Weekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Friday! Here’s what I’ve been reading this week: — Julia Spencer-Fleming, To Darkness and to Death, et al. I finished up my Julia Spencer-Fleming marathon with To Darkness and to Death, All Mortal Flesh, I Shall Not Want, and One Was a Soldier, and then felt very bereft when I was done. It was…
Read MoreThursday Give Away– ASHFORD!
I did mention a very special Thursday give away for today, didn’t I? I’ve been hoarding my last two advance copies of The Ashford Affair just to give away to you. Once the holidays are over, one will be put up for grabs in a big contest in the Contest page, but that still leaves…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: The "Lost" Intro to MISTLETOE
Every website needs its holiday traditions…. With The Mischief of the Mistletoe popping up on all sorts of “best of” lists, it seemed like a good time for the annual re-posting of The Lost Introduction to The Mischief of the Mistletoe. As you know, Jane Austen appears in Mistletoe as a side character. This terrified…
Read MoreThursday Give Away Winner
And the winner of Alma Katsu’s The Taker is… Ren! (Of Comment #34.) Congrats, Ren! If you send me your details, I’ll pop your book into the mail to you. In the meantime, there’s going to be an extra-special Thursday give away here on the site this week…. Stay tuned!
Read MoreIf You Like….
Apologies! I’d meant to have this particular list up last week, but life intervened. So, better late than never, if you like historical holiday-themed novels, you’ll probably like…. — Mary Balogh’s A Christmas Promise, a classic Regency marriage of convenience story with a holiday twist; — Jo Beverley’s Christmas Angel, another Regency marriage of convenience…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
It’s Friday, which means… Weekly Reading Round-Up time! Here’s what I’ve been reading: — Donna Andrews, Six Geese A-Slaying. This is the Christmas installment of the madcap Meg Langslow mystery series. It’s ten books in, but the uninitiated can read it without getting too lost. My favorite in the series, though, is still the first,…
Read MoreThursday Give Away
For today’s Thursday Give Away, we have Alma Katsu’s The Taker. Here’s the official blurb: True love can last an eternity . . . but immortality comes at a price. On the midnight shift at a hospital in rural St. Andrew, Maine, Dr. Luke Findley is expecting a quiet evening. Until a mysterious woman arrives…
Read MoreMore MISTLETOE Fun
Today, Leatherbound Reviews is featuring my favorite scene from The Mischief of the Mistletoe. I’ll give you a hint. It involves sheep, Sally Fitzhugh in a halo, and a Christmas pageant gone horribly wrong. What’s your favorite Mistletoe moment?
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: GARDEN-o-Rama!
As many of you know, The Garden Intrigue is being released in paperback at the end of this month. Hidden away in the Teaser Tuesday archives is a wealth of background information on The Garden Intrigue— so now seemed like a good time to take those posts out of the vault and dust them off.…
Read MoreChronicles of Downton Abbey
For the Downton Abbey fans out there, there’s going to be a special, Downton-themed program airing on Literary New England Radio tonight. Jessica Fellowes will be discussing her tie-in book, The Chronicles of Downton Abbey, followed by Evangeline Holland of the Edwardian Promenade, who’ll be chiming in with suggestions for Downton-inspired reading. I have been…
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