Category: The Harvey Girl

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from the New York Times (gift link): For example: and: and Read all the recs here. Worth it. Oh, and you wanted to know what I learned this year? Okay: That most of the men of the Old West were drunk most of the time, which explains all the gunfights. There was more truth in…

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It never fails.

I mean it never, ever fails. As soon as I finish whatever historical novel I’m working on, the moment it leaves my hands for the last time, I find that one more resource I absolutely, positively should have read before I wrote the book. And behold! Harvey Houses of New Mexico: Historic Hospitality from Raton…

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Ideas for Christmas gifts

Of course I’m going to start with books. Have you met me? These were two of my favorite novels this year, so much so that I picked both of them for my book club in September. In part I loved them because they feature characters my age or near enough but especially because every one…

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