Weekly Reading Round-Up
Happy weekend, all! Apologies for being a bit late with the round up this week– I’m on deadline for the Cuba book and back in quarantine with one of the small people. Which I suppose is strangely appropriate since the heroine of the Cuba book is also currently in quarantine? At least we don’t have…
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Happy Friday– and happy almost Halloween! I’d meant to catch up on my usual pre-Halloween reading this week (Shirley Jackson, E.F. Benson, and Simone St. James, I’m looking at you), but instead I got drawn into the irresistible world of the Thursday Murder Club with book two, The Man Who Died Twice. I adore these…
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Happy Friday, all! I started the week with the perfect October read, Neil Spring’s The Lost Village. I can’t remember who it was who recommended the movie, Harry Price: Ghost Hunter, to me, but whoever it was, I fell in love with the wonderful mix of interwar disillusionment, spiritualism, mystery, and that faint tingle down…
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Like the Pink series itself, the Read Along wasn’t exactly… planned. It just kind of happened. And like the Pink series, that means that about midway through, I had to stop and ask myself where it was going, and actually consider the prospect of, um, planning. So, here’s the sort of plan going forward: —…
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Happy Friday, all! I’m settling in for the most dramatic and emotionally draining stretch of the Work In Progress, so it’s been a comfort reading week, which has mostly consisted of continuing to chain read my way through the Lockwood & Co books (which I now hear is being made into a Netflix series!), with…
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Happy Friday, all! This week, I read Susanna Kearsley’s latest, The Vanished Days, which felt both like a departure for her (no modern frame story, no paranormal element) but also an entirely logical next step (a beautiful and nuanced deep dive into late 17th/early 18th century Scottish history). It’s the story of Adam, who’s been…
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This week, I am going to be speaking All The Places. Or maybe it just feels like All The Places. You can find me on Wednesday night (7pm ET) with the legendary Susanna Kearsley, discussing her latest novel, The Vanished Days, a wonderful deep dive into Scottish history. The event is hosted by Wilton Library…
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Happy Friday, all! I have to confess, it has been one of those weeks where I pick books up and put them down again. I tried a recent, very buzzy book that has been recommended to me by many, many people– and while I loved the author’s voice, I bounced off it hard. I can’t…
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Happy Friday, all! It’s been a best friend book bonanza this week. For ages and ages, my best friend has been recommending The Left-Handed Booksellers of London. And for ages and ages, I’ve had it sitting there unread. I finally read it, and I’m kicking myself for not having had the good sense to follow…
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Happy Friday, all! I have to confess to being very boring this week. I’m deep in the writing cave for the 1890s book (aka the Cuba Book, aka Smith II: the Resmithening), so I’ve been leavening my labors with comfort reads: more of Charlotte MacLeod’s Sarah Kelling series. Right now I’m up to Book 7,…
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