For some reason, I’m attached to Smoke and Mirrors. It’s not one of Barbara Michaels’s most elaborately plotted books, and there don’t turn out to be any ghosts, which is one of the things I tend to like about her books. I think I like it because it’s all set in a political campaign, and I think that that is interesting. Every time I read this book, I’m all I should work on a political campaign! before I remember that the two politicians I really like, my mayor and the President, have already been elected.
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Two books by Elizabeth Peters
Published 23 Jun 2009
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Gin Jenny
Elizabeth Peters – under this pseudonym as well as her other one, Barbara Michaels – is one of my most favorite authors of all the authors. I like her because she writes the kind of book I like, but she does it (usually) tongue-in-cheek, and furthermore she has read all the same books I have read. Not just, like, Little Women, which everyone has read, but you know, Rafael Sabatini and The Sheik and trashy things like that. I appreciate this from Elizabeth Peters. The Love Talker and Devil-May-Care, both of which I read in the last few days, are…
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