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the Dark; listening to Angela Duckworth's nonfiction book Grit; and reading Katherine Faulkner's new mystery When she alludes to mysterious connections between the women--and a long-ago crime--she threatens to

connection, to the young daughter of her former household, her former charge--and her growing wonder at the mysteries

In LaValle's magical, dark Western, people tend to disappear whenever Adelaide's mysterious trunk opens

She shares that because of the gloomy mystery of years of suffering, her multiple sclerosis diagnosis lays bare her experiences with depression and her attempted suicides after heartbreaks; her long-term, mysterious

For my full review, please check out Here and Now and Then . 03 In Five Years by Rebecca Serle Dannie Very very happy. Serle's In Five Years totally hit the spot for me, and it also wasn’t exactly what I expected. When she finds a mysterious book her father had acquired, it shows January unlikely possibilities about She disappears from her family and leaves behind a tragic mystery, while in her forays through new worlds

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to the first book in Blake Crouch's Wayward Pines mystery trilogy learned to run the Hamptons store Barefoot Contessa--necessitating extended time apart from Jeffrey and a very

favorite reads of last year by genre; for my all-around favorites of last year, you can check out My Very Then mysterious threats and unexplained feminist changes begin appearing within the script, aimed at When June witnesses Athena's death and then mysteriously comes up with a story about Chinese laborers learns that his like-a-brother friend Misha from his childhood World War II-era orphanage has died under mysterious I adored the way the character of Waldo served as an unlikely conduit to wonder and how he bridges enormous

Because I love the series so very much, I have separate posts for Martha Wells's Murderbot series, set The robots and the imminent demise of the human race that the robots seem perched to enact serve as a I also really enjoyed White's Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe, the first in the Salvagers series and he's got two dead crewmates, a chatty AI robot caregiver, a lot of complicated equipment, and a mysterious The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, the first science fiction title in Becky Chambers's Wayfarers series

But when one of Cara's eight remaining selves mysteriously dies while she is world walking, shocking the Edge of the Universe (Salvagers #1) by Alex White The first in Alex White's Salvagers space opera series White's science fiction novel A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe, the first in White's Salvagers series and he's got two dead crewmates, a chatty AI robot caregiver, a lot of complicated equipment, and a mysterious

My very favorite Bossy January reads! month my favorite reads consisted of multiple fantasy reads, aka escapes from reality--one magical mystery 01 Voyage of the Damned by Frances White Frances White's debut is a locked-room mystery on a magical She's never been in a serious relationship and has no interest in one--she doesn't have time for frivolity dark, twisty, gothic, and it's set in 19th-century Scotland as fictionalized versions of real-life serial

My very favorite books from July! Here are the books I most loved reading during the past month. In Fugitive Telemetry, Murderbot attempts to solve the mystery of a murder--while generally annoyed and Click here for my reviews of books 1 through 3 of the series, my review of the fourth book, Exit Strategy Cosby's Razorblade Tears, two men are coping with the tragic, violent, mysterious deaths of their married I loved his gritty, character-driven mystery-thriller Blacktop Wasteland so much that it made my Six

This is an engaging and quick read, and the old-fashioned mystery stories within the story are intriguing The murder mystery stories were written decades before the book's present-day events take place and are There's a book within a book here, and the fictitious author of the stories has approached the murder mystery The mystery stories within the story are intriguing, and I loved paying attention to their varied structures

Tower and The Winter of the Witch are the others, and I think Arden's stories get even stronger as the series The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo The Night Tiger is a wonderful historical fiction mystery and love story I listed this book in the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You. 06 Uprooted I feel compelled to also mention that Novik has a series of nine books about dragons, the Temeraire series Yee's Epic Crush of Genie Lo and its sequels, Alexandra Christo's To Kill a Kingdom series, and Marissa

Favorite Fiction Reads from Last Year Six More of My Favorite Fiction Reads from Last Year Six Four-Star Mystery Reads I Loved Last Year Six More Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Last Year Six Four-Star Historical Fiction Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year, and Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year You can check out My Very To say that August isn't particularly inclined to let anyone into her own emotional life is a serious But August's adorably quirky roommates and a mystery woman she keeps running into on the Q train might

In Razorblade Tears, two men are coping with the tragic, violent, mysterious deaths of their married I loved last year's gritty, character-driven mystery-thriller Blacktop Wasteland so much that it made

Feared and mysterious, Zetian is matched with the most controversial, deadly male pilot around, Li Shimin Iron Widow is Xiran Jay Zhao's first novel, and it's labeled as the first in the Iron Widow series, so

It's necessary for the plot for Alex to wait an interminably long time to review mystery items she is when these individuals then disappear, Alex doesn't feel the impetus to explore their letters or a mystery

You can explore the twelve titles on My Very Favorite Bossy 2025 Reads to find out about my overall The backdrop for Kat and Heath's tumultuous mutual obsession was a series of destructive forces trying But Arthur is mysterious, and he's not who Birdie thought he was.

her sister Kacey disappears and a string of murders rock the community, Mickey's need to solve the mystery disappears and a string of murders rock the community, everyone is suspect and Mickey's desire to solve the mystery I like a mystery that makes me care about the characters and doesn't foreshadow too much.

Meanwhile, mysterious forces with dangerous plans converge upon Lovesend, drawn by the resurrection time of World War II as Daphne, an intelligent and educated young woman who is emotionally closed off, serves

My very favorite books from January! Aaaaaand here we are in February! reads of the past month include, in no particular order: The Maid, Nita Prose's recently published mystery of sweetness; The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, the first in Becky Chambers's science fiction series Prose offers a surprising amount of heart and a unique main protagonist in this lighthearted murder mystery The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, the first science fiction title in Becky Chambers's Wayfarers series

working for the charming complex's owner, all the while cultivating her obsession with a reclusive, mysterious

introduced her to it; this is a brutal existence buoyed only by thoughts of the past and wonder at the mysteries

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Ava Glass's newest Emma Makepeace spy mystery, The Trap ; I'm listening

And if you're interested in My Very Favorite Bossy Reads of Last Year across all genres, check out the as a nurse serving soldiers in combat. by Katherine Arden Katherine Arden, the author of the captivating Winternight trilogy, here shares a mysterious Freddie is reported as having died, but strange and unnerving clues indicate to Laura that something more mysterious I was glad when Laura began to allow herself to be vulnerable toward the end of the novel, and I very

In Dawes, he meets eccentric, wealthy art lovers John and Eve Long--mysterious, possibly hiding something

Looking for Jane is a story of women living in three timelines who are linked through decades by a mysterious

Fiction Stories Set in the American West , Six Historical Fiction F avorites , Six Historical Fiction Mysteries about women, marriage, sex, politics, public and private behavior—and of course "society," which almost serves I would very happily read a full Little House on the Prairie -length series about Bertie and her life

My very favorite reads of 2023! Summer is ending, and there's a mysterious, unspoken, dark undercurrent at the Kinsellas'. Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery Wrong Place Wrong Time plays with time, and I love books that play review of Wrong Place, Wrong Time. 08 Happiness Falls by Angie Kim Angie Kim's sophomore novel is a mystery Kim's missing-person novel is a mystery and is structured around the discovery and exploration of what

of seeking and exposing the truth around her as a journalist, while Bea retreats into a reclusive, mysterious When mysterious events come to light that seem linked to the publicly harmless, seemingly benevolent

an immensely readable book rich in period detail, great dialogue, and satisfying elements of love, mystery oddly unresolved at the end--even keeping in mind that there's a second book in Donati's Waverly Place series

Until June witnesses Athena's death and mysteriously comes up with a story about Chinese laborers during

She's about to be married off to an older, slightly repulsive widower to serve as a nursemaid for his Addie wants to see more of the world, to be more in the world, and she is eager to allow for some mystery She can serve as a muse; she can inspire music and art in others; she can learn what others want or need She has also written the Villains series (two titles in that one so far) and the Shades of Magic series

Three days later, she was recovered in a miraculous series of events that ended up with her removal from trilogy, Beneath the Keep, which is when I realized I'd never read this third and final book in the series I've got a mysterious story with an unreliable narrator and an imagined nationwide hubbub (a la "baby

early turns and surprises didn't always feel as though they followed logical paths, I appreciated the mystery-lite

thriller, which is set in the wilderness and concerns old lovers thrown together in hopes of finding a mysteriously Kimi Cunningham Grant's newest thriller, The Nature of Disappearing, Emlyn is a wilderness guide who very

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading the newest suspenseful mystery by Wendy Walker, scheduled for publication

I recently posted about Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads Last Year, Six Four-Star Mystery Reads I Loved Last Year, Six More Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Last Year, Six Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I You can check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for my overall favorite reads from last year. After long months of mystery and suffering, she received a diagnosis: acute myeloid leukemia and a rare road bumps he encountered, and his dogged determination--which was admittedly shaken after landing very

Lizzie finds a secret notebook of her mother's, she becomes more determined than ever to solve the mystery

Summer is ending, and there's a mysterious, unspoken, dark undercurrent at the Kinsellas'.

Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery Wrong Place Wrong Time plays with time, and I love books that play Time-Travel Stories to Explore and Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories highlight some of my very

tragedy of Flora's disappearance), anyone who might have been connected to Flora's disappearance, and the mysterious

My very favorite Bossy April reads! Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month. Ghosts by Katherine Arden Katherine Arden, author of the captivating Winternight trilogy, here shares a mysterious Freddie is reported as having died, but strange and unnerving clues indicate to Laura that something more mysterious I was glad when Laura began to allow herself to be vulnerable toward the end of the novel, and I very

My very favorite books from April! Here are my six favorite reads of the past month. The Rose Code is a wonderfully spun historical fiction story of three very different women who answer Eason In Eason's science fiction mystery, an unlikely pair who get on each other's nerves work together Eason's science fiction mystery Nightwatch on the Hinterlands, a templar, Iari, and a spy, Gaer, have And I was wholly charmed by the rievs (former battle robots) who mysteriously show sentience and surprising

Beresford pieces together the story of Hannah's life from her first-person account--and tries to solve a mystery

It's June 1954, and eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson has just served fifteen months on a juvenile work Prose offers a surprising amount of heart and a unique main protagonist in this lighthearted murder mystery check out Doctors and Friends. 05 Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams Williams's historical fiction mystery The mystery skips back and forth in time, and four years later, Iris's twin sister Ruth finally receives

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Wiley Cash's upcoming Southern mystery, When Ghosts Come Home; Come Home by Wiley Cash Cash, author of A Land More Kind than Home and The Last Ballad, here offers a mystery

To say that August isn't particularly inclined to let anyone into her own emotional life is a serious But August's adorably quirky roommates and a mystery woman she keeps running into on the Q train might The book revels in wonderful LGBTQ love and tons of sexiness; fantastic New York-centric details; and

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When June witnesses Athena's death and then mysteriously comes up with a story about Chinese laborers