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Danger and darkness lurk around every corner. spent showing the tasks of daily life (and almost-claustrophobic interconnectedness) within a tiny, very

Rumors, long-simmering conflicts, clashing loyalties, and Barnes's personal tragedy all complicate the The very end of the story brought to light a sudden burst of twisty complications and cemented the course of events, but these goings-on occurred off the page and were summarized for the reader.

The black twin returns to the girls' hometown and shakes things up by bringing her very dark-skinned This book is also part of the Greedy Reading List My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads.

Clearly everything is about to be upended so that Cassie is forced to alter her plans and careful schedule

an oddball fantasy element in which the life-and-death conflict is not religion, but the rights and very The tensions of the real-life situation are creatively altered, the facts are toyed with extensively,

what loyalty means, and to face how dark the path ahead might become when the bad guys are truly evil, very This book made my Greedy Reading List of My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads.

skilled surfer Nina Riva--the daughter of legendary crooner Mick Riva--is about to throw her end-of-summer

This is a lovely light summer read I recently mentioned in my Greedy Reading List Three Wackily Different

Jacob de Zoet make appearances, and the links to other books felt cozy, like I was coming home to more very This book made the Greedy Reading List for My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads.

Waitress out of town with her best friend, so: worth it) and gets grounded, she suddenly has to spend afternoons

She realizes that altering his life path and writing is a very real danger, yet she continues to insert Another book with a character based upon Nathaniel Hawthorne--although the author treats him very differently

With or Without You by Caroline Leavitt In Leavitt's novel, published by Algonquin Books late last summer that his struggling music career would someday take off, but it didn't look as though his dreams would ever

01 Surrender Your Sons This summer stinks. #LGBTQ, #youngadult, #mysterysuspense 02 A Very Punchable Face ​ Has Colin Jost lived long enough to He started A Very Punchable Face with a story that is really his mother's (to be fair, it's interesting (For my full review, see A Very Punchable Face.)

Here's the premise of Hannah Orenstein's latest book: nineteen-year-old Avery Abrams was set to be the When she hits a version of rock bottom and moves home, Avery's former teammate and crush Ryan (who did become an Olympic champion) talks her into helping him coach Hallie, a young phenom at the gym where Avery Avery has to figure out quickly if she can come to terms with her potential new role in the gymnastics breaks and multiple revelations of abuse within the gymnastics community are made public, what can Avery

I read their book Love and Other Words after Autoboyography ratcheted my expectations into outer space

Avery, the oldest, ten years sober, is a married lawyer (her wife is her former therapist, eek) making

01 Dear Emmie Blue This is a lovely light summer read so far. heartwarming 02 Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel ​ Boy oh boy, this fifth book in the series is so very

power of allegations, the guilty-until-proven-innocent nature of accusations, the impossibility of ever amazing future as a musician and his college scholarship, and he's soaking up the last few months of summer

My very favorite Bossy January reads! A servant girl is fleeing her early colonial household in the brutal aftermath of plague and starvation

A servant girl is fleeing her early colonial household in the brutal aftermath of plague and starvation

But when she borrows her mom's car without permission and gets grounded, she suddenly has to spend afternoons

Nothing is too easy here, nor is it ever melodramatic in Napolitano’a hands. Edward tries on the mantle of taking responsibility for every life lost; he wallows in the despair of

Head Over Heels Just listen to this premise from Hannah Orenstein's latest book: nineteen-year-old Avery When she hits a version of rock bottom and moves home, Avery's former teammate and crush Ryan (who did become an Olympic champion) talks her into helping him coach a young phenom at the gym where Avery spent

Billy's witnessing of the mysterious crash aftermath seems bound to bring him trouble.

The agency doesn't take the case, but when Edie turns up dead soon afterward, Cormoran and Robin can't His main interest, Robin, is strong and savvy, yet even she is coping with trauma and the aftermath of

(And check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for my overall favorite reads from last year.) their mysterious artistic creation, and the work's ripple effect, which reaches well beyond what they ever Sixteen-year-old aspiring writer Frankie is just trying to get through a late 1990s summer in Coalfield

deserted island, Circe perfects her witchy powers, tames beasts, considers the world and her place in it, simmers

I very much enjoyed the French Resistance storyline, with its details of safe houses, document drops, For example, the reader may very early on see the truth behind what ends up being a shocking surprise Some of the story is summarized rather than shown, and I felt that I could see evidence of Martin's historical

this life-and-death crisis and with immediate serial killer danger lurking getting drinks in the early afternoon also offers a few links to his Silent Patient characters, including an oddly specific reference at the very

Lists include cases summarized in the vein of "It was the one where [insert specific circumstances of

Toni grows up feeling like a painful afterthought to her mother's desperate efforts to advance her own

Reading about lying and stealing makes me very stressed out, so I was biting my nails while reading Korelitz's When the student abruptly dies soon afterward without publishing his book, Bonner banks on the probability

When the student abruptly dies soon afterward, Bonner banks on the probability that he hadn't trusted

and the mismatch of their personalities and lifestyles) from the vantage point of this moment decades afterward

Charlotte to discover various illuminating aspects to Lord Ingram's past and his marriage, and her simmering

In timelines alternating between the expedition and the events of a year and a half afterward, Macallister

My very favorite books from June! I loved this one for a summer read! this series, Fable, click here. 02 A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green This was one of my very The ending to Green's duology has tremendous heart without ever flirting with sappiness, deep meaning

her pockets to sell for cash or just because she can, none of her privileged clients are likely to ever is desperate to leave her dark past behind her has wormed her way into the idyllic community in the aftermath

Five loosely linked Bayview High students walk into detention on Monday afternoon, all busted for having

McManus Five loosely linked Bayview High students walk into detention on Monday afternoon, all busted

Warren digs deeply into the realities of doubting his faith, God, his life’s work, and his vision of an afterlife Warren digs deeply into the realities of doubting his faith, God, his life’s work, and his vision of an afterlife provide honest reflections about their work's meaning in their lives, although the tones of the books are very

This one is difficult to summarize so far, but in this science fiction novel, Mandel plays with time

His terrible crimes aren't explored at length or explained away, but sit simmering underneath her anxiety-filled

Rumors, long-simmering conflicts, clashing loyalties, and Barnes's personal tragedy all complicate the

You can also check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads for my overall favorite reads from last year Charlotte to discover various illuminating aspects to Lord Ingram's past and his marriage, and her simmering affords her a certain power, and she is also the Alpha female of her husband's pack, which affords her a very

There is a lot more sexy yoga here than I could have dreamed of, plenty of romance, so very much wine deserted island, Circe perfects her witchy powers, tames beasts, considers the world and her place in it, simmers

Some of my very favorite reads of the year...so far! I wasn't ever sure who was responsible for the multiple tragedies at the heart of the story, and the Zamora takes us through what often feels like his literal step-by-step journey, without summarizing or Ever since Pip's book two detective work ended in an important resolution, she's been coping with the

My very favorite Bossy February reads! I'm coming in early with my six favorite (and varied!) Zamora takes us through what often feels like his literal step-by-step journey, without summarizing or affords her a certain power, and she is also the Alpha female of her husband's pack, which affords her a very

There is a lot more sexy yoga here than I could have dreamed of, plenty of romance, so very much wine deserted island, Circe perfects her witchy powers, tames beasts, considers the world and her place in it, simmers

Long after finishing this book I thought back to Heller's protagonist and various vivid settings. fully connect with some of the extended discussion of the processes of creating paintings, but long after