Weekly Reading Round-Up
I will confess to being entirely boring this week– all I’ve been doing is re-reading books about, or written during, the 1920s in order to stay in the mood for the 1927 Book. However, there are several upcoming books I’m rather excited about, including: — Donna Thorland’s The Rebel Pirate; — Kristan Higgins’s Waiting On…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: The Future of the Pink Series
It’s official. Pink XII– aka the book after The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla— will be the last book in the Pink Carnation series. Twelve is a pretty good number for a series, don’t you think? Here’s what I can tell you about Pink XII so far. It’s Jane’s book. It’s set in Portugal in…
Read MoreHappy Valentine's Day!
Happy Valentine’s Day, gentle reader! In honor of Valentine’s Day, here are three links. (I feel like the Count who Counts: “One! One link! Two! Two links!”) — My traditional Valentine’s Day post, on my favorite fictional declarations of love. — Henrietta and Miles’s first Valentine’s Day together: Bunny & Biscuits: A Very Dorrington Valentine’s…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
This week, I’ve mostly been reading undisclosed books for an undisclosed contest, but, in the midst of judging, I did take a break with Sherry Thomas’s The Luckiest Lady in London, which absolutely lived up to all the praise. Sherry Thomas does a lovely job of writing believable, well-rounded characters, but what I like best…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: This House and That House
My upcoming stand alone novel, That Summer, is what I like to call a House Book– a book in which my heroine inherits an old house full of mysteries. As all good house books should, That Summer has a house on the cover. But, just for fun– and a bit of compare and contrast– I…
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I’m still on my 1920s kick in preparation for the new book, so it’s been a Brideshead Revisited week for me– although I did finally get my hands on Carlos Ruis Zafon’s The Shadow of the Wind, which I’m itching to read. What have you been reading this week?
Read MorePink Carnation Cookery: "Blood Lily" Cookies
With huge thanks to Christine, I bring you installment number two of Christine’s Pink Carnation Cookery series! This month, it’s Indian-inspired cookies in honor of The Betrayal of the Blood Lily. (Which is doubly appropriate, since the modern portion of Blood Lily is set right around Valentine’s Day!) And now over to Christine: In Blood…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Coming up in 2015….
I’ve just started work on my 2015 book, which will henceforth be known as The 1927 Book. (That sounded somewhat more descriptive than “Stand Alone #3.) The first line? “Only a week, and already the cottage felt different.” The 1927 book (which will presumably come out in 2015) is about a young woman who discovers,…
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It’s been a rather eclectic reading run for me! The highlight was Kate Forsyth’s seventeenth-century set retelling of Rapunzel, Bitter Greens. There was also Nancy Mitford’s wonderful spoof of Anglo-French relations, The Blessing, Waugh’s send-up of the bright young things, Vile Bodies, and a Texas-set romantic suspense novel about IRS investigators, Death, Taxes, and Peach…
Read MoreIf You Like….
Since we missed our regularly scheduled If You Like this morning, here’s a make-up If You Like, inspired by Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens. If you like books based on fairy tales, you’ll probably like…. — Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens, a tale set in 17th century France and 16th century Italy, woven around the story of…
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