Weekly Reading Round-Up
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…
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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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Happy Friday, all! It’s been a wonderful grab bag of books this week, with some very old and some very new, but all new to me, starting with Ruth Ware’s latest, The It Girl, about a woman whose roommate at Oxford was murdered during– and who comes to doubt what she thought she knew about…
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Happy Friday, all! I’m just back from a week in the White Mountains with the kids (so much Storyland!) during which it seemed easiest to just continue my epic re-read of Charlotte MacLeod’s Sarah Kelling books– I’m not sure just why I find them so soothing, but I do. This week was what I think…
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Happy Friday, all! Confession: I have been on a ridiculous Patricia Wentworth-a-thon. The one exception has been Chris Bohjalian’s The Lioness, part thriller, part historical fiction, about a 1960s safari for a Hollywood starlet and her husband gone very, very wrong. Otherwise, it’s been all Patricia Wentworth, all the time, at the rate of roughly…
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Happy Friday, all! This week was a bonanza of new books as I caught up on some of my stack of new releases, starting with Megan Miranda’s latest, The Last to Vanish, a small town in the Appalachians with a reputation for mysterious disappearances. Is it coincidence? Natural causes? Or is there something sinister going…
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It’s your one shot to collect all three Ws in 2022! Beatriz, Karen, and I are celebrating the end of summer and The Lost Summers of Newport with one last big bash: a VIP cocktail party followed by an enormous book club event, hosted by the Rhode Show and Reading with Robin, with all proceeds…
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Happy Friday, all! Can you believe it’s August already? I can’t decide if the summer is just beginning or almost over, but either way I’m pretty sure I’m behind on my to do list. My reading recently has been equally all over the place. I’ve been ping-ponging back and forth between my ultimate comfort read…
Read MoreTWO WARS AND A WEDDING Cover Reveal!
It’s time to reveal… the cover for Two Wars and a Wedding! I won’t lie. I had no idea how anyone was ever going to come up with a cover that could convey a story that sweeps from 1896 Athens to the jungles of Cuba during the Spanish-American War, as my Smith College grad heroine,…
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