Mea Culpa– and Weekly Reading
Many apologies! While I’ve been hunkered down over the 1920’s book revisions, many things that were meant to occur on the website this week didn’t.
Coming soon will be: the belated announcement of the latest website contest winner; the Pinkorama contest (get your Peeps ready!); a book tour recap; and, in a special Teaser Tuesday, my plans for the future of the Pink series.
Okay, now that that’s all out of the way… what have you been reading this week?
So much to look forward to. You’re so good to us, Lauren.
I’ve been reading The Mother Tongue: English and how it got that way, to continue with my Bill Bryson non-fiction obsession. It’s fascinating and hilarious all at once and I recommend it to anyone with an interest in language/linguistics.
Thanks, Gina! I have a Bill Bryson thing, too…. My favorite is “I’m a Stranger Here Myself”, his collection of short essays about moving back to the US after years in England. So. Funny.
Winter Sea, by Susanna Kearsley. SO good and it’s killing me that I haven’t had enough time to finish it yet. Like the Pink books, there’s a present day and an historical story, and both are incredibly engaging. Highly recommended!
YES YES YES, news for the future of the pink series!!! 😀
And if you’re in need of inpiration for one Teaser Tuesday, somwhere in the future, what about telling us what it felt like, writing a non-pink book?
As to me, I’m deeply burried into the Fever series, by KMM, that I am re-reading… After that, I should be reading Timeless, the latest and last in Gail Carriger’s Parasole Protectorare series (as soon as I receive it), and Dance with Dragons, book 5 of A Song of Ice and Fire!
I read The Ghost Writer by John Harwood, which was atmospheric, creepy, and mysterious in all the right ways although the ending fell a bit flat for me (and for a lot of other readers). Still, I couldn’t put it down. I recommend it if you’re a fan of classic, literary ghost stories–Susan Hill, Shirley Jackson, or Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw. I’ll be checking out his next book for sure.
Now I’ve just started Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart and am loving it. Governesses, châteaux, and brooding aristocrats of dubious morals, oh my!
I can’t wait to see what you have in store for us Lauren!
I have been reading lots of Heyer – The Nonesuch, False Colours, and now April Lady.
I also just finished The Last Time I Saw Paris, which I abolutely loved. I couldn’t put it down until it was finished. I was not very familiar with German-occupied Paris so it was interesting to see how those citizens continued to live on.
I can’t wait to see what you have in store for us Lauren!
I have been reading lots of Heyer – The Nonesuch, False Colours, and now April Lady.
I also just finished The Last Time I Saw Paris, which I absolutely loved. I couldn’t put it down until it was finished. I was not very familiar with German-occupied Paris so it was interesting to see how those citizens continued to live on.
Lauren did you see AAR blog about you?
Read Garden Intrigue. Great Book. Thanks.
Reading Gail Carriger feel mixed.
Listened to Heyer’s Frederica via overdrive digital it was fabulous!
Bill Bryson sounds good for the weekend.
Pam, “Nine Coaches Waiting” is one of my all time favorites! Will definitely check out “The Ghost Writer”….
Thumbs up for The Winter Sea. Also The Rose Garden and Mariana by the same author. Not to mention the FEVER series as well. Great stuff.
After finishing The Garden Intrigue (loved Augustus and Emma), I have launched into It’s your move, Wordfreak by Falguni Kothari. It is her first published work and quite good. Lauren, you met her at one of your big authors’ events in NYC and signed a copy of The Orchid fair to a group of us Outlandish readers. Thank you, that book ended up in my hands.
When I finish Wordfreak, I plan to start the 4 book series about NYC by Beverley Swerling. End of essay.
I finally read The Garden Intrigue this week. It was very good!
Before that I read The Sleeping Partner by Madeleine Robins. The Sarah Tolerance mysteries are fantastic.
I just got my copy of Rainshadow Road by Lisa Kleypas, so that might be next.
Looking forward to hearing what is in store for the Pink series!
I just finished The Odds by Stewart O’Nan (not sure) and The Baker’s Daughter (very good). Death of a Kingfisher (Hamish McBeth mystery) and The Garden Intrigue this week! My daughter raved about the Garden Intrigue so I can’t wait!
Re-reading A Feast of Crows because my friend Matt threatened to spoil A Dance with Dragons if I don’t read it soon… 😛
I just read Jack Caldwell’s The Three Colonels. Who says a guy can’t write a good romance? This one has THREE!
After reading the “Lost Prince” I ventured on to a similar book about Marie Therese which kept my attention to the end. The only disappointment was the blink-and-you-miss-it mention of “determining” the identity of the Dark Countess which was at the very end. Now reading an impulse buy, on-sale book on Buccaneers and Pirates — same era as King Louis and Marie Antoinette. Still want to read Madame Tussaud… Saving Garden Intrigue to enjoy this Spring on my sunny porch with a cup of coffee.