Our cruise is almost at an end. Overall I had a good time. Will I go on another Royal Caribbean cruise? Probably. Hubby likes going to new places and RC does go to more places than Carnival. But...we have three upcoming Carnival cruises in our future (Caribbean in October, Greenland in May 2025, and another Caribbean that has a stop in Grenada in February 2026). So while I thought my cruising with Carnival was coming to an end, seems I’ll be doing it for the next few years anyway. But I won’t begrudge Hubby if he finds a RC cruise he wants to take. I just hope it’s not on one of those monster ships. Too many people! This one was small (about 1800 passengers) and that made this cruise better for me. Still don’t like how RC does certain things, but I’ll get over it.
Here’s what I read since my last update:
Book 3
Title: Valentine Murder
Year of publication: 1999
Author: Leslie Meier
Genre: Mystery
Series: Lucy Stone #5
# of Pages: 200
Paper or plastic: Nook
How obtained: Free from B&N
Blurb from Goodreads: It’s Valentine’s Day in Tinker’s Cove. And while the cupcakes Lucy Stone is baking for her children will have pink frosting and candy hearts, Lucy’s thoughts aren’t centered on sugary sentiments. She’s barely arrived at her first board meeting of the newly-renovated library when Bitsy Howell, the new librarian is found dead in the basement, shot only minutes before story hour was to start. The agitated board members assume that Bitsy was killed by an outsider, until Detective Lt. Horowitz arrives on the scene and announces that the killer is among them. Lucy was already aware that Bitsy’s uppity big city ways rubbed some people in Tinker’s Cove the wrong way. But she has a hunch that motives for the librarian’s violent death run a lot deeper. From Hayden Norcross’s elegant antique shop to Corney Clark’s chic kitchen, Lucy relentlessly snoops into the curious lifestyles and shocking secrets of Tinker’s Cove’s most solid citizens—secrets that will plunge her into a terrifying confrontation with a conniving killer...
Recommend: Yes
My thoughts: I get free e-books from B&N monthly. I don’t always like what’s offered, but sometimes I find something interesting. This one looked interesting, but I didn’t realize how OLD the book was (1999), so as I was reading it, I thought the main character was pretty stupid not knowing how to use a computer! Aside from that blunder (and I did check—Goodreads listed it published in 2013, but that was way incorrect), I still thought this book had a lot of filler that didn’t pertain to the story. But I guess that’s what cozy mysteries do? I don’t know. Not about to read another in this series to find out, either. For a mystery, I kind of figured out whodunnit early, so no surprises for me. I guess people like these kinds of books, though, since this is #5 in the series (I don’t know how many there are total, but more than 5).
So, it looks like we might be driving in some snow on Friday. Hopefully, it’s not a lot. We brought my Xterra anyway, just in case. It has 4-wheel drive. We know better driving during winter. Always be prepared!!
Happy Reading!
Stacy
2 comments:
Yeah, a lot of the country will be covered in snow when you return.
Glad you enjoy cruises so much. We should probably do another, but they are expensive and I have a lot of other things I'd rather spend the money on.
Alex - Was greeted with snow in Baltimore and snow alllllll the way to Ohio. But we made it home without incident (yay!).
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