Happy Friday! Here’s what I’ve been reading this week: — Julia Spencer-Fleming, To Darkness and to Death, et al. I finished up my Julia Spencer-Fleming marathon with To Darkness and to Death, All Mortal Flesh, I Shall Not Want, and One Was a Soldier, and then felt very bereft when I was done. It was…

It’s Friday, which means… Weekly Reading Round-Up time! Here’s what I’ve been reading: — Donna Andrews, Six Geese A-Slaying. This is the Christmas installment of the madcap Meg Langslow mystery series. It’s ten books in, but the uninitiated can read it without getting too lost. My favorite in the series, though, is still the first,…

This week, I re-read three very different books in three different genres: — Elizabeth Young, A Girl’s Best Friend. Rounding off my British chick lit fest, I read my second-favorite Liz Young novel, A Girl’s Best Friend, about a woman, her dog, and a rather dishy vet. There are some wonderful supporting characters and an…

It’s been British Chick Lit fest for me this week! It all started with: — Trisha Ashley, Twelve Days of Christmas. You know my weakness for house inheritance books, right? This one isn’t an inheritance– the heroine is hired to house-sit for the Christmas holidays– but it’s still the fun of the heroine exploring a…

Happy Friday! As we recover from yesterday’s excesses, here’s this week’s reading in review: As I may have mentioned a while back, I let myself be talked into judging a contest that shall remain nameless in a category that shall also remain nameless, so this week was largely about bludgeoning through large stacks of contest…

To make up for last week’s reading slump, this week has been a book bonanza, in multiple genres. Here’s what I’ve been reading this week: — Juliana Gray, A Gentleman Never Tells. This is the second in a series based on Love’s Labor’s Lost, set in the late nineteenth century in a villa in Tuscany.…

I’ve had a week of book discontent. It’s been one of these weeks where I’ll start a book and toss it aside after a few chapters. I can’t blame it on the books. Some have been tried and true old favorites like Barbara Michaels’s The Crying Child (a Gothic ghost story), Melissa Nathan’s The Nanny…

With my hometown slammed by a Hurricane Sandy, this was not the most calming of weeks. Out came the comfort reads: — Barbara Michaels, Ammie, Come Home. An excellent, classic ghost story, set in an old house in Georgetown. — Helena Dela, The Count. I’ve always been sad that I’ve never been able to find…

With less than a week until Halloween, my reading has been skewing heavily towards ghost stories… with one surprise discovery. Here’s what I’ve been reading: — Julie Kagawa, The Iron King. How did I not discover this book before? It’s the amalgamation of all the folk-lore based fantasy novels I read in my youth, featuring…

This week, I treated myself to a bunch of books I’ve been wanting for a while: — Pamela Morsi, The Lovesick Cure. A sweet, heartwarming romance set in the Ozarks. It reminded me of both Kristan Higgins’s and Susan Elizabeth Phillips’s books, with as much focus on the supporting characters as on the central couple.…