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She also finds herself taken with Jace, the treasured son of the Padgett family, who is himself torn Same hope and rage. In those years it was struggle and strife all over the mountains. in Sylvie's life (mixed emotions, attraction, confusion, lies, and secrets) make for jumbled-feeling pacing

Zhang's detail was wonderful, and her characters make noble sacrifices and face impossible choices. Zhang's detail was wonderful, but the pacing was slow--detailing Lucy and Sam's (and their parents' long-ago Characters make noble sacrifices and face impossible choices, make heartbreaking missteps, and come to Covid-era, pre-election, and while facing pre-pandemic, depressingly modified holidays might not be the

Warsaw Ghetto--of making a life within its prison walls and of finding resistance and even love in the face finds love in unlikely places, recalls his life, and finds ways to try to make a difference in the face

If you're intrigued by books about facing mortality, you might be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality and Six More Powerful Books about Facing Mortality each disparate world--and finding to their surprise that they have connected with a place, with its pace

Hoffman's novel is about facing dark realities, entering uncharted territory, leaning on music as a solace When the two face off, they each have something to prove--to their families, their exes, those who have The Second Ending is about self-discovery, facing dark truths, taking a terrifying leap out of the safety

The premise of Lex Croucher's Gwen & Art Are Not in Love  is irresistible, the pacing is great, and the Alex ( a handsome, charming man new to town) feels plausible, and I accepted the difficulties each faces This young adult story is sweet and fun; the pacing often feels somewhat slapstick and frantic--as is

characters sometimes seemed slow to catch on to the implications of events, but the story kept a steady pace The title Fallen seems to refer to Rachael's fall from grace, but the matter of determining who is pure and deserving of grace, who is forgivably faulted, and who is seemingly respectable yet driven by desperation

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Amanda makes a special connection with a mountain family on her route that's facing tough times despite --one that caused a deep rift between Amanda and her parents when they (against all logic, but when faced

books about mortality, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality  and Six More Powerful Books about Facing Mortality . 04 Grey Dog by Elliott Gish Grey Dog The story is dark, nerve-racking, irreverent, tragic, and poignant.

Some of these circles are somewhat glossed over--and the pacing flagged at times for me as the protagonists The pacing flagged for me throughout the middle of the story, during the slog through various avenues

World, Abby Jimenez takes on a meet-cute between a rural renaissance man (he's the small-town mayor, a graceful abuse, as well as a personal reckoning in which the warring powers of privilege and responsibility are faced

The pacing of the story picks up, appropriately, when World War II begins to shift the world, exerting Warsaw Ghetto--of making a life within its prison walls and of finding resistance and even love in the face finds love in unlikely places, recalls his life, and finds ways to try to make a difference in the face

And Rocky is facing a mysterious, possibly grave, illness that doctors find difficult to diagnose.

is a satisfyingly deep dive into Gould's behind-the-scenes experiences, including an often breakneck pace

The nationwide movement away from dying at home has been driven in some cases by panic in the face of With this new way, in which we together try to figure out how to face mortality and preserve the fiber mortality like I am, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality and Six More Powerful Books about Facing Mortality.

characters, romantic turmoil, some steamy moments, LGBTQ+ representation, and enough intrigue to keep the pacing

Grace has been unceremoniously kicked out of her uncle's house without a reference for the years of service best friend Viv, whose parents want her to marry and settle down (something she has no interest in), Grace The young women's wartime experiences take Viv to glamorous Harrod's, settle Grace in a dusty old bookshop We see Grace become won over by the creaky old store and by her gruff boss, the shifting role each woman The love for books that grows in Grace--as well as the essential role of reading and the collective escapism

This charming British-set novel takes a fortysomething widow facing empty nesting, hormonal changes,

without bodies but with sentient selves, duty and loyalty, revenge and ruthlessness, and mercy and grace

In this perfect summer read, Harrison explores 1950s life for three women facing complicated personal

suicides after heartbreaks; her long-term, mysterious physical challenges and symptoms; and the multiple rapes Blair's MS is a significant shaping force in her life, and she speaks with grace and openness about the Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing

Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing 01 Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley Crosley's memoir traces a treasured friendship and the gutting Patrick Bringley, a former New Yorker  staffer, after facing the tragic death of his beloved brother, I adored this element--possibly because with a senior in high school, I am also facing enormous pending Mortality  and Six More Powerful Books about Facing Mortality .

I feel as though I've been hearing rave reviews of this book for so long, it must have been published But after her father's untimely death, daughter and mother quickly face the hard reality of women's inability

shines through in this memoir of conversations with and deep inspiration around deceased authors; nerve-racking This was often nerve-racking for me personally to read about, but I took some deep breaths and jumped

I didn't love this installment quite as much as book one, but Faizal keeps the pace moving and progresses

And will JoJo be brave enough to find out why Cooper disappeared without a trace for the past four years The Shippers is no exception; JoJo is faced with sometimes absurd scenarios (some of which she orchestrates

up, or as though it is calling "cheeseburger, cheeseburger," Rowland lets you know which common or rare It's lovely to witness main protagonist Sybil as she slowly allows herself to face the past, addressing This was a rare five-star Bossy read for me. Heartbreaker is described as " a fast-paced, tender-hearted rock ’n’ roll memoir for the ages, Mike Campbell Heartbreakers. " For what it's worth, this title currently has 4.7 of 5 stars on Goodreads, one of the highest ratings

of the past two books, the Bayview Four solved mysteries and established their own innocence in the face Maeve, Nate, Phoebe, Bronwyn, and Knox from book one--along with other old favorites and some fresh faces

But a hotshot racer who's on the run, a has-been treasure hunter looking for redemption, and the rest former fighter pilot turned reality star who hopes for a miracle; and Nilah, a privileged and daring racer

tale-telling and often-discussed folklore-based beliefs about life, curses, demons, and home remedies in the face Abuse, rape, cycles of aggression and emotional coldness, misogyny--her childhood is an avalanche of language is sometimes tragically beautiful, and other times frustrating when it means characters aren’t facing The pacing of the book is frenetic; it feels like it runs along in great leaps, then it jumps and skips

This is not a racy book, and the attraction and relationship are focused on emotions and wanting to be layers tough situations and messy complications into her rom-coms, and here, her main protagonists must face I loved the facing of mortality in the story--as well as the focus on literature and its power.

The settings range from the South to rural Ireland, and characters face temptation, betrayal, crushing Keegan's settings span from the South to rural Ireland; her characters sometimes face crushing loss or Click here to read my rave reviews of Claire Keegan's Foster and Small Things Like These.

The pacing of The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven is measured, as befits a story that is largely about daily Memoirs of Stockholm Sven. 02 The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles As the young men in The Lincoln Highway face for too-easy deception, and that seeing others take advantage of her innocence would make for nerve-racking on real-life double agents in the Cambridge Spy Ring--is vividly set in Europe and Russia and was a rare

Operation Bounce House is a fast-paced, bizarro, humor-filled science fiction novel featuring robots,

practical but deeply held connections; and life and death--particularly, how to live fully and how to best face If you're intrigued by books about facing mortality, you might be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality.

The first half of the book felt slowly paced and was spent with Wallace in limbo, being told how many that explore similar themes, check out the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing

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I loved the tennis focus, the fast pacing, and the father-daughter relationship that drives the story It's the 1990s, and Carrie is facing what in tennis is considered a geriatric age--as well as all the

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The character growth surprised me and felt in line with the tone and pacing of the story.

My favorite elements were the action sequences, the opportunities for humor, and the pacing of this 640 the dragon element kept me reading with fingers crossed that the story would take off and eclipse the pacing the Empyrian series offers more page time for the talking dragons, some surprises, and a more deftly paced

social niceties, including a hilarious emotional reliance on Duolingo, various entertaining and nerve-racking

In The Golden Enclaves, the third installment of the series, an allied force of students faces the aftermath This didn't make The Golden Enclaves the most darkly fun, deeply emotional, or captivatingly paced book The largely somber tone appropriately reflects these kids' growing up and facing challenges more complex The story features instances of rape, abandonment, witch hunting, and attempted suicide.

This is a gentle, slow-paced story from the heart-wrenchingly gorgeous writer.

dating game is rusty, her sobriety program mentor is claustrophobically rigid, her estranged father is facing

character here and the World War II-era crises, for me, the story felt somewhat disjointed and flagged in pacing

Cosby; a light fiction story that's multigenerational, features a winery backdrop, and references racy So far this is a lovely light fiction story that also focuses on racy reads from the 1980s in the form Krueger also wrote Ordinary Grace, reviewed on the blog here.

catch up with the delightfully grumpy Murderbot (SecUnit), who in this eighth book in the series is faced

Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell I was hooked on the captivating details of Renaissance life, masterfully paced in Marske's series is an irresistible queer magical mystery thriller with Edwardian England details, racy After her larger-than-life mother's death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book faces the sale of the