September has crept up on me. I know that I talked about the calendar last posting, but somehow I fell into the changing weather of August. The humid end of August reminded us of when we lived in Florida. Granted, the humidity wasn’t as great as that of Del Rey Beach. But as I said, it was a reminder. It was as if I were back resisting going outside and finally walking out and feeling the hair on the back of my neck curl ever tighter while I went to my car to go to work.

I forgot to post the reminder note and the Zoom link until this afternoon. Mea culpa. Read the note for both reminder and link information. See you on Sunday the 24th.

July was our last meeting using Meetup. We read Murder by the Sea by Danielle Collins. The novel took place in Kenya and gave all of us a taste of seaside culture in Kenya.

It’s August and the month of Departure from Meetup!  I feel a sense of relief and great joy. The relief is that Tahlia and I can keep our club a free membership.

Oh what fun we had with Misty Simon, author of many cozy mysteries/series, last month. Misty told us how she crafts her novels, what makes her feel close to her characters, and how she develops the setting for her plots.

July is here! The summer has officially begun and there are no holidays to interrupt the sunny days. The choice of planners for the “year” begins again!

We are excited to host Misty Simon on June 22nd on Zoom at 2:00pm. Please choose one of the many, many novels that Misty has written.

Misty Simon is our author for June. She’ll be speaking to our group on June 22nd on Zoom. Join us for an hour of wonderful discussion and many laughs. Misty is wonderful!

Happy Mother’s Day and National Mystery Month!

We’re reading Inspector Singh Investigates: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder by Shamani Flint.

Happy Mother’s Day! Check out the section What I’m Reading and watch for Tahlia’s and my podcast on YouTube. It’s our first! Hurrah, hurrah!

Our book for April is Poison in Paddington by Samantha Silver. We’ll be playing our version of Hangman after we discuss the book. All words will come from the book and there’s a prize for the winner!

It’s April Fool’s Day and the beginning of April. Have fun everyone!

We have a very exciting meeting planned for March 23rd. Heather Weidner, the author of many cozy mystery books will be attending our meeting by Zoom. Our meeting starts at 2:00 pm Pacific time (5:00pm Eastern time).

It’s almost springtime -- clocks go forward (March 9), Dr. Seuss is celebrated (March 2) and children are encouraged to read, and one of my favorites, for no reason at all, St. Patrick’s Day is March 17th. Of course St. Patrick’s Day is on the heels of the Ides of March (the 15th) so watch those ravens and crows! We meet March 23rd with Heather Weidner as our guest author. RSVP! It’s going to be great!

Sunday February 23rd our monthly meeting will be on Zoom at 2:00 pm Pacific time. We read The Dead and Their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley. The novel is considered by many as the best in his series so far. There’s still time to RSVP for a meeting that promises to be an hour or so of very lively discussion and even livelier game playing.

It’s February which is a bit unbelievable to me. First it was about to be 2025 which I thought at that time was unbelievable. Now, January has slipped by and it’s already February. I have to take a step back and say “What have I accomplished?”

Our next meeting is on January 26th at 2:00 pm Pacific on Zoom. We’re reading Richard Osman’s We Solve Murders and playing Jeopardy for the second half of the meeting. Don’t forget to RSVP!!

Happy New Year everyone. I have outdone myself in the number of resolutions that I made. I’m hoping to keep at least some of them!

December is the month of lists. Will I ever learn to play chess or publish my first book or finish my second book? Oh my! Then there are the lists for this month only including shopping lists, present lists, book lists, lists of lists…the lists go on.

We had a most hilarious time playing Scrabble last month after we discussed the book A Fatal Fudge Swirl by Meri Allen. Who knew that the members could get so competitive! Join us and find out.