Weekly Reading Round-Up
When I’m working on a book– and I’m working on the next Team W book right now!– I find it very hard to read anything in a similar style. But I also can’t write if I’m not reading. (Reading is like air and water to me. If I’m not in the middle of reading a book, or about to finish a book but already have the next lined up, I get extremely cranky.)
The solution: mysteries.
I’ve already re-read all my Dorothy Sayers, so I’ve moved on to Margery Allingham’s Campion series. This week was Sweet Danger
After this I may need some contemporary women’s fiction (Katherine Center
What have you been reading this week?
Just discovered Jessica Fellowes’ Mitford Murders series, so good!!
I’ve been wondering about those. Anything with Mitford, of course!
Songs of Love & War by Santa Montefiore, the first in a series of three books
Oh, how is it??? It’s been in my wishlist for what seems like forever, and I’m still pondering over whether to buy it or not!!!
Songs of Love & War by Santa Montefiore, the first in a series of three books.
I’m starting book one of the Sweeney sisters series by Ashley Fairley (Her Sister’s Shoes).
I’m still (re-re-re-re-re)reading The Secret History of the Pink Carnation (how did I ever manage to forget about the Pulchritudinous Princess of the Azure Toes ??? It shows that it was high time I re-read it again!!!)
After that, I have Shadow of the moon, by M.M. Kaye, grabbed at the library per your recommendation, so it’s my next reading!!
I read all those books by M. M. Kaye so many years ago. They were lovely
I loved How to Walk Away, my first by Katherine Center!
I just started Goodbye, Paris by Anstey Harris. The main character is maddeningly obtuse at this point but I’m hoping that changes 🙂
Read Grace Draven’s novella The Undying King, which was good (romantic fantasy, a girl with a curse though impossible to break meeting a centuries old mage-king with a curse of his own that might be the key to lifting hers). Next will be #5 for Saxon Chronicles Bernard Cornwell!
Hazel Gaynor’e The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter was as wonderful as all her other books., and I caught up on Karen White’s Tradd Street series with The Guetes on South Battery.
I just finished Sandra Dallas,s book The Last Midwife. I have read and enjoyed many of her books😊
I was in the mood for an old fashioned gothic novel so I read Monks’ Court by Katherine Wigmore Eyre and found it sub par. Next I’m reading Barbara Michael’s The Crying Child.
My Not So Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella (one of her best, in my opinion!), The Devil in Spring by Lisa Kleypas, and MASH by Richard Hooker (the original Hawkeye of the novel is not nearly as wonderful as Alan Alda’s incarnation).
I finished The Other Daughter last night, which is what brought me to your website! Hard to put down and extremely enjoyable, thanks for a great read. Also just read Ben Aaronovitch’s Lies Sleeping. Both set in London, just slightly different takes on the same city!
Duke by Default by Alyssa Cole. I absolutely loved Princess in Theory and have been looking forward to reading this one!
I’m reading Bertrice Small’s fourth book in her one sci-fi/fantasy series called The Sorceress of Belmair. It’s wonderful so far! There’s a dragon in a faraway kingdom who acts and talks more like a high lady of a court, and she alone can choose the next king of Belmair.
Recently discovered Fiona Valpy (thank you Kindle Unlimited reading suggestions) Thoroughly enjoying all of her books. Great character development and thoughtful story lines.
Finished devouring The Summer Country, and now I can not WAIT for everyone else to read it when it comes out. I’m telling you, film deals! Starring Emma Stone of course… Then I finally finished N0S4A2 by Joe Hill, not as scary as I was hoping for, more meh… so to redeem Joe Hill I’m re-reading his Locke and Key graphic novel series about a large Gothic house with keys with mystical properties, SO fabulous. I also started re-reading the first book in Robin LaFevers His Fair Assassins series to prep for her new book in February. Who doesn’t love assassin nuns who are the handmaidens of death?
LUCKY YOU!!!!!!!!
Just completed The Gown by Jennifer Robson. It was okay. I find bespoke and couture fascinating so would have liked more detail and character development