of bided time, resistance, tragedy, abuse, resolve, and heartbreak, and Kidd grounds Handful in her mother's Handful and her mother are gifted seamstresses, somewhat more valuable than others on the plantation of her longtime ineptitude and inability to achieve any change in her own household for herself or others her fears of public speaking, it feels fitting that she does so in order to excoriate those enslaving others Sue Monk Kidd has also written other books, like The Secret Life of Bees, The Mermaid Chair, and The

Which other books should I add to my to-read robot book list? She's a little creaky and sore, sure, but she's ready to be reunited with the team, which includes her mother and the rest of her family, plus many others involved in the complex project. a puzzling murder and other strange occurrences that threaten their world. the other's history or personal motivations.

Which other books should I add to my science fiction to-read list? Now she must delve into the darkness of her history to try to save her mother--and uncover her own true When her mother disappears, Josie begins to track down the other Girls, and together the young women She's a little creaky and sore, sure, but she's ready to be reunited with the team, which includes her mother and the rest of her family, plus many others involved in the complex project.

for an extended period with Woodward, and there is an unhappy abandonment reaction expressed by his daughter --I can't recall if both daughters were interviewed or only Stephanie--that persisted for me through

But when the boss's daughter begins tinkering with precious resources, our main protagonist is swept

She's the primary caregiver for her father, who has Parkinson's disease; she pays the bills; her mother young-woman Maddie making her way in the world in London in Maame reminded me somewhat of Girl, Woman, Other

They love each other, but they are able to stay married only because they push down the memories of tragedies So he packs them into the car, enlists his grumbling grown daughter to help him, and hits the road. The lonely, broken characters reach out to each other. They're drawn to each other and discover unexpected joy, emotional intimacy, steaminess, and maybe even For my full review, please see Kills Well with Others .

Rom-Com Reads of the Year , and Six More of My Favorite Rom-Com Reads of the Year Have you loved any other in real life but now can't stand each other. But in real life, Shane and Lilah detest each other. I found the family dynamic related to her mother's demands of Elsie absurd. Margot Hammer, on the other hand, is miserable.

Crying in H Mart is a complicated, layered love letter to Zauner's mother, who is dying of colorectal Her other selves seem uncannily apt to die, so Cara is able to visit 372 other Earths where her counterparts Her mother Star is old friends with Walk and Vincent, and when Vincent reappears, the tenuous peace and She's good at crunching the numbers for work, taking care of her daughter, and leaning on her grandparents The best friends and their love interests delve into their complex connections with each of the others

A few other recent-ish memoirs on my to-read list that I'm particularly excited about are: Reasons to full review of this book, see In Pieces. 04 Blood by Allison Moorer "I'm still trying not to be the daughter Allison Moorer is a Grammy- and Academy Award-nominated singer-songwriter whose father killed her mother of an understanding of the people her parents were and the forces that shaped their lives (and their daughters place in the world, her responsibility to humans and animals, and how she might better the lives of others

Harriet and Win were attracted to each other from the start, but they spent ages trying to deny it for long-distance while Harriet pursues her residency and Win, a furniture repair person, helps his sick mother here, and you might like to check out its spot on Six More Great Light Fiction Stories plus the five other

brutalizing and intimidating classmates and teachers, smoking cigars, and drinking jug wine, among other watching an actress play the role of tough, questioning Imogene Herdman as she plays gruff, protective new mother

Her mother has died, and her father and friends have moved from Calcutta to Hrishipur, a booming city But others' visions for the story involve her eco-warrior main character morphing into a teen beauty

things to remain undisturbed; the intensity of love and annoyance of either being with the same two other the fanciful children's books in the Moomin series as well as the short stories and novels Sculptor's Daughter

the fifteen-year-old she was then--a choir member; a three-season athlete; an excellent student; the daughter In Notes on a Silencing, Crawford, now a wife and mother, considers the many infuriating, appalling intersections

Morton is also the author of The Clockmaker's Daughter, The Forgotten Garden, The Secret Keeper, The

Nessa's husband has died, and her twin daughters have left for college. She has a loving husband and a wonderful young daughter she adores.

Angry, confused, and filled with dread, Robin drags her daughter Haley back to Four Points in hopes of without her past desperation, she wouldn't have found the strength to persist and take care of her daughter

Her mother is a street-smart, scrabbling single parent, while Adina is an unusually perceptive child-

In order to keep her husband, young daughters, and partner safe, Elise may have to keep some crucial Wish For, Things You Save in a Fire, The Bodyguard, How to Walk Away, Happiness for Beginners, and other

life and schooling in wealthy Kenilworth, then Hotchkiss and Yale and beyond—and her search to help other practical surgeon Thomas begins speaking aloud and at length to his long-dead Indian relatives, his daughter Amina is called home to try to soothe him and help her mother figure out what's going on. Yet there are bright points: some rare friendships emerge, sisters build intense loyalty to each other I could have listed many other powerful books about immigrants (What Is the What, American Street, The

he calls himself "doctor"; his pleasant family pushes Sloane around regarding the wedding plans; his mother Yet by that point I was fully irritated by Arthur's careless cruelty--and others' eager exposure to it

You can click here for other historical fiction books I've reviewed on Bossy Bookworm. 01 Horse by Geraldine But Brooks also builds rich stories in each of the other interconnected timelines, as we see privileged Sharratt Sharratt offers vivid historical fiction details of the everyday life of Margery of Kempe, a mother No other book seemed to come up in conversation as frequently last year with my fellow book lovers as After twists and turns, momentous changes, and several years, Elizabeth is a single mother who becomes

Have you read any other rom-com or romantic novels that you loved? They're polar opposites, and they drive each other crazy. They haven't seen each other since. But Gwendoline and Arthur detest each other. fell into the job years ago while trying to find herself--after a youth in which her father died, her mother

She takes us through falling in love with her first husband Jay Molner, having their two daughters while work friendship with Matt Lauer, and her healthy professional competitiveness with Diane Sawyer and other I did find the personal, passing sharing of others' intimate details jarring, however (regarding lascivious

That is, until the cutthroat commanding general--who also happens to be Violet's mother--pushes her to You might also like these other books I've read and reviewed about dragons. 02 The Rachel Incident by

Do you have all-time favorite reads that you steadily recommend to others? The other doctors have all left. You might also be interested in other reads with World War I settings . 04 Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets You can also check out other memoirs I've read --and more musicians' memoirs . 05 Wrong Place, Wrong The story begins with a mother awaiting her teenage son's return home late one night.

But what if that isn't the whole story of Medea, the daughter of a sea nymph and granddaughter of a Titan

His mother died when he was young, and he has no memory of her. The weight put upon Hiram's inability to remember early moments with his mother felt unfair and its resolution of the real-life Still family for the family portrayed in The Water Dancer but refers the reader to other

Yunxian's eventual arranged marriage means she lives under the thumb of a controlling mother-in-law,

His personal situation is complicated by his grief for his recently deceased daughter, and he aims to strange, affecting situations, including those in which: the virus causes organs to transform into other in-between world of floating, nebulous memories that highlights humans’ struggles to connect to each other chance to look back on pivotal moments from their life, and some do so with regret or wistfulness, while others Characters appear in the backgrounds of others’ stories; a necklace disappears from one story in the

complicated, sometimes fraught yet affectionate relationship with her dad, her youthful yearning for would-be mother mainly positive, almost dreamlike Saturday Night Live years, her writing and collaboration with various other

Josie's studies and desire to learn more about her "virgin birth" drive a wedge between Josie and her mother Her mother's disappearance leads Josie to track down the other Girls, and together they discover strange , unique powers as they rely on each other and attempt to unravel their shared history.

I found the family dynamic related to her mother's demands of Elsie absurd.

Sharratt offers vivid historical fiction details of the everyday life of Margery of Kempe, a mother of begins to carefully share her vivid (and dangerously disruptive) loving religious visions with trusted others Julian's papers and her own visions; meeting largely with aggression, lies, and immense challenges; at other Sharratt has authored at least seven other historical fiction novels--including Illuminations, about

Gould grew up in Australia the daughter of a paramedic, and she follows in her father's footsteps, training Anthropocene Reviewed (which was one of my six favorite nonfiction reads the year I read it) as well as other took shape in the 1970s and 1980s and grew up to terrorize the Pacific Northwest--and, in some cases, other

and Simon the Fiddler are two more by Paulette Jiles that I've waxed poetic about on this blog, and others If you like historical fiction, check out these other Bossy Bookworm Greedy Reading Lists: Six Historical And which other books should I add to my Civil War historical fiction to-read list? This is a gentle, slow-paced story from the heart-wrenchingly gorgeous writer. 05 Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird Bird's Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen is based on the story of a real-life

points of view of the persecuted, disrespected, and dismissed: prostitutes, the poor, unwed teenage mothers Sometimes Dolly lets them fall, but other times her songs about freedom (with her metaphors of butterflies

Mary Sharratt also wrote Revelations, historical fiction about the life of Margery of Kempe, a mother

On the other hand, Max is always crashing in late for their dates and dashing off abruptly in the middle marry and settle down (something she has no interest in), main protagonist Grace heads to her deceased mother's Holmes inserts the reader directly into the joy and heartache of two people who adore each other and After twists and turns, momentous changes, and several years, Elizabeth is a single mother who becomes Garmus's characters test themselves and others, shy away from connection, dive into love, question the

She's facing her mother’s decline in health and exploring her own identity and meaning in her life, and As always, there are references to other parts of the David Mitchell universe, and the links to other She's Hollywood royalty, and her former movie star mother lives in a home on the same compound. Kolker ​ Robert Kolker retraces the lives of Mimi and Don Glavin as they raise their ten sons and two daughters She can serve as a muse; she can inspire music and art in others; she can learn what others want or need

collaboration, the characters of the president and Adams, political enemies, must quickly learn to trust each other I was particularly taken with the familial angle (Secretary of State Adams's daughter has taken over

Kin Stewart will have to break all the rules of time travel to preserve the existence of his daughter Now he lives life as a regular guy; he works in IT, he’s happily married, and he has a beloved daughter When he begins to have memory loss and other odd symptoms, he realizes it’s linked to his past time travel have to break all the rules of time travel to attempt the impossible: preserve the existence of his daughter

If you like those too, you might like to search the site for other books in this vein, or check out the Reliving-Life Stories or Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore. 03 Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other her children's health challenges and takes the reader through her son's emergence of epilepsy and her daughter's

is putting a damper on things, in Malibu, California, famous model and skilled surfer Nina Riva--the daughter Nina's parents' tangled love story, Nina's youth, her famous surfer/photographer siblings' stories, and others Stories about Bands and Music, as well as the books The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, After I Do, and others

After a terrible storm that took her mother's life, young Fable was abandoned by her father, who's a He becomes involved with the family whose daughter and ward died as he works to find clues, donning disguises

for the affluent Padgetts, who own the marble-mining company that employs Sylvie's father and many other secrets, and doing "one right thing," a way of navigating the world that Sylvie has learned from her mother

She's Barbara Van Lear, the daughter of the owners of the camp where many local residents work. house, she discovers a horrible tragedy--two of her sisters (one, her best friend) are dead and two others Other books that center around a podcast are Listen for the Lie   (reviewed above) and also the Good and Tokyo Dreaming  and Tokyo Forever , as well as Mika in Real Life , Empress for All Seasons , and other

But when she returns to the lake for Sam Florek's mother's funeral, she's swept back into the connection

And all of this seems potentially linked to his deceased, brilliant mother's life's work--from before chases; the most intense sibling rivalry imaginable, interesting scenes of superhumans' outsmarting each other ; and noble desires to "save the world" that conflict with others’ similar desires in crucial ways--and