My very favorite books from August! These are the books I most loved reading during the past month. In Life After Life, Atkinson focuses on the character of Ursula, her relationships with members of her I mentioned Life After Life in the Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life For my full review of this book, please see Life After Life. 05 Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon For more summer reads, check out the Greedy Reading List Six Lighter Fiction Stories for Great Escapism

the last day of high school, and senior nemeses Rowan Roth and Neil McNair have battled bitterly for every allows both Rowan and Neil to notice aspects of the other that aren't so infuriating and off-putting after

"You don't know how beautiful you are" types of lines; unrealistically convenient run-ins; not-dead-after-all

conflicts to consider at the story's close: duty, corrupt power, the suffering of the common people, regret after Maisie Dobbs is a formidable, dogged, whip-smart investigator working to ferret out the truth in the aftermath to care deeply about them, their roles in the wartime efforts, and their potential for various happy-ever-afters is one of several civil servants offered a mysterious job: she'll be a handler for expats--and paid very

a fantasy story, Long Live Evil ; I'm reading Liz Moore's newest mystery, set in a 1975 Adirondack summer . 02 The God of the Woods by Liz Moore In August 1975, a teenage girl disappears from her Adironack summer

is over and the knaffea is just a pleasant memory—like a lovely dream that you forget a few seconds after Bourdain does have sordid tales to tell, but he seems less puffed up over his kitchen war stories after I pledged after reading this book I wasn't going to forget to not eat fish on Sunday or Monday because of supply and delivery patterns (I did forget this, but now after rereading my original review I'm reminded written a memoir about marriage, unexpected yearnings, and the messy process of finding herself again after

hasn't told anyone that her ADHD impulsiveness led her to pack up and leave her barrel-racing career after Emmy's reinvigorated, independent new outlook--and I acknowledge that a rugged ranch setting might very minor point, but it felt both condescending and potentially (creepily) fatherly to me within their very

rooms of the Roosevelt White House (which, Bloom recounts in interviews, functioned more like a not-very-fancy never even wielded a scalpel He'll learn more from Sister Margarite--who he's falling for--than he ever hasn't killed anyone, he hasn't been arrested, and in fact, none of last night's events have happened after After I finished reading, I kept thinking about the characters and their realizations, compromises, and

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Because I love the series so very much, I have separate posts for Martha Wells's Murderbot series, set After all, the Vanguards, giant, deadly AI robots, are headed from deep space to destroy Earth at any I love that the crew of the Wayfarer feels like a close-knit group of summer camp counselors somehow,

she's got six-year-old Evie and a fierce baby monster, Faze, tagging along with her with her through every

Yara is put on probation at the college where she is an assistant art history teacher after calling out

You might want to check out all the titles on My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for my very favorite job, offering incredibly lucrative terms and making demands about having the biography released only after After twists and turns, momentous changes, and several years, Elizabeth is a single mother who becomes After Hitler's invasion of Russia and the Ukraine, Mila, along with so many others, enlists to fight Surmounting challenge after challenge, Mila ultimately becomes a sniper trainer and a lethal hunter of

My very favorite books from March! Every heart-stopping moment; every exquisite detail; the characters' growth, emotional distance, and various early road bumps he encountered, and his dogged determination--which was admittedly shaken after landing very few and consistently stereotypical roles. Reporter Sunny's connection to the two performers and their past was intriguing, and I very much enjoyed

set in the early 20th century, as Violet, a young ship's stewardess bent on providing for her family after

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but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every She considers every desperate plan she can to try to save Kasia from this horrible fate, knowing all

boys for over a century, shares a tale of racial injustice, abuse and horrors, terrible fear, and the very we are somebody, that we are significant, that we are worthful, and we must walk the streets of life every

In Lauren Goff's The Vaster Wilds, a servant girl has fled her colonial household in the brutal aftermath Or is someone really after her? But the side hustle is more complicated than Millie ever imagined--and the students under her watch in

have felt over the top, but as usual, I was putty in Taylor Jenkins Reid's hands, ready to embrace every

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to herself--she's kind of cynical, she doesn't have a lot of friends, and she's holding true to form after hasn't killed anyone, he hasn't been arrested, and in fact, none of last night's events have happened after

disappears to locate their children, and meanwhile Frida gives birth to an unusual child, Wanda, named after potential destruction possible, but Frida couldn't have imagined the unraveling of society that takes place after Whoever he is, the man seems very clearly to know Isla well--and he says he's messaging her from the

​ Julia Phillips's interconnected stories follow in chapters that take place each month for a year after second in this Lucas Page series, Under Pressure--and I didn't even realize this was a series until after

I didn't connect the first book's beloved characters to these characters until very late in the book. author of a rom-com I adored, Better Than the Movies , the cute Betting on You  and also Happily Never After

I loved every bit of Chakraborty's first novel about willful, sometimes grumpy pirate Amina al-Sirafi visions and health, and the appearance of Amina's demon of an ex husband, and it's more imperative than ever dangers as she's forced to trust and lean on each of them to defeat a witch more powerful than Amina ever

Three decades after her Highfield days, Lou receives a surprising phone call.

ICYMI: When tough, stubborn Alex Stern is offered a new start after surviving a mysterious multiple homicide

powerful novel Landslide, about a modern Maine family in a remote fishing village coping with challenge after Conley's novel Landslide offers a portrait of a modern family in a remote fishing village in Maine after While facing what feels like disaster after disaster, Jill struggles to give her boys the support, structure

01 The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken After her larger-than-life mother's death, the narrator able to answer this enormous question, but the robot wonders if the matter is really so complicated after

Kline's poignant, lovely book explores a family's emotional missteps and enduring love after a painful Harriet Kline's This Shining Life tracks Ollie's attempts to make sense of things after his father Rich's

Ko is an Indigenous man who is taken advantage of time after time.

combat, wisdom, and other elements of Viking legends to anyone she encounters; and she models her life after The characters, the story arc that isn’t too easy but leaves you in a promising place after all, and in a hidden-away bookstore--and he's the first person in almost three hundred years to remember her after she walks out the door, the next day, and every day afterward. This title was also listed in My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads.

a hole if you lose them- the same way a painting or a photograph will leave its shadows on the wall after Through the very different but interconnected storylines and the varied, complicated set of characters

Immaculate Conception explores art and inspiration; how trauma shapes us; the fraught prospect of altering But the company's business is in cutting-edge technology tied to brain-altering treatments related to

Barnes's eerie science fiction novel Ghost Station; and I'm listening to Emily Henry's newest delightful But could their shared pain lead to a friendship after all?

They were all in the closet, with the minuscule footed pajamas and hand-knit baby hats, and every day Klay's National Book Award winner Redeployment, the author shares short stories about war and life afterward powerful emotions, troops haunted by decisions and unforeseen dangers, painful adjustments to life after

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Emiko Jean's Tokyo Ever After, in which Japanese-American teen 01 Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean Emiko Jean's Tokyo Ever After is the story of Izumi (Izzy) Tanaka, After all, last time around, all kinds of horrible things happened as she dug into (and solved, thank you very much) the mystery of the Andie Bell and Sal Singh case. Pip is still producing her popular podcast, but after the trial, she's convinced that she'll be finished

infuriating, as they not only do terrible things but consistently twist the knife by bragging or threatening after

And while an attempt to understand the underpinnings of these conflicts feels more timely than ever, After all, who can identify reason anymore?

about overcoming thwarted emotional connection and forging new ways of coming together through and after

As the young men in The Lincoln Highway face challenge after challenge, they grow, learn, and fight for Things continue to go awry for Emmett and Billy as they meet hiccup after hiccup in their plan, and they

along with what I thought were perfect amounts of self-actualization and character development, without ever Vengeance Road is a rough and tumble story with enough suspense that I wasn't ever confident that the The before and after of certain pivotal events almost felt like two separate books, but I was hooked

Danger and darkness lurk around every corner for grumpy, powerful El and her classmates. Golden Enclaves, the third installment of the series, the unlikely allied force of students faces the aftermath

But when unexpected events lead her to leave the only home she's ever known in order to save her genetic her brother's subversive genius of a friend, and a lonely alien force Kyr to reexamine all that she's ever Eye by Etaf Rum Yara is put on probation at the college where she is an assistant art history teacher after

wants to do more: she wants to help the British Control Commission rebuild what they can in Germany after Edith comes up with a brazen way she can be both visible and invisible--by establishing her alter ego But when her kind husband passes away suddenly just after the wedding, pregnant Elsie and her husband's

After Hitler's invasion of Russia and the Ukraine, Mila, along with so many others, enlists to fight Surmounting challenge after challenge, Mila ultimately becomes a sniper trainer and a lethal hunter of Her estranged husband is improbably ever-present, and he felt too easy to detest, but he serves his purpose

Atkinson is also the author of Case Histories, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Life After Life, Human

aimed to help her sleep during this difficult time induces an incredible side effect: when she sleeps after

I devoured this in a rainy afternoon. He's already seen how convincing her writing can be, after all--she's got everyone fooled. premise in which a famous person dates a not-famous person: Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan and Very