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- Review of The Celebrants by Steven Rowley
Our time here is limited, gone in the blink of an eye.
- Review of The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg
For a time, Wizenberg is at a loss to explain much more than the power of her shifted desire. Because it is difficult for her to elucidate, it is at times also a challenge for the reader to fully Life, a home management book that I adored the cozy idea of in my early married days (my love of and time
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/19/22 Edition
In The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream, Jeannie Zusy offers a messy, heartwarming family story
- Review of Shiner by Amy Jo Burns
The women's lifelong friendship felt like the heart of the story and was a fantastic element. I love an Appalachian-set story. The women's lifelong friendship felt like the heart of the story and was a fantastic element.
- Review of We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker
Whitaker's story builds into a tale of heartbreak and desperate hopes for redemption that folds back Whitaker offers up the story's compounding tragedies in often-beautiful language.
- Review of A Conspiracy in Belgravia (Lady Sherlock #2) by Sherry Thomas
Charlotte's various views on the world are absolute gems, and I absolutely love spending time in her
- Review of A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America by Timothy Egan
Timothy Egan is also the author of The Worst Hard Time, fascinating narrative nonfiction about the Dust
- Review of When Ghosts Come Home by Wiley Cash
The very end of the story brought to light a sudden burst of twisty complications and cemented the course
- Review of Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead by Elle Cosimano
The story starts off with some silly, campy situations, and as with the first book, Finlay Donovan Knocks author of the young adult mystery series Nearly Gone, the young adult fantasy series Seasons of the Storm
- Review of Stay True: A Memoir by Hua Hsu
nineteen or twenty, your life is governed by debts and favors, promises to pick up the check or drive next time
- Review of Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March
March's 400-page book is an immersive story, with the flavors, sights, and sounds of colonial India underlying The story keeps a patient pace as Captain Jim uncovers clues, uses deduction, and emphasizes loyalty
- Review of The Last Graduate (Scholomance #2) by Naomi Novik
whip-smart, socially awkward, straightforward character I was obsessed with, and I wanted to spend as much time A lot of page time was spent on logistics and on explaining why magical processes and machinations functioned
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/19/22 Edition
The stresses and pulls on their time as they've grown have caused them to grow apart, so a vacation together
- Review of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
that something different can happen, in some form or another. ' In therapy we say, 'Let's edit your story I loved that, and this "editing of the story" is apparent in Gottlieb's own therapy experience and in
- Review of Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah
I loved this story of how Joanna and Gabe are inextricably drawn to each other and into Ursa's magically The characters of Ursa, Jo, Gabe, and Tabby, the ornithology story line, and the makeshift family.
- Review of The Last Confession of Autumn Casterly by Meredith Tate
high schoolers--mainly charmingly caring, funny, quirky, honest ones who add a lovely levity to the story managed to balance the tone of the lighthearted friendships with the weighty issues that shape the story
- Review of The Ink Black Heart (Cormoran Strike #6) by Robert Galbraith
audiobook at 1.75x speed, which significantly shortened the 32-hour, 42-minute audiobook listening time
- Review of Murder by Memory (Dorothy Gentleman #1) by Olivia Waite
An electrical storm has knocked systems offline, and even worse, it seems that someone has deliberately been sabotaging the Library, where the backup for each passenger on the ship is stored.
- Review of Head Over Heels by Hannah Orenstein
hit any false notes for me and kept me satisfyingly wrapped up in the elite gymnastics world of the story with the epic science fiction/fantasy To Sleep in a Sea of Stars and a young adult historical fiction story
- Review of So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
The story and its voice felt reminiscent to me of a mix of Capote's In Cold Blood and Steinbeck's Of
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/27/23 Edition
pianist whose biggest hope for the end of the world was to play at the most epic goodbye party of all time
- Review of The Becoming (The Dragon Heart Legacy #2) by Nora Roberts
There remains a lot of page time spent on the enjoyment of refreshments (tea or wine, anyone?)
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/3/23 Edition
List Three Offbeat Series I Just Started and Love), but after raving about it for two years it seemed time
- Review of Legend (Legend #1) by Marie Lu
The master plan executed at the end of the book has a few twisty moments I liked, and while the story
- Review of Fugitive Telemetry (Murderbot #6) by Martha Wells
watch its favorite show, The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon (although I might have liked more page time
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/24/22 Edition
and a heartwarming reminder that there are thoughtful, kind, well-meaning people out there spending time
- Review of The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz
ICYMI: This young adult historical fiction story was a five-star read for me. I adored it.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/18/21 Edition
01 The Girl with the Stars in Her Eyes by Xio Axelrod The Girl with Stars in Her Eyes tells the story like fiction about bands and music, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Rocking Stories
- Review of Blush by Jamie Brenner
This is a lovely light fiction story with elements that offer appealing weight.
- Review of The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
try and harness and master the spells they've been taught--and those they've picked up from women and stories I felt like the dramatic situations or dialogue distracted me from what felt like the heart of the story
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/24/22 Edition
Sullivan built this historical fiction around the true story of an ethnically German family running from
- Review of The Forgotten Kingdom by Signe Pike
Set in sixth century Scotland, The Forgotten Kingdom traces the story of Languoreth, a strong, imprisoned
- Review of The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman
I was most struck by the character-driven WWII stories, which were haunting and lovely.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/1/21 Edition
In this memoir, the charming, food-obsessed cookbook author and actor shares the stories behind his Italian-American
- Review of What Doesn't Kill You by Tessa Miller
She spends substantial page time laying out the weaknesses of our country's health care system, and she Miller's view gets broad at times, and her focus occasionally seems to stretch beyond the scope of what
- Review of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
I found Addie's workarounds to be one of the most fascinating parts of this story. At long last, she can say her true name to someone; she could even tell him her preposterous story of
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/14/20 Edition
The stories of Immanuelle's mother Miriam all have one thing in common: her defiance of the Prophet. a very dark place so far, and I'm not sure there's a bright light at the end of the tunnel for this story
- Review of I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell
The construct of tracing near-death experiences to tell the story of her life didn’t feel forced at all
- Review of Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon
mood for more light fiction, you might try the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Lighter Fiction Stories
- Review of Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
Haig is also the author of the fiction titles The Midnight Library and How to Stop Time.
- Review of Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Now I'd like Miller to please write more books about varied topics, because I like spending time in her
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/22/20 Edition
who authored Orphan Train (which I really liked) and A Piece of the World (which I loved), tells the story Kline writes a story of friendship, despair, and hope with a richly drawn Australian backdrop--while
- Review of The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence by Stephen Kurczy
But by the time Kurczy dug into some of the most alarming real-life characters from the Green Bank community
- Review of The Guncle by Steven Rowley
In Steven Rowley's fun, funny, and heartwarming light fiction story The Guncle, aging former sitcom star
- Review of An Altar in the World by Barbara Brown Taylor
one because I felt that Taylor's personality came through in it even more fully, and I adore spending time
- Review of Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk
Wolk also wrote Beyond the Bright Sea, a middle-grade adventure story with sweet character development
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/12/22 Edition
I'm reading The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin, another debut novel, this time
- Shhh! Holiday Cookbook Gift Ideas
The book is a mix of inspirational stories and plant-focused recipes, many of which are sure to be kid-pleasers
- Review of The Wreckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson
shares her own often-uncontrollable tendencies (eating most meals in bed and aiming to spend significant time
- 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 I felt more that I was being told things about Harper's life than that she was allowing me into her story


















































