Since three a.m. feedings make for lots of reading time, I’ve been on a massive re-read kick this week. First, I read through all four of Kate Ross’s Julian Kestrel mysteries– Cut to the Quick, A Broken Vessel, Whom the Gods Love, and The Devil in Music— all of which only improve on each successive…

I don’t want to distract from the Pink Carnation recap (three down, six to go before we get to Miss Gwen’s book!), so I’ll report this week’s reading speedily…. — Jane Aiken Hodge, Maulever Hall. I had mixed feelings about this 80s Gothic, which veered unevenly somewhere between Regency and Gothic territory, sometimes arch, sometimes…

This week’s weekly reading round-up was brought to you by my college roommate, who came bearing a large package of books the week before last. Among the haul: — Lois McMaster Bujold, Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance. Bujold’s fantasy novel, The Curse of Chalion, is one of my favorite books, but I had never read any of…

It’s been an eclectic reading week for me. I started out with Wendy Webb’s The Tale of Halcyon Crane, which reminded me, atmospherically, a lot of one of my old favorites, Barbara Michaels’ The Crying Child, both set on isolated islands, both involving family mysteries, paranormal goings-on, and the ghost of a child. From there,…

It’s been a week of re-reads for me, including some that go way back. In the less way back category, I went on a Susan Elizabeth Phillips kick. There’s something about her contemporary romances that spells “summer reading” for me. Maybe because so many of them take place during the summer? This time around, I…

Here’s what I’ve been reading this week: — Susanna Kearsley, The Firebird. I’ve been a fan of Susanna Kearsley ever since I stumbled upon Season of Storms in a B&N in Boston back in 2001. For those of you who follow Kearsley, The Firebird manages to link two of her previous books: my all time…

This week, I went on a Later Books by Jennifer Crusie kick, reading Wild Ride (which I would describe as a paranormal swashbuckler, for lack of a better genre tag) and re-reading Maybe This Time, Crusie’s take on Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw, haunted governess and all. The latter was absolutely perfect for…

I was fortunate enough to be the recipient of another book care package, which meant lots of new reads for me this week. Here’s what I’ve been reading: — Jonathan Aycliffe, Whispers in the Dark Very creepy classic Gothic, set in the north of England at the turn of the century, told in the requisite…

Do you ever start a book at the wrong time? There are a handful of books that I’ve begun while Not in the Mood, put aside, and then re-discovered and loved years later. That’s what happened to me this week with the first book in C.S. Harris’s Sebastian St. Cyr series, What Angels Fear, which…