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  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/27/23 Edition

    to prepare for their upcoming nuptials, it doesn't take long for them to realize that Art has been kissing

  • ICYMI: My Very Favorite Reads from the First Half of 2021

    In case you're in the market for books I think are just great and you missed (gasp!)

  • Review of And Then She Vanished (Joseph Bridgman #1) by Nick Jones

    You made a mess. You made all of this mess. Take responsibility for yourself, mister!

  • Six More Time-Travel Stories to Dive Into

    not satisfied in her job, she's unwillingly single, she still lives with her parents--and she just kissed benefit of independence, decision-making, and the strength that autonomy (and mistakes) build in a person

  • Review of Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

    But Margaret is still wary of the press and jaded by the spin that has shaped her public persona for Why is Margaret willing to share her personal tale now? What is she hiding?

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/30/25 Edition

    She's ready to take on the persona of a romance novelist at readings and signings, but she becomes entranced She's curious about everything and the smartest person Sander knows.

  • Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Reads

    and funny and defiant but good, and they make mistakes and pay for them and live within their awful messed-up She also says "Everyone needs to hear that other person's voice saying, 'I believe in you.

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

    she encounters other limbo characters in strange states; learns how to temporarily take over a living person's body (just before the dead person advising her transforms into a crow); and although she can't speak trans high school teacher in a small town in South Dakota who befriends the only other transgender person

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/8/25 Edition

    , but her painstakingly detailed account offers a cohesive argument) between the numerous atrocious mass-murderers

  • Review of Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten

    Ina's memoir is personal and thoughtful. of her former specialty food shop in the Hamptons (and television show), Barefoot Contessa, offers a personal Ina is candid and thoughtful, offering business tips, personal reflections, and a wry sense of humor. fly a plane; diving into store ownership and taking initiatives to revamp the business) as well as personal ending, which focuses on the famous guests on her "Be My Guest" television show, but I loved Ina's personal

  • Review of Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

    word bardo refers to an existence between life and death, the length of which is determined by the person's as well as hypothetical looks into Lincoln's frame of mind and motivation as he struggled with his personal

  • Review of Being Henry: The Fonz...and Beyond by Henry Winkler

    He credits their appreciation for his fame but not for him as a person for his lifetime of insecurity He also shares his lifelong joy in putting on other personas and his professional ups and downs, including

  • Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West

    His mind seems to be failing him just as the proceeds from his gold mines go missing, and Dulcy is suspected

  • Review of Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher

    But when the king personally arrives at her workshop, desperate for help with his sole surviving daughter must not only navigate the ins and outs of royal customs, adjust her practical wardrobe, and leave her personal

  • Review of The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious #2) by Maureen Johnson

    Academy (and just as she's beginning to piece together her complicated feelings about David, who she kissed

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/29/24 Edition

    Can’t I just be happy, or unhappy, just mess about and read and waste time and be unfulfilled by myself

  • Review of Cher: The Memoir, Part One by Cher

    in passive, reactive behavior, but as she grew older, she found her voice, rode a roller coaster of personal , putting heavy emphasis on her mother's unusual, difficult childhood and youth--before sharing the personal Bono (eleven years older) began when she was a teenager, and his control over her professional and personal

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/17/25 Edition

    But when the king personally arrives at her workshop, desperate for help with his sole surviving daughter must not only navigate the ins and outs of royal customs, adjust her practical wardrobe, and leave her personal

  • Six of My Favorite Lighter Fiction Reads from the Past Year

    weighty issues here, such as access to health care, domestic abuse, and emotional abuse, as well as a personal Meanwhile, her own love life is a mess and she's reluctant to be vulnerable again (her ex was a selfish

  • Six Great Stories about Robots

    make room in the mix for Rosemary, who's grateful--and who's frankly glad to leave her significant personal the other's loyalties begin and end, nor are they intimately acquainted with the other's history or personal I think this was because of personal timing and my reading-during-vacation distraction circumstances, by the rievs (former battle robots) who mysteriously show sentience and surprising preferences for personal love and relationships, personal responsibility, sacrifice and bravery, and staying open to revolutionarily

  • Review of Silver Elite by Dani Francis

    most importantly for me, the adventure, elite training, secret powers, double-edged quest, unrevealed personal would make her even more feared, a deeper outcast, and a terrifyingly unknown quantity to both types of person

  • Review of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

    admits to are only part of the story--his motivation in being with the pastor are deeply rooted and personal I was intrigued by the premise, the revenge from a wronged Indigenous person upon the race aimed at extinguishing

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

    There are tragic lies and lies of omission, mistakes, missed chances, and moments that drastically change

  • Review of What I Ate in One Year (and Related Thoughts) by Stanley Tucci

    pans) over the course of a year to add structure to the passage of 365 days, while interspersing some personal The book is not particularly full of substance, but the moments that Tucci includes from his personal

  • Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You

    Reading List Six Magical Fairy Tales Grown-Ups Will Love. 03 Wicked by Gregory Maguire In case you missed

  • Review of The Hallmarked Man by Robert Galbraith

    Robin-Strike tension is finally spoken aloud, although not resolved, and the mystery twists to involve personal She's facing some recent personal and physical challenges.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/27/23 Edition

    lifetime of the obsessive search. 03 You Wouldn't Dare by Samantha Markum Sure, Juniper and Graham kissed

  • Review of Fagin the Thief by Allison Epstein

    criminal mastermind Jacob Fagin into a character with a rich backstory, showing him to be a man shaped by personal imagines what shaped the figure of Fagin into a ringleader of young thieves in that place and time: personal

  • Six Book Recommendations from Smarty Librarians

    After a few days you receive multiple personalized reading recommendations in an email. Voila! a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library member--or if your local library system offers a similar feature of personalized

  • Review of Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan

    Meanwhile, her own love life is a mess and she's reluctant to be vulnerable again (her ex was a selfish

  • Review of Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

    considers himself a genius, I felt even less likely to empathize with his dead-end job options in a mess

  • Review of Frog: The Secret Diary of a Paramedic by Sally Gould

    Gould takes the reader through the ups and downs of the job and is frank about her personal mental health

  • Review of The Life We Bury (Joe Talbert #1) by Allen Eskens

    his story is introducing more questions than answers for Joe--who is coping with his own complicated personal The Life We Bury offers a slow start focused on Joe's personal situation, and when the mystery ramped

  • Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In

    good memoir, one that offers a glimpse or a deep dive into the life and pivotal experiences of another person books I often like to listen to in the form of audiobooks read by the author, because I love hearing a person She's frank about her missteps and she embraces an active-work-in-progress approach to her personal growth It’s interesting to hear experiences a person believes has shaped his or her life, and in This Will Only regarding the likely truth—as well as a sense of freedom in having a more fluid sense of herself as a person

  • Review of The Boy from the Sea by Garrett Carr

    cruelty and frequent refusal to acknowledge Brendan as a brother persists for years and shapes Brendan's personality Their father Ambrose is a fisherman with a big personality, daring ideas, and no head for business; money

  • Six Nonfiction and Memoir Reads I Loved in the Past Year

    He credits their appreciation for his fame but not for him as a person for his lifetime of insecurity He also shares his lifelong joy in putting on other personas and his professional ups and downs, including , and she weaves in history and hopes for the future while acknowledging that any story is only one person's immersing yourself in Michelle Obama's voice as she shares calm, wise, funny, or poignant reflections, personal by Holes's account of the dogged determination and attention to detail--as well as the cost to his personal

  • Six Five-Star Bossy Reads to Check Out

    and funny and defiant but good, and they make mistakes and pay for them and live within their awful messed-up She also says "Everyone needs to hear that other person's voice saying, 'I believe in you.

  • Review of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt

    The key aspect of all of this mess and conflict that 2012 Haidt didn't address is one he could likely

  • Review of Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers by Caroline Fraser

    but her painstakingly detailed account offers a cohesive, extensive argument) between the numerous mass-murderers

  • Review of Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty

    going through the plane as if in a trance, announcing expected ages of and causes of death for each person couple, to Allegra herself, the Death Lady (as she is later called) announces a prediction of each person's

  • Review of All Fours by Miranda July

    I generally feel extreme personal discomfort at witnessing others' questionable decision-making, and a tampon from another in a bid for unorthodox intimacy; and putting hands into a stream of another person's

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

    Gould takes the reader through the ups and downs of the job and is frank about her personal mental health food-focused writing and restaurant workings are the highlights; the author also recounts the implosion of her personal His personality is overbearing, and he is frequently sexist, verbally abusive, groping, petty, and prone accounts, and breakneck-speed, often outrageous assistant duties than I was in Woolever's snowballing personal

  • Six Favorite Nonfiction and Memoir Reads of the Year

    reflecting on the works and his reactions to them, and searching for and finding peace after a terrible personal pans) over the course of a year to add structure to the passage of 365 days, while interspersing some personal The book is not particularly full of substance, but the moments that Tucci includes from his personal this book, please see Being Mortal . 06 Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten Ina's memoir is personal of her former specialty food shop in the Hamptons (and television show), Barefoot Contessa, offers a personal

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

    Dragons, a historic event has occurred but is being denied by the government and historians alike: a Mass

  • Review of Immaculate Conception by Ling Ling Huang

    creativity knows no bounds, and she soars to great fame--which she eschews--while coping with deep personal

  • Review of Orbital by Samantha Harvey

    planet is safe at the centre of it all to knowing in fact it's a planet of normalish size and normalish mass

  • Review of James by Percival Everett

    code-switcher who tailors his language to follow white people's expectations of a submissive Black person Yet the true horrors of life as an enslaved Black person in the deep South at the time of Twain's novel

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/14/24 Edition

    going through the plane as if in a trance, announcing expected ages of and causes of death for each person couple, to Allegra herself, the Death Lady (as she is later called) announces a prediction of each person's

  • Review of Heart, Be at Peace by Donal Ryan

    the reader through some of the simmering resentments borne of close-knit histories, professions, and personal

  • Review of Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford

    Comedian Maria Bamford's memoir is unflinching in examining her own base impulses and personal challenges

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