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1125 results found for "fantasy year"
- 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
- Review of The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center
writing-focused story in which forced proximity, past secrets, complicated life circumstances, and a fear
- 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
- 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 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.
- 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 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 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."
- 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
- 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.
- 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 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 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
- 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 Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
The book becomes a polarizing work, with many responding positively to Adina's perspective and others 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 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 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
- Review of You Wouldn't Dare by Samantha Markum
Her father's upcoming visit is the only bright spot in the near future.
- 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 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
- Review of Inciting Joy by Ross Gay
or the power of monumental cover songs, or the poignancy of creating a community orchard that won't bear
- 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
- Review of Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter
It's perfectly charming, funny, quirky, and sweet, yet it deals with grief and fear, hope and forgiveness
- Review of The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
the cold and by the mentions of the Kennebec River flowing through the town of Hallowell (which is near
- Review of This Shining Life by Harriet Kline
fully are poignant and lovely, and the last ten percent of this book is so beautiful, it brought me to tears
- Review of The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
If a person pleads ignorance or credits terrible actions to the power of fear, can such acts ever be
- Review of American Girl by Wendy Walker
Charlie has developed heartbreaking relationship "rules" that prevent her from becoming attached, for fear
- Review of Nothing Like I Imagined (Except for Sometimes) by Mindy Kaling
But, dear reader, I've now incorporated Libro.fm into my book-devouring system--and Libro supports independent
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/25/23 Edition
mother, and when a student in one of her classes fights for his life fighting police brutality, her fears
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/21/22 Edition
The hearing headmistress (a CODA--a child of deaf adults), the rebellious new transfer student Charlie
- Review of The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin
very much enjoyed the French Resistance storyline, with its details of safe houses, document drops, near
- Review of Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird
a Queen was mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved Over the Past Year
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/2/23 Edition
can't fight her immediate attraction to the no-nonsense Nathaniel Bonner, a white man dressed in Mohawk gear
- Review of What You Can See from Here by Mariana Leky
exploration of mortality in the text and there are allusions to intimacy, the tone of the book feels geared
- Review of The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green
Kart, the Bonneville Salt Flats, whispering, the World's Largest Ball of Paint, wintry mix, and teddy bears
- Review of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Once you loved someone, you repeated it until they were tired of hearing it.
- Review of The Manningtree Witches by A.K. Blakemore
titillated by the dark activities recounted and wild accusations raised, and the men drum up hysteria, fear Powerlessness, despair, fear, and fury fuel Rebecca, but she must keep secret her intelligence and her
- Review of Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley
It hooks you when you’re vulnerable, scares the shit out of you, holds your deepest fears as collateral
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/13/23 Edition
the unthinkable is happening: Edi is dying from ovarian cancer and living out her days in a hospice near
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/11/22 Edition
rethinking their roles and worth by taking control and power and by making faulted men and meek women fear
- Review of The Lonely Hearts Book Club by Lucy Gilmore
Who would be brought to tears and then move in to help him, without his having shown remorse, reflection
- Review of Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
didn't leave me with the information I'd need to recreate anything, but I found it irresistible to hear


















































