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  • 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 Here, Fortune doesn't allow for a quick or simple resolution, but the initial acknowledgment of the issue Within this summertime setting Fortune explores heavy issues related to mental illness, sudden death, Bridel & Carley Fortune. Carley Fortune is also the author of Every Summer After, a book I really liked.

  • Review of Every Summer After by Carley Fortune

    Carley Fortune offers a satisfying story of coming home, young love, mistakes and redemption, romance In Carley Fortune's debut Every Summer After, Persephone Fraser knows all too well the saying "you can't Every Summer After is Carley Fortune's debut novel.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/15/23 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Carley Fortune's newest light fiction about a missed opportunity 01 Meet Me At the Lake by Carley Fortune Thirty-two-year-old Fern Brookbanks has pinned most of her romantic Bridel & Carley Fortune.

  • Review of Definitely Better Now by Ava Robinson

    Abby Jimenez and Carley Fortune are two more authors who offer deep, heartfelt situations, messy complications

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/5/22 Edition

    Jonathan Escoffery, a collection of interconnected stories about a Jamaican family in Miami; I'm reading Carley Fortune's debut, Every Summer After, a story about mistakes, lost love, and new beginnings, told over like some of these other collections of short stories that I've reviewed. 02 Every Summer After by Carley Fortune In Carley Fortune's debut Every Summer After, Persephone Fraser knows all too well the saying

  • Review of To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

    It's the twenty-second century, and in Becky Chambers's novella To Be Taught, If Fortunate , Ariadne universe seeking only peace and friendship--to teach, if we are called upon; to be taught, if we are fortunate

  • May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Fortune's rom-com novel about loss, adjusting goals and the pictures of our life as we age, and second Click here for my full review of The Trackers. 03 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 Within the book's summertime setting Fortune explores heavy issues related to mental illness, sudden Carley Fortune is also the author of Every Summer After. 04 Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister

  • Six of My Favorite Lighter Fiction Reads from the Past Year

    For my full review, check out Nora Goes Off Script. 05 Every Summer After by Carley Fortune Carley Fortune In Carley Fortune's debut Every Summer After, Persephone Fraser knows all too well the saying "you can't

  • September Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    For my full review, check out Lucy by the Sea. 06 Every Summer After by Carley Fortune Carley Fortune In Carley Fortune's debut Every Summer After, it's been ten years since Persephone Fraser made the biggest

  • Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading

    01 Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune Summertime is the backdrop to Fortune's Meet Me at the Lake, Within the book's summertime setting Fortune explores heavy issues related to mental illness, sudden Carley Fortune is also the author of Every Summer After. 02 Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld Sittenfeld's

  • Six of My Favorite Light Fiction Reads from the Past Year

    Please click here for my full review of Charm City Rocks. 06 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 Within the book's summertime setting Fortune explores heavy issues related to mental illness, sudden Carley Fortune is also the author of Every Summer After.

  • Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading

    01 Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune Summertime is the backdrop to Fortune's Meet Me at the Lake, Within the book's summertime setting Fortune explores heavy issues related to mental illness, sudden Carley Fortune is also the author of Every Summer After. 02 Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld Sittenfeld's

  • Review of Now You Say Yes by Bill Harley

    Harley's middle-grade story about love, duty, self-discovery, disappointment, and pushing through the In Bill Harley's newest work, the middle-grade novel Now You Say Yes, we follow newly orphaned fifteen-year-old Harley perfectly captures small, illuminating moments during the siblings' road trip while exploring Harley's story about love, duty, self-discovery, disappointment, and pushing through the discomfort of Harley is also the author of the wonderful seven-book, middle-grade, humor-filled Charlie Bumper series

  • Review of The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey

    Carey's The Boy on the Bridge offers adventure, twists, turns, love, scientific exploration, betrayal There's a character in common between this and Carey's The Girl With All the Gifts; this person appears

  • Review of The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue

    Rachel meets another James, James Carey (who she calls "Carey," as she already has a James), falling Byrne, his wife, James, Carey, and Rachel. Rachel is dedicated to both James and to Carey, and The Rachel Incident is centered around Rachel and

  • Six Fascinating Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels

    Carey Melanie loves school. Carey's story is also hopeful, but not in the way I might have expected. If you like this one, you're going to also want to read Carey's The Boy on the Bridge, which is a standalone Carey Months into their save-the-world mission, the soldiers and scientists on the Rosalind Franklin Carey book on this list, but I couldn't help myself.

  • Review of The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett

    stories may be linked to the vanishing of his teacher so many years earlier--that is, linked by a hidden fortune pivotal day of their beloved teacher's disappearance that occurred decades earlier so he can grab the fortune

  • Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels

    Carey Melanie loves school. Carey's story is also hopeful, but not in the way I might have expected. If you like this one, you're going to also want to read Carey's The Boy on the Bridge, which is a standalone Carey Months into their save-the-world mission, the soldiers and scientists on the Rosalind Franklin Carey book on this list, but I couldn't help myself.

  • Review of The Dream Builders by Oindrila Mukherjee

    the city of Hrishipur were a standout in Mukherjee's debut novel of interconnected points of view, fortune emotionally wrecked, from without hope to buoyed by promise--and in some cases, their situations and fortunes

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/4/21 Edition

    about best friends and polar opposites Poppy and Alex on their annual vacation; Now You Say Yes, Bill Harley's the Greedy Reading List Six Lighter Fiction Stories for Great Escapism. 02 Now You Say Yes by Bill Harley In Bill Harley's newest work, the middle-grade novel Now You Say Yes, we follow newly orphaned fifteen-year-old Harley's story about loyalty, loss, and pushing forward is beautiful; it's sometimes heartbreaking and

  • Review of Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

    The chance encounter leads to a surprising turn of fortune in which Katey finds herself immersed in the

  • Review of The Resurrectionist by A. Rae Dunlap

    James Willoughby is a na ï ve young medical student whose family fortunes have taken a negative turn,

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/8/23 Edition

    prejudiced stories and the vanishing of his teacher so many years earlier may be linked by a hidden fortune friends from primary school to compare accounts of that pivotal day decades earlier so he can get the fortune

  • Six Books I Want, Bossy Holiday 2022 Edition

    Joy, 256 pages), or just because I'm greedy about having more more more books in my possession (Under Fortunate In a shack in the middle of Paris, a fortune-teller calls on dark forces to help a client retain the Paris police chief La Reynie and his young assistant Bezons have uncovered a network of fortune-tellers to do the one thing she really needs to before she dies: tell Adrian she still loves him. 06 Under Fortunate

  • Review of The Madstone by Elizabeth Crook

    It's 1868 in Texas, and a stagecoach that's off track and in trouble (with a fortune tucked away inside

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/19/24 Edition

    O'Keefe's Devoured Worlds series, The Blighted Stars , in which the heir to a galaxy-wide mining fortune

  • Review of Isola by Allegra Goodman

    Marguerite is heir to a fortune, but after she is orphaned, she grows into a young lady while her guardian

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/27/25 Edition

    01 Isola by Allegra Goodman Marguerite is heir to a fortune, but when she is orphaned, her guardian squanders

  • Review of The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore

    billion-dollar matter of who actually invented the light bulb in order to determine who will make their fortune

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

    rebellions are entertaining to read about--and in Sharratt's account, lead to Hildegard's extreme change in fortune

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/25/24 Edition

    Allison Pataki is also the author of The Traitor's Wife, The Accidental Empress, Sisi, The Queen's Fortune

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/13/23 Edition

    01 The Madstone by Elizabeth Crook It's 1868 in Texas, and a vanished stagecoach (with a fortune inside

  • Review of The Impossible Destiny of Cutie Grackle by Shawn K. Stout

    After an encounter with a fortune-cookie message and a flock of ravens who seem to be following her,

  • Review of World Running Down by Al Hess

    and have-nots is as pronounced as ever in Hess's novel, and literal barriers keep the struggling less fortunate

  • Review of Go As a River by Shelley Read

    Her brother is jealous and cruel; her uncle has become bitter and petty since his fortunes have changed

  • Review of Horse by Geraldine Brooks

    place primarily in the 1850s timeline, as we see Jarrett grow up enslaved and dedicated to his horse Darley

  • Review of Landslide by Susan Conley

    author of the novels Kelsey Come Home and Paris Was the Place, as well as the memoir The Foremost Good Fortune

  • Review of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers #1) by Becky Chambers

    She also wrote To Be Taught, If Fortunate, a standalone novella.

  • Review of Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up by Selma Blair

    lifelong, haunting feeling that something dark was looming in her future as well as her fascination with fortune

  • Review of Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry

    particularly in light of the longtime weekly million dollars he mentions earning on Friends and the additional fortune

  • Review of Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir by Bob Odenkirk

    older work as a Saturday Night Live writer (he wrote the iconic "Motivational Speaker" skit for Chris Farley

  • Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels

    Carey's story is also hopeful, but not in the way I might have expected. If you like this one, you're going to also want to read Carey's The Boy on the Bridge, which is a standalone Carey book on this list, but I couldn't help myself.

  • Six Book Recommendations from Smarty Librarians

    Carey (which I mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels

  • Review of Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

    their group, Gentleman, comes up with a large-scale con, suddenly the makeshift family's potential fortune

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/7/22 Edition

    older work as a Saturday Night Live writer (he wrote the iconic "Motivational Speaker" skit for Chris Farley

  • Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories

    Nora dips in and out of different lives, trying on careers, love lives, travel adventures, fame and fortune unaware of anything odd about this life, and Lydia must fight to not seem as though she is grieving him--fortunately

  • January Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    James Willoughby is a na ï ve young medical student whose family fortunes have taken a negative turn,

  • February Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Marguerite is heir to a fortune, but after she is orphaned, she grows into a young lady while her guardian

  • Six Fascinating Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories

    Nora dips in and out of different lives, trying on careers, love lives, travel adventures, fame and fortune unaware of anything odd about this life, and Lydia must fight to not seem as though she is grieving him--fortunately

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