Timothy Egan is also the author of The Worst Hard Time, fascinating narrative nonfiction about the Dust

Inti and Aggie Flynn grew up spending time with their father living off the grid and become attuned to , her own often uncontrollable tendencies (eating most meals in bed and aiming to spend significant time

This Doesn't Find You by Ann Liang I fell in love with Ann Liang's fake-dating young adult novel This Time

In Hard Cash Valley, we spend page time with small-time drug dealers, cockfighting masterminds, Filipino William was a promising character, but we don’t have much time with him.

were some steamy moments, but the sexiness often felt violent, the racy talk didn’t land for me and at times Even solid mentor Jim inexplicably says to Dani about Nick's appeal, "Keep spending time with him, on

it, but Poppy has convinced Alex to join her again on vacation to try to recapture their effortless times She'll just push down her strange feelings about Alex and pretend that fateful time never even happened

For a time, Wizenberg is at a loss to explain much more than the power of her shifted desire. Because it is difficult for her to elucidate, it is at times also a challenge for the reader to fully Life, a home management book that I adored the cozy idea of in my early married days (my love of and time

I only wished this were longer so I could spend more time in Sheldon's head and in his company. I only wished it were longer so I could spend more time in Sheldon's head and in his company.

nineteen or twenty, your life is governed by debts and favors, promises to pick up the check or drive next time

Barbara Robinson's 1971 holiday classic every Christmas season around here, and I love it every single time

I loved spending time with the uproariously funny Thomas. I loved spending time with the uproariously funny Thomas as he recounts how he's navigated situations

feverishly to harvest the cherry crop without the usual support of workers due to the virus, and to make the time

The stresses and pulls on their time as they've grown have caused them to grow apart, so a vacation together

fractured nature of the fight in The Golden Enclaves meant that I didn't get to spend extended page time

The story is funny, sometimes grotesque, at other times sweet, and full of surprises.

Once you loved someone, you repeated it until they were tired of hearing it. heartbreaking, heartwarming echoes and swirls of themes and details that repeat and connect through time

whip-smart, socially awkward, straightforward character I was obsessed with, and I wanted to spend as much time A lot of page time was spent on logistics and on explaining why magical processes and machinations functioned

As another girl disappears, this time one she's tenuously connected to, and when she realizes that aspects They begin to forge a stronger bond (despite how irritating they each find the other), but there's no time I think this was because of personal timing and my reading-during-vacation distraction circumstances,

audiobook at 1.75x speed, which significantly shortened the 32-hour, 42-minute audiobook listening time

With everything going wrong, El and her friends must do the unthinkable yet again: this time they must

I found that I missed a more narrative arc here--I would have loved spending more page time in her daily family and work life and seeing time pass in both respects.

The majority of page time is spent showing the tasks of daily life (and almost-claustrophobic interconnectedness Agnes befriends a local priest who is sympathetic to her situation, and in time it becomes clear that I still think about this book from time to time, and I read it years ago. I only wished it were longer so I could spend more time in Sheldon's head and in his company.

pianist whose biggest hope for the end of the world was to play at the most epic goodbye party of all time

List Three Offbeat Series I Just Started and Love), but after raving about it for two years it seemed time

I have a tough time reading missing-children stories, and somehow I missed that key aspect of Willingham's

Much of the page time is spent on considering potential alliances, recounting past political and military

There remains a lot of page time spent on the enjoyment of refreshments (tea or wine, anyone?)

maddeningly following their own whims and wielding the power here as they are everywhere in the world at this time I think the shifting back and forth in time could have felt jumpy, but it worked well for the story's

I would have liked more introspection, but I loved spending time in Kendrick's funny, honest, often wonderfully I loved spending time in her funny, honest, often wonderfully wacky point of view.

“We are, on this earth, so incredibly small, in the history of time, in the crowd of the world, we are

In Geraldine Brooks's newest novel, Horse, she links three periods in time: 1850 Kentucky, where an enslaved

It was nicely paced, and I liked having time to dig into the characters' evolution and the mystery's

and a heartwarming reminder that there are thoughtful, kind, well-meaning people out there spending time

But on her own time, Mary is Irish exile Maire O’Farren, and she keeps mixed company as part of a secret a heart-wrenching unrequited love of one woman for another--an attraction that was forbidden at the time characters to cross unlikely paths, caused characters to avoid making important discoveries until the timing often desperate circumstances of women (especially black women) without men to protect them at the time Hardinger offers up many crisp and varied details of the time, she captures Bertie’s speech patterns,

The Ex Talk, Seattle public radio producer Shay Goldstein is in her late twenties, she's put in her time Lauren The story is heartwarming, funny, with strong friendships, plus it's steamy and romantic at times The story is steamy and romantic at times without being dramatic.

crystals, but her crochety male advisor assures her there's little interest in hiring her for full-time

watch its favorite show, The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon (although I might have liked more page time

behind his decision and explores the importance to him of taking an active role in determining the time

even-keel college student in Florida, and she's trying to get good grades, keep her scholarship, spend time strong bonds of loyalty; they sometimes behave impulsively; and they are appropriately young and wild at times And the homicides seems to be shifting the tide of power and changing men's behavior in general.

Vera and Edith are such a complementary WWII partnership, and I loved spending time with these strong Vera and Edith are such a complementary partnership, and I loved spending time with these strong young

That girl is frozen in time, with her beginning, middle, and end: victim, endurance, triumph. its structure (it begins in the present day after a series of disturbing events and works backward in time

who must become tough as nails to make their way in the world and to boost each other through rough times , pre-election, and while facing pre-pandemic, depressingly modified holidays might not be the best timing

It took me a little time to get into Cash's Last Ballad.

Science and Nature Book Gift Ideas I spend most of my reading time on fiction titles, but my favorite stock. 01 To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery by Neil deGrasse Tyson Once upon a time

Suddenly she's plunged back in time to begin the holiday anew and try to get things right, Groundhog I don't anticipate having any trouble with Mae's being whisked through time, but I do want the early I hope you're managing some peaceful downtime and time to read something you love.

The Sparrow took a little time to get going for me, but then I was blown away. Gilded Hour explores how these women's abilities and constraints intersect with women's rights of the time

Jen Beagin's literary fiction novel is consistently bizarre, at times base, and often darkly funny as

The details of the time, household life, and gender, vocation, and familial power structures are wonderful Each of these books is a story about class and gender and power in its own way, told in disparate times

She spends substantial page time laying out the weaknesses of our country's health care system, and she Miller's view gets broad at times, and her focus occasionally seems to stretch beyond the scope of what

Sometimes Dolly lets them fall, but other times her songs about freedom (with her metaphors of butterflies