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- 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 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 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
- 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 Tokyo Dreaming (Tokyo Ever After #2) by Emiko Jean
The details of princess life, privilege, and pressures are fun and fantastic, including elaborate clothing
- Review of The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu
Lu layers a fantastical alternate fairy world over a framework of the imagined point of view of Wolfgang Lu layers a fantastical alternate fairy world over a framework of the imagined point of view of Wolfgang
- Review of Burn by Peter Heller
Flashbacks delve into their friends-like-family years of linked lives--and a disturbing revelation that
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker
Duchess is a thirteen-year-old girl trying to keep her family together. I felt as though Duchess's repetition of "I'm an outlaw" and her wearing of a bow in her hair made her feel far younger than her thirteen 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
- Review of I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
is a professor and podcaster, and she has left firmly in the past the events of her boarding school years Rebecca Makkai is also the author of The Great Believers and The Hundred-Year House.
- Review of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
causes an uproar in the staid, traditional production and in the community that expects the same version year after year. We saw our local children's theatre production of this story a few years ago, and it was a true joy watching
- Review of The River by Peter Heller
But when a wildfire rages near where they're canoeing the Maskwa River in northern Canada, everything This book is listed in the upcoming Greedy Reading List Six Book Club Books I Loved Last Year, to be
- May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
If you've read any of these, I'd love to hear what you think! And I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? universal connection of music, the temptation to change the past, portals and time loops, loyalty, fear puzzles and angers those around her by challenging the limitations of what women might do or say in the year
- Review of The Last Hour Between Worlds (Echo Archives #1) by Melissa Caruso
bleary-eyed from single-parenting her newborn, and she's questioning why she agreed to come to a work New Year's
- December Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
If you've read any of these, I'd love to hear what you think! And I'd also love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? 01 Lost in Time by A.G. twisty events, unsolved elements from the past and present, and a denouement I didn't predict. “...hear , Allison, Nate, Janelle, and David--and their dialogue--are fantastic as always. I prefer listening to my memoirs read by the author, and I loved hearing U2's songwriter and lead singer
- Shhh! Bossy Nonfiction Book Gift Ideas
indies that keep us swimming in thoughtful book recommendations and excellent customer service all year found his answer in Victorian novelist and social critic Charles Dickens, who died more than a hundred years Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black traces the events of the days, weeks, centuries, and the million years He served as the Ethicist for The New York Times Magazine for three years and was an original founder
- Review of Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up by Selma Blair
Decades before she appeared in Cruel Intentions, years before Legally Blonde, and long before she was She shares that because of the gloomy mystery of years of suffering, her multiple sclerosis diagnosis Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year
- Six Great Books about the Immigrant Experience
Pachinko is a sweeping generational story of hardship, sacrifice, and fifty years of Korean-Japanese by criminals' financially ruinous scams against undocumented workers; the family members experience years of constant fears of deportation; and then they must face the shocking potential reality of deportation Last year's American Dirt--and the intense controversy surrounding it--could be its own long post. and tackling another; striving to hold on to culture while navigating unfamiliar pitfalls; and the fears
- Review of Time of the Child by Niall Williams
During the annual, chaotic community fair preceding this holidays, which this year is a rainy business
- Review of October in the Earth by Olivia Hawker
tongue, and she feels like the poor treatment her husband shows her may be deserved, as after eight years
- Review of Shiner by Amy Jo Burns
The women's lifelong friendship felt like the heart of the story and was a fantastic element. The women's lifelong friendship felt like the heart of the story and was a fantastic element.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/28/21 Edition
thriller about the first divorce in North America and the witch trial that followed for the twenty-four-year-old paranoia, twisting Mary up in its grasp as the community swarms and snarls to condemn her for imagined, feared Ross Gay resolved to spend a year writing about a joy or delight, large or small, every day, beginning
- Six Long Contemporary Novels to Sink Into
His rock-bottom--it isn't a moment; it feels as though he drags the bottom for years--sets up a situation This was one of my favorite books of the year when I read it. 02 The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell This In twentieth-century Idaho, Zeno has lived a long life filled with yearning, war, and unexpected late-in-life
- Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore
I'd love to hear about others you love! This totally hit the spot. 03 In Five Years by Rebecca Serle Dannie is on the path to achieving her five-year Serle's In Five Years totally hit the spot for me, and it also wasn’t exactly what I expected.
- Review of Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
I'll be curious to hear if others without this particular interest are as engaged with this prominent communicating primarily through and about tennis has led to some conflicts and some stress for many years
- Review of Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
long-silenced victims have in bravely deciding to tell their stories, as well as the challenges and fears voice while realizing an informant is not the gender he had originally thought that was absolutely fantastic
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/19/22 Edition
as the deadliest assassins in a clandestine international organization, but now that they're sixty years It's kill or be killed, and the seasoned women will have to use their years of expertise and experience
- Review of A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls #2) by Hank Green
It features the fantastic characters from book one, and the plot picks up with a new version of the fight
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/16/24 Edition
Carr's The Alienist , a suspenseful novel about the evolution of forensic science I adored reading years
- Review of Things We Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier
She's holding a straight razor and covered in blood, and her celebrity husband Jimmy Peralta, a 68-year-old Meanwhile, killer Ruby Reyes, the Ice Queen, was convicted of a similar murder twenty-five years earlier
- Shhh! More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays
indies that keep us swimming in thoughtful book recommendations and excellent customer service all year holiday I'm also buying both of these books for myself, because when I went to buy them as gifts this year This wasn't the only Dolly Parton book published this year (She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and Pyle Last year I gave Strange Planet to teenagers and young-at-heart family members on my gift list; this year's Stranger Planet is another installment showcasing Pyle's clever, dry wit and observational
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/24/25 Edition
account of what occurred, with emotional confusion and vulnerability (I'm up to the late Sonny Bono years
- Review of Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile
I can't imagine feeling the full emotion and immersive experience of this book without hearing Carlile's memoirs, you might try the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/17/22 Edition
Geraldine Brooks is also the author of The People of the Book, March, Year of Wonders, Caleb's Crossing Then Florence's beloved father dies, and she returns to her hometown for the first time in many years
- Review of The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
I just could not get anywhere near invested or interested in this story of years of unhappiness, relentless
- Review of The People We Keep by Allison Larkin
From early in the story I found myself yearning for April to settle in and allow herself to just be instead and realizing their fortitude, you might also like the standout books on the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic
- Review of Gwen & Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher
It's hundreds of years after King Arthur's reign, and his descendant and namesake Arthur, a future lord
- Review of An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (The Carls #1) by Hank Green
With funny, heartwarming, heartbreaking, fantastically bizarre elements; imperfect and wonderful friendships
- Review of The Rule Book by Sarah Adams
the client, NFL tight end Derek Pender, were college sweethearts, and Nora abruptly broke things off years
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/9/24 Edition
Two years later he's at UCLA again, he's worked his way back onto the baseball team, he's diving into
- Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You
multimillion-copy bestselling book (or the Tony award-winning Broadway musical based upon it, or the fantastic soundtrack to that musical, or the twenty-five-year anniversary of the book's publication)--well, maybe When Zeus, fearful of what she might be capable of, banishes her to a deserted island, Circe perfects
- Review of Gilded Mountain by Kate Manning
And I'm not sorry, for it was all of my education in those two years, about right and wrong. In those years it was struggle and strife all over the mountains.
- Review of A Song for the Road by Kathleen Basi
: the book involves messy feelings and grief, yet it isn't maudlin or sappy despite the tragedy and yearning Miriam lost her husband and teenage twins a year ago and, unsurprisingly, since then she hasn't been book involves messy feelings and grief, yet the book is not maudlin or sappy despite the tragedy and yearning I admit that based upon the premise, I feared that painfully sentimental tones might creep into the book
- Review of The Spy Coast (The Martini Club #1) by Tess Gerritsen
All of the upheaval seems connected to an operation from years earlier, "Malta"--and Maggie's perceived


















































