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- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/21/21 Edition
McDaniel's Appalachian-set novel Betty with my book club, Xiran Jay Zhao's young adult blend of Chinese history
- Review of White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
essential to the productive understanding of the past and current racial situation, including a basic history reading this or other books on race and anti-racism that you recommend for a better understanding of history
- Review of Beneath the Keep by Erika Johansen
This book traces the history of the Tearling as a kingdom crushed by famine, feudalism, corruption, greed Elyssa recalls that the history shared by her tutor Lady Glynn was made up of: "...tales of good, but
- Review of Head Over Heels by Hannah Orenstein
this book (along with the epic science fiction/fantasy To Sleep in a Sea of Stars and a young adult historical
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/21/22 Edition
villages of her home country--and threatens to unearth the secrets of Smita's own family and their history
- Shhh! More Book Gifts for Kids and Teens
nine TV seasons aired in the United States--including the story of how it was almost canceled after six
- April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
also wrote the fantastic Spinning Silver and Uprooted, both of which appear on the Greedy Reading List Six
- Review of A Conjuring of Light (Shades of Magic #3) by V.E. Schwab
Schwab's stories take place within her detailed fantasy world (with some historical fiction elements
- Review of Pretty Things by Janelle Brown
the cons aims to right some wrongs in two of the characters' shared (but mysterious and complicated) history
- Review of Force of Nature (Aaron Falk #2) by Jane Harper
author of The Dry (Aaron Falk #1) and The Lost Man, which I mentioned in my Greedy Reading List The Six
- Review of A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum
Female characters--as well as their female friends and relatives who appear in retold stories and histories and bravery required by Rum's female characters--but also many other real-life women--to write a new history
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/7/22 Edition
last week) courtesy of NetGalley and Random House. 03 Legend (Legend #1) by Marie Lu In an alternate history
- Review of Writers & Lovers by Lily King
That was suuuuch a different book (dark historical fiction set in 1933 New Guinea), but as in Writers
- Review of The Arsonists' City by Hala Alyan
They return to Beirut, each broken in a way, each searching for home, fulfillment, history, peace, or
- Review of Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
I mentioned Boy Swallows Universe (along with A Burning and The Office of Historical Corrections) in
- Review of Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
the stories across time, he also set up rich glimpses into characters' lives at different points in history
- Review of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
I was hoping for answers, but Vance focuses on pointing out the layered, complicated cultural and historical
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/7/21 Edition
Grande digs into her family's complicated history of trauma, disappointment, struggle, and, for some
- Review of The Fate of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
held secrets of the Crossing that prevented younger generations from learning helpful lessons from history
- Review of So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
the desire to remove the pressure on people of color to be walking Google sources for experience and history
- December Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Towles crafts a solid historical fiction adventure for his young-men protagonists, balancing weighty
- Review of Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
former IRA top man Gerry Adams managed to create his own fact-defying narrative, practically erasing his history
- Review of Beach Read by Emily Henry
about writing and books, there are wonderfully faulted love-crossed main protagonists with a shared history
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/1/21 Edition
Hawkins's mystery The Wife Upstairs, set for January 5, 2021 publication, the main players and their histories
- Shhh! Books I'm Giving as Gifts This Holiday
can write about almost anything and make it interesting and comprehensible (as evidenced by his Short History
- Review of Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
She provides lots of action; sometimes poignant internal conflict; some dark humor; and she builds history
- June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
of essential projects—the creation of Central Park, the founding of the Met Museum and the Natural History
- Review of A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna
Then Luke Larsen, a handsome, grumpy magical historian, comes to stay at Jasmine and Sera's inn along
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/18/25 Edition
Then a handsome, magical historian and his young sister come to stay at Jasmine and Sera's inn, and suddenly
- Review of The Painter by Peter Heller
He has a painful history he's trying to accept and get past, but sometimes darkness seeps into his thoughts
- Review of The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad #2) by Tana French
French is the author of six books in the Dublin Murder Squad series: In the Woods, this book (my absolute































