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- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/15/24 Edition
Delilah Bard! new characters!) books, you'll already be acquainted with the fantastic characters of Kell Maresh of Red London, Delilah Bard Delilah Bard is crossing worlds to take stock of the threats and power struggles.
- Review of After Annie by Anna Quindlen
and household ineptitude and also falls into the arms of the local woman who was after him in high school
- Review of Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up by Selma Blair
In Mean Baby, actress Selma Blair is candid about the alcoholism that developed in early elementary school decades-long daily reliance on drinking small amounts of alcohol--a reliance that began in early elementary school
- Six Historical Fiction Backlist Favorites
When his school is shut down by the Nazis, he weds a widow who seeks a husband to help her raise her Anton is searching for redemption after horrific events surrounding his students and school.
- Review of The Fragile Threads of Power (Threads of Power #1) by V. E. Schwab
books, you'll already be acquainted with the fantastic characters of Kell Maresh of Red London, Delilah Bard Delilah Bard is crossing worlds to take stock of the threats and power struggles.
- Six More Short Story Collections I Loved
For my full review, check out Girl, Woman, Other. 02 Festival Days by Jo Ann Beard In Jo Ann Beard's In the nine essays and short stories that make up Festival Days, the fantastic Jo Ann Beard explores But Beard's writing feels like long-form poetry in a way--evocative and anchored in wonderfully wrought Festival Days is lovely and sometimes surprising; it feels honest as Beard explores bitterness, confusion
- Review of Into the Wilderness (Wilderness #1) by Sara Donati
She quickly realizes that her father's oblique promises that she could teach school in their new home
- Review of Ninth House (Alex Stern #1) by Leigh Bardugo
Alex dropped out of high school and into a world of shady drug dealers, cruelty, and taking desperate
- Review of Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
, while Adina is an unusually perceptive child--with knowledge of another planet, a vivid nighttime school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/19/22 Edition
She was not allowed to attend school. At age 15, Young escaped to Texas, enrolled in school, and made a new life for herself.
- Six More Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You
Naomi Novik A Deadly Education is the first in Novik's Scholomance series, which is set at a magical school I loved that Novik began putting more of the school's fate in the hands of her young characters--and The magical school setting reminded me of Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education, although the tone of this
- Review of Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
She's got to raise the money to send her bright younger brother Jacob to a private school where he can
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/4/21 Edition
Last Graduate, the second in Naomi Novik's dark, brooding, funny Scholomance series about a magical school Novik's Scholomance series is set at a magical school with two routes out for its students: a grueling In Novik's second book of the trilogy, El is determined to help her classmates escape their deadly school
- Review of A Quiet Life by Ethan Joella
Kirsten Bonato has suffered a loss of her own, which threw off her long-standing plans for vet school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/18/23 Edition
Masquapaug insist that a dragon must be raised a certain way, and they send Anequs and the dragon to a school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/11/22 Edition
Edinburgh society. 02 Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett Emma Starling is a natural healer and a med-school Then Emma discovers that her best friend from high school is missing.
- Six More Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You
A Deadly Education is the first in Novik's Scholomance series, which is set at a magical school with I loved that Novik began putting more of the school's fate in the hands of her young characters--and The magical school setting reminded me of Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education, although the tone of this
- Review of The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett
The unreliable narrator gathers friends from primary school to compare accounts of that pivotal day of
- February Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
But a suspicious, tenacious MI5 investigator arrives at the Novises' boarding house, demanding to know
- Review of The Last Graduate (Scholomance #2) by Naomi Novik
Novik's Scholomance series is set at a magical school with two routes out for its students: a grueling this second book of the trilogy, El is determined to somehow help her classmates escape their deadly school She hasn't exactly ingratiated herself to many people at school the past few years.
- Review of True Biz by Sara Nović
Students at the residential River Valley School for the Deaf are trying to get through finals, maintain
- Review of Voyage of the Damned by Frances White
The twelve heirs of Concordia are aboard, each with a special magical power (a Blessing).
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/13/24 Edition
She's spent her first year at school holing up and studying, maintaining a quiet life.
- Review of Those We Thought We Knew by David Joy
Atlanta to her rural North Carolina town to track her family's history and finish her thesis for graduate school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/7/23 Edition
Atlanta to her rural North Carolina town to track her family's history and finish her thesis for graduate school
- Review of Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter
adorable young adult rom-com Better Than the Movies is about Liz Buxbaum, a fabulously eccentric high schooler Liz is a hopeless romantic who has been waiting her whole high school career to be swept off her feet
- Six of My Pandemic-Era Book Buys
though My Best Friend's Exorcism has already passed lovingly hand to hand through your entire grade at school visiting Bookshop.org to support independent booksellers if you're adding to your pandemic-era book hoard
- Review of How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
Tom Hazard is a high school English teacher. So when Tom begins to fall for the French teacher at school, it may renew his faith in the world and
- Review of The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
She's dating a boring but reliable young man from her high school and living at home when she meets James
- Another Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You
Novik's Scholomance series is set at a magical school with two routes out for its students: a grueling this second book of the trilogy, El is determined to somehow help her classmates escape their deadly school
- Review of The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious #2) by Maureen Johnson
to piece together her complicated feelings about David, who she kissed), her parents pull her out of school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/12/23 Edition
01 Maddalena and the Dark by Julia Fine It's early 1700s Vienna at a prestigious music school, the Ospedale
- Six More of My Favorite Fiction Reads from the Past Year
Students at the residential River Valley School for the Deaf are trying to get through finals, maintain Kimmery Martin's Doctors and Friends begins with a group of seven women, friends since medical school And it isn't just that being in her teen body again shocks her, or that seeing her high school crush
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/29/24 Edition
Explanation for Everything, and A Friend of the Family. 03 How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang In high school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/23/22 Edition
High school was largely a nightmare, so her time at her state university is bound to be an improvement first day of classes, Barrett fears that college may end up a ruination on par with the end of her high school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/8/23 Edition
The untrustworthy narrator gathers friends from primary school to compare accounts of that pivotal day
- Review of American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
I liked Curtis Sittenfeld's peek at prep schools in Prep, and I loved her short story collection You
- Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading
love goes viral, it leads to the offer of a competitive internship and soaring popularity at her new school makes a desperate deal with a famous actor in her class: if he plays the role of her fake boyfriend at school
- Review of Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim
Beasts of a Little Land tracks Jade's schooling, found family, artistic expression, and her social position
- Review of The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
history such as that of Black music and appropriation; decades of racial impacts on the modern public school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/29/24 Edition
She's valedictorian, school captain, and model student.
- Review of This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
And it isn't just that being in her teen body again shocks her, or that seeing her high school crush
- Review of The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
village where girls are often married off by age fourteen and are frequently made to stop attending school emotional, physical, familial, and societal hardships, yet she keeps her sights set on getting back into school
- Review of Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon
It's the last day of high school, and senior nemeses Rowan Roth and Neil McNair have battled bitterly for every title, position, honor, and moment of recognition during their high school careers. Solomon's young adult novel feels authentically set in high school, yet offers appeal for anyone who
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/23/23 Edition
She's got to raise the money to send her bright younger brother Jacob to a private school where he can
- Review of The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin
Mercenary Maidens, Highlander, Wicked Earls' Club, Wedding a Wallflower, Borderland Ladies, The London School
- Review of Stay True: A Memoir by Hua Hsu
He went to grad school, he went to therapy, and he began to let go of the guilt surrounding the idea
- Review of Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
through the plane as if in a trance, announcing expected ages of and causes of death for each person aboard
- Review of The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl
The Paris Novel is the first novel by food writer, memoir author, food critic, and James Beard award-winner
- Review of Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You by Lucinda Williams
role in her view of the world and how she approached her life--and resulted in her expulsion from high school

















































