Weekly Reading Round Up
Happy Friday, all! I’ve been deep in reviewing my research for the Manhattan Well Murder Book this week, so it’s been mostly trial transcripts and biographies of Hamilton and Burr for me, but I did snatch a break from the late 18th/early 19th century with Camilla Sten’s latest thriller, The Resting Place, in which a young…
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Happy Friday, all! I have a pile of new books I ought to be reading (and two books I ought to be writing!) but I’ve retreated back to my happy place, the village life of an England that never was but ought to have been (as George MacDonald Fraser would say) with a combination of…
Read MoreIt’s a SUMMER COUNTRY summer sale!
Travel to 19th century Barbados for just $1.99 with the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards finalist and 2022 Barnes & Noble Hot Summer Read, The Summer Country! Right now, you can snap up a sale e-copy for Kindle or Nook for just $1.99– or an audiobook for the reduced price of $4.99. This is a book…
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Happy Friday, all! I madly binged the rest of Jodie Taylor’s Elizabeth Cage series, Dark Light and Long Shadows, about a woman leading a quiet life who suddenly finds herself plunged into danger, government machinations, and odd supernatural happenings. I wasn’t quite ready to leave that world yet, so I moved on to the first…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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