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#1) and The Lost Man, which I mentioned in my Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year

Scorah tells a fascinating personal story of growth and fear and change.

I listened to this as an audiobook—I like to listen to people read their own memoirs—and I loved hearing

I enjoyed hearing more about her unexpected love story with Abby Wambach, and I admire how she strives

disturbingly dark issues underlying the mystery (including strict rules about caste and class, a deadly fear

communications that were made possible by Gordievsky's insights into the Soviet leadership's motivations and fears

Do predicted events bear out specific outcomes just by their existence?

reflections, regrets, and advice with Lucy in his own sections of the story--but, maddeningly, she never hears

Walking, Una, Ellie, and Cullen cope with grave situations and life-and-death struggles that threaten to tear

subjectivity of and intense power within race labels; and the tension of living under false pretenses, fearing

But after being involved in multiple disasters in only her first day of classes, Barrett fears that college

Scorah tells a fascinating personal story of growth and fear and change.

temptation to lament to her as if the sorrow were his, when the whole brunt of trouble was already coming to bear

He has a precious old girl of a dog, a fascination with (and healthy fear of) coyotes, a love of reading

She became an anchorite, walled up in a monastery although she yearned to roam the outdoors.

Stevens's fictional Cold Creek Highway setting is based on the real-life "Highway of Tears" in British

of No One Is Talking About This is meaningful and poignant and heartbreaking, and it brought me to tears

sixties band on its rocky rise to popularity, particularly through exploring its members' crises, joys, fears

Tiffany McDaniel was inspired to write Betty by hearing her own family's stories going back generations

I'd love to hear which books you're reading and enjoying these days, bookworms!

late in the book--I didn't feel particularly connected to Hamdy's characters, despite their tragedies, yearnings

But tea monk Dex finds himself wandering and yearning--for long-lost crickets' nighttime noises, and

But tea monk Dex finds himself wandering and yearning--for long-lost crickets' nighttime noises, and

After multiple misdiagnoses and increasing discomfort and fear, she was ultimately diagnosed with Crohn's

These are shared as encounters in which she hears versions of life stories and imparts her condensed

When he's set up as the guide for a famous musician, he baits her line, carries her gear, and sets her So when young hotshot Dominic Yun shows up and, as a male, automatically has the ear of their misogynistic

Each of the main characters is consumed by wealth, class, and appearances, and hearing about superficial

Perhaps we were kin, they and I, yearning for something unnameable, a place where we could stretch our

into arranged marriages and sometimes regularly forced into sex and therefore childbearing and child rearing

Simon and his "scratch band" eke out a meager living near the Texas coast and begin to cautiously make Simon's significant musical ability and ear for arrangement help to build him as a layered character.

You should really know up front that this 1980s gem of a cover has amazing fake scratches and wear marks

This peek into a childhood in Kabul and a lifetime of searching and yearning is luminous and vivid in The book's details made me feel the yearning in Sitara's mind and heart that blossomed since her escape

We kept hearing about the person January was before her father's death and before his affair was revealed

May explains her own yearning to power down and turn inward during difficult times, and she connects flagged in school, and her own work stress began taking its toll on her physically and emotionally, she yearned These forays into various lifestyles and locations were fascinating, and I felt May yearning to connect

we see Franny's impulsiveness, her frantic seeking, her often-tragic mistakes and decisions, and her yearning

While yearning to see her eight siblings and parents again, Hanna eventually settled in the United States

including the evangelical church she grew up in and the inspiration and judgment she experienced there; her yearning

In twentieth-century Idaho, Zeno has lived a long life filled with yearning, war, and unexpected late-in-life

Scorah tells a fascinating personal story of growth and fear and change.

felt self-obsessively and insecurely young adult even in the timeline in which the characters were nearing

Heard's young adult thriller was a lightning-fast read, and there's a yearning for connection between circumstances build to be almost outlandishly complicated and disastrous, Heard presents what feels like a true yearning

I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads?

I'd love to hear what you thought.

She wears winged eyeliner, she doesn't put up with any good old boy chauvinism from heroes or anyone

Luke is a boyfriend who acts too immaturely to rise to the level of commitment and steadiness Nadia yearns