One of the perks of being an author is getting first crack at new books. I’ve been reading my way through an embarras d’ARCs. This week, I dug into: –Alyson Richman’s The Velvet Hours. Do you remember that Paris apartment that was discovered intact a few years ago? It had belonged to Marthe de Florian,…

It’s Valentine’s Day AND President’s Day weekend all in one! Which hopefully doesn’t mean we need to read romances about past presidents. That would be just a little too weird. In the spirit of the season, though, I did read an excellent romance novel this week: Meredith Duran’s Luck Be a Lady, about a prim…

Between the new book (coming summer 2017!), the continuing Forgotten Room buzz, and some books I’m not allowed to talk about because I’m judging them for a contest, it’s been a bit of a slim reading list this week– but I did manage to carve out the time to read Bill Bryson’s latest, The Road…

There are many things this list isn’t. It’s not a “best of” list. And it’s certainly not comprehensive. It’s an off the top of my head list of some of the books that stuck with me from this past year, many of which were published in other years– in some cases, many years ago– but…

I’ve been immersed in research books this week for the New Revised Stand Alone, so there hasn’t been as much time as I’d like for fiction, but what I did read was a win: Trisha Ashley’s A Winter’s Tale, about a down on her luck single mom who unexpectedly inherits the no longer quite so…

It’s time to get into the holiday spirit, so I started off my post-Thanksgiving reading with Donna Andrews’s The Nightingale Before Christmas, the– oh, goodness, I’ve lost count. Let’s just say the something-teenth Meg Langslow mystery, in which Meg serves as coordinator for a Christmas-themed decorator show house, never knowing that one of the decorators…

I’ve been catching up on some recent releases over here! Among the books I’ve read over the past couple of weeks have been: — Sara Gruen’s At the Water’s Edge, which takes place in the Scottish Highlands during World War II, as three Americans in disgrace take an unlikely trip in search of the Loch…

Sometimes, books pop up just when you’re ready for them: in this case, an ARC of Megan Abbott’s The Fever that I’d forgotten I had and had never quite gotten around to reading. Think The Crucible set in a modern high school, rumors and hysteria and teenagers foaming at the mouth. It’s beautifully done, alternating…

There’s been more Galbraith over here! This week, I read the second Cormoran Strike mystery, The Silkworm, in which the detective sets out to track down a missing author, only to find he’s been murdered in the same manner described in the author’s controversial manuscript. Next up, I’m heading over to Paris in the 1920’s…