mysterious box with an inscription on the outside reading "The measure of your life lies within" and a string The source of the boxes is unknown, but it quickly becomes clear that each person's string length correlates Some choose not to look into their boxes at all, while others use the knowledge of their short strings Some with long strings question the participation of "short stringers" in delicate jobs; some couples You may not be surprised by any of the turns each storyline takes here, but the string dilemma leads

I loved this dive into the repercussions of a seemingly psychic woman's predictions of demise for her But on today's flight, an elderly woman is causing a major disruption.

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In an appealing dynamic, Talin is the strong beating heart of the story, with Red as her supporting lieutenant

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading comedian Zarna Garg's upcoming memoir, This American Woman ; I'm 01 This American Woman: A One-in-a-Billion Memoir by Zarna Garg Zarna Garg avoided an unwanted arranged

Ali Hazelwood's light fiction novel is wonderfully immersed in science, offering a forbidden relationship and an enemies-to-lovers dynamic, plus lots of steamy scenes. Elsie Hannaway is an adjunct physics professor, but her dream is to dedicate herself to a career in research. She's gotten some positive attention for her innovative work on liquid crystals, but her crochety male advisor assures her there's little interest in hiring her for full-time positions. To help pay the bills, Elsie is a paid escort (who does not have sex with her clients, as she keeps explaining to certain of them). She's fake-dating a nice man in order to keep his family off of his back. She uses a different last name and poses as a librarian rather than a physicist in order to stay anonymous. But her fake boyfriend's brother John seems suspicious of her story and oddly interested in the details of her life. Now Elsie has the interview of a lifetime, at MIT. But a series of coincidences and misunderstandings lead to her being unaware that the head physicist on site...is her fake boyfriend's brother. I loved the significant science element here, the jargon, the exploration of academic politics, and the passion for research and discovery. The factors keeping Elsie and Jack apart are one part zany (a fake-dating-the-brother code of silence) and two parts believable (longstanding professional conflict; a power mismatch). I was frustrated by Elsie's lack of assertiveness, although I recognized that it was set up in order to have her ultimately find her own opinions and set her course. I found the family dynamic related to her mother's demands of Elsie absurd. The situation with her twin brothers felt slapstick and silly to me. The steamy scenes, the twisty route to the relationship, the career shifts, and the science focus were all winners for me. I'd like to read more by Ali Hazelwood. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book? I received a prepublication audio version of Love, Theoretically, narrated by Thérèse Plummer, courtesy of Libro.fm and Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. If this book sounds intriguing, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading, Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading, and Six More Great Light Fiction Stories.

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Luke Brooks is a bar owner, womanizer, Emmy's brother's longtime best friend, and an honorary member Barker's novel features Janet, a misunderstood, mocked, badly treated young woman coming of age in a

In the seven years since, Belle's mother has reinvented herself as a society woman and has remarried, When she comes home alive, only Chelsey finds it strange that Ellie has left her captor and remains alive friend in her last remaining roommate, who until then seemed primarily a source of rent; she finds a strange In Michelle Moran's novel Maria , she uses two timelines to shape the story of the real woman behind

Divya has crafted strong female main protagonists who navigate the sometimes dark, always complicated But Divya is too busy crafting strong female main protagonists (complete with working mother guilt, which

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I read Illuminations with a group of women over a period of months, and we were captivated by the details

The friendship between Dane and Ned was a strong point for me in Panowich's newest book. The Dane and Ned friendship was a strong point for me, and I enjoyed learning more about their past and

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She's lived next to the local Liverpool tennis club for years but hasn't played since she was a young woman

When she alludes to mysterious connections between the women--and a long-ago crime--her persistent presence attended prenatal classes before the birth of her first child and noted the immediate intimacy between the women

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Saunders's strange, fascinating novel involves griping, sniping characters in limbo between life and I read this in 2017 and still think of this strange novel.

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The two women clash, resisting their reliance on each other as they become more deeply intertwined.

navigates danger and helps achieve justice by using her smarts, eschewing societal tradition and limits on women

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Donoghue's captivating historical fiction centers around two real-life young women in an early 1800s

she pokes fun at her fellow writer in a sketch about talented but average-looking men dating gorgeous women

A friend's borrowed, rambling home becomes a house for unwed mothers and mothers-to-be, with the women

eccentric family and a broad surrounding cast of characters--and it's all centered around independent women with unconventional women's roles in society in nineteenth century New York City. The Gilded Hour explores how these women's abilities and constraints intersect with women's rights of

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There are women who take care of your grandfather...women whose own families are thousands of miles away , women who are washing your plates and washing vegetables for your dinner.

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Ursule Orchière watches her mother fooling local women with her false spells, using her family history

of being a Black female lawyer in what seems like an Atlanta company that is increasingly hostile to women

in this crisis, and the premise gave the vacation structure, but it felt to me like a man bossing a woman

The author has created two independent, defiant, appealingly strong young women split by time (and, secondarily , complex male characters the women love as family or romantic partners).

released after 22 months' imprisonment for the drunk-driving accident in which she killed an older woman But as the wedding week goes on, each woman is surprised by what she discovers about herself and the

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“I’m a woman, kid. Kingfisher writes my favorite kind of fantasy novel: a wonderfully oddball main protagonist, a strange I loved the dark academia setting; the brilliant, socially awkward, unlikely heroine Neema; and the strange

Night, Fast the Wolves, Meg Long's debut young adult science fiction about a wolf and a gritty young woman's Festival Days is not light reading: "Cheri" delves into the last days of a woman who is terminally ill mentions of endless projects, ideas, collaborations, and plans make clear she's one of the hardest working women

twentieth century New York and his mysterious death; and a science fiction-slanted story about young women Her mother's disappearance leads Josie to track down the other Girls, and together they discover strange

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from the decades-old mystery and deaths at the villa to the growing unease in the present between two women