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- Review of What the Mountains Remember by Joy Callaway
The complex moral and practical aspects of the TB raging through the area are not fully resolved.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/26/24 Edition
If you're interested in books about mortality, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality and Six More Powerful Books about Facing Mortality. The dilemma leads to an examination of morality, judgment, the meaning of a life, and more.
- Review of The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
Cronin's debut novel explores mortality, vulnerability, surprising moments of joy and reflection, an The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot explores mortality, but also friends who are like family, failings If you're interested in books that explore mortality, you might want to check out Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality.
- Review of The Celebrants by Steven Rowley
If you're intrigued by books about facing mortality, you might be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality.
- Review of We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman
I find myself drawn to books that explore mortality.
- Review of Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (As Told to Me) Story by Bess Kalb
This is an irresistible tribute to Kalb's funny, opinionated, fiercely loving grandmother--a granddaughter's best friend and a wise and formidable character. I listened to Bess Kalb's irresistible love letter to her late grandmother, Nobody Will Tell You This But Me. The audiobook was wonderful and read by Kalb. The author saved every one of her grandmother's voicemails, and here she uses them--along with emails, letters, vividly recalled conversations, and her grandma Bobby's imagined thoughts from beyond the grave--to construct a picture of a formidable, tough-love, fiercely protective matriarch in Bobby Bell. Through Bell's voice we also learn what has shaped the other women of the family: we hear rich stories of Bell's own mother--who fled Belarus in her youth--and her hardships and determination; and we glimpse the difficult relationship between Bobby and her daughter (Kalb's mother) and how it affected each woman's life trajectory. Nobody Will Tell You This But Me is based upon Bobby's stories and exchanges with Kalb, but I knew I was hooked on this one and on Bobby's voice when Kalb began the book with an imagined critique from Bobby of her own funeral. Kalb shares rip-roaring tales of family history; Bobby's distinct pride in generations of the family having overcome various hardships; her crisp, specific advice about fashion, shopping, love lives, career, and transportation; her unwavering familial loyalty, even within fraught relationships; and, ultimately, Kalb's own loss of her beloved best friend and grandma, which shakes her life and reshapes the family forever. Bobby's recounted memories don't paint her as anything close to a saint; she recounts the evidence of her faults as passionately as the recollections of her life's triumphs--many of which center around having made Bess feel safe and happy and seen. This is a heartwarming, funny, poignant, sassy tribute to a life fully lived and to a determination love freely, deliberately, and unwaveringly. It made me laugh out loud and brought me to tears. I just adored this gem. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book? Emmy-nominated writer Kalb (Jimmy Kimmel Live!) is also a contributor to New Yorker. This is her first book, but I really hope she writes another.
- My Favorite Science Fiction Reads of the Year
I love how science fiction stretches the way I think about what's possible, or explores issues like mortality Meanwhile Baby X explored interesting, complex, sometimes moral and ethical issues, including those The story's turns may not feel like a surprise, but the exploration of mortality, what makes a life worth surprised by any of the turns each storyline takes here, but the string dilemma leads to an examination of mortality , morality and judgment, the evaluation of the true meaning of a life, and more.
- Review of In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom
beautiful memoirs about facing death and loss in the Greedy Reading List Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality , and Kate Bowler's No Cure for Being Human is another excellent book about facing mortality and was
- Review of Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski
responses to try to counterbalance "...a cultural pigeonholing of experience shaped by...three messages--Moral
- Review of Activation Degradation by Marina J. Lostetter
that slowed things for me, but as of page 66 the action and character development and exploration of morality
- October Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
review, please check out A Psalm for the Wild-Built. 06 How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral questions, scenarios, and ideas, How to Be Perfect is nonfiction that makes considering ethics and morality creator of the television series The Good Place, explores various schools of thought about ethics and morality
- Review of Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune
I love an exploration of mortality, and in T.J. to me to be geared toward a more juvenile audience than the story (it is at heart an exploration of mortality Although the tones of the two books felt different, the explorations of mortality and redemption here explore similar themes, check out the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality
- Review of Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor
Privileged protagonists display cruelty and a disassociation from morality.
- Review of Chenneville: A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance by Paulette Jiles
always, her main characters are richly layered, struggle with terrible circumstances, retain strong moral
- Review of This Shining Life by Harriet Kline
The examinations of mortality and of love and of living life fully are poignant and lovely, and the last
- Review of A Conspiracy in Belgravia (Lady Sherlock #2) by Sherry Thomas
And then Sherlock Holmes had turned out to be a woman with loose morals and no remorse.
- Review of The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
For me, much of the story’s depth lay in its exploration of conflicting elements of morality and necessity
- Review of Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
I could imagine a story scenario in which Millie compromised her morals as the situation bloated into
- Review of The Best of Me by David Sedaris
memories and mining them for poignancy and also laughs, or presenting his own distorted versions of morality
- Review of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality.
- Review of Steelstriker (Skyhunter #2) by Marie Lu
Our brave main protagonist (and rebel) Talin is forced to submit to the Federation's morally questionable
- Six of My Favorite Nonfiction Reads from the Past Year
playful, often weighty questions, scenarios, and ideas, How to Be Perfect makes considering ethics and morality , Michael Schur, the creator of Parks and Recreation and The Good Place, relies upon takeaways from morality
- Six Books Set in Australia that Are Fair Dinkum Fascinating
Can a person’s character or morality be decided in a moment, or in a series of defining moments?
- Six Great Mysteries Featuring Characters of a Certain Age
my favorite aging assassins and their quick-thinking, spry, deadly answers to those who have broken moral
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/27/21 Edition
The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/6/22 Edition
that slowed things for me, but as of page 66 the action and character development and exploration of morality
- Review of Return of the Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
consistently and wonderfully unexpected developments related to plot, character arc, point of view, morality
- Review of The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman
The Scarlet Letter explores humanity's sins and judgments and offers moral lessons--I could see her responding
- Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series
This blend of historical fiction, fantasy, and paranormal continues with LaFevers's Dark Triumph , Mortal Mortal Heart offers a melding of tidier-than-likely resolutions and dramatic romantic situations that gave each of the first four books in LaFevers's His Fair Assassin series either three and a half ( Mortal consistently and, for me, wonderfully unexpected developments related to plot, character arc, point of view, morality
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/21/22 Edition
efforts, through immeasurable difficulty and challenge, and to her life cut short because of her repeated moral
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/18/22 Edition
Our brave main protagonist and rebel Talin is forced to submit to the Federation's morally questionable
- Six Great Stories about Robots
that slowed things for me, but as of page 66 the action and character development and exploration of morality
- Six Bossy Favorite Memoir Reads of the Past Year
Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality I’m not interested in morals. I’m not interested, period. If you're interested in books about mortality and loss, check out the titles here. 05 What in the World
- Review of Only Killers and Thieves by Paul Howarth
Can a person’s character or morality be decided in a moment, or in a series of defining moments?
- Review of One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
significantly faulted characters, and the kids are left to find their own ways emotionally or financially or morally
- May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Meanwhile Baby X explored interesting, complex, sometimes moral and ethical issues, including those around
- Review of The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
I wanted to explore that complexity and that moral ambiguity.
- Review of Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March
story keeps a patient pace as Captain Jim uncovers clues, uses deduction, and emphasizes loyalty and moral
- Six of My Favorite Literary Fiction Reads of the Year
the wealthiest elite on a lush mountaintop compound, and she loses more and more of herself and her morals
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/7/21 Edition
feminists to magnates, well-read wanderers to brutal murderers, and every shade of crooked dealer, morally
- May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
The decision to take in Weybridge is morally clear to Libby, but the realities of the potential harm
- Review of A Burning by Megha Majumdar
the manifestation of positive and negative expectations; and the thorny rewards of compromising one's morals
- Six Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Reading Last Year
my favorite aging assassins and their quick-thinking, spry, deadly answers to those who have broken moral
- Review of The Fate of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
is presented as a swift, sweeping, destructive force in the Town without offering any redemption or morality
- October Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
privilege: the story revisits a working-class character from an earlier book--and presents society's moral
- April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
my favorite aging assassins and their quick-thinking, spry, deadly answers to those who have broken moral
- September Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
And a typical day might involve facing mortal danger from roving pirates, cyborg animals, certain AI always, her main characters are richly layered, struggle with terrible circumstances, retain strong moral
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/24/21 Edition
consistently and, for me, wonderfully unexpected developments related to plot, character arc, point of view, morality
- Six Books Set in Australia that Are Fair Dinkum Fascinating
Can a person’s character or morality be decided in a moment, or in a series of defining moments?
- Six Fascinating Stories Set in Space
that slowed things for me, but as of page 66 the action and character development and exploration of morality
















































