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  • 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

  • My Very Favorite Bossy 2025 Reads

    several of my reading-interest boxes--the setting is an isolated island (Antarctica is the closest land mass abandonment on an unforgiving, uninhabited island after our main protagonist falls in love with the wrong person

  • 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 Conform (Reform #1) by Ariel Sullivan

    shows up for the first time as the book begins, appearing in Emeline's underground workspace, the only person She shows unquestioning follow-through at work (Why is any person needed to click buttons to confirm

  • 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

  • Review of The Island Club by Nicola Harrison

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

  • 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.

  • 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

  • Review of Wreck by Catherine Newman

    Reads ), We All Want Impossible Things , the wonderful nonfiction Waiting for Birdy , and How to Be a Person

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 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

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

    Green makes the situation personal, following the cases of real people, tracking roadblocks to care, As Denny's big personality, kindness, and discerning views become clear, the story tracks the lead-up trans high school teacher in a small town in South Dakota who befriends the only other transgender person The main protagonists' tendencies and personalities have room to shine here, and Osman allows for vulnerabilities

  • 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 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • More 2025 Bossy Book Ideas for Your Holiday Gift List

    Each year I offer lists of Bossy book gift ideas for the holidays, including a number of books I'll personally They have a fantastic selection of titles, staff members offer spot-on recommendations (and sparkling personalities The 95 recipes can inspire a reader learning to cook for a new person in their life, an empty nester

  • 2025 Bossy Book Ideas for Your Holiday Gift List

    Each year I offer lists of Bossy book gift ideas for the holidays, including a number of books I'll personally They have a fantastic selection of titles, staff members offer spot-on recommendations (and sparkling personalities History Lover 05 Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age by Eleanor Barraclough I have a personal

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

    to this big-hearted, heartbreaking story of the clients and staff of an adult daycare center, their personal book and a real-life dive into a fantasy story, the novel offers adventure and a quest; an everyday person She eagerly awaits the final book in the series, and by now she feels like she personally knows the characters

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Review of 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

    Candid observations and occasional confessions flow freely between the friends who have never met in person

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 Night We Met (Say You'll Remember Me #2) by Abby Jimenez

    attempts to help Mike patch things up with Larissa only serve to layer Chris's thoughtfulness over Mike's personality

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

    Both are spirited, smart, sassy, and full of personality.

  • Review of Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei

    the past to revisit memories and further illuminate the reasons for their current-day dynamics and personality

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

    McCurdy's unique voice came through loud and clear in her personal, unflinching memoir I'm Glad My Mom the Cranes Fly South  is a beautiful, tragic, hopeful examination of end-of-life issues for an aging person as well as the loved ones who are trying their best to support their elderly person, keep them safe,

  • 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, 5/11/26 Edition

    London Falling is about the disappearance of a young man, Zac, but it’s also about his astounding personal

  • 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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/23/26 Edition

    After a happenstance meeting with Guy de Chauliac, the personal physician to Pope Clement, Eleanore talks

  • 2025 Bossy Fiction Ideas for Your Holiday Gift List

    They have a fantastic selection of titles, staff members offer spot-on recommendations (and sparkling personalities abandonment on an unforgiving, uninhabited island after our main protagonist falls in love with the wrong person would make her even more feared, a deeper outcast, and a terrifyingly unknown quantity to both types of person

  • Review of Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy

    her development of a fiercely guarded space in which she could exist and create, at great cost to her personal

  • 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 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 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 The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club #2) by Richard Osman

    The main protagonists' tendencies and personalities have room to shine in book two of the Thursday Murder

  • Review of Culpability by Bruce Holsinger

    Culpability explores accountability and questions around the use of AI, making them personal, life-and-death

  • Review of Woodworking by Emily St. James

    trans high school teacher in a small town in South Dakota who befriends the only other transgender person

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