Happy Friday, all!  It’s been zigzagging between April showers and August weather in New York, but I’ve been happily frolicking in medieval Wales with Brother Cadfael in the first Cadfael book, A Morbid Taste for Bones. The last time I picked up an Ellis Peters book was a good twenty years ago (it may even…

Happy Friday, all!  It’s been the strangest week in New York, zigzagging between summer and winter (with the occasional nod to spring).  Just when you put the winter coat away…. In the meantime, I finally read Tana French’s latest, The Searcher, a stand alone about a Chicago cop who moves to rural Ireland and finds…

Happy Friday, all! I’ve been jumping down all sorts of research rabbit holes this week, from Sophia Schliemann’s role in excavating Tory to exactly where various trains of Rough Riders were on the evening of June 2, 1898 (the answer is on the one rail line leading to Tampa– but where exactly on that line? …

Happy Friday, all! This week, I continued my Chronicles of St. Mary’s readathon with Book 6: What Could Possibly Go Wrong.  (Answer: so much.) I was tempted to plunge right into Book 7 (because once you’re on a roll with a good series…) but I’ve been promising myself for ages that I would start the…

Happy Friday, all!  And happy April! March was a jam-packed whirl of events, and while I loved every minute of it, I’m enjoying the chance to take a deep breath, clear my head a bit, get back to work on the new book– and do some fun reading! A chance remark in a conversation with…

Happy Friday, all! After an exciting week of bouncing around the internet, talking about Band of Sisters, I’m reading… The Masque of the Black Tulip. I know, it feels a little silly to admit to reading my own book!  And I don’t, as a general rule.  But for various reasons I needed to re-read the…

Happy Friday, all!  It’s been another jam-packed week of Band of Sisters book events for me, some going late into the night, so I’ve been back to vintage mysteries, because they’re so easy to pick up and put down at odd moments. I gobbled up Charlotte MacLeod’s Janet Rhys and Sarah Kelling series growing up,…

Happy Friday, all!  Don’t you love it when you hoard a new book and when you finally decide to break it out, it turns out to be just the right book at the right time? I loved Louise Miller’s The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living, so I’ve been hanging on to her second book,…

Happy Friday, all! In this week of book launch, I’ve found myself, in the words of the Shakespeare sonnet, “with what I most enjoy contented least”.  Or, in plain English, I couldn’t seem to focus on reading books I know I otherwise would have loved, and it’s entirely not them, it’s me.  So you’ll hear…