What Janine is Reading 11/1/11-11/15/11

I read a bit more than I usually do in the first half of November. Here is my latest reading list:

Tis the Season to be Sinful by Adrienne Basso

This book arrived in a package from Jane. I had heard good things about Basso's writing so I opened it with high hopes, but after a few chapters, I realized it wasn't for me. The 1858-set story of an American businessman trying to buy an impressive country estate in order to hobnob with aristocrats and a widow who owns such an estate but does not...