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  • Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels

    This category also includes the Hunger Games series, the Insurgent series, Station Eleven, The 5th Wave They take everything away, our very dignity, and anything we get in return feels like a gift. you're going to also want to read Carey's The Boy on the Bridge, which is a standalone book in the same series But bringing back their surprising findings might very well mean the wholesale rounding up and destruction

  • Review of Nothing Like the Movies (Better Than the Movies #2) by Lynn Painter

    But Liz, who is often embedded with the baseball team to gather footage and social media material, isn't And although this title is labeled as part of the series Better Than the Movies, book 2, this one has I didn't connect the first book's beloved characters to these characters until very late in the book. But for me, the story didn't support these romantic, sexy fantasies--I remained somewhat irritated by

  • Review of World Running Down by Al Hess

    Al Hess is also the author of Yours Celestially, Key Lime Sky, and the series Hep Cats of Boise.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/1/21 Edition

    my review, see Today Tonight Tomorrow.) 02 The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins In Rachel Hawkins's mystery

  • Review of Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

    Napolitano takes the reader through a series of disastrous events and through sometimes unconventional

  • Review of The Impossible Destiny of Cutie Grackle by Shawn K. Stout

    Stout is also the author of the Penelope Crumb series, the Not-So-Ordinary Girl books, and the historical

  • Review of Family Family by Laurie Frankel

    When are They going to make this into a television series, hmmm?

  • Review of This Other Eden by Paul Harding

    Harding meanwhile offers a quickly unraveling series of events on the island as government officials

  • Review of Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean

    Tokyo Ever After is listed as Tokyo Ever After #1, with the second book in the series, Tokyo Dreaming And for young adult royal stories, try Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series.

  • Review of The Last Bookshop in London: A Novel of World War II by Madeline Martin

    The Last Bookshop in London is never sentimental but very powerful, and I was brought to tears while Madeline Martin is also the author of The Librarian Spy and various romance series.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/9/23 Edition

    adversity and overcoming difficulties; I'm reading This Woven Kingdom, the first in Tahereh Mafi's series father's death that he has become obsessed with centers around the striking servant girl under his very

  • Review of The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue

    Caroline O'Donoghue is also the author of Scenes of a Graphic Nature, Promising Young Women, and the teen series

  • Review of Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

    by misleading details or bogged down by red herrings, and that he struck what was for me a perfectly eerie heard this one compared to The Haunting of Hill House, but I haven't read that one (or watched the TV series Eerie books are great escapism, though--for example, during a PANDEMIC.

  • Review of Nothing Like I Imagined (Except for Sometimes) by Mindy Kaling

    Nothing Like I Imagined is a short (118 pages, if you're reading; 1 hour 22 minutes if you're listening) series

  • The Bossy Five-Star Reads So Far This Year

    01 Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams Williams's historical fiction mystery--based on real-life

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/1/24 Edition

    I mentioned the Folk of the Air trilogy in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series

  • Review of The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

    feel is reminiscent of the fervor and intensity of his conversations in the fascinating documentary series

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/28/24 Edition

    Ships as an audiobook. 03 The Guncle Abroad by Steven Rowley It's been five years since Patrick O'Hara served Patrick's acting career has taken off, and he's wrapping his second successful TV series.

  • Review of The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell

    A smart master thief bends time and finds her loyalties divided in turn-of-the-century New York. I appreciated the character of Esta as a smart master thief who can bend time, and I loved the 1901 New I don't think it benefited me to listen to The Last Magician, the first in Maxwell's series, as an audiobook The second and third books in this series are published; I seem to often start series and have to wait

  • Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music

    Jiminez provides the drama and angst and romance for picture-perfect escapism with a sexy center. I expected her to simply summarize the sexy parts, but no, she did not. their mesmerizing lead singer Daisy, the group's complicated interpersonal conflicts, and the band's mysterious And if you don't know yourself very well, you might even believe that they are right.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/4/21 Edition

    influences, and her life; The Last Graduate, the second in Naomi Novik's dark, brooding, funny Scholomance series about a magical school filled with evil and darkness; and Very Sincerely Yours, lovely light fiction Novik's Scholomance series is set at a magical school with two routes out for its students: a grueling prepublication digital edition of this book courtesy of NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group. 03 Very Winfrey's Very Sincerely Yours is light fiction that delivers delightful, charming banter, the promise

  • May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    My very favorite books from May! In this science fiction novel, Mandel plays with time and time travel as well as mysteries surrounding But all of these players and times feel mainly to be in place to serve as a structure for our true main

  • Review of My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

    important assertion from Lucy; she is finally owning who she is as well as her story, her choices, and her very Much of the page time in Elizabeth Strout's My Name is Lucy Barton is spent in the hospital during a mysterious important assertion from Lucy; she is now owning who she is as well as her story, her choices, and her very

  • July Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    My very favorite books from July! After long months of mystery and suffering, she received a diagnosis: acute myeloid leukemia and a rare Kate Quinn is a master of historical fiction and is the author of the fantastic titles The Huntress,

  • Review of Jack by Marilynne Robinson

    Marilynne Robinson offers another gentle yet affecting book in her Gilead series, this time about faith When we pick up with him at the start of Robinson's book, he has frequently been very drunk, often sleeping willing to enter into such a fraught--and, at the time, illegal--relationship, one that is sure to at the very If you've read the gentle, lovely Gilead, one of Robinson's other three novels in the Gilead series (

  • Review of The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

    Jansson is also the author of the fanciful children's books in the Moomin series as well as the short

  • February Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    My very favorite books from February! I'm so very glad I stuck this one out so I could see these characters through and witness their journeys and he's got two dead crewmates, a chatty AI robot caregiver, a lot of complicated equipment, and a mysterious

  • Review of The Girl from Widow Hills by Megan Miranda

    Three days later, she was recovered in a miraculous series of events that ended up with her rescue and Missing Girls, which I thought was interesting in its structure (it begins in the present day after a series

  • Review of Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

    I loved Raybourn's A Curious Beginning, the first in her Veronica Speedwell series, which I can't wait

  • August Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    My very favorite books from August! These are the books I most loved reading during the past month. The list skews toward light fiction, but I've got a mystery, a great novel by Allison Larkin, and a wonderfully Some of the wrap-up details near the very end felt a little bit unsatisfying, but resolving them cleanly

  • Review of A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham

    Willingham's debut thriller offers an unreliable narrator haunted by her father's decades-old serial that summer, Chloe's father had confessed to the crimes of killing those girls, was convicted as a serial The story has been optioned by actress Emma Stone to be produced as a limited television series.

  • Review of Less Is Lost (Arthur Less #2) by Andrew Sean Greer

    As with book one in the Arthur Less series, I was pleasantly surprised by the heart and vulnerability

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/2/20 Edition

    She has also written the Villains series (two titles in that one so far) and the Shades of Magic series

  • Shhh! Kid and Teen Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays

    When cool Leo at school reveals that he's into comedy too, Haylah jumps at the chance to write material The next book in this series is Pretty Rude for a Girl. Elliott is also the author of the Owl Diaries series and over twenty picture books. 03 Subpar Parks:

  • Six Great Books about Brave Female Spies

    I love a peek at a secret world, and each of these books (all but one are fiction) offers that very thing But mainly, so very, very stupid. I desperately want to grow old. Elizabeth Wein is also the author of many other novels, including additional novels in the Code Name Verity series

  • October Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    My very favorite books from October! The music is all included again at the very end of the book, by which point the listener understands closure to her story. 04 The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik This second book in Naomi Novik's Scholomance series Novik's Scholomance series is set at a magical school with two routes out for its students: a grueling will be a third book in this series.

  • Review of The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man by Paul Newman

    Early on, the television series The Last Movie Stars interviews children from Newman's first marriage questioning whether I was interested in investing time in listening to his story and whether there would be very

  • Review of Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

    And I love that about humanity, and in fact it's the very reason I root for us to survive--because we taken with Rooney's sometimes discomforting book Normal People last year--and was all in for the TV series

  • January Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    author Cate Kay has written a bestselling postapocalyptic trilogy (which is about to be made into a series satisfying: one of the characters, the one I was most intrigued by, is essential earlier in the book but served

  • Review of Highfire by Erin Colfer

    This is by the author of the Artemis Fowl series, but Highfire is decidedly for adults. My favorite dragon books are the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik; His Majesty's Dragon is the first.

  • Review of The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin

    Unlike other witches whose powers peak during certain series, Clara's powers as an Ever span all of the

  • Review of The Colony by Annika Norlin

    Norlin draws the reader into the eerie heart of a small group living sequestered in the Swedish forest

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/12/21 Edition

    varied and numerous musical influences and it feels reminiscent of his conversations in the documentary series

  • Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II

    There's a low-key mystery Lexie is set on unraveling (key players are keeping secrets about events from

  • Six Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War

    Greedy Reading Lists: Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved in the Past Year Six Historical Fiction Mysteries

  • Review of Horse by Geraldine Brooks

    And if not, does he have self-mastery to take a loss, stay cool in defeat, and try again undaunted?

  • Six More Great Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading

    But a series of coincidences and misunderstandings lead to her being unaware that the head physicist

  • Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite

    Then the layers of crisp and sweet and soft intermingle, a series of surprises. Confidential thirteen years ago, well before I spent endless evenings happily watching multiple television series

  • Review of Now You Say Yes by Bill Harley

    Harley is also the author of the wonderful seven-book, middle-grade, humor-filled Charlie Bumper series

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