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,…

In between festivities, I’ve been kicking off my research for my next book by reading Paula Byrne’s Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead. (Hint: the stand alone that comes out in 2015 will be set in the heavy partying world of the Bright Young Things.) I also received a haul of books…

Usually, around this time of year, I wallow in seasonal stories. I embark on orgies of Christmas reading. This year, what with small person and book deadline, I’m a little off my usual schedule. Since it’s already time to start researching for my next book, another 1920s-set stand alone, I decided to mingle work and…

My reading round up is sparse this week, but I do have some good news to impart…. Pink XI, aka The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla, is DONE! (At least until revisions.) Here are those triumphant final moments, accompanied by my second venti peppermint mocha of the morning (you know you’re in the final writing…

I am deep in the throes of finishing up Pink XI, so this week has been all about wrangling Sally and watching BBC videos about stoats (which are both adorable and deeply disturbing creatures). I did just start Sarah MacLean’s latest, No Good Duke Goes Unpunished— so all I can tell you is that the…