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

    03 Gwen & Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher It's hundreds of years after King Arthur's reign, and his

  • Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite

    Greedy Reading Lists: Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into, Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year I read Kitchen Confidential thirteen years ago, well before I spent endless evenings happily watching Wizenberg has more recently written a memoir about marriage, unexpected yearnings, and the messy process books she wrote Delancey, about owning a restaurant with her husband. 05 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year

  • Review of Pines (Wayward Pines #1) by Blake Crouch

    Developments near the end of the book set up Ethan's complicity in the grand, nefarious conspiracy in I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this book!

  • Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music

    60s band on its rocky rise to popularity, particularly through exploring its members' crises, joys, fears Daisy Jones and the Six explores multiple layers of love and heartbreak, all against a fantastic backdrop I imagine those could be tough to write in an engaging way when the reader obviously can't hear any of

  • Review of Homecoming by Kate Morton

    Years later, Jessica is a struggling reporter in London who is summoned to Sydney to care for her beloved

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/5/24 Edition

    One year later, they find themselves sitting in a fluorescent-lit classroom in their seaside town of

  • Review of Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens

    Practical, tough sixteen-year-old Bridget arrives in 1877 Dodge City without a penny to her name or enough Bridget has a chance at a stable new beginning--yet she's young and can't stifle her yearning for adventure

  • Review of The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

    It's June 1954, and eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson has just served fifteen months on a juvenile work Emmett's planning to pick up his eight-year-old brother Billy and head west to start a new life.

  • Review of The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn

    Kate Quinn is a master of historical fiction and is the author of the fantastic titles The Huntress,

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/8/24 Edition

    Two years later, Constance hasn't returned, and her sister Maude is determined to find out what happened

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/18/22 Edition

    And her client is the Jack Stapleton, action star, household name--and, in recent years, a recluse. The book's sequel is The Book Woman's Daughter, published earlier this year. 03 Weather Girl by Rachel

  • Review of Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker

    For many years Mimi desperately insists on keeping the family’s troubles private, clinging to the preservation The oldest of the sisters is sent away to live out her school years as a privileged guest of wealthy genetic material from the family--both those affected by and those free from mental illness—begins to bear

  • Review of The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James

    Can you fall in love with someone you’ve never met, never even spoken to--someone who is light years They message each other, share their hopes and fears, and quickly grow to rely on each other--the only

  • Review of When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine by Monica Wood

    This memoir is fantastic. I ate it up in a single day.

  • Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You

    For my full review, please see Things in Jars. 03 A Curious Beginning ​ This fantastic book is the first A hundred and fifty years later, a young archivist, Elodie Winslow, is drawn to the mystery.

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

    past former limitations of medical solutions sometimes create a difficult dynamic: pursuing additional years

  • Review of Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash

    parents Millie and Reginald Thompson make what feels like an impossible choice: to send their eleven-year-old

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

    I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? musicals, various nontraditional families and loving bonds, and a little bit of poignancy that brought a tear For other great young adult books, you might try the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic

  • Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore

    Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year I'd love to hear what you thought. Which other books should I add to my memoir to-read list? “As I pulled the covers up and let Micah settle in next to me, I heard Mom’s voice in my ears: Children I listened to this as an audiobook, and I adored hearing Thomas's voice take me through his essays. voice tell it--or without hearing all of the music Carlile offers here.

  • Review of Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez

    He's ten years younger than she is. for 125 years. She can't abandon her job or her duties. and his town builds up Alexis, fills her heart, teaches her about unconditional love, and makes her yearn

  • Review of The Unwilling by John Hart

    captivating story of broken boys and men, battered by experiences of wartime brutality or frozen by the fear my love for Hart's book The Last Child in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year

  • It's Bossy Bookworm's First Birthday!

    You're all fantastic enablers for my terrifically greedy reading habits and for the sharing of my various

  • Review of Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez

    Jimenez's rom-com frequently had me laughing, made me tear up a little, and kept me hooked on the fake-dating This book frequently had me laughing and also made me tear up at a couple of points. If we're going to have a happy ending, we might as well fast-forward to a happy near-future scene and

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/4/21 Edition

    But two years ago on their vacation, something BIG happened. Henry's Beach Read was a favorite book of mine last year, and it made it into the Greedy Reading List Bill Harley's newest work, the middle-grade novel Now You Say Yes, we follow newly orphaned fifteen-year-old Mari and her on-the-spectrum nine-year-old stepbrother, Connor, as they strike out on a cross-country

  • Review of The Great Mistake by Jonathan Lee

    Lee's detail is just fantastic in terms of Green's emotions, hopes, dreams, everyday life at the time

  • Review of The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

    I loved listening to her fantastically raspy voice as she read her memoir in audiobook form, and I'd

  • Review of Going There by Katie Couric

    environments, and she expresses her horror about the infamous revelations that came to light regarding years Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year

  • Review of Beneath a Starless Sky by Tessa Harris

    Harris winds her tale through Lilli's journey to the United States and her glamorous years dancing in Then Lilli's path leads back to Marco, who has in recent years risen through the ranks to work for Goebbels

  • Review of The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett

    Twyford's largely condemned, prejudiced stories may be linked to the vanishing of his teacher so many years

  • Review of True Biz by Sara Nović

    But the hearing headmistress February (a CODA--a child of deaf adults), the rebellious new transfer student At first I feared this would dilute my connection to the main characters, but the ventures into others

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/16/22 Edition

    From the author of Astonish Me, Seating Arrangements, and Great Circle, one of my favorite reads last year He's ten years younger than she is.

  • Review of Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

    But I was left yearning for more tension, tighter pacing, and additional time with Sadie at the center I'd love to hear your thoughts about this book!

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

    The gift idea lists I've already posted this year can be found here: Shhh! of Deception by Andrew Maraniss In Maraniss's nonfiction Games of Deception, published earlier this year Haylah is an excellent friend, she's patient with her incredibly frustrating four-year-old brother, and indies that keep readers swimming in thoughtful book recommendations and excellent customer service all year

  • Six Compelling Nonfiction Reads

    Keefe Patrick Radden Keefe, a journalist with an Irish name but without a dog in this particular fight, fantastically communications that were made possible by Gordievsky's insights into the Soviet leadership's motivations and fears

  • Review of You Have a Friend in 10A by Maggie Shipstead

    also the author of Astonish Me, Seating Arrangements, and Great Circle, one of my favorite reads last year

  • Review of All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham

    A year ago, Isabelle Drake's toddler son was taken from her.

  • Review of The Dream Builders by Oindrila Mukherjee

    Maneka Roy has temporarily returned to India after six years teaching creative writing in the American

  • Review of A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn

    This fantastic book is the first in Raybourn's Veronica Speedwell series.

  • Three Wackily Different Books I'm Reading Right Now, 9/3/20 Edition

    Except...Andra soon realizes she wasn't sleeping for 100 years. She was asleep for 1,000. Henry has made me laugh repeatedly out loud, and I have a suspicion that she might bring me to tears #lightfiction, #heartwarming, #booksaboutbooks 03 A Good Girl's Guide to Murder ​ It's been years since

  • Six Book Club Books I Loved in 2021

    My book club has been together in some form for thirteen years, and for a good while I've been (surprise intriguing book is likely to be generally widely available from the library, vary our genres throughout the year Here are my personal book club favorites from last year. favorite book club reads of 2020, check out the Greedy Reading List Six Book Club Books I Loved Last Year Compelling Nonfiction Books that Read Like Fiction and Six of the Best Nonfiction Books I've Read This Year

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/4/22 Edition

    ) bitingly funny novel about politics and family; I'm listening to Seth Rogen’s funny, silly memoir Yearbook book, scheduled for publication tomorrow (April 5), courtesy of NetGalley and Henry Holt & Company. 02 Yearbook If you're familiar with actor Seth Rogen (Freaks and Geeks, Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and Steve Pineapple Express), you won't be surprised by the breadth and depth of drug-related stories he includes in Yearbook books I loved), check out the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved in the Past Year

  • Review of Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

    subpar and cursory trials, sometimes hinging on incorrect evidence or corrupt setups that occurred years I listened to this one as an audiobook and found it really powerful to hear Stevenson narrate.

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

    The man happens to be Stoker's former expedition partner, who he punched on the street a year ago--and

  • Review of The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry

    Twenty years later, Hazel is working in a bookshop when she unwraps a package and can't believe her eyes

  • Review of Soulless by Gail Carriger

    Professor Lyall is one of my favorite characters, as is Lord Akeldama, a fantastic, over-the-top, preternaturally

  • Review of Recursion by Blake Crouch

    Recursion is more fantastic character-driven science fiction from Blake Crouch, and I found this sooooo

  • Review of The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey

    Both of these books are listed in my Greedy Reading List of Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic

  • Review of Go As a River by Shelley Read

    finding the strength to go on despite few options; and the surprise of new determination and hope after years

  • Review of Burst by Mary Otis

    makes Viva vulnerable to thwarted dreams and pain, echoing her mother's disappointment from her younger years

  • Shhh! Science and Nature Bossy Book Gift Ideas

    indies that keep us swimming in thoughtful book recommendations and excellent customer service all year Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong “A moth will never know what a zebra finch hears

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