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added a few lines about Clare's other amateur PI work as well as as few nuances of the Matteo (Matt) and Clare relationship. I'm sure it would be great to read them in order but I'd venture to say they could stand alone, much like watching one of the old Murder She Wrote re-runs starring Angela Langsbury as writer and amateur detective, Jessica Fletcher.

Other books by Cleo Coyle in this series, in order, include: 1. On What Grounds 2. Through the Grinder 3. Latte Trouble 4. Murder Most Frothy 5. Decaffeinated Corpse 6. French Pressed 7. Espresso Shot 8. Title under secret guard coming out later in 2009

The catchy titles, great graphics, plus her interactive and virtual coffeeshop make this one I will visit often. She is one writer who does answer emails from her readers and she is fantastic at listing information on all things coffee bean! She brought together two of my great loves and I will add her to the sites I visit on my main site!

Now with the cold weather about to come on us here in St. Louis, in addition to Cleo Coyle's books, here are some other fun ones to wile away the time until spring. Some I've read, some are waiting-their-turn on my bookshelf:

1. Sisters, Ink. I enjoy scrapbooking and so ordered this from Crossings.com. It was a refreshing, not preachy, new addition to the Christian fiction genre. This is about four multi-racial adopted sisters from a small town who scrapbook and help each other though life's challenges. The first one is about Tandy who lives in Orlando though her heart is back in Tennessee. I imagine a series brewing from this.

2. Coming Unglued is the second installment in this series. It features the black sister, Kendra, who is the quirky artist. The book promises to be a delightful experience. Again, it looks like Rebeca Seitz has developed some identifiable and returning characters. The Sinclair sisters are Tandy, the red head of the first book, Kendra the bohemian artist, Meg the mommy, Joy the baby sister and fabulous cook.

3. Mim Warner's Lost Her Cool by Lynn Messina. Haven't read it yet, looks like another installment on the fashion world. Could be a fun read, the cover is fun.

4. Ditto for The Ivy Chronicles by Karen Quinn although I picked this one up because of the funny quasi-memoir I read this past fall about the private school world here in St. Louis. They scuttlebutt that the book was entirely fictional, however, everyone recognized MICDS and the other uber-illusive and ultra-private prep school world of the West County Suburbs. And for the life of me I can't recall the book.

I am putting down my fun and chic'lit for some serious reading. I'm reading Race Rules by Dr. Michael Eric Dyson this week in time for his January 10th keynote address. Next I'm picking up To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee for the January 16-18th theatrical performance here in St. Louis as part of the collaboration between Washington University, The Big Read, and the National Endowment for the Arts to get an entire community to read a book. I'll end January with reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald for a Mocha Mom's Movie Night In. My February pick is A Mercy by Toni Morrison to tie in with my declaration of 2009 as the Year of Black Female Literature. My nose will be buried in a book and the reviews will show up here!

Happy reading and sumptuous sipping!

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