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- Review of Flying Solo by Linda Holmes
Holmes is a pop culture correspondent for NPR and is also the author of Evvie Drake Starts Over, a light fiction
- Review of The Golden Enclaves (Scholomance #3) by Naomi Novik
And Novik offers touching moments when surprising truths about El's, Orion's, and their parents' histories and the intricacies of nations' relationships and airborne dragon battles within the books' alternate history
- Review of Skyhunter by Marie Lu
Just look at this gorgeously mesmerizing cover for Marie Lu's latest young adult science fiction/fantasy
- Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore
Blake Crouch writes character-driven science fiction that I love (Dark Matter is another of his that I adore a character-driven science-fiction tale. Also, time travel!
- Review of People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
Read was one of my favorite books last year, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading List Six Lighter Fiction
- Review of The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
Under, as well as two books about the English language, Mother Tongue and Made in America, and A Short History of Nearly Everything and A Really Short History of Nearly Everything.
- November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Wilkerson is exceptional at laying out absurdities, horrors, disturbing historical events, shocking trends
- Review of Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
compelled to take a different path, rush to check on a loved one, or take some other seemingly odd action In Life After Life, Atkinson focuses her literary fiction lens on the character of Ursula, her relationships
- Six Book Recommendations from Smarty Librarians
Three other titles suggested to me as promising adult and young adult science fiction, fantasy, and dystopian
- Six Great Books about the Immigrant Experience
Rum's female characters--but also many other real-life women in comparable situations--to write a new history But these four fiction works and two nonfiction titles are some that have stuck with me in one way or
- Review of Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
The early sections of the book focus on language, but that angle doesn't carry through the book in a you might like the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Compelling Nonfiction Books that Read Like Fiction
- Shhh! Coffee Table Bossy Book Gift Ideas
at the story behind the music from one of our greatest songwriters. 02 Our America: A Photographic History Burns has been making documentaries about American history for over four decades, and his sense of the Burns offers a selection of photos highlighting a range of experiences from our 200 years of American history
- Review of The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James
This young adult science fiction story has an irresistible premise: teenaged Romy is the sole survivor
- My Twelve Very Favorite 2021 Reads
I loved this science fiction debut. Cara is one of a dwindling number of traversers. She weaves songs into her stories and personal history, and the placement of the music feels seamless of essential projects—the creation of Central Park, the founding of the Met Museum and the Natural History
- Review of The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher #22) by Lee Child
since 1997, so whether you're committed to the series or you only dabble in suspense, mystery, or crime fiction
- Review of Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
In Iron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao blends Chinese folklore with science-fiction robots and aliens in this feminist young adult action story.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/24/21 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Anthony Doerr's upcoming literary fiction tale of interconnected
- ICYMI: My Very Favorite Reads from the First Half of 2021
I loved Soulmate Equation for solid light fiction. It's fun and romantic with great characters. of essential projects—the creation of Central Park, the founding of the Met Museum and the Natural History
- Review of When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain
McLain had me hooked on the vivid Northern California setting, imperfect Anna's rich and rocky history McLain had me completely hooked on the vivid setting, Anna's rich and rocky history, her search for answers
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/31/21 Edition
and NetGalley. 03 No One Is Talking about This by Patricia Lockwood No One Is Talking about This is fiction
- Review of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Some of the story felt tedious, as with the ongoing saga of securing a water source and the extensive history
- Shhh! Book Gifts for Kids and Teens
I'm Bossy about buying and merchandising fiction for my kids during the year, as in: "Here is a tableau But for holiday book gifts, other than providing the first in a fiction series I think they'd like, typically
- Review of The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl
Renkl is also the author of Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss and Graceland, At Last
- My Very Favorite 2021 Reads So Far
I loved Soulmate Equation for solid light fiction. It's fun and romantic with great characters. of essential projects—the creation of Central Park, the founding of the Met Museum and the Natural History
- Review of Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
of indigenous tradition into Daunis's everyday life, pivotal moments, and her personal and cultural history I was distracted by some jumpy transitions between action, thought, and feeling, especially in the earlier sections of the book, but Boulley weaves fantastically fluid and frequent details of indigenous tradition into Daunis's everyday life, pivotal moments, and her personal and cultural history.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/18/21 Edition
This is a nice mix for me to have going on at once: a fictional, varied look at modern feminism and race
- July Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
This is a lovely light fiction story with elements that offer appealing weight. And for more summer reads, see the Greedy Reading List Six Lighter Fiction Stories for Great Escapism
- Review of The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
and contribute to her fear, her reluctance to trust, and her doubts about what is fact and what is fiction
- Review of The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E. Smith
light fiction novel The Unsinkable Greta James, Greta is an up-and-coming indie rock star whose father
- Review of The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld
case, a former priest and the Lady--an investigator searching for information in the convicts' past histories
- Review of The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
His various early actions that felt critical toward Olive also didn't feel resolved. I adore the will they/won't they fall in love tension, and lately I've really enjoyed lighter fiction
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/13/20 Edition
I'm alternating between a fictionalized celebrity story with heart; a young adult mystery with a nerdy
- Review of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #1) by Holly Jackson
I wondered if this would be a sort of young adult fiction version of the Serial podcast, and it IS, in
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/2/21 Edition
familial power structures are wonderful, and the way O'Farrell imagines Agnes as wife of John (the fictionalized
- Review of When These Mountains Burn by David Joy
Joy offers an often dark work of Southern literary fiction through which bubbles of hope emerge.
- Review of The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
fascinating journeys through the multiverse, her various lives, and her alternate selves in this science fiction
- Review of All Her Little Secrets by Wanda M. Morris
A faction of my book club attends (virtually, the past couple of years) our local Library Foundation's
- Review of Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens
This section was my favorite part of the book. Stevens's fictional Cold Creek Highway setting is based on the real-life "Highway of Tears" in British
- Review of Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel by Martha Wells
middle, but Wells provides a fantastically unique point of view, and this series is perfect science-fiction else) strengthened loyalties, there is more of Wells's fantastically understated robot banter, there's action
- Review of Dear Emmie Blue by Lia Louis
Sometimes in order to delve into a light fiction book I find that I have to suspend my disbelief about
- Review of Black Bottom Saints by Alice Randall
adored the vivid details Randall offered about everyday life during different eras, but the fifty-two sections Through the somewhat fictionalized voice of Ziggy, a real-life key player in the storied Detroit neighborhood of Black Bottom, Randall offers short sections about fifty-two mostly real-life characters who influenced The book is structured as many sections of Ziggy's storytelling, so some of the meandering felt appropriate relatively short chapters, which necessitates hustling along from story to story, but even within each section
- Review of All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby
agent, has returned to his hometown in Charon County, Virginia, to serve as the first Black sheriff in history
- Review of Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
author’s note at the end outlines the often ignored life-and-death tragedies that inspired this work of fiction
- Review of No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
The first section of Lockwood's story about an internet darling is absurd, frivolous, vulgar, irritating , and frequently disturbing; the second section shocked me with its meaningful and poignant examinations No One Is Talking about This is fiction from Patricia Lockwood, the author of the memoir Priestdaddy. This section of the book is presented in very short snippets that are often comments, jokes, questions poetic view of the world is gloriously showcased in this section.
- June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
of the month: Hank Green's second book in his quirky, lovely, character-driven, big-hearted science fiction of essential projects—the creation of Central Park, the founding of the Met Museum and the Natural History
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/29/21 Edition
and a web of lies that may get them both killed; and Jennifer McMahon's dive into a family's haunting history But disaster strikes, and Jax finds herself trying to unravel the twisted, complicated history of her family and its land--a history Lexie was researching and had become haunted by.
- Review of Evil Eye by Etaf Rum
Yara is put on probation at the college where she is an assistant art history teacher after calling out
- Review of Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
I'm not sure how much she departed from facts into fiction, and I'd be curious to know more about that
- Review of Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
Carefully researched and documented, with twists and turns that feel so outlandish as to seem like fiction
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/17/21 Edition
baby Jessica" and the well), the third and final book in a captivating fantasy trilogy, and a lighter fiction