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- Six Chilly Books to Read in the Heat of Summer
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander In this beautiful nonfiction
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/2/20 Edition
I've got historical fiction/fantasy, royal historical fiction, and a compelling nonfiction story that
- Review of Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
mother's in jail, his stepfather is gone, and his best friend and most solid source of advice is a convicted is also the author of All Our Shimmering Skies and By Sea & Stars: The Story of the First Fleet, a nonfiction
- Six Fascinating Books about Immigrants' Experiences
But these four fiction works and two nonfiction titles have especially resonated with me since I read is a sweeping generational story of hardship, sacrifice, and fifty years of Korean-Japanese cultural conflict
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/6/21 Edition
good friends with Glennon Doyle, mentioned above) to be a really lovely writer, as in the case of the nonfiction
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/18/21 Edition
a young woman and her quest for musical stardom (and romantic fulfillment); Barbara Brown Taylor's nonfiction
- Shhh! Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays
I already offer many of my fiction and nonfiction book recommendations through this blog.
- January Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month: a beautiful, poignant nonfiction book about
- Six Five-Star Bossy Reads to Check Out
science fiction, young adult LGBTQ+ fiction, memoir, contemporary fiction, historical fiction, and nonfiction
- February Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
her late grandma Bobby, a formidable and irresistible character; The Body by Bill Bryson, fascinating nonfiction reemerge in Sitara's memories and her subconscious, and she explores Sitara's complicated, ongoing, conflicting
- September Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
two new novels from favorite authors who each include interconnected characters in their stories; one nonfiction
- My Twelve Favorite 2020 Books
Greedy Reading Lists I posted in 2020: Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year Six of the Best Nonfiction This book was listed in the Greedy Reading List Six of the Best Nonfiction Books I've Read This Year.
- Six Chilly Books to Read in the Heat of Summer
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander In this beautiful nonfiction
- My Twelve Favorite 2020 Books
This book was listed in the Greedy Reading List Six of the Best Nonfiction Books I've Read This Year. Greedy Reading Lists I posted this year: Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year Six of the Best Nonfiction
- Review of Onyx Storm (The Empyrean #3) by Rebecca Yarros
quests for knowledge and cures, attempts to locate a species of dragon, and a large-scale, high-stakes conflict high-stakes battle is coming, and she'll need to find out what she's made of in the life-and-death conflict I also liked the increased focus on large-scale conflict and strategies, the search for knowledge (about I'm in this story for the teamwork, vengeance, friendship, quests, danger, strategy, character conflict The ending leaves us on another cliffhanger and sets up potentially intriguing, mysterious conflicts
- Review of The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett
He hadn't yet become the convicted criminal of his adulthood. The pacing is slow, and the book is largely made up of various characters talking about conflicting memories
- Review of Boy by Nicole Galland
dresses as a boy to explore scientific pursuits, and the palace intrigue that occurs when their allies conflict for more behind-the-scenes peeks at Shakespeare's shows, and I was least interested in the political conflicts and drama, although they were essential to the conflict of the book.
- Review of The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty
Centuries-old resentments and conflicts threaten to bubble up into war--and Nahri and Dara's arrival only serves to feed the flames of conflict. mythology, magic, and battles--but I'm not sure I fully grasped the intricacies of the political histories, conflicts
- Review of Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
various characters that illuminate the mysterious breakup as well as the characters' complexities, love, conflict meteoric rise of a 1970s band, their mesmerizing lead singer Daisy, the group's complicated interpersonal conflicts
- Review of Hell for Hire (Tear Down Heaven #1) by Rachel Aaron
built and the background established, I was hooked on the interpersonal relationships, the dramatic conflicts me, bogged down by explanations of how Aaron's imagined world works and the basic history of various conflicts
- Review of The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen
Pylväinen's novel explores the cooperation and conflict among cultures in a mid-nineteenth century community Their cultures are sometimes mysteries to each other, and at times conflict greatly with others' traditions Religion is a particular conflict in the novel, with the Christian characters proving themselves to be
- Review of The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick
Nikki Erlick explores grief, loss, family conflicts, strangers' bonds, and sticky moral dilemmas related Poppy Fields's founder delves into moral dilemmas while also--in a realistic successful-scientist's conflict
- Review of The Life We Bury (Joe Talbert #1) by Allen Eskens
But Carl is a convicted murderer who was released from jail because he's so gravely ill and close to Carl is a dying man who's seemingly been wrongly convicted of murder, and if Joe and Lila can just prove
- Review of Burn by Peter Heller
other states across the country, has been swept by a secession movement, but Jess and Storey assume the conflicts The friends soon realize that conflicting political ideologies have led to this horror here and elsewhere
- Review of The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak's The Island of Missing Trees explores past Turkish-Greek conflicts in a small island community The fig tree shares the story of the young lovers and while exploring the conflicts between Turkish and
- Review of Conform (Reform #1) by Ariel Sullivan
class division, segregation, selective breeding, and eugenics are at the heart of this story and its conflicts present in the novel, but the characters, the plot, the details, the worldbuilding, the overarching conflict
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/31/25 Edition
Centuries-old resentments and conflicts threaten to bubble up into war--and Nahri and Dara's arrival only serves to feed the flames of conflict.
- Review of A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar
India, and how a tiny bit of empathy might have unraveled the increasingly devastating whirlwind of conflict But their cemented roles in the escalating the conflict ensure that the situation comes to a disastrous
- Review of Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
the Summer, she offers up an irresistible rom-com premise with weighty, messy, real-life-imperfect conflicts The conflicts that repeatedly keep Emma and Justin from their happy-ever-after feel plausibly limiting
- Six Bossy Favorite Historical Fiction Reads from the Past Year
dresses as a boy to explore scientific pursuits, and the palace intrigue that occurs when their allies conflict for more behind-the-scenes peeks at Shakespeare's shows, and I was least interested in the political conflicts and drama, although they were essential to the conflict of the book. extensive forays into the country's traditions, political interests, and its royal family's interpersonal conflicts
- Review of The Storm by Rachel Hawkins
with a beautiful, spunky local young woman, Lo Bailey, who was later accused of his murder but never convicted
- Six Books Set in Australia that Are Fair Dinkum Fascinating
mother's in jail, his stepfather is gone, and his best friend and most solid source of advice is a convicted It centers around one family’s conflicts with crooked and powerful neighbors; cruel and aggressive Native
- Review of Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
She was made to offer pleasure without challenge or conflict, after all. Meanwhile, Annie, who was literally created to serve Doug, is learning, evolving, growing, facing internal conflicts
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/12/24 Edition
other states across the country, has been swept by a secession movement, but Jess and Storey assume the conflicts The friends soon realize that conflicting political ideologies have led to this horror here and elsewhere
- Review of People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
treasures in the book's ancient binding, setting her on a path of exploring forgery and complex political conflicts
- July Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
extensive forays into the country's traditions, political interests, and its royal family's interpersonal conflicts dresses as a boy to explore scientific pursuits, and the palace intrigue that occurs when their allies conflict for more behind-the-scenes peeks at Shakespeare's shows, and I was least interested in the political conflicts and drama, although they were essential to the conflict of the book.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/4/24 Edition
and its' Jewish and Black families' purposes and missions, which sometimes intersect and other times conflict Their cultures conflict in some ways, but their stories and existences overlap, and their challenges
- Review of Rebel Rising by Rebel Wilson
Wilson's memoir Rebel Rising , and I listened to the Australian's account of a challenging youth, familial conflicts
- Review of The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman
The Nimue-Merlin-Morgan le Fay conflicts were an intriguing side plot, and I enjoyed Grossman's unexpected
- Review of We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza
In We Are Not Like Them, Pride and Piazza dig into a friendship of opposites, conflicts around race, challenges in trying to dive into each point of view while trying not to favor either one; and the personal conflicts complex, loaded topics the way I was hoping Therese Anne Fowler would do more of in her novel with racial conflicts
- Review of The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits by Jennifer Weiner
Griffin Sisters also takes on deep familial conflicts, coping with loss and a devastating blow for future
- Review of The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
I loved the 1700s wintry Maine setting and the convictions of the historical fiction novel's strong midwife details of life in the time period, as well as the unassuming women who show their true strength and conviction
- Review of Heart, Be at Peace by Donal Ryan
Everyone is linked, with shared youths and local experiences, conflicts new and old, and deep loyalties
- Review of Together for Never by Marilyn Kaye
Mean Girls meets The Parent Trap, Together for Never explores each girl's point of view, and after conflict
- Review of Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
Her return seems destined to bring up past conflicts, and our main protagonist is left feeling adrift
- Review of The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
historical fiction tale based on real events surrounding the rise of the light bulb--with compelling conflicts The Last Days of Night is a fictionalized account based on the dramatic Edison-Westinghouse-Tesla conflicts
- Review of Blackwater Falls by Ausma Zehanat Khan
I was intrigued by the issues raised in Blackwater Falls--police corruption, racial conflict, religious complicated issues surrounding racial injustice, police corruption, political concerns, faith, and religious conflicts
- April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Quinn offers plenty of interpersonal conflict, romance, suspected double-crossing, and details of life By the end of that summer, Chloe's father had confessed to the crimes of killing those girls, was convicted collaboration between Clinton and Penny kept me on the edge of my seat through heart-stopping political conflicts feel invested in the story, Adams's family, and the ins and outs of the various complicated political conflicts
- Review of The Jackal's Mistress by Chris Bohjalian
historical fiction novel, Libby Steadman lives in Virginia on the edge of the Confederate-Union Civil War conflict
- Review of An Unexpected Peril (Veronica Speedwell #6) by Deanna Raybourn
extensive forays into the country's traditions, political interests, and its royal family's interpersonal conflicts

















































