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- Review of Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne
The memoir is structured with the engaging pacing of a novel--danger, discovery, redemption, and hope
- The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year
Harper's books read like Westerns to me, and her sometimes spare tone suits the setting, the situations Disappearing Earth is Phillips's first book, and she builds the story's pace steadily toward a crescendo
- Review of The Other Side of Night by Adam Hamdy
The pacing felt uneven to me, and shifts in mood and manner sometimes seemed abrupt, so that it was tough
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/23/23 Edition
I'm listening to a fast-paced Libro.fm audiobook (Libro.fm supports local bookstores!)
- Review of Fugitive Telemetry (Murderbot #6) by Martha Wells
There are sections of sometimes tedious-feeling logistics, but the pacing of Fugitive Telemetry kept
- Review of Black Bottom Saints by Alice Randall
Randall offered about everyday life during different eras, but the fifty-two sections and rambling pace But the pace of the book felt distractingly rambling to me.
- Review of Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith
It was nicely paced, and I liked having time to dig into the characters' evolution and the mystery's
- Review of A Play for the End of the World by Jai Chakrabarti
each disparate world--and finding to their surprise that they have connected with a place, with its pace
- Review of The Golden Enclaves (Scholomance #3) by Naomi Novik
This didn't make The Golden Enclaves the most darkly fun, deeply emotional, or captivatingly paced book
- Review of Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
The title of the book sets a tone that feels fast-paced, or sassy, or spirited.
- Review of Swift the Storm, Fierce the Flame by Meg Long
All of this dramatically slowed the pacing of the story.
- Review of Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
But both the steady pacing and the unique, sequestered Covid-dictated circumstances of Tom Lake made
- Review of Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics by Dolly Parton
This is a fast-paced book, as Dolly talks about various thoughts as related to 175 of her songs, while
- Review of The Dry (Aaron Falk #1) by Jane Harper
Harper's writing and tone remind me of a more spare Tana French.
- Six More Four-Star (and Up) Mysteries I Loved in the Past Year
She faces unknown dangers and heartbreaking betrayal in this fast-paced novel. Ava Glass's Alias Emma was a fast-paced cat-and-mouse chase across London and through an underground
- Review of Beneath a Starless Sky by Tessa Harris
Harris's book is fast-paced, without a lot of page time spent setting a background or lingering on self-reflection
- My Bossy Favorite Reads of the Summer
Anybody the Secrets I Told You by Lucinda Williams Lucinda Williams offers a gritty, honest, captivating, spare Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You was wonderful--spare yet fully developed, often surprising,
- April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
At the very beginning the pacing felt a little uneven to me, but then Garg hit her stride. mind-bending examinations of what other characters might be up to and the combat and narrow escapes keep the pacing
- Review of Forty Autumns by Nina Willner
many moving parts and family characters are fluidly shaped into compelling reading by Willner, and the pacing
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/29/21 Edition
young brothers desperately trying to stay together and stay alive in rural Idaho; Wendy Heard's fast-paced With Nico's troublemaking and incessant challenges to the status quo serving as a catalyst for fast-paced
- Review of the Cormoran Strike series books 1-4 by Robert Galbraith
This isn't a fast-paced series, yet I've consistently felt hooked on how the cases build--and on the Galbraith's pacing pulls you along without cheap twists, and the writing is precise and wonderful, with
- Review of Out Front the Following Sea by Leah Angstman
I found all of this extensive description fascinating, even as it slowed the pacing of the story and
- Review of Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May
author posits that when grief, worry, or challenges feel overwhelming, shifting your schedule and your pace
- May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Anybody the Secrets I Told You by Lucinda Williams Lucinda Williams offers a gritty, honest, captivating, spare Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You was wonderful--spare yet fully developed, often surprising,
- Review of Gilded Mountain by Kate Manning
in Sylvie's life (mixed emotions, attraction, confusion, lies, and secrets) make for jumbled-feeling pacing
- Review of Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
The book started off at a measured pace.
- Review of Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel
what would come to pass, and what the real story was to read somewhat slowly compared to the energetic pacing
- Review of Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
You are plagued by this nagging question: Why have I been spared?”
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/17/22 Edition
This is a fast-paced book, as Dolly talks about various thoughts as related to 175 of her songs, while
- Review of Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
Lucy's sparely recounted version of events is peppered with diarylike "I do remember hearing that" remarks
- Six More Great Historical Fiction Books Set in the American West
The writing style involves a lot of telling, which seemingly intentionally slows the pacing--and which Yet because of the pacing, I didn't necessarily feel on the edge of my seat while I read about all of And it's the pacing and tone of the story that allows for all of those elements to feel real. 06 News
- Review of The Invisible Woman by Erika Robuck
I really enjoyed Robuck's writing style, the details of the time, the pacing of the book's events, and
- Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads Last Year
I loved the tennis focus, the fast pacing, and the father-daughter relationship that drives the story what would come to pass, and what the real story was to read somewhat slowly compared to the energetic pacing
- Six Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Last Year
Click here for my full review of The Box in the Woods. 04 Alias Emma by Ava Glass Alias Emma is a fast-paced This fast-paced thriller tracks Emma and Michael, the distractingly handsome son of Russian dissidents
- Review of What Beauty There Is by Cory Anderson
Anderson's beautifully spare writing about the brutal winter and the pressing crises of hunger, cold,
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/17/21 Edition
When grief, worry, or challenges feel overwhelming, treating your schedule and your pace as though it
- August Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Click here for my full review of Flying Solo. 05 Alias Emma by Ava Glass Alias Emma is a fast-paced cat-and-mouse This fast-paced thriller tracks Emma and Michael, the distractingly handsome son of Russian dissidents
- Review of Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune
The first half of the book felt slowly paced and was spent with Wallace in limbo, being told how many
- Review of When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
Were Dragons is exquisite, the strong-woman elements are irresistible, and despite what felt like slow pacing
- January Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #3) by Holly Jackson Jackson doesn't skimp on heart-pounding pacing Jackson does not let off the gas pacing-wise.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/14/21 Edition
So far it feels nicely paced, and I like having time to dig into the characters' evolution and the mystery's
- Review of Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
I loved the tennis focus, the fast pacing, and the father-daughter relationship that drives the story
- Review of Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
listened to this as an audiobook, and it was such a slow build, I was both eager for it to ramp up in pacing
- Review of Fallen: A Novel of Suspense by Linda Castillo
characters sometimes seemed slow to catch on to the implications of events, but the story kept a steady pace
- Six Book Club Books I Loved in 2021
Despite some small moments that felt heavy-handed, this is a powerful, fast-paced, compelling nonfiction He's specific without getting bogged down in the details, and the pacing of the book is appealingly quick
- Review of Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March
The story keeps a patient pace as Captain Jim uncovers clues, uses deduction, and emphasizes loyalty
- Review of She's Too Pretty to Burn by Wendy Heard
With Nico's troublemaking and incessant challenges to the status quo serving as a catalyst for fast-paced
- Review of The Empress by Laura Martinez-Belli
think the shifting back and forth in time could have felt jumpy, but it worked well for the story's pacing
- Review of How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C. Pam Zhang
Zhang's detail was wonderful, but the pacing was slow--detailing Lucy and Sam's (and their parents' long-ago
- Six Great Books about Brave Female Spies
Buckle up for this one--it's unusual and fast-paced.