Pinkorama #1: The Mischief of the Mistlepeep
It is with the greatest delight that I present to you the first of the 2020 Pinkoramae! May I just say that in the midst of all the fear and worry, it fills me with such joy that there are still Pinkoramae? It’s become as sure a sign of spring as the lengthening days and…
Read MoreTHE ENGLISH WIFE: Today’s Kindle Daily Deal!
If you’re looking to restock your Kindle for at-home reading, I’m delighted to announce that The English Wife is today’s Kindle Daily Deal! For today only, The English Wife is being discounted to $1.99 across all e-book platforms, so you can grab it up for your Kindle, Nook, or clay tablet. Well, maybe not the…
Read MorePinkorama Time!
Bring out yer Peeps! The 10th Annual Pinkorama closes tomorrow. Well, mostly. I won’t be starting to post submissions until Friday, so if you have a sudden urge to create a Peep diorama (or a non-Peep/ anything lying around the house diorama, given the difficulties in shopping this year), feel free to send in a…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Now that the revisions for the Smith book are in– yay!– I’ve found I can finally read new books again. I ventured into pure Gothic with Rebecca James’s The Woman in the Mirror, in which a present day gallery owner and a World War II era governess both lose themselves in a Cornish mansion by…
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In the midst of the madness that is life right now, I’m taking solace in the incredibly orderly world of the Golden Age British Mystery Novel, in which even murder manages to be frightfully, frightfully civilized. I’ve been jumping around and reading books in Patricia Wentworth’s Miss Silver mystery series out of order for the…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
So many apologies for the big gap between Weekly Reading Round-Ups! With a two year old and a six year old confined in an apartment, what little computer time I could wrangle was devoted to finished up the next book, Band of Sisters, which will hopefully be coming your way in Spring 2021. (And, yes,…
Read MoreReady… Set… Peep!
Welcome the to 10th Annual Pinkorama! This year makes ten– TEN!– years of Pinkorama (aka Pink Carnation Peep Diorama). A full decade of sugary wonders created by you. If I can snatch the time another day, I’ll do a post with all ten years of Pinkorama entries, but, for now, I just wanted to say…
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In these alarming times, thank goodness for all the other worlds we find in books. When I haven’t been fighting in the Somme with the women of the Smith College Relief Unit (much more about that soon, I promise!) I’ve been escaping to the England of country house mysteries and spinster sleuths with Patricia Wentworth’s…
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In a world gone mad, thank goodness for books. In between fighting my way through the last third of the Smith book and compulsively reading every single article about the current world health situation, I’ve been hiding in the classic mystery novels of Mary Roberts Rinehart, most recently The Great Mistake, in which pithy first…
Read MoreTeam W on NPR Memphis!
Because once we get started, we can’t stop talking…. When Team W was in Memphis, we had the great privilege of chatting with WYPL host Stephen Usery– and chatting and chatting and chatting. It is, as Stephen says, a special epic length edition of Book Talk! You can find the full program here….
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