Happy Friday, all! We’ve been House of Plague over here (not Covid plague, mercifully; just good old fashioned preschool is a germ pit plague), so it seemed time for a good seasonal escapist fantasy– and no one does those better than Trisha Ashley.  In between mopping fevered brows (and mopping other less pleasant things), I’ve…

Happy Friday– and happy December! I ended the old month– and my Victoria Holt kick– by bouncing hard off the second half of The India Fan, which takes place during the rising of 1857.  I was with her for the English village drama in the first half of the book, but the second half did…

Happy Friday, all!  It’s been a blur of a week racing to finish up Smith Book II– but, I have to confess, I didn’t manage to hold out against the lure of Simone St. James’s Book of Cold Cases.   I’d meant to save The Book of Cold Cases as a reward for finishing the new…

Happy Friday, all! It’s a wonderfully stormy day here in New York right now (I do so enjoy a good rainy fall day), and all I want to do is read Simone St. James’s The Book of Cold Cases, which magically zapped itself onto my Kindle last night– but I’ve got just two chapters (and…

Happy Friday– and happy almost Halloween! I’d meant to catch up on my usual pre-Halloween reading this week (Shirley Jackson, E.F. Benson, and Simone St. James, I’m looking at you), but instead I got drawn into the irresistible world of the Thursday Murder Club with book two, The Man Who Died Twice.  I adore these…

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…