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"When the colors are gone, ye're left with some muddied water, and naught else.

a Queen was mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved Over the Past Year

After being involved in multiple disasters in only her first day of classes, she fears college may become

But members of the group are keeping weighty secrets, and Frankie fears they may not all make it out

universal connection of music, the temptation to change the past, portals and time loops, loyalty, fear

Some of the wrap-up details near the very end felt a little bit unsatisfying, but resolving them cleanly

Zauner also digs into her often difficult relationship with her father, her fears that after her mother

novel The Light Pirate, pregnant Frida and her husband and kids prepare for a catastrophic hurricane bearing

often she encounters it, the more difficult it becomes for Ada to check her temper, her opinions, her yearning

often she encounters it, the more difficult it becomes for Ada to check her temper, her opinions, her yearning

crash course in reading about the Triassic Period (weather, Pangea, dinosaur identification) or to hear

Lo just knows The Unity Project is dangerous--and she fears how her sister may be involved.

listening to The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak's magical novel about a young girl in London yearning

Feared and mysterious, Zetian is paired with the most controversial male pilot around, Li Shimin.

Love Story is set during the late 1980s AIDS epidemic and is wrapped in the music, culture, activism, fear

This book follows the other books in the series, The Bear and the Nightingale and The Girl in the Tower

making and with his weakness; I also didn’t believe in his “love” for the person he is purported to have yearned

When he's set up as the guide for a famous musician, he baits her line, carries her gear, and sets her

But members of the group are keeping enormous secrets, and Frankie fears they may not all make it out

They suffer, they fear, they grieve, but they endure--and while this story doesn't feel too easy, it's

I feared I'd get turned around in time by listening to the book rather than reading it, but narrator

The Bear and the Nightingale is the first in the series, and The Winter of the Witch is the final book

Through Bell's voice we also learn what has shaped the other women of the family: we hear rich stories

(You can almost hear Kidd grumbling "I'm too old for this" in the movie version I'm envisioning.)

And that "Everyone needs to hear that other person's voice saying, 'I believe in you.

Jessica's father (Emily's grandfather), who demands details of Emily's career plans; reconnecting with dear

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

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

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

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

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

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

amazing facts known about a real-life freed black man—with imagined details and events elaborated on in fantastic

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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