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…

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…