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  • Six Book Club Books I Loved in 2021

    available from the library, vary our genres throughout the year, try to give us lighthearted reads for the summer the last day of high school, and senior nemeses Rowan Roth and Neil McNair have battled bitterly for every Fight for Justice, and in Red Notice, Browder traces his path from Wall Street to the Soviet Union after

  • Review of What We Can Know by Ian McEwan

    unintentionally negated his own vehement denial of climate change (views he aggressively spouted off that very evening to the uncomfortable gathered guests); and not very cleverly revealed thinly veiled dastardly interest in the mysterious, lost corona is part of his overall fascination with the decades before and after , to prevent destruction of further information, the world's digital file backups ("everything that ever After tragedies and disappointments, the novel ultimately shifts to forgiveness, practical adjustments

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/7/21 Edition

    ranging from madams to activists, feminists to magnates, well-read wanderers to brutal murderers, and every After eight long years, Reyna convinced her reluctant father to bring the children to Los Angeles, but

  • Review of Only Killers and Thieves by Paul Howarth

    Is killing ever justifiable if laws allow it? I thought about this one long after I finished it. It was disturbing and a mind churner. Dust Off the Bones is Howarth's upcoming sequel to Only Killers and Thieves, due out in summer 2021.

  • Review of She's a Lamb! by Meredith Hambrock

    After all, she hasn't sacrificed, obsessed, planned, spent all her money on voice lessons, and humiliated

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

    01 In the Wild Light by Jeff Zentner I recently posted about some of my very favorite young adult books The majority of the speakers are insufferable hacks, but after Sandra's death, it becomes clear that divorced and feeling adrift...except that now she is positioned to live into her true self better than she ever

  • Review of The Knight and the Moth (Stonewater Kingdom #1) by Rachel Gillig

    The shadowy, eerie tone of the first title in Gillig's Stonewater Kingdom series gives way to heartwarming to disappear, and Sybil doubts for the first time whether their collective purpose is holy and noble after The eerie, shadowy tone set up at the beginning felt like a far more gentle version of Tamsyn Muir's

  • Six More of My Favorite Fantasy Reads of the Past Year

    But after Sciona blasts the competition at her entrance exam and is admitted, she finds that not all The misogyny and contempt of her peers means she faces a lack of respect and resources at every turn.

  • Review of The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton

    Meanwhile Frida gives birth to a child, Wanda, who she names after the storm, and who has a special gift to society that is possible, but few could have imagined the unraveling of society that takes place after

  • Review of Uncultured: A Memoir by Daniella Mestyanek Young

    At age 15, after years of excruciating systematic suffering, Young escaped to Texas, enrolled in school After various naïve missteps during her entry into a more typical American life, she graduated and gravitated

  • Review of The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn and Janie Chang

    In 1906 San Francisco, two very different women seek new beginnings: Gemma is a gifted soprano whose and owner of the mysterious Phoenix Crown, an artifact legendary because of its origins in Beijing's Summer When San Francisco is devastated by an earthquake and the widespread destruction of its aftermath, Thornton

  • Review of Betting on You by Lynn Painter

    Painter is the author of another rom-com I adored, Better Than the Movies, as well as Happily Never After

  • Review of Buried Deep and Other Stories by Naomi Novik

    "After Hours" allowed me to delve back into Novik's Scholomance series, which I adored.

  • Review of The Fraud by Zadie Smith

    and whether the man professing to be the heir to a title and fortune might possibly be the actual man after

  • Ten Bossy Spring Favorites

    Her  husband has been away fighting for the Confederacy since soon after they were married, Then Libby Garg offers an honest, funny account of overcoming sobering challenges and determining her own destiny after Are the strange coordinates she's receiving on her phone after seven years a message from Luke? But when Frank's brother shoots a dog going after the family's sheep, the gunshot sets into motion events Broken Country  is a study of an extreme, life-and-death-stakes fallout after heartbreaking tragedy,

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

    Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley Patrick Bringley, a former New Yorker staffer, after

  • Review of The Blighted Stars (Devoured Worlds #1) by Megan E. O'Keefe

    The premise of O'Keefe's imagined universe involves reprinting into new forms after they die, so that

  • Review of Will They or Won't They by Ava Wilder

    This was funny, sweet, steamy, and poignant--a fantastic summer light-fiction read that I loved. Their secret tryst at the end of season one ended badly, and they've been far from friendly ever since I smiled a lot, I teared up, and I loved this perfect summer read! intriguing, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading, Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading, and Six More Great Light Fiction

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

    But when a local farmer shoots a dog going after his sheep, the gunshot sets into motion events that

  • Review of Clear by Carys Davies

    After a terrible fall on the cliffs of the island, John Ferguson wakes to find himself being tended by returns to pick him up--and, unbeknownst to Ivar, permanently remove him from the only home he has ever

  • Review of The Strange Case of Jane O. by Karen Thompson Walker

    But just after she visits a psychiatrist, Dr. Byrd, Jane goes missing. The novel builds to almost the very end before this mindboggling plausibility is somewhat cursorily presented

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/26/25 Edition

    has been single for a year, since her former fianc é , an up-and-coming musician, hit it big and then very But just after she visits a psychiatrist, Dr. Byrd, Jane goes missing.

  • Six Powerful Memoirs About Facing Mortality

    We're all headed toward the same end in this life, after all, and those brave enough to commit their Yip-Williams's memoir, the subtitle of which is A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After After the diagnosis, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when. Warren digs deeply into the realities of doubting his faith, God, his life’s work, and his vision of an afterlife

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/29/23 Edition

    Rowley also offered poignancy, an exploration of grief, and the impossible-seeming prospect of going on after His newest novel centers around college friends who made a pact after one of the six died before graduation

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

    irresistible character of 19-year-old Margo discovers her strength, drive, creativity, and vulnerability after A book that takes a very different look at unexpected single motherhood--its tone is much lighter, and

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/15/22 Edition

    Now First of all, seeing the gorgeous colors and designs of these three covers together is making me very After twists and turns and several years, Elizabeth is a single mother who becomes the star of a hit When the trip involves mishap after mishap, the travelers begin to wonder whether the legend of the treasure was fiction after all.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/21/25 Edition

    After that, he spent years drowning his sorrows in drink, and now that he's had three heart attacks,

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

    It looks like Kembral will have to work tonight after all--and, even worse, she'll need to cooperate

  • Review of What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown

    romantic friendship--nor the lengths the other partner was willing to go to in order to protect her after

  • Review of Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live by Susan Morrison

    After five decades, it feels surprising that the hectic schedule and method by which the show's sketches

  • Six Fascinating Books about Immigrants' Experiences

    Rwanda and through six other African countries—with her tough, hustling older sister Claire—during and after In The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After , Wamariya recalls her experiences

  • Review of The Favorites by Layne Fargo

    The events after Kat and Heath's later reunion push limits (Heath's modern-day betrayal of Kat feels

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/16/25 Edition

    hasn't told anyone that her ADHD impulsiveness led her to pack up and leave her barrel-racing career after

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

    My very favorite Bossy March reads! young girl in Ireland is taken by her unreliable, frequently drunk gambler of a father to spend the hot summer Summer is ending, and there's a mysterious, unspoken, dark undercurrent at the Kinsellas'. After all, the Vanguards, giant, deadly AI robots, are headed from deep space to destroy Earth at any It's not clear whether he and Julia can go on--or if her family will ever be the same.

  • Six More Backlist Favorites to Check Out

    of these books as the Covid-19 pandemic began to shape our lives, and I can vouch for each of these very fiction you may have missed, you might also want to check out the Greedy Reading List Six Backlist Summer Joanna is feeling adrift after her mother's death, and she disappears into the constant attention her The characters, the story arc that isn’t too easy but leaves you in a promising place after all, and Very very happy.

  • Six Four Star (And Up) Science Fiction and Fantasy Reads I Loved in the Past Year

    01 The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi #1) by Shannon Chakraborty I loved every bit of After twenty-two years of adventuring, Viv had reached her limit of blood and mud and bullshit. But then unexpected events lead her to leave the only home she's ever known in order to try to save her her brother's subversive genius of a friend, and a lonely alien force Kyr to reexamine all that she's ever

  • Review of A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar

    her, she would have said that she had kept a home and raised a son whose words, now punishing, were, after

  • Six Lighter Fiction Stories for Great Escapism

    01 Head Over Heels by Hannah Orenstein Nineteen-year-old Avery Abrams was set to be the next big gymnastics When she hits a version of rock bottom and moves home, Avery's former teammate and crush Ryan (who did You can see a satisfying version of happily ever after coming, but I didn't predict the circumstances But after that, Beach Read met all of my criteria above and more; it's sweet and funny, it's about writing After she drunk-blogs scathing comments about the unrealistic body images of the stars of Main Squeeze

  • Six More Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You

    too many "doom is coming, get ready" types of heads-ups for my liking--especially because this is, after Danger and darkness lurk around every corner. The atmospheric descriptions of the remote, tiny town created an eerie, claustrophobic feeling.

  • Six More of My Favorite Historical Fiction Reads of the Year

    In 1906 San Francisco, two very different women seek new beginnings: Gemma is a gifted soprano whose and owner of the mysterious Phoenix Crown, an artifact legendary because of its origins in Beijing's Summer When San Francisco is devastated by an earthquake and the widespread destruction of its aftermath, Thornton set in the early 20th century, as Violet, a young ship's stewardess bent on providing for her family after

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/30/22 Edition

    This is beautiful and tragic, and I'm captivated so far. 03 Tokyo Dreaming (Tokyo Ever After #2) by Emiko Jean In Emiko Jean's young adult story Tokyo Ever After, we met Izumi (Izzy) Tanaka, an everyday, average Jean is also the author of Tokyo Ever After (Tokyo Ever After #1), Empress of All Seasons, and We'll

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

    ; The Celebrants, Steven Rowley's exploration of friendship, loyalty, life and death, and moving on after After a disastrous encounter with Rhys, a new romantic opportunity arises...and June suddenly finds herself The Celebrants centers around college friends who made a pact after Alec, one of the original six, died assemble, no questions asked--for affection, support, and the sharing of sentiments typically reserved for after Jimenez is also the author of Part of Your World, The Friend Zone, and The Happy-Ever-After Playlist.

  • Review of Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett

    that she couldn't hack medical school--she just didn't go the first day, or the second, or any day after fifth graders in the book seemed far younger to me—their matching outfits, reverting to sucking thumbs after Father and daughter, brother and sister, and mother and father find their way back together after hurting

  • Review of All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

    out a dreamlike possibility of something that might be real, and this didn't sit comfortably with me after

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

    . 03 The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun Dev has dedicated his career to the reality dating show Ever After , helping to shape it into the popular, long-running franchise it is.

  • Six Newish Young Adult Mysteries I Want to Read

    By the end of the summer, Anna has delved into Zoe's disappearance and has attempted to untangle the But Pippa Fitz-Amobi is becoming convinced that Sal didn't do it after all. ―Booklist, starred review #youngadult, #mystery 06 The Inheritance Games ​ Avery is in high school, and Hawthorne has set out riddles and puzzles Avery must solve before coming into the money that could save

  • Review of Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey

    Arthur is unlike anyone Birdie and her daughter have ever met; his speech pattern is unusual, and he and discounts the power of instinct and the unpredictability of a wild spirit, she also draws a long-simmering Edge of the World , which I listed in the Greedy Reading List Six Chilly Books to Read in  the Heat of Summer

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

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Liane Moriarty's story of the aftermath a plane full of psychic Moment ; I'm reading Sally Rooney's newest novel, about young-adult brothers seeking love and hope after

  • Six Five-Star Bossy Reads to Check Out

    and community in a crisis and in common suffering, and figuring out the impossible: how to move on after Edward tries on the mantle of taking responsibility for every life lost; he wallows in the despair of Nothing is too easy here, nor is it ever melodramatic in Napolitano’s hands. I loved this book. of dying, death, appreciating the beauty of the impermanence of our lives, planning for loved ones after

  • Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels

    After the World Falls Apart I have a fascination with postapocalyptic (set in a time after a disaster no law left except what you make of it, but if you steal my dog, you can at least expect me to come after They take everything away, our very dignity, and anything we get in return feels like a gift. Then Hig gets an indication that he is not alone and that there is life out there after all. Colonel Carlisle; and the others on board may not have been meant to succeed in their grand mission after

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