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…

This has been a week of all new books for me: — Donna Andrews, Stork Raving Mad. I’ve lost track of which one this is in Donna Andrews’s Meg Langslow mystery series– eleven or twelve, I think? It has the same strong first person voice and madcap sensibility as her others, as Meg Langslow, eight…

I had a bit of a Jennifer Crusie mini-marathon this week (which would have turned into a maxi-marathon if I could have remembered what I did with Welcome to Temptation and Bet Me). Here’s what I’ve been reading this week: — Laurie King, The Art of Detection. This is the fifth of King’s Kate Martinelli…

It’s been a Young Adult week for me, reading-wise. Here’s what I’ve been reading this week: — Robin McKinley, The Hero and the Crown. This is the prequel to one of my all time favorite books, The Blue Sword. (Although each can be read as a stand alone.) In the mythical kingdom of Damar, an…

This week was a combo of the old and the new for me: re-reads of old favorites and a new mystery novel from one of my auto-buy authors. Here’s what I’ve been reading this week: — Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love. Nancy Mitford’s classic novel of a young woman’s debut and romantic missteps in…

Just as I was in a reading slump, my friend Vicki came to my rescue with a bag full of books. I’ve just started reading my way through them, beginning with the romances: — Jo Goodman, Let Me Be The One. Jo Goodman writes thoughtful, interesting historical romances with well-rounded characters and Let Me Be…

What with all of the book launch craziness, I’ve been in a bit of a reading slump this past week. In a somewhat distracted frame of mind, I’ve been vacillating back and forth between two very different old favorites: Robin McKinley’s The Blue Sword, a tale of adventure in the mythical kingdom of Damar, as…