If You Like….
No Gilded Age novel would be complete without a stop in Newport. So, naturally, my characters (and I) had to spend a bit of time there. But when I sat down to make this “If You Like” list, I was surprised by how hard it was to think of books set in Newport in the…
Read MorePink Carnation: $2.99!
They seek him here; they seek him there… and, in e-book, the Pink Carnation is currently $2.99 everywhere! I’m not quite sure how long this price drop will last (the author is always the last to know), but, for the moment, the first book in the Pink Carnation series is $2.99 on Kindle, Nook, Kobo,…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
I’ve been having such a good run of new books recently. On tap for this week was: — Francine Matthews’s Death in Rough Water, the second of her Nantucket-set Merry Folger mysteries. The more I read this series, the more I love it– particularly the developing relationship between the detective and another character, which reminds…
Read MoreTHE ENGLISH WIFE Tour!
Because who doesn’t want to be thinking about January in the middle of July? As the sun blazes overhead, let’s get ready for the season of frost and reading snuggled up in a warm blanket by marking your calendars for the English Wife tour, coming to a bookstore (possibly) near you in January. Here’s what’s…
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Maybe it’s all those postcards of the Eiffel Tower, maybe it comes of watching Gigi at a susceptible age, but there’s just something about Belle Epoque Paris. Even though The English Wife is set largely in New York and London, I couldn’t resist sending my characters on a little excursion to Paris, where they got…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
I had a stack of books I was saving for slightly later in the summer, but couldn’t resist digging into them now. So, this week, I treated myself to: — Amy Poeppel’s Small Admissions (which just came out in paperback), a smart and snarky combination of social satire and coming of age story, in which,…
Read MoreIf You Like….
As I was gathering up my pictures of the various settings in The English Wife to share with you, it occurred to me that it might be fun to do a bunch of If You Likes to cover the various places involved in the book. So, since this is my Gilded Age book, it made…
Read MoreName That Book
Today, I got an email from Fiona, asking if I could identify a book for her. It didn’t ring a bell for me (or, rather, it rang a sort of bell, which turned out to be the wrong bell), so I thought I’d call in my crack team of book experts, i.e. you, to see…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
I’ve been on a mystery kick this week. I started with Carol Goodman’s The Seduction of Water, in which a writing professor goes back to the Catskills hotel where she grew up to solve the mystery of her mother’s death decades before, and then moved on to the first of Francine Matthews’s Merry Folger mysteries,…
Read MoreFrench Books Winner
The winner of the bundle of books in French is… Andra! (Of Comment #6.) Congrats, Andra! If you let me know where to send them, I’ll pop your books in the mail to you. So many thanks to everyone who entered for the wonderful French books/movie recs! I’ll be running a second contest on my…
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