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  • Review of The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu

    world and called it the Kingdom of Back, entertaining themselves during weeks and months of carriage travel likely future levels—which she also deserved but which were seemingly impossible for a woman at the time

  • Review of Fallen Land by Taylor Brown

    “You die down there, you better hope I live a real long time. at the end of the Civil War, amid the confusion and desperation and cruelty and kindnesses of that time

  • Review of Ready or Not by Cara Bastone

    The first time she repeatedly found herself short on time so that she wouldn't be able to brush her teeth Eve spent very little time exploring options upon discovering her unplanned pregnancy; it was so easy

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

    01 The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen Pylväinen's novel explores the cooperation and conflict among she wondered, was this what love was, to persist when you didn't want to, to try for patience another time The End of Drum-Time was intriguing and kept me interested throughout; it was brutal and frustrating For my full review of this book, please see The End of Drum-Time. 02 Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs #1) by The children are largely unattended during this time, but their bonds to each other are solidified.

  • Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite

    It's time for the foooood books! Ruth Reichl was editor in chief of Gourmet and a world-renowned food critic for The New York Times, and I wondered at first if Bourdain's "I'm tough, I've been pretty screwed up at times, and I'm also sometimes before I spent endless evenings happily watching multiple television series featuring Anthony Bourdain traveling

  • Review of Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See

    Full-force details of foot-binding, and See doesn't stint on the page time spent on the topic. her, particularly those credited to tradition rather than wisdom, yet she feels authentically of this time captivated by that aspect of Lady Tan, including the treatments, techniques, and beliefs that feel of the time

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/18/21 Edition

    Lucy feels disruptively restless at times, but really, she figures, who doesn't? She travels the country tracking lost women, moving into communities with little more than a change of

  • Review of The Love Haters by Katherine Center

    The banter made me laugh at times, and I bought the attraction between Katie and Hutch, as well as the not swimming is easily resolved (in convenient fashion, so that the two main protagonists can spend time

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

    : A Love Story by Taylor Jenkins Reid I love an astronaut story, and while Reid spent far more page time aspects, there was plenty of each to go around in this novel that was the perfect book at the perfect time This was exactly the right story for me at the right time, and I hugged it to my chest when I finished I loved each time period and the evolution of each strong female character. I enjoyed spending time in each time period.

  • Six of My Favorite Reads of the Year So Far

    Exiles was the right mystery at the right time for me. and lays them alongside Big Moments of Realization--which often require grace and forgiveness, other times Physical discomfort (he is tired, cold, hot, burned, thirsty, hungry), emotional turmoil (he feels loneliness author Charles Frazier offers historical fiction featuring a Great Depression-era painter, Val Welch, traveling

  • Review of Happiness Falls by Angie Kim

    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.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/8/23 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery that plays with time, Wrong Place Wrong Time; I'm reading Antarctica, a collection of short stories by one of my favorite authors 01 Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery Wrong Place Wrong Time plays with time (like some of my favorite books do). Time is moving backward, and she must figure out why--and how to save her son. 02 Antarctica by Claire

  • Review of Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson

    Cara who also appear in Those Beyond the Wall--in Cara's case, as a key player without a lot of page time Scales isn't sure who she can trust; she is challenged by grasping the time, place, and circumstances known to exist, so nothing feels final; and the fact that Scales and her allies spend significant page time

  • Review of Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez

    But Justin's family is going through an incredibly complicated and fraught time, and he's caring for over and over--and she's also the reason Emma can't settle down for more than a couple of months at a time Characters from other Jimenez books appear, although it took me time to figure out that Alexis, Daniel

  • Six of My Favorite Mystery Reads of the Year

    she becomes convinced that what happened to Ruth is linked to the Florida sorority attack, and she travels At times, particularly in the middle of the story, things felt disjointed to me and jumped around in

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/22/21 Edition

    Passage North, Anuk Arudpragasam's recent literary novel about a young man considering his life as he travels message that Rani, his grandmother's former caregiver, who lived in the household with all of them for a time

  • Review of Down Comes the Night by Allison Saft

    There's a key mentioned multiple times...so the confusion about where the all-important key might be taking action on potentially urgent and lifesaving leads for days and undertake treacherous winter travel

  • Review of books 1-3 of the Murderbot series by Martha Wells

    its dark past and sets out to uncover the truth of disturbing events it was involved in around the time Rogue Protocol tracks Murderbot's travels to look into the goings-on of the questionable and mysterious

  • Review of Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro

    In Signal Fires, Dani Shapiro offers characters and consequences that connect through time and in unexpected Time passes, and a young family moves onto Division Street. Wilf, whose wife is losing her memories at the same time vivid memories of past events come rushing back “If only time could be seen whole, then you could see the past remaining intact, instead of vanishing Shapiro is also the author of Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage; Devotion: A Memoir; and other books.

  • How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir by Molly Jong-Fast

    Throughout her childhood, Molly found herself yearning for more time with her busy, glamorous mother. Everyone was always dying, all the time. limitations (Erica often told Molly and others how much she loved Molly, but she didn't express this through time

  • Review of Interesting Facts about Space by Emily Austin

    In her spare time, Enid loves true crime podcasts and dates a variety of women from dating apps. I was intrigued by the book's premise, and I loved the science facts Enid spouted off at times, but in At times the novel was so absurd as to seem slapstick, so that the important issues underlying the story

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

    Epstein's writing is lovely, and she skillfully evokes details of the place and time, exposes Victorian Her voice and point of view are sometimes testy, often incisive, and at other times diminished--a product 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 of which was read aloud for the (obtuse, grumpy, belligerent) poet's wife's birthday, then lost to time

  • Review of Sandwich by Catherine Newman

    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

  • Review of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers #1) by Becky Chambers

    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

  • Review of The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell

    inspires varied and complicated questions about the possibly disturbing events that transpired around the time In the final lines (where the idea of travel and of unraveling the final threads of the story are introduced

  • Review of Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson

    tragic aspect of his abandonment isn't that he left his children, but that he missed out on precious time Kevin Wilson is also the author of Now Is Not the Time to Panic , Nothing to See Here , Baby, You're

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/20/25 Edition

    Harrow's upcoming novel The Everlasting ; I'm listening to Yiming Ma's exploration of a future in which Autobiography of a Traitor and a Half-Savage , and Fractured Fables . 02 These Memories Do Not Belong to Us by Yiming Woolever also recounts her time as assistant to the kind, passionate Tony Bourdain until the time of

  • Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II

    Vera and Edith are such a complementary partnership, and I loved spending time with these strong young I was taken by how remarkable the story was of the women's lives during this time of turmoil. 05 Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum Most of us are drawn to this time period thinking it was a war of I was fascinated by the two points of view (mother and daughter) and the two time periods (World War I'd like to read more about the facts of that time and of voyages like this.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/25/24 Edition

    He begins wondering about unexplained aspects of his own family history, and when the three of them travel

  • Review of After Annie by Anna Quindlen

    and her husband Bill were in the thick of young parenthood, with endless plans but little money or time heart of the book and is the center of the wheel of characters rotating around her, yet little page time We spend the most page time with Annie's oldest child and only daughter, Ali, as she navigates young

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

    After meeting for the first time, Michael, a recently divorced teacher, studious and thoughtful, and Which means traveling together to a tropical island for his sister's wedding, pretending to be soulmates

  • Review of How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying) by Cristina Fernandez

    Astrid is always on time, always. Her sense of time and what it's possible to achieve within windows of time is practically her superpower Only David or Max could inspire her to take time out from her grueling studies. In fact, she's reminded again that her schedule really doesn't allow time for romantic entanglements And worrying about Max's safety as he fights the bad guys could be its own full-time job.

  • Review of The Trackers by Charles Frazier

    author Charles Frazier offers historical fiction featuring a Great Depression-era painter, Val Welch, traveling

  • Review of A Family Matter by Claire Lynch

    She is a young mother who had met a nice guy and followed the prescribed steps of the time: marriage, Dawn's na ï vit é is heartbreaking, as society in that time and place aggressively fights departures

  • Review of My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan

    Her propensity for remaining emotionally closed off free up a lot of time. She's never been in a serious relationship and has no interest in one--she doesn't have time for frivolity

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

    aka escapes from reality--one magical mystery on a ship, an adventure that toggled between layers of time Her propensity for remaining emotionally closed off free up a lot of time. She's never been in a serious relationship and has no interest in one--she doesn't have time for frivolity , she realizes that someone is plunging the party down through layers of reality, through echoes of time For Bossy reviews of many other books that play with time--this is one of my favorite elements--you can

  • Review of Unsinkable by Jenni L. Walsh

    Titanic as well as a British spy working with the WWII French Resistance--and the details of life in each time The story's later timeline takes place in the time of World War II as Daphne, an intelligent and educated The book is almost at its close by the time the two main protagonists are explicitly linked within the

  • Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You

    Let the playing with points of view and the time-turning begin! This book had many moving parts, evolving points of view and senses of self, shifts between days and times with progressive ideas, and I adore how matter-of-factly and innocently she presents her wild-for-the-times Veronica finds herself entangled in a dangerous set of circumstances, complete with intrigue, a traveling This one took a little page time to start moving along for me, but I love Kate Morton’s writing and her

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/17/24 Edition

    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 But her life is complicated: her father requires a full-time caregiver, and Emma is it.

  • A Bossy Summer Break

    I'm going to take an unprecedented Bossy break to spend time with family, but I hope to be reading a

  • Six Books Set in Australia that Are Fair Dinkum Fascinating

    Exiles was the right mystery at the right time for me. For my full review, check out Exiles . Morton Morton offers a Secret Garden -type tale for grown-ups, with twisty stories connected across time I loved spending time with main protagonist Eli as he navigated tough situations and emerged with hope because of them), he emerges as a fantastic, oddball, singularly heroic character I loved spending time

  • Review of Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty

    From the overworked dad trying to make it home in time for his daughter's musical, to the mother of two I wasn't sure how Moriarty was going to tie up the many loose ends, but by the time the book ended,

  • Review of Machinehood by S.B. Divya

    I wished for more page time spent on everyday tasks and activities (cooking, shifting household modules , travel, and communicating), which were all carried out in Jetsons-level, fascinating, futuristic ways

  • Six Favorite Nonfiction and Memoir Reads of the Year

    A month before that horrible loss, her New York City apartment is burgled, and at that time, all of her Take the time to stop and imagine or feel fully the things you already know. But time, curiosity, emotional pain, and a desire to escape from it all added to his tendency to consider behind the artwork, his own feelings about the works, and others' reactions, which he witnessed in real time I looked forward to getting back to this book each time I could, and I was as charmed by Ina's guileless

  • Six More Books about Brave Female Spies

    The details Rees provides of this confused time in the world are wonderful: the complicated workings In Williams's historical fiction mystery, which skips back and forth in time, four years later, Iris's for longer than most agents manage to survive, so she has a persistent feeling of being on borrowed time the number of typos here distracting, but I really enjoyed Robuck's writing style, the details of the time

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/2/24 Edition

    Patients are given basic animal care instructions and "take" their cat prescriptions for a period of time tells the tales of various characters, lost or in pain, who find themselves transformed by spending time

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/3/23 Edition

    publication April 4; and I'm reading the first in Adrian Tchaikovsky's space opera trilogy, Children of Time She must determine if a legendary ring from Arthurian times could save Cabell from a curse threatening Silver in the Bone is scheduled for publication April 4. 03 Children of Time (Children of Time #1) by

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/6/25 Edition

    A significant amount of page time is dedicated to mentions of literature, literary figures, and philosophers There is a jump forward in time that is so far making me feel less connected to the characters .

  • Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading

    This was the right book at the right time for me, and I loved everything about it. Click here for my full review of Romantic Comedy. 03 This Time It's Real by Ann Liang I was hooked by In Ann Liang's young adult rom-com This Time It's Real, when seventeen-year-old Eliza's class essay about But she's gone through a breakup because of her partner's betrayal, and she's having a hard time getting Then Florence's beloved father dies, and she returns to her hometown for the first time in many years

  • Review of Fagin the Thief by Allison Epstein

    story imagines what shaped the figure of Fagin into a ringleader of young thieves in that place and time Epstein's writing is lovely, and she skillfully evokes details of the place and time, exposes Victorian

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