Happy Friday, all! I started the week with the perfect October read, Neil Spring’s The Lost Village.  I can’t remember who it was who recommended the movie, Harry Price: Ghost Hunter, to me, but whoever it was, I fell in love with the wonderful mix of interwar disillusionment, spiritualism, mystery, and that faint tingle down…

Happy Friday, all! I’m settling in for the most dramatic and emotionally draining stretch of the Work In Progress, so it’s been a comfort reading week, which has mostly consisted of continuing to chain read my way through the Lockwood & Co books (which I now hear is being made into a Netflix series!), with…

Happy Friday, all! This week, I read Susanna Kearsley’s latest, The Vanished Days, which felt both like a departure for her (no modern frame story, no paranormal element) but also an entirely logical next step (a beautiful and nuanced deep dive into late 17th/early 18th century Scottish history).  It’s the story of Adam, who’s been…

Happy Friday, all! I have to confess, it has been one of those weeks where I pick books up and put them down again. I tried a recent, very buzzy book that has been recommended to me by many, many people– and while I loved the author’s voice, I bounced off it hard.  I can’t…

Happy Friday, all! It’s been a best friend book bonanza this week.  For ages and ages, my best friend has been recommending The Left-Handed Booksellers of London.  And for ages and ages, I’ve had it sitting there unread.  I finally read it, and I’m kicking myself for not having had the good sense to follow…

Happy Friday, all! I have to confess to being very boring this week.  I’m deep in the writing cave for the 1890s book (aka the Cuba Book, aka Smith II: the Resmithening), so I’ve been leavening my labors with comfort reads: more of Charlotte MacLeod’s Sarah Kelling series.  Right now I’m up to Book 7,…

Happy Friday! I started the week by staying up way too late reading Elise Hooper’s upcoming Angels of the Pacific in one sitting.  Isn’t that always both the worst and the best?  When you think, okay, I’ll just read a few more chapters, but you have to, have to, have to know how it’s all…

Happy Friday and happy September!  Can you believe it’s fall already?  I hope everyone stayed safe through this crazy start to September…. I ended August with Dame Ngaio March’s first Inspector Alleyn mystery, A Man Lay Dead.  Somehow, in all my years of reading Christie and Sayers and Allingham, I missed out on these.  I…

Happy Friday, all!  And happy last weekend of August.  It’s very hard to believe that next week will be September already…. I started the week with Now You See Them, the fifth book in Elly Griffiths’s Brighton Mysteries, which rather surprised me by jumping ahead to ten years later, to the mid 1960s, where the…

Happy Friday from high in the mountains! I have a pile of books I’m meant to read— and even some books I want to read— but I’ve been on an uncontrollable Brighton Mysteries binge.  You know how it is when you enter a world and just have to stay there until the books run out?…