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The everyday-person/famous-person love is a favorite trope of mine, and Norman adds emotional complexities

despite the fact that the number of unresolved homicides were growing exponentially across the country every Reading List Six Compelling Nonfiction Reads--and stay tuned for my upcoming list of Six Nonfiction Bossy Favorites

Barnes's eerie science fiction novel Ghost Station; and I'm listening to Emily Henry's newest delightful Henry's Beach Read was one of my favorite books the year I read it, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading

, hope and forgiveness, being true to oneself and growing up, and of course love. ...we should grab every while navigating the sparkly idea--and messy reality--of romance, with the inspiration of her mom's favorite

What are your favorite witchy stories? Danger and darkness lurk around every corner. The Last Graduate is the second book in the Scholomance series. The Golden Enclaves, the third book in the series, was published in fall 2022. 04 The Year of the Witching The atmospheric descriptions of the remote, tiny town created an eerie, claustrophobic feeling.

Jessica Knoll is also the author of Luckiest Girl Alive , The Favorite Sister , and American Girl .

Do you have any favorite cold-setting books? There's a second book in this Naomi Cottle series, The Butterfly Girl, which I haven't yet read, and Disappearing Earth is a story that is as much about the varied cast of characters, the closed-off, remote The very existence of Hurley's images is incredible; the glass plate negatives lasted through months

We read aloud Barbara Robinson's 1971 holiday classic every Christmas season around here, and I love it every single time. is a favorite moment in the story.

best-friendship between Jess and Fizzy (Felicity) is one of the funniest aspects and was one of my favorite My favorite book to date by this writing team is the lovely Autoboyography.

Alternative Arthurian legends twist through this first in a young adult fantasy series, but what hooked reading Silver in the Bone, with its Arthurian references, during the same period I was reading another (very The book ends on a cliffhanger, setting up book two, which will hopefully be published in 2024 and which

This book made my Greedy Reading List of My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads.

Photographic History by Ken Burns Our America is a collection of some of treasured filmmaker Ken Burns's favorite range of experiences from our 200 years of American history. 03 The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World by Lonely Planet The Travel Book is a 2021 stunner from Lonely Planet, and this Since then I've also watched him in the movie Meru and in the TV series Edge of the Unknown.

Do you have any favorite short story collections I should read? We get to know something about life in contemporary Britain through the varied interconnected friendships here for my full review of Festival Days. 03 You Have a Friend in 10A by Maggie Shipstead Shipstead's varied The tones of each captivating story vary wildly, whether lighthearted with an edge or tragic and dark Maggie Shipstead is also the author of Astonish Me, Seating Arrangements, and Great Circle, one of my favorite

corruption in Russia and the significant repercussions of doing so; The Guide, a new book by one of my favorite after the events of his book The River as main character Jack serves as a fishing guide at an elite but eerie The Guide is a literary thriller by one of my favorite authors, in which Jack (from Heller's book The I hope you'll join me in my adoration of Peter Heller's varied books, including his thrilling, character-driven

This book is listed in my Greedy Reading List My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads.

Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality Six of My Favorite

The Five-Star Bossy Favorites Someone asked me a while back if I ever give five-star ratings to the books These are my six five-star Bossy reads so far in 2022. What made them your favorites? Every heart-stopping moment; every exquisite detail; the characters' growth, emotional distance, and

by Elizabeth Strout Elizabeth Strout is one of my favorite authors, and this recently published book The section of limericks centered around dogs and their rude behavior isn't my favorite so far, but I

written by chefs and by people who are obsessed with food, and the books listed here are some of my favorites and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl Garlic and Sapphires may be my favorite Then the layers of crisp and sweet and soft intermingle, a series of surprises. Confidential thirteen years ago, well before I spent endless evenings happily watching multiple television series Reichl includes her own photographs and some of her favorite recipes, which together make the book feel

Do you have any favorite books that involve revenge? I loved this book and am eagerly awaiting another in this series from Walschots. Anna is a hench. Derek and Isiah were estranged from their ex-con fathers, each of whom now regret every moment they didn't loved his gritty, character-driven mystery-thriller Blacktop Wasteland so much that it made my Six Favorite

With the exception of Sawbones, each of these books was published in 2022. The inclusion of the viewer and the science focus reminds me of a different but favorite book gift of Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine by Sydnee McElroy and Justin McElroy This is a 2020

More More Memoirs You can find other memoirs I've read and reviewed, including multiple lists of my favorites

I recently listed some of my favorite romantic, light stories in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Light

Hardinger's All the Forgivenesses, which I mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Backlist Favorites

Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality Six of My Favorite

era when this was not the norm, and the details of her care for new mothers and babies was one of my favorite

radar, French is the author of six Dublin Murder Squad books (In the Woods, The Likeness--this is my favorite was a series until after the fact, it stands so well on its own. Panowich also wrote Like Lions and Hard Cash Valley, the next two books in this series. What mystery/suspense reads have been your favorites lately? These were all so good and so different--they were my favorites from 2019, in the general order of when

Every choice he makes is to further his chances of snatching the next fix. This book made my Greedy Reading List for My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads.

learned to run the Hamptons store Barefoot Contessa--necessitating extended time apart from Jeffrey and a very Samantha Harvey Samantha Harvey's novel Orbital is garnering attention as the winner of the Booker Prize 2024

Doctors and Friends was written before the Covid-19 pandemic and published in the fall of 2021. It's possible very little in the book was changed in light of real-world events, but, and maybe this is unreasonable, but I very much wished that Martin's pre-Covid-19 version of events had been purely technological advancements that allowed for the scientists' and government's responses in the novel, and I'd very

Jordan's husband, who is home in Maine caring for their gravely ill child and preparing for that child's very At the very end of the book, the character's name is revealed. Interestingly, in that book, the main protagonist is a struggling writer who is drawn to two very different

culinary origins; his experiences starring in the food-focused movies Big Night and Julie and Julia; and varied Listening to the author read his favorite recipes rather than reading them myself didn't leave me with

Here are some of my favorite books on this theme. Either to change a world--many, many worlds, each touched by the choices I make in my life, for every deed a consequence, and in every love and every sorrow truth--or nothing at all.” emotionally invested in Nora's story although I appreciated the implications of her experiences and was very Very very happy.

:D Wishing you and yours very happy holidays—and great reading!

challenges, How to Lose Your Mother ; I'm listening to Lyla Sage's Western rom-com, the first in a series In 2023, Erica was diagnosed with dementia, and Molly's husband was diagnosed with a rare cancer. Dusted (Rebel Blue Ranch #1) by Lyla Sage In the first book in Lyla Sage's modern-day Western romance series There are three more books in this series. 03 O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker I bought O Caledonia at

Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year I'd love to hear: What are some of your favorite memoir reads?

Ursa's own son Ray is shown some favoritism but is kept in the dark about his mother's ability.

Elizabeth McCracken; I'm reading A Psalm for the Wild-Built, the first in Becky Chambers's Monk and Robot series The Hero of This Book faces the sale of the family home in New England and travels to her mother's favorite Chambers is also the author of the Wayfarers series; click here to read my review of The Long Way to

The section of limericks centered around dogs and their rude behavior wasn't my favorite, but I sometimes

The very early scene-setting didn't feel as authentic to me as the rest of the book. afterward, she says "...that [old] January probably would've slathered herself in glitter, put on her favorite The sections of this light fiction book that are about writing light fiction felt very true and real.

I love a peek at a secret world, and each of these books offers that very thing. I'd love to hear: What are your favorite (fiction or nonfiction) books about tough lady spies? found it really satisfying. 04 The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah The Nightingale is Kristin Hannah's very I would have been in favor of having the romantic element being tied up without the Eve aspect, or having

This is a departure from many of my other Greedy Reading Lists: witchy books, young adult favorites, Her, waiting on the street in Paris while he visits his favorite bookstore but she's too sickly to climb

Meanwhile, Sera realizes that a very old spell exists that could restore her powers. More from Sangu Mandanna Sangu Mandanna is also the author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

thoughtful and self-effacing, curious, sensitive, and I reveled in his explorations of his own glorious favoritism

last year's gritty, character-driven mystery-thriller Blacktop Wasteland so much that it made my Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads list. Derek and Isiah were estranged from their ex-con fathers, each of whom now regret every moment they didn't

I recently listed some of my favorite romantic, light stories in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Light

Along with number rituals and frequent mental images of scenes from her favorite children's book, tracking

Either to change a world--many, many worlds, each touched by the choices I make in my life, for every deed a consequence, and in every love and every sorrow truth--or nothing at all.” emotionally invested in Nora's story although I appreciated the implications of her experiences and was very Very very happy.

are two other Bossy Bookworm Greedy Reading Lists you might enjoy: Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series Which witchy books are your favorites? 01 The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. There is a lot more sexy yoga here than I could have dreamed of, plenty of romance, so very much wine I think the second book in the All Souls series (Shadow of Night) is even stronger, as it delves more There are four books in this series from Harkness, and I found the others even more magical than this

made it onto two Greedy Reading Lists: Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year and My Twelve Favorite 2020 Books.