Another win from the college roommate care package! I’ve been reading my way through Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London series: Rivers of London, Moon Over Soho, and Whispers Under Ground. I’m currently on #4, Broken Homes, and have #5, Foxglove Summer, queued up next. Think police procedural meets Harry Potter. It’s paranormal policing in modern…

Every now and then you just need a bit of Dorothy Sayers. This week, I revisited one of my favorites, Murder Must Advertise, in which Wimsey goes undercover in an advertising agency. It’s amazing how current much of it feels, although the bit that spoke to me the most was this passage: “He was reminded…

This week’s big find? Winifred Watson’s 1937 bestseller, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. Where has this book been all my life? How had I not read it before? Miss Pettigrew and Flora Poste would have a great deal to discuss…. After that, it was Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Making of a Marchioness, which I’d…

I really should be writing a short story right now. (More on that later.) But I couldn’t resist celebrating turning in the final Pink book with a little binge of leisure reading. Among others: — M.J. Rose’s The Witch of Painted Sorrows, an incredibly compelling novel of family secrets, dangerous passions, and witchcraft set in…

As I await the revision notes for Pink XII, I’ve been finishing up my Laura Resnick-a-thon, with her fifth and sixth Esther Diamond novels (they remind me of a paranormal Vicky Bliss): Polterheist and The Misfortune Cookie. Once I’ve got that out of my system– and the Pink revisions done– I have a truly tantalizing…

Hi, all! So sorry to be around here so little recently. I’ve been in the final throes of Pink XII, The Lure of the Moonflower (deadline is March 15– wish me luck!). When I haven’t been plugging away at Jack’s and Jane’s story, I’ve been dipping into more of Laura Resnick’s Esther Diamond novels, supernatural…

I’m still in Pink XII lockdown (and will be until March 15), but my wonderful college roommate dropped by with a life-saving package of books for those moments in between speed-writing and toddler-wrangling. This week’s pick? Tanya Huff’s Summon the Keeper. Where has this book been all my life? Wonderfully quirky, with laugh-out-loud snarky narrative.…

I’ve been in Pink XII lockdown, so there hasn’t been much in the way of leisure reading. But I want to know what you’ve been reading! What have you been reading this week? p.s. Apologies for not having announced a Donkey Poll winner yet! I’ll pick– and announce– a winner on Sunday.

I’ve had my head down over Pink XII (send good writing vibes, all!), but this is what I’ve been reading in those early-in-the-morning and late-at-night snippets of time: — Jennifer Robson’s After the War Is Over, a lovely story of lost love found and class barriers overcome in post World War I England. — Patricia…

Since I’m judging for a contest, most of this week’s reading falls into the “classified” category. But I can tell you that I finally read Connie Willis’s Doomsday Book, about a grad student thrown back into the (fourteenth century) past and an epidemic in the present. So compelling but so very, very emotionally draining. Right…