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- Review of Something Wilder by Christina Lauren
involves mishap after mishap, the travelers begin to wonder whether the legend of the treasure was fiction
- My Bossy Favorite Reads of the Summer
interested in the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading, Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading, and Six More Great Light Fiction Stories. 02 Wrong Place, Wrong In Caroline O'Donoghue's contemporary fiction The Rachel Incident, main character Rachel is an Irish
- Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore
If you love Carrie Fisher, you might also like A Star is Bored, a fictionalized celebrity-focused book Lee Smith has written numerous fictional stories about the Appalachian South, including Fair and Tender Ladies, On Agate Hill, and Oral History.
- Review of American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Cummins offers a fictional Mexican family’s urgent motivation, incredible fortitude, fears, failures, Through her American Dirt characters (both sympathetic and unsympathetic), Jeanine Cummins offers one fictional The balance of unlikely joys and brutality puts fictional but plausible faces on an important situation
- Review of In a New York Minute by Kate Spencer
recently listed some of my favorite romantic, light stories in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Light Fiction
- 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
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/23/22 Edition
mother and daughter, which also plays with time; and The Love of My Life, Rosie Walsh's contemporary fiction The tone of this feels like contemporary fiction, but The Love of My Life is also a psychological thriller
- Review of Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
I can't help comparing this lighthearted fiction about the formation of a group of unlikely friends to
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/4/21 Edition
series about a magical school filled with evil and darkness; and Very Sincerely Yours, lovely light fiction Winfrey's Very Sincerely Yours is light fiction that delivers delightful, charming banter, the promise
- Review of Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter
I've been on a rom-com kick this summer, and while I'm picky about my light fiction reads, I've laughed through characters' fixations on details of who said what and how, (mis)interpretations of looks or actions
- Six More Powerful Books About Facing Mortality
Is it because I have a cancer history? Is it simply morbid fascination? captivated by explorations of what make up a meaningful life (or death, or both) and by stories, true or fictionalized
- Review of We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza
race, ignorance, privilege, stereotypes, systemic racism, and more within their collaborative work of fiction
- Review of Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
story made me cringe while staying riveted by the main protagonist's deeply faulted reasoning, criminal actions Kuang puts forth here, she wavers between attempting to justify her compounded, ethically devastating actions appropriation, she builds elaborate justifications for her increasingly complicated lies, theft, and the fictional
- Six Fascinating Books about Immigrants' Experiences
But these four fiction works and two nonfiction titles have especially resonated with me since I read Rum's female characters--but also many other real-life women in comparable situations--to write a new history
- Review of The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
In Caroline O'Donoghue's contemporary fiction The Rachel Incident, main character Rachel is an Irish
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/5/23 Edition
other letters; and I'm reading Matthew Norman's upcoming (to be published tomorrow) music-focused light fiction lovers, teammates, and the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, a program at the heart of CAPE, or Criminal Action
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/4/21 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading People We Meet on Vacation, Emily Henry's newest light fiction Read was a favorite book of mine last year, and it made it into the Greedy Reading List Six Lighter Fiction
- Review of Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson
By tracking the fictional course of events as they spiral out of control, exploring Zeke and Frankie's
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/22/21 Edition
In Life After Life, Atkinson focuses her literary fiction lens on the character of Ursula, her relationships Here he offers a literary fiction story in which Krishan examines his young life, analyzes his romantic
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/16/21 Edition
magical healing and warring kingdoms; Fugitive Telemetry, the newest book in Martha Wells's science fiction Through the voice of the fictional Ziggy, a dance instructor and key connector of various figures in the storied Detroit neighborhood of Black Bottom, Randall offers short sections about fifty-two mostly
- Review of The Girl from Widow Hills by Megan Miranda
Miranda uses the framework of a famous fictional rescue story to imagine the characters' turmoil and She takes a famous fictional rescue story and imagines the characters' turmoil and desperately cobbled-together
- Six Newish Young Adult Mysteries I Want to Read
Is this kind of a young adult fiction version of the Serial podcast? I'm really hoping so. As Khayyam eagerly discovers more of Leila's mysterious history, she begins to grow and change in this
- Six More Novels I Loved Reading Last Year
Today's list is made up of more fiction I've loved in the recent-ish past, whether quirky, poignant, When William's painful history resurfaces, it shakes the entire family with its repercussions. story made me cringe while staying riveted by the main protagonist's deeply faulted reasoning, criminal actions Kuang puts forth here, she wavers between attempting to justify her compounded, ethically devastating actions
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/3/22 Edition
Hawkins, and I'm listening to the audiobook version of A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, a science fiction In this first science fiction title in Becky Chambers's Wayfarers series, young Rosemary feels lucky
- Review of The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream by Jeannie Zusy
Zusy notes that the character of Ginny was inspired by Zusy's own brother, and the fictional interactions
- Review of Things We Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier
But she's also alert enough to know that because of the inevitable publicity, the fiction of her current
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/28/21 Edition
This young adult science fiction story has been on my list for a while because of its irresistible premise I'm liking this mix: young adult space science fiction story, dystopian fantasy series prequel, and character-driven
- Review of I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
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- Review of The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre
extrication from Russia (and the use of a British diplomat’s baby as a distraction) reads like suspenseful fiction Macintyre's nonfiction book was wonderful; it really read to me like fiction.
- Review of The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
Ashley Poston's newest romantic fiction is centered around Clementine, a harried book publicist who falls
- Review of One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
recently listed some of my favorite romantic, light stories in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Light Fiction
- Review of Sarahland: Stories by Sam Cohen
fantasies; to a Sarah who is a reimagined trans biblical character; to a Buffy-obsessed Sarah writing fan fiction
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/2/21 Edition
Cosby; a light fiction story that's multigenerational, features a winery backdrop, and references racy So far this is a lovely light fiction story that also focuses on racy reads from the 1980s in the form
- Review of A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe (The Salvagers #1) by Alex White
In Alex White's science fiction novel A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe, the first in White's Salvagers A Big Ship is a space heist book with lots of action, strong women characters driving the plot, and a
- Shhh! Books I'm Giving as Gifts This Holiday
can write about almost anything and make it interesting and comprehensible (as evidenced by his Short History I've got lots of e-reading giftees on my fall and holiday gifting list--and I already offer many of my fiction
- Review of Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren
Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating totally fits the bill as light-fiction escapism--in this case, with Light, romantic fiction like this is a genre that's working well for me during Pandemic Times.
- Review of Out of Love by Hazel Hayes
Out of Love is not light fiction. revealed along the way, allowing for some illumination about (sequentially) earlier motivations for actions
- Review of The Distance from Four Points by Margo Orlando Littell
Margo Orlando Littell is also the author of Each Vagabond by Name, which is suspenseful fiction that's
- Review of State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny
reading, I imagined how Clinton's experiences as Secretary of State and First Lady may have informed her fictionalized
- Bossy Favorite Reads of the Year So Far
dragons, dragon-related science, emotional and physical ties to dragons, and the cultural importance, historical Because the restrictive Anglish world--and its selective history of the destruction of the Indigenous
- Review of Recursion by Blake Crouch
More wonderful character-driven science fiction by Blake Crouch. Recursion is more fantastic character-driven science fiction from Blake Crouch, and I found this sooooo
- Review of Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
control, secrets of all kinds are revealed and key characters must each determine their courses of action This is enjoyable light fiction, and I had fun with the various siblings' stories and with the glamorous
- Review of Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
O'Farrell imagined Agnes, wife to John (the fictionalized William Shakespeare character) as an independent
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/31/23 Edition
life was built upon a lie, and his years of unchecked abhorrent, violent, narcissistic, horrifying actions Movies by Lynn Painter I've been on a rom-com kick this summer, and while I'm picky about my light fiction
- Review of Blush by Jamie Brenner
This is a lovely light fiction story with elements that offer appealing weight.
- Review of So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
role he may have played in adding to his playmate Cletus's potential anguish over his father's tragic actions Much of his largely autobiographical fiction explored loss--he was haunted by losing his own mother when
- Review of Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
In this science fiction novel, Mandel plays with time and time travel as well as mysteries surrounding
- Review of The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
Katherine Center's newest light fiction offers an irresistible premise--a female bodyguard poses as the And her newest client is the Jack Stapleton, action star, household name--and, in recent years, recluse
- Review of The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
If you love Carrie Fisher, you might also like A Star is Bored, a fictionalized celebrity-focused book
- Review of Girl One by Sara Flannery Murphy
Now she must delve into the darkness of her history to try to save her mother--and uncover her own true women discover strange, unique powers as they rely on each other and attempt to unravel their shared history grave danger--and unlock remarkable freedom for each of the women long plagued by their complicated histories