Weekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Friday, all! My new book kick continued this week with another read-in-one-sitting Riley Sager novel, Final Girls, a riff on the traditional college girl slasher story– but with a great deal of twist. I am not a fan of slasher movies. I prefer the classic ghost story, tingle on the back of the neck…
Read MoreThe Smith College Relief Unit in October– October 1917, that is!
As you probably know by now, my upcoming book, Band of Sisters, is about the Smith College Relief Unit, eighteen determined Smith alums who went off to the front during World War I to bring aid to French villagers on the front lines, women and children whose homes had been destroyed by the Germans. So…
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Happy October, all! It’s been a week of knitting spinster detectives for me, from Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple to Patricia Wentworth’s Miss Silver (you wonder– would the two be besties or suspect each other on sight?). I started the week At Bertram’s Hotel, in which the illusion of Edwardian comfort masks a darker reality in…
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Happy Friday, all! I have a richness of books lined up (I feel like like Scrooge McDuck about to leap into his money pool every time I look at my Kindle screen– it’s all I can do not to just gloat over it), but what with one thing and another I wound up with very…
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Happy Friday, all! My reading roll continued this week with Steph Dray’s The Women of Chateau Lafayette, set around three women who all lived in the home of the legendary Revolutionary War hero in three different eras: Lafayette’s wife in the 18th century; New York socialite, artist, and humanitarian Beatrice Chanler in World War I;…
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It’s been a very strange first week after Labor Day, hasn’t it? It’s that odd “no time but possibly any time and which season is it again?” feeling of the pandemic. I’m going to have to up my pumpkin-themed baking and ghost story consumption to make it feel like fall! On the plus side, it’s…
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Happy September, everyone! I’ve got my pumpkin spice creamer, my fuzzy blanket, my puzzle with autumn foliage ready to go– and some fall reads lined up, thanks to all the wonderful recommendations by folks over on my Facebook author page. I ended August with Hid From Our Eyes, Julia Spencer-Fleming’s long awaited seventh book in…
Read MoreBAND OF SISTERS Goodreads Give Away!
I am thrilled to announce that there are sixty (print) advance copies of my upcoming book, Band of Sisters, up for grabs on Goodreads! For a chance to win one of these beauties, just head over to the Goodreads contest post here. I fell in love with the dauntless women of Smith College, who braved…
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Happy Friday, all! It’s been a stay-up-too-late reading week for me with two wonderful upcoming books that I gobbled up to the extreme detriment of my sleep schedule and ability to function. So, when these books come out, don’t say you weren’t warned…. First up was Marie Benedict’s The Mystery of Mrs. Christie. It’s no…
Read MoreCome Zoom with Team W on 8/27!
Beatriz and Karen and I aren’t going to let a piddly little thing like being hundreds of miles away from each other keep us apart! The band is getting together again next Thursday night, at six o’clock EST, at an event hosted by Hub City Bookshop, to banter about about all things books. We’ll be…
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