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Click here for my full review of Divine Rivals. 03 So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men by Claire Click here for my full review of So Late in the Day. 04 The Woman in Me by Britney Spears Spears's slim In her memoir The Woman in Me, Britney Spears offers the story of her life to date: select events of book reveals disturbing, ongoing abuse and frightening misuse of power while positioning Britney as a strong Please click here for my full review of The Woman in Me. 05 The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike #7) by

Everywhere (Frankie Elkin #3) by Lisa Gardner Frankie Elkin is the best at finding missing girls and women She's an unassuming middle-aged woman and a recovering alcoholic who has a compulsion: to locate missing But a strange feeling pervades everything on the island.

situation of trapped girls who devolve into paranoia, mayhem, fury, and destruction--with a wonderfully strong The teen girls’ “magic” and its perception by the girls themselves (and especially by the men and women This book brought to mind another young adult dystopian book in which the power of young women is brought

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading a novel in two timelines about a young woman posing as a cabin abortions in pre-Gilded Age New York, Madame Restell; and I'm listening to Britney Spears's memoir, The Woman But Restell's story swirls with weighty issues still relevant today--women's rights and autonomy; the I'm listening to this as an audiobook. 03 The Woman in Me by Britney Spears In her slim memoir The Woman

The strong, ruthless, intelligent women in Harrow the Ninth absolutely steal the show--which is saying

invincible--who has dropped out of sight and settled down to raise her young daughter alongside her strong-willed Amina soon finds herself tangled in a dangerous ocean quest to rescue a young woman, while facing complicated

As always, her main characters are richly layered, struggle with terrible circumstances, retain strong Click here for my full review of Chenneville. 04 Time's Mouth by Edan Lepucki Lepucki's strange, interesting A friend's borrowed, rambling home becomes a refuge for unwed mothers and mothers-to-be, with the women on site treating Ursa as a goddess--and the children being horrifically neglected as the women enjoy Heart by Emma Donoghue Donoghue's captivating historical fiction centers around two real-life young women

exploration of gender roles, reimagining a rigid faith, marriage/child/parental/educational expectations for women , adventure, strong female loyalty and friendship, love, and lots of fascinating details of life at the

Tough women, secrets and smarts, and sneaky spying! If you like stories about brave women during wartime, you might also like the titles I listed on the recent Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II. 01 Miss Graham's makes the urgency of World War II code breaking come alive through the stories of three young women The Rose Code is a wonderfully spun historical fiction story of three very different women who answer

Bridie is a strong female protagonist, and Things In Jars offers solid historical fiction details of Veronica to benefit from the author's own modern sensibilities in A Curious Beginning, but Veronica is a strong Abigail is clever, and her strong role in her partnership with the wonderfully odd Jackaby is satisfying Ji Lin speaks her mind and ruffles feathers even as she exploits assumptions about women, sexual attraction She doesn’t fit the mold of a typical woman from 1930s Malaysia or that of the British colonists living

She's asked to play the role of maid to an unassuming, wealthy young woman in a dastardly plot to take the woman's inheritance and leave her to rot in an insane asylum. Bridie is a strong female protagonist, and Things In Jars offers solid historical fiction details of Montague; an unorthodox woman with an open mind and brave disposition, Theodora; a young woman who has be cruel, ruthless, and he's Wren's sworn enemy, a deadly force who has destroyed her countrymen and women

invincible--who has dropped out of sight and settled down to raise her young daughter alongside her strong-willed Amina soon finds herself entangled in a dangerous ocean quest to rescue a young woman, while fighting and she believes they're linked to the curse that the community believes has its hold on the Farrow women She would love to end the curse, the fraying of the Farrow women's minds, once and for all--by never

Christina Baker Kline tells the story of three women's lives in the nineteenth century: Evangeline, a pregnant and is ultimately sent to prison in Australia, “the land beyond the seas"; Hazel, a savvy young woman The women's discoveries of their inner strength during their desperation are wonderful lights in the As strong as stone."

a recently published historical fiction story that spans World War I and the 1970s, when the first women real-life stories of the first female volunteer librarians during World War I, as well as the first women The story shifts between 1918, when a young woman at the Dead Letter Office bravely embarks on a dangerous to France to serve as a librarian near the front lines of World War I, and 1976, when another young woman Each women's secrets could be their undoing, and they must each fight harder for their rightful places

The Girl with the Louding Voice, Abi Daré's book about a strong young woman in rural Nigeria who shows emerge from her oppressive situation against all odds, and she's wonderfully spirited, creative, and strong Namesake by Adrienne Young Namesake is the second and final book in Young's duology about the wonderfully strong

Those urging me to write my memoir will want a patriotic young woman who fought to defend her country , a heroine to root for with a story clean and simple as a full moon—and I was that young woman, but Russia and the Ukraine, Mila, along with so many others, enlists to fight alongside countrymen and -women the Nazis, Mila forges an unexpected friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, another formidable woman contrast between active female roles in the Russian military and the supportive, more peripheral positions women

Reading Now I'm reading recently published stories by Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women 01 So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan In the brilliant, Irish-born Claire stories from various eras in Keegan's career are revised and expanded here: Antarctica explores a married woman's

Women’s stories never are. I read Mary Sharratt's Revelations over the course of this "school year" with my women's group. (To say that producing this publication was a groundbreaking feat for a medieval woman who was stifled Our main protagonist puzzles and angers those around her by challenging the limitations of what women or say in the year 1400, and the Church is particularly galled and upset by the audacity of such a woman

Julia Fine's Maddalena and the Dark is a gothic story set in 1700s Venice in which two young women's Yet she desperately yearns for some measure of independence, which is not easily available to the women But a young woman in that time has little say over her destiny.

character secretly meets a stranger for intimacy--despite actively feeling disgust and complicated and strong believe that after all of the trauma and betrayals—and what ultimately felt like thin bonds holding the women

Natalie Haynes's mythological retellings put women at the center of many scenes surrounding the Trojan These are the women left behind--often women who may have been able to change the course of events if anyone had listened to them or they'd been given some semblance of power--women rolling their eyes at men's foolishness, and women terrified by their imminent sacrifice, slavery, rape, or death because Haynes's women try to point out the absurdity of the Trojan Horse, they are vulnerable in order to try

later timeline takes place in the time of World War II as Daphne, an intelligent and educated young woman protagonists are explicitly linked within the story, although the reader will know of their bond before the women Walsh is also the author of Becoming Bonnie, Side by Side, A Betting Woman, and The Call of the Wrens

The young women's wartime experiences take Viv to glamorous Harrod's, settle Grace in a dusty old bookshop We see Grace become won over by the creaky old store and by her gruff boss, the shifting role each woman You might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World

ICYMI: Morton offers a strong historical fiction mystery, with assumed identities, dual timelines, twists

For my full review, check out The Marriage Portrait. 02 A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock #1) by irresistible heroine, but a fascinating examination of gender in Victorian society--and what happens when women A Study in Scarlet Women, the first in her Lady Sherlock series, presents Charlotte Holmes, a clever, forward-thinking, independent woman trapped in the Victorian age, a time in which women have little Click here for my full review of A Study in Scarlet Women. 03 True Biz by Sara Nović True Biz is a coming-of-age

But the women's impassioned brunchtime discussion about the plot of Finlay's suspense novel--along with He is in love with and married to a wonderfully strong woman, Irene, "Attolia"--and she is the real power

Kate is a tough young woman posing as a male cowboy. Turner's story is inspired by her family's memoirs, and her Sarah Prine is a strong woman living on the Walk on Earth a Stranger tells the story of Lee, a young woman with a powerful secret: an ability to Yet I'm also fascinated by the optimistic explorer spirit--and I do love reading about strong female characters in a time when the world around them didn't always support women's strength and determination

bright points: some rare friendships emerge, sisters build intense loyalty to each other, girls and women find joy in secret reading and in books, women find strength and demand truth rather than secrecy, and thread throughout the book of the food, spices, and meals that create much of the structure of the women --but also many other real-life women in comparable situations--to write a new history, one in which For my full review of this book, please see A Woman Is No Man.

Then Bridget falls for a fellow "sporting woman," and when the Buffalo Queen is threatened, she must Bridget is strong and no-nonsense yet also inexperienced and far from worldly. Julia Fine Julia Fine's Maddalena and the Dark is a gothic story set in 1700s Venice in which two young women's But a young woman in that time has little say over her destiny.

attention to unspoken bonds, deep and unorthodox friendships, makeshift families, legendary dogs, and strong Kimmery Martin's Doctors and Friends begins with a group of seven women, friends since medical school For my full review, check out Doctors and Friends. 05 Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams Williams's In Beatriz Williams's historical fiction, Our Woman in Moscow it's 1948 and Iris Digby, her American Click here for my full review of Our Woman in Moscow. 06 Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr Doerr's Cloud

Powerful with divine blood, yet largely powerless because she is a woman, Medea is full of contradictions abound of foxes, which are believed to have the magical ability to transform into beautiful men and women Bao, a detective set on uncovering the mystery of the woman's identity and death, has long been fascinated

India generally keeps her strong opinions about the world to herself (or shares them with her two kids This is your wide, strange, remarkable family in the world, she said.

Strange things begin happening to Cassie and Izzy when Cassie takes possession of the book, and soon India generally keeps her strong opinions to herself (or shares them with her two kids or trusted agent

The retelling swirls with family drama, intrigue, bravery--all centered around a young woman determined autonomy, for a voice, for strength, for knowledge--and she is determined to secure these for other women The people of Bharat have often blamed my father for my sins, as if a woman cannot own her actions. Kaikeyi endlessly reinvents herself--as a warrior, a queen, an advisor, and a voice for powerless women

Maame (ma-meh) has many meanings in Twi but in my case, it means woman. The issues of race and of young-woman Maddie making her way in the world in London in Maame reminded me somewhat of Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo's interconnected stories about Black women in

grave injuries, a US Marshal's determined search for John himself, the distraction of a clever, brave woman As always, her main characters are richly layered, struggle with terrible circumstances, retain strong

That's some strong summer reading!) If you've read any of these, I'd love to hear what you think! Yet Kingsolver keeps Demon's voice strong even as he falters and as everything he has counted on seems As always, her main characters are richly layered, struggle with terrible circumstances, retain strong Check out my reviews of So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men and the short story collection Antarctica she pokes fun at her fellow writer in a sketch about talented but average-looking men dating gorgeous women

Now Clementine must figure out if her heart is strong enough to cope with losing the unlikely love she's and I loved that the relationship between Clementine and her aunt is said to have been special and strong

Vasya is an irresistibly and wonderfully strong and defiant main protagonist, and Arden includes lots Vasya is a young woman now, and she must consent to an arranged marriage or enter the convent--but Vasya Vasya is an irresistibly and wonderfully strong and defiant main protagonist, and Arden includes lots

With plenty of youthful explorations of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll, plus young women striving to strike structures of the time, Shoulder Season spans forty years, an important love triangle, and the course of a woman's I very much enjoyed her vulnerability as a young woman and especially the glimpses we got into her self-assured training and strict rules surrounding Bunnies' behavior (and even their allowed body movements), and the women's

are bright points: rare friendships emerge, sisters build intense loyalty to each other, girls and women throughout the book--the food, spices, and meals that are a framework for much of the structure of the women A Woman Is No Man explores the incredible drive and bravery required by Rum's female characters to write For my full review of this book, please see A Woman Is No Man. 06 In Five Years by Rebecca Serle This She goes to sleep one night feeling satisfied, but she wakes up in another life: in a strange apartment

science-fiction novel Those Beyond the Wall; I'm listening to Kristin Hannah's historical fiction about women who served in the Vietnam War, The Women; and I'm listening to Dolly Alderton's contemporary literary Micaiah Johnson is also the author of The Space Between Worlds, a book I loved. 02 The Women by Kristin Kristin Hannah's The Women shines a light on the women who served pivotal roles in the Vietnam War--but I'm listening to The Women as an audiobook. 03 Good Material by Dolly Alderton Andy and Jen were in love

He is in love with and married to a wonderfully strong woman, Irene, "Attolia"--and she is the real power

in fighting the enemy in World War II offers lots of heart, sassy dialogue, and a showcasing of the women's It's part historical fiction with wonderful World War II details and part sassy modern-day tale about women I love the reveal on an underestimating-women scenario, and kind, unassuming Archie also exceeds expectations If you like books about World War II and women spies, you might also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II and Six Books about Brave Female Spies

In Hartman's Tess of the Road, Tess doesn't fit the mold of an obedient, quiet young woman in her medieval desperate for adventure; she is pushing at the edge of the disappointingly limited possibilities for young women frustrated, then furious, about the double standards, injustices, and power inequality between men and women There's a "woman dresses as a man to escape gender limitations" trope; the story emphasizes loyalty,

In Young's story, loosely set in the world of her Fable series, strong young Bryn fights for her own I was thrilled to find that Young's wonderful, signature strong-young-female protagonist-in-a-man's-world

book The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to a wonderfully strange story about the absurdity of human Beautyland is strange, poignant, and funny. later timeline takes place in the time of World War II as Daphne, an intelligent and educated young woman Walsh is also the author of Becoming Bonnie, Side by Side, A Betting Woman, and The Call of the Wrens

She's reporting on the case of Meena, a Hindu woman who was brutally punished by her village and her could enter a casual romantic entanglement--while she desperately fights for justice regarding another woman's While throughout the book Smita is (at least initially) reluctantly working to aid a woman in need, various

and I'm reading Kate Manning's Gilded Mountain (to be published tomorrow), historical fiction about a strong young woman and her mining community in 1900s Colorado.

But she developed a strange itch in her foot. Russia and the Ukraine, Mila, along with so many others, enlists to fight alongside countrymen and -women the contrast between active female roles in the Russian military and the more peripheral positions women Click here for my full review of The Diamond Eye. 04 The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Click here for my full review of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek. 05 Upgrade by Blake Crouch Main