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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

#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!

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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.”

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

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

Those four years [are] clearly seen as the staging area, not the actual operation; as the throat clearing

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

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

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

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

And I suppose the real answer is it started years before you could have ever imagined it did.

Malibu Rising tracks each hour leading up to and into the wee hours of the legendary party (and this year's

Gwynne explores the forty-year battle between white settlers and Native Americans in the American West

Patrick Radden Keefe, a journalist with an Irish name but without a dog in the fight, fantastically shapes

In early eighteenth-century France, 23-year-old Addie LaRue is desperate. Addie meets a young man in a hidden-away bookstore--and he's the first person in almost three hundred years

Hildenbrand, Nancy Thayer, and Adriana Trigiani as well as Judith Krantz and Jackie Collins from her teen years

I've been putting Marie Lu series (Legend, The Young Elites, and Warcross) into my son's hands for years

and along the way he's forced to more fully consider the devastating effects of his nation's thirty-year-long

But the mask Wylla is after also turns out to be sentient, and if she's going to wear the mask, she'll

In Steve Cavanagh's twisty mystery Kill for Me, Kill for You , two strangers, women bearing the brunt