Shakespeare's Landlord: A Lily Bard Mystery
Registered by appletreen of Coalville, Leicestershire United Kingdom on 2/24/2016
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11 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by appletreen from Coalville, Leicestershire United Kingdom on Wednesday, February 24, 2016
I bought this book as I'd very cheaply acquired books 2 and 3 in the series as I've read other Charlaine Harris books and quite enjoyed them. It's not a bad mystery story and you get a good feel for the depth of Lily's darkness and more importantly why. It's not going to have you on the edge of your seat but is an easy read especially when commuting.
Blurb taken from Amazon:
Welcome to Shakespeare, Arkansas
Disguising herself with short hair and baggy clothes, Lily Bard has started over as a cleaning lady in the sleepy town of Shakespeare, where she can sweep away the secrets of her dark and violent past.
However her plan to live a quiet, unobserved life begins to crumble when she discovers the dead body of her nosy landlord. Lily doesn't care who did it, but as the suspicion of the police and local community falls on her, she soon realises if she doesn't unmask the murderer, her life might not just crumble: it might also end.
Blurb taken from Amazon:
Welcome to Shakespeare, Arkansas
Disguising herself with short hair and baggy clothes, Lily Bard has started over as a cleaning lady in the sleepy town of Shakespeare, where she can sweep away the secrets of her dark and violent past.
However her plan to live a quiet, unobserved life begins to crumble when she discovers the dead body of her nosy landlord. Lily doesn't care who did it, but as the suspicion of the police and local community falls on her, she soon realises if she doesn't unmask the murderer, her life might not just crumble: it might also end.
Journal Entry 2 by appletreen at Coalville, Leicestershire United Kingdom on Thursday, February 25, 2016
This book is now reserved for a bookray.
Here are the instructions:
1. Make a quick journal entry when you receive the book so we know it got to you safely. If you're part of the spiral and still waiting to receive A Street Cat Named Bob then let us know, as the list for the second book is a bit different to the first book and best laid plans are bound to go wrong :)
2. Read and send on. I realise that sometimes life gets in the way of BookCrossing, but please keep us posted on what's happening.
3. Make a journal entry when you've finished - tell us what you thought!
4. Check back here to make sure the mailing order hasn't changed, then PM the next person in line for an address. Even if you've mailed something to that person before, please double-check their mailing info and make sure they're still interested and able to participate.
5. Use whatever shipping method works best for you; (feel free to use surface mail if you have the option); if you're able to use delivery confirmation/tracking that's always nice but I'm not going to require it.
Current order (subject to change):
*PLEASE* check before sending to the next person!
heartthumper (US, shipping to ?)
Readertoo (US, US shipping)
Vaga-bonde (in Haiti but US address, US shipping)
6of8 (US, happy to ship INTL)
Cassandra2020 (UK, prefers EU shipping)
penelopewanders (Switzerland, EU shipping)
Here are the instructions:
1. Make a quick journal entry when you receive the book so we know it got to you safely. If you're part of the spiral and still waiting to receive A Street Cat Named Bob then let us know, as the list for the second book is a bit different to the first book and best laid plans are bound to go wrong :)
2. Read and send on. I realise that sometimes life gets in the way of BookCrossing, but please keep us posted on what's happening.
3. Make a journal entry when you've finished - tell us what you thought!
4. Check back here to make sure the mailing order hasn't changed, then PM the next person in line for an address. Even if you've mailed something to that person before, please double-check their mailing info and make sure they're still interested and able to participate.
5. Use whatever shipping method works best for you; (feel free to use surface mail if you have the option); if you're able to use delivery confirmation/tracking that's always nice but I'm not going to require it.
Current order (subject to change):
*PLEASE* check before sending to the next person!
heartthumper (US, shipping to ?)
Readertoo (US, US shipping)
Vaga-bonde (in Haiti but US address, US shipping)
6of8 (US, happy to ship INTL)
Cassandra2020 (UK, prefers EU shipping)
penelopewanders (Switzerland, EU shipping)
Journal Entry 3 by appletreen at -- BOOKRAY, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- USA on Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Released 8 yrs ago (3/2/2016 UTC) at -- BOOKRAY, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- USA
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Starting the journey for this book by sending it on to heartthumper. I hope you enjoy.
It's here, I'm going to start it as soon as I finish my current book. Thanks so much for including me.
Great start to a series. Can't wait to read the others! Thanks!
Just received this from heart thumper as part of a book ray started by appletreen and will be starting it soon. Thanks for sharing your book with me!
Just finished this book. Sorry about the delay. I had a couple of things ahead of it in my to be read pile. It wasn't what I expected ...thought it would have something to do with William Shakespeare! Hah! Anyway it was an interesting read though I'm not too sure I like how it ended. I will send it off to Vaga-bonde who is next on the list as soon as I can figure out how to contact her to get a mailing address. Thanks for including me appletreen!
I will be sending it off to Vaga-bonde in Haiti who is the next one on the list. I intended to mail it today but got to the post office and realized I had left it home! I will send it off first thing in the morning. She mentioned that it might take awhile to arrive through pouch mail so don't worry about it being lost. Thanks for including me appletreen!
Thank you Readertoo for sending this to me, it made it all the way to Haiti! I will start reading right away to be able to pass it on quickly.
The main character reminded me in a way of Lisbeth Salander in the "Millenium" series: a scarred toughened woman, who slowly socializes again, makes friends and finds her place in her community.
The mystery itself is not so thrilling, but I was glad to discover this writer nonetheless thanks to appletreen.
The book was mailed today to 6of8.
The mystery itself is not so thrilling, but I was glad to discover this writer nonetheless thanks to appletreen.
The book was mailed today to 6of8.
Received in the mail last night and looking forward to getting it read shortly. It is odd to me that I have never read this book, the first in the series, but have read all of the others. Since I loved them, I am sure I will enjoy this as well.
I like Charlaine Harris as an author and I like that all of her strong female lead characters are distinctively different, but you get the sense they would all be friends in a quietly supportive way.
Strangely, I had read the other books in this series but nof the first one until niw. You can really see the development of Lily as a characte and how she became the person she was in the last book. After seeing where she began, it makes sense that the series ended where it did.
An engaging mystery and a good set of characters being introduced. Some good red herrings znd a believable resolution.
Strangely, I had read the other books in this series but nof the first one until niw. You can really see the development of Lily as a characte and how she became the person she was in the last book. After seeing where she began, it makes sense that the series ended where it did.
An engaging mystery and a good set of characters being introduced. Some good red herrings znd a believable resolution.
Journal Entry 13 by 6of8 at -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, Maryland USA on Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Released 7 yrs ago (6/27/2016 UTC) at -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, Maryland USA
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Put this book in the mail to Cassandra2020 in Scotland.
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Arrived this morning -o thank you! And thank you for the lovely postcard too. In answer to your question, I have read one out of this series - Shakespeare's Trollop - and that's why I signed up for this bookray (and the others offered) so that I can fill in the gaps.
Looking forward to reading it, although it may be a day or two before I start as I'm a only a third of the way through my current book ~200 pages to go.
Looking forward to reading it, although it may be a day or two before I start as I'm a only a third of the way through my current book ~200 pages to go.
Shakespeare's Landlord (Lily Bard #1) - Good
I actually read the fourth in this cosy mystery series last year. At the time I was a tad annoyed that I'd leapt in mid-series as I do prefer to read in order, so when I saw a bookray advertised for all the series in order, I had to sign up. This is the first.
So, I've not ready any of Charlaine Harris's other series - she wrote the Sookie Stackhouse novels that became the True Blood tv series and the Aurora Teagarden cosy mysteries that alwasy seem to turn up on afternoon tv. Well this is nothing like the Sookie Stackhouse books. Definitely no vampires ;-)
The good thing about finally reading the first in the series is that I now understand some of the back story alluded to in the fourth book.
The Shakespeare of the title is a little town in Arkansas that Lily picked when looking for somewhere to relocate to. It amused her that as a 'Bard' she should live there. Lily is a cleaner and karate student with a past that causes her sleepless nights. When she can't sleep, she walks the town at night and one particular night she spots someone coming from behind her apartment, wheeling her dustbin into the park opposite. Intrigued, she goes into the woods afterwards and finds a body. Not wanting to draw attention to herself, she rings a local policeman at home and leaves an anonymous tip off. Of course, she doesn't want to get involved, but as the body is the Landlord of the title and also a neighbour, she can't but help be drawn into it.
Another intriguing aspect to reading this after the fourth one, is the victim of the later book is a character in the first. You can also see where some of the various character development comes from.
Nicely written, and a definite page turner (read in two days) yet still a non-demanding, read - and sometimes that's just what's needed. Will look forward to #2 dropping through my letter box when its turn to circulate comes around.
For the bookcrossers reading this, here is the link to the two forum posts for the rays:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/20/528532
http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/20/528636
Have pm'd PenelopeWanders for contact details.
I actually read the fourth in this cosy mystery series last year. At the time I was a tad annoyed that I'd leapt in mid-series as I do prefer to read in order, so when I saw a bookray advertised for all the series in order, I had to sign up. This is the first.
So, I've not ready any of Charlaine Harris's other series - she wrote the Sookie Stackhouse novels that became the True Blood tv series and the Aurora Teagarden cosy mysteries that alwasy seem to turn up on afternoon tv. Well this is nothing like the Sookie Stackhouse books. Definitely no vampires ;-)
The good thing about finally reading the first in the series is that I now understand some of the back story alluded to in the fourth book.
The Shakespeare of the title is a little town in Arkansas that Lily picked when looking for somewhere to relocate to. It amused her that as a 'Bard' she should live there. Lily is a cleaner and karate student with a past that causes her sleepless nights. When she can't sleep, she walks the town at night and one particular night she spots someone coming from behind her apartment, wheeling her dustbin into the park opposite. Intrigued, she goes into the woods afterwards and finds a body. Not wanting to draw attention to herself, she rings a local policeman at home and leaves an anonymous tip off. Of course, she doesn't want to get involved, but as the body is the Landlord of the title and also a neighbour, she can't but help be drawn into it.
Another intriguing aspect to reading this after the fourth one, is the victim of the later book is a character in the first. You can also see where some of the various character development comes from.
Nicely written, and a definite page turner (read in two days) yet still a non-demanding, read - and sometimes that's just what's needed. Will look forward to #2 dropping through my letter box when its turn to circulate comes around.
For the bookcrossers reading this, here is the link to the two forum posts for the rays:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/20/528532
http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/20/528636
Have pm'd PenelopeWanders for contact details.
One its way to PenelopeWanders....slightly delayed as I know she is wandering at the moment :-)
Journal Entry 17 by penelopewanders at Hasliberg, Bern / Berne Switzerland on Wednesday, August 17, 2016
This was waiting here in Switzerland when I returned from my holiday - thank you so much for sending! I'm not sure where this is meant to head after I've read it, but as it's not the only ring that rolled in while I was elsewhere, I'll read them in order - and this is not first (I look at the date of dispatch on the envelopes). I should get to it fairly soon despite all that needs catching up with after a return from holiday, unless it transpires that I am indeed at the end of the line and there's less urgency. Please let me know where this should go after me? Again thanks for this book!
Journal Entry 18 by penelopewanders at Hasliberg, Bern / Berne Switzerland on Sunday, September 18, 2016
This is here as a ring or a ray, and I'm not entirely sure where it heads next. I do hope the sequel is heading my way though, as I enjoyed this a lot. For some reason I think I've mainly read the "unusual" books by this author - only the first of the Sookie Stackhouse series, for example. I'm not sure why this is the case - maybe I'll have to fill that gap.
I found the heroine very appealing in that she struck me as non-standard- it's not often the main character cleans houses for a living, for example. Granted, she was a bit of a super-hero thanks to her martial arts training, but I was glad she had found a way to armour herself.
At some point I remembered that more and more often one hears about trigger warnings - and I thought as I read that this could be a book that would require one- there is a fairly graphic description of a brutal rape. I would never have been able to watch this type of scene on a screen, but because I can stop and take a breather, I am usually ok with reading them.
On the whole this was a very good read and I certainly hope to continue with this series.
I found the heroine very appealing in that she struck me as non-standard- it's not often the main character cleans houses for a living, for example. Granted, she was a bit of a super-hero thanks to her martial arts training, but I was glad she had found a way to armour herself.
At some point I remembered that more and more often one hears about trigger warnings - and I thought as I read that this could be a book that would require one- there is a fairly graphic description of a brutal rape. I would never have been able to watch this type of scene on a screen, but because I can stop and take a breather, I am usually ok with reading them.
On the whole this was a very good read and I certainly hope to continue with this series.
Journal Entry 19 by penelopewanders at Hasliberg, Bern / Berne Switzerland on Thursday, September 29, 2016
This ray will travel on! (it's currently off on a hike in the Swiss Alps with my husband but as soon as it returns...)
next stops:
kiki66 in Germany (will ship international) <-- now here
dutch-book in the Netherlands (will ship international)
next stops:
kiki66 in Germany (will ship international) <-- now here
dutch-book in the Netherlands (will ship international)
Journal Entry 20 by penelopewanders at Hasliberg, Bern / Berne Switzerland on Friday, October 14, 2016
This is now heading out again, leaving the Swiss Alps for more northern climes - Germany first, then the Netherlands. After that, who knows?
Thanks for sending this around - I look forward to reading the next ones in this series.
Thanks for sending this around - I look forward to reading the next ones in this series.
And here it is - thanks for sending it my way!
I can start pretty soon ;-)
I can start pretty soon ;-)
That was great! I really enjoyed myself..
It was just the right mixture of crime, passion, irony and likable and odd characters.
Though I have to admit I prefer Claude to Marshall ;-)
Asked for the next address already!
It was just the right mixture of crime, passion, irony and likable and odd characters.
Though I have to admit I prefer Claude to Marshall ;-)
Asked for the next address already!
Journal Entry 23 by dutch-book at Heerenveen , Fryslân (Friesland) Netherlands on Monday, November 14, 2016
Arrived today in the mail. Thanks, will be read after a very big book I'm reading now.
Journal Entry 24 by dutch-book at Heerenveen , Fryslân (Friesland) Netherlands on Wednesday, January 18, 2017
This was an okay read. It wasn't as much fun as I would have thought, based on the Sookie Stackhouse books, but it was a quick read. Mildly entertaining.
Ik kon geen Harris laten liggen !
Journal Entry 26 by bloedengel at Vosselaar, Antwerpen / Anvers Belgium on Sunday, November 27, 2022
I read a few pages, but this is no Sookie. And I've outgrown her a bit as well. Not my kind of read. Happy travels !
In transit!
Journal Entry 28 by Kafka1954 at Zwerfboekenrek station Mol in Mol, Antwerpen / Anvers Belgium on Wednesday, December 28, 2022
Released 1 yr ago (12/29/2022 UTC) at Zwerfboekenrek station Mol in Mol, Antwerpen / Anvers Belgium
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Bye, book!
Go and make some new friends...
Go and make some new friends...