Weekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Friday, all! This has been a marvelous re-read week for me, hopscotching across eras and genres, starting off with Josephine Tey’s The Franchise Affair, in which a country lawyer’s quiet life is upended when he finds himself defending a pair of women accused of a bizarre crime. I’ll never forget the experience of reading…
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Happy September, all! It’s been so long since I’ve posted one of these that I’m not going to even try to recap what I read over the summer. So let’s start fresh and plunge right in with this week! On the recommendation of the brilliant Robin Agnew, I picked up The Clutter Corpse, the first…
Read MoreTeam W Reader Weekend!
It’s the girls’ trip to end all girls’ trips! Come join us in Newport November 1-3 for the first ever Team W Reader Weekend and get exclusive W time, a copy of THE AUTHOR’S GUIDE TO MURDER before it hits the shelves, sheep-themed swag, and general hilarity! For a while now, Beatriz and Karen and…
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Happy Friday, all! Apologies for my continued absence here. Between some family stuff and deadlines, it’s been a challenging couple of months and many balls have been dropped along the way. I suspect it will be a few more months before we’re back to our regularly scheduled programming over here, but I hope to be…
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Happy Friday, all! Can you believe it’s almost June already? At my back I always hear my deadline rapidly drawing near, but in between panicking about how close my deadline is and how little of my book is written, I did read some excellent books this week. First there was Alex Hay’s The Housekeepers, recommended…
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Happy Friday, all! It’s been a relentlessly busy week, on both the personal and professional front, so there’s only one book on my list this week. Confession: if there were other books I read this week, it’s all been such a blur that I’ve completely forgotten them. But the one I do remember is Claire…
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Happy Friday, all! I was lucky enough to get my hands on two recent mysteries this week, one that’s already out and in ARC form. How to Solve Your Own Murder is an adorably daffy British village mystery with deliberate nods to Midsomer Murders in which the heroine is summoned from London by her reclusive…
Read MorePinkorama #2: The Charm of Tea on the Peep-keepsie Train from the The English Wife
Both of our Pinkoramae this year take place within a year of each other (1898 and 1899!), but the settings couldn’t be more different. Today, returning champions Candace and Cassandra take us to the frosty Hudson Valley in January of 1899 with The Charm of Tea on the Peep-keepsie Train from the The English Wife.…
Read MorePinkorama #1: Betsy Helpeeping at the Front
It is my great honor to bring you the 2024 Pinkoramae! For our first Pinkorama of 2024, the mother and daughter team of Carla and Rowan bring us a harrowing scene from Two Peeps and a Wedding. It’s 1898 and the height of the Spanish-American War. A Red Cross nurse (Betsy!) assists a gravely wounded…
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Happy Friday, all! I’ve continued my Louise Penny-a-thon with books three to five of the Inspector Gamache series: The Cruelest Month, A Rule Against Murder, and The Brutal Telling. I’m currently on book six, Bury Your Dead, and finding it a fascinating departure from the earlier books in the series. One of the things that’s…
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