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- Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music
somehow I still haven't read it--as well as A Long Way Down, Slam, How to Be Good, About a Boy, and the memoir
- My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads
by Lucinda Williams Lucinda Williams offers a gritty, honest, captivating, spare yet fully developed memoir Newman's lets the reader into Edi and Ash's rabbit warren of private jokes and moments and memories,
- My Twelve Favorite 2020 Books
Fiction Stories for Great Escapism Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You Six Illuminating Memoirs
- My Twelve Favorite 2020 Books
Fiction Stories for Great Escapism Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You Six Illuminating Memoirs
- Review of The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld
My own memories receded and the book memories became the real memories, far more than the outside, far
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/21/22 Edition
and I'm reading Tell Me an Ending, Jo Harkin's speculative fiction about the purposeful erasing of memories Harkin Jo Harkin's speculative fiction Tell Me an Ending is about a tech company that erases unwanted memories When people around the world are notified that they have requested and have had specific memories removed Meanwhile, a psychologist at a memory recovery clinic begins reinstating memories at individuals' requests
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/5/25 Edition
Me ; and I'm reading Olivia Waite's slim science fiction-mystery, the first in a series, Murder by Memory Part of Your World , Yours Truly , The Friend Zone , and The Happy-Ever-After Playlist . 03 Murder by Memory
- Review of The Last Hour Between Worlds (Echo Archives #1) by Melissa Caruso
and Kembral tentatively take steps toward a truce, and they're two of the only people retaining their memories world-building, in which things are similar to yet different from earlier versions, creatures lose their memories
- Review of King Nyx by Kirsten Bakis
The gothic story King Nyx offers haunting imagery, sinister mysteries, unreliable memories, resurfacing Meanwhile mysteries from Anna's experiences in the Fort household seem held together by crucial gaps in memory
- Six More Science Fiction Reads I Loved in the Past Year
clinic that erases and reinstates memories at clients' requests, the impact of painful experiences on The key memory and all connected elements are eliminated, presumably allowing these individuals to plow But some clients are beginning to have flashes of their erased memory, "traces" that disturb and confuse I was captivated by the various situations, secrets, how memory is connected to a sense of self, and the complicated web of memories, experience, personality, and hopes and dreams that make us who we are
- Review of Pines (Wayward Pines #1) by Blake Crouch
secret agent Ethan Burke wakes up in a strange place, by a river, horribly bruised and in pain--with no memory As his memory comes back to him in pieces, he recalls that his mission--before the devastating car crash
- Review of Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck
Lewis is expected to retain his intellect and personality, his memories and feelings--but he will do Lewis's transformation stirs up difficult memories and complex emotions surrounding Wren's mother's change
- Review of To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
With the passing of the years, however, those memories become distant and malleable, and we shape them
- Review of Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
And memory is not strictly mortal in its nature, either.
- Review of The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
I was able to do so courtesy of The Goldfinch Foundation , which was formed in honor and in memory of
- Review of Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
They love each other, but they are able to stay married only because they push down the memories of tragedies
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/17/23 Edition
After sixteen-year-old Bree's mother dies in an accident, she escapes the painful memories of her childhood attack of a mythical creature on a student--then must evade a fellow student's attempts to wipe her memory
- Review of Sandwich by Catherine Newman
She's built years of happy memories in their low-key beach house rental.
- Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore
Helena Smith is a neuroscientist creating technology to preserve memories and allow people to relive are not real, and that they’re actually mentally ill, suffering from False Memory Syndrome. When they encounter loved ones from their memories who are now living alternate lives, in many cases While Sutton begins digging into what’s real and what’s a lie, Smith works feverishly to preserve memories When he begins to have memory loss and other odd symptoms, he realizes it’s linked to his past time travel
- Review of Recursion by Blake Crouch
Helena Smith is a neuroscientist creating technology to preserve memories and allow people to relive People like the victim Sutton is investigating are told that their vivid recollections of their life’s memories are not real, and that they’re actually mentally ill, suffering from False Memory Syndrome. When they encounter loved ones from their memories who are now living alternate lives, in many cases While Sutton begins digging into what’s real and what’s a lie, Smith works feverishly to preserve memories
- Review of Show Don't Tell: Stories by Curtis Sittenfeld
determine what they're made of as they consider friendship, betrayal, fear of failure, the power of memory
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/8/21 Edition
cult; and So Long, See You Tomorrow, William Maxwell's story of mining youthful, sometimes difficult memories In doing so, he traces memories and tracks down details from his childhood, reliving moments and bringing The story promises to explore loss, the state of seeking, the power of youthful memory, and the irresistible
- Review of The Blighted Stars (Devoured Worlds #1) by Megan E. O'Keefe
Memories can be manipulated and erased, as characters' minds take the shape of a previous reboot and
- Review of Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle #1) by Tracy Deonn
After sixteen-year-old Bree's mother dies in an accident, she escapes the painful memories of her childhood attack of a mythical creature on a student--then must evade a fellow student's attempts to wipe her memory
- Review of Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
make self-destructive decisions but ultimately settle into more settled futures while holding their memories
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/3/25 Edition
was able to do so (online) courtesy of The Goldfinch Foundation , which was formed in honor and in memory
- Six Science Fiction Favorites to Dive Into
Helena Smith is a neuroscientist creating technology to preserve memories and allow people to relive People like the victim Sutton is investigating are told that their vivid recollections of their life’s memories are not real, and that they’re actually mentally ill, suffering from False Memory Syndrome. When they encounter loved ones from their memories who are now living alternate lives, in many cases While Sutton begins digging into what’s real and what’s a lie, Smith works feverishly to preserve memories
- Review of Time's Mouth by Edan Lepucki
When she flees to remote California, her ability to travel through memory to revisit the past secures
- Review of Land of Milk and Honey by C. Pam Zhang
like controlling the past--those who dole out the food reserves also control access to taste-inspired memories
- Review of Evil Eye by Etaf Rum
present-day scenes with Yara's journals (made up of often brutally painful, occasionally momentarily lovely memories
- Review of The Gods of Howl Mountain by Taylor Brown
Rory Docherty has returned to rural North Carolina with a wooden leg and haunting memories of his time
- Review of The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett
The pacing is slow, and the book is largely made up of various characters talking about conflicting memories
- Review of All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham
Isabelle can't stop searching for her son, but she begins to wonder if she's an unreliable source of memories
- Review of Last Summer at the Golden Hotel by Elyssa Friedland
The vivid midcentury memories are a highlight. behaviors are brought to light and shake the foundations of the families and of their treasured collective memories
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/20/21 Edition
unbroken bond; and I'm listening to The Best of Me, David Sedaris's most recent collection of oddball memories Whether Sedaris is reliving specific, frequently oddball memories and mining them for poignancy and also
- Review of Things in Jars by Jess Kidd
on a desperate search for a missing child in Victorian London--and must also confront her own dark memories a desperate search through London and the countryside beyond, as well as through Bridie’s own messy memories
- Review of The Dream Builders by Oindrila Mukherjee
She struggles to reconcile her past and her memories with the present, the shallow facades with the gritty
- Review of A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk and Robot #1) by Becky Chambers
Repeating history that had left living memory was an all-too-human tendency...
- Six Spooky, Gothic Tales
on a desperate search for a missing child in Victorian London--and must also confront her own dark memories a desperate search through London and the countryside beyond, as well as through Bridie’s own messy memories her parents' accounts hold merit, and begins to wonder with horror whether she can trust even her own memories
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/17/25 Edition
multiple characters to tell a story of caution, folly, and redemption: a Prairie Witch who holds others' memories
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/17/24 Edition
She's built years of happy memories in their low-key beach house rental.
- Review of The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
It asks us to consider who sets and shapes our shared national memory and what and who gets left out.
- Six Riveting Time-Travel Escapes
Helena Smith is a neuroscientist creating technology to preserve memories and allow people to relive People like the victim Sutton is investigating are told that their vivid recollections of their life’s memories are not real, and that they’re actually mentally ill, suffering from False Memory Syndrome. When they encounter loved ones from their memories who are now living alternate lives, in many cases While Sutton begins digging into what’s real and what’s a lie, Smith works feverishly to preserve memories
- Review of The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young
hallucinations and mental illness...until she realizes that the red door and visions of the past are real memories
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/11/23 Edition
When she flees to remote California, her ability to travel through memory to revisit the past secures
- Review of Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
His book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland was one of my Six of the
- Review of Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott
This, as always, is only one version of the memory. Funny, how truth changes in the telling.
- Review of We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman
Newman's lets the reader into Edi and Ash's rabbit warren of private jokes and moments and memories,
- Review of A Play for the End of the World by Jai Chakrabarti
Chakrabarti offers characters with complex struggles, hopes, and haunting memories who work to form deep
- Review of Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley
Cult Classic is a sometimes darkly funny, suspenseful story of love, memory, and mind control with a