But these four fiction works and two nonfiction titles have especially resonated with me since I read

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His golden heart and grit allow him to keep fighting through brokenness, pain, and disappointment in security; seemingly reliable sleeping conditions for a time; or the promise of outside figures who might If you're standing on a small pile of shit, fighting for your one place to stand, God almighty how you fight.

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We find out early on that she faces the impending loss of her sight, that she is somewhat estranged from The Correspondent was the right book at the right time for me.

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It feels unfair to compare Cloud Cuckoo Land to Doerr's beloved and quite different book All the Light

"For family you must fight like a tiger," Misha once told him. You might also like some of the other books with Indian settings I've reviewed on this Bossy site.

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slim story collection, she explores gender dynamics and defied expectations, and she considers what might be or might have been between the sexes. a retreat who faces a headstrong fellow writer; and in "So Late in the Day," a man reflects on what might You might also want to check out the short story collections listed in my Greedy Reading Lists Six Short

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But deciphering the nebulous ingredients required to enact it might just be impossible. You might also want to check out more cozy stories  I've reviewed.

If you like to read memoirs, you might like to check out some of my  Bossy memoir reviews , or some of She obsesses over trying to track down the robber, can't let go of the fear that he might have targeted Renkl's beautiful, striking observations range from a New Year's Day sighting of a crow and her exploration If you're interested in books about mortality like I am, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading writing the nuclear energy budget and policy papers under President Ford and President Carter, then a flight

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I already offer many of my fiction and nonfiction book recommendations through this blog. Green's observations are fun, often oddball, and sometimes poignant, with short sections that are easily For example, in the Falling Out of History section, he sets the scene for the concept of forgotten songs

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

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The fractured nature of the fight in The Golden Enclaves meant that I didn't get to spend extended page Who might be allies for her, if anyone?

desperate widowed swordswoman, and a street-smart young man searching for his disappeared friend just might swordswoman willing to make deep sacrifices to ally with the fated, powerful, dangerous dragon who might May finds herself willing to surgically alter her facial features for a sum that might keep her family

the song Lucinda sold when she was young, without an agent or lawyer and without an understanding of rights If you're interested in this title, you might also like the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Musicians

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She emerged from spending years with her head down, fighting to survive, to realize that she needed to Maybe it's okay to not have the answers right now." States, visiting many of the people--until then, strangers--who had written to her during her cancer fight

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In Young's story, loosely set in the world of her Fable series, strong young Bryn fights for her own It might be an understatement to say that she has mixed emotions about returning, but Henrik has plans

experienced emotions the way other kids did, and when she grew older, while acting out, lying, stealing, and fighting because she was stealing loved ones' treasured possessions, breaking into homes, lying, and frequently fighting fascinated by the author's in-depth explorations of her motivations, triggers, abilities, needs, and fight

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magic--more powerful than any of her classmates realize, which is just how El wanted it--feared she might A lot of page time was spent on logistics and on explaining why magical processes and machinations functioned

her family, left Cullen--she's left behind everything she knows in a desperate attempt to make things right She questions whether she's doing the right thing, meanwhile various complications--including the discovery If you love books set in Ireland, you might try Patrick Radden Keefe's powerful nonfiction Say Anything

of the month: Hank Green's second book in his quirky, lovely, character-driven, big-hearted science fiction It features the fantastic characters from book one, and the plot picks up with a new version of the fight

Ninth, the sequel to Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth, is a complex, fascinating, gruesome story full of action and shifts in reality as well as endless bad language, wicked barbs, and dark-as-night humor. because she’s bored or whatever, and you sort of have this maybe-flirting maybe-not thing going on, right

When a local young woman goes missing, Chloe fights her rising panic. sure what she's seen or what to make of it, staggering through her days, unsure whether it's day or night

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considers the ease with which she could enter a casual romantic entanglement--while she desperately fights for justice regarding another woman's stolen right to make choices about her love and her life path pulled out of the story by its telling--stop-and-go pacing, jarringly petty arguments and perceived slights

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The last time Kembral and Rika came into contact, Kembral thought they might be building something real I was repeatedly left wondering who was who, much less what their motivations, pasts, and realities might

In the middle of the night on a New York City street, April and her friend Andy stumble across something Are they neutral, are they sinister, or might they be here to save humanity? The faulted character of April May was wonderful, and I was fascinated by the way her actions and hopes

Casey Wilson, actress (Happy Endings), comedian (Saturday Night Live), and writer, shares essays and If you like memoirs, you might try the books on some of these Greedy Reading Lists: Six Illuminating

So he's not stealing, right? It's completely fine. Everything is going to be fine. You can't copyright a plot anyway, right? RIGHT? readers down the uncomfortable path of a protagonist who steals, feels terrible guilt, rationalizes his actions I wonder how that story might compare to this one?