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- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/8/22 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Alias Emma, a fast-paced new mystery from Ava Glass; I'm listening
- Review of The Forgotten Kingdom by Signe Pike
factors of bloodthirsty vengeance and war between Languoreth's husband and his allies and Lailoken's master The details of everyday life are fantastic, and some characters wield magic and hold mysterious powers
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/7/22 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Sherry Thomas's Victorian mystery (the first in a hefty series
- Six of My Favorite Nonfiction Reads from the Past Year
Favorite Fiction Reads from Last Year Six More of My Favorite Fiction Reads from Last Year Six Four-Star Mystery Reads I Loved Last Year Six More Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Last Year Six Four-Star Historical Fiction Patrick Radden Keefe is a master of compelling, important nonfiction.
- January Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
In LaValle's magical, dark Western, people tend to disappear whenever Adelaide's mysterious trunk opens connection, to the young daughter of her former household, her former charge--and her growing wonder at the mysteries
- Review of The Gilded Hour by Sara Donati
an immensely readable book rich in period detail, great dialogue, and satisfying elements of love, mystery
- Review of The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz
Laura Amy Schlitz has also written the children's book Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village as well as Splendors and Glooms, a Gothic mystery about puppeteers that
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/5/22 Edition
new beginnings, told over six summers and a weekend; and I'm listening to And Then She Disappeared, a mystery
- Review of We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange
There's a minor mystery in the book, and Lange generally delivers resolutions that aren't always surprising
- Review of Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
juvenile--she employed junior-high hard-to-get, passive-aggressive challenges as well as attempted-mysteriousness
- Review of This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
Krueger also wrote Ordinary Grace, which I reviewed on the blog here, and he writes a mystery series
- Review of Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power
The mother-daughter dynamic and home situation is possibly intended to be dramatic and mysterious, but Margot wants to get to the bottom of a big mystery.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/22/22 Edition
How to Stop Time, Reasons to Stay Alive, and The Midnight Library. 03 The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery
- Review of How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang
book that Michelle's inner workings will not be revealed to Helen or to the reader, and they remain a mystery
- Review of What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
Tom's future interest in the mysterious, lost corona is part of his overall fascination with the decades
- Three Wackily Different Books I'm Reading Right Now
Management sends lonely, steady, pushed-around Linus, a case worker for magical children in orphanages, to a mysterious Linus is expected to report back with details about what Arthur Parnassus, the mysterious master on site
- Yet Another Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads from the Past Year
posted about favorite reads from certain genres that I've loved reading in the past year: Six Four-Star Mystery Reads I Loved Last Year Six More Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Last Year Six Four-Star Historical Fiction
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/27/22 Edition
But her adorably quirky roommates and a mystery woman she keeps running into on the Q train might just
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/21/21 Edition
Feared and mysterious, Zetian is paired with the most controversial male pilot around, Li Shimin.
- Review of Lost in Time by A.G. Riddle
The characters move through interesting moments and shift their understanding of previously mysterious
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/18/21 Edition
and race in Britain; a revenge fantasy with magical realism interwoven throughout; and a new-to-me mystery
- Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore
When she finds a mysterious book her father had acquired, it shows January unlikely possibilities about She disappears from her family and leaves behind a tragic mystery, while in her forays through new worlds
- Review of The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
She disappears from her family and leaves behind a tragic mystery, while in her forays through new worlds
- Review of Legend (Legend #1) by Marie Lu
The master plan executed at the end of the book has a few twisty moments I liked, and while the story potentially intriguing aspects of Lu's world--the history of the split between the Republic and Colonies; the mystery
- Six More of My Favorite Fiction Reads from the Past Year
I also recently posted about: Six Four-Star Mystery Reads I Loved Last Year Six More Four-Star Mysteries
- Review of The Lost Man by Jane Harper
Harper's mysteries read like twisty character-driven Westerns set in Australia, and things aren’t always I listed this book in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year.
- Review of We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker
There are mysterious forces and machinations, many of which remain unclear to the reader until late in
- Review of Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune
Before crossing over from the living forever, Wallace spends time in a mysterious in-between place (a
- Six Four-Star (and Up) Science Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year
Six Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Science Fiction Reads I realize I just said this last week regarding mysteries and he's got two dead crewmates, a chatty AI robot caregiver, a lot of complicated equipment, and a mysterious
- Review of Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
relationship with her first husband, William, and reflects on the fact that he has always been somewhat of a mystery
- Six Book Recommendations from Smarty Librarians
Mystery series with strong female protagonists?
- Review of Skyhunter by Marie Lu
A mysterious prisoner from the front arrives who could be friend or foe, and our main protagonist Talin
- Review of The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
Family Upstairs, Jewell provides sinister goings-on, incredible cruelties, desperate self-preservation, mysteries #mysterysuspense, #dysfunctionalfamily, #threestarbookreview
- Review of Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens
Stevens offers a bad guy who's easy to despise in this mystery with great passages about surviving in
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/13/22 Edition
Old Hollywood starlet; and A Marvellous Light, Freya Marske's fantastical Edwardian England story of mystery
- Review of Red Notice by Bill Browder
Notice, Browder traces his path from Wall Street to the Soviet Union after its breakup--and the crimes, mysteries
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/21 Edition
Thomas Silkstone series and the Constance Piper Mystery series as well as The Light We Left Behind),
- Six More Science Fiction Favorites to Dive Into
But when one of Cara's eight remaining selves mysteriously dies while she is world walking, shocking and he's got two dead crewmates, a chatty AI robot caregiver, a lot of complicated equipment, and a mysterious
- Review of Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad
After long months of mystery and suffering and tests that went nowhere, she finally received a diagnosis
- Review of Paper & Blood (Ink & Sigil #2) by Kevin Hearne
, although Al developed a peaceful attitude about the ongoing mystery.
- Review of A Murder by Any Name by Suzanne M. Wolfe
I looove a historical fiction mystery. If you do too, you might want to check out Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You.
- Review of Here For It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America by R. Eric Thomas
I mentioned this book (along with the new mystery The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins and the young adult
- Review of The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon
or stops abruptly, and I find myself becoming increasingly frustrated by this method of prolonging a mystery
- Review of Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions by Jeffrey Selingo
Selingo dives into revealing the truth behind some of the mysteries of admissions (for example, how colleges
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/20/21 Edition
examines her relationship with her first husband and considers how he has always been somewhat of a mystery
- Bossy Holiday Gift Ideas: Science and Nature Books
ocean, interviewing the oceanographers, marine biologists, and geographers focused on exploring this mysterious
- Review of Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
Feared and mysterious, Zetian is matched with the most controversial, deadly male pilot around, Li Shimin
- My Twelve Favorite 2020 Books
Nonfiction Books I've Read This Year Six Lighter Fiction Stories for Great Escapism Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year For my full review, see Utopia Avenue. 04 Long Bright River by Liz Moore Long Bright River is a mystery disappears and a string of murders rock the community, everyone is suspect and Mickey's desire to solve the mystery The family's vast amount of genetic material--from both those affected by and those free from mental
- September Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
But when one of Cara's eight remaining selves mysteriously dies while she is world walking, shocking Notice, Browder traces his path from Wall Street to the Soviet Union after its breakup--and the crimes, mysteries
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/28/22 Edition
In Williams's historical fiction mystery, four years later, Iris's twin sister Ruth finally receives


















































