What with working away on The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla and a certain little someone deciding that sleep was highly overrated, there hasn’t been much in the way of recreational reading for me this week. But a box of books I was waiting for just arrived, so stay tuned…. What have you been reading…

Have you ever bought a book and found that it’s missing a large chunk of pages in the middle? I have very vivid recollections of sitting on the train from New York to Boston with Julia Ross’s The Wicked Lover only to discover that I could read one segment of the story twice, but the…

Since Halloween is coming up this week… how could I resist doing an If You Like about ghost stories? As you know, I’m rather devoted to the genre. (They go so well with a rainy afternoon and a hot cup of tea.) Some of these on this list are old friends, while others are new…

I’ve been having a little Heyer-a-thon this week. First The Corinthian, which I hadn’t read in some years, having decided, on a first read, that it was a little annoying. You can blame Bee Ridgway for this week’s Heyer binge: she spoke so glowingly of The Corinthian, that I had to go back and revisit…

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…