I love an alternate reality story, and I thought this was a smart and lovely one.

I listened to the audiobook of this mystical fairy tale-folk story (and I loved the narrator Kathleen

irresistible Bridie are her striking and unfailingly loyal sidekick Sadie; Ruby, who is both a tender tie Various depraved and frighteningly cruel characters help drive the story of Things in Jars and add to

I just could not get anywhere near invested or interested in this story of years of unhappiness, relentless

After all, last time around, all kinds of horrible things happened as she dug into (and solved, thank

The story involved a satisfying set of Reacher-figured-out-a-plan moments, along with somewhat of a commentary

The first section of Lockwood's story about an internet darling is absurd, frivolous, vulgar, irritating

mix of different genres I read concurrently are usually reactive--a result of my library hold list timing Are you a one-book-at-a-time reader, or do you dabble with reading different types of books at once?

This story was so much more than I expected. This story was so much more than I expected, but thankfully Napolitano didn’t rely solely on her book anything critical whatsoever about the protagonist or his plight or about anything to do with this story

legitimately help us understand what motivates people's fanatical behaviors during this ever-restless era--a time

answering a few questions about your tolerance for violence, rough language, and adult content; desired time

But when time goes by and Ada doesn't conceive a child, she is suspected of witchcraft, of causing trouble

I have a high school senior, so maybe it's time to finally read the stack of college admissions-related

The final book in Maureen Johnson's young adult Truly Devious trilogy wraps up the story nicely, but When a giant storm heads toward the Burlington, Vermont, boarding school do you think Stevie goes along

downs, her drinking-related missteps, and her failed loves (including, interestingly, a lot more page time

Many issues have been raised regarding: Cummins's right and ability to tell this story as non-Latinx

I read Ford's memoir Somebody's Daughter around the same time I read the memoir Crying in H Mart by Michelle

“I suppose I could spend time theorizing how it is that people are not bad to each other, but that's

The story builds to show how individuals on opposite sides of the issue and of the wall are at heart The subject matter is weighty and emotional, and McCann manages to make the story both personal and political

Fletcher was tough to read at times because of the frequent reckless, life-and-death, sometimes ill-advised

But spending time working together for once allows Rowan and Neil to see sides of the other person that I hope this weekend holds some cozy reading time with books you love.

Despite the mysterious disappearances of children that are at the heart of the story, this primarily

with beautifully imperfect characters bringing it all to life; and a woman-powered historical fiction story

Being tricked into working as an unpaid, abused slave without freedoms or even time to sleep doesn't

And I loved how much book talk (both writing and reading) took place in this story.

for a weeklong visit of east coast colleges with a touring company, Jessica's hoping for some quality time

War II in Atlantic City, and its giant hotels, piers, and general hubbub are the backdrop for this story This was a really captivating story that kept me intrigued throughout.

mystery, complete with fantastic details of the dress, food, street life, and royal court tensions of the time

The backtracking to the start of Nadia's involvement in the situation is wonderful; other brief side stories

experience the intensity of the exciting events because of feeling yanked back and forth in pacing and in time

That said, I have a tough time reading memoirs in which someone is fighting cancer, and I understand

had occurred--but then Hawkins turned my feelings about the protagonists' feelings upside down with a story

we access the system" types of debates, and technological ruminations throughout the middle of the story

This time she's really taken things too far, and she's not a lady who can be subdued.

read an entire book about Gentry just walking around, but the book weaves together internal struggles, times

Time to get to that one, I think!

In Hillbilly Elegy, Vance mainly shares the story of his own many, varied, and enormous life challenges

It was published five years after the first book, but I read them without a large gap of time in between

The characters, the story arc that isn’t too easy but leaves you in a promising place after all, and

inspires a few cruel comments from petty characters or online trolls, and her self-esteem flags briefly at times

I was left wondering why I was paying attention to the details of the story to try to unravel elements

In The Unhoneymooners, unlucky Olive is standing by her perfect twin Ami yet again, this time for Ami's

But Lux has a bad sense about all of this, and while the reader has the benefit of flashes forward in time

the ocean) is cute as a framework, although its significance pales compared to the real meat of the story

not only racially unjust and deeply segregated, but which privileges your racial group at the same time

This time he's digging into information about the missing hiker, Alice Russell. I would like more more more Falk and for him to be at the heart of all of Harper's stories.

In The Body, Bryson offers astonishing facts and striking stories to illustrate the miracle of the human

So far this is very romaaaantic and dramaaatic with a significant amount of page time spent on Feyre's

But on her own time, Mary is Irish exile Maire O’Farren, and she keeps mixed company as part of a secret introducing a heart-wrenching unrequited love of one woman for another--an attraction forbidden at the time

The wise asides in what felt like another point of view drew me out of the story, but generally I was Blackbird, One for the Crow, which was mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Stories