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Hang out with Jane Green & Emily Giffin

Hang out with Jane Green & Emily Giffin

I received a notification from Goodreads that two of my favorites – Jane Green and Emily Giffin – will kick off Redbook‘s Summer Beach Reads Club with a Google+ Hangout today! Tune in at 3 p.m. EST. (I’ve already added it to my calendar!)

Post questions via Twitter using #RBKbeachreads or leave a question on each author’s Facebook page.

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Reading Magnus Flyte

City of Dark Magic and City of Lost Dreams by Magnus Flyte

ICity of Dark Magic think it was this time last year that I randomly picked up City of Dark Magic off a table at B&N. The themes of mystery and history intrigued me, and with the novel set in Prague I knew it belonged on my bookshelf. In the novel, musicologist Sarah travels to Prague to catalog Beethoven’s manuscripts for a new palace exhibition in Prague Castle. She isn’t in the city for long before strange (read: supernatural) things start to happen. The cast of characters blends perfectly with the complex setting of Europe’s most beautiful capital city. And did I mention there’s a Czech(-American) Prince Charming?

City of Lost DreamsFast-forward to sometime in November, when I learned of the sequel – City of Lost Dreams – thanks to one of the many publishing house newsletters I subscribe to. When the book arrived in the form of a Christmas present, I spent most of my holiday vacation days with eyes glued to the page. This time, Sarah is in Vienna searching for a cure to help her sickly friend, the child prodigy Pollina. From the Amazon synopsis:

In the city of Beethoven, Mozart, and Freud, Sarah becomes the target in a deadly web of intrigue that involves a scientist on the run, stolen art, seductive pastries, a few surprises from long-dead alchemists, a distractingly attractive horseman who’s more than a little bloodthirsty, and a trail of secrets and lies.

Not going to lie, reading these books may have influenced my summer travel plans.

Oh Look! An Update!

I am ashamed. I hadn’t realized how long it’s been since I posted. Has time really passed that quickly? I guess it has.

I keep a running list on my phone of books I’ve finished reading, with every intention of writing a review or just posting a quick update on my thoughts. Friends and coworkers come to me for recommendations regularly and I happily oblige. My library card sees just as much action as my credit card. And the pile of books on my nightstand? It’s a revolving door of new releases and library loaners.

So as I draft some new reviews and compilations of “What I’ve Been Reading,” I leave you with the Entertainment Weekly article that inspired my next read: The Fault in Our Stars.