A Work in Progress (Free subscription) | yesterday
I think what I love most about Georgette Heyer's novels is the knowledge that in the end everything is going to work out for the best. No matter how villainous the villains may be, no matter how topsy turvy the...
Bookfoolery and Babble (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
The Foundling by Georgette Heyer Copyright 2009 - Originally published in 1948 Sourcebooks - Fiction/Historical 439 pages Almost every time I read a book by Georgette Heyer, I find myself saying, "Ooooh, this is my new favorite!" and it's happened, again. The Foundling tells the story of the cosseted Duke of Sale, who is tired of having loads of people attend to...
Passages to the Past (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
... the upper classes provide a fascinating backdrop to one of the last of mega-bestselling author Georgette Heyer’s twelve English country-house mysteries. An elegant card party turns deadly when two victims are found strangled with a tourniquet of picture wire. The crimes appear to be identical, but were they carried out by the same hand? Timothy Kane from They Found Him Dead...
Brooklyn Arden (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
... like I do every day, for sweet potatoes and my family and James and a warm bed and the novels of Georgette Heyer; but rather giving thanks to things, sometimes (not always) hard things, for experiences that made me better by pushing me beyond where I had been. And Thanksgiving at its best is meant to be both, I think: a peaceful moment of good things, celebrating a respite from the...
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Historial romance author Patricia Veryan has passed away. She was a few days short of her 86th birthday. Veryan was considered by many to be the successor to Georgette Heyer. Veryan's many books are available from Amazon . My favorite title to date is LOVE'S DUET . It has been years since I read it, but I remember marveling at the elegance of Veryan's writing and how every single word...
Gossamer Obsessions (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
... copy when I won a contest on Twitter. There will be a short break whereupon I will read and review Georgette Heyer's These Old Shades , the prequel of sorts to Devil's Cub , thanks to the wonderful folks over at Sourcebooks. BACK TO CHRISTMAS THEMED ROMANCES! Snow! Holly! Mistletoe! Gingerbread debauchery and peppermint scandal! The Holiday Inn anthology, headlined by Farrah Rochon...
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
... A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles J. Shields for Four Month Challenge, Part Two Sprig Muslin by Georgette Heyer for Four Month Challenge, Part Two Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens for Four Month Challenge, Part Two Devil Bones by Kathy Reichs
