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- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/14/25 Edition
closest land mass), the climate is cold (check out these other titles with cold settings ), and climate change
- Review of This House Is Not a Home by Katlia
He and others in his culture are made to feel less-than because the rules of the game have changed--hunting
- Review of The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
characters' exploration of the billion-dollar question: Who can rightfully claim to have invented this life-changing
- November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar I can't stop thinking about this fascinating near-future climate-change don't inspire great confidence, but collectively, they fight to find a path forward in a world that is changing
- Review of The Trackers by Charles Frazier
a piece of valuable artwork, Val agrees to follow her--and uncovers long-buried secrets that could change
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/23/24 Edition
the rest of the plotting, dark, moody, sometimes exasperating bad guys (and girls) in an attempt to change
- Review of Blackwater Falls by Ausma Zehanat Khan
Yet I was frequently distracted by what felt like uneven pacing and tone and abrupt perspective changes
- Review of Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen by Mary Sharratt
clever rebellions are entertaining to read about--and in Sharratt's account, lead to Hildegard's extreme change
- Review of Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall
The three timelines allow Marshall to showcase how situations have changed through the decades for women
- Six Great Stories about Robots
Phillips The dystopian future of Hum is haunting in its familiar elements, its plausible, terrible climate-change years working to advance artificial intelligence in a near-future dystopian world decimated by climate change
- Review of The Impossible Destiny of Cutie Grackle by Shawn K. Stout
and mission, she wonders: could identifying and lifting the curse offer answers--and could it even change
- Review of Outlawed by Anna North
schemes--some ill-fated--and begins to understand that the group's intention is to effect sweeping change But grandiose plans don't always go off as planned, and making any change in a society so entrenched
- Review of Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
When those pulling the strings change the rules to force a dramatic showdown, key characters must make
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/6/23 Edition
When the two connect, they just might change everything.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/20/21 Edition
I'm Reading Now I'm reading What You Can See From Here, Mariana Leky's novel about loss, grief, and change loss, when it does occur, takes everyone by surprise, and Selma's granddaughter, Luisa, is forever changed
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/12/24 Edition
family whose sons all seem cursed to die before their twenty-fourth birthdays has its luck begin to change
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/9/23 Edition
the Earth; and I'm listening to The Great Transition, Nick Fuller Googins's postapocalyptic climate-change
- Review of You Wouldn't Dare by Samantha Markum
Nothing could change that. Right?
- Review of The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry
She questions her current romantic relationship, her planned job change, and what her future might look
- My Favorite Reads of the Year So Far
Ryland Grace wakes up as the sole survivor of a last-chance effort to save Earth and its inhabitants.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/16/23 Edition
has been desperately searching across worlds to find the friend she failed to save--the friend who changed
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/10/23 Edition
Dawes with a piece of valuable artwork, Val follows her--and uncovers long-buried secrets that could change
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/4/23 Edition
She disguises herself as a cabin boy on the ship of a notorious pirate, determined to change her fate
- Review of Inciting Joy by Ross Gay
I love diving into his vulnerabilities surrounding grief, change, pain, and the fight for freedom from
- Review of In Pieces by Sally Field
I found Sally Field's discussion of her "craft" and how she grew and changed as an actor to be the most I found Sally Field's discussion of her "craft" and how she grew and changed as an actor to be the most
- Review of American Girl by Wendy Walker
watching her knowledge creep out and its implications unfold, while she discovered essential facts that change
- Review of Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
After twists and turns, momentous changes, and several years, Elizabeth is a single mother who becomes
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/5/23 Edition
She's set to detest this interloper--but then he sends her a letter that changes everything.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/13/24 Edition
the fraternity boys from next door is dead, Lucy is missing, and Margot is keeping secrets that could change
- Six Powerful Memoirs About Facing Mortality
Air by Paul Kalanithi “I began to realize that coming in such close contact with my own mortality had changed There was just a little bit of repetition at times, but I read an advance reader's copy, so this likely changed
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/11/23 Edition
A meeting of grandmother and grandchild could change everything forever.
- Six Fascinating Books Set in Maine
surprise, she begins to notice and respond to the wonders of the light, the weather, the air, and the changing Wood gorgeously evokes the many characters and unfathomable events that changed her family's existence
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/27/23 Edition
Nothing could change that. Right?
- Review of The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream by Jeannie Zusy
Zusy's Frederick sisters navigate a complicated, stressful situation and drastic changes with plenty
- Review of Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott
Funny, how truth changes in the telling. How a person becomes a myth, how a myth becomes a hero.
- Review of I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
Makkai offers up the potentially world-changing power of young people with an idea and tenacity; and
- Six Favorite Nonfiction and Memoir Reads of the Year
encounters with nature, and for me the book really shone when she included her family's current shifts and changes energy budget and policy papers under President Ford and President Carter, then a flight of fancy that changed
- Six Powerful Memoirs About Facing Mortality
Air by Paul Kalanithi “I began to realize that coming in such close contact with my own mortality had changed There was just a little bit of repetition at times, but I read an advance reader's copy, so this likely changed
- Review of Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Along the way, Stevenson and EJI also doggedly manage to change some important laws that stop the imprisonment make readers uncomfortable, but they're all worth looking at under a microscope and demanding the many changes
- Review of What You Can See from Here by Mariana Leky
loss, when it does occur, takes everyone by surprise, and Selma's granddaughter, Luisa, is forever changed
- My Twelve Very Favorite 2021 Reads
savviness she's gained through tracing the steps of her many other selves if she's going to stand any chance
- Review of You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie Smith
Through tracing the framework of and the growth and change of her relationship, Smith also explores gender
- Six Lighter Fiction Stories for Great Escapism
I've been particularly drawn to these types of stories lately because the chances feel slim that things
- Six Novels I Loved Reading Last Year
about his own mysterious heritage--a mystery he felt he had made peace with--he must decide whether it changes , Duke, her young life, her path to her husband Joe, and the unexpected ways her future shifted and changed
- Review of Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
, Duke, her young life, her path to her husband Joe, and the unexpected ways her future shifted and changed
- Review of What Doesn't Kill You by Tessa Miller
lives every single day with illness to tell me that (1) I wasn’t alone and (2) my life was going to change I would never get better, and that would change everything: the way I think about my body, my health,
- Review of Horse by Geraldine Brooks
as we see Jarrett grow up enslaved and dedicated to his horse Darley (later renamed Lexington in a change
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/11/22 Edition
gives the all-clear and Logan Ramsay steps into the basement, he has no idea that everything's about to change
- Review of Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You by Lucinda Williams
felt hemmed in by hippie culture and also by the societal opposition to it; how she missed some world-changing
- Review of Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi
What will this change? I wonder. If I am no less alone than I was yesterday, what’s the difference?















































