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  • Six of My Favorite Mystery Reads of the Year

    structure, dark humor, and deeply flawed characters as main protagonist Lucy works to resolve her memory loss

  • Six Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War

    as hypothetical looks into Lincoln's frame of mind and motivation as he struggled with his personal losses and feelings of responsibility for the significant loss of life on both sides during the Civil War.

  • Review of Rule of Wolves (King of Scars #2) by Leigh Bardugo

    respectively, and when Rule of Wolves picks up with these characters for book two, they're all coping with loss is a motivator for action in Rule of Wolves, but Bardugo also delves into the complicated aftermath, lost

  • Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels

    I felt as though the later sections glossed over some major issues (consorting with the gruesomely brutal control, torture, and death—even with a promise of potential change; fast emotional movement past the loss

  • Review of The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue

    Permanent holes have been created in families, and the loss of men has left medical and other support

  • Six Riveting Time-Travel Escapes

    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

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

    structure, dark humor, and deeply flawed characters as main protagonist Lucy works to resolve her memory loss

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

    01 Lost in Time by A.G. Riddle A.G. Riddle's 450-page multiple-timeline story Lost in Time, a group of scientists have developed a device For my full review, check out Lost in Time. 02 The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton This was my favorite digging into the difficult relationship with his father to sharing how he attempted to cope with the loss

  • Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music

    is a shockingly talented artist who abandoned the creation of new work after an incredibly painful loss in at her high school, she can't quite figure out social conventions, and she constantly feels at a loss

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

    in, in case their feelings aren't reciprocated and their fragile hearts can't take another round of loss

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

    , independent woman trapped in the Victorian age, a time in which women have little choice and even less The author explores her own wonder, joy, loss, and peace as she reflects on her formidable mother after and fiction allows the true heart of the book, a daughter's wonder, grief, joy, and yearning for her lost

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

    a private school where he can thrive--and have better prospects than Opal herself has had since the loss

  • Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading

    05 The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston This romantic light fiction story includes sibling conflicts, loss

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/9/21 Edition

    Your Own Fool Self, offers short stories centering around themes of race, relationships, grief, and loss

  • Six More Great Light Fiction Stories

    young hotshot Dominic Yun shows up and, as a male, automatically has the ear of their misogynistic boss offers poignancy, an exploration of grief, and the impossible-seeming prospect of going on after deep loss Which means setting Patrick and his beloved (but sometimes foreign-to-him) Maisie and Grant loose in This is especially interesting as related to the two lost loved ones for which Patrick is not officially

  • Review of Blood: A Memoir by Allison Moorer

    In Blood, Moorer, after years of therapy, reflection, and working through her enormous rage and loss,

  • Six Musicians' Memoirs that Sing

    Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose stint in the band Scream; his incredible rise to fame as the drummer for Nirvana; through his grief and losses

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

    by Cold Mountain author Charles Frazier; Meet Me at the Lake, Carley Fortune's rom-com novel about loss She must be losing her mind. But she knows that last night was real.

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

    within McConaghy's Wild Dark Shore , but the story is largely an atmospheric story of isolation and loss

  • Six More Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year

    to go on despite few options; and the surprise of new determination and hope after years of pain and loss

  • Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading

    05 The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston This romantic light fiction story includes sibling conflicts, loss

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

    The loss and redemption here are tragic and beautiful. Wilf, whose wife is losing her memories at the same time vivid memories of past events come rushing back

  • Review of The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans

    themes of race, relationships, identity, the fallibility of those shaping historical "fact," grief, and loss

  • The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year

    For my full review of this book, see The Witch Elm. 02 The Lost Man ​ 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.

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

    to go on despite few options; and the surprise of new determination and hope after years of pain and loss

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

    their two daughters while she and Molner were frantically building their careers, and the horrible loss Memoirs to Dive Into, Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year, Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose

  • Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year

    Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose digging into the difficult relationship with his father to sharing how he attempted to cope with the loss

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

    issues--of what it means to be a family, of secrets and vulnerability, of constricting gender roles, of loss

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

    bitterness, confusion, petty thoughts, life-and-death issues, trivial concerns, and intense love and loss In Meg Long's Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves, young Sena has lost both of her mothers to the brutal

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

    Even when all hope should be lost, each character continues to press on. Maxwell explores loss, tragedy, the rich inner lives of children, the ripple effects of betrayal and

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

    They're each coping with loss, facing danger, and are bracing for destruction as they grapple with their

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

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

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

    Evie copes with loss and some heavy issues, but Instructions for Dancing was also romantic, sweet, fun

  • Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels

    I felt as though the later sections glossed over some major issues (consorting with the gruesomely brutal control, torture, and death—even with a promise of potential change; fast emotional movement past the loss

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

    strange exploration of a post-plague world, coping with death, and how to live in the face of constant loss

  • My Twelve Very Favorite 2021 Reads

    Even when all hope should be lost, each character continues to press on. projects—the creation of Central Park, the founding of the Met Museum and the Natural History Museum, putting Boss she turns her eye for detail and for wonderfully faulted characters on explorations of love, desire, loss

  • Six Fantastic Stand-Alone Young Adult Books

    Niven offers a lovely, wonderfully odd, sometimes sad story, with vivid characters, hope, devastating loss

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

    tragedy and dives into solving the disappearances of young women in her hometown; The Book of Delights, Ross For my full review of this book, please see When the Stars Go Dark. 02 The Book of Delights by Ross Gay Ross Gay resolved to write about a joy or delight, large or small, every day for a year, beginning on This was my first Ross Gay book, and I really like how his mind works, so I'm in for all of his books the coast of Tasmania, the story centers around a tightly knit community, complicated expressions of loss

  • Review of The Last Hour Between Worlds (Echo Archives #1) by Melissa Caruso

    is plunging the party down through layers of reality, through echoes of time in which strange events loosely echo world-building, in which things are similar to yet different from earlier versions, creatures lose I was repeatedly left wondering who was who, much less what their motivations, pasts, and realities might

  • Review of Starter Villain by John Scalzi

    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. this novel calls to my mind another book, which I loved, Natalie Zina Walschots's Hench, as well as loose

  • Review of Nocturne by Alyssa Wees

    Depression rages, orphaned Italian immigrant Grace rises through the ranks of the Near North Ballet Company--losing As Nocturne became less anchored in emotions and motivations that I could grasp, I lost my connection There are twists, and I enjoyed Grace's strong stand at the end, but by that point I had lost my feeling

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/7/22 Edition

    young woman who invents an alternate identity of Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet Women; I'm reading Less Is Lost, the second in Andrew Sean Greer's series (the first book was Less) about the character of author Arthur Less and the lengths he'll go to to try to avoid coping with the difficulties of life; and I'm Is Lost (Arthur Less #2) by Andrew Sean Greer In Andrew Sean Greer's Less, Arthur Less is about to turn In book two, Less Is Lost, Arthur faces the death of a former lover and a financial crisis--and again

  • Review of Trust by Hernan Diaz

    Characters come off as less realistic than their fictionalized versions (who are main protagonists of unorthodox approach to benefiting from it was driven by a genius of a woman (who had to work though her far less Strikingly, she is able to retain her conscience, while he loses any he once had.

  • Review of Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

    She is told she will receive zero support from the baby's father; she loses two roommates due to the baby's crying; she receives little practical help from her mother; and she loses her job. unexpected single motherhood--its tone is much lighter, and many of the logistical complications are glossed

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/21/24 Edition

    01 Libby Lost and Found by Stephanie Booth Libby Weeks is the author of the wildly popular fantasy series She's months late delivering the newest installment of the series, and her publisher and fans are losing I received a prepublication copy of Libby Lost and Found , which was published October 15, courtesy of

  • Review of Voyage of the Damned by Frances White

    His lost love is on the ship (with his fianc é ), along with many Blessed who detest him--whether because identify what's occurring (and requires a lot of retroactive explaination), and the story's tension loses

  • Review of A Far Better Thing by H. G. Parry

    Darnay, which he feels simply because of Darnay's very existence--not to mention Darnay's more handsome, less I don't recall reading A Tale of Two Cities , so the value of the allegories is lost on me.

  • Review of Miss Morgan's Book Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles

    “I’m sorry that you lost your mother,” she said. “I suppose that the best ones are like mine. something never before seen in France: children's libraries, where kids in war-torn communities can dream, lose

  • Review of The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E. Smith

    And if the latter, why were his friends willing to travel with him, much less remain friendly on a regular

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/24 Edition

    stories and reshaping history, sharing his tragic past and garnering sympathy from Sadie, whose shadowy bosses Lucky, the youngest, a model, is losing herself in drugs and alcohol.

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