Weekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Friday, all!
Is it horrible that I can’t remember what I’ve been reading this week? I’m pretty sure there were some vintage mysteries in there, but the one that has stayed in my consciousness is T. Kingfisher’s latest, A Sorceress Comes to Call, which is what happens when you cross classic T. Kingfisher (think paranormal peril and an evil horse that isn’t actually a horse) with something that’s a little like a Regency and a little like a British house party murder mystery (except that we already know whodunnit, and her evil horse, too). I do love books that are genre stew and can’t really be categorized as one thing or another.
What have you been reading this week?
Oh, and since I’ve been very remiss about posting impending book stuff:
— An Author’s Guide to Murder is an Indie Next pick! Yay!
— If you haven’t gotten your tickets to our first ever Team W reader weekend, what are you waiting for?
— And, if you didn’t see it elsewhere, I’ll be touring from November 1-10, but have to hop off the tour after our Greensboro event, so I won’t be at any of the November 11-14 events. So if you wanted to catch all of Team W together, join us in Newport or one of the other pre-November 11 tour stops!
— Is there anything else I should be telling you that I’m forgetting?
Reading John Eyre by Mimi Matthew’s and loving it! A gender-swapped mashup of Jane Eyre & Dracula, it’s suspenseful and atmospheric and hitting all the right buttons for spooky season!
I have been mildly forgetful too lately. So thankfully I have Goodreads…
Putting the Chic in Psychic by Diana Pharaoh Francis is the second in her Everyday Disasters series, think Chick Lit but with really strong PTSD, this one is Gilmore Girls meets The Exorcist with a strong helping of #MeToo.
Meeting the Other Crowd: The Fairy Stories of Hidden Ireland Eddie Lenihan is my book club’s current read and the author has written down oral accounts of fairies in the west of Ireland. The problem is they are of uneven quality and so so SO short. The book is about 400 pages long and there are 72 stories.
The Cloisters by Katy Hays is murder at The Cloisters in New York. I was hoping it would be more occult, because of tarot, but it was more straight up murder with some dark academia vibes.
The Witches of New York by Ami McKay is about to be started as soon as I stop messing around on the computer.