Bird Isabella Bird's nonfiction account of her 1873 travels through the rugged, wondrous American West characters she encounters in the west combined with her mix of no-nonsense practicality and ambitious traveling There's relatively little page time spent on the later years of Hildegard's life at the abbey. in a family of difficult men, living on a rural Colorado peach farm--its existence in that place and time

fiction novel Wingwalkers, Zeno, a former World War I ace pilot, and Della, his daring wingwalking wife, travel Depression-era America, wowing audiences and inspiring hope in a dark, sober time. and at close range; vivid moments placing these wonderfully wrought characters solidly in place and time various views of a broken landscape that perfectly mirrors the dashed dreams of so many during grim times

loved him, and back and forth to the past where the actor got his start and to the future, where a traveling I was taken with her writing style and loved how smoothly the shifts in time and chronology worked.

She was thrilled to travel to Japan to meet her father and the rest of her royal family for the first time.

danger, attempted evasion, and daring escape focused largely on logistics, but I am all in for spending time SecUnit), who in this eighth book in the series is faced with another high-stakes rescue attempt--this time Then SecUnit, along with its charges, finds itself confronted with an additional time-sensitive side on logistics and off-screen political and business loyalties a little bit tedious, and I didn't have time to other characters and storylines, I couldn't help wishing for more significant Mensah-SecUnit page time

stark, beautiful, heartbreaking historical fiction tracks former Union soldier John Chenneville as he travels Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery Wrong Place Wrong Time plays with time, and I love books that play with time. For the rest of our lives, every time one of us goes somewhere and doesn’t return on time, doesn’t let the others know where we are, we will remember this time, what can happen.

And by happenstance, this revenge also destroys Ma's family's ability to travel to safety.

pages) tracks a healer and alchemist suffering from significant memory gaps through three periods of time was brutal text to dive into, and reading about her mental and sexual violation for significant page time to read the origin story of Helena and Kaine, we find an unlikely love story built within a time of An eventual second skip in time in the book follows chronologically from the first section, so it picks The intense darkness and necromancy of this novel reminded me at times of Tamsyn Muir's The Locked Tomb

But in the madness of the Beijing train station on the busiest travel day of the year, Song and River

I did a lot of traveling and some great reading last month, but I didn't do a lot of reviewing. years away, because Rocky's menopausal rage threatens to undo any joy she might gain from spending time To save their treasured family time together, Rocky may have to share secrets she never intended to reveal Yet the cast of characters is colorful, and I enjoyed the time I spent with them.

whose biggest hope for the pending end of the world was to play at the most epic goodbye party of all time Chambers's science fiction is full of heart, heartbreak, and hope--with a fascinating backdrop of space travel The book feels much more focused on the characters--with a backdrop of space travel and otherworldly The Sparrow took a little time to get going for me, but then I was blown away.

Isabella Bird's nonfiction account of her 1873 travels through the rugged, wondrous American West is characters she encounters in the west combined with her mix of no-nonsense practicality and ambitious traveling

But when three women, all strangers to each other, are invited to the reclusive, three-times-widowed But all of the women of the time have a great amount at stake: they could find themselves committed unvoluntarily reading about a bunch of destructive men subjugating women--sometimes seemingly on a whim and at other times The characters spend little time discussing books (although now-classic feminist novels are mentioned becomes truly dark as it progresses, which I had not expected, but the issues explored within that time

We meet two main protagonists: independent Birdie, who travels from her rural hometown to Oxford to beg

Kennedy draws the reader into the specific place and time of the story, vividly building the constant heart of the book and is the center of the wheel of characters rotating around her, yet little page time The book really took off and intrigued me once Cyrus traveled to New York to visit an artist whose final

The banter is fantastic, and I laughed many times while reading this one. But her life in Texas is complicated: her father requires a full-time caregiver, and Emma is it. Which means traveling together to a tropical island for his sister's wedding, pretending to be soulmates country who is advancing medical techniques and is sought out for her helpful salves and methods in a time

middle-aged, shy piano tuner Edgar Drake is asked to do something unusual for the British War Office: travel

Blake includes wonderful scientific detail and details of life in that time. it's 1849 in London, and Nora Gibson is a female surgeon (the only female surgeon in the city) in a time are largely not respected by doctors) with the expertise and knowledge of trained doctors (who are at times female doctor before that was common; I love the way Audrey Blake weaves in rich details of life in the time

The Books I'm Reading Now I went skiing for spring break last week, and during my travels and some lazy

And if the latter, why were his friends willing to travel with him, much less remain friendly on a regular There are tiny moves forward until a big shift that occurs at the end of the book, and the timing and Greta spends a lot of time day drinking (and night drinking) on the cruise, and she uses alcohol to connect new beau, to dull the pain of her mother's death, to soften her annoyance at her father, and to kill time

Their deep connection is immediately evident once again, and, at times with Daphne's sister Leda and Jonathan, but most often alone, Eddie and Daphne revisit old memories, compare notes, and treasure their time The structure of the story is wonderful, tracking back in time to Daphne's childhood and the pivotal

But when the relationship falters, she flees into a marriage with a sickly traveling minister and escapes The author's tone and voice is like poetry at times, raw and spare and true. 03 In the Country We Love

I love an astronaut story, and while Reid spent far more page time on relationships than on the astronaut aspects, there was plenty of each to go around in this novel that was the perfect book at the perfect time It is to witness time unfolding. Reid spends far more page time on the astronaut aspect than the space aspect (and puts far more emphasis This was exactly the right story for me at the right time, and I hugged it to my chest when I finished

William has always leaned on Lucy for support, despite the fact that he has been married two other times Now William has uncovered a family secret that shakes him, and he asks Lucy to travel with him to investigate The people Lucy has built her life around admiring and has spent her time clinging to as steady presences

in late fall 2022 but wasn't on my radar last year, and I couldn't resist including it for the first time The Lost Kitchen was named one of TIME Magazine's World's Greatest Places and one of "12 Restaurants Worth Traveling Across the World to Experience" by Bloomberg.

Which means traveling together to a tropical island for his sister's wedding, pretending to be soulmates

beautifully about moments large and small, from the weightiness of saying goodbye to loved ones for the last time She reflects on various travels and other measures meant to distract and inspire or comfort—and the disrupted

depression; and The Space Between Worlds, Micaiah Johnson's science-fiction story about multiverse travel and fears. 02 Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig The author of The Midnight Library and How to Stop Time I'm listening to Haig read this audiobook. 03 The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson Cara can travel

The details of running the Canadian river, traveling and camping, and Jack and Wynn's friendship itself I thought about it long after I finished it and I still think about it from time to time.

and outs of royal customs, adjust her practical wardrobe, and leave her personal research behind to travel

oppressive heat and humidity feels like the perfect inspiration to immerse myself in another place and time complicated set of dynamics; a layered story of hope, emotion, and tragedy; and enough details of the time She is skilled at building a story within a specific place and time, and the details made this story Blake includes wonderful scientific detail and details of life in that time. We spend far more page time with Alison, her professional passion, and her interpersonal struggles.

I’m going to take a Bossy break from posting this week, but I hope to have time to read some books that Are there any books you’re excited to have time to read, or any books you’ve asked to receive as holiday

I still think about Disappearing Earth from time to time, long after reading it. Hurley's images is incredible; the glass plate negatives lasted through months on ice floes, a week's travel

While grieving her husband George, who she never had enough time to deeply know because of his naval career, she is thrust into a self-sufficient life, learning for the first time to make her own fires, swimmer and loves the water, but she doubts this outlandish fable and her own role in it, although as time Isabel is drawn to Jack, and she ultimately feels destined to head to sea--in a time in history when especially appreciated the details of life in Isabel's tiny cottage, of the constraints of society of the time

He shares notable moments from his travels; industry stories; and family tales. At times he's guided in his decision-making by interpreting his own wet dreams (truly)--they aren't necessarily It’s up to us, our choice every time.” McConaughey shares vulnerable moments and times when he questioned aspects of his life, and through hindsight Rather than struggle against time and waste it, let’s dance with time and redeem it.

remained ingrained in my head as a selfish, greedy, detestable character . details of the place and time unconventional bonds, chosen-family elements, and vivid details that place the reader in points in time We zigzag to spend page time with intriguing side characters (Yvette, with whom Phil has a very brief of the limitations of single women in that time. Smith is also the author of the novels White Teeth , The Autograph Man , On Beauty , NW , and Swing Time

But she catches the eye of Poseidon, which turns the tides (see what I did there?) There was the time he kidnapped a neighbor's pet goose, the time he accidentally aided and abetted a

nature to many of my gift recipients, and these types of books can often be read a little bit at a time and The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks , traveled

presents Charlotte Holmes, a clever, forward-thinking, independent woman trapped in the Victorian age, a time mother's death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book faces the sale of the family home in New England and travels For my full review, please check out The Hero of This Book. 06 Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin As he did in a different way in his novel Nothing to See Here, in Now Is Not the Time to Panic, Wilson For my full review, check out Now Is Not the Time to Panic.

When her brother John is murdered in a Viking attack, Joan takes up his cloak and his identity, traveling

fiction books that look promising. 03 West ​ This isn't strictly a Western, but the main protagonist does travel He feels unshakably compelled to travel west to find out if the mammoth animals he's heard described with his sister, Bess's short-tempered aunt, although he expects to be away on his irrational, foolish travels Bess, stuck at home, traces Cy's optimistic travel route on a map (and, disturbingly, struggles multiple Hawker is also the author of The Ragged Edge of Night. 05 The Widow Nash ​ Dulcy has traveled all over

complicated set of dynamics; a layered story of hope, emotion, and tragedy; and enough details of the time As time passes, Sallie becomes increasingly uncomfortable with the family's slave-holding, and matters She is skilled at building a story within a specific place and time, and the details made this story

The detail of the time Fowler manages to capture in A Well-Behaved Woman is truly wonderful, both in Alva Vanderbilt emerges a strong feminist, but at times before she rises from the ashes, her thoughts She still loves architecture, fashion, and travel—and secures a financially stable future for her daughter

annoyance at the bards' reported tales of Odysseus as he extends his outrageously complicated and indulgent travels vulnerable in order to try to save each other, and they carve out meager existences as they bide their time

But Nina's young-adult daughter Ash thinks Nick might be too smooth, and the timing of his entrance into lately he's been acting oddly, leaving town suddenly and remaining unreachable for long stretches of time Some of the lengths he goes to feel at times extreme and dramatic, but I was fine with rolling with all I physically cringed each time another vulerable female character who was, understandably, looking for

story in two timelines introduces the little-known real-life figure of librarian Jessie Carson, who traveled

Like I’m not crazy for being scared all the time. Like the fear has evidence.” Only time will tell whether the crisis will usher in a new era of honesty and support. Based on the page time spent on the business, it didn't involve significant involvement.

in the wilderness and rugged terrain of British Columbia, along a highway where unsuspecting women traveling alone go missing from time to time--yet a predator never ends up being brought to justice. She can't return to her aunt's, and for a time the book is satisfyingly focused on her survival skills

I had a hard time believing that Tom would enter into the situation at the time he did and be able to More Gillian McAllister Novels Gillian McAllister is also the author of Wrong Place, Wrong Time, a book

01 Playground by Richard Powers Four people are connected across time and geography in Richard Powers's Georgia, recognizing and appreciating locals' gifts, making them feel seen, sometimes for the first time For my review of Niall Williams's wonderful Time of the Child , please click this link .