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  • Review of The Blighted Stars (Devoured Worlds #1) by Megan E. O'Keefe

    O'Keefe's first space opera in the Devoured Worlds series presents failing worlds filled with conflict O'Keefe's Devoured Worlds series, The Blighted Stars , studious Tarquin Mercator is the unlikely heir universe-spanning drama in The Blighted Stars , and it sets up complexities for the books to come in this series O'Keefe is also the author of the The Protectorate series and The Scorched Continent series.

  • Six Musicians' Memoirs that Sing

    The songs are all included again at the very end of the book, by which point the listener understands

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/16/24 Edition

    This is the sixth installment in Atkinson's Jackson Brodie series, but it can be read as a stand-alone Leigh Bardugo is also the author of Ninth House , Hell Bent , the King of Scars series ( Rule of Wolves is book two), the Six of Crows series, the Shadow and Bone series ( which I mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series ) and The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/14/24 Edition

    father's death, Intermezzo ; and I'm listening to the first in Rachel Aaron's Tear Down Heaven fantasy series playful fantasy book (see Hench and Starter Villain ), and I'm hoping Rachel Aaron's Tear Down Heaven series Rachel Aaron is also the author of the DFZ Changeling series, the Heartstrikers series, the Crystal Calamity series, and other books.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/21/25 Edition

    The Summer Guests (Martini Club #2) by Tess Gerritsen In book one of Tess Gerritsen's Martini Club series This is the second book in Tess Gerritsen's Martini Club series. Power , Vengeful , and the wonderful Invisible Life of Addie LaRue , as well as the Shades of Magic series (The first two books in that series are A Darker Shade of Magic  and A Gathering of Shadows , each of

  • Review of Maddalena and the Dark by Julia Fine

    story set in 1700s Venice in which two young women's lives and destinies become intertwined through a series Nevertheless, Luisa and Maddalena become fast friends, and their link grows every deeper.

  • Review of A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls #2) by Hank Green

    Like Mary Poppins, this story is practically perfect in every way. For my review of the first book in this series, please see An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about either book in this series?

  • Review of The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

    Grohl eagerly credits his varied and numerous musical influences in The Storyteller, and the feel is reminiscent of the fervor and intensity of his conversations in the fascinating documentary series Foo

  • Review of The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

    soon finds herself navigating the complex world of seers, frauds, and holy men vying for the king's favor He has been cursed for generations to serve a series of crooked masters and their offspring, with no Meanwhile, Luzia can't trust those competing against her for favor, as dark forces lead one after another ( Rule of Wolves  is book two), the Six of Crows series, the Shadow and Bone series ( which I mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series ) and The Language of Thorns: Midnight

  • Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In

    Lockwood notes that she is not a Christian but is very much “of” the church because of her upbringing This is every reader's catch-22: the more you read, the more you realize you haven't read; the more you

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/11/25 Edition

    San Francisco; I'm listening to The Knight and the Moth , the first in Rachel Gillig's rich fantasy series But when a series of vindictive, one-star reviews threaten their business, they must figure out who has and the Moth (Stonewater Kingdom #1) by Rachel Gillig The first in Rachel Gillig's Stonewater Kingdom series

  • Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II

    Abriel's grandmother Vera lived with the author's family when Abriel was growing up, and she was immersed Abriel offers a vivid account of the fear and dread—intermixed with sparks of hope—that sustained Vera Vera and Edith are such a complementary partnership, and I loved spending time with these strong young --as we are startled at the end of every winter. We shall think: oh, I had quite forgotten....

  • Review of The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue

    my personality or my humour thrives on more than being able to see the same person at the same time every Caroline O'Donoghue is also the author of Scenes of a Graphic Nature, Promising Young Women, and the teen series

  • Review of Nocturne by Alyssa Wees

    But once the fantasy elements became the focus, the story felt more like a series of ethereal concepts constricting-and-controlled scenario is orchestrated by an evasive, sinister, and, I felt, annoying man (every

  • Review of American Girl by Wendy Walker

    And those rules stayed in my head, each and every one. Charlie is whip-smart intelligent in her evaluation of the facts of the complicated series of events. (Side note: the storyline concerning the scholarship and her stepfather had me on the verge of screaming

  • Shhh! Bossy Nonfiction Book Gift Ideas

    premise of this book, I knew I was hooked: When Prince’s 1987 record Sign o’ the Times was rereleased in 2020

  • Review of Family Family by Laurie Frankel

    Family Family offers so much varied love and acceptance, discovery, and renewed connection. When are They going to make this into a television series, hmmm?

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/28/24 Edition

    novels featuring main protagonists I love: Uprooted  and Spinning Silver  as well as the Scholomance series Novik has also written a series of nine books about dragons, the Temeraire series.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/11/24 Edition

    and her most likely candidate is a grumpy minotaur (who's also her teacher, oops) who also needs a favor The misogyny and contempt of her peers means she faces a lack of respect and resources at every turn. Wang is also the author of The Sword of Kaigen and the YA fantasy series The Volta Academy Chronicles

  • Review of To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

    Every discovery made, every hour spent in someone else's sheets, every conversation and collaboration

  • Review of The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

    I delighted in every bit of Jansson's book and loved it so, so much. Jansson is also the author of the fanciful children's books in the Moomin series as well as the short

  • Review of We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman

    Every year, ever since the girls were born, I have blown out the candles on my birthday cake and wished people of course have individual reactions to such a state of grief and might be inspired to cope in varied

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/21/24 Edition

    of an author developing early-onset Alzheimer's who relies on a superfan to help her finish out her series 01 Libby Lost and Found by Stephanie Booth Libby Weeks is the author of the wildly popular fantasy series She's months late delivering the newest installment of the series, and her publisher and fans are losing

  • Review of Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions by Jeffrey Selingo

    neuroscientists and psychologists that the teenage brain is still maturing throughout high school...every I found it oddly calming to read about the varied, specific criteria desired by these varied college

  • Review of Being Henry: The Fonz...and Beyond by Henry Winkler

    challenges led to his eventual emergence as the children's book author of the successful Hank Zipzer series Henry Winkler is the author of the Hank Zipzer series (Niagara Falls, Or Does It? is the first) and the Ghost Buddy series.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/23/23 Edition

    Publishing Group: Ballantine, Delacorte Press. 02 Happiness Falls by Angie Kim For the rest of our lives, every tell Arthur that she's been dreaming of the decrepit, rambling house for years, and that she has some eerie

  • Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore

    The songs are all included again at the very end of the book, by which point the listener understands

  • Review of The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell

    I don't think it benefited me to listen to The Last Magician, the first in Maxwell's series, as an audiobook , what with the jumps through time; varied points of view; layered disloyalties, misdirections, and motivations The second and third books in this series are published; I seem to often start series and have to wait

  • Review of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab

    Power , Vengeful , and the wonderful Invisible Life of Addie LaRue , as well as the Shades of Magic series (The first two books in that series are A Darker Shade of Magic  and A Gathering of Shadows , each of

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/24/22 Edition

    by Freya Marske A Restless Truth is the second in Freya Marske's queer fantasy mystery Last Binding series 03 How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur In How to Be Perfect

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/18/23 Edition

    to the fourth installment in Deanna Raybourn's irresistible Veronica Speedwell Victorian-era mystery series Emma Makepeace returns in the second book in the series, The Traitor, and when one thing leads to another Raybourn I loved A Curious Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series In this fourth book of the series, Veronica is lured by the promise of an elusive butterfly and an invitation

  • Review of The Spy Coast (The Martini Club #1) by Tess Gerritsen

    Maine, the town has drawn multiple former intelligence agents (they make up the "martini club" in the series This was a great setup for a series. I'd like to read more Gerritsen novels. Tess Gerritsen is the author of the 13-book Rizzoli and Isles mystery series as well as many other books

  • Review of The Eighth Detective by Alex Pavesi

    fictitious author of the stories has approached the murder mystery genre as a mathematician, exploring every The stories aren't connected by characters or settings, and they vary in their setups. The mystery stories within the story are intriguing, and I loved paying attention to their varied structures

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/15/24 Edition

    Reading Now I'm reading the seventh installment in Martha Wells's fantastic science fiction Murderbot series Schwab's return to the world of the Shades of Magic series (Kell! Delilah Bard! new characters!) System Collapse, we catch up with the delightfully grumpy Murderbot, who in this seventh book in the series The first two books in the Shades of Magic series are A Darker Shade of Magic and A Gathering of Shadows

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/27/23 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to the second in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrian series, Iron Flame 01 Iron Flame (Empyrian #2) by Rebecca Yarros I wanted to love Fourth Wing, the first in this series, But I do love a dragon book, and so far the second in the series offers more page time for the talking

  • Shhh! Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays

    It requires an engagement of every sense.... I mentioned another title (The World's Most Adventurous Kid) from the Atlas Obscura series last year This series of books is so beautiful and odd and captivating, I just love giving them as gifts. 02 Cloud spent a year traveling the United States in search of the greatest golf experience available, playing every

  • Review of The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson

    bravery in this spooky tale--and the atmospheric descriptions of the remote, tiny town setting created an eerie , cruel power were disturbing, and the atmospheric descriptions of the remote, tiny town created an eerie There's another book planned for this series; I hope the tides of power have turned in Bethel in book

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/10/23 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading the second in Leigh Bardugo's Alex Stern series, Hell Bent, in for adults whose story line is not connected to the Grishaverse, is the first in Bardugo's Alex Stern series I mentioned Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone series in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series. and the King of Crows duology discussed here, which is expected to be the end of the interconnected series

  • Review of Blackwater Falls by Ausma Zehanat Khan

    Blackwater Falls is the first in a planned series. Ausma Zehanat Khan is the author of the Esa Khattak/Rachel Getty mystery series (The Unquiet Dead, The She is also the author of The Khorasan Archives fantasy series (The Bloodprint is the first book in the series).

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/6/25 Edition

    03 Nine Liars (Truly Devious #5) by Maureen Johnson In the fifth in Maureen Johnson's Truly Devious series Maureen Johnson is the author of the six-book Truly Devious young adult mystery series: Truly Devious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/29/25 Edition

    Rowling (Robert Galbraith is her pen name for the Cormoran Strike series). I'm reading the newest in the Cormoran Strike mystery series, in which a dismembered body and Freemason

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/11/23 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to The Running Grave, the newest in the mystery series by Robert Cormoran Strike #7) by Robert Galbraith I'm listening to The Running Grave, the newest in the mystery series In the newest doorstop of a book in the series, Cormoran Strike is cursorily on a health kick, he and

  • Review of Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins

    largely stay in drunken, sunburned fogs of excess and denial, and they do it all against a luxurious, eerie solid suspense read with magnetic twists and turns--as well as the Hex Hall, Rebel Belle, and Royals series

  • Review of You Are Here by David Nicholls

    But the notion that I should be 'making the most of it,' travelling the world or out every night, there I adored every moment I spent with these characters, particularly while witnessing their hesitancy blooming

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

    Grohl credits his varied and numerous musical influences and it feels reminiscent of his conversations in the documentary series Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways. 03 This Shining Life by Harriet Kline Young

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/14/23 Edition

    Yellowstone National Park, The Ranger; and I'm listening to the second in an irresistible historical fiction series Study in Scarlet Women was the first book in Sherry Thomas's gender-flipped Sherlock Holmes mystery series I'm listening to the audiobook of the second in Thomas's Lady Sherlock series, in which Charlotte Holmes

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/7/23 Edition

    Thought We Knew; I'm listening to the third book in Deanna Raybourn's wonderful Victorian England mystery series Veronica Speedwell #3) by Deanna Raybourn In the third installment of Deanna Raybourn's Veronica Speedwell series I loved A Curious Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series of

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/27/23 Edition

    sent to live with relatives for a hot summer; I'm reading the first of Alex White's Starmetal Symphony series from Space (The Starmetal Symphony #1) by Alex White In the first book in Alex White's space opera series I really enjoyed Alex White's Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe, the first in the Salvagers series That first book in the space opera series offers diverse characters, strong women, a heist setup, and

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/19/24 Edition

    inhabitants, The Whalebone Theatre; and I'm listening to the first in Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs series audiobook. 03 Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs #1) by Jacqueline Winspear Maisie Dobbs begins Winspear's series

  • Review of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

    person in almost three hundred years to remember her after she walks out the door, the next day, and every She has also written the Villains series (two titles in that one so far) and the Shades of Magic series

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