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  • Review of The Humans by Matt Haig

    nevertheless assumes the appearance of Professor Andrew Martin and clumsily takes on the man's life for a time So, we must conclude that madness is sometimes a question of time, and sometimes of postcode. Matt Haig is also the author of How to Stop Time, Reasons to Stay Alive, and The Midnight Library.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/11/25 Edition

    But the shrouded girls begin to disappear, and Sybil doubts for the first time whether their purpose

  • Review of The Villa by Rachel Hawkins

    The stresses and pulls on their time have caused them to grow apart, so a writing vacation together at Thanos's catchphrase "I am inevitable," and the Marvel mental images jarred me from this story each time

  • Six Four-Star (and Up) Fantasy Novels I Loved in the Past Year

    I loved each time period and the evolution of each strong female character . I loved that the women of each time insist upon creating situations in which they have autonomy and agency girls, who have bonded over the years like family, begin to disappear, and Sybil doubts for the first time

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/4/26 Edition

    Now it's 1964, and times are changing for women, people of color, people who are gay, and society in

  • Review of August Kitko and the Mechas from Space (The Starmetal Symphony #1) by Alex White

    whose biggest hope for the pending end of the world was to play at the most epic goodbye party of all time I think it's time for me to read more Alex White books--I've heard that the alien novels The Cold Forge

  • Review of Madame Restell by Jennifer Wright

    Wright positions Restell's career and wealth within the volatile events of the time--particularly society's

  • Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into

    Baby by Chris Belcher; Raising a Rare Girl by Heather Lanier, Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times I loved spending time with the uproariously funny Thomas as he recounts how he's navigated situations and abused, opening her own long-closed (and hitherto unknown to her) file and seeing for the first time her fully realized adult self, and this journey is satisfying to watch after living through the page time I was so happy spending time in her point of view throughout this book.

  • Review of The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn

    This time she tells the World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female She weaves in interesting aspects of the time such as the contrast between active female roles in the supportive, more peripheral positions women were allowed to hold in the United States military at the time

  • Review of Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout

    Lucy by the Sea captures an otherworldly feeling of drifting in time while facing horrifying, previously illness and death, disease risk and spread, and the weight of the unknown: There was for me during this time They each seem to find the other--and their relationship--awkward and irritating at times, but their

  • Review of Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart

    blossoming of a forbidden young love, the vulnerability of allowing one's self to be seen for the first time The timing of the story isn't explicitly stated, but it feels like a 1980s setting.

  • Review of Trip by Amie Barrodale

    More from Amie Barrodale Amie Barrodale is also the author of You Are Having a Good Time and William

  • Shhh! More Book Gifts for Kids and Teens

    Serrano dives into fan disputes big and small, including "Who was the best dunker of all time?" Rowling I'm just finishing the Harry Potter series for the third time (I read it once on my own before Miranda, a book of life skills for young people, a gorgeous coffee table book that encourages armchair travels

  • Review of We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman

    That is the whole premise of this life, of this time we have with each other. in doing so she gains human connections that are fleeting, without boundaries, and comforting in a time

  • Review of Before She Disappeared by Lisa Gardner

    Frankie travels the country tracking lost women, moving into communities with little more than a change

  • Review of Junie by Erin Crosby Eckstine

    of say-so and constant fear of the enslaved, Eckstine builds a rich story of detail of life at the time

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/30/26 Edition

    decision one night after a concert, when she's shoeless and in need of a ride home: she chose joking, fun-time-guy

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/23/22 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading See You Yesterday, the recent young adult novel that plays with time Summer, Rebecca Serle's love letter to Italy, a story about a mother and daughter, which also plays with time High school was largely a nightmare, so her time at her state university is bound to be an improvement Barrett can't decide if this time loop is a dream come true--or a living nightmare.

  • Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore

    I felt like a little too much time was spent on youthful poetry and fanciful teenaged musings, yet the charming memoir about growing up in Appalachia and the incredible changes in rural Virginia from the time her grandparents came to Alaska from Switzerland around World War II) with her extended family from time to time, which I love to see. She seems like a good egg, and I really liked spending time with her through this memoir. 04 The Light

  • Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Reads

    Do you have all-time favorites you always recommend to others? What makes them your favorites? The Sparrow took a little time to get going for me, but then I was blown away. Gilded Hour explores how these women's abilities and constraints intersect with women's rights of the time

  • Review of People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

    it, but Poppy has convinced Alex to join her again on vacation to try to recapture their effortless times She'll just push down her strange feelings about Alex and pretend that fateful time never even happened and Poppy to the present day is never jarring, and watching Poppy and Alex's friendship build over time In a way, their annual vacations--which become the sole times they reliably spend time together--bring

  • August Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Astrid is always on time. And her sense of what it's possible to achieve within windows of time is practically her superpower. hand, Max is always crashing in late for their dates and dashing off abruptly in the middle of their time Astrid's apartment to kidnap her--she has organic chemistry to study for and she really does not have time Lessons in Chemistry explores deep issues, conflict, and dark times, yet offers hope and joy.

  • Review of Maame by Jessica George

    her father, who has Parkinson's disease; she pays the bills; her mother spends the majority of her time But there's little time for introspection when so much needs doing day to day.

  • Review of Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch #1) by Ann Leckie

    , the inserted odd, prolonged asides halt the progression of the story, often taking extensive page time

  • Six Fascinating Books Set in Maine

    Dean's escape from media scrutiny leads him to rent Evvie's apartment for a time. Female character in the medical profession during a time when this wasn't the norm? Check. I loved the details of life in the time period, as well as the unassuming women who show their true strength

  • Review of Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong

    daughters without editing out her intimate experiences and frustrations, general insecurities, and her travel

  • July Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    There's a ton of steaminess as Lilah and Shane at times can't deny their attraction and act upon it. Despite some of the questionable, haunting choices that are made at times in the story, I was so taken stumbles into a crime--a gunman is wandering a big-box store, shooting--she draws her gun for the first time But a young woman in that time has little say over her destiny.

  • Review of She's a Lamb! by Meredith Hambrock

    I often have a tough time reading about protagonists who are making poor choices, but the book's dark

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/16/22 Edition

    authors, Maggie Shipstead; The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Collections to Wow You. 02 The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times this hefty expansion of the 1619 Project, which was spearheaded by Nikole Hannah-Jones at The New York Times

  • Review of Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You by Lucinda Williams

    the societal opposition to it; how she missed some world-changing musical movements because of her timing Don't Tell Anybody is at times funny with a tragic undertone, as in the recounting of the song Lucinda

  • Review of Skylark by Paula McLain

    Skylark started off sloooowly for me--my friend Kim was reading it at the same time and we were both

  • Review of Buried Deep and Other Stories by Naomi Novik

    mention of the Temeraire series, below) and Pride and Prejudice , and it made me grin with glee the whole time

  • Review of Revelations by Mary Sharratt

    papers and her own visions; meeting largely with aggression, lies, and immense challenges; at other times I've underlined many, many meaningful passages in Revelations, and I found exploring this time through Margery's imagined point of view to be fascinating, particularly the everyday details of life at the time

  • Review of John of John by Douglas Stuart

    Cal's father John is emotionally closed-off and is at times physically abusive.

  • Review of The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan #1) by Robert Jackson Bennett

    The towers of justice are built one brick at a time. We have more to build yet.”

  • Review of Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott

    And their residue is all around us, all the time, but we don't even know it. dark adventure tale with roots in Jewish folklore, and puppets (which may or may not come to life at times

  • Review of Fable by Adrienne Young

    atmospheric descriptions of imagined twisted seaside towns, deserted islands, and adventurous ocean travel

  • Ten Favorite Bossy Spring Reads

    Trace Temple is a disillusioned, angry young man whose family lost its ranch after hard times. Blake includes wonderful scientific detail and details of life in that time. one night after a concert, when she was shoeless and in need of a ride home: she chose joking, fun-time-guy I blew through this novel, and the whole time I was reading Saoirse, I held my breath that it would hold

  • Review of Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

    I felt somewhat impatient with the amount of page time in the book spent on tedious matters such as filling I loved Marcellus the octopus, and I decided not to spend time considering the potential issue of the

  • Six Powerful Memoirs About Facing Mortality

    neurosurgeon facing a terminal cancer diagnosis, found himself with many thoughts about existence and little time There was just a little bit of repetition at times, but I read an advance reader's copy, so this likely Kate Bowler's book No Cure for Being Human is a five-star, all-time favorite read of mine.

  • Review of The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett

    given away almost all of his money, while living in a hoarding-type home situation), he realizes his time

  • Review of Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

    All-out treatment, we tell the incurably ill, is a train you can get off at any time--just say when. We are going through a societal learning curve, one person at a time.

  • Six Great Books about the Immigrant Experience

    But when the relationship falters, she flees into a marriage with a sickly traveling minister and escapes The author's tone and voice is like poetry at times, raw and spare and true. 03 In the Country We Love

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/7/25 Edition

    So far this is a cute--at times a little too cute for my taste--mystery that seems sure to be headed

  • Review of The Knight and the Moth (Stonewater Kingdom #1) by Rachel Gillig

    girls, who have bonded over the years like family, begin to disappear, and Sybil doubts for the first time

  • Review of The Lonely Hearts Book Club by Lucy Gilmore

    a book about books, but I was confused as to why the characters would seek out and spend prolonged time Who would give him the benefit of the doubt so many times?

  • Review of Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors

    accent was such a departure from the non-accents of many of the narrators I'm used to, it took me some time

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/27/26 Edition

    down the street from each other and are ecstatic to be pregnant with their first children at the same time

  • 2025 Bossy Book Ideas for Your Holiday Gift List

    This is the only time I post about books I may not have read: promising reads for particular people in rags-to-riches story and part raucous, seat-of-the-pants adventure, recounting Campbell’s life and times

  • Review of Vera Stein Is Fine by Julie Murphy

    favorite romance setups). "...We try to raise children using the same rules we succeeded by, but by the time

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