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- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/3/20 Edition
Head Over Heels Just listen to this premise from Hannah Orenstein's latest book: nineteen-year-old Avery When she hits a version of rock bottom and moves home, Avery's former teammate and crush Ryan (who did become an Olympic champion) talks her into helping him coach a young phenom at the gym where Avery spent
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/11/24 Edition
Warren, the FBI Profilers, and the PI Tessa Leoni series. 02 All Our Yesterdays: A Novel of Lady Macbeth
- Review of Buckeye by Patrick Ryan
around them, feeling they are in stasis, hiding their true selves, and just trying to keep getting up every
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/12/21 Edition
romaaaance; and I'm listening to Fallen, my first book in Linda Castillo's thirteen-book Kate Burkholder series This is the first book I've read in Castillo's thirteen-book Kate Burkholder series--all set in Amish
- Review of Nothing Like I Imagined (Except for Sometimes) by Mindy Kaling
Nothing Like I Imagined is a short (118 pages, if you're reading; 1 hour 22 minutes if you're listening) series
- Six Five-Star Bossy Reads to Check Out
Edward tries on the mantle of taking responsibility for every life lost; he wallows in the despair of oddly unresolved at the end--even keeping in mind that there's a second book in Donati's Waverly Place series
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/22/24 Edition
And inside the enigmatic pages are the words Any door is every door.
- Review of The Villa by Rachel Hawkins
mysterious long-term illness and in the middle of a contentious divorce, is the author of a successful series
- Review of One Foot in Eden by Ron Rash
This makes the book feel like a series of character studies with a mystery underlying it all.
- Review of Tokyo Dreaming (Tokyo Ever After #2) by Emiko Jean
In the second book in Emiko Jean's fun young adult series, princess Izzy balances pressures, privilege
- Review of The Girl from Widow Hills by Megan Miranda
Three days later, she was recovered in a miraculous series of events that ended up with her rescue and Missing Girls, which I thought was interesting in its structure (it begins in the present day after a series
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/10/22 Edition
author, a respectable citizen, and a disgraced police officer are intertwined through connections to a series
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/1/24 Edition
I mentioned the Folk of the Air trilogy in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series
- Review of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
I read Caste with a group and met every other week to discuss it--and we went months past our original
- Review of You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie Smith
Life, like a poem, is a series of choices.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/28/21 Edition
courtesy of Knopf Publishing Group and NetGalley. 03 The Book of Delights by Ross Gay “...in almost every Ross Gay resolved to spend a year writing about a joy or delight, large or small, every day, beginning
- Review of Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers by Caroline Fraser
pollution, the Ruston smelter, pumped 25 pounds of lead dust and 58 pounds of arsenic into the air every
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/19/22 Edition
I loved Raybourn's A Curious Beginning, the first in her Veronica Speedwell series, which I can't wait
- Review of The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash
“There is an old saying that every story, even your own, is either happy or sad depending on where you
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/28/24 Edition
Patrick's acting career has taken off, and he's wrapping his second successful TV series.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/2/20 Edition
She has also written the Villains series (two titles in that one so far) and the Shades of Magic series
- Review of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
local schoolchildren) by the local doctor and his colleagues, initially so insistent about studying every
- Review of Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
Krueger has also written eighteen books in his Cork O'Connor mystery series, including Desolation Mountain
- Review of Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Now I'd like Miller to please write more books about varied topics, because I like spending time in her
- Review of Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Small Things Like These illustrates how a series of what may seem like largely inconsequential moments
- Review of Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson
Rich's livelihood feels on the verge of becoming obsolete as the heavily harvested woods dwindle. Every character grapples with obligation, safety, and family issues.
- Review of Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (As Told to Me) Story by Bess Kalb
The author saved every one of her grandmother's voicemails, and here she uses them--along with emails
- Review of All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
Greenwood's skillful unfolding of the often brutal story, the characters' many layers, and the varied
- Review of A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
The story has been optioned by actress Emma Stone to be produced as a limited television series.
- Review of Who Is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews
"By its nature, every secret contains the power to destroy something."
- Review of Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
I loved Raybourn's A Curious Beginning, the first in her Veronica Speedwell series, which I can't wait
- Review of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
their passions, and I enjoyed Duckworth's interviews with highfliers and successful individuals across varied
- Review of Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
Shipstead is a wonderful writer, and I loved every word of this.
- Review of Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk
Faced with witnessing growing and varied injustices at Betty's hands, Annabelle must determine what she's
- Review of Less Is Lost (Arthur Less #2) by Andrew Sean Greer
As with book one in the Arthur Less series, I was pleasantly surprised by the heart and vulnerability
- Review of Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
Who are the villains and who are the heroes--or is everyone and is every creature a mix of both?
- Review of This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
Krueger also wrote Ordinary Grace, which I reviewed on the blog here, and he writes a mystery series
- Review of The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz
I could have read about her for a full series of books, and I devoured The Hired Girl in twenty-four
- Review of Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
The detail with which Frances picks apart and analyzes each nuance, each look, and each word of every
- Review of Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau
Mary Jane eagerly learns about varied music and musical expression, about sharing raw emotions, and about
- Review of No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) by Kate Bowler
There are fears and disappointments and failures every day, and, in the end, the hero dies.
- Review of Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up by Selma Blair
shaping force in her life, and she speaks with grace and openness about the disease, her challenges, the varied
- Review of The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
I haven't watched the ten-part Netflix series based on this tale--the cast looks great, but I'm not sure
- Review of Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
As an adult, Gifty sinks every waking hour into her pragmatic search for scientific answers that might
- Review of Now You Say Yes by Bill Harley
Harley is also the author of the wonderful seven-book, middle-grade, humor-filled Charlie Bumper series
- Review of Before She Disappeared by Lisa Gardner
Gardner has written many, many books in multiple series, but I'm excited that her books are new to me
- Review of Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
, offhanded mentions of characters we've met before (like Olive Kitteridge), and Lucy's incessant, varied
- Review of All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
Interestingly, he also writes for the TV series "This Is Us."
- Review of How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
a casual mention around the neck of another character across the world in another time; and we see varied
- Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West
There are additional books in the Sarah Agnes Prine series: Sarah's Quilt, The Star Garden, and Light Carson is also the author of the Fire and Thorns series, which is made up of four young adult fantasy


















































