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femininity and control within the male-controlled power structures of the time, Shoulder Season spans forty years Clancy's first novel, The Second Home, was published last year, when the author was 52.

That pedestal kept me stuck, emotionally stunted, living in fear, dependent, in a near constant state

This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. If you're game to roll with hearing about his unique viewpoint and approach to life, Greenlights is a

extended family--including a stolid patriarch and matriarch, a free-spirited daughter, a spunky and fantastic

young people from different worlds within the same small Irish town and how they come together and tear This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls.

In Tracey Lange's new novel We Are the Brennans, twenty-nine-year old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a haze Five years earlier she'd abandoned her family and friends and anyone tied to her past, including her

The girl's confusion about the word "savages" was particularly poignant; she hears it used by the British Kline's research and resulting detail is fantastic, and I'm in for all the Christina Baker Kline books

In Kathryn Stockett's newest novel--her first since her debut 17 years ago--we dive into dual, linked

Then Florence's beloved father dies, and she returns to her hometown for the first time in many years

If you read or have read any of these, I'd love to hear what you think! I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? Greedy Reading Lists Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into, Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year

01 The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles It's June 1954, and eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson has just served Emmett's planning to pick up his eight-year-old brother Billy and head west to start a new life.

Will There Be Good News, and many more books. 02 Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson Sixteen-year-old

I can't stop thinking about this fascinating near-future climate-change story of desperation, loyalty In a near-future Kolkata, India, Ma is the manager of a food pantry for those in need. As the time for departure from India nears for Ma, her elderly father, and her small daughter, a few

Period, but I wanted it too badly and he was like a cat, solidly rejecting my overzealous interest for years

Someone will need to stand up to the ruthless thugs ruling the area with fear and corruption in order I had to force myself to come around to living with the fear, that feeling of being overwhelmed by a

Strout's My Name is Lucy Barton is spent in the hospital during a mysterious illness Lucy experienced many years adores but who requires careful avoidance of certain topics or realities, and who she hadn’t seen in years ruthlessness, I think, comes in grabbing onto myself, in saying: This is me, and I will not go where I can't bear interesting—Lucy recounts a passing (but consequential for her) encounter with an author in New York City years

After twists and turns, momentous changes, and several years, Elizabeth is a single mother who becomes

something of a recluse in her quiet seaside Maine town ever since her husband's death in a car crash a year But having a listening ear in Dean, who is completely separate from Evvie's "before" life, means she

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

Wizenberg fears that her life will unravel if she explores her complex sexuality--but she is even more you might also like to take a look at the Greedy Reading List Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year

Bill Harley's newest work, the middle-grade novel Now You Say Yes, we follow newly orphaned fifteen-year-old Mari and her nine-year-old stepbrother, Conor, who is on the spectrum, as they strike out on a cross-country

In The Last Thing He Told Me, Hannah has just celebrated her one-year anniversary of marriage to Owen information; and the only lawyer Hannah knows to turn to for help is her ex-fiancé, who she left at the altar years

I love a brave-young-protagonist setup, and the brothers' love and determination were fantastic.

implausible premise--one in which a famous singer doesn’t recognize the person who provided the pivotal years-long adult Josie is Girl One, the first of nine baby girls who were famously conceived without male sperm years Joseph Bellanger, who tragically died in a fire on the commune years earlier.

I mentioned another title (The World's Most Adventurous Kid) from the Atlas Obscura series last year the co-owner of Nashville's Parnassus Books. 06 A Course Called America by Tom Coyne Coyne spent a year indies that keep readers swimming in thoughtful book recommendations and excellent customer service all year

But two years ago on their vacation, something BIG happened. Henry's Beach Read was one of my favorite books last year, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading List

The sisters are meanwhile trying to find a way back together after grave betrayals and years of broken Harrow provides a villain you'll love to hate: he oppresses women, smugly and sneakily instills fear,

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

explores what she realizes may be a more complex sexuality than she had previously understood, and she fears If you like memoirs, you might also like Six Illuminating Memoirs I Read This Year.

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

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

indies that keep us swimming in thoughtful book recommendations and excellent customer service all year Mike Ayers I've given this book to two of my most music-loving people for their fall birthdays this year the multiple rabid Seinfeld fans in my circle, a new Jerry Seinfeld book--his first in twenty-five years favorite notes from his career in stand-up comedy, featuring selected material he's saved over the years illustrations and his in-depth, extensively tested recipes and meticulous product reviews, and last year

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

At various turns, DeLozier showcases historically accurate, dangerous demonstrations of men's fears of The religious fervor, fears, and the queasily specific medical practices of the time (lancing buboes!

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

but fiercely loving life lived under one roof with extended family, and a young but tough main twelve-year-old wrote Beyond the Bright Sea, a middle-grade adventure story with sweet character development, and last year's

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

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

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

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

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

Luna has a unique and lovely voice and is an irresistibly odd bird of a twelve-year-old girl. Luna has a unique and lovely voice and is an irresistibly odd bird of a twelve-year-old girl. simultaneously wanted to scoop her up and take care of her and to follow the lead of this wise-beyond-her-years

Except...Andra soon realizes she wasn't sleeping for 100 years. She was asleep for 1,000. language spoken by those in the future world is slightly shifted, as though it has evolved over 1,000 years At one point Andra calls her friend Zhade (who is from a time 1,000 years past her origin time) an insult I reck [reckon] I was born about a thousand years too late. I missed all the best words."

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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