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    Read It and Weep

    Written by Jenn McKinlay

    Narrated by Allyson Ryan

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    William Shakespeare is credited with inventing how many words?*

    Answering Shakespeare trivia comes with the job description for library director Lindsey Norris. But when the Briar Creek Community Theater mounts their newest production of the Bard, she has no intention of leaving the stacks for the stage. Unfortunately a villain is waiting in the wings…

    Former Broadway actress Violet La Rue is holding auditions for A Midsummer Night's Dream-and everyone from the sour spinster librarian Ms. Cole to Lindsey's youthful library pages are trying out for parts. Brought in to play the mischievous Puck is the flirtatious professional actor Robbie Vine, who seems to have eyes for Lindsey. Before her blush has faded, the Bard's dream turns into a nightmare-when one of the cast is poisoned. Now Lindsey and her crafternooners must take center stage to unmask the culprit before the final curtain call…

    *Over 17,000


    From the Paperback edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 6, 2015
    ISBN9780147522290
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    Read It and Weep
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    Jenn McKinlay

    Jenn McKinlay is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of several mystery series, including the Good Buy Girls series and the Decoupage Mystery series, which she wrote under the pseudonyms Josie Belle and Lucy Lawrence. A former librarian, she studied English literature and library science at Southern Connecticut State University before moving to Arizona, where she lives in a house that is overrun with kids, pets, and her husband’s guitars. For more information, visit her at www.jennmckinlay.com.

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    • 3/5
      I like this one & think it's a fine cozy series. I was reading them in order but my library had the third in the series checked out so I went with this one & I can say, I don't think it matters with regard to continuity. After reading the first and second these can likely be read out of order without causing one to be lost. I'll likely continue with the series.
    • 5/5
      In Book 4 of A Library Lover's Mystery series Lindsey is having to deal with theater fever. It seems not only has her whole staff gotten bitten by the theater bug but the whole town as well. Robbie Vine a friend of Violet's has agreed to put on a production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and the women are swooning while the men are looking to bash something - preferably Robbie's head. And then someone does finish Robbie off - but there may be too many suspects to weed through. Lindsey has fought off her feelings for Robbie and now that he's dead she must decide if those feelings indicates that she wasn't really in love with Sully. Now she's determined to find out who killed Robbie, hoping to avoid thinking about her feelings.

      This ending completely surprised me, as a matter of fact I'm still reeling from whiplash caused by my neck and arms whipping back through the pages trying to pick up the clues I missed. Well done!
    • 3/5
      This books seemed mostly concerned about Lindsey's love life...which I don't find very compelling. I don't think she's an interesting enough character to have two supposedly very attractive (both physically and personality-wise) men vying for her attention. My favorite part of the whole book was the "reference interview" with the little girl.
    • 2/5
      The Briar Creek Community Theater is getting ready to put on a production of A Midsummer's Night Dream directed by former Broadway actress Violet La Rue and Hollywood legend, Robbie Vine, is going to be starring as Puck. The small town is abuzz with excitement but things start going south pretty quickly. Library Director, Lindsey Norris, is on hand to help with costuming and it looks like soon she's going to be helping to do some research. Someone doesn't want the play to go on and someone in the cast is poisoned - how can the play go on? Predictable, over written, and the love triangle is beyond stupid. Okay fluff, but I'm not sure that I would read anymore in this series.
    • 3/5
      The theatre bug has bitten the town of Briar Creek hard when the local community theatre prepares to stage its production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. It doesn't hurt that the director has brought in her old friend from Broadway, Robbie Vine, a handsome and charming actor. But when a member of the cast is poisoned, library director Lindsey can't help but stick her nose into the investigation.As the fourth in this series, there's not a ton of surprises here. The complicated relationship between Lindsey and the handsome boat captain, Sully, continues to be complicated. The mystery is there and even I managed to pick out the whodunnit less than a quarter of the way through the novel. The real draw here, as with most cozies, is our cast of small town folk. And for this librarian the spot on library work details make me so dang happy that I'll be back for more.
    • 4/5
      Well-known actor Robbie Vine came to Briar Creek to play the role of Puck in Violet's community theatre production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. With library director Lindsey Norris and Sully giving each other space, Robbie shows interest in Lindsey. When paramedics pronounce Robbie dead after drinking his signature coconut water, Lindsey wants to help the investigation. While she sticks mainly to online research, she does find a few things she reports to the police chief. Most seasoned cozy readers will determine "whodunnit" fairly early in the book, but it is interesting to see how the plot unravels . . . and it contains an interesting twist. I listened to the audio version read by Allyson Ryan, but I found her male voices not that great, and I did not like the voice she gave Lindsey that well. Still it's a pleasant way to spend a few hours, particularly in stressful COVID days.
    • 3/5
      I thoroughly enjoyed McKinlay's method of interweaving William Shakespeare into the storyline. Of course, the story centers on a local community theater's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. The relationship issues rendered a foggy atmosphere, as the actual relationship between Joanie and Dylan. Also, the triangle relationship between Lindsey, Sully, and Robbie lacked depth. The story provided a glance at the workings of a stage production with the description of costumes and scenery, as did McKinlay's journey into mechanics of the library. The faked death of one of the players reminds me of Romeo and Juliet, but this fabrication does not follow the consequences of Shakespeare's characters.
    • 4/5
      Of the four first-rate mystery series that Jenn McKinlay writes, this is my favorite. Perhaps it's the library setting that feels like home to me. Perhaps it's a varied cast of characters that grow and change with each book. There's a new police chief in town who's been warned of Lindsey's nosy ways. We finally learn a little more about Violet La Rue and her daughter Charlene. Lindsey's relationship with Sully may be at an end, but someone new in town is obviously attracted to her. Even grumpy by-the-book librarian Ms. Cole is seen in a different light. It's a wise writer who realizes that-- regardless how much fans may whine and complain-- the best characters to come back to time and again are the ones who experience ups and downs just like we readers do.The plot is a good one with shades of the Bard throughout. Not everyone is as they appear to be. Romance is in the air for more people than just Lindsey, and there's a heart-stopping brush with death. But there's more to this Library Lovers series than well-told tales and interesting characters.In Read It and Weep, we learn a bit about putting on a play, especially behind the scenes. Scenery, costume fittings, assigning understudies, run-throughs of the script-- all these things and more fit snugly into the story. What's more, anyone who's ever checked out a book will certainly enjoy this one (and the series) for the glimpses into life in the stacks that real-life librarian McKinlay shares. From using library skills to research information into a murder, to the "there's always one in the bunch" rulemeister, to the knockout scene where Lindsay helps a little girl find her book with the pumpkin on the cover, the author shows what magical places libraries are. This is a series that started well and just keeps getting better. If you love books, laughter, romance, and trying to figure out whodunit, may I suggest that you read all about Briar Creek's nosy library director, Lindsey Norris?
    • 3/5
      Jenn McKinlay's cozy mystery series featuring librarian Lindsay Norris is better written than many. In this installment, members of the book club are participating in a community stage production of Midsummer Night's Dream and the director has brought in well-knwon actor Robbie Vine to play Puck. Vine's charm doesn't seem to have won everyone over though since attempts are made on his life. The female police chief asks Lindsay's help in observing but Lindsay also uses her research skills to find background information on Robbie that leads to a shocking discovery. The plot is plausible, partly because Lindsay uncovers some of the mystery but doesn't actually solve the crime.
    • 4/5
      Lindsay and the whole town are excited about the local community theater production of Midsummer Nights Dream. This production is particularly exciting because the director's good friend and famous actor, Robbie Vine, is playing Puck. Robbie has the women in town swooning and even Lindsay is flattered by his attentions. When strange accidents start happening to Robbie, Lindsay is convinced that someone is out to get him.These books are lots of fun. I enjoy the mysteries and the cast of characters. I love it when you feel like you know the characters. This one has a nice twist too. Impatiently waiting for book 5.
    • 4/5
      Library Lover's Mysteries just seem to be getting better. In this installment, Lindsay, the librarian, is helping her friend Violet with a Shakespearean production at the community theater. A friend of Violet's, a well-known actor agrees to a part but before the show goes on, he is carried away dying from poisoning and it wasn't the first attempt on his life.Lindsay works to uncover who and why the actor was a target and the surprise ending was as dramatic as Shakespeare would have wanted.Great fun!
    • 5/5
      When her friend Violet La Rue decides to stage “A Midsummer Night's Dream” librarian Lindsey Norris has no intentions of auditioning but happily agrees to work backstage. She's hoping being busy will help her get over her breakup with Sully but soon finds that impossible since Sully is also working backstage. However, actor Robbie Vine is willing to try and help her get over Sully. Before she can begin sort out her feelings for each of them, tragedy strikes and Lindsey discovers there is danger backstage and she may be the next victim.“Read It and Weep” is the fourth book in Jenn MacKinlay’s Library Lovers cozy mystery series - a series that I like more and more with each book. Much of the action in the book takes place not at the library but at the theater where the group is putting on the play. This is a nice change of pace and offers some interesting behind the scenes glimpses of what it is like to put on a play. Four books into the series the characters are well-developed and feel like old friends - even Ms. Cole who added an unexpected bit of humor to the book. The mystery itself is well plotted (if a bit over-the-top) with the lot of twists and turns. Some of these twists are easy to figure out; others may seem a little unfair but did ultimately remind me of an Agatha Christie mystery. The one thing I didn't like about this book is the Sully/Lindsey/Robbie triangle which reminds me a bit too much of the romantic complications in McKinlay's Cupcake Bakery cozy mystery series - at times I found that the romance aspects were taking over the mystery aspects. Hopefully this will get settled in the next book(s) in the series.“Read It and Weep” is a nicely done cozy mystery.
    • 4/5
      The community theatre in Briar Creek (Connecticut) is putting on a Midsummer’s Night Dream and just about everyone in town is involved. That includes, of course, our favorite librarian Lindsey Norris, head of the local library, and even a few of the teens who work as library pages. Violet LaRue, a regular at the library and a retired Broadway actress, is directing and she’s convinced her friend Robbie Vine, a popular and rather handsome British actor, to play Puck. Things start to go south pretty quickly and when one of the cast members is poisoned, there is some question about whether the show will go on. Lindsey’s on-again/off-again romance with Mike “Sully” Sullivan is off again. But that doesn’t keep him from being jealous when Robbie starts paying attention to Lindsey. Since he’s married and, therefore, off limits as far as Lindsey is concerned, that doesn’t stop Sully from getting his nose out of joint.In Read It and Weep, it’s very much business as usual in Briar Creek. This is a lovely series I’ve grown very fond of, a favorite if you will. And Read It and Weep is a strong entry.
    • 3/5
      The library meets the theatre in this installment in the Library Lover’s Mystery series. Library director Lindsey Norris and some of her staff get involved with a Shakespearean play, but the play is hardly cast and rehearsals begun before sinister things start to happen. Ultimately, one of the cast is poisoned during a rehearsal, and Lindsey is determined to get to the bottom of things before anyone else is hurt. With the aid of her crafternooners, Lindsey is determined to solve the mystery. Likable characters in a clever plot make this tale an enjoyable and entertaining cozy.