Willow ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Not a sobbing one, but a pirate romance of sorts? Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown.
This sounds EXACTLY like what I need right now.
Lately I’ve been chugging through the delightful Sebastian St Cyr Regency mysteries and enjoying the heck out of them.
I'll look it up! And also those Regency mysteries, because I loved the Kate Ross ones.
Amy. Have you read Tasha Alexander's Lady Emily mystery series? The first is called And Only to Deceive. It took a bit for me to really get into, but they are richly researched, set in a variety of places (and quite vividly so), and feature an intelligent female protagonist. They're set in the late 19th century.
More books to make note of!
Oh! I HAVE that book, Pix! I forgot I had gotten it on my Kindle a while back.
Cinnamon and Gunpowder looks great! It's got sort of a Big Fish vibe.
Why are you people giving such good recs when I'm doing the TBR Triple Dog Dare and can't read anything new until April Fools? It's a conspiracy!
Consuela, thanks for the link! I love Vernon's gardening essays and Digger comic. It's great to read another kind of work by her.
I got Hild for Christmas and am L O V I N G it. Nicola Griffith is such an evocative writer.
I've been enjoying the Sebastian St. Cyr mysteries too! And I liked the Kate Ross ones, just wish there'd been more.