For the best French Revolutionary spoof since Blackadder’s Pimpernel skit, check out this cartoon on Hark! A Vagrant.

Since I’m not fit for much except sprawling on a couch today anyway, it seemed a good time to catalog books. This week’s reads have been:

Between traveling and everything else, I’m having a very hard time remembering what I read two or three days ago.

For those Jane-ites in New York or passing through, the Morgan Library has an excellent exhibit up right now on Jane Austen

I love Halloween. I tend to live in other centuries in my head most of the time, but only once a year do I get to model them as a fashion statement.

Usually, around Halloween, I like to go and read through my favorite ghost stories. It’s become something of a tradition for me to

I have a confession to make. Those posts over the last eight days or so? I pre-programmed them to pop up while I was off in Paris, researching the next two Pink books.

… will return next Friday. Stay tuned!