Weekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Friday, all! This week I read a book that’s not out yet, that goes by the unlikely title of Two Wars and A Wedding. Yep, I was reading through the final proofs of my spring 2023 book (aka the Cuba book, aka the Greece book, aka the 1890s book, aka Smith Book II: the…
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Happy Friday, all! I started off the week with Ann Mah’s luminous Jacqueline in Paris. Jacqueline Kennedy is such a well known character and there are so many layers of assumption and expectation and legend lacquered onto her that I couldn’t imagine how anyone could chip through all that to the young girl underneath– but…
Read MoreJoin Team W in Rhode Island on August 24th!
It doesn’t get much bigger than the Biggest Book Club in the Smallest State! Team W, Reading with Robin, and the Rhode Show are taking over the Greenwich Odeum in East Greenwich, Rhode Island on the evening of August 24th for the Biggest Book Club Event Ever! Join Team W as we talk all things…
Read MoreThe Winner of the Twelfth Annual Pinkorama Contest Is….
Congratulations to all of this year’s Pinkorama winners! Really, it’s the rest of us who are the winners for getting to see the scenes you’ve spun from marshmallow and sugar. I am, as always, in utter awe of your peep-craft. This year’s entries brought us everything from Sally Fitzhugh as an unlikely angel to Penelope…
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Happy Friday, all! It’s a particularly happy Friday for me, because I’m finally back at my desk for the first time since May 10th! There have been a lot of planes, trains, and automobiles in the meantime, which has meant a lot of reading time. I have to confess that I don’t remember all that…
Read MoreJoin the Summer Read!
Team W is absolutely thrilled that The Lost Summers of Newport is the Reading with Robin/ the Rhode Show’s Big Summer Read! Join us and the legendary Robin Kall this summer for the Biggest Book Club in the Smallest State! You don’t have to be a resident of Rhode Island to read along or to…
Read MoreThank you for making LOST SUMMERS OF NEWPORT a bestseller!
So many thanks to all of you for helping to make the latest Team W collaboration, The Lost Summers of Newport, a New York Times and USA Today bestseller! Beatriz, Karen, and I are over the moon– and so excited to write the next one! I’ll be sharing oodles of pictures from tour shortly. There…
Read MoreCharleston! (Saturday, 5/21)
Team W is thrilled to be back in Charleston! (Karen may just possibly know a thing or two about Charleston….) Come join us today at 4pm with Buxton Books at the Charleston Library Society! What: Team W Book Talk When: Saturday, May 21, 4pm Where: Charleston Library Society, 164 King Street, Charleston, SC The event…
Read MoreAtlanta! (Friday, 5/20)
Team W is so thrilled to be back in the Foxes’ Den! Come join us tonight for general hilarity at FoxTale Bookshoppe in Woodstock, GA! What: Team W Book Talk When: Saturday, May 20, 6:30pm Where: FoxTale, 105 E Main Street, Woodstock, GA This event is not ticketed and there is no registration required– so…
Read MorePennsylvania! (Thursday, 5/19)
So, there might have been some changes to the Pennsylvania event tonight…. This feels a bit like that old joke about the Holy Roman Empire that was neither Holy, Roman, nor an Empire: all three things we initially announced about this event are, in fact, not the case. Initially, it was supposed to be a…
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