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Happy Friday, all! After a week of winter in April, it’s finally starting to feel like spring! So to launch off the new springy season, I left aside my comfort reads and picked up the ARC of Susan Elia MacNeal’s first ever stand alone, Mother Daughter Traitor Spy, which takes a close look at the…
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Happy Friday, all! A few people have mentioned The Inheritance Games to me as Westing Game for Grown Ups, but a post from Beyond the Bookends finally made me dredge the book out of the wastes of my TBR pile– and I’m so glad I did. Think Maureen Johnson’s Truly Devious crossed with the Westing…
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Welcome the to 12th Annual Pinkorama! There’s something rather majestic about the number twelve, isn’t there? I’m still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that a random impulse twelve years ago– “Hey! Does anyone feel like making a Pink Carnation-themed diorama out of Peeps?”– has turned into a dozen years of brilliant works…
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Happy Friday, all! I’ve been deep in the research cave this week (so much Hamilton and Burr!), but I did pop my head out of the 18th century to visit with the Mitford sisters in Marie Benedict’s upcoming The Mitford Affair, which explores Diana’s and Unity’s plunge into fascism and its reverberations across their family,…
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Beatriz Williams, Karen White, and I will be hitting the road this May on the Most Fun Book Tour Ever (TM) Part IV! We hope you can join us for the books, the friendship, and the sheep jokes. We open in Newport…. Here’s the schedule– with links! Saturday, May 14th, 6pm Team W NEWPORT Launch…
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Happy Friday, all! After a bitter cold week in New York, the sun has finally come back out… and let’s hope it stays that way! I started several books this week. But it was one of those Goldilocks’s porridge reading weeks where nothing was quite right, so I reverted to Charlotte MacLeod with the next…
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Happy Friday, all! Don’t you hate it when you finish a really brilliant series (or what there currently is of it) and then you have to decide whether you want to immediately re-read it or slink off to read something else? I finished The Last Graduate, Book II in Naomi Novik’s incredibly immersive Scholomance series,…
Read MorePink Carnation Read Along Month 12: THE LURE OF THE MOONFLOWER
After eleven books (and one Christmas novella), it’s time to hit the road with none other than the Pink Carnation herself. Can the Pink Carnation find the missing Portuguese monarch before the French do? And can Eloise make it to the altar without something going catastrophically wrong? That’s right! It’s time for the final Pink…
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Happy Friday, all! It’s been a topsy turvy week here in New York in all sorts of ways, including swinging from snow to seventy degrees. So I suppose it makes sense that my reading is all over the place, too? After finishing the last of Elizabeth Daly’s Henry Gamadge mysteries, I moved on to the…
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Happy Friday, all! It’s winter again here in New York– with snow and sleet the other day– so I’ve retreated to the equivalent of a warm blanket with vintage cozy mysteries, finishing the last few books in Elizabeth Daly’s 1940s Henry Gamadge series. I’ve heard the term “American Agatha Christie” uttered many times about many…
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