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For a committed science lover, this title could very well do the trick. 04 Brave the Wild River: The But goldfish can remember that a colored paddle means food is coming, even months after the association octopus, who goes without food while keeping her eggs safe; the strange, vicious Bobbitt worm (named after And although we now know much more about these amazing journeys than ever before, the process of how

The very early scene-setting didn't feel as authentic to me as the rest of the book. Just afterward, she says "...that [old] January probably would've slathered herself in glitter, put on The sections of this light fiction book that are about writing light fiction felt very true and real. Another light fiction book I enjoyed this summer, but which had characters with job-interview-level fake faults (too caring, too beautiful, too artistic) was The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez.

Zamora takes us through what often feels like his literal step-by-step journey, without summarizing or I read Michelle Obama's wonderful book Becoming, but after my wise friend Katherine mentioned having

spring, but it slipped through the cracks until two friends shared their rave reviews of the title this summer

The Museum is an elite killing force, but after four decades, Billie, Natalie, Helen, and Mary Alice

Soulless (I also listed it on the Greedy Reading List Three Offbeat Series I Just Started and Love), but after ‘You haven’t even picked out a new duvet set; I’m told that’s a very important milestone.” Ever since her last detective work ended in a resolution (see Good Girl, Bad Blood, book two), Pip has

combines with her lack of commanding details around the mission she has set out on to cause upheaval at every

In Kelly Link's wonderfully oddball debut novel The Book of Love , she uses every bit of the book's 640

My very favorite books from February! shaped by choices out of our control and her reckoning with the way in which she considers her body after I'm so very glad I stuck this one out so I could see these characters through and witness their journeys The author saved every one of her grandmother's voicemails, and here she uses them--along with emails

But several years later, just a few hours after Hua was at his party, Ken was killed in a carjacking.

And after we've gone, to know who we were.

“I’m jealous of the armor that holds you when I can’t, the sheets on your bed that caress your skin every

They had learned, fundamentally, every child washes in from the sea, washes up against the ankles of

She's determined not to stop until she finds out what really happened that summer.

My very favorite books from July! After long months of mystery and suffering, she received a diagnosis: acute myeloid leukemia and a rare After Hitler's invasion of Russia and the Ukraine, Mila, along with so many others, enlists to fight Surmounting challenge after challenge, Mila ultimately becomes a sniper trainer and a lethal hunter of Upgrade presents a future version of our world in which humans are teetering closer than ever to extinction

Deadly danger and darkness lurk around every corner. the same name (Blood & Honey is the second, with the third, Gods & Monsters, set for publication this summer This is all very angsty and dramatic so far, and I love it!

to herself--she's kind of cynical, she doesn't have a lot of friends, and she's holding true to form after hasn't killed anyone, he hasn't been arrested, and in fact, none of last night's events have happened after

If a person pleads ignorance or credits terrible actions to the power of fear, can such acts ever be Can a person--or a nation--ever truly move on from evil? They're trying to cobble together their lives during and after World War II, and the tone and the angle

of Stuart Turton's The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle are fascinating: Evelyn Hardcastle will die every But every day Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest at Blackheath Manor. But being able to track every detail and how it fit wasn't required (I kept reminding myself that I was She's determined not to stop until she finds out what really happened that summer.

I've had Small Things Like These on my to-read list for a while, but after recently talking to my friend

01 Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo When tough, stubborn Alex Stern is offered a new start after surviving along with what I thought were perfect amounts of self-actualization and character development, without ever Vengeance Road is a rough and tumble story with enough suspense that I wasn't ever confident that the After four decades of successfully ridding the world of cruelty and destruction one person at a time, Five loosely linked Bayview High students walk into detention on Monday afternoon, all busted for having

Why not take this fantasy all the way, after all?).

Marilynne Robinson that's focused on a meandering romance between an unlikely pair of characters just after from Marilynne Robinson, focuses on a meandering romance between an unlikely pair of characters just after

differing points of view regarding the same chain of events in this rural South Carolina community after

cutthroat tennis legend making a comeback, Carrie Soto Is Back; and I'm listening to Empire of the Summer a prepublication edition of this book courtesy of Ballantine Books and NetGalley. 03 Empire of the Summer Gwynne In Empire of the Summer Moon, S.C.

year's gritty, character-driven mystery-thriller Blacktop Wasteland so much that it made my Six Favorite Summer Derek and Isiah were estranged from their ex-con fathers, each of whom now regret every moment they didn't

Johnson also wrote the wonderful books The Theory of Everything and This Girl Is Different. 02 A Very Theodore Finch considers his balance between life and death every day, weighing the factors that entice loved all of these aspects of Benway's novel. 05 Goodbye Days by Jeff Zentner Carver's life was rocked after When wild and awful, heartbreaking thoughts are flying after a tragedy, and when some people are focused Goodbye Days is so very very sad and so very very funny.

his career solving cold cases; and I'm reading Samantha Markum's young adult You Wouldn't Dare, about summer Only, the lengths Junie went to to keep their summer fling a secret might turn out to be unforgivable

You can explore the twelve titles on My Very Favorite Bossy 2025 Reads to find out about my overall favorite Forty women (one is a young girl, our main protagonist) live year after year as prisoners in an underground

McGuire's novel The North Water in the Greedy Reading List Six Chilly Books to Read in the Heat of Summer

cookbooks in past book gift lists , and I'm dedicated to Kimball's Milk Street magazine, published every Half Baked Harvest: Quick and Cozy by Tieghan Gerard I mentioned Tieghan Gerard's Half Baked Harvest: Every

Jack focuses on the meandering, excruciating, grace-filled romance of a star-crossed couple just after When we pick up with him at the start of Robinson's book, he has frequently been very drunk, often sleeping money he may or may not owe to unsavory characters--he drinks so much that in his sober hours he isn't ever willing to enter into such a fraught--and, at the time, illegal--relationship, one that is sure to at the very If we were the only ones left after the world ended, and we made the rules, they really might work just

Now I Rise, Lada is tough as nails but faulted, and we see her forge her identity more fully through every It's a little dark, consistently fascinating, sometimes funny, and very satisfying. and Storm, The Darkness emerges with a destructive and dangerous plan to crush everything Alina has ever In The Cruel Prince, Jude and her sister are sent to live with the enemy in the High Court of Faerie after

After four decades of successfully ridding the world of cruelty and destruction one person at a time,

the countless incarcerated people in dire and heartbreaking situations--whether they are on death row after wrongful incarceration; on death row or imprisoned for life after being tried and convicted while children adults; incarcerated but should never have been placed in prison due to mental illness; or facing death after

job, offering incredibly lucrative terms and making demands about having the biography released only after

husband abruptly leaves her penniless and alone, jumping on a ship departing Massachusetts shortly after

​ Julia Phillips's interconnected stories follow in chapters that take place each month for a year after second in this Lucas Page series, Under Pressure--and I didn't even realize this was a series until after

with family drama and dating again, Definitely Better Now ; and I'm listening to Jacqueline Harpman's eerie It feels like every messy part of her life is about to converge in a destructive collision. Harpman's slim novel is mysterious, eerie, and strange.

This was wryly funny, sometimes zany, and so very heartwarming. books I've reviewed . 06 The Knight and the Moth (Stonewater Kingdom #1) by Rachel Gillig The shadowy, eerie to disappear, and Sybil doubts for the first time whether their collective purpose is holy and noble after

about a young poet hyper-focused on her interactions and romantic encounters; The Project, Courtney Summers's to Frances so far as she pursues a reckless dalliance with a married man. 02 The Project by Courtney Summers My book club is reading this suspenseful young adult book by Courtney Summers. one as a favorite of his while we talked about reading and books on his Maybe I'm Amazed podcast last summer

And inside the enigmatic pages are the words Any door is every door.

Her psychic, emotional link to Red is thin, and she's not sure if she'll ever find him again. After the unprecedented twists and developments Talin experiences in Steelstriker, she must reimagine

I wondered if Less Is Lost would rely heavily on the context of the first book, and after reading it,

And if you're interested in My Very Favorite Bossy Reads of Last Year across all genres, check out the "You don't know how beautiful you are" types of lines; unrealistically convenient run-ins; not-dead-after-all I was glad when Laura began to allow herself to be vulnerable toward the end of the novel, and I very

I recently posted about some of my very favorite young adult books, and I just mentally added In the I hold every memory of him like a match I let burn down to the end, singeing my fingers until it hurts

A new United States administration has been sworn in after a period of upheaval and upset.

I loved every bit of the story of willful, sometimes grumpy pirate Amina al-Sirafi and her quest, her

Rwanda and through six other African countries—with her tough, hustling older sister Claire—during and after In The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After, Wamariya recalls her experiences through

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