Happy Friday, all! With book launch fast approaching (FOUR DAYS!), I’ve been clutching my comfort reads like a teddy bear.  Which is really thematically appropriate now that I think about it, since teddy bears were named after Teddy Roosevelt, and Teddy Roosevelt is a significant side character in Two Wars and a Wedding. But before…

Happy Friday, all! It’s March!  Which means we’re in the final lead up to my kids’ spring break and the launch of Two Wars and a Wedding, which occur at the same time.  Next week is Pajama Day, bring your instrument to school day, Donate a Book Day, talking to my daughter’s class about Women’s…

Happy Friday, all! I’ve been hopping around from genre to genre this week, starting with old school British chick lit: Trisha Ashley’s Chocolate Wishes, set in the small village of Sticklepond in Lancashire.  Our heroine’s mother abandoned the family for places unknown (possibly Goa), leaving our heroine to raise her brother, Jake, while also running…

Happy Friday, all! My kids have gotten me sick– again– so hello from the fever haze! In honor of Valentine’s Day, I dug into my old Jo Beverley collection and re-read her Forbidden Magic, which contains some of my favorite tropes (we all have our favorite tropes): the heroine of good family fallen on hard…

Hi, all! Apologies for being a day late with this week’s reading round up!  It’s been a bit of a discombobulating week (long story involving pub dates for future books moving around, and also trying to figure out what’s going on with my March book tour for Two Wars and a Wedding), so I turned…

Happy Friday, all! As the onslaught of pediatric plague continues (this week it was both kids home sick with cough, sore throat, and fever– I’ve really lost count of how many plagues we’ve had at this point), I took refuge in the third book in Elly Griffiths’s Harbinder Kaur series, Bleeding Heart Yard. In this…

Happy Friday, all! Confession: I’m having trouble remembering what I’ve read recently.  I’ve been joking with friends that our long-running serial House of Plague has been going on for so long now that we’ve run out of new content and been reduced to reruns.  This week was “Norovirus: the Return!” otherwise known as “On the…

Happy Friday, all! As Team W goes into deadline crunch on our fifth collaboration, I’ve been treating myself to some of the new books by old favorites on my TBR pile, starting with Laurie King’s Back to the Garden, in which a detective in the San Francisco police department, seconded to Cold Cases, is called…

Happy Friday, all! I started out the week with an oldie but goodie, Helen MacInnes’s The Venetian Affair, a Cold War thriller in which ordinary people find themselves swept up in startling conspiracies with repercussions for the fate of the free world.  This might possibly be my favorite MacInnes yet. I’m on double deadline right…

Happy Friday, all!!  I hope everyone has been having a very merry (and healthy) holiday! On my twelfth day of Covid (and fourteenth day of Covid house arrest– not that I’m counting or anything), I decided it was really time to break out some of the books I’ve been saving for a time of need…