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- Review of Landslide by Susan Conley
only complicate Jill and Kit's finances, but threaten Kit's identity and shake the family's sense of personal
- Six More Powerful Books About Facing Mortality
this enormous loss--which occurred days after Ghebreyesus's fiftieth birthday surprise party--and her personal
- Review of Revelations by Mary Sharratt
Sharratt injects an undercurrent of what feels like modern feminism in her first-person story.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/7/22 Edition
His personal situation is complicated by his grief for his recently deceased daughter, and he aims to
- Review of Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
intrigued by the peeks at various groups that inspire fanaticism, but I found myself wishing for more first-person
- Review of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers #1) by Becky Chambers
make room in the mix for Rosemary, who's grateful--and who's frankly glad to leave her significant personal
- Shhh! Bossy Book Gift Ideas: Science and the Natural World
to each other and to our earth while highlighting the pivotal contributions to science by woman and persons
- Review of Wholehearted Faith by Rachel Held Evans
Wholehearted Faith was most powerful to me when it centered around Evans's personal anecdotes and experiences
- Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading
Hazel is a strong personality, and I found myself bristling at her questioning whether she's too much Autoboyography (another favorite and a young adult LGBTQ+ gem). 05 Beach Read by Emily Henry Is it fair for a person
- Review of The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
about the nature of their relationship, the groom's reticence to commit, and the reporter's painful personal Her plan is shifted by the arrival of another person she feels she must care for, at which point she polis, and I had started keeping an unofficial tally in my head of how much I trusted each new white person
- Review of How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
His personal situation is complicated by his grief for his recently deceased daughter, and he aims to
- Review of Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren
Hazel is a strong personality, but I found myself bristling at her questioning whether she's too much She wavers between being an unapologetically big personality bursting with joy and essentially asking But I didn't love that a man was swooping in to help cement that who she was as a person was acceptable
- Review of Long Bright River by Liz Moore
and a string of murders rock the community, Mickey's need to solve the mystery becomes relentless and personal the community, everyone is suspect and Mickey's desire to solve the mystery becomes relentless and personal
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/22/20 Edition
She's not satisfied in her job, she's unhappily single, she still lives with her parents--and she just kissed
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/2/21 Edition
and master the spells they've been taught by their witchy grandmother, while also navigating various personal So far, this is a slow climb toward a societal calamity (in the form of the plague) and personal tragedy
- Review of Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
Guest Room, I still haven't read many others I want to: a book about the Armenian genocide that is personal
- Review of An Altar in the World by Barbara Brown Taylor
I loved that book even more than this one because I felt that Taylor's personality came through in it
- Review of Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1) by Sylvain Neuvel
Neuvel explores concepts of personal responsibility, how the possibility of life beyond Earth affects
- Review of Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir by Bob Odenkirk
Odenkirk shares intriguing details about what he has experienced professionally (with a little personal
- Six More Satisfying Novels about Revenge
After four decades of successfully ridding the world of cruelty and destruction one person at a time,
- Shhh! Bossy Nonfiction Book Gift Ideas
This personal account of his experiences digs into moments that have shaped his life, his goals, and
- Review of Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell by Tom Clavin
This likely goes without saying, but a significant personal interest in Tombstone and the main players Reading this book reinforced the fact that my personal taste leans more toward character-driven historical
- Review of The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Almost any house, caught unexpectedly or at an odd angle, can turn a deeply humorous look on a watching person
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/21/22 Edition
Delving into Meena's story makes clear to Smita that tradition continues to overpower personal choice
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/1/21 Edition
The situation may lead to personal and career frustration--and maybe something closer to heartbreak.
- Review of Who Is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews
When she implodes her publishing career on a destructive whim, then lucks into a position as a personal
- Review of A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam
The process of letting go of a person was always done in gradual stages, from what he'd seen, from the
- Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore
This Time Tomorrow indulged my own personal desire for sentimentality, while also emphasizing the value
- Review of Very Sincerely Yours by Kerry Winfrey
When others' decisions set Teddy adrift even further, she's forced to consider her life and the person
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/5/21 Edition
civilization and safety--and as she considers what it would mean to try to cobble together some version of personal
- Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading
and they've been dating long-distance while Harriet pursues her residency and Win, a furniture repair person
- February Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
to prepare for their upcoming nuptials, it doesn't take long for them to realize that Art has been kissing
- Review of The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
back together after grave betrayals and years of broken trust, and they're each navigating various personal women, smugly and sneakily instills fear, and stokes the fires of disturbance, all while holding a personal
- Review of The Great Mistake by Jonathan Lee
He constantly feels that he must disguise and push down his personal and professional desires, and this
- Six Book Club Books I Loved in 2021
Here are my personal book club favorites from last year. civilization and safety--and as she considers what it would mean to try to cobble together some version of personal
- Review of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
draw, she cannot disturb the snow by walking through it, she cannot even say her true name to another person Then Addie meets a young man in a hidden-away bookstore--and he's the first person in almost three hundred
- April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
her marriage, weaving in the history and the future while she acknowledges that any story is only one person's
- Review of Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
Ford feels an intense desire to be her own person, someone both of and separate from her challenging
- Review of The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
a faithful man who disagrees with the politics of the faith at the time, but most essentially as a person
- My Twelve Favorite 2020 Books
and take care of her and to follow the lead of this wise-beyond-her-years, intensely spiritual young person the community, everyone is suspect and Mickey's desire to solve the mystery becomes relentless and personal Kathi Kannon is a character with a big, wacky personality who also struggles with addiction. draw, she cannot disturb the snow by walking through it, she cannot even say her true name to another person Then Addie meets a young man in a hidden-away bookstore--and he's the first person in almost three hundred
- Yet Another Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads from the Past Year
This Time Tomorrow indulged my own personal desire for sentimentality, while also emphasizing the value
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/24/21 Edition
She feels an intense desire to be her own person, someone both of and separate from her challenging beginnings
- Six More Four-Star (and Up) Historical Fiction Reads I Loved in the Past Year
Sharratt injects an undercurrent of what feels like modern feminism in her first-person story.
- Six Historical Fiction Favorites
The subject matter is weighty and emotional, and McCann manages to make the story both personal and political
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/14/21 Edition
In What Doesn't Kill You, Miller explores the isolation of enduring chronic disease, her own personal
- Review of Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian
Feast, the difficult but riveting story The Guest Room, and a book about the Armenian genocide that is personal
- Review of The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
Adunni just needs that one glimmer; a spark; a single kindness; one person who really sees her to inspire
- October Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
science and faith; and a light fiction read about pen pals (and a modern-day Fred Rogers-esque television personality She weaves songs into her stories and personal history, and the placement of the music feels seamless
- Review of The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
but it's not the other-woman story you might expect. ...no matter how much Martine developed her own personality
- Review of The Beauty of Breaking: A Memoir by Michele Harper
advice with someone she's just met: going through rehab will be hard but you will want to be a better person any requirement for deep change from him, and she notes feeling "the freedom of knowing that another person's