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After he is presented as perfect boyfriend material, he doesn't believe her when she tells him about His various early actions that felt critical toward Olive also didn't feel resolved. I adore the will they/won't they fall in love tension, and lately I've really enjoyed lighter fiction

The women must decide whether to ignore what's occurred or to harness and master the spells they've been familial power structures are wonderful, and the way O'Farrell imagines Agnes as wife of John (the fictionalized

her sister Kacey disappears and a string of murders rock the community, Mickey's need to solve the mystery disappears and a string of murders rock the community, everyone is suspect and Mickey's desire to solve the mystery I like a mystery that makes me care about the characters and doesn't foreshadow too much.

She's been cobbling together enough to get by, but when a mysterious draw to the spooky Starling House

Billy's witnessing of the mysterious crash aftermath seems bound to bring him trouble.

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Wiley Cash's upcoming Southern mystery, When Ghosts Come Home; Come Home by Wiley Cash Cash, author of A Land More Kind than Home and The Last Ballad, here offers a mystery

Webb provides multiple mysteriously missing persons, mixed motivations, naive characters who might be I also loved Falco's back story and his mysterious contact Cross, and I'd love to see more of both of If you like mysteries, you might also want to look at the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries

When Jaryk learns that his like-a-brother friend Misha from his childhood orphanage has died under mysterious

Joy offers an often dark work of Southern literary fiction through which bubbles of hope emerge.

adored the vivid details Randall offered about everyday life during different eras, but the fifty-two sections Through the somewhat fictionalized voice of Ziggy, a real-life key player in the storied Detroit neighborhood of Black Bottom, Randall offers short sections about fifty-two mostly real-life characters who influenced The book is structured as many sections of Ziggy's storytelling, so some of the meandering felt appropriate relatively short chapters, which necessitates hustling along from story to story, but even within each section

can write about almost anything and make it interesting and comprehensible (as evidenced by his Short History decade-by-decade look at Seinfeld's favorite notes from his career in stand-up comedy, featuring selected material I've got lots of e-reading giftees on my fall and holiday gifting list--and I already offer many of my fiction

The first section of Lockwood's story about an internet darling is absurd, frivolous, vulgar, irritating , and frequently disturbing; the second section shocked me with its meaningful and poignant examinations No One Is Talking about This is fiction from Patricia Lockwood, the author of the memoir Priestdaddy. This section of the book is presented in very short snippets that are often comments, jokes, questions poetic view of the world is gloriously showcased in this section.

Gardner's brand-new character-driven mystery offers an imperfect, unassuming heroine obsessed with solving This is my first Lisa Gardner book, and I love how character driven the mystery was.

But she quickly realized that being a princess involved responsibility, political maneuvering, and mysterious

I'm not sure how much she departed from facts into fiction, and I'd be curious to know more about that

I spend most of the year focusing on fiction titles, with a healthy dose of memoirs and some nonfiction

backgrounds of her notable, famous, wealthy family members, their personalities, quirks, shortcomings, key histories As she sorts through the past and works to find support and to function more fully in the present, she

and backgrounds in those books, I find myself actively trying to separate this immersive, love-filled fictional found I've been resisting reading this year's Troubled Blood, the newest book in the Cormoran Strike mystery

In Strout's newest novel, we meet an irresistible new character in high school history teacher Artie In Elizabeth Strout's newest novel, we meet Artie Dam, high school history teacher, father to a grown

emotions surrounding having been assaulted in the past—in order to try to get information about the mystery , so the final scene left me shrugging my shoulders a little bit, although I liked seeing Winnie in action If you like mysteries with twist, you may be in for Molloy's newest book, Goodnight Beautiful.

Within a suspenseful mystery structure, French explores privilege, interconnectedness, and the many shades This is a lurking, suspenseful Tana French mystery, so I was plowing through it as usual, eager to find

Carefully researched and documented, with twists and turns that feel so outlandish as to seem like fiction

charge toward change, but typically teenage: to escape into role-playing video games and write fan fiction

middle, but Wells provides a fantastically unique point of view, and this series is perfect science-fiction else) strengthened loyalties, there is more of Wells's fantastically understated robot banter, there's action

I loved this fictionalized peek at life with a beloved star. Have you read anything like this?

and living in Ireland, Saoirse ; and I'm reading Anna Quindlen's novel about friendship and family history Sure that it's an error, Polly digs into her family history to make sure she is who she has always thought

The characters frequently intersperse political, historical, feminist, cultural, and other context throughout was interested in the facts but didn't feel drawn into the characters or their stories during those sections

Hart reliably offers character-driven mysteries with heartbreaking interpersonal complications. I mentioned my love for Hart's book The Last Child in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries

I was intrigued by the explanation for one of the long-term mysteries of the book (the stealing and odd Do you feel that likable or sympathetic characters are necessary for you to feel invested in a mystery

In Fugitive Telemetry, Murderbot attempts to solve the mystery of a murder--while generally annoyed and There are sections of sometimes tedious-feeling logistics, but the pacing of Fugitive Telemetry kept

Ballad with my book club, and this week I reviewed When Ghosts Come Home, Wiley Cash's character-driven mystery

her future, shares her reliance on alcohol and her experience with depression, lists her long-term, mysterious

the suspicious circumstances surrounding Bryn's parents' long-ago deaths, and an extended family with mysterious

audiobook but when it came up, I didn’t remember at first what the book was about; the beginning reads like fiction The vast amount of genetic material from the family--both those affected by and those free from mental The significant advancements wouldn’t have been possible without the genetic material from and the cooperation

Meanwhile there are odd creatures doling out questionable advice, a mysterious stepmother, a land struggling

of Killer Fashion: Poisonous Petticoats, Strangulating Scarves, and Other Deadly Garments Throughout History , She Kills Me: The True Stories of History's Deadliest Women, It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History, and other books.

It gleans tips about holding conversations and functioning around others by watching its favorite show A mysterious prisoner from the front arrives who could be friend or foe, and our main protagonist Talin The faulted character of April May was wonderful, and I was fascinated by the way her actions and hopes world-renowned physicist working to unlock the secrets of the hand and the curious artifacts, but the mysteries

siblings Bellatine and Isaac, a woodworker and a con artist and street performer, are reunited to claim a mysterious

Their settlement is on the roof of the American Museum of Natural History, and they hunt and gather in with her parents' researcher friends, her family helps try to save and further the exhibits of human history Nonie and her group carry a book holding precious history, and on their journey they encounter various

Harris's action-packed World War II story moves between the terrors of 1930s Germany and the glamour It's action-driven World War II intrigue, and it's a quick, compelling read. Thomas Silkstone series and the Constance Piper Mystery series as well as The Light We Left Behind.

book felt clunky to me, bogged down by explanations of how Aaron's imagined world works and the basic history Eventually the story seemed to hit its stride, and the various demons, magical powers, dark histories

The mystery isn't over--Truly Devious led to the disappearance of Alice Ellingham decades ago, and now And the mysterious deaths of people connected to Ellingham Academy aren't over.

Harper's mysteries read like twisty character-driven Westerns set in Australia, and things aren’t always builds the pool of potential culprits for Nathan to examine in this story of uncovering truths, family history I listed this book in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year.

These are generally deep dives into mysterious, often creepy situations. Strike and Robin was hinted at but not consummated. 03 Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith In the third mystery

and turns, set in Victorian England; and I'm reading Jane Harper's newest character-driven Australian mystery I'm eager for some action to take place. 02 Fingersmith by Sarah Waters Sue Trinder is a teenage orphan Her mysteries are set in Australia, and she makes me care about her characters while keeping me guessing

their experiences in an internment camp during World War II, as well as the novel Fallen Mountains, a mystery

new beginnings, told over six summers and a weekend; and I'm listening to And Then She Disappeared, a mystery

relentless oppression and hopelessness of slavery, the resigned, broken existence of the imprisoned, the masters But the white master of the plantation is Hiram's biological father, and composed young Hiram is set his mysterious powers that allow for shifts in time and space. factors of bloodthirsty vengeance and war between Languoreth's husband and his allies and Lailoken's master The details of life at the time are wonderful, and some characters wield magic and hold mysterious powers

Management sends lonely, steady, pushed-around Linus, a case worker for magical children in orphanages, to a mysterious Linus is expected to report back with details about what Arthur Parnassus, the mysterious master on site Plus there is something mysterious about both the caretakers of the children and island, like maybe something

Most of the action occurs in more modern-day timelines. The characters move through interesting moments and shift their understanding of previously mysterious events, but they must keep their actions largely the same through timelines in order to avoid ruining such feelings, and the characters seemed secure in what felt likely to be impossibly morally fraught actions