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- Review of The Beauty of Breaking: A Memoir by Michele Harper
These are shared as encounters in which she hears versions of life stories and imparts her condensed
- Review of The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
Each of the main characters is consumed by wealth, class, and appearances, and hearing about superficial
- Review of Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel
Perhaps we were kin, they and I, yearning for something unnameable, a place where we could stretch our
- Review of A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum
into arranged marriages and sometimes regularly forced into sex and therefore childbearing and child rearing
- Review of Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles
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.
- Six of My Pandemic-Era Book Buys
You should really know up front that this 1980s gem of a cover has amazing fake scratches and wear marks
- Review of Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi
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
- Review of Beach Read by Emily Henry
We kept hearing about the person January was before her father's death and before his affair was revealed
- Review of Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May
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
- Review of Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
we see Franny's impulsiveness, her frantic seeking, her often-tragic mistakes and decisions, and her yearning
- Review of Forty Autumns by Nina Willner
While yearning to see her eight siblings and parents again, Hanna eventually settled in the United States
- Review of Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
including the evangelical church she grew up in and the inspiration and judgment she experienced there; her yearning
- Review of Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
In twentieth-century Idaho, Zeno has lived a long life filled with yearning, war, and unexpected late-in-life
- Six Illuminating Memoirs to Check Out
Scorah tells a fascinating personal story of growth and fear and change.
- November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads?
- Review of She's Too Pretty to Burn by Wendy Heard
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
- Review of Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren
felt self-obsessively and insecurely young adult even in the timeline in which the characters were nearing
- Six More Science Fiction Favorites to Dive Into
I'd love to hear what you thought.
- Review of Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
She wears winged eyeliner, she doesn't put up with any good old boy chauvinism from heroes or anyone
- Review of The Mothers by Brit Bennett
Luke is a boyfriend who acts too immaturely to rise to the level of commitment and steadiness Nadia yearns
