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- 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
- 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
- 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, 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
- 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 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 Horse by Geraldine Brooks
In Geraldine Brooks's newest novel, Horse, she links three periods in time: 1850 Kentucky, where an enslaved
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- Six More Great Light Fiction Stories
The Ex Talk, Seattle public radio producer Shay Goldstein is in her late twenties, she's put in her time Lauren The story is heartwarming, funny, with strong friendships, plus it's steamy and romantic at times The story is steamy and romantic at times without being dramatic.
- Review of Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon
But spending time working together for once allows both Rowan and Neil to notice aspects of the other are and who they want to be, and that their intense experiences during the story's short window of time
- Review of Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
Haig is also the author of the fiction titles The Midnight Library and How to Stop Time.
- Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year
That said, I have a tough time reading memoirs in which someone is fighting cancer, and this one may Now I'd like Miller to write more books about varied topics, because I like spending time in her head At times there is some silliness and some superficial focus, but I felt as though Simpson was laying Interestingly, she spends a lot more page time on John Mayer than Nick Lachey—and provides what ultimately
- Review of Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
This is the gorgeous cover of the edition of the book I read--and owned at one time--and I adore this
- Review of An Altar in the World by Barbara Brown Taylor
one because I felt that Taylor's personality came through in it even more fully, and I adore spending time
- Review of Beneath a Starless Sky by Tessa Harris
Harris's book is fast-paced, without a lot of page time spent setting a background or lingering on self-reflection
- Review of Quantum Girl Theory by Erin Kate Ryan
With the multiple girls at hand, I had to flip back a few times to make sure Ryan was writing about the was writing about, but that definitely could have been a personal problem related to reading while tired
- 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 Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
his own health crisis of cancer, which affected his digestion, ability to chew, and his taste--at the time
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/3/23 Edition
crystals, but her crochety male advisor assures her there's little interest in hiring her for full-time
- Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Reads
The Sparrow took a little time to get going for me, but then I was blown away. Gilded Hour explores how these women's abilities and constraints intersect with women's rights of the time
- Review of Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
Jen Beagin's literary fiction novel is consistently bizarre, at times base, and often darkly funny as
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/25/22 Edition
Four years and a New York Times column about her experience later, she emerged from fighting to survive
- Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year
Vera and Edith are such a complementary partnership, and I loved spending time with these strong young adventure, strong female loyalty and friendship, love, and lots of fantastic details of life at the time Jesus's role in Ana's story is as a faithful man who disagrees with the politics of the faith at the time
- Review of A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
As another girl disappears, this time one she's tenuously connected to, and when she realizes that aspects
- Review of Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
I loved spending time with main protagonist Eli as he navigated tough situations and emerged with hope because of them), he emerges as a fantastic, oddball, singularly heroic character I loved spending time
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/3/20 Edition
Covid-era, pre-election, pre-pandemic-modified holidays might not be the best timing for me to be reading What's working for your reading life during these odd times?
- Review of The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon
The Ex Talk, Seattle public radio producer Shay Goldstein is in her late twenties, she's put in her time
- Review of The Wreckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson
shares her own often-uncontrollable tendencies (eating most meals in bed and aiming to spend significant time
- Review of Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves by Meg Long
But first she'll have to trust others for the first time and leave herself vulnerable to them--and she'll
- Review of the Cormoran Strike series books 1-4 by Robert Galbraith
during my many glorious hours listening to the audiobook version of the 944-page book so far, I've had time Robert Galbraith First of all, I don't want to talk about this cover, or about movie or television tie-in detective agency--can't resist trying to help Billy and working against the formidable challenge of time
- Review of Honor by Thrity Umrigar
Umrigar is also the author of The Space Between Us, Bombay Time, and the memoir First Darling of the
- Review of These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant
But I very much enjoyed my time in the woods with Cooper and especially Finch.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/29/21 Edition
So now he just needs to do some dangerous digging into matters that seem to generally end with jail time She'll have plenty of time to try to cope with her estranged sister's mess later.
- Review of The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence by Stephen Kurczy
But by the time Kurczy dug into some of the most alarming real-life characters from the Green Bank community
- Shhh! Bossy Book Gift Ideas: Science and the Natural World
Science and Nature Book Gift Ideas I spend most of my reading time on fiction titles, but my favorite stock. 01 To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery by Neil deGrasse Tyson Once upon a time
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/31/23 Edition
Timothy Egan is also the author of The Worst Hard Time, fascinating narrative nonfiction about the Dust
- Review of Happy Place by Emily Henry
The intimacy of the friends felt claustrophobic at times--although the reliance on inside jokes and the
- Review of Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
Over time, the eldest boys begin to fracture the family with their unrelenting violence, destruction, (It’s noted that at the time, some significant blame for mental illness was typically laid at the feet
- Review of Gilded Mountain by Kate Manning
Yet at the same time she becomes fascinated by George--the rough union organizer who flits in and out
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/12/22 Edition
I'm reading The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin, another debut novel, this time
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/10/23 Edition
stumbles into a crime--a gunman is wandering a big-box store, shooting--she draws her gun for the first time

















































