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- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/24 Edition
But Bruno is telling his own stories and reshaping history, sharing his tragic past and garnering sympathy the Sherriff of Nottingham, things get complicated for both Mariel and Clem in this sassy, fun, queer historical
- Review of Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir by Bob Odenkirk
If you like memoirs, you might want to check out this Greedy Reading List, Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore--which links to six more memoir lists for you to dig into!
- Review of What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
poet's put-upon wife trade points of view to illuminate across two timelines a calculated rewriting of history I treasured the crazy music and fads and troubled movies and serious science, serious history, serious forms of music festivals, and people's gardening and cooking, their need for holidays, extreme sports, historical Written personal histories are shown to be heavily curated, outrageously selective, and powerfully manipulative The falsified accounts are later painstakingly examined and accepted as truth, so that history is effectively
- Review of Light to the Hills by Bonnie Blaylock
When a haunting figure from the past shows up in town again, Amanda's history not only threatens to shake I love a historical fiction story set in Appalachia , and I also love to read books about books .
- Review of In the Wild Light by Jeff Zentner
Author Jeff Zentner is also the author of Goodbye Days , a book I listed in the Greedy Reading List Six
- Review of Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
If you like this book, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Great
- Review of The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman
based upon Nathaniel Hawthorne--although the author treats him very differently as a character--is the historical
- Review of Changeless (Parasol Protectorate #2) by Gail Carriger
Egyptian artifacts, revelations about Alexia's mysterious father (and about her husband's centuries of history
- Review of The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
In The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O'Farrell turns her attention to Renaissance Italy to tell a historical
- Review of Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora
You might also like the books I listed on the Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Books about the Immigrant
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/21 Edition
If you like World War II-set books, you might also like the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Great you like books set in the unforgiving cold, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/21/23 Edition
A book that keeps coming to mind as I read this one is This Tender Land, historical fiction by William and the "restructuring" that cut off American Indians from their culture, their families, and their history character based upon Nathaniel Hawthorne--although it treats him very differently as a character--is the historical
- Review of Red Notice by Bill Browder
you like nonfiction books that read like fiction, you might try the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Compelling Nonfiction Books that Read Like Fiction or Six of the Best Nonfiction Books I've Read This
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/22/20 Edition
despair, and hope with a richly drawn Australian backdrop--while laying bare the country's often-painful history She exposes the raw truths of tough situations in character-driven historical fiction so deftly, I have I'm really greedily excited about reading all three of these books--historical fiction (Austraaaaalia
- Review of The Dream Builders by Oindrila Mukherjee
Maneka Roy has temporarily returned to India after six years teaching creative writing in the American
- Review of The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz
ICYMI: This young adult historical fiction story was a five-star read for me. I adored it. Laura Amy Schlitz's book The Hired Girl is fantastic young adult historical fiction written in diary
- A Short Bossy Break
I've got these books going at the moment: recently published fantasy-historical fiction, the second in Maine, a novel about an unconventional family in late 20th century Manhattan, Victorian-England-set historical
- Review of Gregor the Overlander (The Underland Chronicles #1) by Suzanne Collins
You might like the books I included on the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series
- Shhh! Bossy Gift Ideas: Books about Media, Movies, and Music
Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays Shhh! : An Oral History of the '60s Girl Groups by Laura Flam and Emily Sieu Liebowitz "...I never really wanted
- Shhh! Bossy Book Gift Ideas: Sports Nonfiction
Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays Shhh! including Bill Laimbeer, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Danny Ainge, and Charles Oakley. 02 Why We Love Baseball: A History
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/17/24 Edition
Her sister steps in to help with their dad, and Emma moves to Los Angeles for six weeks of inspiring,
- Review of A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock #1) by Sherry Thomas
Sherry Thomas also writes young adult fantasy books as well as historical romances.
- Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Reads
You might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Five-Star Bossy Reads to Check Out. review, please see Dear Edward. 05 The Gilded Hour by Sara Donati In The Gilded Hour, Donati shapes a historical I loved digging into this 750-page historical fiction wonder.
- Shhh! Bossy Book Gift Ideas: Science and the Natural World
Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays Shhh! the author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore 03 Beautiful Experiments: An Illustrated History Ackerman, author of The Bird Way and The Genius of Birds, here tackles biology and natural history of With vivid details that bring to life the odd history (counting silhouettes of birds as they passed in
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/15/23 Edition
Divya is also the author of Machinehood, a book I listed on the Greedy Reading List Six More Fantastic
- Review of In a New York Minute by Kate Spencer
I recently listed some of my favorite romantic, light stories in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Light
- Review of The Skylark's Secret by Fiona Valpy
She's eager to dig in and learn more about her mother's wartime history, yet desperate not to be defined So if you're in for Fiona Valpy historical fiction like I now am, you have lots of lovely reading to
- Review of Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono
about the making of their music and their lives, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six
- Review of The Impossible Destiny of Cutie Grackle by Shawn K. Stout
She read the words on the paper out loud: “History is not your destiny. Uncover your destiny, and you will remake history.” Stout is also the author of the Penelope Crumb series, the Not-So-Ordinary Girl books, and the historical
- Review of Rule of Wolves (King of Scars #2) by Leigh Bardugo
(I mentioned the author's Shadow and Bone series in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series, and I adored her Six of Crows duology even more.) Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse is made up of her Shadow and Bone trilogy, the Six of Crows duology, and
- Review of The Gilded Hour by Sara Donati
ICYMI: This is excellent, layered historical fiction with memorable characters and a great big story has also written a series of four books in her Wilderness series, which sounds like an epic romantic historical
- March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
In The Office of Historical Corrections, Evans offers short stories centering around themes of race, relationships, identity, the fallibility of those shaping historical "fact," grief, and loss. In the longest story in the book, at approximately 100 pages, "The Office of Historical Corrections, " a black student from Washington, DC, finds herself involved in unraveling a complicated historical the final book in Black's Folk of the Air trilogy (I mentioned the series in the Greedy Reading List Six
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/26/22 Edition
I mentioned Dani Shapiro's fascinating memoir Inheritance in the Greedy Reading List Six More Illuminating
- Shhh! Bossy Gift Ideas: Cookbooks
Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays Shhh! With gorgeous National Parks photography and fascinating National Parks history, this is perfect for
- Review of Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
I mentioned Station Eleven in the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/5/23 Edition
If this book sounds intriguing, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading List, Six
- Review of A Winter in New York by Josie Silver
One Day in December and The Two Lives of Lydia Byrd, a book that appeared on the Greedy Reading List Six
- Review of To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit #1) by Moniquill Blackgoose
dragons, dragon-related science, emotional and physical ties to dragons, and the cultural importance, historical Because the restrictive Anglish world--and its selective history of the destruction of the Indigenous
- Review of Quantum Girl Theory by Erin Kate Ryan
In Erin Kate Ryan's historical fiction mystery, she uses a fascinating story structure to explore different In Erin Kate Ryan's recently published historical fiction mystery Quantum Girl Theory, Mary Garrett focuses Ryan explores various alternate histories and life tracks for Paula Jean while "Mary" digs more deeply The title and cover made me think "science fiction," but Quantum Girl Theory is rooted in historical
- Review of The People We Keep by Allison Larkin
challenges and realizing their fortitude, you might also like the standout books on the Greedy Reading List Six For more books about songwriting and making music, check out Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music
- Review of This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
If you like books that play with time, you might also enjoy the books on the Greedy Reading List Six
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/28/21 Edition
Taylor Jenkins Reid is the author of Daisy Jones & the Six, a book I included in the Greedy Reading List Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music. 03 Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens Chevy Stevens's Dark Roads
- Review of The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
If I figured anything out in these last six years, it is this: human beings are unknowable. If you like books with a postapocalyptic feel, check out the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic
- August Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
I hereby present to you historical fiction, literary fiction, romance, fantasy, and science fiction. 01 The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby by Ellery Lloyd The Final Act of Juliette Lloyd is a historical Lloyd (the husband and wife writing team of Collette Lyons and Paul Vlitos) offers a gorgeously wrought historical This was immensely satisfying historical fiction. In Robert Jackson Bennett's novel, The Tainted Cup , he blends a rich, historical fiction-feeling story
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/17/23 Edition
Now they've been engaged for six years, they're so in love, and they've been dating long-distance while
- Review of One Foot in Eden by Ron Rash
included the wonderful Ron Rash short story collection Nothing Gold Can Stay in my Greedy Reading List Six
- Review of The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
You might also be interested in the books on one of my earliest Greedy Reading Lists on the site, Six
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/17/20 Edition
She's eager to learn more about her mother's wartime history, yet desperate not to be defined and constrained Last week I offered a roundup of Six Lighter Fiction Stories for Great Escapism; this week I'm bravely
- Shhh! Holiday Cookbook Gift Ideas
Here are the six cookbooks that I'm most interested in giving as gifts these holidays. Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays Shhh! More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays Shhh!
- Review of Circe by Madeline Miller
I mentioned Circe in the Greedy Reading List Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You, and I recently
















































