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1146 results found for "fantasy year"
- Review of Trip by Amie Barrodale
in which Sandra is perilously stuck in a cave tunnel during an expedition in Nepal and rather than fearing
- Review of The Names by Florence Knapp
In one timeline, an abused wife makes a stand for a whimsical name suggested by her daughter Maia, Bear
- Review of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
I read this book years after the hubbub about it died down, but I don't think (?)
- Review of The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this book! This is Yael van der Wouden's first book.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/24/22 Edition
Occupants; and I'm reading Kate Bowler's absolute gem No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear Books I'm Giving as Gifts This Holiday. 03 No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) Annnnnd I'm going to get to hear Kate speak this week to my book group!
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/20/25 Edition
These Memories Do Not Belong to Us by Yiming Ma In a future land ruled by the Qin Empire, citizens all wear
- Review of She's a Lamb! by Meredith Hambrock
financially and emotionally upon achieving them, and meanwhile we can see how shocked others are to hear
- Review of The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl
I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this book! This is Ruth Reichl's first novel.
- Review of Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten
I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this book!
- Review of The Life We Bury (Joe Talbert #1) by Allen Eskens
When he meets the elderly Carl Iverson at a nearby nursing home, he's eager to hear Carl's life story
- Review of Light to the Hills by Bonnie Blaylock
I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this book!
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/25/25 Edition
Steve Cavanagh In Steve Cavanagh's twisty mystery Kill for Me, Kill for You , two strangers, women bearing
- Review of The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick
I enjoy a novel about imagined near-future advancements, and the Poppy Fields's founder delves into moral
- Review of The Caretaker by Ron Rash
When an important telegram arrives, they fear the worst.
- Review of The Wife and the Widow by Christian White
terms with it, while Abby is an island local whose husband has hidden something significant, and she fears
- Review of Bunny (Bunny #1) by Mona Awad
creations (one writes what she calls proems, “etched on panes of glass using a dagger-shaped diamond she wears
- Review of Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story by Max Marshall
I'd love to hear your thoughts about this book! I listened to Among the Bros as an audiobook.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/22/20 Edition
Ellie's sick of what many of her fellow female students put up with from young men who won't hear no mysteriously not, a silent companion (a painting cut out and supported as a freestanding figure) waits, bearing
- Review of Clear by Carys Davies
The men have no common language, and John, at first fearful of his vulnerability, then overtaken with
- Review of Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power
It's tough to feel sympathy for a seventeen-year-old who is without money, hungry, and desperate to please
- Review of Fragments of Light by Michele Phoenix
rings the bell at the finish of treatment and in the car immediately afterward, Nate, her husband of 24 years
- Review of The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center
writing-focused story in which forced proximity, past secrets, complicated life circumstances, and a fear
- Review of Landslide by Susan Conley
after disaster, Jill struggles to give her boys what they need--while navigating complicated emotions, fears resulting frustration and panic made me feel immersed in Jill's unpleasant swirl of doubts, worries, fears
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/12/22 Edition
Songs, One Story by Bono I prefer listening to my memoirs read by the author, and I'm already hooked by hearing crash course in reading about the Triassic Period (weather, Pangea, dinosaur identification) or to hear
- Review of Interesting Facts about Space by Emily Austin
(And the stalker seems to have her most feared quality: he's a bald man.)
- Review of Lone Women by Victor LaValle
outside the family yet has carried with her; the reasoning for maintaining her secrecy; her desperate fear
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/1/25 Edition
But her general relief turns to fear when she learns that her husband, serving out of harm's way on a
- Review of Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
Lucy's sparely recounted version of events is peppered with diarylike "I do remember hearing that" remarks And the ocean was immense; we could hear it at night now with the windows open.
- Review of All Fours by Miranda July
protagonist in All Fours frequently made me feel uncomfortable because of her unorthodox decision-making and near-constant
- Review of All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby
Cosby is also the author of Razorblade Tears, a book I listed on my Greedy Reading List Six Satisfying
- Review of Baby X by Kira Peikoff
In an imagined United States of the near future, any cell can be transformed into an egg or sperm.
- Review of Autoboyography by Christina Lauren
The dialogue was so fantastic and witty but felt effortless and like it came from actual teenagers, which This is just fantastic YA. What did you think?
- Review of Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
She adjusts her sensitivity level so she is highly attuned to Doug's emotions (and libido), wears the
- Review of The Villain Edit by Laurie Devore
"I told them what they wanted to hear."
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/18/24 Edition
Dolly Alderton is also the author of Everything I Know about Love, Ghosts, and Dear Dolly.
- March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
If you read any of these, I'd love to hear what you think! I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? Penn pulls his memoir into another gear when he adds the fascinating layer of accidental political activism
- Review of VenCo by Cherie Dimaline
The tone frequently feels geared toward young readers to me, and I had no trouble predicting the twist
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/4/24 Edition
Wedding People by Alison Espach Phoebe arrives at the decadent Cornwall Inn in Newport, Rhode Island, wearing
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/22/20 Edition
The gossip site run by the deceased student made him detested and feared. an unreliable narrator setup like this, and I'm listening to this as an audiobook so I like that I hear
- Review of Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
The book becomes a polarizing work, with many responding positively to Adina's perspective and others fearful
- Review of Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives by Mary Laura Philpott
Philpott considers her paralyzing fear of her children's health challenges and takes the reader through
- Review of The Lost Man by Jane Harper
I listed this book in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year.
- Review of Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall
for the activities of their sperm as compared to women and their eggs', and females' age-old, often fearful
- Review of The Fate of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
the timeline set farthest in the past, we see a faulted but idealistic society built around William Tear But while William Tear inspired a (fragile) cult of personality, his heir and son Jonathan is no politician I very much enjoyed harking back to the childhoods of the Fetch, Row Finn, and Jonathan Tear to better
- Review of The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
dresses up to see the doctor, hoping to use this armor of nice clothing to stave off the news she dreads hearing In "Boys Go to Jupiter," a young woman wears a gifted confederate flag bikini, is careless about her
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/12/24 Edition
Cosby is also the author of Razorblade Tears, a book I listed on my Greedy Reading List Six Satisfying
- Review of You Wouldn't Dare by Samantha Markum
Her father's upcoming visit is the only bright spot in the near future.
- Review of The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E. Smith
Was it that he feared that she would have to chase fame or sell out in order to succeed? Did he fear that with an unpredictable schedule and future, she wouldn't give him grandchildren, which
- Review of Those We Thought We Knew by David Joy
Yet I thought some of the characters' shock at seeing racism, hatred, ignorance, and fear laid bare felt
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/8/24 Edition
She adjusts her sensitivity level so she is highly attuned to Doug's emotions (and libido), wears the


















































