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The summer Chloe Davis was twelve, six girls went missing in her rural Louisiana community. By the end of that summer, Chloe's father had confessed to the crimes of killing those girls, was convicted what to make of it, staggering through her days, unsure whether it's day or night and less sure than ever

And I suppose the real answer is it started years before you could have ever imagined it did. through the creepy letters interspersed throughout, written by a dark, omniscient player in all of this after

Wren's father Briar is a serpent handler who came into leading the area's gas station church after being beginning to see holes in her father's larger-than-life persona and to doubt that he is exceptional after allegiance to a personality-over-substance faith leader reminded me of Godshot, although the tone is very

Zauner also digs into her often difficult relationship with her father, her fears that after her mother connected, her choice to build her own family by marrying, and how impossible it seems that she could ever

My very favorite Bossy January reads! It looks like Kembral will have to work tonight after all--and, even worse, she'll need to cooperate when their paths intersect, they realize that together, they are more formidable than they could have ever

Spoiler: a dragon appears at the very end of the book, laying the groundwork for more dragon page time Jack Alston (Lord Hawthorn) swore that he was finished with magic for good after his twin sister Elsie of the Weres, and he's as unpredictable, volatile, and unforgiving as any Were stereotype Misery has ever

a movie with a budget of 3.5 million earned more than 200 million and became influential for comedy ever after its 1980 release. 06 But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?

Harriet Kline's This Shining Life tracks Ollie's attempts to make sense of things after his father Rich's

Lennox, Instructions for a Heatwave, and This Must Be the Place, as well as books I haven't yet read: After

of the Czech hockey team's noble quest to win an Olympic gold medal over the juggernaut Soviet team--after

I anticipate that book two in the series, Prodigy--which picks up seven days after the finish of Legend

When the book begins, it's 1412 in Bishop's Lynn, England, and Margery has almost died after giving birth

belief could legitimately help us understand what motivates people's fanatical behaviors during this ever-restless explanations about what draws people to them, and I share this curiosity--but I didn't feel Montell ever like CrossFit in the discussion, then to dismiss them late in the book as not fitting the "cult" model after

Amanda and Larry are closer than ever to uncovering the whole, heartbreaking truth. Denfeld's great book The Child Finder in the Greedy Reading List Six Chilly Books to Read in the Heat of Summer

mysterious--and she has an extra room in her rambunctious house next to a fraternity house for the summer

A few nitpicky notes: Some vital events occur off screen and are then summarized by Devlin, and I was And a very minor issue: the "Hey, pretty girl" greeting from the recently met grown-man male detective (No one checked the medications or searched the baby's bedroom after the crime?

Nancy left the Pilot that night, I said to her lasciviously— I don’t know what possessed me—“Have you ever Which was either very sexy or very creepy, depending on your opinion of me. diagnosed with a rare brain cancer, but the couple doubled down, becoming engaged in the hospital, marrying after It's Okay to Laugh is a darkly humorous account of the author's numerous and condensed life-altering interludes that break up her story felt jarring to me, but her account was honest, raw, sad, and sometimes very

My very favorite Bossy June reads! Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month. of the Weres, and he's as unpredictable, volatile, and unforgiving as any Were stereotype Misery has ever Center doesn't rely on a miscommunication trope (my very least favorite), and I could see where both In Sloane Crosley's memoir Grief Is for People , she explores life after the loss of her closest friend

My very favorite books from May! Shipstead is a wonderful writer, and I loved every word of this. 06 An Altar in the World by Barbara Brown Taylor After leaving her position as a pastor and writing a

(The Hand that First Held Mine and After You'd Gone are both on my to-read list.)

I'm very much enjoying Lloyd's writing style and structure so far. You might also like the novels on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Lighter Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer

my personality or my humour thrives on more than being able to see the same person at the same time every

Her sister dates boy after boy, two of her best friends are making eyes at each other, and she's sick romance books into a Little Free Library, a wizened old woman approaches her with some advice, and soon afterward

Ten years after her arrival, Riley is twenty-one and has begun to chafe at the small scope of her life

And those rules stayed in my head, each and every one.

Rural life just after World War II, a godawful bully, an odd but lovely area wanderer, a sometimes claustrophobic

collaboration, and he shares his own missteps, joys, and his unexpected satisfaction in playing dramatic roles after

constricting-and-controlled scenario is orchestrated by an evasive, sinister, and, I felt, annoying man (every

After a few days you receive multiple personalized reading recommendations in an email. Voila!

eventually allowed Field to come into her fully realized adult self, and this journey is satisfying to watch after

But the aftermath was urgent, real, and spurred the story along in important ways. I thought about it long after I finished it and I still think about it from time to time.

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 suffering a great loss in The River, Jack is eager to lose himself in nature and meet the needs In The Guide, the character of Jack is coping with the aftermath of major tragedies in his life (which I was also unclear in the very last scene of the book about the seeming surprise of a character's reaction

Her link to Red is thin, and she's not sure if she can ever find him again. Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny A new United States administration has been sworn in after

Edge of the World , which I listed in the Greedy Reading List Six Chilly Books to Read in the Heat of Summer

My very favorite Bossy December reads! conflicts to consider at the story's close: duty, corrupt power, the suffering of the common people, regret after Spoiler: a dragon appears at the very end of the book, laying the groundwork for more dragon page time It's a young adult book, with lots of love and attraction but very little steaminess (none explicit),

My very favorite Bossy March reads! Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month. "You don't know how beautiful you are" types of lines; unrealistically convenient run-ins; not-dead-after-all

supplies--and survival--breaks, Cooper and Finch realize they may be in danger greater than they'd ever After a stranger wanders near their remote cabin, Cooper's longtime struggle to stay hidden seems increasingly

Crawford's often brutal account of her teenage years and all that occurred after her attack inspired a simmering, murderous rage in me as I read it. parents' unequipped, inept, wanting reactions and subsequent distant, mute treatment of Lacy, and the aftereffects

My very favorite Bossy July reads! historical fiction story, but I became fully hooked as the tale morphed into something wonderfully eerie In Memoriam is beautiful, frequently painful, and offers a layered, complicated version of happy ever after.

Rowley also offers poignancy, an exploration of grief, and the impossible-seeming prospect of going on after

Fight for Justice, and in Red Notice, Browder traces his path from Wall Street to the Soviet Union after

combat, wisdom, and other elements of Viking legends to anyone she encounters; and she models her life after The characters, the story arc that isn’t too easy but leaves you in a promising place after all, and

revealed, and she even questions whether the invaders she's been set up to destroy are actually the enemy after

Teenage Andra finally wakes up after being cryogenically preserved for a century-long journey to a new But Pippa Fitz-Amobi is becoming convinced that Sal didn't do it after all.

before WWII, with its giant hotels, piers, and general hubbub, is the backdrop for the story of a few summer hotels, piers, and general hubbub, is the backdrop for Florence Adler Swims Forever, the story of a few summer This book is listed in my Greedy Reading List My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads.

After multiple misdiagnoses and increasing discomfort and fear, she was ultimately diagnosed with Crohn's

d forgotten that there was a second book in this series, American by Day, which I now recall that I very He also wrote a very different book, The Girl in Green, about a British journalist and an American private twenty years after they're linked by Gulf War events.

Every year, ever since the girls were born, I have blown out the candles on my birthday cake and wished

After a terrible storm that took her mother's life, young Fable was abandoned by her father, who's a