Pink Carnation Read Along Month 10: THE PASSION OF THE PURPLE PLUMERIA
Dust off your purple parasols! Miss Gwen is here to shake away the January blues– or skewer away the January blues, as the case may be. It’s time for Pink X, The Passion of the Purple Plumeria, with special guest co-host Andrea Penrose! Join us on Thursday, January 27th, at 8pm ET, to discuss spies,…
Read MoreThat Demmed Elusive… Band of Sisters?
Happy holidays, all! And happy almost New Year! Here’s hoping 2022 will be a healthy and happy one. In the meantime, Band of Sisters seems to have gone full Pimpernel– you have to seek it here and seek it there to find the hardcover or pre-order the paperback! The hardcover IS still sold out at…
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Happy Friday, all! It’s hard to believe we’re only a week from Christmas when it’s sixty degrees in New York. Between that and my preschooler being back in quarantine, there’s a bit of a Never Never Land, which-day-is-it-again? feel right now, and this week’s reading is equally without theme. I started off with Margaret Rogerson’s…
Read MorePink Carnation Read Along Holiday Edition– Tonight!
It’s time to discuss spies in the mince pies and what happens after the happily ever after in tonight’s holiday edition of the Pink Carnation Read Along with super special guest co-host Stephanie Barron! The Zoom links will go out this afternoon. Up until then, you can register here. If you would like to attend,…
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Happy Friday, all! We’ve been House of Plague over here (not Covid plague, mercifully; just good old fashioned preschool is a germ pit plague), so it seemed time for a good seasonal escapist fantasy– and no one does those better than Trisha Ashley. In between mopping fevered brows (and mopping other less pleasant things), I’ve…
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Happy Friday– and happy December! I ended the old month– and my Victoria Holt kick– by bouncing hard off the second half of The India Fan, which takes place during the rising of 1857. I was with her for the English village drama in the first half of the book, but the second half did…
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Happy Friday, all! I hope everyone had a wonderful, safe, and happy holiday. A chance re-encounter with a Victoria Holt novel last week set me off on a mad Victoria Holt kick, and ever since then I’ve been wallowing in all the 6th grade feels with plucky schoolmistresses, brooding hero/villains, and wonderfully improbable plots. I…
Read MorePink Carnation Read Along: Holiday Edition!
For the month of December, we’ll be having a special holiday edition of the Read Along, with the short holiday novella “Ivy & Intrigue” and super special guest co-host Stephanie Barron! Join me and Stephanie Barron for both ivy and, yes, you guessed it, intrigue at 8pm EST on Tuesday, December 14th as we discuss…
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Happy Friday, all! It’s been a blur of a week racing to finish up Smith Book II– but, I have to confess, I didn’t manage to hold out against the lure of Simone St. James’s Book of Cold Cases. I’d meant to save The Book of Cold Cases as a reward for finishing the new…
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Happy Friday, all! It’s a wonderfully stormy day here in New York right now (I do so enjoy a good rainy fall day), and all I want to do is read Simone St. James’s The Book of Cold Cases, which magically zapped itself onto my Kindle last night– but I’ve got just two chapters (and…
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