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- Review of The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash
I really wish I’d read the final author’s note about Cash's personal links to the story before reading
- Review of Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
This was a relatively slow climb toward a societal calamity (in the form of the plague) and personal family--their hopes, dreams, and the sometimes heartbreaking limitations and sobering realities of each person
- Review of The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
a slow, twisting shift from her role as a young woman holding papers asserting ownership of another person that she does so in order to excoriate those enslaving others and to encourage the freeing of enslaved persons
- Review of Moonlight Drive by A.R. Hadley
Moonlight Drive relies upon a seemingly implausible premise: Nick, a rock star, doesn’t recognize the person that Nick, a professional musician, played piano and wrote songs would be considered too sensitive or personal
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/3/21 Edition
the world; and a popular book by Matt Haig that explores shifting realities and asks how much of a person courtesy of Dundurn Press and NetGalley. 02 The Arsonists' City by Hala Alyan A rich family story, a personal I'm reading this along with my mom, as part of an online book club for March, and for my in-person book
- Review of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers #1) by Becky Chambers
make room in the mix for Rosemary, who's grateful--and who's frankly glad to leave her significant personal
- February Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
to prepare for their upcoming nuptials, it doesn't take long for them to realize that Art has been kissing
- Shhh! Bossy Nonfiction Book Gift Ideas
This personal account of his experiences digs into moments that have shaped his life, his goals, and
- Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore
This Time Tomorrow indulged my own personal desire for sentimentality, while also emphasizing the value
- Review of How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
His personal situation is complicated by his grief for his recently deceased daughter, and he aims to
- Review of Wholehearted Faith by Rachel Held Evans
Wholehearted Faith was most powerful to me when it centered around Evans's personal anecdotes and experiences
- Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading
and they've been dating long-distance while Harriet pursues her residency and Win, a furniture repair person
- Review of Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir by Bob Odenkirk
Odenkirk shares intriguing details about what he has experienced professionally (with a little personal
- Review of A Star Is Bored by Byron Lane
Author Byron Lane was Carrie Fisher's personal assistant in real life, and in this novel, Byron's main Kathi Kannon is a character with a big, wacky personality who also struggles with addiction. spirit of the book felt authentic to what we know about Carrie Fisher's strong, wonderfully unique personality maintain balance in an odd employer-assistant relationship that blurs the lines of the professional and personal
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/9/21 Edition
the audio version. 03 Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories by Danielle Evans “He kissed
- April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
her marriage, weaving in the history and the future while she acknowledges that any story is only one person's
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/21/22 Edition
Delving into Meena's story makes clear to Smita that tradition continues to overpower personal choice
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/1/21 Edition
The situation may lead to personal and career frustration--and maybe something closer to heartbreak.
- Review of The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Almost any house, caught unexpectedly or at an odd angle, can turn a deeply humorous look on a watching person
- Review of The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
about the nature of their relationship, the groom's reticence to commit, and the reporter's painful personal Her plan is shifted by the arrival of another person she feels she must care for, at which point she polis, and I had started keeping an unofficial tally in my head of how much I trusted each new white person
- Review of Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1) by Sylvain Neuvel
Neuvel explores concepts of personal responsibility, how the possibility of life beyond Earth affects
- Yet Another Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads from the Past Year
This Time Tomorrow indulged my own personal desire for sentimentality, while also emphasizing the value
- Review of Very Sincerely Yours by Kerry Winfrey
When others' decisions set Teddy adrift even further, she's forced to consider her life and the person
- Review of Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
Guest Room, I still haven't read many others I want to: a book about the Armenian genocide that is personal
- Six Book Club Books I Loved in 2021
Here are my personal book club favorites from last year. civilization and safety--and as she considers what it would mean to try to cobble together some version of personal
- Review of An Altar in the World by Barbara Brown Taylor
I loved that book even more than this one because I felt that Taylor's personality came through in it
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/5/21 Edition
civilization and safety--and as she considers what it would mean to try to cobble together some version of personal
- Review of A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam
The process of letting go of a person was always done in gradual stages, from what he'd seen, from the
- Six More Four-Star (and Up) Historical Fiction Reads I Loved in the Past Year
Sharratt injects an undercurrent of what feels like modern feminism in her first-person story.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/2/21 Edition
and master the spells they've been taught by their witchy grandmother, while also navigating various personal So far, this is a slow climb toward a societal calamity (in the form of the plague) and personal tragedy
- Review of Who Is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews
When she implodes her publishing career on a destructive whim, then lucks into a position as a personal
- Six Historical Fiction Favorites
The subject matter is weighty and emotional, and McCann manages to make the story both personal and political
- Review of Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
Ford feels an intense desire to be her own person, someone both of and separate from her challenging
- Review of The Great Mistake by Jonathan Lee
He constantly feels that he must disguise and push down his personal and professional desires, and this
- Review of Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren
Hazel is a strong personality, but I found myself bristling at her questioning whether she's too much She wavers between being an unapologetically big personality bursting with joy and essentially asking But I didn't love that a man was swooping in to help cement that who she was as a person was acceptable
- Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year
oddball, incisive, skewering observations are poignant, funny, heartfelt, complicated moments from his personal
- Review of The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
back together after grave betrayals and years of broken trust, and they're each navigating various personal women, smugly and sneakily instills fear, and stokes the fires of disturbance, all while holding a personal
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/22/20 Edition
She's not satisfied in her job, she's unhappily single, she still lives with her parents--and she just kissed
- Review of Long Bright River by Liz Moore
and a string of murders rock the community, Mickey's need to solve the mystery becomes relentless and personal the community, everyone is suspect and Mickey's desire to solve the mystery becomes relentless and personal
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/24/21 Edition
She feels an intense desire to be her own person, someone both of and separate from her challenging beginnings
- Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into
Aaaand I realize that this is unfair since I chose to read this person's life story.
- Review of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
draw, she cannot disturb the snow by walking through it, she cannot even say her true name to another person Then Addie meets a young man in a hidden-away bookstore--and he's the first person in almost three hundred
- Review of Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell by Tom Clavin
This likely goes without saying, but a significant personal interest in Tombstone and the main players Reading this book reinforced the fact that my personal taste leans more toward character-driven historical
- October Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
science and faith; and a light fiction read about pen pals (and a modern-day Fred Rogers-esque television personality She weaves songs into her stories and personal history, and the placement of the music feels seamless
- My Twelve Favorite 2020 Books
and take care of her and to follow the lead of this wise-beyond-her-years, intensely spiritual young person the community, everyone is suspect and Mickey's desire to solve the mystery becomes relentless and personal Kathi Kannon is a character with a big, wacky personality who also struggles with addiction. draw, she cannot disturb the snow by walking through it, she cannot even say her true name to another person Then Addie meets a young man in a hidden-away bookstore--and he's the first person in almost three hundred
- Review of The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
a faithful man who disagrees with the politics of the faith at the time, but most essentially as a person
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/14/21 Edition
In What Doesn't Kill You, Miller explores the isolation of enduring chronic disease, her own personal
- Six Fascinating Books about Immigrants' Experiences
Guerrero's interest in drama and her later fame ultimately help buoy her up despite her personal agony
- August Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
who have hacked the city's thousands of cameras, and their assassins, who are out to eliminate the person
- Review of Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian
Feast, the difficult but riveting story The Guest Room, and a book about the Armenian genocide that is personal
















































