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- December Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
She ditches her few true friends, also outsiders, and feels at a loss to determine the line between reality For my full review of this book please see Bunny . 03 The Sideways Life of Denny Voss by Holly Kennedy decisiveness, wisdom, and loving kindness as he gets into increasing trouble, touches lives, faces loss Now she awaits her mysterious boss Mr. isn't exactly what it seems, and when a woman comes to town using Evie's birth name, which only her boss
- Review of Going There by Katie Couric
their two daughters while she and Molner were frantically building their careers, and the horrible loss Couric is candid about the emotional turmoil surrounding her grave loss--and her hope and emotions related Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose
- Review of You Are Here by David Nicholls
in, in case their feelings aren't reciprocated and their fragile hearts can't take another round of loss
- Review of Bunny (Bunny #1) by Mona Awad
She ditches her few true friends, also outsiders, and feels at a loss to determine the line between reality
- Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories I Loved
Mastai provides a fascinating story with time travel, alternate realities, love, loss, humor, bravery And perhaps most confusingly of all, in this second life she's lost some of her original, lifelong, rigid Now she's coming to terms with the recent and tragic loss of the person she loved and the future she
- Review of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store tracks the victories, missteps, losses, and love among
- Review of What You Can See from Here by Mariana Leky
Yet somehow the village's loss, when it does occur, takes everyone by surprise, and Selma's granddaughter Leky writes about love, loss, grief, and understanding in a lighthearted yet poignant way in What You
- Review of All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley
the works and his reactions to them, and searching for and finding peace after a terrible personal loss Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose
- Review of The Future by Naomi Alderman
Alderman offers a dive into a future world that's crumbling due to greed, disregard for the environment, a loss
- Review of How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang
since Helen and Grant have clearly made peace with much or all of the circumstances surrounding of the loss could understand more about her complex feelings and emotionally torn state regarding her sister's loss
- Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore
When he begins to have memory loss and other odd symptoms, he realizes it’s linked to his past time travel And perhaps most confusingly of all, in this second life she's lost some of her original, lifelong, rigid Mastai provides a fascinating story with time travel, alternate realities, love, loss, humor, bravery
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/19/22 Edition
is Hua Hsu's coming-of-age memoir of growing up Taiwanese American and coping with grief after the loss Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose He began writing what became Stay True in order to cope with his loss, explore the concept of belonging
- Review of So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
Maxwell explores loss, tragedy, the rich inner lives of children, the ripple effects of betrayal and Much of his largely autobiographical fiction explored loss--he was haunted by losing his own mother when
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/26/24 Edition
Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Anna Quindlen's upcoming novel about living after a loved one is lost stringers" in delicate jobs; some couples break up, or rush to marry, or prematurely mourn the upcoming loss
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/12/26 Edition
generations of women in a dysfunctional Mexicali family struggle to come to terms with the disappearances and loss
- Review of What the Mountains Remember by Joy Callaway
All of this, along with her pain at the loss of her beloved father, keeps her closed off emotionally. The tuberculosis situation is a tricky one: bosses are worried about the Grove Park Inn timeline and
- Review of The Book of Love by Kelly Link
terms with what their existences might look like now, and their families are still reeling from their loss
- Review of All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham
Her own pain and delirium make her wonder whether her lost child, estranged husband, estranged parents , her other heartbreaking losses, her unaccounted-for hours sleepwalking, and others' mysterious reactions
- Six of My Favorite Literary Fiction Reads of the Year
In the wake of their father's death, two brothers reel from the loss in his own way. But somewhere along the way, they lose sight of each other--and of themselves. in, in case their feelings aren't reciprocated and their fragile hearts can't take another round of loss enlisted to create elaborate dishes for the wealthiest elite on a lush mountaintop compound, and she loses But when the boss's daughter begins tinkering with precious resources, our main protagonist is swept
- Thankful for More Five-Star Bossy Reads
Bloom is also the author of the heartbreakingly beautiful In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss , Away , gruesome, but Mason's writing is beautiful and evocative, conveying the cold and brutal nature of war and loss She must be losing her mind. But she knows that last night was real.
- Review of North Woods by Daniel Mason
start. ...she has found that the only way to understand the world as something other than a tale of loss
- Review of Antarctica by Claire Keegan
Keegan's settings span from the South to rural Ireland; her characters sometimes face crushing loss or
- October Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
of the story, during the slog through various avenues of hell, and the worldbuilding felt slim and glossed The Everlasting is filled with rich adventure; twisty jaunts through time; tragedy and loss; dark turns We find out early on that she faces the impending loss of her sight, that she is somewhat estranged from I don't recall reading A Tale of Two Cities , so the value of the allegories is lost on me.
- Review of Foster by Claire Keegan
Keegan offers a gorgeously wrought Irish story of childhood, hope, love, and loss that is spare, lovely Many’s the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.”
- Review of The Survivors by Jane Harper
On the Tasmanian coast, characters explore loss and grief and the swirling mysteries surrounding long-ago the coast of Tasmania, the story centers around a tightly knit community, complicated expressions of loss This often makes her books feel like Westerns to me, as with her book The Lost Man.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/4/23 Edition
to date: her youth, complicated family dynamics, the growth of her explosive fame--and the shocking loss Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose
- September Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Australia and attempted to lay claim to the Tichborne family fortune, insisting that he was a long-lost uncompromising societal expectations who work to connect across secrets, upended traditional roles, shocking loss seemed like indelible relationships fall away as Buckeye stretches across decades of life, choices, and loss single copy of which was read aloud for the (obtuse, grumpy, belligerent) poet's wife's birthday, then lost
- Review of The Arsonists' City by Hala Alyan
Characters cope with lost dreams and find ways to (often clumsily) come together through their shared and three first-generation American children with an ancestral home in Beirut come to terms with deep loss With plenty of secrets, messy interpersonal family interactions, love, and loss--all against a background Characters cope with lost dreams, fading possibilities, boredom, and disappointment, but they also clumsily
- Review of Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
structure, dark humor, and deeply flawed characters as main protagonist Lucy works to resolve her memory loss
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/13/24 Edition
02 Only If You're Lucky by Stacy Willingham Margot is a freshman in college still reeling from the loss Margot is ready to cut loose and live a little, so she ditches her steady, predictable roommate and dives
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/4/24 Edition
into the local bookstore catch the eye of handyman Frank Daigle, who is still coming to terms with the loss
- Review of Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
a private school where he can thrive--and have better prospects than Opal herself has had since the loss
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/5/24 Edition
terms with what their existences might look like now, and their families are still reeling from their loss
- Thankful for More Five-Star Bossy Reads
Bloom is also the author of the heartbreakingly beautiful In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss , Away , gruesome, but Mason's writing is beautiful and evocative, conveying the cold and brutal nature of war and loss She must be losing her mind. But she knows that last night was real.
- Review of Maame by Jessica George
her older brother never seems to be around to help; and she's the only Black person at work with a boss But she seems destined to be continually pushed around and taken advantage of--by her family, her boss Jessica George offers a wonderful story with messy moments of love, some humor, big issues of race, loss
- Review of White Houses by Amy Bloom
Bloom is also the author of the heartbreakingly beautiful In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss, Away, Lucky
- July Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
01 In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom Amy Bloom writes with brutal honesty about her heartbreak memoir In Love, author Amy Bloom shares the story of an impossible situation: how she faced the pending loss Ameche begins showing cognitive loss, and when a diagnosis is established of Alzheimer's disease, he Quinn shapes Mila's story by sharing scenes of love and terrible loss, as well as immersive Russian landscape
- Six Short Story Collections to Wow You
Something Rich and Strange. 01 Thunderstruck & Other Stories by Elizabeth McCracken “Whatever you have lost Each of the nine stories in this collection builds from a loss of some kind. relationships, identity, the fallibility of those who shape historical "fact," as well as grief and loss haunted by decisions and unforeseen dangers, painful adjustments to life after war, and injury and loss
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/18/23 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Divine Rivals, the first in Rebecca Ross's Letters of Enchantment 01 Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment #1) by Rebecca Ross In Divine Rivals, Iris and Roman, two journalists two are constantly at odds with each other, and each has erected emotional armor around a devastating loss
- My Very Favorite Bossy 2025 Reads
within McConaghy's Wild Dark Shore , but the story is largely an atmospheric story of isolation and loss The Everlasting is filled with rich adventure; twisty jaunts through time; tragedy and loss; dark turns We find out early on that she faces the impending loss of her sight, that she is somewhat estranged from wife makes a stand for a whimsical name suggested by her daughter Maia, Bear; in a second, she makes a less single copy of which was read aloud for the (obtuse, grumpy, belligerent) poet's wife's birthday, then lost
- Review of Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King
she turns her eye for detail and for wonderfully faulted characters on explorations of love, desire, loss
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/4/24 Edition
Store by James McBride James McBride's Heaven & Earth Grocery Store tracks the victories, missteps, losses
- Review of The Celebrants by Steven Rowley
offers poignancy, an exploration of grief, and the impossible-seeming prospect of going on after deep loss members of the group may have grown apart, but in the decades to come, when one of them feels adrift and lost
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/29/23 Edition
offered poignancy, an exploration of grief, and the impossible-seeming prospect of going on after deep loss The members of the group may have grown apart, but when one of them feels adrift and lost, they come
- November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Mining's dangers aren't glossed over, and tragedies abound. their only company, and in close quarters, for many months--and inspiring reflections on life, death, loss into the local bookstore catch the eye of handyman Frank Daigle, who is still coming to terms with the loss
- Six Fascinating Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War
as hypothetical looks into Lincoln's frame of mind and motivation as he struggled with his personal losses and feelings of responsibility for the significant loss of life on both sides during the Civil War.
- Review of The Two Lives of Lydia Bird
Now she's coming to terms with the recent and tragic loss of the person she loved and the future she
- Review of You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie Smith
growth and change of her relationship, Smith also explores gender roles, womanhood, motherhood, fury, loss Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/27/21 Edition
After suffering a great loss in The River, he's eager to lose himself in nature and meet the needs of young hotshot Dominic Yun shows up and, as a male, automatically has the ear of their misogynistic boss she's attempting to leap into commitment with the wrong people because she's still reeling from the loss
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/15/24 Edition
But when the doctor tries to help a crew who has suffered the loss of one of its own due to ERS, she















































