Happy Friday, all! I apologize for a very long Reading Round Up hiatus!  What was meant to be just a week or two away from my website turned into… the whole summer.  In that time, I was finishing up the Manhattan Well Murder book (now with my editor!) and huddling with Beatriz and Karen over…

Happy Friday, all! It’s been a mixed reading week for me.  It started off brilliantly with the swashbuckling Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi, in which a semi-retired 12th century female pirate must emerge from seclusion, reassemble her crew, and battle the supernatural when her family is threatened.  It’s the best possible mix of Raphael Sabatini, Sinbad…

Happy Friday, all! In between preschool graduation and trying to wrangle Alexander Hamilton into cooperating in my new book, I finally got around to one of the books I’ve been looking forward to: Garth Nix’s The Sinister Booksellers of Bath. In this follow-up to The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, our heroine Susan must fight an…

Happy Friday, all! This week has been a blur of January 1800 and my kids’ end of year school activities (I’ve been trying not to confuse the two, but it’s hard sometimes– does Aaron Burr need cupcake mix brought in to school by Wednesday?  Or possibly Alexander Hamilton needs a turquoise shirt for Field Day…

Happy Friday, all! Despite being very immersed in the writing of the new book– and the research that goes with it!  I’ve spent the day wallowing in inventories of all the furniture and kitchen things in Aaron Burr’s Richmond Hill in 1797– I managed to wrangle some time this week to read Grady Hendrix’s How…

Happy Friday, all! Over the course of the week, we hopped from winter straight into summer in NYC, with no spring in between.  During the colder part of the week, I read two atmospheric new books, both of which were wins: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries and The Secrets of Hartwood Hall. I adored Emily…

Happy Friday, all! You’d think I should know by now that when Karen White tells me I have to read something that I should listen….  But, no.  I waited months and months before picking up The Miniscule Mansion of Myra Malone, and I’m so glad I did (pick it up, that is, not the waiting…

Happy Friday, all! There’s been so much going on this week that’s it all a bit of a blur– working on my new book! Pinkorama! one kid home from school sick! the joy of the New York Library Lunch with marvelous author friends! two kids home from school sick! more Pinkorama! sick kids getting me…

Happy Friday, all!  The tulips are blooming on Park Avenue, trees are casually flinging showers of pink petals across the street, and I’ve been trying to settle down and get to work on my very neglected next book. After bouncing hard off a recent thriller (WHY are all the characters so unpleasant?), I abandoned my…

Happy Friday, all!  These past few weeks have been a crazy whirl of planes, trains, and bookstores, but I’m finally back at my computer and back to our regularly scheduled Weekly Reading Round-Ups (and the book I’m meant to be writing!). Thank you so much to everyone who celebrated the launch of Two Wars and…