October RandomKIT - Treats, not tricks

This month is a treat from me to you. Please pick a treat for yourself. A favorite author, a favorite series, a favorite genre, or a book you have been looking forward to.
Pull up your chosen book, a blanket, a furry cuddle buddy, and a cup of pumpkin spice latte and enjoy treat yourself, just don't forget the wiki

I personally am reading a Halloween cozy Death of a Neighborhood Witch and a childhood favorite Clifford's Halloween

My sister and her husband are coming over here for a 3-week visit. I know she's going to bring me some books with her, so they will be my treats.

What a lovely idea. I am going to pull The Other Half Lives by Sophie Hannah down from my shelf as I always enjoy her police procedurals and this will help me with my goal of reading series.

Easy enough! I may even "treat" myself to a new book!

Oh, thanks so much! I don't know yet what it will be but it will definately be enjoyable.

This is a delightful idea! Checking out my lists!

Ha! Having just opened the ScaredyKIT thread, I love the play you did with the theme! :-)

>7 LibraryCin: I second this!

I had planned to save Nettle and bone for this challenge, but I was stück on a train with nothing to read, so I finished today. It would have fit this challenge beautifully. Great story, a strong flavour of rRobin McKinley at her best.

I'm going to be entirely predictable (for me) and go for some extra nature/place writing. I've just picked up a used copy of Towards Re-enchantment: Place and its Meanings (edited by Gareth Evans & Di Robson, not Robin Robertson as it says in the touchstone, although he did write one of the chapters) and I already can't wait to read it!

I've chosen Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing for this challenge. I've been looking forward to it for ages, but just not quite getting around to it because I so rarely pick up nonfiction. I'm confident I'll really enjoy it, though, so this feels like a good time to make room for it!

I see that one of my favorite authors is releasing another book in her wonderful Foreigner series in October, so I'm planning on reading the next one in the series, Tracker so I can catch up sooner!

>3 DeltaQueen50: I've changed my mind and decided to read Josephine Baker's Last Dance by Sherry Jones for my treat.

Rereading the Mercy Thompson series as my October treat. So far I’ve read Moon called and Blood bound. Very cosy.

I have completed my read of Josephine's Baker Last Dance by Sherry Jones and it was, indeed, a treat!

I read Kerry Winfrey's Faking Christmas, which was a "treat" in several ways: It's a new book from an author I reliably enjoy, it's a holiday romance, and it has one of my favorite romance tropes (fake dating). Overall, it was enjoyable read, but it ended up being a bit too lightweight and frothy for me.

I read New Beginnings at Christmas Tree Cottage: the perfect feel-good festive romance by Georgia Hill. It had a great small town Christmassy vibe.

Definitely a Treat: Marple: twelve new stories
Twelve writers have maintained their own unique style while capturing Christie's Miss Marple accurately, and without resorting to parody. These intriguing murderous puzzles are as delicious as Christie's own. Some even include Christie-like blinkered expression, suggesting prejudice. Just like any collection of short stories, including Dame Christie's own, some were better than others although I enjoyed all of them. My favourite was The Second Murder in the Vicarage by Val McDermid.

I've finished The Whole Town's Talking by Fannie Flagg, last in a series about Elmwood Springs, Missouri and with a feeling of neighborliness and how small towns used to be. A "comfort" read for sure.

I initially selected Clifford's Halloween by Norman Bridwell as one of my treats to read for RandomKIT, but since this was an original bagged set from the 1970s (6 Cliffords in a bag for $3.99), I decided to read all of them. While I enjoyed the books again, not all of them were as beloved as I remember.

I finished Towards Re-Enchantment: Place and Its Meanings, an anthology of essays on place, language and nature in the British Isles, and it was an absolute treat - this sort of book is definitely my literary happy place!

COMPLETED Pod by Laline Paull and A Death to Record by Rebecca Tope, two library books my sister brought out with her on her visit, so definitely treats.

My treat was The Last Chronicle of Barset, Anthony Trollope's wonderful wrapup of the Barsetshire series.

The November thread is up: https://www.librarything.com/topic/354379

Finished the last book in the Mercy Thompson series today. Incidently, I read the last one, Soul taken, as last years randomkit challenge for October.
A real treat, even though there are some recurring themes that become a bit annoying, and the exposition/scene setting is a bit much when you read 14 books in a row.

Missing You / Harlan Coben
4 stars

Kat is a police officer. 18 years earlier, not only was her (also police officer) father murdered, her fiance, Jeff, dumped her and she hasn’t seen him since. But she is still in love with him. Imagine her surprise when a friend insists on putting her on a dating site and there is Jeff! She is cryptic when she sends a message and the reply makes it seem like he has no idea who she is.

Meanwhile, a teenaged (?) boy comes to Kat; he thinks his mother is missing, and it’s suspicious. Even though his mother told him she was meeting a man she was dating. The other police Brandon had gone to didn’t believe him, so why is he coming to Kat and why does he think she’ll believe him?

There were a lot of different storylines happening in this book, but I found them all interesting. They did all come together at the end. There were times when we followed the POV of “bad guys” and I often find those parts in many books boring, or at least not nearly as interesting as the rest, but that wasn’t the case with this one. Not sure why that was. Maybe the dog helped! :-)