I’ve finished off my Kestrel-a-thon with Whom the Gods Love and The Devil in Music (so brilliantly done!), and now I’m finally starting a book I’ve been meaning to read for ages: Connie Willis’s Doomsday Book, about a grad student dropped back in time to the fourteenth century. (Every historian’s dream, right?) What have you…

From Georgette Heyer, it was an easy hop to another set of old favorites: Kate Ross’s Julian Kestrel mysteries, Cut to the Quick and A Broken Vessel. These Regency-set mysteries are pitch-perfect when it comes to both setting and character and it makes me terribly sad to know that there will never be more than…

Happy New Year, all! As I prepare to plunge into Pink XII, it seemed eminently appropriate to round out the old year and ring in the new with Georgette Heyer. I re-read two old favorites: The Talisman Ring and The Nonesuch, both of which have quite sensible heroines and some excellent comic side characters. What…

It’s been a literary trip down memory lane for me: I’ve gone into full scale comfort read mode (I’m in the final, agonizing phases of those revisions), which means… Scottish women’s fiction. Specifically, Alexandra Raife’s Drumveyn, Belonging, and Wild Highland Home. I adore these books. They’re all very much period pieces at this point (the…

This week, I’ve been trying to read through some of the book pile as I tackle my The Other Daughter revisions. I’ve been blessed with a couple of good friends who send me book care packages (hi, Vicki and Claudia!), so this week’s haul is mostly from them. — Isabelle Holland, Counterpoint. Thanks to the…

Since I’m immersed in dread revisions, the horrible, scary bit where you’ve torn apart the book but haven’t put it back together yet (and are beginning to wonder whether the original version was really that bad or if maybe you should be giving it all up and trying sheep-farming), it was time for some serious…

It’s been a bit of a blurry week (my toddler has decided that sleep is for other people), so I’m having a rather hard time remembering what I’ve read and if I read. But two books stand out: — Georgette Heyer’s The Grand Sophy, in which a redoubtable young lady reorganizes her relations. Some of…

This has been a rather sleepy reading week for me. I did something I usually never do: I re-read two of my own books, The Betrayal of the Blood Lily and The Passion of the Purple Plumeria, to make sure that I had various bits of Jack’s and Jane’s backstories right for the upcoming Lure…

Hi, all! Apologies for not being around much on the website recently. It’s been a bit of a crazy fall so far. But I’ll have more If You Likes and Teaser Tuesdays for you soon! In the meantime, here’s what I’ve been reading this week: — Florence King, Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady. I…

It’s been a week of books set in England. The other things that these books have in common? They’re good misty day, cup of tea reads. But other than that, they fall into two very different categories: — Elizabeth George’s Lynley mysteries. I went through a huge Lynley phase back in law school. I’d first…