Welcome back! It’s Season Four of our podcast book group: Reading with Libraries! We hope you have enjoyed all of our short Book Bites, and now we are looking forward to settling in to read more books with you!

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We usually spend our sessions chatting with our Guest Hosts about genres they like – and it’s always fun. This season we are going to do that, and we are also going to have each of our three staff members pick a genre we like! So today, we are going to look at one of Mary’s favorite genres: Cozy Mysteries

In our book group we have fun talking about books, and provide useful information for library people doing Reader’s Advisory work. There are so many books out there that it’s tough to be an expert on all of them. So we pick a new genre each week to chat about and hopefully provide you with some insight into what may be an unfamiliar genre!

Cozy mysteries are always fun to read. You know nothing too horrible is going to happen, you know the appropriate bad guy is going to get caught in the end, and if there is a romance element in the story, you know the two people will end up happy together. In short: these are nice stories when you want to enjoy yourself, and read things not too taxing. When life gets you down, read a cozy mystery and things will seem a little better.