Book Review

Wondrous Words Wednesday

Happy Wednesday!  I’ve got a few more words this week from The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet.  I finished that one this week and it’s fabulous.  I hope to have the review posted tomorrow.  I’ve also got a word or two from my new book, Pray for Silence by Linda Castillo.  It’s a good change of pace, a police… Read more

Teaser Tuesday!

Time again for another Teaser Tuesday!  This time, I am getting my post ready to go ahead of time; I’m on the road and it’s always difficult to get things posted when I’m in another time zone.  When I get up for work tomorrow, this will be ready to go. This week’s teaser comes from my current book, The Thousand… Read more

Review: Under the Poppy by Kathe Koja

Under the Poppy is a story of workplace romance and intrigue — that is, if your workplace happens to be a Belgian brothel in the 1870s and your coworkers are whores, mutes and puppets. It’s a complicated arrangement: Decca and Rupert own a brothel. Decca is in love with Rupert. Rupert is in love with Decca’s brother, Istvan, a traveling… Read more

Review: The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai by Ruiyan Xu

The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai by Ruiyan Xu is all about isolation and communication. Li Jing is a Chinese businessman with a beautiful wife and son, a successful investment company, family and friends.  But in one tragic instant, he finds himself cut off from everything.  A gas leak, an explosion, and a flying sheet of glass change his… Read more

Wondrous Words Wednesday

It’s Wednesday, and I have some new words for you!  These are from my current book, Under the Poppy by Kathe Koja.  It’s about the goings-on at a brothel in Brussels in the 1870s, so you can imagine it has some interesting and obscure words. 1. Chary – characterized by great caution and wariness “…but he is chary of much… Read more

Bookshelf Porn

A friend of mine posted a link to a site that has had me drooling…the Bookshelf Porn archive!   Now, I have often complained about my lack of bookshelves.  I don’t know anyone who loves books who thinks they have enough room for them all.  But these folks?  They have got this under control.  Amazing bookshelves, awesome reading rooms, like… Read more

Teaser Tuesday!

It’s been a while since I had something I wanted to share on a Tuesday!  It’s funny, I complain about how hard it is to keep up with the blog when I’m traveling, but when I take a little time off, my schedule really falls apart and it gets even harder.  Anyway, today’s Teaser is from a book I finished… Read more