A Lady's Guide to Fortune Hunting by Sophie Irwin
Such a delightful recommendation by my friend Aileen (the Coolest Person Ever)! Best comparison might be Sherry Thomas' The Luckiest Lady in London or Georgette Heyer's Arabella but honestly, and without any pretensions of grandeur, all of these books owe the original debt to my favorite Pride and … [Read more]
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got that Way by Bill Bryson
cbr category Question If you can draw one conclusion from this book, it could be that the English language, possibly more than any other, delights in being silly. There is simply no other excuse for so many British town names, such as Great Snoring and Farleigh Wallop. American English is no … [Read more]
Ship Wrecked by Olivia Dade
Ship Wrecked starts with orgasms and then becomes a slow burn. Olivia Dade's Spoiler Alert series has centered around a Game of Thrones-esque tv series called Gods of the Gates. In Spoiler Alert and All the Feels, we've seen Maria and Peter, two of the actors, flirt and banter in cast … [Read more]
Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Thanks to NetGalley and Ballantine Books for the ARC. It has not affected the content of my review. Oh, hey, look at that. Five stars. I think no one is more surprised about that rating than me after slowly making my way through this over the past two and a half months (this was written in … [Read more]
The Village of Eight Graves (Kosuke Kindaichi, #3) by Seishi Yokomizo
Whaaaat the heck happened here. This was a mess. In fact, I had such a different reading experience with this third translated book in the Kosuke Kindaichi series that I kind of have to wonder if it was me and not the book, since presumably the English publisher chose to translate and publish … [Read more]
Flying Solo by Linda Holmes
This is a silly, inconsequential—one might almost say *cozy*—book that is largely about the retrieval of a wooden duck, and I liked it very much. I really love Linda Holmes. I'm in for her whole thing, after this book. I was hoping Evvie Drake Starts Over wouldn't be a fluke, and it wasn't. While … [Read more]
