Here’s what I’ve been reading this week: — Sherry Thomas, Ravishing the Heiress. A beautifully written marriage of convenience story about two people growing gradually into each other’s lives. In some ways, it reminds me a great deal of Heyer’s A Civil Contract, in that, in both, the aristocratic hero discovers he has a head–…

I’d meant until I was done with the current manuscript before treating myself to the new books from a care package a very good friend sent me last week… but I just couldn’t resist. — Simone St. James, An Inquiry Into Love and Death. A beautifully written, 1920s-set ghost story. Since I have my real…

While I’ve been powering through the Victorian Book (100,000 words down, 20,000 more to go!), I’ve been re-reading favorite old mystery novels, since they retain my interest without distracting me too much from the manuscript at hand. This week I revisited Dorothy Sayers’s The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club and The Nine Tailors, followed by…

Hello from the blizzard! Right now, I’m hunkering down with a well-worn copy of Elizabeth Peters’s Summer of the Dragon. What have you been reading this week?

As I’ve been pounding away at the new stand alone novel (70,000 words down, 50,000 left to go!), I’ve been dipping into old comfort reads, first a Mary Stewart fest, and now some Lord Peter Wimsey. — Mary Stewart, My Brother Michael. While Nine Coaches Waiting will always be my favorite Mary Stewart (followed closely…

Apologies, all! I’m still in contest-judging mode, which means there’s little to report this week. However, I can say that I’ve started reading Juliana Gray’s A Duke Never Yields, which comes out on February 5th, and it is absolutely worth all those starred reviews. This is the third in the Affairs by Moonlight trilogy, but…

My apologies. I am going to have to be mum about most of what I read this week, since I’m judging yet another contest, which means that all of the books I’m reading for that are off-limits. (There is some draconian language in the judging form about that.) The one book I read this week…

Here’s what I’ve been reading this week: — Barbara Michaels, Smoke and Mirrors. This is one of my less frequent Michaels re-reads. The inside look at a political campaign is fascinating (and reminds me of one of my old teen favorites, The President’s Daughter, by Ellen Emerson White), but this one has never captured my…

Here’s what I’ve been reading this week: — Elsie Lee, Prior Betrothal. In the past, I’ve tended to avoid Elsie Lee’s historicals, sticking with her 1960s romantic suspense (with the notable exception of Silence Is Golden, a Victorian-set, classic Gothic, annual re-read for me). But there was an Elsie Lee Regency in the care package…

The nice thing about long airport delays is that they do provide plenty of time for reading. Here’s what I’ve been reading this week: — Beatriz Williams, A Hundred Summers. Beautifully written, thought-provoking, heart-warming… I can keep going. I loved this book. It’s a pitch-perfect glimpse into the world of New York’s elite in the…