Happy Friday, all!  I have a richness of books lined up (I feel like like Scrooge McDuck about to leap into his money pool every time I look at my Kindle screen– it’s all I can do not to just gloat over it), but what with one thing and another I wound up with very…

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Happy Friday, all! My reading roll continued this week with Steph Dray’s The Women of Chateau Lafayette, set around three women who all lived in the home of the legendary Revolutionary War hero in three different eras: Lafayette’s wife in the 18th century; New York socialite, artist, and humanitarian Beatrice Chanler in World War I;…

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It’s been a very strange first week after Labor Day, hasn’t it?  It’s that odd “no time but possibly any time and which season is it again?” feeling of the pandemic.  I’m going to have to up my pumpkin-themed baking and ghost story consumption to make it feel like fall! On the plus side, it’s…

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Happy September, everyone!  I’ve got my pumpkin spice creamer, my fuzzy blanket, my puzzle with autumn foliage ready to go– and some fall reads lined up, thanks to all the wonderful recommendations by folks over on my Facebook author page. I ended August with Hid From Our Eyes, Julia Spencer-Fleming’s long awaited seventh book in…

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I am thrilled to announce that there are sixty (print) advance copies of my upcoming book, Band of Sisters, up for grabs on Goodreads! For a chance to win one of these beauties, just head over to the Goodreads contest post here. I fell in love with the dauntless women of Smith College, who braved…

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Happy Friday, all!  It’s been a stay-up-too-late reading week for me with two wonderful upcoming books that I gobbled up to the extreme detriment of my sleep schedule and ability to function.  So, when these books come out, don’t say you weren’t warned…. First up was Marie Benedict’s The Mystery of Mrs. Christie.  It’s no…

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Beatriz and Karen and I aren’t going to let a piddly little thing like being hundreds of miles away from each other keep us apart! The band is getting together again next Thursday night, at six o’clock EST, at an event hosted by Hub City Bookshop, to banter about about all things books.  We’ll be…

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Happy Friday, all!  It won’t surprise anyone to hear that I’ve been reading my way through more of Patricia Wentworth’s Miss Silver series (seriously, so soothing). But I also have a wonderful treat lined up on my Kindle, two upcoming books I’ve been dying to read: Stephanie Dray’s The Women of Chateau Lafayette, which goes…

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Tragedy tomorrow, book club tonight?  (Now you can have that song stuck in your head, too!) Singing aside– and, really, I do promise not to sing!– I hope you can join me tonight at Shakespeare & Co’s virtual book club as we discuss all things Summer Country! This is my very last Summer Country event…

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I am beyond delighted that The Summer Country is Shakespeare & Co‘s August book club pick!  (I feel like the cool kid asked me to prom.) Come join me next Monday, August 10th, 6:30pm EST, to discuss all things Summer Country!  There’s still time to grab your copy and join the discussion.  Just email  [email protected]…

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