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- Review of The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
I haven't watched the ten-part Netflix series based on this tale--the cast looks great, but I'm not sure
- Review of Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
As an adult, Gifty sinks every waking hour into her pragmatic search for scientific answers that might
- Review of Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk
Faced with witnessing growing and varied injustices at Betty's hands, Annabelle must determine what she's
- Review of How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
a casual mention around the neck of another character across the world in another time; and we see varied
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/14/22 Edition
) by Lisa Gardner Lisa Gardner's recent mystery One Step Too Far is the second in her Frankie Elkin series
- Review of Now You Say Yes by Bill Harley
Harley is also the author of the wonderful seven-book, middle-grade, humor-filled Charlie Bumper series
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/5/21 Edition
time travel; I'm listening to Marie Lu's young adult science fiction book Warcross, the first in the series She's hacked into the game plenty of times and glitched the system to work in her favor.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/13/22 Edition
01 Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine There is one every generation, a seer who keeps the stories
- Six Book Recommendations from Smarty Librarians
Mystery series with strong female protagonists?
- Review of Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir by Bob Odenkirk
role as the sleazy lawyer with a heart in the show Breaking Bad, or from his lead role in the spinoff series
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/15/21 Edition
A ten-part Netflix series is based on this tale.
- Review of Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Human Croquet are two other Kate Atkinson books I've enjoyed; she has also written the Jackson Brodie series
- Review of Before She Disappeared by Lisa Gardner
Gardner has written many, many books in multiple series, but I'm excited that her books are new to me
- Review of Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
These three memoirs have commonalities I didn't expect--though they offer varied voices and tones--and
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/21/22 Edition
Emmy-nominated writer Kalb saved every one of her grandmother's voicemails, and here she uses them to
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/18/22 Edition
Press and NetGalley. 02 Steelstriker by Marie Lu In Skyhunter, the first book in Marie Lu's Skyhunter series
- Six Illuminating Memoirs to Check Out
Now I'd like Miller to write more books about varied topics, because I like spending time in her head
- Review of Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian
straddles the line between meek and mild helpmeet and spirited, strong woman, and I was cheering for her every
- Review of All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
Interestingly, he also writes for the TV series "This Is Us."
- Review of News of the World by Paulette Jiles
I adored every bit of Jiles's story--Captain Kidd's reluctant but gentlemanly involvement and his voice
- Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II
Abriel's grandmother Vera lived with the author's family when Abriel was growing up, and she was immersed Abriel offers a vivid account of the fear and dread—intermixed with sparks of hope—that sustained Vera Vera and Edith are such a complementary partnership, and I loved spending time with these strong young --as we are startled at the end of every winter. We shall think: oh, I had quite forgotten....
- Review of Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
We get to know something about life in contemporary Britain through the varied interconnected friendships
- Six More Great Historical Fiction Books Set in the American West
Not all of the members of my book club felt as strongly about this one as I did, but I adored every bit
- Review of Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
unfair to take any issue with the sometimes overwrought (to me) romance and extensive talking about every
- Shhh! More Book Gifts for Kids and Teens
(Jennings has also authored a series of Junior Genius Guides to U.S. presidents, the human body, dinosaurs Rowling I'm just finishing the Harry Potter series for the third time (I read it once on my own before I've been resisting reading this year's Troubled Blood, the newest book in the Cormoran Strike mystery series
- Review of The Unwilling by John Hart
He's written many other books, including The Hush, the second in the Johnny Merrimon series, and the
- Review of The Last Confession of Autumn Casterly by Meredith Tate
weight even as she notices others' judgments about it; and young people living as their authentic, varied
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/7/21 Edition
ranging from madams to activists, feminists to magnates, well-read wanderers to brutal murderers, and every
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/18/21 Edition
This is a nice mix for me to have going on at once: a fictional, varied look at modern feminism and race
- Review of Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey
that we have the capacity to effect change--if we overhaul some traditional tools and frameworks in favor Harvey is specific and practical throughout the book, and she provides a series of valuable messages
- Three Memoirs I'm Reading Now, 10/7/20 Edition
women's stories seem like they couldn't be more disparate, and I imagine the tones will be refreshingly varied
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/20 Edition
This is the second in Wolfe's Elizabethan Spy Mystery series; the first was A Murder by Any Name. 03
- Six Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War
pleasure, and saw that I was on the brink of squandering a wondrous gift, the gift of being allowed, every day, to wander this vast sensual paradise, this grand marketplace lovingly stocked with every sublime
- Review of Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon
the last day of high school, and senior nemeses Rowan Roth and Neil McNair have battled bitterly for every
- Review of What Doesn't Kill You by Tessa Miller
I needed someone who lives every single day with illness to tell me that (1) I wasn’t alone and (2) my
- Review of The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
with no bearing on anything significant that nevertheless kept jumping out at me: almost all--possibly every
- Review of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
In Hillbilly Elegy, Vance mainly shares the story of his own many, varied, and enormous life challenges
- Six More Powerful Books About Facing Mortality
The author saved every one of her grandmother's voicemails, and here she uses them--along with emails
- Review of The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
Donoghue doesn't pull any punches with the sometimes horrific details of the flu's devastation (or the varied
- Review of Wild Life by Keena Roberts
between her family's own great privilege and the limited opportunities of most Botswanans, Roberts has a series
- Review of Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
professionals and begin a cycle of living in and out of hospitals, undergoing various standard therapies of varying
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/29/21 Edition
When Jax, a social worker, gets a series of frantic missed calls from her sister Lexie, she assumes Lexie
- Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading
Carley Fortune is also the author of Every Summer After. 02 Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld Sittenfeld's
- Review of Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
Edward tries on the mantle of taking responsibility for every life lost; he wallows in the despair of
- Six Illuminating Memoirs to Check Out
Now I'd like Miller to write more books about varied topics, because I like spending time in her head
- Review of The Lost Man by Jane Harper
Harper has also written two books in her Aaron Falk series so far, The Dry and Force of Nature.
- Review of Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass
And the repeated use of I instead of me is a copyediting-level issue, but it stopped me every time I
- Shhh! Book Gifts for Kids and Teens
But for holiday book gifts, other than providing the first in a fiction series I think they'd like, typically
- Review of Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
The dry humor in Hench also reminded me in a way of the Murderbot series (I review the first three books
- Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year
Now I'd like Miller to write more books about varied topics, because I like spending time in her head














































