It is a strange thing, after all, to be able to return to a moment, when it can hardly be said to have

have felt overused from use in other stories (a tough, closed-off investigator, broken by her past; a strong Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May, The Arctic Fear by Greer Macallister, Woman

In a world of the near future, a young (unnamed) woman is one of several civil servants offered a mysterious building bonds deeper than either could have imagined; the love story between the bridge and Gore is strange

When the women are tipped off by their accidental underworld contacts that there's a hit out on Finlay's

his 1940 Ford, driving fast, avoiding federal agents, and living with his grandmother, a healer with strong

I'm happy to tell you that this one lived up to its strong start.

book in Martha Wells's Murderbot series (this is the first full-length book in the set) starts off strong

have felt overused from use in other stories (a tough, closed-off investigator, broken by her past; a strong Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May, The Arctic Fear by Greer Macallister, Woman

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Our Woman in Moscow, Beatriz Williams's story of Cold War espionage 01 Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams In Beatriz Williams's historical fiction, Our Woman in Moscow

elusive Irish musician, and Christy reveals that he is on a greater mission to find and apologize to a woman

The Humans is funny, strange, deep, and lovely. I loved it. on each other's nerves work together to determine who is responsible for a puzzling murder and other strange But the young woman he has found may have died of an ancient virus, and thawing the body for study could

mentions of endless projects, ideas, collaborations, and plans make clear she's one of the hardest working women

and Irish Stories Donal Ryan is also the author of The Queen of Dirt Island ,  The Spinning Heart ,  Strange

In the charming story We'll Prescribe You a Cat , a winding, hard-to-find Kyoto alleyway leads to a strange

This is a novel, but the spirit of the book felt authentic to what we know about Carrie Fisher's strong

II-set books, you might also like the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women

Inland by Téa Obreht Much of Téa Obreht's Inland is centered around Nora, an impulsive, hot-tempered, strong woman fighting for a hardscrabble life for her family in a remote town during a devastating drought.

The Piano Tuner is a strange, slowly paced adventure story but also an anti-imperialist, pro-music take

third novel in French's series, the community reels over the disappearance and death of a local young woman

Meanwhile, privileged Charlotte has her own secrets, and when both women's true situations begin to be the Irish and other immigrant groups, as well as introducing a heart-wrenching unrequited love of one woman

Catalina is a high-energy coming-of-age novel about a spirited young woman trying to save everyone she

Meanwhile, his small-town mother is exploring her feelings for a wealthy woman who is also her business

references a scene in which the main character's sculptor friend is working on a headless piece of a woman

This was sweet and strange, and I really liked it.

Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Rachel Hartman's Tess of the Road, fantasy about a headstrong young woman In Hartman's Tess of the Road, Tess doesn't fit the mold of an obedient, quiet young woman in her medieval (I love a "woman dresses as a man to achieve an end" trope!)

Hazel is a strong personality, but I found myself bristling at her questioning whether she's too much

Rebecca Serle's love letter to Italy plays with time to allow a grieving young woman to know her mother I enjoyed how Serle played with time to allow a young woman to know her mother at her same age.

Set in sixth century Scotland, The Forgotten Kingdom traces the story of Languoreth, a strong, imprisoned

that someone is plunging the party down through layers of reality, through echoes of time in which strange “I’m a woman, kid.

within Ig, with the Auks themselves, with young Bridget, and in the world surrounding their spare, strange

This is charming, creative, and wonderfully strange so far.

A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful Blessings by Leanne

fact that Cathy and Joe immediately stepped in to do what they did for Frannie, despite her thin and strange

I'm reading I Am Not Jessica Chen , Ann Liang's newest young-adult novel, about an unassuming young woman

Hester and her friends--with Cordelia's help--set out to fend off the woman's murderous intentions.

indicate Cozy Mystery (well, aside from the blood in the teacup), while the story feels more intricate and strange

They were all strange. They were all flawed. Together, they managed to survive.

I loved the key elements of this story: the capable con woman, the past coming back to haunt her, the Survival Story 02 Isola by Allegra Goodman Isola , based upon the story of a real-life sixteenth-century woman

She's falling for her famous client, the musician Trace Thorne--but when a woman shows up claiming to

When a mysterious woman washes up half-dead on the remote island of Shearwater, home of the world's largest

In City of Girls, Gilbert writes about a young woman's coming of age in 1940s New York City and traces Vivian, now an older woman, is writing letters to a younger woman about her own youthful indiscretions entertaining, sexy, and an interesting burst of feminism and freedom in an era when many believed that a woman's

I loved the dark academia setting; the brilliant, socially awkward, unlikely heroine Neema; and the strange

she pokes fun at her fellow writer in a sketch about talented but average-looking men dating gorgeous women

Hazel is a strong personality, and I found myself bristling at her questioning whether she's too much about the unrealistic body images of the stars of Main Squeeze (a reality TV show in which a single woman

reasons for their fractured relationship (ahem, Doug wanted a "cuddle bunny" robot instead of a complex woman

Jessica is a single, middle-aged mom, a successful lawyer, and a helpful mentor to the younger women

and helps achieve justice by using her smarts, eschewing societal tradition and traditional limits on women

Charlie begins to realize he feels more of a connection to Dev than to any of the twenty beautiful women

Clever beavers feature heavily in this book, and I never felt as though this strange element gelled with

It also features racy reads from the 1980s in the form of past and current book clubs for women, an element Women explore traditional roles and push back against infuriating chauvinism; characters consider their