The two women at the heart of the story are tough as nails but vulnerable with each other.

In Untamed, Doyle focuses largely on how women can "take up space in the world;" feel and express a full better place. 03 City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert In City of Girls, Gilbert writes about a young woman's Vivian, now an older woman, is writing letters to a younger woman about her own youthful indiscretions

tomorrow; I'm reading Looking for Jane, Heather Marshall's debut novel that links multiple timelines and women's timelines linked through decades by a mysterious letter and enormously important recurring dilemmas for women

Charlie begins to realize he feels more of a connection to Dev than to any of the twenty beautiful women

deadliest assassins in a clandestine international organization, but now that they're sixty years old, four women It's kill or be killed, and the seasoned women will have to use their years of expertise and experience

found it illuminating to consider his rider and elephant analogy to understand how my impulses to feel strong

I had a tough time with the implausible details but appreciated the strong female characters and the broken mother-daughter relationship, and elements of misogyny, battle for control of the self, and the strong strongest and most cohesive part of the story came toward the end, with a search and some resolution, strong

lives have gone in different directions, and they've always been very different in many ways, yet the women But when Jen's police officer husband is involved in the shooting of a Black teenager, the women's friendship

It's the perfect reentry to the wonderfully cheeky, strong, faulted character of Tess as she tries yet

McDaniel's novel Betty--set in the foothills of Appalachia and based upon her own family's stories--a young woman Betty is a gem, a sensitive, strong spitfire of a girl.

The push and pull of Ginny's strong preferences and opinions and how she is unswayed by consequences

and young gay love; and Tokyo Dreaming, the second in Emiko Jean's young adult series about a young woman The women's lives occurred a century and a half apart, but somehow the two are intrinsically connected

depth and, at times, darkness. “...the linear, beginning-middle-end form doesn’t fit the lives of any women

and I'm listening to the always-excellent Kate Quinn’s The Rose Code, historical fiction about the women The Rose Code is a wonderfully spun story of three very different women who answer the wartime call to The book jumps between 1940, the beginning of the women's forays into their secret duties and responsibilities

Sharratt I've been reading Mary Sharratt's Revelations over the course of this "school year" with my women's Their lives have gone in different directions, but the women still care about each other. When Jen's police officer husband is involved in the shooting of a Black teenager, the women's friendship

In her spare time, Enid loves true crime podcasts and dates a variety of women from dating apps.

Alouette herself yearns for creative freedom, but as a woman with no standing, she is not allowed to and Violet Thistlewaite is determined to shed her identity as the Thornwitch, Shadowfade's right-hand woman

from Kirsten Miller about middle-aged women coming into their power and coming into their own; Sea of novel The Change, set in Mattauk, Long Island, three women cope with various challenges surrounding aging together and use their newfound abilities to try to solve the mystery of a missing girl: middle-aged women

story--Captain Kidd's reluctant but gentlemanly involvement and his voice; Johanna as a tough young woman I haven't yet read Enemy Women but definitely intend to.

eccentric family and a broad surrounding cast of characters--and it's all centered around independent women with unconventional women's roles in society in nineteenth century New York City. The Gilded Hour explores how these women's abilities and constraints intersect with women's rights of

Cate Kay is a bestselling author--and a pseudonym used by a woman who's been running from her past for Cate evolves through the book: at first she's a big-hearted dreamer, then a devastated young woman, an

Space. 02 The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei I loved the futuristic space-mission capabilities, smart and strong all-woman crew, the mystery and suspicion, and most of all the character-driven storyline in Kitasei's

I love a woman PI, unorthodox investigative methods, and a darkly playful tone, but I ultimately wanted I'm a big fan of a woman PI using unorthodox methods to solve a case, and Bloom offers that setup here

Korean heritage and her white GI father's complicated connection as part of the white oppression of women

The Bright Hour is a North Carolina woman's thoughtful account of events, written with an aim of preserving Bowler spoke at a virtual women's retreat I attended and has spoken at my church as well.

But when a young woman shows up bleeding at his home, then mysteriously disappears, he is shocked into shake off the fact that nothing in the Bergdorf Goodman swimsuit section comes even close to fitting a woman

Veronica is a strong and unorthodox main protagonist who finds herself entangled in a dangerous set of Veronica to benefit from the author's own modern sensibilities in A Curious Beginning, but Veronica is a strong

a young volunteer, Bridie, over the course of three tumultuous days as the fiery, complex, capable women been hamstrung by rules and limitations (so that in many cases all they may offer a birthing or dying woman Donoghue immersed me so fully in the moment-by-moment health and emotional crises; the women's determined

type immersed in her own sometimes dark writing, she is disgusted by the rest of her cohort--childish women look at the music business, musical creativity and songwriting processes, and body-image pressures on women

friend in her last remaining roommate, who until then seemed primarily a source of rent; she finds a strange But as the wedding week goes on, each woman is surprised by what she discovers about herself and the 06 Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty I loved this dive into the repercussions of a seemingly psychic woman's An elderly woman is causing a major disruption on an airline flight.

Much of Ginder's novel is focused on a revenge fantasy, but I was drawn more to Nancy Harrison's strong

unconventionally built family and a broad surrounding cast of characters--and it's all centered around independent women with unconventional women's roles in society at the time. The Gilded Hour explores how these women's abilities and constraints intersect with women's rights of

chokehold of addiction to drugs and alcohol, his struggles to quit using, and the many (beautiful) women Perry spends much of the page time focusing on the many (beautiful) women who got away.

she pokes fun at her fellow writer in a sketch about talented but average-looking men dating gorgeous women

her husband and stepsons prepare for another catastrophic hurricane bearing down on Florida, one in a string Hartnett evokes a sense of place so strong, the town felt like a character itself. Unlikely Animals is sweet and wonderfully strange, and Hartnett employs a light touch and thoughtful

Tell me what you would tell a white woman, her face said. A white woman with money, her clothes said. Please, her tone said. In "Boys Go to Jupiter," a young woman wears a gifted confederate flag bikini, is careless about her "Why Won’t Women Just Say What They Want" focuses on an artist and the many people he has wronged (all

just-published young adult novel Body of Stars, the patterns of freckles, moles, and birthmarks on women extremely invasive and intrusive, especially when the boys and men felt entitled to examine the young women most intriguing aspects of the story for me were related to characters' dreams of a world in which women Body of Stars reminded me in some ways of The Power because of the young women's influence over society , but women ultimately seemed more empowered in that book.

This is a feminist historical fiction story in which women--long kept quiet and still, supervised to that haunts, challenges, and pushes them to take the form of a beast, whose presence only the bravest women

and Violet Thistlewaite is determined to shed her identity as the Thornwitch, Shadowfade's right-hand woman

The Bright Hour is a North Carolina woman's thoughtful account of events, written with an aim of preserving Bowler recently spoke at a virtual women's retreat I attended.

Women had the babies, and men, if they felt like it, began to distance themselves the moment they pulled

Married Landon was having a passionate affair with a beautiful, spunky local young woman, Lo Bailey, Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood The main protagonist in Stone Yard Devotional is a middle-aged woman

Kimmery Martin's Doctors and Friends begins with a group of seven women, friends since medical school As the story progresses, Martin mentions each of women and their families, but keeps the story relatively

about the unrealistic body images of the stars of Main Squeeze (a reality TV show in which a single woman His endearingly strong sense of duty complicates his mission as he tries to save those in need, avoid becoming emotionally entangled with a smart young woman who is out of his league socially, and keep

But the women's impassioned brunchtime discussion about the plot of Finlay's suspense novel--along with The woman mistakenly interprets what's happening and leaves Finlay with a mysterious note implying that

vineyard and also features racy reads from the 1980s in the form of past and current book clubs for women Women explore traditional roles and push back against infuriating chauvinism; characters consider their Blush also focuses on racy reads from the 1980s in the form of past and current book clubs for women,

She loves true crime podcasts and dates a variety of women from dating apps.

mentions of endless projects, ideas, collaborations, and plans make clear she's one of the hardest working women Another Dolly-focused book I'd like to read is She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who

Thistlefoot is a strange, epic, often dark adventure tale with roots in Jewish folklore, and puppets She is only a woman. Sometimes, one cannot know until retelling what was right and what was wrong.

The swirl of events draws other innocent young women into Miryem's complicated web and toward potential