Favorite 2017 Reads: No. 7
What is it I like so much about DS Manon Bradshaw, Susie Steiner’s cranky detective? In Persons Unknown, the followup to Missing, Presumed, she’s as impossible as ever and living in …
Favorite 2017 Reads: No. 8
One of my 2017 topic obsessions – other than World War I – was the Spanish Civil War. I’ve always been interested in this period, ever since I tried to …
Favorite 2017 Reads: No. 9
Cathleen Schine’s The Love Letter, first published in 1995, is one of those books that I just adore. When the movie – starring Kate Capeshaw – shows up on cable, I’ll …
Favorite 2017 Reads: No. 10
Some years I go on literary binges, reading quite a bit about a certain place or time period or subject. I had two mini-obsessions in 2017: World War I and …
What I Read in 2017
My shopping is done and everything is wrapped. Cards are sent. That means it’s time for a really important end-of-year-task: Taking stock of my reading habits for 2017. My goal …
An Update, Crafted with One Hand
You have not heard much from me lately. There’s a reason for that. My right arm is in a sling, and I’m not very good typing with one hand. Especially …
Getting It Right: Writing Sisters
The manuscript I’m wrangling right now, BOYS I HAVE DATED, features a relationship between two sisters as a major component. When I started this book, I didn’t want to write …
Great Books about the Great War
One thing I like to do when I’m not writing is poke around in my family’s history. Lately, I’ve been digging a lot into records about one of my great-grandfathers, …
Need a Gift for Your Bookish Dad?
Father’s Day shopping still not done? Don’t worry – I have just thing for bookish dads. Of course you can go to the bookstore and grab the most likely thing …
What’s on My Bookshelf
It’s been awhile since I’ve done one of these installments. When I first started this feature, Tiny was still a kitten and fit on a bookshelf. No more! (But more …