lieutenant Peter Decker, LAPD Homicide, and his wife Rina Lazarus are awakened to a late night call. As Rina hands him the phone, knowing that this is going to bad for the force to call “The Loo” during the night. And she was right. Not only does he come upon a gruesome multiple homicide but it’s of a very well known, high profile and extremely wealthy family. The CEO and real estate tycoon, Guy Kaffey, his wife, Gilliam, and one of his son’s, Gil, are shot during what appears to be a robbery as they sat in the massive home’s living room. Bodyguards and staff have also been killed. But Gil, one son, is critically injured but has survived and gives the police a few things that he remembers from those awful seconds. But how could this have happened with so many types of security in place? Could this be an inside job? Guy has very strong family bonds and believes in giving some a second chance. Was that his downfall? Mace, his brother, and other son Grant, travel immediately to LA from the East Coast, where they oversee the family’s holdings there.

As Decker and members of his force are working around the clock to solve this murder, with a laundry list of suspects and growing, of what also resembles another type of family, his wife Rina is sitting on the jury of a local trial. Rina and some of the jurors notice a man, as they nickname him Mr. Tom (for Tom Cruise), in court everyday, smartly dressed, his dark tinted glasses and his bright smile. Who is he? Why is he in the courtroom? Why the glasses? A mystery in itself until he approaches Rina to ask her to describe two men that he has just overheard talking about a murder. Within days, he contacts Rina at her home because he feels he is being followed. And has he now put Rina in danger?

Can these two mysteries be connected? What constitutes family loyalty? Who is “the boss” of this operation? Who can be trusted within each family? And the biggest question, why? Can Detective Decker protect the innocent and locate the guilty in time before another attempt is made?
Another true to form, Decker and Lazarus Novel that will have you turning the pages.

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Monday Memes

MONDAY
It’s official, well at least as far as I am concerned!!!!!  Winter is here in New England.  Woke up to snow.  Not much, but snow is snow.  According to this morning’s news, it was a surprise even to the local weathermen…lol….that’s encouraging.  I tell my family just to ask me, with all the hardware I have, I can tell what the weather will be.  That is why I wasn’t blogging or near the computer yesterday, I was lying down for most of day/night. 
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Hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading
Today’s Question:
My questions for today are ones that are asked at the end of this particular article: What are  your responses to this report? Does it match with what you –as a reader– have observed? With your own buying habits? When was the last time you bought a book? What did you buy and why?
Link to article: 
http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/trendspotting-readers-spending-on-books/
My Response:
As a reader and a consumer, that article mirrors my feelings.  I can’t remember the last time I bought a HC.  However, I did purchase a few ebooks over the last couple of months.  If a book was published that I wanted to read, before getting my EReader, I would either put a request in at the local library or see if it was at the used book store I frequent or just wait for the PB.  My buying habits have changed over the past year.  I used to buy as many as 5 PBs at a time but even cut back on that because of the rising cost.   What I found interesting is that mysteries, thrillers, and crime are the top genre.  I would have thought it to be the newest rage, that of PNR/UF.  
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Mailbox Monday was created by Marcia of The Printed Page and is now on tour.
November is being hosted by Julie at Knitting and Sundries 

According to Marcia, “Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their house last week. Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists.”

11/05  Friday
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from The Hachette Book Group

Hosted by Java from Never Growing Old
Blogging is a funny thing…we tell our most intimate thoughts for all to read and yet most of the time I find myself sitting and wondering, “who is this person!?”  I know them…but yet I don’t know them!  I want to know who the person is behind all those words so I thought of a great way for all of us to “meet” each other!
Questions:
1. What is your favorite kind of pie?
Is this a trick question?  Just one?  Seriously one?  hmmmm how about I say
“I can’t find my glasses?”  ok…thats my story and I am sticking to it  lol.
2. Have you ever ran out of gas in the car you were driving?
Easy one…..No…Never…………Not yet!!!!
3. How many languages do you speak?
Another easy one…..ONE….English
Unless…those seldom used words, not found in the dictionary, but endearingly said to hubby when he leaves the seat up time and time again….would that be considered another language?
4. Do you take daily vitamins?
No
5. What is your worst eating habit?
See question 1