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The found-family element of My Heart Went Walking was heartwarming and a favorite aspect of mine.

I would very happily read a full Little House in the Prairie-length series about Bertie and her life. Hardinger offers up many crisp and varied details of the time, she captures Bertie’s speech patterns, What are some of your favorite historical fiction books you've read lately?

has been single for a year, since her former fianc é , an up-and-coming musician, hit it big and then very She's a mid-level video producer on the verge of a layoff--unless she accepts a job in which she documents

That there would be two lines, heading in very different directions... shifts, and many chapters are short, but I felt connected to each of the characters and thought the varied

But the definition of mad, on Earth, seems to be very unclear and inconsistent. The Murderbot series (check out my reviews of three first three books here; the others are searchable on this blog) is another, very different book that also does this wonderfully.

Through the very different but interconnected storylines and the varied, complicated set of characters

taken with the premise of conflicts and mystery in a post-colonial West African city, but I didn't feel very

As she's putting her former favorite romance books in a Little Free Library, a wizened old woman approaches

The secondary character of Thomas Noble was my favorite in the book.

Henry's Beach Read was a favorite book of mine last year, and it made it into the Greedy Reading List

Do you have any favorite books that involve revenge? It's intriguing, and I was definitely hooked for the second book in the series. The second book in this series is Hell Bent. I mentioned Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone series in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series.

about small-town Ireland; I'm reading Changeless, the second in Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate series , Soulless (I also listed it on the Greedy Reading List Three Offbeat Series I Just Started and Love) The series takes place in 1870s London, and as in book one, the immensely appealing, practical, fearless ‘You haven’t even picked out a new duvet set; I’m told that’s a very important milestone.” Like Changeless, above, As Good As Dead is a sequel in a series I've loved (book one is A Good Girl's

Very very happy. #alternatereality, #timetravel, #fantasyscifi, #fourstarbookreview What are your favorite time travel

On the other hand, wasn't that the very definition of life? Constant adaptations brought about by a series of never-ending mistakes? Exciting news for story-to-screen fans: the book is reportedly being adapted into a streaming series

I don't think it benefited me to listen to The Last Magician, the first in Maxwell's series, as an audiobook , what with the jumps through time; varied points of view; layered disloyalties, misdirections, and motivations This was one of my favorite reads of the year last year.

It's a young adult book, with lots of love and attraction but very little steaminess (none explicit),

The very end felt a little abrupt to me, but by that time I had already become satisfied with the lead-up I received a prepublication digital edition of this book, published May 11, 2021, courtesy of Alcove

a social media guru bent on controlling everything, and she's starting to wonder if she's ventured very final installment in Freya Marske's Last Binding trilogy, a queer historical fiction fantasy-mystery series

The Last Bookshop in London is never sentimental but very powerful, and I was brought to tears while Madeline Martin is also the author of The Librarian Spy and various romance series.

reading a second Carley Fortune novel might be a nice way to close out the summer, so I went back to her 2024 More Romantic Reads Carley Fortune is also the author of Meet Me at the Lake , Every Summer After , and

This section was my favorite part of the book.

is one of several civil servants offered a mysterious job: she'll be a handler for expats--and paid very

relationship, Ann Liang's This Time It's Real; and I'm reading the third book in Tamsyn Muir's dark, eerie Locked Tomb series, Nona the Ninth. The Locked Tomb series so far is dark dark dark, with death, nefarious plotting, and gleefully gruesome For my review of the first book in this series, Gideon the Ninth, check out the info at this link. Book four, Alecto the Ninth, is expected to be published early in 2024.

adversity and overcoming difficulties; I'm reading This Woven Kingdom, the first in Tahereh Mafi's series father's death that he has become obsessed with centers around the striking servant girl under his very

and The Winter of the Witch are the others, and I think Arden's stories get even stronger as the series This is magical realism, folklore, and historical fiction wrapped up in one very interesting read. 05 She considers every desperate plan she can to try to save Kasia from this horrible fate, knowing all Novik is also the author of the Scholomance series: A Deadly Education , The Last Graduate , and The I feel compelled to also mention that Novik has a series of nine books about dragons, the Temeraire series

Do you have any favorite reads set in Australia? 01 Exiles (Aaron Falk #3) by Jane Harper The third in Jane Harper's Aaron Falk series offers procedural Can a person’s character or morality be decided in a moment, or in a series of defining moments?

makes enemies of multiple fellow contestants, she struggles with the staged and manipulated nature of every while navigating the sparkly idea--and messy reality--of romance, with the inspiration of her mom's favorite

unintentionally negated his own vehement denial of climate change (views he aggressively spouted off that very evening to the uncomfortable gathered guests); and not very cleverly revealed thinly veiled dastardly

But Brody is beginning to think that the couple may be hiding a very good reason for wanting to get rid

I'm working on a new list for this summer, but meanwhile I hope you'll enjoy some of these Bossy favorites Carley Fortune is also the author of Every Summer After. 02 Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld Sittenfeld's

A book that takes a very different look at unexpected single motherhood--its tone is much lighter, and

I was glad when Laura began to allow herself to be vulnerable toward the end of the novel, and I very

Marilynne Robinson offers another gentle yet affecting book in her Gilead series, this time about faith When we pick up with him at the start of Robinson's book, he has frequently been very drunk, often sleeping willing to enter into such a fraught--and, at the time, illegal--relationship, one that is sure to at the very If you've read the gentle, lovely Gilead, one of Robinson's other three novels in the Gilead series (

And although this title is labeled as part of the series Better Than the Movies, book 2, this one has I didn't connect the first book's beloved characters to these characters until very late in the book.

This is very minor, but Block's occasional emphasis on certain words and infrequent, but present, perplexing

Reading Now I'm reading A Play for the End of the World by Jai Chakrabarti, my book club's first read of 2023

Very early on, the family setup and characters in This Is How It Always Is rang false to me, as though

for a social media guru bent on controlling everything, and some days she wonders if she's ventured very

into role-playing video games and write fan fiction, to bond with a few classmates through watching favorite

Do you have any favorite short story collections I should read? They were all in the closet, with the minuscule footed pajamas and hand-knit baby hats, and every day

The novel builds to almost the very end before this mindboggling plausibility is somewhat cursorily presented

Eve spent very little time exploring options upon discovering her unplanned pregnancy; it was so easy

has been single for a year, since her former fianc é , an up-and-coming musician, hit it big and then very She's a mid-level video producer on the verge of a layoff--unless she accepts a job in which she documents

This book will be published April 1, 2023. 02 Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases by Paul

scope of Vivian's reason for writing, but I didn't much care about this potential issue because I loved every At the very end of the book Vivian writes something wonderfully matter-of-fact to Angela regarding this Gilbert is a lovely writer who authored the very interesting nonfiction book Last American Man and the

01 The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn and Janie Chang In 1906 San Francisco, two very different women seek young-adult author, shy Helen is excited to be part of the adaptation of her work into a television series

They're fascinating and written about very different topics--race and incarceration, mental illness, I originally posted this list in October of 2020 (I've made a few changes to the text but the list of This book was published in 2014, but I finally read it this year and am so very glad. A 2020 New York Times article, "Is Ronan Farrow Too Good to Be True?"

But a series of coincidences and misunderstandings lead to her being unaware that the head physicist while navigating the sparkly idea--and messy reality--of romance, with the inspiration of her mom's favorite

to the fifth installment in Deanna Raybourn's irresistible Veronica Speedwell Victorian-era mystery series Raybourn I loved A Curious Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series (There are currently eight books in the series, with a ninth scheduled for publication in 2024.) In this fifth book of the series, Veronica and Stoker become involved in a mystery involving a house I'm listening to this audiobook, which is wonderfully narrated, as the rest of the series has been, by

Rowling) Cormoran Strike series. What are you reading these days, bookworms? Whoever he is, the man seems very clearly to know Isla well--and he says he's messaging her from the Rowling) Cormoran Strike series. Click here for my reviews of books one through four of the Cormoran Strike series; and check out my Bossy