Despite being in crazy deadline mode with the Kenya book (just six more chapters to go!), I’ve managed to cram in a fair amount of pleasure reading this week. Sometimes, it’s nice to listen to the voices from someone else’s head. Here’s what I’ve been reading: — Kristan Higgins, The Next Best Thing. It’s no…

I’ve had my head down over my 1920s book this week, so my reading list is rather sparse. — Barbara Taylor Bradford, A Woman of Substance. I blame Jessica for reminding me of this! Anyone else remember this from the 80s? It’s a doorstop, epic story of a woman who rises from poverty in Yorkshire…

What with the food coma factor, I’m having a hard time remembering what I read yesterday, much less earlier in the week, but here’s an attempted recreation…. — Lori Wilde, The First Love Cookie Club I was given this at RWA this summer, but it was July and this book looked decidedly Christmassy, so I…

For me, most holidays have some association with books. Christmas is Little Women and Debbie Macomber’s Angel books; Halloween is The Haunting of Hill House and assorted ghost stories; even the Fourth of July has Rainbow Valley and Rilla of Ingleside (I’m not sure why I’m reading about Canada on the Fourth of July, but…

Having gotten socked with the mother of all stomach bugs, this seemed like a good time to write about comfort reads, those books you turn to when you’re so thoroughly wiped out that turning a page feels like a major endeavor. Like the time I wound up reading J.R. Ward’s first three Black Dagger Brotherhood…

Here’s a smattering of what I’ve been reading this week: — Michelle Cooper, A Brief History of Montmaray. A charming YA novel set on an imaginary island in the 1930s. As promised, it does indeed remind me a great deal of I Capture the Castle. Thanks to Veronika for recommending it! I have the second…

The big reads for the week, of course, were Kristan Higgins’ Until There Was You (which I liked even better than My One and Only) and Tasha Alexander’s A Crimson Warning, her latest Lady Emily mystery. For those of you who haven’t read Tasha before, a good place to start is with her first Lady…

I’ve been reading The Collected Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson (yep, the same one who wrote the Mapp & Lucia novels– who knew?). They are excellent. They remind me a lot of one of my old favorites,

On my pile for this weekend? Jane Austen Made Me Do It! I’m very excited to finally have the chance to read all the other stories. Previously read this week: — Jennifer Crusie, Don’t Look Down. I’ve been hoarding this one for a while, saving it for a rainy day. Cruisie’s snappy humor and delightfully…

I’m still being boring, reading-wise. It’s all been Sayers, Sayers, Sayers (for that 1920’s tone!) with a brief excursion into Elizabeth Peters’ The Copenhagen Connection, which is neither 1920s nor English, but was unwisely left in my path by my little sister. It’s really not safe to leave books lying around near me…. What have…