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…

Happy Friday, all! It’s been a busy week!  I zipped down to Maryland and back for A Likely Story Bookstore and Carroll County Public Library’s wonderful Annual Day for Book Lovers, which meant… train reading time!  I love train reading time.  It’s that feeling of being neither here nor there, with nothing but you and…

Happy Friday, all! Right now, I am suffering an extended book hangover from Zen Cho’s Black Water Sister.  I’m not quite sure how to describe it other than to say it has ghosts, it has family secrets, it has angry gods, it has revenge, and it has a hipster coffee shop.  The heroine, a recent…

Happy Friday, all! First of all, why did it take me so very long to read The Murder of Mr. Wickham?  (Never mind: I know exactly why.  I’m always scared reading books where beloved characters are presented by someone other than the original author.)  Billed as Jane Austen meets Clue, the idea was sheer brilliance:…

Happy Friday, all! It’s been a wonderful grab bag of books this week, with some very old and some very new, but all new to me, starting with Ruth Ware’s latest, The It Girl, about a woman whose roommate at Oxford was murdered during– and who comes to doubt what she thought she knew about…