There is so much to unpack here; Evans's story themes are often haunting, always powerful, and wonderfully In The Office of Historical Corrections, Evans offers short stories centering around themes of race, In Evans's story "Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain," Rena, a war correspondent, attends the wedding Through the artist's gimmicky attempts to try to move on, the story shows the limitations of an apology In the longest story in the book, at approximately 100 pages, "The Office of Historical Corrections,

Lange's Irish family story centers around Sunday Brennan, who has returned home to her New York hometown seems assured that it will be wrapped up, but the specifics aren't laid out, and the very end of the story

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Down Comes the Night, a young adult fantasy story featuring magical See Here and Alice Hoffman's The World That We Knew--featured in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories Through the voice of the fictional Ziggy, a dance instructor and key connector of various figures in the storied

Small moments in this young adult book ring true, and the story feels primarily about relationships, Small moments ring true, and the story feels primarily about relationships with a witchcraft background

the whereabouts of a man who went missing during a fruitful archaeological dig in Egypt--at the same time

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Tessa Harris's recently published World War II-set story Beneath you like World War II-set books, you might also like the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories

It's necessary for the plot for Alex to wait an interminably long time to review mystery items she is agency; they may choose to transform, to leave, to seek greater freedom--or they may opt to bide their time

job of keeping up the tension and making clear the high stakes of Williams’s enormous secret in this story Bird's Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen is based on the story of an actual female Buffalo Soldier, Cathy Williams, with many liberties taken for the sake of shaping a story. often desperate circumstances of women (especially black women) without men to protect them at the time The major and minor love stories are sweet if tragic on multiple levels.

It's satisfying that Robin gets the majority of page time as she bravely infiltrates the UHC and works

This is an engaging and quick read, and the old-fashioned mystery stories within the story are intriguing The murder mystery stories were written decades before the book's present-day events take place and are There's a book within a book here, and the fictitious author of the stories has approached the murder The stories aren't connected by characters or settings, and they vary in their setups. The mystery stories within the story are intriguing, and I loved paying attention to their varied structures

Harley's middle-grade story about love, duty, self-discovery, disappointment, and pushing through the Harley's story about love, duty, self-discovery, disappointment, and pushing through the discomfort of

I was completely taken with the compelling story of the spunky main players; the shockingly blatant, pervasive cheating and stealing by those in office locally and across the state; and the way the story that's before I realized that friends of ours are from Athens, which added a layer to the legendary story Had you ever heard of this story?

The story is wonderfully interpersonally complicated. The story offers unexpected twists and turns without manipulating the reader or relying on red herrings

Express) and his humor, you won't be surprised by the breadth and depth of drug-related and porn-related stories

Oh, I loved this story! I was so sad when I finished it. Bertie! Hardinger offers up many crisp and varied details of the time, she captures Bertie’s speech patterns,

For more collections of essays, you might check out my glowing Bossy reviews of This Is the Story of

The positive elements of the story don't come easily, and this makes them even more powerful. This is an unlikely love story with a meth lab backdrop and imperfect players who find happiness and book digs down deeply into the disturbing and ugly, and the wonderful and beautiful elements of the story Greenwood's skillful unfolding of the often brutal story, the characters' many layers, and the varied

to attend therapy to learn to cope with her anger, even though she's sure therapy is just a waste of time

his work, and Happy-Go-Lucky is no exception, are Sedaris's unflinching observations of moments in time

Daunis is a wonderfully self-possessed teenage girl character I loved following through her story. Boulley's story is soon to be adapted at Netflix for TV with the Obamas' production company, Higher Ground

The character-driven post-WWII story was wonderful, with compelling and lush detail and a gutsy female I thought the character-driven post-WWII story was wonderful, with compelling and lush detail about tough

and the strong, jilted wife who's out for revenge; and Sally Rooney's heart-wrenching coming-of-age story Matthew McConaughey "I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story 02 The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey This title and its cover art didn't clue me in to the story's premise

I had a tough time pinning down the tone(s) of the book.

believe that God is love, God is hearts and flowers, and that God will send you theological candy all the time It took a little time to get going for me, but then I was blown away. Russell was turned down 31 times before this book was picked up by an agent.

The Girl with Stars in Her Eyes tells the story of Toni Bennette (she's heard all the jokes before, so like fiction about bands and music, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Rocking Stories

The book introduces some fascinating detail and interesting themes, but the story frequently feels choppy The story, its tone, and its characters felt uneven. avant-garde, stream of consciousness or other unusual structure to the text that seems to warrant this, the story

The stories Immanuelle hears about her deceased mother Miriam all have one thing in common: her defiance There's another book planned for this series; I hope the tides of power have turned in Bethel in book

the whereabouts of a man who went missing during a fruitful archaeological dig in Egypt--at the same time

Elliott offers a fantastic, boy-crazy, British story about missteps, facing change, accepting the past

his dogged determination in comparing notes and working cooperatively with others--even when his full-time

grumpy, powerful, smart, straightforward character I was obsessed with, and I wanted to spend as much time grumpy, powerful, smart, straightforward character I was obsessed with, and I wanted to spend as much time I did feel like the page time spent on extensive explanations (of how enclaves do and don't work, how

This young adult science fiction story has been on my list for a while because of its irresistible premise Hart reliably offers deftly crafted, often stark landscapes, character-driven stories, heartbreaking I'm liking this mix: young adult space science fiction story, dystopian fantasy series prequel, and character-driven

01 The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama I read Michelle Obama's wonderful

At times Inciting Joy feels most like stream of consciousness reflections.

listening to her fantastically raspy voice as she read her memoir in audiobook form, and I'd love to spend time I felt like a little too much time may have been spent on sharing youthful poetry and fanciful teenaged

her career, and motherhood; and Beasts of a Little Land, Juhea Kim's debut novel of interconnected story

The author points out that "for a long, long time in Western science and medicine, women's sexuality

library, this girl from Avenue A who read Greek and slipped into one of the rare books rooms three times

the eyes of her students--many of whom are venturing into knowledge of world religions for the first time

In an appealing dynamic, Talin is the strong beating heart of the story, with Red as her supporting lieutenant

I read this during Pandemic Times, which slowed me down and also, I believe, made it tougher than it (They’re also each called by multiple titles and names, which became slightly jumbled in my mind at times unique and clearly built that I think the general sense of this book is going to haunt me for a long time

Lane's story is zany and wonderful, with lots of glimpses into behind-the-scenes celebrity details--and So I was definitely picturing Carrie Fisher as Kannon throughout this story. The story is zany and wonderful, with lots of glimpses into glamorous (and often tedious) celebrity details What surprised me was how much heart and reflection Lane injected into the story to flesh out a deeper

for longer than most agents manage to survive, so she has a persistent feeling of being on borrowed time I really enjoyed Robuck's writing style, the details of the time, the pacing of the book's events, and

realism, fables, superstition, and romance in this translation from Leky's original German coming-of-age story

is a journalist and is also the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story

loyalty and intentions of almost everyone in State of Terror while still making me feel invested in the story

first book in the Winternight trilogy, this is a Russia-set, ancient-feeling, dark fairy tale of a story Winternight trilogy, The Bear and the Nightingale is a Russia-set, ancient-feeling, dark fairy tale of a story Vivid magic and adventure round out the wonderful story.

from the shackles of marriage and the subsummation of a woman to her husband that was expected at the time

be responsible in order to keep his people safe; and the gloriously angsty, romantic, missed-chances story The series was published over a period of almost twenty-five years, and the story trail traces the charismatic wonderfully unexpected developments related to plot, character arc, point of view, morality, origin stories

regarding the who-what-where-why of the evil masterminds felt so involved that it drew me out of the story