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411 results found for "memoir"
- Six Fascinating Books about Immigrants' Experiences
her experiences through her childlike point of view, which allows for a painfully pure set of painful memories
- Review of Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
Whose memory is solid?
- Review of The Gilded Hour by Sara Donati
ICYMI: This is excellent, layered historical fiction with memorable characters and a great big story
- Review of Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean
There are no memories to anchor our relationship.
- Review of The Survivors by Jane Harper
Kieran's father is suffering from memory issues and wanders at night, and his mother is readying to move
- Review of Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
I love Strout's books, so I was delighted to dive back into the many reflections, vulnerabilities, memories
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/6/22 Edition
Cult Classic is a funny, suspenseful story of love, memory, and mind control from the author of I Was
- Review of How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
referred to in the book's title, there is a captivating, dark, in-between world of floating, nebulous memories
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/5/21 Edition
He holds vivid memories of life in 1900s London--and he holds a postcard a century old, sent to him from
- Review of Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
thought during certain moments in the past and her emphasis on examining tiny details of situations and memories
- January Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Wilf, whose wife is losing her memories at the same time vivid memories of past events come rushing back
- Review of Only Killers and Thieves by Paul Howarth
second chances take shape, a little retribution, and an attempt at a changed existence—but the haunting memories
- Six Books Set in Australia that Are Fair Dinkum Fascinating
second chances take shape, a little retribution, and an attempt at a changed existence—but the haunting memories
- Review of How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C. Pam Zhang
pacing was slow--detailing Lucy and Sam's (and their parents' long-ago) long journeys and extended memories
- Review of Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen
When he begins to have memory loss and other odd symptoms, he realizes it’s linked to his past time travel
- Review of With or Without You by Caroline Leavitt
In With or Without You, Leavitt explores fascinating angles related to memory and self.
- Review of Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
In Olive, Again, she ambles through town and reflects on aging, on her life, and especially on memories
- Review of My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
She eschews any talk of Lucy’s children, marriage, real life, saying “I love you,” or of memories that reflections in a way that I was not, for example, with regard to Ann Patchett's characters and the memories
- Review of The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E. Smith
There are allusions within Greta's memories to her mother's "you don't know him like I know him" attitude
- Review of The Skylark's Secret by Fiona Valpy
timelines; The Beekeeper's Promise, set in 1938 France with a second timeline decades later; and Sea of Memories
- Review of The Girl from Widow Hills by Megan Miranda
What they were reaching back for weren’t your memories—they were their own.
- Review of Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
wrote the exquisite All the Light We Cannot See, as well as The Shell Collector, Four Seasons in Rome, Memory
- Six More Great Historical Fiction Books Set in the American West
second chances take shape, a little retribution, and an attempt at a changed existence—but the haunting memories
- Review of The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon
captivating character here, although she exists largely off page and in the main protagonist's mixed-feelings memories
- Six Chilly Books to Read in the Heat of Summer
With the passing of the years, however, those memories become distant and malleable, and we shape them
- Six Fascinating Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War
And memory is not strictly mortal in its nature, either.
- April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Lewis's transformation stirs up difficult memories and complex emotions surrounding Wren's mother's change
- Review of The Manningtree Witches by A.K. Blakemore
author's note. ...this cannot be what God intended when he decreed it all--that men would take the most memorable
- Six of My Favorite Mystery Reads of the Year
story structure, dark humor, and deeply flawed characters as main protagonist Lucy works to resolve her memory
- Six of My Favorite Contemporary Fiction Reads of the Year
She's built years of happy memories in their low-key beach house rental.
- March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
story structure, dark humor, and deeply flawed characters as main protagonist Lucy works to resolve her memory
- Review of Apeirogon by Colum McCann
heart the very same--through their unspeakable loss, desire for revenge, search for meaning, haunting memories
- Six Fantastic Novels Set in North Carolina
Rory Docherty has returned to rural North Carolina with a wooden leg and haunting memories of his time
- July Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
It's January 1889, and Veronica and her natural historian beau Stoker are working on a memorial exhibition
- Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You
young adult supernatural mystery series of the same name, and in it, author William Ritter provides memorable
- November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
hallucinations and mental illness...until she realizes that the red door and visions of the past are real memories
- July Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
She's built years of happy memories in their low-key beach house rental.
- Six Fascinating Books about Immigrants' Experiences
her experiences through her childlike point of view, which allows for a painfully pure set of painful memories
- Six Four Star (And Up) Science Fiction and Fantasy Reads I Loved in the Past Year
When she flees to remote California, her ability to travel through memory to revisit the past secures
- Six Fantasy Reads I Loved in the Past Year
hallucinations and mental illness...until she realizes that the red door and visions of the past are real memories
- Six More Four-Star (and Up) Mysteries I Loved in the Past Year
Isabelle can't stop searching for her son, but she begins to wonder if she's an unreliable source of memories
- Bossy Holiday Gift Ideas: Novels for Everyone on Your List
story structure, dark humor, and deeply flawed characters as main protagonist Lucy works to resolve her memory
- September Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
When she flees to remote California, her ability to travel through memory to revisit the past secures
- Six Books Set in Australia that Are Fair Dinkum Fascinating
second chances take shape, a little retribution, and an attempt at a changed existence—but the haunting memories
- Six Fascinating Stories Set in Space
The memories are beginning to slowly shift back into focus, but he needs them now.
- Review of Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
her parents' accounts hold merit, and begins to wonder with horror whether she can trust even her own memories
- March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
determine what they're made of as they consider friendship, betrayal, fear of failure, the power of memory
- Six More Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels
referred to in the book's title, there is a captivating, dark, in-between world of floating, nebulous memories
- June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
His book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland was one of my Six of the
- Six Historical Fiction Mysteries Sure to Intrigue You
young adult supernatural mystery series of the same name, and in it, author William Ritter provides memorable
