Weekend Links

 

I hope you all survived the holidays!  It's snowy here (finally!  It's been such a dry winter), and I am cozy with some tea and my new gift books, as well as researching a new project..  Hope you are safe and warm, too.

And here's a few more things to read today...

The unearthing of an Iron Age war trumpet

A guide to New York bookstores

A Venetian palace for sale

December 1926--Agatha Christie went missing!

Speaking of Christie--has anyone seen the new "Seven Dials" adaptation?  I haven't had the chance yet, but it looks good...

How to be at French cafe

Can cheese lower dementia risk???  (if so, I should be good for decades...)

An ode to Jessie Buckley (I saw "Hamnet" over the holiday, she was astonishing)

How to read tarot cards: a beginner's guide

The art of Wes Anderson

Weekend Links

 

Well, this has been a week that feels like a (long) year.  I am getting ready to dive into some farmers market shopping and reading this weekend before tackling book revisions that just landed on my desk.  And here's a few distraction...  (also, don't forget to talk like a pirate today!  My book High Seas Stowaway, if you want some historical seafaring hijinks is .99)

The V&A opens their "Marie Antoinette Style" exhibit (and I am sobbing not to be there!)

An art conservator restores a portrait of Isabella de Medici

Where is The Great British Bakeoff Filmed?

It was Agatha Christie's Birthday on September 15!  I think I'll do a re-read in her honor (some favorites--Death on the Nile, The Hollow, 5 Little Pigs)

The most beautiful garden you can visit in every state

The jewels of the new Downton Abbey movie (I saw it last weekend!  So fun to see old friends again, and you go, Lady Edith)

Inside the rooms where 20 famous books were written

Portrait of Shakespeare's possible lover found

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 Happy April!!!  I was wearing a cotton dress yesterday--then it snowed today.  But I am so excited spring is in the air, flowers are appearing, and soon it will be outdoor concert season.  What are you looking forward to this summer???  

And here's some things to read...

First of all--I have a new book out now!!  You can read an interview with "Ella," the heroine of my The Earl's Cinderella Countess here

A sneak peek at Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light coming to PBS (I can't wait!)

Some rare Sylvia Plath ephemera

Time to embrace the "bad mug" (I admit, I am a mug addict...)

10 overlooked medieval women

Artist Agnes Martin on art and solitude

Agatha Christie artifacts at Cambridge

Weekend Links

 

Happy middle of the month!  Thanksgiving is just week after next (and I need to start my pies--my holiday assignment), and Christmas looms ahead, along with my birthday and the stress of moving house.  (Fingers crossed, we will close on our new house Dec. 10!).  I also just turn in one book (the 4th 1920s Santa Fe mystery), and am starting on another (the second Matchmakers of Bath story).  Whew!!  This is always a wild time of year, but I think it will be doubly do this year.  Any time management advice??

In the meantime, a few fun things to read and distract ourselves:

9 signs you're a complex thinker whose mind works differently

The oldest bookstores in London

400 Years of Shakespear's Folio

Tiara of the Month: The Danish Ruby Wreath

Sofia Coppola's Stymied Attempt to Bring Undine Spragg to the Screen

Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius

Researcher uncovers possible new works from Louisa May Alcott

 Two very different tiaras at a state banquet

26 Christmas recipes from the 1920s

First look at Agatha Christie's "Murder is Easy"

Weekend Links

 

Happy almost-autumn!  It's finally cooling down here after a scorching dry summer, and I'm so excited!  It was also Fiestas time here, and Kate got very into it.    Here are a few fun reads to take us through the weekend...

What Oppenheimer's Los Alamos looked liked

Bridgerton Funko Pops!

New Agatha Christie statue unveiled in Torquay!

Royal Jewelry Collection Up For Auction

Authors who work as booksellers

European Cities That Appear Most in Literature

One Year On: Queen Elizabeth II's most elegant ensembles

The Age of Innocence (one of my favorite movies)

Virginia Woolfe and the Philosophy of Fashion

Favorite Lunch Salad Recipes