This week, the Thirkell-a-thon continued with The Brandons (my first ever Thirkell) and August Folly (arguably my favorite Thirkell). I think I’m all Thirkell-ed out now. I also picked up Mary Stewart’s Thunder on the Right but the fact that it was third person rather than her usual first person bothered me so much that…

This week was a mixed bag of re-reads: — Mary Stewart, Madam, Will You Talk?. As always, her prose is beautiful and her sense of place impeccable, but re-reading it reminded me of why this is one of the few Mary Stewarts I usually don’t re-read. There’s something rather… off… about her relationship with the…

I’ve finally begun digging into that book pile! Here’s what I’ve been reading this week: — Susanna Kearsley, The Splendour Falls I stumbled on Susanna Kearsley’s books when I was in grad school, via Season of Storms. I got my hands on The Shadowy Horses and Named of the Dragon right away, but The Splendor…

Finally! I have something other than Dorothy Sayers and Evelyn Waugh to report. This week, I caught up on some of the book pile, starting with: — Here I Go Again, by Jen Lancaster: a clever take on the trope of the aging prom queen, in which one aging prom queen revisits her past to…

I will confess to being entirely boring this week– all I’ve been doing is re-reading books about, or written during, the 1920s in order to stay in the mood for the 1927 Book. However, there are several upcoming books I’m rather excited about, including: — Donna Thorland’s The Rebel Pirate; — Kristan Higgins’s Waiting On…

This week, I’ve mostly been reading undisclosed books for an undisclosed contest, but, in the midst of judging, I did take a break with Sherry Thomas’s The Luckiest Lady in London, which absolutely lived up to all the praise. Sherry Thomas does a lovely job of writing believable, well-rounded characters, but what I like best…

I’m still on my 1920s kick in preparation for the new book, so it’s been a Brideshead Revisited week for me– although I did finally get my hands on Carlos Ruis Zafon’s The Shadow of the Wind, which I’m itching to read. What have you been reading this week?

It’s been a rather eclectic reading run for me! The highlight was Kate Forsyth’s seventeenth-century set retelling of Rapunzel, Bitter Greens. There was also Nancy Mitford’s wonderful spoof of Anglo-French relations, The Blessing, Waugh’s send-up of the bright young things, Vile Bodies, and a Texas-set romantic suspense novel about IRS investigators, Death, Taxes, and Peach…

My reading this week is cloaked in a veil of mystery. Nope, nothing quite that exciting. I’m judging a contest and, for obvious reasons, have to keep mum about which books I’ve reviewed. In the meantime, though, I’m dying to know what you’ve been reading! What have you been reading this week?

I’ve been immersing myself in the 1920s in anticipation of starting work on the next stand alone novel. This week it’s been D.J. Taylor’s Bright Young People, Mary Lovell’s The Mitford Girls, and Nancy Mitford’s Highland Fling. I’ve just started a re-read of Dorothy Sayers’s Gaudy Night, which is a bit too late for me,…