Weekly Reading Round-Up
What with one thing and another, my reading this week has been mostly limited to Moo Baa La La La and My First London Bus, although I did just start Jane O’Connor’s Almost True Confessions: Closet Sleuth Spills All, which is amusing me mightily, since it sketches a very familiar sub-section of New York life.…
Read MoreIf You Like….
We have a special treat for If You Like today: a guest post from historical novelist Beverly Swerling. Beverly is the author of a trio of books set in my own beloved New York (City of Dreams, City of Glory, and City of Promise, chronicling New York from New Amsterdam through the Gilded Age), her…
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Mine is a very short round-up this week. I fell under the thrall of L.M. Montgomery’s Anne books (isn’t that an Anne-like way to put it?). Right now, I’m finishing up Anne of Ingleside. Revelation of the week: Miss Cornelia is definitely one of the antecedents of Miss Gwen. They are, as Anne would put…
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The German edition of The Ashford Affair, aka Ashford Park, comes out this Friday, September 20th! (This is one of my very favorite covers.) Here’s the blurb in German: Ashford Park, England, 1906. Nach dem Tod ihrer Eltern wächst die kleine Adeline Gillecote-Ashford auf dem Landsitz von Onkel und Tante auf. Schnell wird ihre hübsche…
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I am thrilled to announce the first of a series of guest “If You Like” posts! Our first guest star is Christine, who has provided us with a list of “Books read based on Internet/TV/media peer pressure”. Without further ado, here’s Christine’s list of “Everyone else is reading this so you HAVE to!” 1. Twilight…
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At last! I finally added some new books to my list. First, I finished up my re-read marathon with Dorothy Sayers’s Whose Body?, which is a very ingenious mystery, but probably my least favorite of the Lord Peter oeuvre. And then I finally made it to the bookstore. I was looking for Pamela Morsi’s Love…
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The Pink books and The Ashford Affair are being featured today over at the Book Give Away and Author Spotlight on Graphics by Sharlene’s Facebook page! For a chance to win three books, check out the various books being featured and share which one you’d most want to read in the Comments section of her…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: the Duke of Belliston
Since posting about Pink XI, The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla, many of you have asked me why the Duke of Belliston sounds so familiar. You’re not imagining things. Although we haven’t met the Duke of Belliston, we have heard about him before, way, way back in Pink II, The Masque of the Black Tulip…
Read MoreCalling All Contributors!
I thought it might be rather fun to mix it up a bit here on the site and spread our reading net a little bit wider. (Okay, I’ll stop with the mixed metaphors now.) Do you have an idea for an If You Like post? Is there a list of books you’d like to share?…
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Today’s If You Like is about improbable plots. I realize that this is a loaded category. One can argue that pretty much any plot is to a greater or lesser degree probable or improbable. For example, my beloved “heroine inherits a castle from an unknown relative” sort of books. I put those in the probable…
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