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  • Review of A Quiet Life by Ethan Joella

    Her young daughter is missing, and Ella is in limbo, desperately hoping she hears news soon.

  • Six Riveting Backlist Reads

    In case you missed them the first time around, I'm reposting them as this summer begins so you can add wonderfully faulted character. who when not in crisis takes stock of himself and aims to be a better person and take care of her and to follow the lead of this wise-beyond-her-years, intensely spiritual young person

  • Review of VenCo by Cherie Dimaline

    frequently feels geared toward young readers to me, and I had no trouble predicting the twist regarding the missing

  • Shhh! Kid and Teen Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays

    The situation may lead to personal and career frustration--and maybe heartbreak. America's Most Extraordinary National Parks and Their Least Impressed Visitors by Amber Share If you've missed the text of real-life one-star reviews left by disappointed or disgruntled visitors who frequently miss cookbooks for kids in prior gift lists, but this book combines a couple of things I love for a young person

  • Review of Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives by Mary Laura Philpott

    Mary Laura Philpott is also the author of the memoir I Miss You When I Blink.

  • Review of When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine by Monica Wood

    A book I loved, in case you missed it: Wood's memoir is captivating and lovely, poignant, sweet without ICYMI: A Book I Loved I had to post about this book in case you missed it when it was first published

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/20/23 Edition

    Or will they have missed thirteen years of their lives--and the chance to figure out how the heck they

  • Review of Before She Disappeared by Lisa Gardner

    character-driven mystery offers an imperfect, unassuming heroine obsessed with solving the cold cases of missing She's an unassuming middle-aged woman and a recovering alcoholic who has a compulsion: to locate missing

  • Review of Paper & Blood (Ink & Sigil #2) by Kevin Hearne

    characters from Ink & Sigil, but I felt bogged down by recounted stories and detailed logistics, and I missed I missed the character growth from book one, and I found myself wanting a little more of the flashy,

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/9/23 Edition

    criminals are assassinated in public show of retaliation for their crimes, Emi's mother Kristina goes missing

  • Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories I Loved

    "I nearly missed you, Doctor August," she says. "I need to send a message." The first-person perspective drew me deeply into Harry's life. Now she's coming to terms with the recent and tragic loss of the person she loved and the future she

  • Review of Foster by Claire Keegan

    Many’s the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.”

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/15/23 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Carley Fortune's newest light fiction about a missed opportunity

  • Review of The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry

    Then tragedy struck: Flora went missing and was presumed to be dead.

  • Review of Tell Me an Ending by Jo Harkin

    Nepenthe came along, lots of people were living happy and productive lives with parts of their memory missing secrets, how memory is connected to a sense of self, and the complicated web of memories, experience, personality

  • Review of Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

    for gossipy entertainment from Mom and becomes a meaningful venture into exploring Lara as a complex person

  • Review of One Day in December by Josie Silver

    Silver offers a story with a missed-chances premise in which romance, drama, and an unwavering hope in One Day in December offers a missed-chances setup with enormous repercussions.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/7/23 Edition

    Veronica Speedwell series, set in 1888 London, Veronica and Stoker seek the whereabouts of a man who went missing

  • Review of The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston

    incorrect but didn't seem to be so on purpose, and the convenient dismissal of inconvenient elements (the missed

  • April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    When a local young woman goes missing, Chloe fights her rising panic. the other's loyalties begin and end, nor are they intimately acquainted with the other's history or personal I think this was because of personal timing and my reading-during-vacation distraction circumstances, by the rievs (former battle robots) who mysteriously show sentience and surprising preferences for personal I did find the personal, passing sharing of others' intimate details jarring, however (regarding lascivious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/2/22 Edition

    Nessa, Jo, and Harriet work together and use their newfound abilities to try to solve the mystery of a missing science fiction writer from two centuries later, our current day, who writes about an almost identical personal

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/21/22 Edition

    reading Blackwater Falls, a recently published thriller by Ausma Zehanat Khan about the mystery of missing

  • Six Great Books about Brave Female Spies

    If you missed this book when it came out, it's one that's worth a slot on your to-read list. note as I read the novel because of how much of the stories of the women’s lives was pulled from first-person

  • Review of Only Killers and Thieves by Paul Howarth

    A book that fascinated me, in case you missed it! Is remorse useful, and does it make a person more redeemable? Can a person’s character or morality be decided in a moment, or in a series of defining moments?

  • Review of Nothing Like the Movies (Better Than the Movies #2) by Lynn Painter

    I missed the clever banter and heartwarming moments of Better Than the Movies , which I rated five Bossy

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/1/23 Edition

    Then tragedy struck: Flora went missing and was presumed to be dead.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/28/21 Edition

    California; and Dark Roads, Chevy Stevens's suspenseful novel, out next week, about young women going missing and rugged terrain of British Columbia, along a highway where unsuspecting women traveling alone go missing

  • Review of The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

    He explores shifting realities and asks how much of a person's happiness and life course is determined around a new town, or to understand how she ended up where she finds herself, yet she's altogether missed her own decision-making, private jokes, clarifying moments, sadness, and joys that made her that person who was alive and thriving in certain life threads because of Nora's care or attention, and who was missing at the same time my mom did; as part of an online book club for March; and in preparation for my in-person

  • Review of What We Can Know by Ian McEwan

    But because each person's mind wandered during the performance--and each person drank copious amounts It was as if credulous medieval masses had burst through into modernity, rushing into the wrong theatre Written personal histories are shown to be heavily curated, outrageously selective, and powerfully manipulative The assessment of our complex current-day messes, soaring successes, sweeping promise, and looming sense

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/8/21 Edition

    author of The Silent Patient, to be published next week, Mariana, a group therapist coping with her own personal When her beloved niece Zoe calls from her Cambridge dormitory, frantic that her friend is missing, Mariana

  • Six More Books about Brave Female Spies

    listed on the recent Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II. 01 Miss For my full review, check out Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook. 02 Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams In this case, Kat wasn’t fully developed as a character so she felt more like a concept than a real person

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/23/23 Edition

    The small plane is missing its black box, the pilot's flight bag--and the tenth passenger.

  • Six More Great Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading

    Torrence and Seth, who are exes, seem more concerned with their long-term petty arguments and with airing personal I loved this story about relationships, complications, famous/everyday person romance, and a love of the embracing of the beauty in an everyday life and in straightforward affection, the heartbreak of missed

  • Review of Fugitive Telemetry (Murderbot #6) by Martha Wells

    more page time spent with Murderbot sorting through situations and humans' feelings; I found that I missed

  • Review of Let's Not Do That Again by Grand Ginder

    of Ginder's novel is focused on a revenge fantasy, but I was drawn more to Nancy Harrison's strong personality She’s kissed all the babies and passed all the right legislation and said all the right things. Whereas Greta is an unsympathetic, aggressive, and misled character, her brother Nick is unfailingly

  • February Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    abandonment on an unforgiving, uninhabited island after our main protagonist falls in love with the wrong person Elif Shafak also wrote the lovely The Island of Missing Trees . in passive, reactive behavior, but as she grew older, she found her voice, rode a roller coaster of personal Bono (eleven years older) began when she was a teenager, and his control over her professional and personal and disappointment, through her unlikely journey to stand-up, to the embracing of her Southern mama persona

  • Review of The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

    A book I loved, in case you missed it! God is a complex personality. I wanted to explore that complexity and that moral ambiguity.

  • Thankful for More Five-Star Bossy Reads

    developed memoir in which she explores her musical influences and influential high and low moments in her personal Williams shares stories of her childhood, her musical influences, and pivotal moments in her career and personal expectations related to gender and relationships while Sittenfeld builds characters whose lives are shaped by missed

  • Review of Swift the Storm, Fierce the Flame by Meg Long

    didn't feel as vividly wrought as the unforgivingly cruel ice of the first book, and I found myself missing

  • Review of Fourth Wing (The Empyrean #1) by Rebecca Yarros

    reminder that a classmate is dead, a character "quips," for example; the silly and youthful exclamation "I miss

  • Review of The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon

    When Jax, a social worker, receives a series of frantic missed calls from her sister Lexie, she assumes She has a lot on her own plate, and she'll have plenty of time to deal with her estranged sister's mess

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/3/22 Edition

    While Molly herself frequently misses the implications of the details she meticulously observes, the and Molly may end up being more than capable of extricating herself from suspicion by using the many personal make room in the mix for Rosemary, who's grateful--and who's frankly glad to leave her significant personal

  • Review of The Distance from Four Points by Margo Orlando Littell

    But she's soon faced with issues beyond missing him: he had secretly sunk all of their savings into ramshackle

  • Review of What Doesn't Kill You by Tessa Miller

    She lays a journalistic view over some of her personal experiences and offers advice to those affected In What Doesn't Kill You, Miller explores the isolation of enduring chronic disease and her own personal I also found it somewhat personally triggering, which isn't a judgment, but it was my reaction. “…I sometimes miss being in the hospital…. Her particular personal experiences, her hard-fought wisdom, and her thoughtful reflections about her

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/24/21 Edition

    hates: lead and be responsible in order to keep his people safe; and the gloriously angsty, romantic, missed-chances Josie Silver Josie Silver, who also wrote The Two Lives of Lydia Hill, in One Day in December offers a missed-chances

  • Six Fascinating Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels

    Melanie doesn't know why this makes Miss Justineau look sad. There's a character in common between the two books; this person appears at the end of The Boy on the

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/22/20 Edition

    #mysterysuspense, #deadlywaters 02 Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook ​ It's 1945. For my full review, see Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/31/23 Edition

    Her young daughter is missing, and Ella is in limbo, desperately hoping she hears news soon.

  • Six Book Recommendations from Smarty Librarians

    After a few days you receive multiple personalized reading recommendations in an email. Voila! a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library member--or if your local library system offers a similar feature of personalized And have you read any of my Personalized Recommendations from Librarians, hmmm?

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