Weekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Friday, all! This will be a very short post this week, because most of my reading was for a top secret project I can’t tell you about yet. (If anything comes of it, I promise, you’ll hear about it!). I did, however, take a break from background reading for the Book That Shall Not…
Read MorePink Carnation Read Along Month 6: THE BETRAYAL OF THE BLOOD LILY
Thanks so much to everyone who joined in to discuss The Temptation of the Night Jasmine last week! Are you ready to head to India? It’s July, which means… it’s time to follow the disgraced Penelope Deveraux (now Lady Frederick Staines) across the seas in The Betrayal of the Blood Lily. This book is my riff…
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Happy Friday, all! And happy 4th! I have to confess to feeling thoroughly discombobulated. New York just zigzagged from an intense July-ish heat wave that made me want to re-read all my sweltering, summer-set Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels novels (Devil May Care, Houses of Stone, and Stitches in Time are THE summer heat wave…
Read MoreTemptation of the Night Jasmine Read Along: Tonight!
Brush off your copy of The Temptation of the Night Jasmine, grab some raspberry tartlets, and get ready for tonight’s Pink Carnation Read Along Zoom discussion with super special guest co-host– and Pink Carnation TV series screenwriter– Donna Thorland! Registration for the event has officially closed, but if you would like to attend and forgot to…
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Happy Friday, all! It’s been a crazy week ping-ponging back and forth between the 1890s book and the new Team W book and various other work-related dramas, but whenever I can steal a moment, I’ve been reveling in Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club. (A recommendation from my wonderful best friend who has been providing…
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Happy Friday, all! This week was a comfort read/ edgy read sandwich for me. I reverted back to Patricia Wentworth with one of her stand alone novels, Silence in Court. I was a bit skeptical– the premise is that a Miss Carey Silence is on trial for the murder of an elderly friend of the…
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Happy Friday, all! It’s a grey and misty Friday over here, which was perfect for the non-fiction book I just finished: Kate Summerscale’s The Haunting of Alma Fielding, an account of the investigation into a case of supposed poltergeist activity in 1930s England. But what makes this book so fascinating isn’t just the step by…
Read MorePink Carnation Read Along Month 5: THE TEMPTATION OF THE NIGHT JASMINE
Thanks so much to everyone who joined in to discuss The Seduction of the Crimson Rose last week! It’s June, which means… it’s time for Book V: The Temptation of the Night Jasmine! This book is very dear to me. Charlotte is the character with whom I felt the greatest personal affinity (of all my heroines, she’s…
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Happy Friday, all! It’s been a week of dark thrillers and monastic murder for me. Riley Sager’s The Last Time I Lied was a read-in-one-night book for me, sitting in the dark between putting my daughter to bed and finally putting the light out myself. I so enjoy Sager’s takes on classic themes– in this…
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Happy Friday, all! I haven’t quite wrapped my head around the fact that it’s Memorial Day weekend– and neither, apparently, has the weather, which has decided it should kick off the summer season by plunging back into the fifties for a bit. I started the week with Alexis Hall’s new rom com, Rosaline Palmer Takes…
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