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her marriage--the give and take (or lack thereof), the power imbalance, the resentment, the unspoken yearnings Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year

Maisel," and the extensive reminiscing about the hotel's heyday years is really fun. But the book's present pales in comparison to the golden years of the past, and current events begin

Mariana lost her husband a year ago in a holiday accident in her coastal Greek hometown, and she's still its accuracy or inaccuracy seems likely to create a crisis for her later in the book, but we don't hear

of The Ragged Edge of Night, which I mentioned in Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved Over the Past Year

The young men Orenstein interviewed share their experiences with intimacy, yearn for bigger conversations So she spent two years interviewing young men ages sixteen to twenty-two of different races, straight their sexual activity and intimacy and related matters, including pleasure, consent, asserting limits, hearing

on the farm where her grandparents lived and where she was born, here offers stories spanning forty years

in 1924 South Carolina were wonderful, and I still think about this book although I read it almost a year I mentioned this book in the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year.

Scruffy, hot-tempered, baby-faced Simon evaded a position in the Confederate Army for years by passing He's playing in a "scratch band" near the Texas coast with other big-hearted characters to try to make

Geraldine Brooks is also the author of The People of the Book, March, Year of Wonders, Caleb's Crossing

I'm starting the year off reading two brand-new (published tomorrow!) The Maid is a book my book club is set to read this year. 03 The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers

books I loved), check out the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved in the Past Year

I looooooved the wonderful dark humor and unexpected details in A Deadly Education and the fantastic

Russians are systematically eliminating scientists who betrayed Mother Russia to England and MI6 years

I'd love to hear: What are your favorite (fiction or nonfiction) books about tough lady spies? Yael, a tough young woman who escaped from a concentration camp, has been training as a spy for years

The book's sequel is The Book Woman's Daughter, published earlier this year.

My smart friend Kathy mentioned these books on social media and was correct that these are fantastic.

She's in--for a fantastic wardrobe, incredibly awkward moments, scripted romance, and a beautiful Malibu

established of Alzeimer's disease, he considers the cases of those he has known who suffered for many years

In Williams's historical fiction mystery, which skips back and forth in time, four years later, Iris's

As he faces a scheduled yearly vacation to Hilton Head, he attempts to get rid of his wife's belongings Her young daughter is missing, and Ella is in limbo, desperately hoping she hears news soon.

But the brave GIs didn't survive years of brutal battles and ensure returning in a much-anticipated homecoming nonfiction, you might also want to check out the post Six of the Best Nonfiction Books I've Read This Year

If you've read any of these, I'd love to hear what you think! And I'd also love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? But tea monk Dex finds himself wandering and yearning--for long-lost crickets' nighttime noises, and I'm watching The Good Place for the third time, this time with my youngest, and I love hearing his references to the inspiration for the show and hearing his references to specific scenes, currently fresh in my

#timetravel, #fantasyscifi, #alternatereality, #fourstarbookreview 03 In Five Years ​ Dannie is on the path to achieving her five-year goals in spectacularly efficient fashion. Serle's In Five Years totally hit the spot for me, and it also wasn’t exactly what I expected. I'd love to hear about others you love!

Growing Up by Selma Blair Long before she appeared in Cruel Intentions, well before Legally Blonde, and years

Through Bell's voice we also learn what has shaped the other women of the family: we hear rich stories It made me laugh out loud and brought me to tears. I just adored this gem.

She dove back into pages of interviews and information detailing the fifteen-year-old she was then--a Crawford's often brutal account of her teenage years and all that occurred after her attack inspired I mentioned this book in the Greedy Reading List (along with I'm Still Here and The Year of the Witching

the carelessly cruel, selfish, emotionally distant behavior that occurs at the end of the couple's years

published in 1998, forgetting the title, remembering that it was two women's names, and then a few years This book is part of the Greedy Reading List Six Book Club Books I Loved Last Year.

always seen associated with letters, voices, and emotions--which she has always been told to ignore, for fear themselves--and their mysterious goings-on, which Isobel suspects may be related to the runaway slaves she hears

The Scottish speech patterns were fantastic (but what a job for the copy editor!).

After twists and turns and several years, Elizabeth is a single mother who becomes the star of a hit

Yet she desperately yearns for some measure of independence, which is not easily available to the women other girls at school only know that Maddalena draws them into her orbit, and everyone wants to be near

I look forward to hearing about your favorite summer reads once I'm back to the blog! xoxo, Amy

Rebecca Serle is also the author of In Five Years, The Dinner List, and When You Were Mine.

I listened to Here One Moment  as an audiobook, and I loved hearing the Australian accents. I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this story!

After she spoke at our library foundation event last year, my book club read this book together.

Here's the basic premise of The Cuckoo's Calling: Cormoran Strike spent a couple of years at Oxford before Billy and working against the formidable challenge of time to uncover the truth of what occurred many years

It's been ten years since she made the biggest mistake of her life in the wondrous place where she spent

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

that their differing life plans may not intersect in any long-term way. ...she had spent the last few years

Ten years after her arrival, Riley is twenty-one and has begun to chafe at the small scope of her life

Rachel Held Evans was the author of Jesus Feminist, Faith Unraveled, A Year of Biblical Womanhood, Searching

indies that keep us swimming in thoughtful book recommendations and excellent customer service all year my kids have always loved (I'm also giving an Usborne graphic novel about King Arthur as a gift this year immersive, love-filled fictional world of Rowling's with the hurtful comments she made earlier this year I've found I've been resisting reading this year's Troubled Blood, the newest book in the Cormoran Strike Two other cookbooks I'm gifting to young people in my own house this year are The Unofficial Harry Potter

I was taken with Rooney's sometimes discomforting book Normal People last year--and was all in for the

Duchess is a thirteen-year-old girl trying to keep her family together. In timelines alternating between the expedition and the events of a year and a half afterward, Macallister

--and not just any stalker, one who may have unnerving similarities to a local serial killer caught years

After her loss, she yearns for a similar exchange of information in which she owns a stack of cards explaining People don't like to hear it but I think they might not mind reading it on a card.”

In James , Percival Everett's retelling of the Mark Twain novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , we hear When the book begins, James's escape is imperative--he hears that he is about to be sold, and that his

five strong women characters as they traveled through the wilds of Kentucky in Depression-era America bearing I loved their searches for love and their yearning for living a life that was true to themselves (by

surrounding the shooting of a man named Lloyd Wilson in his 1920s rural Illinois hometown of Franklin fifty years