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  • Review of Hello, Molly! by Molly Shannon

    was very young, and she doesn't shy away from exploring her young understanding of the circumstances, 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, 9/25/23 Edition

    published tomorrow, The Caretaker; I'm listening to Tiffany Clarke Harrison's novel about motherhood and loss

  • Six More Short Story Collections I Loved

    Life, short stories can feel more manageable--you can pick up and put down the book as needed without losing bitterness, confusion, petty thoughts, life-and-death issues, trivial concerns, and intense love and loss she turns her eye for detail and for wonderfully faulted characters on explorations of love, desire, loss

  • Review of The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston

    This romantic light fiction story includes sibling conflicts, loss, betrayal, a love that seems impossible

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/25/22 Edition

    from Vaishnavi Patel; Going There, Katie Couric's memoir about love, loss, her career, and motherhood She takes us through falling in love with Jay Molner, having their two daughters, and losing Jay to advanced

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/11/23 Edition

    edition of this book courtesy of Libro.fm and Recorded Books, Inc. 02 Chenneville: A Novel of Murder, Loss

  • Review of The Love of My Life by Rosie Walsh

    state, and the outside forces at work, while also exploring weighty topics including mental illness and loss

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

    Along with her alcoholic mother and her impatient barkeep brother, she grieves the loss of her father In the wake of their father's death, two brothers reel from the loss in his own way.

  • Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore

    Memoirs to Dive Into, Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year, Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Perhaps tragedies are only tragedies in the presence of love, which confers meaning to loss. Loss is not felt in the absence of love.” Alexander writes gorgeously about the husband she lost suddenly, the elements that made him irreplaceable She shares the trauma surrounding this loss and her personal journey toward finding peace.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/12/22 Edition

    listening to Surrender, Bono's memoir about inspiration, faith, pain, love, and music; I'm reading Lost digging into the difficult relationship with his father to sharing how he attempted to cope with the loss I love listening to his story in his voice. 02 Lost in Time by A.G. Riddle's 450-page dual-timeline story Lost in Time, a device called Absolom has been developed to send

  • Review of August Kitko and the Mechas from Space (The Starmetal Symphony #1) by Alex White

    They forge desperate human connections and struggle with loss and an uncertain future, and I loved the

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/20/21 Edition

    which complements it) often makes her wonderful books feel like Westerns to me, as with her book The Lost Set on the coast of Tasmania, The Survivors centers around a small community, a long-ago loss of several of its beloved young people, and a fresh tragedy that brings the pain, grief, and loss of years past

  • Review of The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon

    young hotshot Dominic Yun shows up and, as a male, automatically has the ear of their misogynistic boss if she continues to leap into commitment with the wrong people because she's still reeling from the loss

  • Review of The Wreckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson

    Her experiences in television were interesting, and her account of coping with the loss of her mother these Greedy Reading Lists: Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose

  • Six Books Set in Australia that Are Fair Dinkum Fascinating

    For my full review, check out Only Killers and Thieves . 06 The Lost Man by Jane Harper Harper's mysteries Nathan and Bub have always had their differences, but they come together to grieve the loss of their Things aren’t what they seem in The Lost Man , but Harper isn’t manipulative or tricky, either. For my full review, check out The Lost Man . You can find my other Jane Harper reviews here .

  • My Very Favorite Bossy 2024 Reads

    their only company, and in close quarters, for many months--and inspiring reflections on life, death, loss Starter Villain  shows a grumpy-seeming cat's head on a human torso clad in a suit with "Meet the new boss Then he inherits his long-lost uncle's parking-garage empire. in, in case their feelings aren't reciprocated and their fragile hearts can't take another round of loss In the wake of their father's death, two brothers reel from the loss in his own way.

  • Review of No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

    disturbing; the second section shocked me with its meaningful and poignant examinations of life and loss How can you fully love when life is fleeting and when the inevitable, looming loss will undoubtedly break

  • Bossy Holiday Gift Ideas: Novels for Everyone on Your List

    in, in case their feelings aren't reciprocated and their fragile hearts can't take another round of loss structure, dark humor, and deeply flawed characters as main protagonist Lucy works to resolve her memory loss

  • Review of One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

    between her mother and herself, and if her mom has taught her anything, it's the pain of experiencing loss

  • Review of Orbital by Samantha Harvey

    their only company, and in close quarters, for many months--and inspiring reflections on life, death, loss

  • Review of Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

    O'Farrell, who has written many books I've loved, here tackles a novel of the plague and a story loosely toward a societal calamity (in the form of the plague) and personal tragedy (in the form of the family's loss

  • Review of Horse by Geraldine Brooks

    And if not, does he have self-mastery to take a loss, stay cool in defeat, and try again undaunted?

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/17/22 Edition

    Ashley Poston's adult debut about a romance ghostwriter who is haunted by ghosts as she copes with loss

  • Review of The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

    The ending sections glossed over some major issues: consorting with the gruesomely brutal enemy; the and death—even with a promise in place of potential change; and hurried emotional movement past the loss

  • My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads

    Foster by Claire Keegan Keegan offers a gorgeously wrought Irish story of childhood, hope, love, and loss the good, bad, and the ugly; endless painfully mundane and thrilling cliffhanger moments; love and loss She must be losing her mind. But she knows that last night was real. her older brother never seems to be around to help; and she's the only Black person at work with a boss Jessica George offers a wonderful story with messy moments of love, some humor, big issues of race, loss

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

    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--and all of this against

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/31/22 Edition

    01 My Heart Went Walking: An Irish Tale of Love, Loss, and Redemption by Sally Hanan Young Una has only complicated equipment, and a mysterious mission he'll have to unravel if he's to possibly survive--much less

  • My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads

    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 I listed other heartbreaking and beautiful memoirs about facing death and loss in the Greedy Reading mysterious mission whose purpose and execution he'll have to unravel if he's to possibly survive--much less

  • Review of Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci

    love of food, cooking, and sharing meals in this irresistible memoir that's also filled with joys and losses

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

    review of this book, please see The Madstone. 02 Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment #1) by Rebecca Ross two are constantly at odds with each other, and each has erected emotional armor around a devastating loss events of her youth, complicated family dynamics, the growth of her explosive fame--and the shocking loss

  • Review of Festival Days by Jo Ann Beard

    bitterness, confusion, petty thoughts, life-and-death issues, trivial concerns, and intense love and loss

  • Review of When Ghosts Come Home by Wiley Cash

    Meanwhile, Winston's wife is in cancer treatment and his daughter has just experienced a devastating loss

  • Review of Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (As Told to Me) Story by Bess Kalb

    transportation; her unwavering familial loyalty, even within fraught relationships; and, ultimately, Kalb's own loss

  • Review of The Guide by Peter Heller

    After suffering a great loss in The River, Jack is eager to lose himself in nature and meet the needs

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

    her older brother never seems to be around to help; and she's the only Black person at work with a boss Jessica George offers a wonderful story with messy moments of love, some humor, big issues of race, loss the good, bad, and the ugly; endless painfully mundane and thrilling cliffhanger moments; love and loss

  • Review of Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

    nationwide movement away from dying at home has been driven in some cases by panic in the face of potential loss

  • Review of One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle

    Katy is at a loss emotionally, and she's tempted to turn to a handsome young guest at her Italian hotel

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

    identify what's occurring (and requires a lot of retroactive explanation), and the story's tension loses Oxford Year  takes a light, romantic tone and within it, explores weighty issues like serious illness, loss , grief, vulnerability, and offers a suitably complicated ending that doesn't wrap up life's messy loose Her phone is always at hand, and if her bosses call, she drops everything to pick up and be a sounding is plunging the party down through layers of reality, through echoes of time in which strange events loosely

  • Review of Apeirogon by Colum McCann

    short segments in varied points of view: a Palestinian father, his family, and their experiences and loss on opposite sides of the issue and of the wall are at heart the very same--through their unspeakable loss meaning, haunting memories, search to educate others, and obsession with speaking the names of those lost

  • Six Four-Star Mysteries to Keep You Guessing

    For my full review of this book, see The Witch Elm. 02 The Lost Man by Jane Harper ​ Nathan and Bub come together to grieve the loss of their brother Cam. Things aren’t what they seem in The Lost Man, but Harper isn’t manipulative or tricky, either.

  • 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

  • Review of The Bodyguard by Katherine Center

    lovely, and there's a subplot in which Jack and his brother Hank are furious with each other after the loss

  • Review of A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam

    This is a slow journey and often so lovely that I marked to save endless long passages about loss, letting

  • Review of The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn

    Quinn shapes Mila's story by sharing scenes of love and terrible loss, as well as immersive Russian landscape

  • Review of Doctors and Friends by Kimmery Martin

    Compton Winfield, an ER doctor in New York City, suffers a tragic loss and struggles to keep up with

  • Review of This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

    In This is How You Lose the Time War, authors El-Mohtar and Gladstone present rival elite agents, Red This is How You Lose the Time War is only about 200 pages, and there are some clever twists toward the

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/12/21 Edition

    she turns her eye for detail and for wonderfully faulted characters on explorations of love, desire, loss

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

    offers poignancy, an exploration of grief, and the impossible-seeming prospect of going on after deep loss and heartwarming light fiction story The Guncle, aging former sitcom star Patrick is coping with deep loss This was especially interesting to me as related to the two lost loved ones for which Patrick does not situations of which I had little or no prior understanding in a way that assured that I never felt lost

  • Six of My Favorite Lighter Fiction Reads from the Past Year

    between her mother and herself, and if her mom has taught her anything, it's the pain of experiencing loss lovely, and there's a subplot in which Jack and his brother Hank are furious with each other after the loss

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

    Keegan offers a gorgeously wrought Irish story of childhood, hope, love, and loss that is spare, lovely They forge desperate, deep connections and struggle with loss and an uncertain future, and I loved the

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