So far I have obviously been terrible at posting more this year, but I do have some posts in progress and may even finish one someday. In the meantime, a bunch of older books I like have come out as ebooks, so I thought I'd recommend them:

• Sarah Smith, Perdita Halley and Alexander von Reisden mysteriesSeries of historical mysteries, set in the ( Read more... )

What are you reading now?
Virginia Woolf's second novel, Night and Day.  Formally, it's very traditional--much more traditional than her later work, unsurprisingly, but also much more traditional than her first novel, The Voyage Out. The Victorian novel, or even the Edwardian novel with a touch of comedy of manners? romantic comedy?, is so the wrong ( Read more... )