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- December Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Towles crafts a solid historical fiction adventure for his young-men protagonists, balancing weighty
- ICYMI: My Very Favorite Reads from the First Half of 2021
I loved Soulmate Equation for solid light fiction. It's fun and romantic with great characters.
- Review of Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey
"What strategies will help our children learn to function well in a diverse nation? With the goal of bringing up children "who are able, engaged, and high-functioning when it comes to matters
- Review of The Parting Glass by Gina Marie Guadagnino
This book was mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved Over the Past
- Six Great Books about the Immigrant Experience
But these four fiction works and two nonfiction titles are some that have stuck with me in one way or
- My Very Favorite 2021 Reads So Far
I loved Soulmate Equation for solid light fiction. It's fun and romantic with great characters.
- Six Fascinating Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories
feels compelled to take another path, rush to check on a loved one, or take some other seemingly odd action In Life After Life, Atkinson focuses her literary fiction lens on the character of Ursula, her relationships
- Review of Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
make ends meet in California and drifting a little bit--oh, and she's been telling her parents about fictitious
- June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
of the month: Hank Green's second book in his quirky, lovely, character-driven, big-hearted science fiction
- Review of Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird
Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen was mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Books
- Review of Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
their own complications and pain--and which he seems to resent), and linking much of his inability to function
- Review of Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong
Excruciatingly awkward sexual missteps and repeated details about her bodily functions, not so much.
- My Twelve Very Favorite 2021 Reads
I loved this science fiction debut. Cara is one of a dwindling number of traversers.
- Shhh! More Book Gifts for Kids and Teens
and backgrounds in those books, I find myself actively trying to separate this immersive, love-filled fictional
- Review of The Eighth Detective by Alex Pavesi
There's a book within a book here, and the fictitious author of the stories has approached the murder
- Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans and Alien Life, and AI
It gleans tips about holding conversations and functioning around others by watching its favorite show The faulted character of April May was wonderful, and I was fascinated by the way her actions and hopes
- Six More Mysteries I Loved Reading Last Year
is suffering from dissociative fugue, a rare condition that could account for her ability to act and function
- Review of The Last Graduate (Scholomance #2) by Naomi Novik
A lot of page time was spent on logistics and on explaining why magical processes and machinations functioned
- Review of The Color of Lightning by Paulette Jiles
This is the third Paulette Jiles Civil War-era historical fiction book I've read and adored.
- Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans and Alien Life, and AI
It gleans tips about holding conversations and functioning around others by watching its favorite show The faulted character of April May was wonderful, and I was fascinated by the way her actions and hopes


















