April Chats

It's not a wrong number! Talk to us about what's on your mind.

It's Mystery and Thriller Week on Goodreads.

https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/1541?int=mysterywk_sa

>2 bhabeck: Thanks Brenda. I should be able to fill this challenge with no problem.

Schedule for Group Read of The Armada Boy by Kate Ellis, #2 in the Wesley Peterson Series.

Saturday 6th April : Prologue, Chapter 1 - 4
Sunday 7th April : Chapter 5 - 7
Monday 8th April : Chapter 8 - 10
Tuesday 9th April : Chapter 11 - 14, Epilogue

Just turned on the TV. Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is burning, Didn't hear what caused it. They have said that it was under going major reconstruction.

Yes, horrific pictures.Looks big!

>6 Andrew-theQM: 850 years of history gone. I can just imagine how all that wood fed the flames. Sad.

Schedule for the Group Read of Wild Fire. Sadly the last ever book in the Shetlands Series by Ann Cleeves. 😢😭

Wednesday 17th April : Chapter 1 - 11
Thursday 18th April : Chapter 12 - 20
Friday 19th April : Chapter 21 - 31
Saturday 20th April : Chapter 32 - 42
Sunday 21st April : Chapter 43 - 55

>5 Carol420: Lucky the damage wasn’t even worse.

>9 Andrew-theQM: Luckily, a lot was saved. I know Macron wants it restored in 5 years, but that won't happen. Its not like this was a prefab building. The amount of skilled artisans and craftsmen necessary will be difficult to find, as they are on other restoration sites. I highly doubt it will be done in my lifetime. But at least millions of $ have already been donated to restoration.

April 20

Happy Birthday Carol!

>11 Olivermagnus: Thank you for thinking of me ...and for sending me all these cute kittens. Hope you sent a litter box:)

Have a great Easter everyone!

I found out when I was doing a challenge for another group that there isn't going to be a "Z" book in Sue Graftons's alphabet series. When she died in 2017 she only had a the title "Z is For Zero", and she didn't want anyone else writing the book...so her family honored her wishes. I wondered why it never came out in the fall of 2018. Going to miss her and Kinsey Millhone.

>14 Carol420: Real shame to be so close to finishing!

>15 Andrew-theQM: I understand about her not wanting anyone else to write it. If you know the person that is going to do it, it might be okay... but if you don't and it turns out to be horrible, that's what the entire series will be judged on. I hate Ace Atkins writing the Robert Parker series. It's not like Robert Parker would have done it.

Following the Group Read of The Armada Boy thought you might be interested in this article.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-48082397

>17 Andrew-theQM: Thanks! Very interesting!

>17 Andrew-theQM: That is beyond interesting. 800 people dead as the result of a rehearsal seems absurd....ludicrousness...and any other adjective you can think of. Why would anyone need to practice to kill people? They probably did more damage than the enemy would have done.

>19 Carol420: More people were killed in Operation Tiger than in the D Day Landings!!!

>20 Andrew-theQM: Amazing! I wonder how the people that thought up this piece of brilliance justified it?

Of course practice for D Day was necessary.The cause of the massacre was that in 1944 no German E-Boats should ever have been allowed to close the coast of Devon.

>22 tendring: Practice was definitely necessary, but was there a reason that they needed to use live ammunition on their own? Totally agree, should have been better protection against e-boat incursion and the Germans spying on the operation.