If You Like….
There was much excitement this weekend over the fiftieth anniversary of Doctor Who, that quirky British time travel show that’s so very hard to explain. It seemed like a good to do an If You Like about Doctor Who– but for the fact that I’m drawing an (almost) blank. Only two books came to mind:…
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Right now, I’m reading Kristan Higgins’s latest, The Perfect Match. While I’m extremely partial to the early Higgins (Fools Rush In is an old favorite), this may be her best so far. What have you been reading this week?
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This week’s If You Like comes courtesy of Christine, on a topic that certainly rings a bell for me: books you discover and then wonder what on earth took you so long. I recently had a conversation with someone about coming in late to a book that has been around for years. She has just…
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Do you ever have books that you mean and mean to get to– and then finally do, a decade or so later? Back in the early 90’s, when I was all about paperbacks with atmospheric looking houses on the cover, I picked up Alexandra Raife’s Drumveyn— and when I saw that it was women’s fiction…
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… will return as scheduled next week. Apologies for the delay! In the meantime, I’ll try to think up something special for Teaser Tuesday tomorrow.
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What with working away on The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla and a certain little someone deciding that sleep was highly overrated, there hasn’t been much in the way of recreational reading for me this week. But a box of books I was waiting for just arrived, so stay tuned…. What have you been reading…
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The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla is now available for pre-order on Amazon! Given that I’m still in the thick of writing it, I find that absolutely terrifying. There are several Pink veterans making an appearance in this novel. (I just finished writing a scene which included both Miss Gwen and Turnip Fitzhugh– not to…
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We all have plot devices we don’t entirely love. One of the ones that I tend to shy away from is the “girl in breeches” trope. On the other hand, once I started thinking about it, I realized that there are a vast number of exceptions to my “no books about women posing as men”…
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Have you ever bought a book and found that it’s missing a large chunk of pages in the middle? I have very vivid recollections of sitting on the train from New York to Boston with Julia Ross’s The Wicked Lover only to discover that I could read one segment of the story twice, but the…
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Since Halloween is coming up this week… how could I resist doing an If You Like about ghost stories? As you know, I’m rather devoted to the genre. (They go so well with a rainy afternoon and a hot cup of tea.) Some of these on this list are old friends, while others are new…
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