Lark Writes...on books and life

The plot:  Running from her not-so-great life in London, Jess heads to Paris to crash with her half-brother, Ben, for awhile. He's not h...

  Published in 1883, Au Bonheur des Dames (The Ladies' Delight) by Emile Zola centers around Octave Mouret's dazzling new department...

Title & Author:  Who Speaks for the Damned by C.S. Harris Why I bought it:  Actually, I didn't. I won this copy from Goodreads. ...

"Because it's complicated explaining why you love a book. And I can't always do it. There are books that when I've read th...

"He felt hot with the pressure to get started, and to make it the greatest figure painting of the whole Impressionist movement. ... Fi...

I bought Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand by Fred Vargas for two reasons:  I really like her Commissaire Adamsberg mysteries, and my lib...

Esther's hand raced over the paper as if the colored pencils might be snatched from her, the quivering inside her wild, foreign, thrill...

The Entree: "Swapping propriety for adventure, Herringford and Watts are more preoccupied in their current investigations than in...

Five reasons to read this book:       1 .  It's set in Paris. Think Montmartre. Pere Lachaise. The Jardin du Luxembourge. All during ...

"Can you experience nostalgia for something that hasn't happened? We talk of 'regrets' about the course of our lives, when...