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- Shhh! Bossy Nonfiction Book Gift Ideas
premise of this book, I knew I was hooked: When Prince’s 1987 record Sign o’ the Times was rereleased in 2020
- Review of To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
Every discovery made, every hour spent in someone else's sheets, every conversation and collaboration
- Review of The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn Clarke
mystery that's a takedown of the book publishing industry, with authors vying to finish a bestselling series I wanted to know a little bit more about Fletch, his long-running series, and his main protagonist, Julia
- Review of We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman
Every year, ever since the girls were born, I have blown out the candles on my birthday cake and wished people of course have individual reactions to such a state of grief and might be inspired to cope in varied
- Review of Two Kinds of Stranger (Eddie Flynn #9) by Steve Cavanagh
It's not necessary to read other books in this series before diving into an Eddie Flynn novel; Cavanagh stops at nothing to achieve his ends, using craftiness, his knowledge of human nature, and playing up favors Cavanagh is also the author of Kill for Me, Kill for You as well as eight other titles in the Eddie Flynn series
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/13/26 Edition
Me Think of You by Libby Page; I'm reading the third in Tana French's Irish-set Cal Hooper mystery series In this third novel in French's series, the community reels over the disappearance of a local young woman
- Review of Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions by Jeffrey Selingo
neuroscientists and psychologists that the teenage brain is still maturing throughout high school...every I found it oddly calming to read about the varied, specific criteria desired by these varied college
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/23/23 Edition
Publishing Group: Ballantine, Delacorte Press. 02 Happiness Falls by Angie Kim For the rest of our lives, every tell Arthur that she's been dreaming of the decrepit, rambling house for years, and that she has some eerie
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/21/24 Edition
of an author developing early-onset Alzheimer's who relies on a superfan to help her finish out her series 01 Libby Lost and Found by Stephanie Booth Libby Weeks is the author of the wildly popular fantasy series She's months late delivering the newest installment of the series, and her publisher and fans are losing
- Review of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab
Power , Vengeful , and the wonderful Invisible Life of Addie LaRue , as well as the Shades of Magic series (The first two books in that series are A Darker Shade of Magic and A Gathering of Shadows , each of
- Review of The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
I delighted in every bit of Jansson's book and loved it so, so much. Jansson is also the author of the fanciful children's books in the Moomin series as well as the short
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/30/26 Edition
stepmother, Lady Tremaine ; and I'm reading the newest title in Steve Cavanagh's Eddie Flynn mystery series Cavanagh is also the author of Kill for Me, Kill for You as well as eight other titles in the Eddie Flynn series
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/24/22 Edition
by Freya Marske A Restless Truth is the second in Freya Marske's queer fantasy mystery Last Binding series 03 How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur In How to Be Perfect
- Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore
The songs are all included again at the very end of the book, by which point the listener understands
- Review of Being Henry: The Fonz...and Beyond by Henry Winkler
challenges led to his eventual emergence as the children's book author of the successful Hank Zipzer series Henry Winkler is the author of the Hank Zipzer series (Niagara Falls, Or Does It? is the first) and the Ghost Buddy series.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/18/23 Edition
to the fourth installment in Deanna Raybourn's irresistible Veronica Speedwell Victorian-era mystery series Emma Makepeace returns in the second book in the series, The Traitor, and when one thing leads to another Raybourn I loved A Curious Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series In this fourth book of the series, Veronica is lured by the promise of an elusive butterfly and an invitation
- Review of Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
But Paula McLain did a lovely job fully setting the scene in vivid, varied, lush, unforgiving Africa-
- Review of The Spy Coast (The Martini Club #1) by Tess Gerritsen
Maine, the town has drawn multiple former intelligence agents (they make up the "martini club" in the series This was a great setup for a series. I'd like to read more Gerritsen novels. Tess Gerritsen is the author of the 13-book Rizzoli and Isles mystery series as well as many other books
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/6/25 Edition
03 Nine Liars (Truly Devious #5) by Maureen Johnson In the fifth in Maureen Johnson's Truly Devious series Maureen Johnson is the author of the six-book Truly Devious young adult mystery series: Truly Devious
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/29/25 Edition
Rowling (Robert Galbraith is her pen name for the Cormoran Strike series). I'm reading the newest in the Cormoran Strike mystery series, in which a dismembered body and Freemason
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/15/24 Edition
Reading Now I'm reading the seventh installment in Martha Wells's fantastic science fiction Murderbot series Schwab's return to the world of the Shades of Magic series (Kell! Delilah Bard! new characters!) System Collapse, we catch up with the delightfully grumpy Murderbot, who in this seventh book in the series The first two books in the Shades of Magic series are A Darker Shade of Magic and A Gathering of Shadows
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/27/23 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to the second in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrian series, Iron Flame 01 Iron Flame (Empyrian #2) by Rebecca Yarros I wanted to love Fourth Wing, the first in this series, But I do love a dragon book, and so far the second in the series offers more page time for the talking
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/10/23 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading the second in Leigh Bardugo's Alex Stern series, Hell Bent, in for adults whose story line is not connected to the Grishaverse, is the first in Bardugo's Alex Stern series I mentioned Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone series in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series. and the King of Crows duology discussed here, which is expected to be the end of the interconnected series
- Review of You Are Here by David Nicholls
But the notion that I should be 'making the most of it,' travelling the world or out every night, there I adored every moment I spent with these characters, particularly while witnessing their hesitancy blooming
- Shhh! Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays
It requires an engagement of every sense.... I mentioned another title (The World's Most Adventurous Kid) from the Atlas Obscura series last year This series of books is so beautiful and odd and captivating, I just love giving them as gifts. 02 Cloud spent a year traveling the United States in search of the greatest golf experience available, playing every
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/11/23 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to The Running Grave, the newest in the mystery series by Robert Cormoran Strike #7) by Robert Galbraith I'm listening to The Running Grave, the newest in the mystery series In the newest doorstop of a book in the series, Cormoran Strike is cursorily on a health kick, he and
- Review of The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell
I don't think it benefited me to listen to The Last Magician, the first in Maxwell's series, as an audiobook , what with the jumps through time; varied points of view; layered disloyalties, misdirections, and motivations The second and third books in this series are published; I seem to often start series and have to wait
- Review of Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth
The playful tone of the early pages reminded me of Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club series, which
- Review of Blackwater Falls by Ausma Zehanat Khan
Blackwater Falls is the first in a planned series. Ausma Zehanat Khan is the author of the Esa Khattak/Rachel Getty mystery series (The Unquiet Dead, The She is also the author of The Khorasan Archives fantasy series (The Bloodprint is the first book in the series).
- Review of Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins
largely stay in drunken, sunburned fogs of excess and denial, and they do it all against a luxurious, eerie solid suspense read with magnetic twists and turns--as well as the Hex Hall, Rebel Belle, and Royals series
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/14/23 Edition
Yellowstone National Park, The Ranger; and I'm listening to the second in an irresistible historical fiction series Study in Scarlet Women was the first book in Sherry Thomas's gender-flipped Sherlock Holmes mystery series I'm listening to the audiobook of the second in Thomas's Lady Sherlock series, in which Charlotte Holmes
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/7/23 Edition
Thought We Knew; I'm listening to the third book in Deanna Raybourn's wonderful Victorian England mystery series Veronica Speedwell #3) by Deanna Raybourn In the third installment of Deanna Raybourn's Veronica Speedwell series I loved A Curious Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series of
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/29/26 Edition
Australia. 02 Tropesick by Lauren Okie Katie and Tyler were childhood neighbors and friends, on the verge Meanwhile, Lauren Okie playfully works every imaginable trope into both the story Katie and Tyler are
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/12/21 Edition
Grohl credits his varied and numerous musical influences and it feels reminiscent of his conversations in the documentary series Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways. 03 This Shining Life by Harriet Kline Young
- Review of The Eighth Detective by Alex Pavesi
fictitious author of the stories has approached the murder mystery genre as a mathematician, exploring every The stories aren't connected by characters or settings, and they vary in their setups. The mystery stories within the story are intriguing, and I loved paying attention to their varied structures
- Review of The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
bravery in this spooky tale--and the atmospheric descriptions of the remote, tiny town setting created an eerie , cruel power were disturbing, and the atmospheric descriptions of the remote, tiny town created an eerie There's another book planned for this series; I hope the tides of power have turned in Bethel in book
- Review of The Romance Revival by Christina Lauren
Emery breaks every code of ethics to save Luca.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/27/23 Edition
sent to live with relatives for a hot summer; I'm reading the first of Alex White's Starmetal Symphony series from Space (The Starmetal Symphony #1) by Alex White In the first book in Alex White's space opera series I really enjoyed Alex White's Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe, the first in the Salvagers series That first book in the space opera series offers diverse characters, strong women, a heist setup, and
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/19/26 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to the first in Philippa Gregory's Plantaganet and Tudor series
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/19/24 Edition
inhabitants, The Whalebone Theatre; and I'm listening to the first in Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs series audiobook. 03 Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs #1) by Jacqueline Winspear Maisie Dobbs begins Winspear's series
- Review of Night Night Fawn by Jordy Rosenberg
in vivid hallucinations in which her son takes the form of a bird; hints late in the novel that not every Barbara's voice is so particular and perfect, it felt as though Rosenberg was well versed in real-life
- Review of The Land and Its People: Essays by David Sedaris
The author takes a striking or absurd situation and follows it through an uncomfortable series of twists
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/12/24 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to the first in Hafsah Faizal's Blood and Tea series, A Tempest Tempest of Tea: Blood and Tea #1 by Hafsah Faizal In the first book of Hafsah Faizal's Blood and Tea series
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/26/24 Edition
the length of their lives, The Measure; and I'm reading the first in Tess Gerritsen's Martini Club series But Purity, Maine, has drawn multiple former intelligence agents (the "martini club" in the series title
- Review of Definitely Better Now by Ava Robinson
It feels like every messy part of her life is about to converge in a destructive collision.
- Review of People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
I was hooked on the varied settings and intrigue by both the premise and the story's inspiration.
- Review of The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman
I read the first in that series, The Magicians , for but me it was short on magic and fantastical elements
- Review of Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
tell Arthur that she's been dreaming of the decrepit, rambling house for years, and that she has some eerie well-meaning and ineffectual passersby; and dreams of darkness, belonging, and taking up the mantle of an eerie
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/24/26 Edition
An unfathomable tragedy throws everything into a spiral, and Emery breaks every code of ethics to save
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/29/24 Edition
makes enemies of multiple fellow contestants, she struggles with the staged and manipulated nature of every But the notion that I should be 'making the most of it,' travelling the world or out every night, there


















































