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- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/20/21 Edition
Feyre is drawn into a dangerous, glorious faery world of wicked beasts and complicated alliances to live
- Review of The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
And my heart raced while I read to find out if this fraught situation would blow up in fantastic form I also wasn't sure that certain driving forces of Korelitz's story made sense (why would anyone in this My mom told me about a movie with a plot centering around a stolen book idea, The Words (starring Bradley
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/3/20 Edition
of Stars is 878 pages, so if you never hear from me again, just know that I'm still out there in the world
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/22/20 Edition
The Exiles Christina Baker Kline, who authored Orphan Train (which I really liked) and A Piece of the World
- Three Offbeat Series I Just Started and Love
insufferably mischievous but in rare cases redeemable; all manner of creatures coexist in and visit our world
- My Twelve Favorite 2020 Books
debut novel has remained largely under the radar since its publication last June, but I adored it and would has never met, in the conversational tone of a pen pal writing to someone who will love her and her words She uses Old Norse words in her speech and thoughts; she frequently mentions bravery, combat, wisdom, She can make no mark on the world--she cannot write or draw, she cannot disturb the snow by walking through sometimes desperately creative attempts to preserve lives; and the occasional triumphs that the rest of the world
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/24/21 Edition
She's set on finding her father again and on making her way in a rough world made for men in order to
- Review of Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
“I am no saint—none of us are—but once you have been at death’s door and you don’t die, you would think you would be bathed in relief and gratitude. his compulsion to use and his longtime inability to stop causes him to share multiple times that he would He feels he would do anything to be free of the chokehold of his addiction, which he feels is more severe
- Six of My Favorite Mystery Reads of the Year
Liz Moore is also the author of Long Bright River as well as Heft and The Unseen World .
- Six More Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You
List Six Magical Fairy Tales Grown-Ups Will Love. 06 The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin In the world
- Review of We Are All Guilty Here (North Falls #1) by Karin Slaughter
little bit of a stretch, like calls to like, and it seems plausible that damaged, sick individuals would
- Review of Apeirogon by Colum McCann
McCann is also the author of Let the Great World Spin, which I liked, but not as much as I did this book
- Review of Light Changes Everything by Nancy E. Turner
Turner’s book These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 (despite the title, which Also, Aubrey was such an evil git, I admit to having hoped he would meet a more specific and particularly
- Review of City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
It's not entirely clear why the recipient of the letter would want to hear the full details of Vivian's the very end of the book Vivian writes something wonderfully matter-of-fact to Angela regarding this; words
- Review of O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker
lives that any one of them could be a murderer or a god come down to earth and not one of the others would
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/22/20 Edition
I've been saving French's newest book because I've had such high hopes that it would be stellar, so my Did one of them want so desperately to stop him that they would kill to keep him quiet? holiday and about the mistakes she feels she's made, Mae makes a plea to the universe to show her what would duo also wrote the fun and romantic Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating as well as Love and Other Words
- Review of The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett
I imagine that I would have preferred to read the print version of this title. didn't feel at all convinced that the person trying to sort out the convoluted situation at the end would
- Six More Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You
In the world of Griffin's young adult fantasy novel The Nature of Witches, witches control the weather
- Review of And Then She Vanished (Joseph Bridgman #1) by Nick Jones
I couldn't figure out any reason why Joe would not have a British accent, but he did not, although he uses words like "tetchy" and "proper" and is meant to be British.
- ICYMI: My Very Favorite Reads from the First Half of 2021
Shipstead is a wonderful writer, and I loved every word of this. Rooney has a new book scheduled for publication this fall, Beautiful World Where Are You. 06 The Great
- Review of The Gunners by Rebecca Kaufman
but in any case, it was impossible to imagine that the very-much-set-in-their-ways Mikey and Alice would
- Six Novels I Loved Reading Last Year
and myriad inhabitants show the interconnectedness of us all and celebrate the wonders of the wild world
- Review of You Wouldn't Dare by Samantha Markum
Junie would likely be charming, and her joking dialogue and zingers might land more solidly, in person I loved feeling confident that all would work out in some fashion, and ultimately the teen romance here
- Six Satisfying Novels about Revenge
But she can't stop trying to destroy the heroes' false perfection that is devastating so much of the world
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/10/23 Edition
Matthew Perry “I am no saint—none of us are—but once you have been at death’s door and you don’t die, you would think you would be bathed in relief and gratitude.
- Review of Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue
It almost seems as though the school heads would like to forget either of the troublesome young ladies connection is passionate but clandestine, and they manage to evade the scandal and punishment that would
- My Very Favorite 2021 Reads So Far
Shipstead is a wonderful writer, and I loved every word of this. Rooney has a new book scheduled for publication this fall, Beautiful World Where Are You. 06 The Great
- Review of Memorial Days: A Memoir by Geraldine Brooks
and shaping her own way of honoring Tony, their life together, and their hopes for the future that would
- Review of The Wedding People by Alison Espach
to find their true selves and then to be true to themselves, and while I felt confident that things would
- Six Books Set in Australia that Are Fair Dinkum Fascinating
Only when the two women's worlds intersect can they piece together the full stories of their husbands
- Review of The Blood of the Old Kings (Bleeding Empire #1) by Sung-Il Kim
Arienne knew since she was a young girl that because she was born with magic, her future would end with
- Review of Things We Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier
aren't quite as they seem. ...and so this was her life, because it had always been her life, and it would either kill her, or she would survive it.
- Review of The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren
also authored the books The True Love Experiment , The Unhoneymooners , In a Holidaze , Love and Other Words
- April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
stun medieval British society with her vow of celibacy and ambitious pilgrimage halfway around the world
- Review of Iron Flame (Empyrian #2) by Rebecca Yarros
dialogue, yet the promise of the dragon element kept me reading with fingers crossed that the story would Yet Yarros's thrilling, twisty ending hooked me to find out what would happen in book two.
- Review of Table for Two: Fictions by Amor Towles
This one took me a while to finish, but I savored each word.
- Review of The Names by Florence Knapp
And which would be better?
- Review of The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl
The novel's eating and vivid French food descriptions are, as one would expect from Reich, a fun highlight
- Review of The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club #1) by Richard Osman
Many years ago, everybody here would wake early because there was much to do and only so many hours in
- Shhh! Books I'm Giving as Gifts This Holiday
In Bibliophile, Mount offer gorgeous illustrations of some of the world's most beautiful bookstores,
- Review of Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
Still, there are untruths made of words and untruths made of silences, and Mathilde had only ever lied
- Review of Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren
was swooping in to help cement that who she was as a person was acceptable, and I didn't think Hazel would They also wrote Love and Other Words.
- Review of Bunny (Bunny #1) by Mona Awad
This is not a book I would universally recommend, but for an audience that appreciates cutting satire
- Review of The Hallmarked Man by Robert Galbraith
Cormoran keeps trying to conjure up reasons he and Robin would need to travel somewhere beautiful to
- Six More of My Favorite Fiction Reads from the Past Year
solitude together, wondering about and worrying about their daughters, each other, themselves, and the world
- Review of The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan #1) by Robert Jackson Bennett
The things we’d seen and done now felt too big for words. Silence was a better language.
- Review of The Distance from Four Points by Margo Orlando Littell
She has no clue as to what his intentions were, or why he would go against what he must have known she would have wanted.
- Review of With or Without You by Caroline Leavitt
Simon has been hoping all along that his struggling music career would someday take off, but it didn't look as though his dreams would ever come true. This didn’t go exactly where I thought it would (as far as who was with whom, doing what, and where) by the finish of the book, and I was hooked on finding out where things would go.
- Review of Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live by Susan Morrison
Lorne Michaels developed SNL , his ups and downs, his vision, and how he created the institution that would
- Review of Only If You're Lucky by Stacy Willingham
The twists didn't lead the story exactly where I thought they would, and I was surprised by several turns

















































