Weekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Friday, all!! I hope everyone has been having a very merry (and healthy) holiday! On my twelfth day of Covid (and fourteenth day of Covid house arrest– not that I’m counting or anything), I decided it was really time to break out some of the books I’ve been saving for a time of need…
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In an unbroken streak of illness, my family is now on our seventh (7th!!) virus in seven weeks– and this time it’s Covid. So I’ve turned heavily to the comfort reads as I’ve tried to parent while also not breathing on my kids, who miraculously seem not to have gotten it yet. A while ago,…
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Happy Friday, all! Plague once again struck my household (fifth virus in six weeks! thank you, kids), so this is less of a round-up and more of a lone cow in the corral. In between taking temperatures and swabbing noses, I escaped to the world of the Checquy, the top secret organization responsible for supernatural…
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Happy Friday, all! With December upon us, it felt like time to break out the feel good holiday reads. I always find British chick lit/women’s fiction particularly soothing right around the holiday season. I wasn’t quite ready for my usual Trisha Ashley readathon, so I started with two new to me books by Beth Moran:…
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We have a new Find That Book request– and this is a super fun one! Tiffany would like to find: “Best book boyfriends (not including Mr. Darcy, because that would be too easy :).” What is it that makes a good book boyfriend? There are the classics, of course. Anne of Green Gables‘s Gilbert Blythe,…
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As the holiday gift shopping panic ramps up and I scramble to figure out what to get the non-children people in my life (fruitcake, anyone?), I am delighted to announce that I’ve teamed up with Shakespeare & Co Lexington Avenue to make signed and personalized copies of Band of Sisters available to the historical fiction…
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Happy Friday, all! My reading list for this week is very short and simple: I’ve been reading through the Dorothy Sayers’s Harriet Vane mysteries, the four Peter Wimsey novels that chart the relationship between aristocratic sleuth Peter and mystery novelist Harriet. So far, I’ve been through Strong Poison and Have His Carcase and made it…
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Scan those bookshelves! We have a Find That Book request for a very specific sort of beach read…. The parameters (in more detail below): no dystopias, no thrillers with nasty people, no deeply depressing content; yes mysteries, historical fiction, or the lighter sort of thriller (I’m thinking romantic suspense?) Christine writes: We’re going on a…
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Happy Friday, all! This is a week I’m very happy to see the end of– let’s just say it involved a lot of taking temperatures, administering pediatric Tylenol and Motrin, bathing fevered brows, and wiping noses. I tried to escape to a remote Scottish island with Mary Stewart, but I was reminded that there was…
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Happy Friday, all! You all know how much I love Golden Age mysteries. My Sayers and Tey are falling apart at the seams; Patricia Wentworth’s Miss Silver kept me company through the first year of the pandemic. But for some reason, I just can’t get into Dame Ngaio Marsh’s Inspector Alleyn mysteries. Periodically, I go…
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