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Zelda carries on a heartbreakingly candid, one-way correspondence with the author of her favorite Viking

This is my book club's first read of 2022. 02 Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao Xiran Jay Zhao blends Chinese this book courtesy of Penguin Random House Canada and NetGalley (but I'm just now reading this fall 2021

I'm very much enjoying Lloyd's writing style and structure so far.

What are some of your favorite spooky or gothic reads? by misleading details or bogged down by red herrings, and that he struck what was for me a perfectly eerie

Macintyre also wrote the fantastic Spy and the Traitor, which was one of my Six Favorite Nonfiction Books

Reading about lying and stealing makes me very stressed out, so I was biting my nails while reading Korelitz's I received a prepublication copy of this book, published May 11, 2021, courtesy of NetGalley and Celadon

pacing, captivating character development, and dark turns in this third book in her young adult mystery series "You haven’t even picked out a new duvet set; I’m told that’s a very important milestone.” As Good As Dead is the final book in A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, a series I've loved, and I've been delaying reading this third and final installment due to my willful denial that the series is ending Book one in the A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (AGGGTM) series is A Good Girl's Guide to Murder and book

Titus's past is alluded to, but this is shared in a drunken moment and not delved into very deeply.

I was very close to abandoning the book. But I'm glad I stuck with it.

At the very least it becomes clear that he will pay no dowry in order to make another match for her.

man on behalf of every woman who needs protection. They sometimes have to go to great lengths to do so because everyday dangers loom around every corner But the issues Hutchison explores are very real and weighty, and there is far more meat to this story Waters was really interesting in ways I didn't anticipate, and I also like Hutchison's writing style very Hutchison wrote The Collector series, which I haven't read, but it looks well received, and I intend

What have been your favorite pandemic-era book buys?

She is also the author of the Rooks and Ruin and Swords and Fire series. I'm listening to The Safekeep , which was shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, as an audiobook.

Less is absurd, very funny, and a little heartbreaking--light on the surface but with plenty of meaning

The identity and situation regarding the latter were somewhat easily sussed out--although the very specifics

I would very happily read a full Little House in the Prairie-length series about Bertie and her life. 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,

In the case of Blue Hour, I missed the very clear note "A Novel" on the cover while downloading the audiobook

The book's cover design says "literary fiction" to me, but the novel felt at first very much like a light

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

yourself on the line for other people, the bravery of falling in love, and the importance of treasuring every The tone is very different, but the superhero element of this book reminded me of Hench, a darkly charming

The fourth mystery in Johnson's Truly Devious series delivers more smart, creative sleuthing from Stevie Johnson's Truly Devious series offers dark scenes, wicked mysteries, blossoming attractions, loyal and This allows for the cooperative problem-solving that I adore in the rest of the series. Maureen Johnson also wrote the young adult Shades of London series, which is based on Jack the Ripper's newest book, Nine Liars, which also features Stevie Bell, is scheduled for publication December 27, 2022

I loved this book so very much. It reminded me of Neuvel’s Themis books, but it was more playful. Later this week I'll post a review of the newest in this series, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor.

Meanwhile she introduced the topic of her sociopathy very quickly upon meeting people, she reconnected

Lila has planned her million-dollar wedding down to the last detail, and Phoebe's depression and her very

rooms of the Roosevelt White House (which, Bloom recounts in interviews, functioned more like a not-very-fancy

This series of unexpected events upends everything for Cooper--some in the best ways and others in the But I very much enjoyed my time in the woods with Cooper and especially Finch.

I listened to Wintering as an audiobook and very much enjoyed Rebecca Lee's narration. May is also the author of The Electricity of Every Living Thing as well as other books.

Showing characters sharing classic oldies music tastes with the Antichrist was one of my favorite parts

And I'm listening to The Blood of the Old Kings , the first in Sung-Il Kim's fantasy series in which All the Water in the World is slated for publication January 7, 2025. 02 Blood of the Old Kings (Bleeding

I've been so very excited for this book for ages, and I'm glad to finally be diving in! Who undoes her own tapestry every night. Never finishes it. The men never get to possess her."

of a close-knit network of community members) and a successful city doctor with expensive taste and very Meanwhile every visit to Daniel and his town builds up Alexis, fills her heart, teaches her about unconditional

Abriel's grandmother Vera lived with the author's family when Abriel was growing up, and she was immersed Abriel offers a vivid account of the fear and dread—intermixed with sparks of hope—that sustained Vera Vera and Edith are such a complementary partnership, and I loved spending time with these strong young --as we are startled at the end of every winter. We shall think: oh, I had quite forgotten.... What are some of your favorite books about brave women during World War II?

But for every person whose contentment and fulfillment come from faithfully executing a predetermined Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be offers varied ways to think about college and the increasing pressure ideas, to give your brain a vigorous workout and your soul a thorough investigation, to realize how very

And each ended the night full and happy with the rare glow that comes from knowing your very being has

present, and future in this post-apocalyptic story about a pandemic (which has been made into a limited series My smarty friend Laura recently told me that Station Eleven has been adapted into a limited HBO series well as other novels, and her novel The Sea of Tranquility is slated for publication in the spring of 2022

Very very happy.

Another book with a character based upon Nathaniel Hawthorne--although it treats him very differently

heart-pounding action, the fascinating imagined power and scope of gene engineering, the world on the verge realizes that he's been infected by a virus--one designed to make him seem uninfected, then to modify his very He’s becoming stronger and smarter every day--but he’s also being hunted down for potential destruction

Their lives have gone in different directions, and they've always been very different in many ways, yet each character; their writing challenges in trying to dive into each point of view while trying not to favor

If you like short stories, check out The Office of Historical Corrections--a very different short story

I received a prepublication audiobook edition of this spring 2025 title courtesy of Libro.fm and Penguin

family, her religion, and her community, found her world turned upside down when she discovered in 2020

Our sense of self is very resourceful. People are booking restorations every day. People still want deletions....

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

They're fascinating and written about very different topics--race and incarceration, mental illness, A 2020 New York Times article, "Is Ronan Farrow Too Good to Be True?"

#LGBTQ, #youngadult, #mysterysuspense 02 A Very Punchable Face ​ Has Colin Jost lived long enough to He started A Very Punchable Face with a story that is really his mother's (to be fair, it's interesting (For my full review, see A Very Punchable Face.)

Clavin traces the tensions and factors that led the town of Tombstone to live on in infamy in this very Tombstone traces the tensions and factors (including Western justice and on-the-fly policing; varied

image of Debbie Reynolds as her mother, and Star Wars was in my mind as the enormously popular movie series There are fun and frenetic scenes about meeting the varied demands of an enormous star, and Lane explores I very much cared about Kathi and Charlie's struggles together and as individuals, and I laughed a lot

01 Head Over Heels by Hannah Orenstein Nineteen-year-old Avery Abrams was set to be the next big gymnastics When she hits a version of rock bottom and moves home, Avery's former teammate and crush Ryan (who did become an Olympic champion) talks her into helping him coach Hallie, a young phenom at the gym where Avery What are some of your favorite lighter fiction books?

Two other light fiction books I've reviewed that involve the celebrity-love trope are Very Sincerely