Christmas eBooks: It’s no mystery what you should read next

Merry Christmas, Mystery Readers! If you got an eReader under the tree today, we’re here to recommend some excellent Little, Brown thrillers that will keep you clicking at a furious pace (because that’s how you turn pages now. Don’t worry, you’ll get used to it.) The Reversal by Michael Connelly “The Reversal, Connelly’s new novel, […]

Vacation Reading

I tried to be somewhat realistic in my goals for holiday reading this year.  No matter what, there will always be a large pile of books (or long list of e-books?) to be read come New Year’s Day, and that’s the way I like it.  But here’s what I’ve chosen to dig into over the […]

Vacation Reading

My vacation reading falls into four categories:               Beautiful collected works that I will dip in and out of and keep scattered around the house because they are so beautiful to look at, until I put them on my shelves to keep forever.  At the top of this list […]

Vacation, here I come!

I have about ten books I’m hoping to start or finish over the holidays. But since that’s unreasonable and blog readers don’t have that sort of attention span, here are the top five non-RAB books that I’m looking forward to reading: 1. Tana French’s IN THE WOODS. Our own beloved Emma Rathbone suggested this one […]

Vacation Reading

We’ll never make investment bankers jealous, but publishing has its share of perks: daily contact with great writers and colleagues, for starters (gosh, I get sentimental around this time of year!), fun lunches, good parties, and, of course, free books.  And one of our industry’s greatest gifts is the gift of shutting down completely between […]

What is totally fantastic, Alex?

With Gossip Girl under his belt, Joshua Ferris has developed a taste for TV. Friday’s Double Jeopardy $2000 answer: When he shows up in an Episode of Yo Gabba Gabba, we’ll know he’s gone too far.

All I Want For Christmas

1.  To continue the annual Christmas Eve tradition of “singing” and “dancing” with my dad to the 1963 version of Darlene Love’s “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).” “Singing” = I belt out the low notes and mouth the high notes (and yes, most of the song involves high notes, thanks for pointing that out).  “Dancing” […]

All I Want For Christmas

1.  To travel around the world in 108 days on the Queen Elizabeth with my sisters and my cousin on a “let’s skip out on life for a third of the year” type vacation.  We would require the $77,000 suite, obviously. 2.  To find the perfect brown flat boots that will come up to my […]

All I Want For Christmas

1.  Two days to do nothing but watch every movie on this list, except “The Social Network” which I’ve already seen.  And maybe “Toy Story 3.” 2.   A classic black blazer. I have a very stylish friend who consults on all fashion purchases over $100, and she has officially approved the enduring stylish-ness of […]

All I Want For Christmas

1.  An uninterrupted 2 hours in which to wrap gifts while watching “Love Actually.” I don’t want to hear a word against this movie, mostly because I can’t actually defend it, except to say that it fills me with holiday joy and if that airport scene at the end is blatantly manipulative, well, I’m not […]