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- Review of The Other Side of Night by Adam Hamdy
written in a copy of the novel, a seeming suicide, a disappeared body, and other mysterious circumstances tie Much of the page time in The Other Side of Night is spent with characters who exhibit odd, unexplained
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/23/23 Edition
Deepti Kapoor's Age of Vice shifts through time and points of view to explore outrageous wealth, ruthless
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/30/23 Edition
primary caregiver for her father, who has Parkinson's disease; her mother spends the majority of her time
- Review of The Girl from Widow Hills by Megan Miranda
That girl is frozen in time, with her beginning, middle, and end: victim, endurance, triumph. its structure (it begins in the present day after a series of disturbing events and works backward in time
- Six Fantastic Novels Set in North Carolina
Rory Docherty has returned to rural North Carolina with a wooden leg and haunting memories of his time I loved the glimpses of rural life and of the specific place and time that Rash crafts so well.
- Six Powerful Memoirs About Facing Mortality
neurosurgeon facing a terminal cancer diagnosis, found himself with many thoughts about existence and little time There was just a little bit of repetition at times, but I read an advance reader's copy, so this likely
- Six Riveting Backlist Reads
"summer reads," but they were my favorite reads from a summer past, and they all stand the test of time In case you missed them the first time around, I'm reposting them as this summer begins so you can add
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/22/20 Edition
Suddenly she's plunged back in time to begin the holiday anew and try to get things right, Groundhog I don't anticipate having any trouble with Mae's being whisked through time, but I do want the early I hope you're managing some peaceful downtime and time to read something you love.
- Review of The Celebrants by Steven Rowley
Our time here is limited, gone in the blink of an eye.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/29/24 Edition
I'm having a tough time with the premise of this one but am curious as to whether I'm missing something
- Review of Fugitive Telemetry (Murderbot #6) by Martha Wells
watch its favorite show, The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon (although I might have liked more page time
- Six Nonfiction and Memoir Reads I Loved in the Past Year
Physical discomfort (he is tired, cold, hot, burned, thirsty, hungry), emotional turmoil (he feels loneliness I loved reading this and loved spending time with Michelle Obama. his dogged determination in comparing notes and working cooperatively with others--even when his full-time
- Six of My Pandemic-Era Book Buys
a "moral revival," and emphasizes that we are all called to be part of the movement. 04 A Witch in Time In A Witch in Time, Constance Sayers is offering us historical fiction, witches, and repeated reincarnation Friend's Exorcism I've had this on my wish list for a while and decided to perk up my personal pandemic times
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/2/21 Edition
The details of the time, household life, and gender, vocation, and familial power structures are wonderful Each of these books is a story about class and gender and power in its own way, told in disparate times
- Six Romantic Novels Set in the World of TV and Movies
This was the right book at the right time for me, and I loved everything about it. There's a ton of steaminess as Lilah and Shane at times can't deny their attraction and act upon it.
- Review of Stay True: A Memoir by Hua Hsu
nineteen or twenty, your life is governed by debts and favors, promises to pick up the check or drive next time
- Review of Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith
It was nicely paced, and I liked having time to dig into the characters' evolution and the mystery's
- Review of The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline
But the dark injustices were tough for me to read; some of this may have been personal timing. I had a tough time with the injustices here, although I understand and respect Kline's reflection of I think some of my reaction was just bad reading timing on my part.
- Review of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Once you loved someone, you repeated it until they were tired of hearing it. heartbreaking, heartwarming echoes and swirls of themes and details that repeat and connect through time
- Review of A Conspiracy in Belgravia (Lady Sherlock #2) by Sherry Thomas
Charlotte's various views on the world are absolute gems, and I absolutely love spending time in her
- April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
As another girl disappears, this time one she's tenuously connected to, and when she realizes that aspects They begin to forge a stronger bond (despite how irritating they each find the other), but there's no time I think this was because of personal timing and my reading-during-vacation distraction circumstances,
- Review of Herrick's End (The Neath #1) by T.M. Blanchet
The story is funny, sometimes grotesque, at other times sweet, and full of surprises.
- November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
man working in a warehouse in the seaside town where she's staying temporarily, she invites Felix to travel
- Review of A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America by Timothy Egan
Timothy Egan is also the author of The Worst Hard Time, fascinating narrative nonfiction about the Dust
- Review of This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
“We are, on this earth, so incredibly small, in the history of time, in the crowd of the world, we are
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/19/22 Edition
The stresses and pulls on their time as they've grown have caused them to grow apart, so a vacation together
- Review of Godshot by Chelsea Bieker
I had a tough time with the implausible details but appreciated the strong female characters and the exhibit blind faith and are willing to go to extremes, and that this is especially possible during times
- Review of The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
Especially during Pandemic Times, one of the genres I find myself gravitating toward listening to is you're perfect just the way you are" messages might have had more impact for me if they'd been shown at times Now for the implausibility: There's repetitive (and after a time, for me, unconvincing) stated confusion
- Review of The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash
It took me a little time to get into Cash's Last Ballad.
- Review of The Becoming (The Dragon Heart Legacy #2) by Nora Roberts
There remains a lot of page time spent on the enjoyment of refreshments (tea or wine, anyone?)
- Review of The Ink Black Heart (Cormoran Strike #6) by Robert Galbraith
audiobook at 1.75x speed, which significantly shortened the 32-hour, 42-minute audiobook listening time
- Review of The Golden Enclaves (Scholomance #3) by Naomi Novik
fractured nature of the fight in The Golden Enclaves meant that I didn't get to spend extended page time
- Newer Romantic Novels Perfect for Savoring Summer's Last Gasp
Bossy Romantic Favorites The heat of August feels like a perfect time to dive into recently published The banter made me laugh at times, and I bought the attraction between Katie and Hutch, as well as the
- Six Book Club Books I Loved in 2021
Migrations follows Franny as she travels farther from civilization and safety--and as she considers what
- Review of Highfire by Erin Colfer
I had a really tough time with the purely evil bad guy who showed no possible redemption or depth of It was difficult to spend so much page time with such a character and in his thoughts.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/29/24 Edition
This Doesn't Find You by Ann Liang I fell in love with Ann Liang's fake-dating young adult novel This Time
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/6/23 Edition
With everything going wrong, El and her friends must do the unthinkable yet again: this time they must
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/27/23 Edition
pianist whose biggest hope for the end of the world was to play at the most epic goodbye party of all time
- Review of What Doesn't Kill You by Tessa Miller
She spends substantial page time laying out the weaknesses of our country's health care system, and she Miller's view gets broad at times, and her focus occasionally seems to stretch beyond the scope of what
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/3/23 Edition
List Three Offbeat Series I Just Started and Love), but after raving about it for two years it seemed time
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/20/23 Edition
I have a tough time reading missing-children stories, and somehow I missed that key aspect of Willingham's
- Review of Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
feverishly to harvest the cherry crop without the usual support of workers due to the virus, and to make the time
- Review of Horse by Geraldine Brooks
In Geraldine Brooks's newest novel, Horse, she links three periods in time: 1850 Kentucky, where an enslaved
- Review of Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
was going to involve characters continually making bad decisions, which is a setup I have a difficult time
- Review of Swift the Storm, Fierce the Flame by Meg Long
Much of the page time is spent on considering potential alliances, recounting past political and military
- Six Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War
The Civil War Books This painful, terrible time in our nation's history makes for some poignant, brutal at the end of the Civil War, amid the confusion and desperation and cruelty and kindnesses of that time characters to cross unlikely paths, caused characters to avoid making important discoveries until the timing often desperate circumstances of women (especially Black women) without men to protect them at the time
- Review of Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Now I'd like Miller to please write more books about varied topics, because I like spending time in her
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/24/22 Edition
and a heartwarming reminder that there are thoughtful, kind, well-meaning people out there spending time
- Review of In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom
behind his decision and explores the importance to him of taking an active role in determining the time
- Review of Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics by Dolly Parton
Sometimes Dolly lets them fall, but other times her songs about freedom (with her metaphors of butterflies


















































