In an unbroken streak of illness, my family is now on our seventh (7th!!) virus in seven weeks– and this time it’s Covid.  So I’ve turned heavily to the comfort reads as I’ve tried to parent while also not breathing on my kids, who miraculously seem not to have gotten it yet. A while ago,…

Happy Friday, all! Plague once again struck my household (fifth virus in six weeks! thank you, kids), so this is less of a round-up and more of a lone cow in the corral.  In between taking temperatures and swabbing noses, I escaped to the world of the Checquy, the top secret organization responsible for supernatural…

Happy Friday, all! With December upon us, it felt like time to break out the feel good holiday reads.  I always find British chick lit/women’s fiction particularly soothing right around the holiday season.  I wasn’t quite ready for my usual Trisha Ashley readathon, so I started with two new to me books by Beth Moran:…

Happy Friday, all! My reading list for this week is very short and simple: I’ve been reading through the Dorothy Sayers’s Harriet Vane mysteries, the four Peter Wimsey novels that chart the relationship between aristocratic sleuth Peter and mystery novelist Harriet.  So far, I’ve been through Strong Poison and Have His Carcase and made it…

Happy Friday, all! This is a week I’m very happy to see the end of– let’s just say it involved a lot of taking temperatures, administering pediatric Tylenol and Motrin, bathing fevered brows, and wiping noses. I tried to escape to a remote Scottish island with Mary Stewart, but I was reminded that there was…

Happy Friday, all! As we get closer to Halloween, I’ve gone witchy with my reading: Sangu Mandanna’s The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches and Bianca Marais’s The Witches of Moonshyne Manor. I adored The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, which is basically Jenny Colgan with witches, the same wonderful, warm tone, and the…

Happy Friday, all! It’s been a bit of a rough week with all the plagiarism drama, which continues.  My solace (in addition to all the lovely messages and support– thank you so much to everyone who reached out!) was Deanna Raybourn’s Killers of a Certain Age, which I’d been saving either as a reward for…

Happy Friday, all!  The fact that I nearly forgot it was Friday– and time for my reading round-up!– tells you everything you need to know about this week. On the bright side, it was a wonderful reading week, starting with Naomi Novik’s third and (I presume?) final book in the Scholomance series, The Golden Enclaves,…

Happy Friday, all! Can you believe it’s the last day of September already?  With October right around the corner, I’ve started in on some of my Halloween reading, beginning with Simone St. James’s Lost Among the Living.  With favorite authors, it’s always such a challenge to find one you haven’t re-read recently– ahem, Silence for…