I see you got a great button for your fluke-a-thon. Looks great! I'm going to tweet about your reading challenge now!

I have read this series but started to fizzle for me about #6 or 7.

Susan - The titles remind me of Strawberry Shortcake and her friends. Probably because I read those books to my daughter now. If I didn't have such a big pile of books I'd do this. Maybe next year.

what a fun idea for a challenge! I'm excited to see what recipes you decide to use.

Dude! No link love for me? Thanks a lot - and I suppose now you're going to say I can't win because I had a chance to get my own signed copy. You better not! ;)

What I'm wondering is how this fluke-a-thon with recipe tasting fits in with your new vow to stick to your diabetic diet. Give me a call for some recipe recommendations.

Forgot to say how cute the button is - did the same person do it that did your site design?

Tara - So you had to go and mention the diet, huh? Trying to ruin my fun??

So sorry about the missing link love. It's all fixed now :)

Recipe recommendations would be great. I already know what I'm making from the first book, but the others are still up in the air ...

Yes, the button is by the same designer. Isn't she fab??

I had no idea that I was so far behind on this series. I think I got up to needing to read Sugar and Spice and haven't gotten any further. I do keep on meaning to keep reading, but I have to say that part of the reason that I haven't yet is because I am a bit over the love triange aspect of the series.

Very cute button!

Fun! I read the first one last and thought it was pretty fun. Definitely light and fluffy but I'm a real sucker for a cozy mystery. I will definitely follow along with you and see if I can read some of them, too.

I'm a little behind on the start of this challenge, but I hope that it's going well! I felt the same way as you did about the books. 2 years after my first Joanne Fluke mystery, I have now read through 5 in a month (something rare for me).

You have inspired me to track my own progress. I was looking for images to use for my own blog post about it and came across this. I'll add the challenge to my post!

Good luck and...who do you think she should marry?

I am up to The Carrot Cake one and I have all the others waiting in the wings. I really like Hannah and I read this when I too feel I need to visit a nice friendly place. (well I guess not so friendly with all the murders lol.)

Hello Susan !

I'm a French book-addict and I've been reading your blog for a couple of months now. I saw your Fluke-A-Thon and I found it very fun, so I decided to do it myself. I love reading in English and I've got a sweet tooth - how could I resist to such yummy titles ? So I bought Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder for a start - I plan to read it soon !

I just saw this challenge and decided to join along because I really like Joanne Flukes books. I am on Carott Cake Murder.

I have started Chocolate Chip Cookie and I love it :)

I loved Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder, Hannah is endearing, and it was very funny (and all theses cookie recipes) !!! Strawberry Shortcake Murder is now waiting in my TBR pile !

I saw the button on your sidebar and thought I would join in, not realizing that the post is from 2009.
I decided to start the series anyway.
I wish I hadn't started with the first one. I quit after reading over 200 pages because I just could not stand the lack of editing. I mean it was so bad, that I was tempted to get out a red pen and edit it myself! There were words that didn't belong, and sentences that made no sense!
Did you notice that at all? and if so, does the editing get any better?

Anonymous - I'm still working on the challenge, even though I started it so long ago. I have a hard time getting the books from my library, so it's taking me awhile to get through them.

Anyway, the thing about Fluke is that her writing is terrible. I haven't noticed the editing so much as just the writing in general. It's bad. The only way I can enjoy Fluke is to tell myself that I don't care if the prose sucks, the characters are one-dimensional, the plots contrived, etc. I read her simply because she's fun. And the recipes are good. Make no mistake, the books are NOT well-written. But they're light, fluffy, and fun, so I keep reading them to balance out the darker stuff that always seems to be on my TBR pile.

I never have read any of Joanna Fluke's books but game to start adding them to my TBR list and read read read LOL.