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- Review of Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
In Rules of Civility, 25-year-old Katey is in a Greenwich Village jazz bar in post-Depression New York
- Review of A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
Twenty years later, Chloe struggles, but she has more good days than bad. Chloe's past and the recent disappearances, he sparks disturbing old memories and exacerbates the lurking fears
- Review of This American Woman: A One-in-a-Billion Memoir by Zarna Garg
offers an honest, funny account of overcoming sobering challenges and determining her own destiny after years
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/2/21 Edition
01 Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby I was so excited to see that S.A. I loved last year's gritty, character-driven mystery-thriller Blacktop Wasteland so much that it made In Razorblade Tears, two men are coping with the tragic, violent, mysterious deaths of their married to put a foot out of line, has built his landscaping company from the ground up and stayed clean for years
- Review of Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel by Martha Wells
This one was slow going in the middle, but Wells provides a fantastically unique point of view, and this connections and surprisingly (to Murderbot, if no one else) strengthened loyalties, there is more of Wells's fantastically These are short books with a fantastically unique point of view, and they're perfect escapism.
- Review of Table for Two: Fictions by Amor Towles
The six New York-set stories all take place around the year 2000, and they consider the impacts of chance
- Review of You Can't Be Serious by Kal Penn
Penn pulls his memoir into another gear when he adds the fascinating layer of his accidental political Greedy Reading Lists Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into, Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/10/21 Edition
Patrick's life in recent years has been primarily focused on shutting off the outside world, but the demands of a six- and nine-year-old reeling with pain and in desperate need of constancy mean he can't To honor his friend, he'll need to be strong enough for Maisie and Grant, despite his own pain and fears
- Review of Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen by Mary Sharratt
She was walled up in a monastery although she yearned to continue roaming the natural world as she did This made it bearable to read Sharratt's account of Hildegard's claustrophobic, dark years behind a dank There's relatively little page time spent on the later years of Hildegard's life at the abbey.
- Review of Truly Devious (Truly Devious #1) by Maureen Johnson
in the titles that make up the Greedy Reading Lists Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series and Six Fantastic
- Six Great Books about Brave Female Spies
I'd love to hear: What are your favorite (fiction or nonfiction) books about tough lady spies? Yael, a tough young woman who escaped from a concentration camp, has been training as a spy for years
- Review of Red Notice by Bill Browder
or "beautiful"; and on multiple occasions Browder relates that his words brought various crowds to tears --and that they had never been brought to tears before in such a situation--or that something related Compelling Nonfiction Books that Read Like Fiction or Six of the Best Nonfiction Books I've Read This Year
- Review of The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club #1) by Richard Osman
Many years ago, everybody here would wake early because there was much to do and only so many hours in
- My Twelve Favorite 2020 Books
Which books were your favorites this year? I love an end-of-year, best-of, favorite books list, and I loved putting together this very first year-end Fiction Books I Loved This Year Six of the Best Nonfiction Books I've Read This Year Six Lighter Fiction I Loved This Year Thank you so much for checking out The Bossy Bookworm during its very first year. Cheers to another year of reading--and discovering wonderful new books!
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/10/25 Edition
But he yearns to see more of the world, and after he journeys to Reykjavik to study at the university The Nickel Academy is based on a real-life reform school that abused boys for 111 years.
- Six Historical Fiction Mysteries Sure to Intrigue You
, please see Things in Jars. 03 A Curious Beginning (Veronica Speedwell #1) by Deanna Raybourn This fantastic A hundred and fifty years later, a young archivist, Elodie Winslow, is drawn to the long-ago mystery.
- Review of Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
I mentioned Station Eleven in the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels
- Review of The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
And her newest client is the Jack Stapleton, action star, household name--and, in recent years, recluse root of their connection--but I wished Hannah's vulnerability didn't center around her bursting into tears
- Review of Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue
secretive nature of her desire and single close relationship--which ends in heartbreak, followed by years of prolonged angst, yearning, and continual disappointment. author of Room, The Pull of the Stars (which I loooved; it was one of My Twelve Favorite Books of the Year
- March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
If you've read any of these titles, I'd love to hear what you think! And I'd also love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? historical fiction about a figure whose existence the Catholic church has officially denied for a thousand years
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/11/23 Edition
irritating to the rest of my book club years ago, but I couldn't help myself. In Jiles's Chenneville, titular character John Chenneville is a former Union soldier who has spent a year
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/19/22 Edition
to marry the cult's leader when she was thirteen and worked as secretary for "The Family" for many years Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year prepublication edition of this book courtesy of Atria Books and NetGalley. 03 Stay True by Hua Hsu Eighteen-year-old Several years later, Ken was killed in a carjacking, and Hua was left reeling.
- Review of The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton
A hundred and fifty years later, a young archivist, Elodie Winslow, is drawn to the mystery.
- Review of Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School by Kendra James
James notes repeatedly that she felt largely unseen and unknown during her boarding school years. When she attends various Taft alumni events in the years following her graduation, they cement this same Her appearance in a Taft publication that lists her incorrect graduation year (and reunion year) grates James's evaluation of events of these years--including the racism she experienced at school; diverse, Kendra James was a founding editor at Shondaland, where she worked for two years.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/16/25 Edition
Molly found herself yearning for more time with her busy, glamorous mother. Erica was focused on basking in the success of her book Fear of Flying , and Molly spied her mother in Can Luke help Emmy overcome her fears of riding and get back to her love of horses again?
- Review of Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1) by Sylvain Neuvel
Years later Rose is a world-renowned physicist working to unlock the secrets of the hand and the curious , yet Neuvel allows their spoken-only participation in the book to express their growth, hopes, and fears
- Review of Salt Bones by Jennifer Givhan
we find that our main protagonist Mal has been having a secret, fulfilling relationship with him for years
- Review of Pope Joan: A Novel by Donna Woolfolk Cross
historical fiction about a figure whose existence the Catholic church has officially denied for a thousand years
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/5/25 Edition
following the mysterious death of Landon Fitzroy, the governor's handsome son, in the midst of that year's
- Review of The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
Fiction Favorites, Six Historical Fiction Backlist Favorites, Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year , and Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved in the Past Year.
- Review of Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
Perry recounts the daily reality of his years in a chokehold of addiction to drugs and alcohol, his struggles I found myself yearning for more introspection but appreciated his honesty. The book zigzags through time to paint a picture of years of damaging substance abuse, and Perry's honesty Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year
- Review of The Measure by Nikki Erlick
unknown, but it quickly becomes clear that each person's string length correlates to the number of years
- December Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
collection of essays The Anthropocene Reviewed (which was one of my six favorite nonfiction reads the year James Woodworking explores interconnected transgender characters' experiences, fears, challenges, and
- Review of Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
remaining deeply involved in the products, sales and marketing strategies, distribution, and deliberate, years-long they created, failed to test, and widely distributed (to the tune of billions of dollars in profit a year of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland was one of my Six of the Best Nonfiction Books I read that year
- Review of The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
“I want to enter a room and people will hear me even before I open my mouth to be speaking. Abi Daré grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, and has lived in the United Kingdom for eighteen years. I'd love to hear what you think about this book!
- Review of Betting on You by Lynn Painter
In Lynn Painter's rom-com Betting on You, rule-following seventeen-year-old Bailey and sarcastic, joking
- Review of Burn by Peter Heller
Flashbacks delve into their friends-like-family years of linked lives--and a disturbing revelation that
- Review of The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
much of the material that fills in the blanks: what really occurred between Ada's parents over the years
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/16/23 Edition
Just listen to this premise for book two: After a mission gone awry two years ago, Remy Castell has been separated by three centuries: a girl shipwrecked off the coast of Australia and a boy three hundred years
- Review of Tokyo Dreaming (Tokyo Ever After #2) by Emiko Jean
The details of princess life, privilege, and pressures are fun and fantastic, including elaborate clothing
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/3/25 Edition
Ten years later, a documentary exploring those events draws Kat and Heath back into each others' orbits
- Shhh! Nonfiction and Hobby Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays
In Humans, Brandon Stanton turns his attention to meeting everyday people and hearing their compelling Last year I mentioned another great book for birders (which was a big hit with my own bird lovers), The Almost two hundred years after Darwin discovered the striking, social, crow-like falcons confined to indies that keep readers swimming in thoughtful book recommendations and excellent customer service all year
- Review of Cher: The Memoir, Part One by Cher
Her relationship with Sonny Bono (eleven years older) began when she was a teenager, and his control
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/24 Edition
Avery, the oldest, ten years sober, is a married lawyer (her wife is her former therapist, eek) making
- Review of Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey
Yet she often yearns for her more carefree youth and connection to nature. A late portion of the story takes places in a time period years later than Birdie and Emaleen's foray
- Review of The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
Others keep sighting Freddie, and Laura herself feels that he is near. Arden is also the author of the Winternight trilogy, which I loved: The Bear and the Nightingale, The
- Review of Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski
Nagoski's writing is accessible and her examples come from years of experience with clients and their Are text reminded me somewhat of a more general book about women's bodies that I read and loved many years
- Review of Bug Hollow by Michelle Huneven
Sally's frank observations and kind heart are the stars of the early chapters of the book, but her older years
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/27/22 Edition
Twenty-three-year-old August keeps to herself, she's kind of cynical, she doesn't have a lot of friends She considers her paralyzing fear of her children's health challenges and takes the reader through her
- Review of The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins
assassinated in public shows of retaliation for their past crimes, Emi's mother Kristina goes missing, and Emi fears Emi and her father Larch journey from their home in Greenland to a near-future, postapocalyptic New York


















































