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My very favorite books from March! Every heart-stopping moment; every exquisite detail; the characters' growth, emotional distance, and various early road bumps he encountered, and his dogged determination--which was admittedly shaken after landing very few and consistently stereotypical roles. Reporter Sunny's connection to the two performers and their past was intriguing, and I very much enjoyed

You might want to check out all the titles on My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for my very favorite job, offering incredibly lucrative terms and making demands about having the biography released only after After twists and turns, momentous changes, and several years, Elizabeth is a single mother who becomes After Hitler's invasion of Russia and the Ukraine, Mila, along with so many others, enlists to fight Surmounting challenge after challenge, Mila ultimately becomes a sniper trainer and a lethal hunter of

fascinating novel Disappearing Earth  in the Greedy Reading List Six Chilly Books to Read in the Heat of Summer I received a prepublication edition of this title, which was published earlier this summer, courtesy

But after his younger sister Lizzie evades her grandmother's attempts to send her from England to the When Lizzie finds a secret notebook of her mother's, she becomes more determined than ever to solve the

combat, wisdom, and other elements of Viking legends to anyone she encounters; and she models her life after The characters, the story arc that isn’t too easy but leaves you in a promising place after all, and in a hidden-away bookstore--and he's the first person in almost three hundred years to remember her after she walks out the door, the next day, and every day afterward. This title was also listed in My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads.

disappears to locate their children, and meanwhile Frida gives birth to an unusual child, Wanda, named after potential destruction possible, but Frida couldn't have imagined the unraveling of society that takes place after Whoever he is, the man seems very clearly to know Isla well--and he says he's messaging her from the

but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every She considers every desperate plan she can to try to save Kasia from this horrible fate, knowing all

Yara is put on probation at the college where she is an assistant art history teacher after calling out

As the young men in The Lincoln Highway face challenge after challenge, they grow, learn, and fight for Things continue to go awry for Emmett and Billy as they meet hiccup after hiccup in their plan, and they

01 The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken After her larger-than-life mother's death, the narrator able to answer this enormous question, but the robot wonders if the matter is really so complicated after

I mentioned The Child Finder in the Greedy Reading List Six Chilly Books to Read in the Heat of Summer

set in the early 20th century, as Violet, a young ship's stewardess bent on providing for her family after

player and his quirky, irresistible female agent is a sweet second-chance romance perfect for light summer I've been reading more rom-coms lately--which always seems like a good idea during the summer--and my

In Lauren Goff's The Vaster Wilds, a servant girl has fled her colonial household in the brutal aftermath Or is someone really after her? But the side hustle is more complicated than Millie ever imagined--and the students under her watch in

​ Julia Phillips's interconnected stories follow in chapters that take place each month for a year after second in this Lucas Page series, Under Pressure--and I didn't even realize this was a series until after

ICYMI: When tough, stubborn Alex Stern is offered a new start after surviving a mysterious multiple homicide

conflicts to consider at the story's close: duty, corrupt power, the suffering of the common people, regret after Maisie Dobbs is a formidable, dogged, whip-smart investigator working to ferret out the truth in the aftermath to care deeply about them, their roles in the wartime efforts, and their potential for various happy-ever-afters is one of several civil servants offered a mysterious job: she'll be a handler for expats--and paid very

moment of simple winter joy leads to renewed hope that they may be able to share their love with a child after I really liked this story and I still think about this book, years after reading it. This is magical realism, folklore, and historical fiction wrapped up in one very interesting read. 05 but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every She considers every desperate plan she can to try to save Kasia from this horrible fate, knowing all

They were all in the closet, with the minuscule footed pajamas and hand-knit baby hats, and every day Klay's National Book Award winner Redeployment, the author shares short stories about war and life afterward powerful emotions, troops haunted by decisions and unforeseen dangers, painful adjustments to life after

clearly has dangerous knowledge of Nightlight and the troublesome goings-on that occurred in his life after irrational setting: Why would the kids be made to shower with carefully hoarded rainwater and immediately afterward And the repeated use of I instead of me is a copyediting-level issue, but it stopped me every time I Could he realistically have the emotional ability that we're told he possesses immediately after his

rooms of the Roosevelt White House (which, Bloom recounts in interviews, functioned more like a not-very-fancy never even wielded a scalpel He'll learn more from Sister Margarite--who he's falling for--than he ever hasn't killed anyone, he hasn't been arrested, and in fact, none of last night's events have happened after After I finished reading, I kept thinking about the characters and their realizations, compromises, and

Ko is an Indigenous man who is taken advantage of time after time.

hasn't told anyone that her ADHD impulsiveness led her to pack up and leave her barrel-racing career after Emmy's reinvigorated, independent new outlook--and I acknowledge that a rugged ranch setting might very minor point, but it felt both condescending and potentially (creepily) fatherly to me within their very

about overcoming thwarted emotional connection and forging new ways of coming together through and after

After Hitler's invasion of Russia and the Ukraine, Mila, along with so many others, enlists to fight Surmounting challenge after challenge, Mila ultimately becomes a sniper trainer and a lethal hunter of Her estranged husband is improbably ever-present, and he felt too easy to detest, but he serves his purpose

a hole if you lose them- the same way a painting or a photograph will leave its shadows on the wall after Through the very different but interconnected storylines and the varied, complicated set of characters

Because I love the series so very much, I have separate posts for Martha Wells's Murderbot series, set After all, the Vanguards, giant, deadly AI robots, are headed from deep space to destroy Earth at any I love that the crew of the Wayfarer feels like a close-knit group of summer camp counselors somehow,

to herself--she's kind of cynical, she doesn't have a lot of friends, and she's holding true to form after hasn't killed anyone, he hasn't been arrested, and in fact, none of last night's events have happened after

Three decades after her Highfield days, Lou receives a surprising phone call.

boys for over a century, shares a tale of racial injustice, abuse and horrors, terrible fear, and the very we are somebody, that we are significant, that we are worthful, and we must walk the streets of life every

Atkinson is also the author of Case Histories, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Life After Life, Human

Susan Conley's novel Landslide offers a portrait of a family in a remote fishing village in Maine after While facing what feels like disaster after disaster, Jill struggles to give her boys what they need-

I didn't connect the first book's beloved characters to these characters until very late in the book. author of a rom-com I adored, Better Than the Movies , the cute Betting on You  and also Happily Never After

Fight for Justice, and in Red Notice, Browder traces his path from Wall Street to the Soviet Union after Crying in H Mart is beautiful, painful, and evocative. 06 Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean Emiko Jean's The irresistible premise of Tokyo Ever After: a heretofore-unknown princess finds herself and searches Emiko Jean's young adult light fiction Tokyo Ever After is the story of Izumi (Izzy) Tanaka, an everyday Tokyo Ever After is about identity, expectations, truth, challenges, betrayal, loyalty, and self-discovery

Barnes's eerie science fiction novel Ghost Station; and I'm listening to Emily Henry's newest delightful But could their shared pain lead to a friendship after all?

Immaculate Conception explores art and inspiration; how trauma shapes us; the fraught prospect of altering But the company's business is in cutting-edge technology tied to brain-altering treatments related to

have felt over the top, but as usual, I was putty in Taylor Jenkins Reid's hands, ready to embrace every

a fantasy story, Long Live Evil ; I'm reading Liz Moore's newest mystery, set in a 1975 Adirondack summer . 02 The God of the Woods by Liz Moore In August 1975, a teenage girl disappears from her Adironack summer

infuriating, as they not only do terrible things but consistently twist the knife by bragging or threatening after

repercussions of doing so; The Guide, a new book by one of my favorite authors, Peter Heller, which picks up after the events of his book The River as main character Jack serves as a fishing guide at an elite but eerie One Man's Fight for Justice, and in it, Browder traces his path from Wall Street to the Soviet Union after After Browder escaped Russia, he became determined to bring to justice those in the Putin regime who After suffering a great loss in The River, he's eager to lose himself in nature and meet the needs of

Danger and darkness lurk around every corner for grumpy, powerful El and her classmates. Golden Enclaves, the third installment of the series, the unlikely allied force of students faces the aftermath

To the Bright Edge of the World in the Greedy Reading List Six Chilly Books to Read in the Heat of Summer

But when unexpected events lead her to leave the only home she's ever known in order to save her genetic her brother's subversive genius of a friend, and a lonely alien force Kyr to reexamine all that she's ever Eye by Etaf Rum Yara is put on probation at the college where she is an assistant art history teacher after

I devoured this in a rainy afternoon. He's already seen how convincing her writing can be, after all--she's got everyone fooled. premise in which a famous person dates a not-famous person: Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan and Very

aimed to help her sleep during this difficult time induces an incredible side effect: when she sleeps after

And while an attempt to understand the underpinnings of these conflicts feels more timely than ever, After all, who can identify reason anymore?

Maneka Roy has temporarily returned to India after six years teaching creative writing in the American

The pacing of the the first 100 pages felt slow, but after that I was totally hooked on this very compelling

After long months of mystery and suffering and tests that went nowhere, she finally received a diagnosis difficulties due to cancer, treatment, and side effects, a bone marrow transplant, and dedicated caregiving after

Then Monica's mother became inspired after the tragic death of John F. and community in a crisis and in common suffering, and figuring out the impossible: how to move on after I'm also going to admit here that in the notes I made with my five-star rating just after reading this