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depression; and The Space Between Worlds, Micaiah Johnson's science-fiction story about multiverse travel and fears. 02 Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig The author of The Midnight Library and How to Stop Time I'm listening to Haig read this audiobook. 03 The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson Cara can travel

beautifully about moments large and small, from the weightiness of saying goodbye to loved ones for the last time She reflects on various travels and other measures meant to distract and inspire or comfort—and the disrupted

Isabella Bird's nonfiction account of her 1873 travels through the rugged, wondrous American West is characters she encounters in the west combined with her mix of no-nonsense practicality and ambitious traveling

whose biggest hope for the pending end of the world was to play at the most epic goodbye party of all time Chambers's science fiction is full of heart, heartbreak, and hope--with a fascinating backdrop of space travel The book feels much more focused on the characters--with a backdrop of space travel and otherworldly The Sparrow took a little time to get going for me, but then I was blown away.

I did a lot of traveling and some great reading last month, but I didn't do a lot of reviewing. years away, because Rocky's menopausal rage threatens to undo any joy she might gain from spending time To save their treasured family time together, Rocky may have to share secrets she never intended to reveal Yet the cast of characters is colorful, and I enjoyed the time I spent with them.

in the wilderness and rugged terrain of British Columbia, along a highway where unsuspecting women traveling alone go missing from time to time--yet a predator never ends up being brought to justice. She can't return to her aunt's, and for a time the book is satisfyingly focused on her survival skills

annoyance at the bards' reported tales of Odysseus as he extends his outrageously complicated and indulgent travels vulnerable in order to try to save each other, and they carve out meager existences as they bide their time

middle-aged, shy piano tuner Edgar Drake is asked to do something unusual for the British War Office: travel

The banter is fantastic, and I laughed many times while reading this one. But her life in Texas is complicated: her father requires a full-time caregiver, and Emma is it. Which means traveling together to a tropical island for his sister's wedding, pretending to be soulmates country who is advancing medical techniques and is sought out for her helpful salves and methods in a time

Kennedy draws the reader into the specific place and time of the story, vividly building the constant heart of the book and is the center of the wheel of characters rotating around her, yet little page time The book really took off and intrigued me once Cyrus traveled to New York to visit an artist whose final

presents Charlotte Holmes, a clever, forward-thinking, independent woman trapped in the Victorian age, a time mother's death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book faces the sale of the family home in New England and travels For my full review, please check out The Hero of This Book. 06 Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin As he did in a different way in his novel Nothing to See Here, in Now Is Not the Time to Panic, Wilson For my full review, check out Now Is Not the Time to Panic.

in late fall 2022 but wasn't on my radar last year, and I couldn't resist including it for the first time The Lost Kitchen was named one of TIME Magazine's World's Greatest Places and one of "12 Restaurants Worth Traveling Across the World to Experience" by Bloomberg.

But when the relationship falters, she flees into a marriage with a sickly traveling minister and escapes The author's tone and voice is like poetry at times, raw and spare and true. 03 In the Country We Love

I still think about Disappearing Earth from time to time, long after reading it. Hurley's images is incredible; the glass plate negatives lasted through months on ice floes, a week's travel

given basic animal care instructions and "take" their unconventional cat prescriptions for a period of time tells the tales of various characters, lost or in pain, who find themselves transformed by spending time softened, perspectives are broadened, families are drawn together, and new possibilities are inspired by time The clinic is not always accessible--at times, the roads and alleys around the convoluted address do

in the wilderness and rugged terrain of British Columbia, along a highway where unsuspecting women traveling alone go missing from time to time--yet a predator never seems to be brought to justice.

with progressive ideas, and I adore how matter-of-factly and innocently she presents her wild-for-the-times Veronica finds herself entangled in a dangerous set of circumstances, complete with intrigue, a traveling

Which means traveling together to a tropical island for his sister's wedding, pretending to be soulmates

The only thing more outrageous is that she's asked to travel to Japan to meet her father and the rest of her royal family for the first time.

The end of April seemed like a great time to take stock in a Greedy Reading List of my favorites so far science fiction is full of heart, heartbreak, and hope--set against a fascinating backdrop of space travel The book feels much more focused on the characters--with a backdrop of space travel and otherworldly The present-day story alternates with peeks back in time to life before this space mission, which show I laughed out loud multiple times; Kal is funny without trying too hard, and his tone is accessible even

I may not have followed all of the echoes in time, creatures convincingly impersonating other creatures , she realizes that someone is plunging the party down through layers of reality, through echoes of time The last time Kembral and Rika came into contact, Kembral thought they might be building something real More about Melissa Caruso books--and more favorite Bossy reads that play with time: This is the first For Bossy reviews of many other books that play with time--this is one of my favorite elements--you can

I post a monthly wrap-up of my favorite reads, and now that 2021 is almost over, it's time to share the Zauner delves into her intense love for the complex flavors, the frequently time-consuming and sometimes She can travel through the multiverse, but only to worlds where another version of herself no longer The story is steamy and romantic at times without being dramatic. man working in a warehouse in the seaside town where she's staying temporarily, she invites Felix to travel

Let the playing with points of view and the time-turning begin! This book had many moving parts, evolving points of view and senses of self, shifts between days and times with progressive ideas, and I adore how matter-of-factly and innocently she presents her wild-for-the-times Veronica finds herself entangled in a dangerous set of circumstances, complete with intrigue, a traveling The Clockmaker's Daughter took a little page time to start moving along for me, but I loved Kate Morton

When her brother John is murdered in a Viking attack, Joan takes up his cloak and his identity, traveling

The only thing more outrageous is that she's asked to travel to Japan to meet her father for the first time. After all, last time around, all kinds of horrible things happened as she dug into (and solved, thank

Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs Keena Roberts grew up splitting her time a sensitive young girl whose unusual life was shaped by her parents' primatology careers and family travel home management book (which I loved with a few reservations in my early married days; my love of and time

closed-door tale of a Russian aristocrat under house arrest in a grand Moscow hotel manages to be at times The time structure of the story is interesting; Towles moves the reader in time from the starting day four days later in a doubling pattern that ends sixteen years later, then presents events in halved time

But the story and pacing became bogged down by others' motivations, and I was left wanting more page time Much of the page time is spent on what were for me like plodding explorations of others' motivations This slowed the pacing down and I had a tough time staying engaged. But I was left yearning for more tension, tighter pacing, and additional time with Sadie at the center

nature to many of my gift recipients, and these types of books can often be read a little bit at a time and The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks , traveled

Take the time to stop and imagine or feel fully the things you already know. But time, curiosity, emotional pain, and a desire to escape from it all added to his tendency to consider behind the artwork, his own feelings about the works, and others' reactions, which he witnessed in real time Bringley and his wife have two young children by the time he ends his stint at the Met and shifts into a different job, as a tour guide of the city, and the decade spent in full-time work standing and observing

story in two timelines introduces the little-known real-life figure of librarian Jessie Carson, who traveled

in her fiction, and in this memoir she traces her Appalachian youth, offering striking depth and, at times Virginia, where the background of her life was filled with tent revivals, mountain music, and her daddy's dime memoir about growing up in Appalachia and an account the incredible changes in rural Virginia from the time

Wingwalkers (to be published tomorrow), a former World War II ace pilot and his daring wingwalking wife travel Depression-era America, wowing audiences and inspiring hope in a dark, sober time.

William has always leaned on Lucy for support, despite the fact that he has been married two other times Now William has uncovered a family secret that shakes him, and he asks Lucy to travel with him to investigate

It was the right book at the right time for me: entertainment in the perfect combination of action and remain fully invested in this premise of aging elite assassins who feel deep affection for and, at times And you know that every time you do, you've left another piece of you behind. But I'm one of those who are eager for more time with these clever, sometimes grumpy, often spontaneous

Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide by Cecily Wong “Eating may be the most immersive, visceral travel because of the various timelines and characters, but as he began to deeply interweave the stories across time co-owner of Nashville's Parnassus Books. 06 A Course Called America by Tom Coyne Coyne spent a year traveling

annoyance at the bards' reported tales of Odysseus as he extends his outrageously complicated and indulgent travels author of The House in the Cerulean Sea, and here, TJ Klune offers another heartwarming story, this time Before crossing over from the living forever, Wallace gets a week to finish out his life and tie up loose

turns 50; I'm reading Niall Williams's literary fiction set in a small Irish village in the 1960s, Time Lorne , which is scheduled for publication February 18, courtesy of Random House and NetGalley. 02 Time Time of the Child is set in the same village as Williams's novel This Is Happiness . So far there's lots of action, some humor, healthy amounts of dragon page time, and far less angst and

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Hanna Pylväinen's The End of Drum-Time, about a community in the 01 The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen In Hanna Pylväinen's The End of Drum-Time, it's 1851 in the I'm reading The End of Drum-Time as my March book club book. Joanna Quinn's debut is a doorstop of a book at 558 pages, and the story sweeps through time from the

world and called it the Kingdom of Back, entertaining themselves during weeks and months of carriage travel likely future levels—which she also deserved but which were seemingly impossible for a woman at the time

Chambers's science fiction is full of heart, heartbreak, and hope--with a fascinating backdrop of space travel The book feels much more focused on the characters--with a backdrop of space travel and otherworldly beautifully about moments large and small, from the weightiness of saying goodbye to loved ones for the last time Sometimes Dolly lets them fall, but other times her songs about freedom (with her metaphors of butterflies

I wished for more page time spent on everyday tasks and activities (cooking, shifting household modules , travel, and communicating), which were all carried out in Jetsons-level, fascinating, futuristic ways

Russell also interestingly explores Holliday's career as a dentist (at a time when the dental profession was tainted by traveling butchers and thieves), and his gallant, grumpy, well-read, mischievous, and but here it gives a fittingly old-fashioned quality to the writing that feels as though it suits the time own; faces the wild and its many dangers; suffers grave wounds; and saves each other's skin countless times Captain Kidd has fought in three wars, and after the Civil War's end, he serves as a traveling news reader

Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Dream Count , Chiamaka, a Nigerian travel

For me, the book really took off and intrigued me once Cyrus traveled to New York to visit an artist

behind his decision and explores the importance to him of taking an active role in determining the time fiction novel Wingwalkers, Zeno, a former World War I ace pilot, and Della, his daring wingwalking wife, travel Depression-era America, wowing audiences and inspiring hope in a dark, sober time. heartbreaking, heartwarming echoes and swirls of themes and details that repeat and connect through time

Do you have all-time favorite reads that you often recommend to others? The Sparrow took a little time to get going for me, but then I was blown away. Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery Wrong Place Wrong Time  plays with time, and I love books that play with time. Please click here for my full review of Wrong Place, Wrong Time . 06 You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis

Lucy feels disruptively restless at times, but really, she figures, who doesn't? She travels the country tracking lost women, moving into communities with little more than a change of

We track back in time to her youth as pieces of the mystery are revealed. Pony's adventurous zigzagging around the country, which makes up the bulk of the book, tired me out. There are funny moments, and this is a cute--at times a little too cute for my taste--tale that always

Archie begins wondering about unexplained aspects of his own family history, and when he and his aunts travel