Writing that post for Heroes and Heartbreakers on “house” books made me nostalgic for some of my favorite house books. So this was a week of re-reads for me, starting with Barbara Michaels’s Ammie, Come Home, a classic ghost story set in a townhouse in Georgetown, followed by House of Many Shadows (another house with…

With a holiday weekend always comes the prospect of wonderful, guilt-free reading time. On my stack for the weekend? Since I’ve read Dorothy Sayers’s Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries until I can practically recite them, I’ve been meaning and meaning to try Margery Allingham’s Campion books. My amazing editor also just sent me Heather Snow’s three…

I know I read something earlier this week. But I can’t for the life of me remember what it was. I know there was some Georgette Heyer in there, specifically The Convenient Marriage, one of my favorite Heyers, and one I haven’t revisited for a while. This one is 18th century, rather than Regency set,…

I had very good book luck this week. All three of the books I read were winners. — Deanna Raybourn, Night of a Thousand Stars. Have you been missing Lady Julia and the Marches? In this wonderful, 1920s set adventure novel, we meet March the next generation– and revisit a bunch of the older generation.…

This week, I finally read one of the Owen Archer mysteries by Candace Robb, The Riddle of St. Leonard’s. I loved it, but I’m going to have to go back and start with The Apothecary Rose, since I felt that I was missing out by coming in at the middle. Right now, I have two…

I have one big reading item this week: I finally got around to reading Gone Girl! Have you read it? And, if so, what did you think? This week’s other reading excursion was a trip back into classic 60s Gothic: Mary Elgin’s A Man from the Mist, featuring a young widow hiring herself out as…

It’s been a varied reading week for me, ranging from Regency mystery (C.S. Harris’s Why Kings Confess) to contemporary small town romance (Jill Shalvis’s Always on My Mind) to vintage Gothic (Evil at Queen’s Priory). Of these, I enjoyed the first two and was a little underwhelmed by the Gothic, which wasn’t quite up to…

The nice thing about an airplane delay is that it does provide uninterrupted time to read. While we were sitting on the tarmac at JFK, I gobbled up two books: — Jan Moran, Scent of Roses. Ever wonder where those truly sweeping stories went? Heroines who persevere through war and upheaval, lose everything, build it…

Okay, folks! I’ve been in a big reading slump and need recommendations. What have you been reading this week? And is there anything that has particularly stood out for you lately?

I confess, I’ve been rather boring this week. My 1920s voice was slipping, so I did an intense research refresher, mostly of books you’ve seen listed here before. I did take a break from 1920s immersion, though, to finally, finally start a book I’ve been meaning to read for ages: Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s The Shadow…