I’ve begun my countdown to Halloween and, of course, my usual Halloween reading. This year, the new addition to the roster was John Boyne’s This House is Haunted, a classic Victorian-set ghost story. What have you been reading this week?

Right now, I’m immersed in the swash and buckle of Georgette Heyer’s The Black Moth. I’m always struck by how much closer Heyer’s early books are to swashbucklers such as Sabatini’s The Lion’s Skin than to her own later Regencies. It’s so interesting watching an author evolve…. What have you been reading this week?

Between Pink XI and baby, I’ve been a little slow on the reading front this week. (Sally Fitzhugh’s pet stoat was giving me some trouble.) Here’s what I’ve been reading in between diapering and stoat-wrangling: — Jane O’Connor, Almost True Confessions: Closet Sleuth Spills All. A very fun murder mystery set around editorial circles and…

What with one thing and another, my reading this week has been mostly limited to Moo Baa La La La and My First London Bus, although I did just start Jane O’Connor’s Almost True Confessions: Closet Sleuth Spills All, which is amusing me mightily, since it sketches a very familiar sub-section of New York life.…

Mine is a very short round-up this week. I fell under the thrall of L.M. Montgomery’s Anne books (isn’t that an Anne-like way to put it?). Right now, I’m finishing up Anne of Ingleside. Revelation of the week: Miss Cornelia is definitely one of the antecedents of Miss Gwen. They are, as Anne would put…

At last! I finally added some new books to my list. First, I finished up my re-read marathon with Dorothy Sayers’s Whose Body?, which is a very ingenious mystery, but probably my least favorite of the Lord Peter oeuvre. And then I finally made it to the bookstore. I was looking for Pamela Morsi’s Love…

I’ve been rather boring and continuing my re-read of my bookshelf’s greatest hits. I finished off the Sarah Caudwell mysteries with– sadly– the fourth and last, The Sirens Sang of Murder, then read one of my favorite Georgette Heyer Regencies, The Nonesuch. Right now, I’m in the middle of Dorothy Sayers’s Clouds of Witness. (For…

The re-read marathon continues! This week, I re-read two more of the Sarah Caudwell mysteries: The Shortest Way to Hades and The Sirens Sang of Murder. For those of you watching the new PBS series, Silk, these tongue in cheek books about British barristers make a fun companion read. They’re a little bit Rumpole of…

This has been an exceptionally good reading week, with one new book and two rediscovered favorites. — Georgette Heyer, These Old Shades. I am ashamed to admit that I had never read this particular Heyer before. Its sequel, Devil’s Cub, is one of my all time favorites, but back in my grad school days in…

This week saw three re-reads and one upcoming book that I’ve been particularly excited about: — Barbara Michaels, Patriot’s Dream. A young woman living with her aunt and uncle in Colonial Williamsburg has a series of dreams that take her back in time to the same house during the Revolutionary War. Although the insight into…