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Review of Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez

Jimenez's rom-com frequently had me laughing, made me tear up a little, and kept me hooked on the fake-dating, will-they-won't-they...

Jun 1

Review of The Celebrants by Steven Rowley

Rowley brings humor to this heartwarming--but never cloying--exploration of friendship, connection, messy relationships, heartbreak, and...

May 30

Review of Silver in the Bone (Silver in the Bone #1) by Alexandra Bracken

Alternative Arthurian legends twist through this first in a young adult fantasy series, but what hooked me was the fearless, hardened,...

May 25

Review of The Light of the World: A Memoir by Elizabeth Alexander

ICYMI: Poet Elizabeth Alexander writes a gorgeous account of her love affair with her husband and the trauma of his sudden death in a...

May 24

Review of Dimestore: A Writer's Life by Lee Smith

ICYMI: Smith evokes a vivid sense of the regional South in her fiction, and in this memoir she traces her Appalachian youth, offering...

May 18

Review of Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune

Summertime is the backdrop to Fortune's Meet Me at the Lake, light fiction with an anchor in deeper issues, some steamy scenes,...

May 2

Review of The Trackers by Charles Frazier

Frazier offers an immersive story that morphs from a WPA-funded rural art commission to a leisurely country-wide search, an unlikely...

Apr 27

Review of Go As a River by Shelley Read

Read's debut novel is gorgeously written, with vivid details of mid-century Colorado, moments that change everything, impossible...

Apr 25

Review of Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen by Mary Sharratt

Sharratt's carefully researched, richly detailed historical fiction is based on the life of the medieval mystic who long served as an...

Apr 18

Review of Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases by Paul Holes and Robin Gaby Fisher

Holes's account of the dogged determination and attention to detail--as well as the cost to his personal life--involved in discovering...

Mar 28

Review of American Mermaid by Julia Langbein

This story within a story is playful and satirical while providing deep issues to contemplate. It's different and captivating and silly...

Mar 24

Six More Four-Star (and Up) Historical Fiction Reads I Loved in the Past Year

Six More Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Historical Fiction Reads Historical fiction is one of my very favorite genres, and I loved my...

Mar 22

Review of Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

Ann Napolitano's Hello Beautiful explores family bonds, broken connections, forging through pain, allowing for unconventional routes to...

Mar 16

Review of The Golden Enclaves (Scholomance #3) by Naomi Novik

The more somber tone of book three and the focus on logistics feel appropriate as the recent graduates of the Scholomance desperately...

Mar 15

Review of Weyward by Emilia Hart

Emilia Hart's debut novel links women in three timelines through blood and a powerful connection to the natural world as they resist male...

Mar 10

Six More of My Favorite Fiction Reads from the Past Year

Six More Favorite Fiction Reads I listed Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads from Last Year in this Greedy Reading List. In today's post I...

Mar 9

Review of August Kitko and the Mechas from Space (The Starmetal Symphony #1) by Alex White

White's first Starmetal Symphony installment offers deadly deep-space robots, showcases the power of music, and illustrates how love can...

Mar 8

Review of The Night Ship by Jess Kidd

Kidd's dual-timeline historical fiction, based on actual events, shines in its vivid settings, richly imagined characters, sea voyage...

Mar 7

Review of Uprooted by Naomi Novik

ICYMI: Uprooted is a thoughtful, satisfying, grown-up fairy tale with gloriously imagined details. I ate it up and gave it four Bossy...

Mar 1

Review of I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai

Makkai's boarding school-set mystery offers depth as it exposes age-old power mismatches; offers young characters agency; explores...

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