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- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/4/21 Edition
Harley's story about loyalty, loss, and pushing forward is beautiful; it's sometimes heartbreaking and
- Six Bossy Favorite Historical Fiction Reads from the Past Year
White Houses , which I gave 5 Bossy stars, the heartbreakingly beautiful In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/22/21 Edition
respectively, and when Rule of Wolves picks back up with these characters, they're all coping with loss
- 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.
- Six Fantasy Novels I Loved in the Past Year
The Everlasting is filled with rich adventure; twisty jaunts through time; tragedy and loss; dark turns
- Six Fascinating Stories Set in Space
They forge desperate, deep connections and struggle with loss and an uncertain future, and I loved the mysterious mission whose purpose and execution he'll have to unravel if he's to possibly survive--much less influence, trust, wonder, brutality, invention, discovery, loyalty, and most of all, faith—in some cases, lost
- Six Fascinating Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories
Mastai provides a fascinating story with time travel, alternate realities, love, loss, humor, bravery And perhaps most confusingly of all, in this second life she's lost some of her original, lifelong, rigid Now she's coming to terms with the recent and tragic loss of the person she loved and the future she
- November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Alderman offers a dive into a future world that's crumbling due to greed, disregard for the environment, a loss Adrienne Young is also the author of Fable, its sequel Namesake, and The Last Legacy, loosely set in
- Six More of My Favorite Literary Fiction Reads of the Year
Along with her alcoholic mother and her impatient barkeep brother, she grieves the loss of her father
- March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
themes of race, relationships, identity, the fallibility of those shaping historical "fact," grief, and loss review of this book, please see Outlawed. 04 The Arsonists' City by Hala Alyan Characters cope with lost multigenerational story with plenty of secrets, messy interpersonal family interactions, love, and loss Characters cope with lost dreams, fading possibilities, boredom, and disappointment, but they also clumsily
- 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
- Review of The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon
Spooky tales are passed down through doubting generations, and characters persistently suffer losses
- 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
structure, dark humor, and deeply flawed characters as main protagonist Lucy works to resolve her memory loss
- 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 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 The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg
For a time, Wizenberg is at a loss to explain much more than the power of her shifted desire.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading
05 The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston This romantic light fiction story includes sibling conflicts, loss
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
















































