Genevieve Stafford, our heroine, is considered to be aloof, respectable and everything a lady of Regency should be. She’s also worried that she will never marry, so she decides to pray at the shrine of St. Dwynwen to find love. The legend of the saint was told to her previously (in one of the other books in this series, which I haven’t read) but she finally decided it couldn’t hurt. And voila, her prayers are answered and she meets Lord Dursford as she is leaving […]
Searching for highwaymen in the Lake District
Lady Jane Cummings has been mourning her mother’s death for a long time when she’s finally allowed back into society. Before she gets much of a chance to enjoy the balls and garden parties, however, her brother Jason returns from his Grand Tour on the Continent and insists that she take their ailing father, the Duke of Rayne north to their summer residence in Merrymere in the Lake District. He’s terrified that someone in society will discover that the respected Duke is losing his wits […]
The Beauty and the Civil Service Clerk
Lady Phillipa Benning is a young, beautiful, fantastically wealthy widow and the undisputed queen (and Mean Girl) of London society. She has set her eyes on the Marquis of Broughton, who is equally eligible, wealthy and popular, but her arch rival from school, Lady Jane Cummings also seems to have him in her sights and the vexing man is not beyond playing the two ladies against each other. Things start getting complicated after Philippa, having arranged a tryst with Broughton in a library, ends up hidden […]
I’mma Buy You a Drank
This was a really great idea that fumbled on the execution. Don’t get me wrong it was well written and clearly well researched but I felt short changed by the length- but I usually feel short changed by the length of books I like. Tom Standage discusses six drinks, three alcoholic and three caffeinated, which span from beer in Mesopotamia to Coca-Cola in the 19th Century. He explains how each manmade drink helped shape the world and was its own version of technology. The most […]
Don’t read the summary (it’s weird), just read the book. You can’t summarize the wackiness that is this book.
I bought this book in a $4.95 Audible sale a while back and then just sort of abandoned it, for almost a year. Why did I do that? No idea. I had this fun little book just waiting for me all this time, and I just kept going about my life. Okay, maybe I do have some idea why. The summary of this book both intimidated me and made me go, “Hwah?” Let me break it down for you. Intimidation because: the line of succession […]
Death on a train
Internationally famous private detective Hercule Poirot is on his way back to England after solving a mystery in Syria. He decides to take the Orient Express for part of his journey, only to discover that despite the train normally being quite empty during the winter season, it’s so fully booked in first class that he has to stay the first night in a second class cabin. Poirot is approached by one of the passengers, a Mr. Edward Ratchett, who claims he has many enemies and […]
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