Weekly 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…
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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…
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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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I’ve been a huge Simone St. James fan since her first book, The Haunting of Maddy Clare, came out in– well, rather a while ago. So you can guess what I’m reading right now! Her latest, The Sun Down Motel, in which a present day woman tries to figure out what happened to her aunt…
Read MoreTHE ENGLISH WIFE– on sale for $1.99!
Because the author is always the last to know… so many thanks to everyone who pinged me to let me know that The English Wife is currently on sale for $1.99 in e-book form! Here’s the official description: From New York Times bestselling author, Lauren Willig, comes this scandalous novel set in the Gilded Age, full of…
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I started the week with a gift from my wonderful friend, Lynda Loigman: Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House, set in an alternate Yale in which the secret societies dabble in black magic. So often, when you read a much hyped book, it falls flat, but I loved Ninth House, and stayed up far too late to…
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