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Science Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year, and Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year And check out My Very Why not take this fantasy all the way, after all?).

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 author saved every one of her grandmother's voicemails, and here she uses them--along with emails

She fought to get off the godforsaken island where she'd been stuck for years after her father abandoned

my full review of The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything that Comes After of dying, death, appreciating the beauty of the impermanence of our lives, planning for loved ones after

Teenage Andra finally wakes up after being cryogenically preserved for a century-long journey to a new

by misleading details or bogged down by red herrings, and that he struck what was for me a perfectly eerie But when her kind husband passes away suddenly just after the wedding, pregnant Elsie and her tedious

Anton is searching for redemption after horrific events surrounding his students and school. I would very happily read a full Little House on the Prairie-length series about Bertie and her life.

protagonists here is a young woman in the midst of her own high-stakes crisis, and none of them expects to ever The sisters are meanwhile trying to find a way back together after grave betrayals and years of broken

"By its nature, every secret contains the power to destroy something."

After he lost his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, he returned to London, where he's cobbled together strengthening; her fiance is insufferable; his ex-girlfriend is emotionally unbalanced; and it's all very little boy, and while Billy can't recall many of the details, he's clearly been shaped by this trauma ever They're such excellent partners, they couldn't ever jeopardize the career setup so important to each

I hate that I'm even typing this after my gloriously high expectations, but the middle of this book was

leaves you wondering if a main character’s accidental role in various tragedies were so unintentional after

birdwatcher in my household as a birthday gift, and it's been living prominently in the family room ever Almost two hundred years after Darwin discovered the striking, social, crow-like falcons confined to They need and appreciate our business now more than ever!

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.

historical forces that are at work and that are difficult to address, and he raises more questions than ever I read this book years after the hubbub about it died down, but I don't think (?)

It requires an engagement of every sense.... neither plant nor animal, live for millenia, and are microscopic yet make up the largest organisms ever spent a year traveling the United States in search of the greatest golf experience available, playing every course ever to host a US Open as well as 200 other well-known and much-beloved courses and hidden gems They need and appreciate our business now more than ever!

Science Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year, and Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year And check out My Very Doctors and Friends. 03 This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub This Time Tomorrow was also one of my overall Very After an encounter with a fortune-cookie message and a flock of ravens who seem to be following her,

You can see a satisfying version of happily ever after coming, but I didn't predict the circumstances

of our picks from last year's event, and because it's a fast-paced mystery, it seemed like a great summer

After leaving her position as a pastor and writing a book about the experience, Leaving Church, Taylor

My very favorite December reads! This feels like the most representative mix of Bossy Favorite Genres ever! relationship with his father to sharing how he attempted to cope with the loss of his mother decades after

Will they ever be able to trust each other again? And where is Sam? After the story's twist becomes clear, the rest of the book is a waiting game; the reader stands by while

Meanwhile, nearby, Ava's been kept quiet and controlled by her father her whole life--and he's after

I've been so very excited for this book for ages, and I'm glad to finally be diving in! There is nothing mythological about this: Have you ever seen a mother spring up from a table when her Who undoes her own tapestry every night. Never finishes it. The men never get to possess her."

You might also like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer

book one--is a motivator for action in Rule of Wolves, but Bardugo also delves into the complicated aftermath I need to begin again after refamiliarizing myself with how the books connect; I was overwhelmed by sorting

Only, the lengths Junie went to to keep their summer fling a secret might turn out to be unforgivable

I'm reading Sandwich, the wonderful Catherine Newman's newest family story about a summer spent struggling Kimi Cunningham Grant's newest thriller, The Nature of Disappearing, Emlyn is a wilderness guide who very

Shipstead is a wonderful writer, and I loved every word of this.

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

favorite romantic, light stories in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer

In the months after that, he would sometimes ask her “How’s conquering the world going, my sweet ruthless

Who are the villains and who are the heroes--or is everyone and is every creature a mix of both?

along with what I thought were perfect amounts of self-actualization and character development, without ever Vengeance Road is a rough and tumble story with enough suspense that I wasn't ever confident that the The before and after of certain pivotal events almost felt like two separate books, but I was hooked

steadfast and unrelenting IRA paramilitary members but ended up emotionally and sometimes physically broken after

Evvie Drake has become something of a recluse in her quiet seaside Maine town ever since her husband's I listened to it as an audiobook while I gardened, and it was a perfect summer story.

She rings the bell at the finish of treatment and in the car immediately afterward, Nate, her husband her mother and herself when she was an infant after World War II. This book is generally very well received, so my bossy desire for more character development and motivation

They part ways, but the thought of her keeps him strong during the hardships and uncertainty of life after The action scenes, when they occur, are fast and furious, with aftershocks the characters scramble to

as a young man doing standup and finding inspiration in his grandparents' antics; his pivotal Jewish summer

In Blood, Moorer, after years of therapy, reflection, and working through her enormous rage and loss,

their mysterious artistic creation, and the work's ripple effect, which reaches well beyond what they ever Sixteen-year-old aspiring writer Frankie is just trying to get through a late 1990s summer in Coalfield

My very favorite books from May! Father and daughter, brother and sister, and mother and father find their way back together after hurting And he finds that almost everything Emma has ever told him about herself has been a lie.

My very favorite October reads! He takes the reader on a roller coaster of emotions, and I love every bit of it. full review, please check out A Psalm for the Wild-Built. 06 How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every

After Jason Dessen, a physics professor, is abducted from the street in Chicago, he awakens in a different figuring out the other elements at work--turns out to be more high-stakes and dangerous than Emika ever

But as with every visit home, Kieran is reminded of a careless mistake he made as a teenager that led No one's forgotten the heartbreak of that day, nor has there been very much healing from the pain of

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

It threw me for a loop and I'm not sure I recovered from it; when I woke in the night after reading this

Now for the implausibility: There's repetitive (and after a time, for me, unconvincing) stated confusion affection, but Arthur's declarations about liking Linus just the way he is more so than anyone he's ever

Nora's ex is presented as such a full-on loser, it's hard to believe in their dating-to-marriage story ever Annabel Monaghan is also the author of Sometime Next Summer and other books. Two other light fiction books I've reviewed that involve the celebrity-love trope are Very Sincerely