Happy Friday, all! You’d think I should know by now that when Karen White tells me I have to read something that I should listen….  But, no.  I waited months and months before picking up The Miniscule Mansion of Myra Malone, and I’m so glad I did (pick it up, that is, not the waiting…

Happy Friday, all! There’s been so much going on this week that’s it all a bit of a blur– working on my new book! Pinkorama! one kid home from school sick! the joy of the New York Library Lunch with marvelous author friends! two kids home from school sick! more Pinkorama! sick kids getting me…

Happy Friday, all!  The tulips are blooming on Park Avenue, trees are casually flinging showers of pink petals across the street, and I’ve been trying to settle down and get to work on my very neglected next book. After bouncing hard off a recent thriller (WHY are all the characters so unpleasant?), I abandoned my…

Happy Friday, all!  These past few weeks have been a crazy whirl of planes, trains, and bookstores, but I’m finally back at my computer and back to our regularly scheduled Weekly Reading Round-Ups (and the book I’m meant to be writing!). Thank you so much to everyone who celebrated the launch of Two Wars and…

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…