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  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/17/25 Edition

    The Antidote tracks multiple characters to tell a story of caution, folly, and redemption: a Prairie

  • Review of Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout

    She's also the author of Anything Is Possible, My Name Is Lucy Barton, The Burgess Boys, and Amy and

  • Six More Novels I Loved Reading Last Year

    The unlikely Jaryk-Lucy connection captured my heart, the Misha-Jaryk friendship was fantastic, and Chakrabarti's

  • Six Four-Star Mysteries to Keep You Guessing

    In The Witch Elm, French dips her toe into exploring how luck, (sometimes blind) loyalty—and, in several For my full review of this book, please see The Last Child. 05 City of Windows (Lucas Page #1) by Robert Pobi I loved Pobi's mystery; the character of Lucas Page, a retired detective who is pulled back onto Lucas Page is a fantastic character (as are Whitaker, Kehoe, Erin, and Dingo). I haven't yet read the second in this Lucas Page series, Under Pressure--and I didn't even realize this

  • Six Short Story Collections to Wow You

    Elizabeth Strout (author of, among others, Olive Kitteridge, the wonderful Olive, Again, My Name Is Lucy

  • Review of The Romance Revival by Christina Lauren

    Emery Finch has always been hyper-focused on her top-secret career, but when she fell for landscaper Luca Their passionate married life was joyful and fulfilling at first...but Emery is hardly ever home, Luca Emery breaks every code of ethics to save Luca. But afterward, Luca retains no memory of Emery, their life, or his own personal past. A minor mystery runs through the story (was Luca targeted, by whom, and why?)

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/24/26 Edition

    Scientist Emery Finch has always been hyper-focused on her career, but when she fell for landscaper Luca Their passionate married life was joyful and fulfilling at first...but Emery is hardly ever home, Luca unfathomable tragedy throws everything into a spiral, and Emery breaks every code of ethics to save Luca But Luca retains no memory of Emery, their life, or his own personal past.

  • Six Four-Star Mysteries to Keep You Guessing

    In The Witch Elm, French dips her toe into exploring how privilege, luck, (sometimes blind) loyalty—and For my full review of this book, see The Last Child. 05 City of Windows (Lucas Page #1) by Robert Pobi Lucas Page is a fantastic character (as are Whitaker, Kehoe, Erin, and Dingo). I haven't yet read the second in this Lucas Page series, Under Pressure--and I didn't even realize this

  • August Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Emery Finch has always been hyper-focused on her top-secret career, but when she fell for landscaper Luca Their passionate married life was joyful and fulfilling at first...but Emery is hardly ever home, Luca Emery breaks every code of ethics to save Luca. But afterward, Luca retains no memory of Emery, their life, or his own personal past. Luca's memory loss propels the "second-chance" aspect of the romance, and the couple's redoubled efforts

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/18/24 Edition

    Crouch's Wayward Pines mystery trilogy, Pines ; I'm listening to Ina Garten's memoir, Be Ready When the Luck Time-Travel Stories to Explore )   here   and my review of Dark Matter   here . 02 Be Ready When the Luck shop in the Hamptons, Barefoot Contessa, offers a personal, thoughtful memoir in Be Ready When the Luck

  • Thankful for More Five-Star Bossy Reads

    Bloom is also the author of the heartbreakingly beautiful In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss , Away , Lucky Lucius is a young medical student when World War I sweeps across Europe. Lucius is surrounded by grave injuries but has never even wielded a scalpel He'll learn more from Sister

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/2/25 Edition

    rural Scotland, Clear ; and I'm reading comedian and former pro tennis player Michael Kosta's memoir Lucky I'm listening to Clear as an audiobook. 03 Lucky Loser: Adventures in Tennis and Comedy by Michael Kosta

  • Review of Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors

    Lucky, the youngest, a model, is losing herself in drugs and alcohol. Bonnie, Avery, and Lucky come together and push each other away throughout the story.

  • Thankful for More Five-Star Bossy Reads

    Bloom is also the author of the heartbreakingly beautiful In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss , Away , Lucky Lucius is a young medical student when World War I sweeps across Europe. Lucius is surrounded by grave injuries but has never even wielded a scalpel He'll learn more from Sister

  • Review of The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason

    Lucius is a young medical student when World War I sweeps across Europe. Lucius is surrounded by grave injuries but has never even wielded a scalpel He'll learn more from Sister

  • Six Four-Star Mysteries to Check Out, ICYMI

    In The Witch Elm, French dips her toe into exploring how privilege, luck, (sometimes blind) loyalty—and For my full review of this book, see The Last Child. 05 City of Windows (Lucas Page #1) by Robert Pobi Lucas Page is a fantastic character (as are Whitaker, Kehoe, Erin, and Dingo). I haven't yet read the second in this Lucas Page series, Under Pressure--and I didn't even realize this

  • Review of Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout

    fascinating (as with Dottie with Shelley Small at the B&B, Charlie with Tracy and with Patty, Vicky and Lucy Strout also wrote Olive Kitteridge, its wonderful sequel Olive, Again, Amy and Isabelle, My Name Is Lucy

  • October Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    01 Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris In and among Sedaris's oddball, incisive, skewering observations are I like to listen to my David Sedaris books, and I listened to his newest, Happy-Go-Lucky--his first book But what offer depth to his work, and Happy-Go-Lucky is no exception, are Sedaris's unflinching observations For my full review, check out Happy-Go-Lucky. 02 I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy Former child stock of where their lives might lead them--whether banded together or seeking their own individual luck

  • Review of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers #1) by Becky Chambers

    Planet, the first science fiction title in Becky Chambers's Wayfarers series, young Rosemary feels lucky Just as she's adjusting to life on board, the crew gets a lucrative opportunity: to tunnel wormholes

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/29/26 Edition

    David Sedaris is also the author of Happy-Go-Lucky, The Best of Me, When You Are Engulfed in Flames,

  • Review of Between Two Fires: An Epic Tale of Medieval Horror by Christopher Buehlman

    Delphine tells Thomas that a battle is afoot between fallen angels--led by Lucifer--and heaven above.

  • Review of The Land and Its People: Essays by David Sedaris

    More Sedaris and Other Essays David Sedaris is also the author of Happy-Go-Lucky, The Best of Me, When

  • Review of I'll Be Right Here by Amy Bloom

    which I gave 5 Bossy stars, the heartbreakingly beautiful In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss , Away , Lucky

  • Six Favorite Nonfiction and Memoir Reads of the Year

    For my full review of this book, please see Being Mortal . 06 Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten Hamptons (and television show), Barefoot Contessa, offers a personal, charming memoir in Be Ready When the Luck I listened to Be Ready When the Luck Happens as an audiobook. Click here   for my full review of Be Ready When the Luck Happens .

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/27/26 Edition

    The girl tells Thomas that a battle is afoot between fallen angels, led by Lucifer, and heaven above.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/26/23 Edition

    Right now I'm reading the recent Lucky Red, Claudia Cravens's LGBTQ Western set in a brothel in 1877 01 Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens Practical, tough sixteen-year-old Bridget arrives in 1877 Dodge City Lucky Red was published June 20.

  • November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    For my full review of this book, please see The Wedding People . 02 Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Hamptons (and television show), Barefoot Contessa, offers a personal, charming memoir in Be Ready When the Luck I listened to Be Ready When the Luck Happens as an audiobook. Click here for my full review of Be Ready When the Luck Happens . 03 Blood Over Bright Haven by M.

  • Review of This Story Might Save Your Life by Tiffany Crum

    The podcast is entertaining, a huge hit--and extremely lucrative.

  • Review of VenCo by Cherie Dimaline

    Young Lucky St. The spoon turns out to connect Lucky to a vast network of witches and her ancestors--through a front

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/17/22 Edition

    I'm reading Horse, the newest historical fiction novel by Geraldine Brooks; I'm listening to Happy-Go-Lucky The People of the Book, March, Year of Wonders, Caleb's Crossing, and The Secret Chord. 02 Happy-Go-Lucky David Sedaris I like to listen to my David Sedaris books, and I'm listening to his newest, Happy-Go-Lucky

  • Review of A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna

    the Guild is one enormous challenge--which will require a scrappy plan, cooperation, and some amazing luck

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/13/26 Edition

    The podcast is entertaining--and extremely lucrative.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/6/26 Edition

    stars, the heartbreakingly beautiful In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss, I'll Be Right Here, Away, Lucky

  • Review of Blunt Instrument (Dell Chandler #1) by Amy Bloom

    stars, the heartbreakingly beautiful In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss, I'll Be Right Here, Away, Lucky

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/3/22 Edition

    In this first science fiction title in Becky Chambers's Wayfarers series, young Rosemary feels lucky Just as she's adjusting to life on board, the crew gets a lucrative opportunity: to tunnel wormholes

  • Review of My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan

    fish-and-chips shop shows her how foppish, obnoxious, and insufferable Oxonians can be, Ella feels even more lucky

  • Review of The Box in the Woods (Truly Devious #4) by Maureen Johnson

    (And Nate might even be writing again, if his irritating young superfan camper Lucas has anything to The secondary characters of Lucas!

  • Review of The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club #1) by Richard Osman

    , pasts, motivations, and abilities, and each of them feels willing to skirt the law and push their luck

  • Review of The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett

    But not everything in his life has been luck and adventure.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/24 Edition

    Lucky, the youngest, a model, is losing herself in drugs and alcohol.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/28/25 Edition

    which I gave 5 Bossy stars, the heartbreakingly beautiful In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss , Away , Lucky

  • Review of Being Henry: The Fonz...and Beyond by Henry Winkler

    shares his lifelong joy in putting on other personas and his professional ups and downs, including the luck

  • Review of There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak

    And clever Arthur slowly pulls himself out of a London slum by lucking into an apprenticeship at a printing

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/21/25 Edition

    But not everything in his life has been luck and adventure.

  • Review of The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins

    were part of the movement that saved the world--and weary of the constant comments about how she's so lucky

  • Six Nonfiction and Memoir Reads I Loved in the Past Year

    shares his lifelong joy in putting on other personas and his professional ups and downs, including the luck I want to tell you about a lifetime solving these cold cases, from Laci Peterson to Jaycee Dugard to

  • Review of The Sea Child by Linda Wilgus

    This association carries powerfully held superstitions about her luck and good fortune.

  • The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year

    In The Witch Elm, French dips her toe into exploring how privilege, luck, (sometimes blind) loyalty—and For my full review of this book, see The Last Child. 05 City of Windows (Lucas Page #1) ​ This was a Lucas Page is a fantastic character (as are Whitaker, Kehoe, Erin, and Dingo). I haven't yet read the second in this Lucas Page series, Under Pressure--and I didn't even realize this

  • Review of The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center

    with their dad at home, and Emma moves to Los Angeles for six weeks of inspiring, career-building, lucrative

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/19/24 Edition

    But she's not only a lucky, determined, brilliant girl who cheated death in Latin America, escaped to

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