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- Review of City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
It's not entirely clear why the recipient of the letter would want to hear the full details of Vivian's the very end of the book Vivian writes something wonderfully matter-of-fact to Angela regarding this; words
- February Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
one evening, tabbed many, many passages, immediately bought my own copy, re-tabbed everything, and would control and her reckoning with the way in which she considers her body after cancer treatment ("Who would
- Review of Fallen: A Novel of Suspense by Linda Castillo
must try to determine why Rachael returned to town, uncover her buried secrets, and figure out who would
- Review of Light Changes Everything by Nancy E. Turner
Turner’s book These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 (despite the title, which Also, Aubrey was such an evil git, I admit to having hoped he would meet a more specific and particularly
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/24/21 Edition
“For the rest of my life there would be a splinter in my being, stinging from the moment my mother died
- Review of One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
Did one of them want so desperately to stop him that they would kill to keep him quiet?
- Review of What Beauty There Is by Cory Anderson
There's no real choice to make--Jack would never allow his brother to go.
- Review of All the Forgivenesses by Elizabeth Hardinger
I would very happily read a full Little House in the Prairie-length series about Bertie and her life. I would very happily read a full Little House in the Prairie-length series about Bertie and her life.
- Review of The Reckless Oath We Made by Bryn Greenwood
I would have read an entire book about Gentry just walking around, but the book weaves together internal
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/4/21 Edition
Poppy is impulsive and fun-loving, and Alex would generally rather stay home and read than seek out adventure
- Review of Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
This is a place that those in higher castes would prefer to pretend does not exist, where residents worry
- Review of A Burning by Megha Majumdar
Many years ago I would have been asking why is this happening?
- Review of books 1-3 of the Murderbot series by Martha Wells
It's impatient with humans and other droids, and it would prefer to watch the endless hours of media
- Review of Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby
It seems like it would be difficult to write those descriptions compellingly, but S.A.
- Review of 142 Ostriches by April Davila
some more character development—for example, that each of the black sheep in the family (Scott, Mom) would
- Another Six Contemporary Novels I Loved in the Past Year
This is not a book I would universally recommend, but for an audience that appreciates cutting satire
- Review of Hard Cash Valley by Brian Panowich
which he was so back and forth, he and his point of view were tough to get a read on: “I wished she would
- Review of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #1) by Holly Jackson
I wondered if this would be a sort of young adult fiction version of the Serial podcast, and it IS, in
- Review of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
I had imagined that the tone of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires would be campy, but
- Review of The Fate of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
the Tearling also appeared (along with The Girl from Widow Hills by Megan Miranda and I Was Told It Would
- Review of Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon
For the unfortunate one, the only hope of regaining glory would be to win the elaborate seniors' game
- Review of Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel by Martha Wells
I love Murderbot, and I would have read this book even had I known this going in, but the logistics,
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/2/21 Edition
wineries on Long Island, and most members of the Hollander family took for granted that the winery would
- Review of The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
inconvenient and seemed to primarily exist in order to drive the plot: a character reads part of a diary that would
- Review of Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren
was swooping in to help cement that who she was as a person was acceptable, and I didn't think Hazel would They also wrote Love and Other Words.
- Review of Goodnight Beautiful by Aimee Molloy
twist occur in the audiobook may have made the unreliable narrator aspect even more arresting than it would
- Review of Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power
paying attention to the details of the story to try to unravel elements if I couldn't be sure that the words I grew impatient with the details but would love to talk about some of the Big Reveals if anyone else
- Six Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Reading in the Past Year
I never would have predicted the twists.
- Six of My Favorite Reads of the Year So Far
I never would have predicted the twists.
- Six Newish Young Adult Mysteries I Want to Read
or I would have been completely out of luck.
- Review of Deadly Waters by Dot Hutchison
Could she--would she do such a thing?
- Six Five-Star Bossy Reads to Check Out
it makes me feel all the feelings, it makes me consider things in a new way, it gives me more than I would
- Review of The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Like a whispered word passed around from ear to ear, even her name began to sound like just a noise, Nora's story although I appreciated the implications of her experiences and was very interested in what would
- Review of City of Windows (Lucas Page #1) by Robert Pobi
And I think there would have likely been police protection on site in Montauk.
- Six Captivating Nordic Stories
I think I would love the details of a Nordic setting in any genre.
- Six 2020 Mysteries for You to Check Out
largely unsympathetic, yet Janelle Brown kept me happily turning the pages of Pretty Things to see who would
- April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
There's no real choice to make--Jack would never allow his brother to go.
- Review of Force of Nature (Aaron Falk #2) by Jane Harper
I would like more more more Falk and for him to be at the heart of all of Harper's stories.





































