Weekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Friday, all! The fact that I nearly forgot it was Friday– and time for my reading round-up!– tells you everything you need to know about this week. On the bright side, it was a wonderful reading week, starting with Naomi Novik’s third and (I presume?) final book in the Scholomance series, The Golden Enclaves,…
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Today’s book hunt is for that elusive category I think of as “epics”, but could also be called “historical with romantic elements”. Tiffany writes: “Am craving/looking for a book similar to MM Kaye, Zemindar, or Anya Seton’s novels, as in historical fiction with an amazing romance, but not categorically labeled ‘historical romance books.’ Am very…
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Happy Friday, all! Can you believe it’s the last day of September already? With October right around the corner, I’ve started in on some of my Halloween reading, beginning with Simone St. James’s Lost Among the Living. With favorite authors, it’s always such a challenge to find one you haven’t re-read recently– ahem, Silence for…
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Happy Friday, all! It’s been a busy week! I zipped down to Maryland and back for A Likely Story Bookstore and Carroll County Public Library’s wonderful Annual Day for Book Lovers, which meant… train reading time! I love train reading time. It’s that feeling of being neither here nor there, with nothing but you and…
Read MoreFind That Book!: Dual Timeline
Ever feel like you’re craving a certain type of book but have no idea where to look? Yep, me, too. So I’m starting a weekly Find That Book series! Send in your book needs and I’ll open it up to everyone for suggestions, and we’ll see what we can come up with together. Our first…
Read MoreA Special TWO WARS Gift With Pre-Order!
I’m so excited to announce that I’ve teamed up with my friends at FoxTale BookShoppe to offer you a special gift with pre-order: a Two Wars and a Wedding notepad! If you pre-order your copy of Two Wars and a Wedding from FoxTale, I’ll send you a handwritten card with your very own Two Wars…
Read MoreTwo Wars– and a Book Give Away!
Head over to Goodreads for a chance to win one of 100 shiny new advance review copies of my upcoming book, Two Wars and a Wedding! For those of you who read Band of Sisters, this book is a sort of prequel: the tumultuous youth of the woman who would eventually become the founder of…
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Happy Friday, all! Right now, I am suffering an extended book hangover from Zen Cho’s Black Water Sister. I’m not quite sure how to describe it other than to say it has ghosts, it has family secrets, it has angry gods, it has revenge, and it has a hipster coffee shop. The heroine, a recent…
Read MoreDay for Book Lovers!
Meet me in Maryland! (Okay, it’s not St. Louis, but it is alliterative.) I’m so thrilled to be taking part in A Likely Story Bookstore’s 10th Annual Day for Book Lovers this coming Monday, September 19th. There’ll be lunch; there’ll be books; there’ll be Sarah Horowitz talking about her fascinating new historical non-fiction book The…
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Happy Friday, all! First of all, why did it take me so very long to read The Murder of Mr. Wickham? (Never mind: I know exactly why. I’m always scared reading books where beloved characters are presented by someone other than the original author.) Billed as Jane Austen meets Clue, the idea was sheer brilliance:…
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