Memberpmarshall

Collections
All collections (5,334), Video (4), kindleunlimited (114), Your library (3,756), Kindle (1,392), Audio Books (27), Books I Published (32), Childhood Books (119), Wishlist (16)
Tags
Mystery fiction - United States (291), 250 Book challenge (2014) (275), P. I. - United States (262), Mystery fiction - British (232), Short stories - mysteries (223), Club Read 2022 (203), Police procedural - England (199), 250 Book challenge (2010) (196), Club Read 2021 (186), 150 Book challenge (2017) 🇨🇦 (176), Club Read 2018 (166), Police procedural - United States (150), Club Read 2019 (147), Club Read 2020 (141), Kindle Unlimited (135), 250 Book challenge (2013) (123), 250 Book challenge (2012) (120), Legal mystery - United States (118), Sleuth (118), Scotland Yard (117), Medieval mystery - British (113), 250 Book challenge (2015) (104), Club Read 2015 (103), 250 Book challenge (2011) (82), Biography - Canada (82), Espionage (78), Mystery fiction - Canada (76), Police procedural - Scotland (76), Horses - mysteries (76), Ecclesiastical mystery - Catholic (76), American fiction (75), World War II - fiction (74), Biography (70), Hercule Poirot (69), Police procedural - Canada (68), British fiction (67), Historical fiction - British (62), P. I. - England (57), Legal mystery - England (56), Biography - royalty (52), Series books (52), Kindle Unlimited 2020 (50), Canadian fiction - Ontario (50), Biography - United States (49), Antony Maitland (48), Nuns - mysteries (48), Biographical fiction (44), Historical fiction (44), Mystery fiction - Scotland (43), Sharon McCone (42), Miss Marple (42), Biography - England (42), Young adult fiction (42), British history (40), Ecclesiastical mystery (39), Culinary mystery (39), Nameless (39), 150 Book challenge (2017) 🇨🇦🇨🇦 (37), Saga (36), Bob Skinner (36), Canadian fiction (36), Fantasy (36), Spenser (35), Humour (34), Kindle Unlimited 2022 (34), Sleuth - Canadian (34), Mystery fiction (33), Senior citizens (33), Sleuth - actor (33), Sleuth - judge (32), Sleuth - England (31), Sleuth - academic (31), Literary travel (31), Literary travel - Africa (31), Joe Gunther (30), Antiques - reference (29), Fiction (28), World War I - fiction (28), Kinsey Millhone (27), Judaism (27), John Creasey (27), Tempe Brennan (27), Alan Banks (27), Antiques - dealer (27), Sherlock Holmes (26), Children's fiction (26), Forensic anthropology (26), Biography - actors (26), Children's picture books (25), Bill Slider (25), Police procedural - Sweden (25), Deborah Knott (24), Suspense (24), Mary Russell (24), Father Koesler (24), Children's picture books - Canada (24), Rapid Reads (23), Love story (23), Canadian history (23), Tessa Crichton (23), Short stories - Canadian (23), Literacy reader (23), V. I. Warshawski (23), Gabriel Allon (23), Needlework (23), Kindle Unlimited 2021 (23), Mystery fiction - Canada - Ontario (23), Roger the Chapman (22), Police procedural (22), World War II - history (22), Dismas Hardy (22), Gun smith (22), Washington (21), Keith Calder (21), Hamish Macbeth (21), Gus Freeman (21), Romance (21), Sheila Malory (21), Short stories (21), Dame Frevisse (21), Joanne Kilbourn (21), Miss Silver (21), Police procedural - Russia (20), Biography - children (20), Young adult historical fiction - Canadian (20), Biography - Sports (20), Roy Grace (20), United States - history (20), Gemma James (19), Duncan Kincaid (19), DCI Lorimer (19), Reviewed (2017) (19), Reviewed (2015) (19), Banking (19), Family saga (19), Maisie Dobbs (19), Encounter Overland (19), Bingo (2015) (19), Canadian fiction - New Brunswick (19), Spy (18), Medical examiner (18), Christmas - fiction (18), Children's mysteries (18), Sleuth - London (18), Dr. Solly Brightman (18), John Mannering (18), John Putnam Thatcher (18), Brady Coyne (18), Tribal police procedural (18), Sleuth - restaurateur (17), Ava Lee (17), China Bayles (17), Park Ranger (17), Sleuth - former nun (17), Sleuth - herbalist (17), Mystery fiction - Japan (17), Wishlist (17), Abe Glitsky (17), Reviewed (2009) (17), T.V. series (17), Precious Ramotswe (17), Anna Pigeon (17), P. I. - Botswana (16), Jill Quint (16), Susan Henshaw (16), Christian fiction (16), Reviewed (2018) (16), Roderick Alleyn (16), Sleuth - caterer (16), Artists - Canadian (15), Children’s fiction- Canada (15), Luke Thanet (15), Golf (15), Mike Daley (15), Meredith Mitchell (15), Rosie Fernandez (15), Forensic Accounting (15), Bess Crawford (15), Eleanor Roosevelt (15), Goldy Bear (15), Owen Archer (15), Travis McGee (15), Alan Markby (15), Forensic pathologist (15), Oz Blackstone (15), Books (15), Photography - Canada (14), Reviewed (2019) (14), Richard Rollison (14), Kate Fansler (14), Sleuth - cleaning lady (14), Animals (14), Mac Smith (14), Annabel Reed-Smith (14), Historical fiction - United States (14), Reviewed (2010) (14), Rei Shimura (14), Sleuth - teacher (14), Carlotta Carlyle (13), Nina Rilley (13), Cape Breton (13), Lydia Chin (13), Bill Smith (13), Rabbi Small (13), Art thefts - fiction (13), Police procedural - France (13), Mrs. Pollifax (13), Kay Scarpetta (13), Patricia Fisher (13), Glass (13), New Orleans (13), Figure skating (13), Father Dowling (13), Tennis (13), Triad (13), Porfiry Rostnikov (13), Nick Dixon (12), Police procedural - China (12), Holocaust (12), Street people (12), Women's fiction (12), Marti MacAlister (12), Sigrid Harald (12), Time travel (12), Ecclesiastical mystery - Judaism (12), Canadian poetry (11), Catherine LeVendeur (11), Canadian politics (11), Clare Fergusson (11), Children's historical fiction (11), Susanna Appleton (11), Cook book (11), Science fiction - Canadian (11), Poetry (11), Queens of England (11), Kurt Wallander (11), Mystery fiction - cats (11), Mystery fiction - France (11), Medieval mystery - France (11), Sophie Allen (11), Michael Green (11), Horses - fraud (11), Botswana (11), Young adult historical fiction (11), Art forgery (11), Armand Gamache (11), Russ Van Alstyne (11), Sister Mary Helen (11), Adventure fiction (11), Early Reviewers (2017) (11), South Africa - fiction (11), World War II - fiction - France (10), Kindle Unlimited 2019 (10), Drama (10), DNF (10), Lynley/Havers (10), Mrs. Lillywhite (10), Sid Halley (10), Upstairs Downstairs (10), Resistance (10), Ursula Blanchard (10), Reviewed (2007) (10), Don't remember author/title (10), Darina Lisle (10), Jenny Cain (10), Reviewed (2011) (10), Trains (10), Sleuth - California (10), Lady Margaret Priam (10), Peggy O'Neill (10), Campus cop (10), Peter McGarr (9), Chen Cao (9), Historical fiction - France (9), Tea (9), Police Procedural - Ireland (9), Antiques (9), Sleuth - book seller (9), Reviewed (2020) (9), MacLaren Yarbrough (9), Masao Masuto (9), Early Reviewers (2018) (9), Walker Deveraux (9), Women (9), Theodosia Browning (9), Parker Pyne (9), Elizabeth 1 (9), China - history (9), Norah Mulcahaney (9), Thomas Andreasson (9), Mystery fiction - Australia (9), Mrs. Murphy (9), P. I. - Australia (9), Reid Bennett (9), Canadian Fiction/Non-Fiction Reading Challenge (2010) (9), Phryne Fisher (9), Skip Langdon (9), Book stores (9), Early Reviewers (2010) (9), Club Read 2023 (9)
Clouds
Tag Cloud, Author Cloud
Media
Groups
Joined
Nov 26, 2006
Real Name
Penny Marshall
About My Library

My library has grown and shrunk over the years as I moved about Canada - what do I move and what do I leave for others to enjoy. The size of my collection depended on the size of my apartment. My apartment has been reduced to what I refer to as my 'tiny house,' a studio minus the kitchen, a bed-sit in a nursing home. Life happens, it is not what you plan or expect. My library is what is on my Kindle.


My reading doesn't follow a plan. It depends on what I feel like, what I have on my Kindle or what is available at the library or Kindle Unlimited. I read what comes my way. I get ideas from a variety of sources including LT's question "What are you reading?" that is posted on Facebook on Fridays, author interviews I hear and postings on Club Read.

All the anniversaries resulting from World War I and II have generated some very interesting fiction and nonfiction. I have been particularly interested in the ones about women and the Resistance.


I have a broad interest in mysteries and particular enjoy ecclesiastical mysteries. These over the years have spread from mainly Catholic (Father Brown, Father Koesler) and Jewish (Rabbi Small) to many Protestant denominations as well as present day and historical.

For the most part I have moved away from cozies and look for mysteries that I can learn something from as well as enjoy. Historical mysteries fit in this category, as do translations of some foreign authors, e.g., Qiu Xiaolong and Henning Mankell. They provide insight to the country and its history and culture as well as a good mystery. I also like books about books - that's the librarian/publisher in me I guess. I read biographies also.

One of my favourite things to do is to reread a complete series in order; e.g.; Nameless by Bill Pronzini, the Catherine LeVendeur mysteries by Sharan Newman, Quintin Jardine and Marcia Muller and Dick Francis. Seeing the growth of both the author and the characters over the years is very interesting. I also see new things in the books.

In 1974 I visited my parents in Botswana and in 1975 did a 5 1/2-month safari from Victoria Falls to London. Since then I have been interested in reading about Africa and this expanded into an interest in world-wide literary travel, both current and historical. In September, 2018 I started writing a literary travel book on my adventures in Africa. Some from memory and more from the journals I kept. It is exciting and the people reading my work in progress ‘want more’ which I take as a good sign.

My entries in LT include books I own or have owned as well as books I borrowed from others or from libraries. I have sporadically kept lists of books I have read over the years which were a great help in create my reading history for LT. It is an interesting journey through my past.


About Me
Reader, librarian (retired), publisher (retired), stitcher, hooker,(retired due to vision), active artist, aunt/great aunt, Proud #108,810 LT member since November 2006.
Location
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Memberships
Also On
Favorite Authors
Favorite Lists

Member Connections

Friends
Interesting Library
Contacts