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Several years after saying goodbye, Anna is struggling to pay for her father's cancer treatment and has More Great Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading Six of My Favorite Light Fictions Reads of the Past Year Six More of My Favorite Light Fiction Reads of the Past Year Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect

If you've read any of these, I'd love to hear what you think! And I'd also love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? Zamora keeps us in his nine-year-old perspective, which also serves to keep us focused on moment-by-moment discomfort (he is tired, cold, hot, burned, thirsty, hungry), emotional turmoil (he feels loneliness, fear , concern, disconnectedness), and yearning (he is desperate for trust, for assurances, for safety and

Arden is also the author of the Winternight trilogy, which I loved: The Bear and the Nightingale, The afternoon, and included it in my Greedy Reading Lists Six of My Favorite Light Fiction Reads from the Past Year , Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading, and My Bossy Favorite Reads of Summer the year I read it.

missteps and forging a path forward while adjusting to romantic, family, and work complications after a year She's focused on extending her one year of sobriety--a fact that she doesn't share easily with others

Charlotte is faced with an unexpected client: Lady Ingram, the wife of Charlotte's dear friend and benefactor This series invites comparisons to another fantastic Victorian-era-set mystery series featuring a strong

Truly Devious series, skilled amateur high school sleuth Stevie Bell is in denial about her senior-year For much of the book, Stevie is in denial about the implications of her senior year and looming future

After that, he spent years drowning his sorrows in drink, and now that he's had three heart attacks, of the wonderful novel Unlikely Animals , which was one of my Bossy Favorite Fiction Reads of the Year collection of essays The Anthropocene Reviewed (which was one of my six favorite nonfiction reads the year

But she's been seeing and hearing visions for a year now, and she believes they're linked to the curse housekeeping, but she doesn't tell Arthur that she's been dreaming of the decrepit, rambling house for years

Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year I'd love to hear: What are some of your favorite memoirs? 01 Here For It by R. I listened to this as an audiobook, and I loved hearing Field tell her story. Pan decided to deliberately put herself into extremely uncomfortable social situations for a year, and She regrets her one-year plan almost instantly but feels compelled to continue her terrifying exercises

Harpman's novel I Who Have Never Known Men , forty women (one is a young girl, our main protagonist) live year after year as prisoners in an underground cage.

She fell into the job years ago while trying to find herself--after a youth in which her father died, this title) serves up depth: grief and loss, fractured futures, clinging to familial relationships, fearing

Jimenez love Jimenez is also the author of Just for the Summer   (one of my Favorite Rom-Coms of the Year  last year), Part of Your World , Yours Truly , The Friend Zone , and The Happy-Ever-After Playlist

For one year when they're young adults, the sisters reach mindboggling heights of fame as the pop duo Twenty years later, Zoe is a housewife and Cassie is a recluse who hasn't spoken to her sister at all

codebreaking story featuring a tenuous dragon-human truce; and I'm listening to the romance My Oxford Year edition of A Language of Dragons courtesy of HarperCollins Children's Books and NetGalley. 03 My Oxford Year I'm listening to My Oxford Year as an audiobook.

In a fascinating, heartwarming, lovely account, Tomlinson spends three years traveling dog shows across Westminster, and then to their inevitable goodbye as Striker retires and heads home to his owners after years

The Passenger, the first of Cormac McCarthy's two books in his Passenger series, both released last year The Passenger is the first of Cormac McCarthy's two books in his Passenger series, both released last year I keep hearing about how fascinating Dr. Nagoski's nonfiction is.

I'm reading the upcoming Hello Beautiful, fiction about trying to overcome past trauma and tragedy by Dear When he meets Julia in his freshman year of college, she pulls him into her high-spirited, joy-filled Napolitano is also the author of Dear Edward, a heartbreaking and lovely book I adored.

Every year, ever since the girls were born, I have blown out the candles on my birthday cake and wished the unthinkable is happening: Edi is dying from ovarian cancer and living out her days in a hospice near I fell in love years ago with Newman's blog about her life, family and kids, Ben and Birdy, and I loved

reflects on her complicated, sometimes fraught yet affectionate relationship with her dad, her youthful yearning Her memoir focuses largely on her younger years, including her youthful passion for acting and her path also explores her mainly positive, almost dreamlike Saturday Night Live years, her writing and collaboration I've become a huge fan of listening to memoirs in audiobook form so I can hear the author's words about Memoirs to Explore, Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into, Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year

Margot is from "the Outer Banks" of North Carolina and is finishing her freshman year in college at a She's still reeling from the loss of her best friend Eliza, who died a year earlier. She's spent her first year at school holing up and studying, maintaining a quiet life. By the time their sophomore year is half over, one of the fraternity boys from next door is dead, Lucy

include interconnected characters in their stories; one nonfiction book I've been meaning to read for years Click here for my full review of This Time Tomorrow. 03 The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Seventeen-year-old Lenni Pettersson lives in the terminal ward at the Glasgow Princess Royal Hospital Collectively they've been around 100 years, but this just doesn't feel like enough, and they each want Gwynne explores the forty-year battle between white settlers and Native Americans in the American West

I found myself yearning for more from this meet cute, but I loved the New York City details--complete The Moonstruck references were fantastic. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book?

Spears's slim memoir offers vulnerability, the shocking details of her now-infamous 13-year conservatorship dynamics, the growth of her explosive fame--and the shocking loss of freedom and rights she suffered for years estate, her finances, and her business decisions in the now-infamous conservatorship that lasted over 13 years Musicians' Memoirs that Sing Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year

Could she spend regular time in the water near him, successfully reminding him of her identity and thereby We track back through time to witness Wren's younger years, then farther back to understand Wren's mother's

I've had a fantastic reading month. If you've read any of these, I'd love to hear what you think! And I'd also love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? His rock-bottom--it isn't a moment; it feels as though he drags the bottom for years--sets up a situation

Tens of millions of people died of tuberculosis in those years. collection of essays The Anthropocene Reviewed  (which was one of my six favorite nonfiction reads  the year

missing persons detective in denial about the fact that her job has overtaken her personal life for years Delights by Ross Gay Ross Gay resolved to write about a joy or delight, large or small, every day for a year complicated expressions of loss and grief, and attempts to uncover what truly happened on that fateful day years When a fresh tragedy occurs, it brings the pain and terrible mystery of years past swirling back to wreak it's a temporary break or permanent--yet she is able to sit within the feeling that Connell and their years

Kate Quinn is the author of the fantastic titles The Diamond Eye , The Huntress , The Rose Code , and

Three years after his death, she traveled to a remote Australian island--where she had once considered Geraldine Brooks love Geraldine Brooks is also the author of the novels People of the Book , Horse , Year

Her take on the events and dynamics of the past few years is valuable explanation for the reader. Dolly Alderton is also the author of Everything I Know about Love, Ghosts, and Dear Dolly.

But the year-old mysterious disappearance of Kim Gillespie, a young woman from the area, hooks Falk and 02 The Dream Builders by Oindrila Mukherjee Maneka Roy has temporarily returned to India after six years But others' visions for the story involve her eco-warrior main character morphing into a teen beauty wearing

This is the story of the worst year of my life. Throughout her childhood, Molly found herself yearning for more time with her busy, glamorous mother. But Erica was focused on basking in the success of her book Fear of Flying , and Molly spied her mother

She had a job she excelled at, offering care and steadiness at the nursing home; she and her dear lifelong Over the course of the next year, each of those who had been closest to her and who are left behind struggles

librarian who makes waves in France; and for my book club I'm reading Jesmyn Ward's novel, set in the years rice plantation of her white enslaver, and when he turns his attention to her in lascivious ways, she fears

her mother have run their farm in Coalfield, Tennessee, ever since Mad's father disappeared twenty years Three years later, she traveled to a remote Australian island to sit with Tony's journals, dive into Geraldine Brooks is also the author of the novels People of the Book , Horse , Year of Wonders , and

In James , Percival Everett's retelling of the Mark Twain novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , we hear , Wounded , The Trees , and other books. 03 Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe Margo is a 19-year-old

New York settlement to meet up with her father, who has been building business connections there for years can't fight her immediate attraction to the no-nonsense Nathaniel Bonner, a white man dressed in Mohawk gear

out these other Bossy Bookworm Greedy Reading Lists: Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved in the Past Year and Simon the Fiddler. 02 Fallen Land by Taylor Brown Taylor Brown's debut novel is set in the final year Callum, an Irish horse thief, fled to America an orphan at fifteen years old. Weller has developed a graphic novel adaptation of this book, to be published this year. 04 Gilead by also mentioned this book in the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Novels I Loved in the Past Year

Maisie Dobbs begins Winspear's series as a thirteen-year-old servant in a Belgravia mansion, taken in plausible human nature, the postponement of facing the difficult truth of her loved one's plight for years upon years didn't feel like a Maisie-type reaction, and I found myself simultaneously not fully buying Jacqueline Winspear is the author of 18 Maisie Dobbs novels as well as a memoir, This Time Next Year

I was on a big, fun family trip to the UK, exploring castles in Outlander country, visiting dear friends 01 Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens Practical, tough sixteen-year-old Bridget arrives in 1877 Dodge City Set in the American West. 02 Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller Alosa is a seventeen-year-old are the stars of the popular paranormal television show Intangible, and for multiple seasons they've yearned

01 Sandwich by Catherine Newman Rocky's family has been vacationing in Cape Cod for twenty years. She's built years of happy memories in their low-key beach house rental. This year, she's sandwiched between her half-grown children and her aging parents. And the carefree vacations of the past feel light years away, because Rocky's menopausal rage threatens

But the year-old mysterious disappearance of Kim Gillespie, a young woman from the area, hooks Falk and Meanwhile Harper explores loyalty, procedural details related to the past and near past, beginnings and

Kate Quinn is also the author of the fantastic titles The Rose Code, The Diamond Eye, and The Alice His wife Elisabeth fears his involvement in the resistance that plans to assassinate Hitler. into the gruff but hopeful mindset of a young woman forced to grow up too quickly--a woman who for years

I spend most of the year focusing on fiction titles, with a healthy dose of memoirs and some nonfiction All of these were published this year. Are you giving any cookbooks this year? Have you received any favorite cookbook gifts in years past? I'd love to hear! Last year I gave Barefoot Contessa's Cooking for Jeffrey as a gift, and it's not difficult to think of meal on another night. 06 Seinfeld: The Official Cookbook by Julie Tremaine and Brendan Kirby Last year

01 The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin Cronin's debut novel explores mortality Lenni and Margot  was one of my top twelve reads the year I read it. Seventeen-year-old Lenni Pettersson lives in the terminal ward at the Glasgow Princess Royal Hospital Collectively they've been around 100 years, but this just doesn't feel like enough, and they each want For my full review of this book, please see The One Hundred Years of Lennie and Margot .

Kindle at the moment: a turn-of-the century story about outlaws, finding identity, eschewing societal fears I'd love to hear which books you're reading and enjoying these days, bookworms! 01 Outlawed by Anna North It's 1894, and seventeen-year-old Ada is a newlywed, falling into the path Ojibwe medicine and her brave willingness to go undercover, Daunis will unearth dark secrets that could tear

When I heard its premise, I feared that this book might possibly be offbeat for the sake of being offbeat Before I read this, I went with some members of my book club and other friends to hear Kevin Wilson speak This book was listed in the Greedy Reading List Six More Great Fiction Titles I Loved This Year.

Abriel offers a vivid account of the fear and dread—intermixed with sparks of hope—that sustained Vera Set during the bleak years of 1939-1942 in London and on the strategic island of Malta, Everyone Brave Light We Cannot See; The Women in the Castle, which includes a complicated element of bravery; and the fantastic fiction of all types, you might like to check out Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved in the Past Year and Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year.

01 Head Over Heels by Hannah Orenstein Nineteen-year-old Avery Abrams was set to be the next big gymnastics For the next few years she dabbled in college, she partied, she drifted, she dated a professional football The premise of Dear Emmie Blue made me wonder if the story would feel too far-fetched. For my full review, please see Dear Emmie Blue. She's in--for a fantastic wardrobe, incredibly awkward moments, scripted romance, and a beautiful Malibu

Blacktop Wasteland is a fantastic blend of realistic complications, mistakes, adjustments, and spunk. sixties band on its rocky rise to popularity, particularly through exploring its members' crises, joys, fears He has a precious old girl of a dog, a fascination with (and healthy fear of) coyotes, a love of reading simultaneously wanted to scoop up Luna and take care of her and to follow the lead of this wise-beyond-her-years She has a unique and lovely voice and is an irresistibly odd bird of a twelve-year-old girl.