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- My Twelve Favorite 2020 Books
Fiction Stories for Great Escapism Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You Six Illuminating Memoirs Utopia Avenue contains endless imagined cameos, fictional adventures, and gems of wisdom from real-life musicians
- Review of The Celebrants by Steven Rowley
about facing mortality, you might be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Powerful Memoirs
- The Bossy Five-Star Reads So Far This Year
For my full review, check out Our Woman in Moscow. 02 In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom In her memoir In Love, author Amy Bloom shares the story of an impossible situation: how she faced the Reading memoirs centered around cancer is not always a go for me, but this book was special.
- Review of Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
They love each other, but they are able to stay married only because they push down the memories of tragedies
- Review of The Gunners by Rebecca Kaufman
As we witness memories from childhood and adulthood, each character considers how they might have remained
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/7/21 Edition
alongside larger-than-life characters ranging from activists to performers and murderers to idealists; a memoir of Beautiful Ruins. 02 The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande The Distance Between Us is Grande's memoir
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/3/25 Edition
In this speculative fiction story, issues of memory, creativity, wealth and power, envy, fame, self-doubt
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/18/23 Edition
author of This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage, State of Wonder, Run, Bel Canto, The Dutch House, The Magician's
- Review of Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
in books about mortality like I am, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Powerful Memoirs
- Six More of My Favorite Fiction Reads from the Past Year
Loved Last Year Six Four-Star (And Up) Science Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year, and Six of My Favorite Memoir scene in Kabul with the vivid sights, sounds, smells, and tastes of the past that reemerge in Sitara's memories
- Review of An Unexpected Peril (Veronica Speedwell #6) by Deanna Raybourn
It's January 1889, and Veronica and her natural historian beau Stoker are working on a memorial exhibition
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/17/23 Edition
After sixteen-year-old Bree's mother dies in an accident, she escapes the painful memories of her childhood attack of a mythical creature on a student--then must evade a fellow student's attempts to wipe her memory
- Review of Sandwich by Catherine Newman
She's built years of happy memories in their low-key beach house rental.
- Review of The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
atmospheric novels that center around affairs at the beach, but the book that kept coming to mind was the memoir I mentioned Wild Game in the Greedy Reading List Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In.
- Six of My Favorite Reads of the Year So Far
For my full review, check out The Night Ship. 04 Solito by Javier Zamora Zamora's memoir of his grueling perspective, which also serves to keep us focused on moment-by-moment sensations and concerns and makes the memoir
- Review of Landslide by Susan Conley
Conley is also the author of the novels Kelsey Come Home and Paris Was the Place, as well as the memoir
- March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
coping with death, and how to live in the face of constant loss; You Can't Be Serious, actor Kal Penn's memoir my full review of How High We Go in the Dark. 03 You Can't Be Serious by Kal Penn Penn's thoughtful memoir Penn pulls his memoir into another gear when he adds the fascinating layer of accidental political activism
- Review of A Marvellous Light (Last Binding #1) by Freya Marske
Last Binding duology, starts with a devastating ending (the demise of a character, caused by nefarious magicians
- Review of These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant
Kimi Cunningham Grant is also the author of Silver Like Dust, a memoir about her Japanese-American grandparents
- Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore
Helena Smith is a neuroscientist creating technology to preserve memories and allow people to relive are not real, and that they’re actually mentally ill, suffering from False Memory Syndrome. When they encounter loved ones from their memories who are now living alternate lives, in many cases While Sutton begins digging into what’s real and what’s a lie, Smith works feverishly to preserve memories When he begins to have memory loss and other odd symptoms, he realizes it’s linked to his past time travel
- Review of A Restless Truth (Last Binding #2) by Freya Marske
expects adventure when she agrees to help save the magical world by serving as companion to an elderly magician
- Shhh! Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays
The Comfort Book is the newest book from Matt Haig, author of the novel How to Stop Time and the memoir Hussain has written multiple other cookbooks, the memoir Finding My Voice, and a trilogy of novels in
- Review of Show Don't Tell: Stories by Curtis Sittenfeld
determine what they're made of as they consider friendship, betrayal, fear of failure, the power of memory
- Review of The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
Those urging me to write my memoir will want a patriotic young woman who fought to defend her country
- Review of The Blighted Stars (Devoured Worlds #1) by Megan E. O'Keefe
Memories can be manipulated and erased, as characters' minds take the shape of a previous reboot and
- October Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Here are my six favorite reads of the past month: a bitingly funny, poignant book of essays; a candid memoir I wasn't familiar with McCurdy when I began listening to her memoir, I'm Glad My Mom Died, although I
- Bossy Holiday Gift Ideas: Science and Nature Books
explores the discoveries of the famous ornithologist John James Audubon in this combination of biography/memoir
- Review of Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
make self-destructive decisions but ultimately settle into more settled futures while holding their memories
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/8/21 Edition
cult; and So Long, See You Tomorrow, William Maxwell's story of mining youthful, sometimes difficult memories In doing so, he traces memories and tracks down details from his childhood, reliving moments and bringing The story promises to explore loss, the state of seeking, the power of youthful memory, and the irresistible
- My Twelve Favorite 2020 Books
Utopia Avenue contains endless imagined cameos, fictional adventures, and gems of wisdom from real-life musicians Fiction Stories for Great Escapism Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You Six Illuminating Memoirs
- Review of Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle #1) by Tracy Deonn
After sixteen-year-old Bree's mother dies in an accident, she escapes the painful memories of her childhood attack of a mythical creature on a student--then must evade a fellow student's attempts to wipe her memory
- Review of Recursion by Blake Crouch
Helena Smith is a neuroscientist creating technology to preserve memories and allow people to relive People like the victim Sutton is investigating are told that their vivid recollections of their life’s memories are not real, and that they’re actually mentally ill, suffering from False Memory Syndrome. When they encounter loved ones from their memories who are now living alternate lives, in many cases While Sutton begins digging into what’s real and what’s a lie, Smith works feverishly to preserve memories
- Review of The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick
another layer of sadness, particularly for other friends and family members who want to share the load of memory
- Review of The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson wrote six novels, including We Have Always Lived in the Castle, two memoirs, and the
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/3/25 Edition
was able to do so (online) courtesy of The Goldfinch Foundation , which was formed in honor and in memory
- My Twelve Very Favorite 2021 Reads
01 Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner In her memoir Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner takes unflinching I listened to Broken Horses: A Memoir by Brandi Carlile, and I can't imagine feeling the full emotions Whether Sedaris is reliving specific, offbeat memories and mining them for poignancy and also laughs,
- Review of Bunny (Bunny #1) by Mona Awad
Reality, dream, desire, memory, and guilt all become intertwined, and it's difficult for Samantha--and
- Review of The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
Issues of memory, chosen family, history, loneliness, and love shape Vuong's novel, and the author forces
- Review of How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
Haig is also the author of The Midnight Library and his memoir-ish book that I'm reading now, Reasons
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/15/21 Edition
Shirley Jackson wrote six novels, including We Have Always Lived in the Castle, two memoirs, and the
- Review of Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
author of This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage, State of Wonder, Run, Bel Canto, The Dutch House, The Magician's
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/7/25 Edition
It's January 1889, and Veronica and her natural historian beau Stoker are working on a memorial exhibition
- Six More of My Favorite Literary Fiction Reads of the Year
interested in books about mortality, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Powerful Memoirs
- June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
A Marvellous Light starts with a devastating ending (the demise of a character, caused by nefarious magicians His book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland was one of my Six of the
- September Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
fiction read, a feminist retelling of Greek mythology tales, and Michelle Zauner's powerful, beautiful memoir pacing of the book is appealingly quick and compelling. 05 Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner In her memoir
- Six Science Fiction Favorites to Dive Into
Helena Smith is a neuroscientist creating technology to preserve memories and allow people to relive People like the victim Sutton is investigating are told that their vivid recollections of their life’s memories are not real, and that they’re actually mentally ill, suffering from False Memory Syndrome. When they encounter loved ones from their memories who are now living alternate lives, in many cases While Sutton begins digging into what’s real and what’s a lie, Smith works feverishly to preserve memories
- Review of Time's Mouth by Edan Lepucki
When she flees to remote California, her ability to travel through memory to revisit the past secures
- Review of Land of Milk and Honey by C. Pam Zhang
like controlling the past--those who dole out the food reserves also control access to taste-inspired memories
- Review of Evil Eye by Etaf Rum
present-day scenes with Yara's journals (made up of often brutally painful, occasionally momentarily lovely memories
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/31/21 Edition
Patricia Lockwood No One Is Talking about This is fiction from Patricia Lockwood, the author of the memoir













































