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wasn't sure Anna would provide parenting advice and hindsight-based tips to Emily at such a fraught time

It highlights unlikely loyalties forged during desperate times, terrible scenes of cruelty, and shocking

I found Bree's main love interest Nick a little overbearing after a time.

, it seems like the perfect time to read Flying Solo, a Maine-set title that's been on my to-read list

seemingly impossible balance of femininity and control within the male-controlled power structures of the time

imagine it was difficult to manage how to address this topic without being able to give it the page time

But sometimes nothing does the reading trick like shorter works--especially when time is tight or when Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy “His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time

an eligible bachelor of her parents' choosing--but when she pushes against the restrictions of the time

funny, feminist story about a retiring female team of elite assassins was the right book at the right time After four decades of successfully ridding the world of cruelty and destruction one person at a time,

But Lux has a bad sense about all of this, and while the reader has the benefit of flashes forward in time

Zauner delves into her intense love for the complex flavors, the frequently time-consuming and sometimes

There's extensive page time spent on ghastly monstrousness. It was really difficult to read a book with so much page time spent on abuse and violence.

society—make sense of political violence once they have passed through the crucible and finally have time unrelenting IRA paramilitary members but ended up emotionally and sometimes physically broken after time

I still think about this book from time to time, and I read it over a year ago. 04 The Last Child I loved It feels like the time of year to be stocking up on spooky books and mysteries.

serving as mediator between wealthy vacationers temporarily in the park and the working-class full-time Charlotte's various views on the world are absolute gems, and I love spending time in her point of view

unambitious misfit who sticks with them, making them feel unequivocally safe and understood for the first time

society—make sense of political violence once they have passed through the crucible and finally have time researched and documented, with twists and turns that feel so outlandish as to seem like fiction at times A 2020 New York Times article, "Is Ronan Farrow Too Good to Be True?"

even more interesting to me were the detailed snapshots Rees offers into the foods of the place and time The details Rees provides of this confused time in the world are wonderful: the complicated workings

The Gothic Undercurrents It's the perfect time of year to read some spooky, dark, gothic tales. irresistible Bridie are her striking and unfailingly loyal sidekick Sadie; Ruby, who is both a tender tie Behind a door without a key--a door that is sometimes locked and other times mysteriously not--a "silent

Inti and Aggie Flynn grew up spending time with their father living off the grid and become attuned to

The majority of page time in the historical fiction title is spent showing the tasks of daily life (and adventure, strong female loyalty and friendship, love, and lots of fascinating details of life at the time Jesus' role in Ana's story is as a faithful man who disagrees with the politics of the faith at the time Over time their eldest boys begin to fracture the family with unrelenting violence, destruction, and century medical care and exquisitely detailed glimpses into daily life and the workings of society at the time

Frances spends most of her page time in self-obsessed analysis and introspection or making sweeping,

It happens all the time. First, they refused to believe me. Then they shamed me. and abused, opening her own long-closed (and hitherto unknown to her) file and seeing for the first time

For a time, I confused some of the seven characters and their significant others, and the fact that I

By the time summer is over, Mary Jane understands how many more possibilities there are for her future

Girl One reminded me at times of Body of Stars, but this book held together more successfully for me,

retired from tennis at the top of her game, as the best player in the world and the greatest of all time

mix of different genres I read concurrently are usually reactive--a result of my library hold list timing Are you a one-book-at-a-time reader, or do you dabble with reading different types of books at once?

light "summer reads," but they were my favorites 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

downs, her drinking-related missteps, and her failed loves (including, interestingly, a lot more page time

for me, but in this case, I felt Faulkner deftly crafted Helen as naive, overwhelmed, lonely, and, at times

I'd toyed with starting a book blog for a long time because of my bossy feelings about the books I read

The majority of page time is spent showing the tasks of daily life (and almost-claustrophobic interconnectedness

of Maine last week, seeing family and old friends in my former hometown, it seemed like the perfect time

and weight of various factors on another person and their unique life, but I had somewhat of a hard time

After all, last time around, all kinds of horrible things happened as she dug into (and solved, thank

her father, who has Parkinson's disease; she pays the bills; her mother spends the majority of her time Physical discomfort (he is tired, cold, hot, burned, thirsty, hungry), emotional turmoil (he feels loneliness Experiences. 03 Big Swiss by Jen Beagin Jen Beagin's literary fiction novel is consistently bizarre, at times

The boys and the members of their entourage each fight to tie up loose ends in their lives, explore new The mystery skips back and forth in time, and four years later, Iris's twin sister Ruth finally receives Cuckoo Land (which is the name of the book-within-a-book) connect these characters across space and time

somewhat (for some of the characters, more than they realize) come together for their annual getaway, this time

third of the way through the audiobook, I was still questioning whether I was interested in investing time

it's 1817 in Edinburgh, and Hazel Sinnett is a young woman desperate to become something women in her time

Interestingly, she spends far more page time on her relationship with John Mayer than on her life and She seems like a good egg, and I really liked spending time with her through this memoir.

instruments as instruments of death, what felt like overwrought narration of the audiobook, and the amount of time

But when time goes by and Ada doesn't conceive a child, she is suspected of witchcraft, of causing trouble

there been very much healing from the pain of a young woman's disappearance that occurred at the same time

realized adult self, and this journey is satisfying to watch in In Pieces after living through the page time

Fletcher was tough to read at times because of the frequent reckless, life-and-death, sometimes ill-advised

But despite the page time we spent with him in The River--when I felt a deeper connection to the character

At times the retracing of the town's history and the backgrounds of those involved in the climactic ride

“I suppose I could spend time theorizing how it is that people are not bad to each other, but that's