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Witchy Book Love It's the perfect time of year to read a spooky book full of magic! of the Witch is a thoroughly researched, witchy, historical thriller with fantastic details of the time Hour of the Witch is a thoroughly researched historical fiction thriller with fantastic details of the time infuriating injustices perpetuated against the female characters--who like the real-life women of the time the family in The Heretic's Daughter, with a vividly imagined setting and wonderful details of the time

That said, I have a tough time reading memoirs in which someone is fighting cancer, and this one may Now I'd like Miller to write more books about varied topics, because I like spending time in her head At times there is some silliness and some superficial focus, but I felt as though Simpson was laying Interestingly, she spends a lot more page time on John Mayer than Nick Lachey—and provides what ultimately

Francisco, illustrates the words of kindness, thoughtful approaches, and wisdom she gained by spending time Focusing on respect, love, and closure, MacNaughton offers a guide to creating a path through the precious time

Could she spend regular time in the water near him, successfully reminding him of her identity and thereby We track back through time to witness Wren's younger years, then farther back to understand Wren's mother's

from sharing the context of his repeated decision of drugs or alcohol over sobriety--despite having at times The pain of his compulsion to use and his longtime inability to stop causes him to share multiple times Perry spends much of the page time focusing on the many (beautiful) women who got away. The book zigzags through time to paint a picture of years of damaging substance abuse, and Perry's honesty

has disappeared, God of the Woods ; and I'm listening to Joy Callaway's historical fiction set in the time 01 Long Live Evil (Time of Iron #1) by Sarah Rees Brennan I love a story that flips a traditional setup

Spoiler: a dragon appears at the very end of the book, laying the groundwork for more dragon page time country who is advancing medical techniques and is sought out for her helpful salves and methods in a time given basic animal care instructions and "take" their unconventional cat prescriptions for a period of time tells the tales of various characters, lost or in pain, who find themselves transformed by spending time The clinic is not always accessible--at times, the roads and alleys around the convoluted address do

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

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 elements (the missed deadline driving the story's initial tension that was all but forgotten for a time

moment by multiple instances of odd tone shifts and what felt like repeated nonsensical or strange timing exclamation "I miss sex" seems to come out of nowhere; sexual innuendos seem to come at strange, inopportune times rises") and intense fixations on elements such as a character's "incredible scent" that stopped me at times

She can travel through the multiverse, but only to worlds where another version of herself no longer a postapocalyptic feel to the story, with turf wars, corruption, mercenary "runners" who shake down travelers

, historical fiction set in 1926 jazz-era London; I'm reading Kevin Wilson's newest, Now Is Not the Time Life After Life, Human Croquet, When Will There Be Good News, and many more books. 02 Now Is Not the Time Check out this link for my review of Kevin Wilson's Now Is Not the Time to Panic.

Captain Kidd has fought in three wars, and after the Civil War's end, he serves as a traveling news reader They'll have to pass through lawless lands to get to San Antonio, and Johanna isn't exactly a cooperative traveling

But on her own time, Mary is Irish exile Maire O’Farren, and she keeps mixed company as part of a secret characters to cross unlikely paths, caused characters to avoid making important discoveries until the timing freed black person—and the often desperate circumstances of women (especially black women) in that time Hardinger offers up many crisp and varied details of the time, she captures Bertie’s speech patterns,

Yet the pacing was slow for me, so it took me some time to get through this one.

This was the right book at the right time for me, and I loved it. retired from tennis at the top of her game, as the best player in the world and the greatest of all time I suspect that as with Daisy Jones and the Six and its page time spent on the music world, bandmate negotiations Carrie is back, but she's also considering her life beyond tennis for the first time, and this leads I flew through this story--it was solidly a "right book at the right time" situation for me, and I also

I do love a dragon book, and the second in the Empyrian series offers more page time for the talking I have been since the night the snow fell in your hair and you kissed me for the first time."). allows the characters to be less earnest and more playful and to invoke a little bit of dark humor at times

teen daughter Madison brushes her off, then shows up, needy and asking for help, Emmy doesn't have time

I Told You; I'm reading a light-fiction romantic comedy about a fake relationship, Ann Liang's This Time you might also like the titles on my Greedy Reading List Six Musicians' Memoirs that Sing. 02 This Time It's Real by Ann Liang In Ann Liang's light fiction rom-com This Time It's Real, when seventeen-year-old

Spoiler: a dragon appears at the very end of the book, laying the groundwork for more dragon page time

And now every time you cross it again, it just gets grayer and grayer until one day you look around and

The Civil War Books This painful, terrible time in our nation's history makes for some poignant, brutal at the end of the Civil War, amid the confusion and desperation and cruelty and kindnesses of that time characters to cross unlikely paths, caused characters to avoid making important discoveries until the timing often desperate circumstances of women (especially Black women) without men to protect them at the time

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading First Time for Everything, the upcoming novel (to be published 01 First Time for Everything by Henry Fry In Henry Fry's new (to be published tomorrow!) novel First Time for Everything, Danny Scudd has spent five years trying to make good on his dreams. pilgrimage across Europe and the Near East, sharing Julian's papers and her own visions, meeting at times with aggression, lies, and immense challenges; at other times feeling her hope and religious fervor

was recently talking with a friend about this novel and other books with characters in limbo at the times

funny, feminist story about a retiring female team of elite assassins was the right book at the right time After four decades of successfully ridding the world of cruelty and destruction one person at a time, Time passes, and a young family moves onto Division Street. “If only time could be seen whole, then you could see the past remaining intact, instead of vanishing I loved reading this and spending time with Michelle Obama.

invested in Gazala's young life; the concessions, cleverness, and compromises necessary during desperate times

neighborhood and its' Jewish and Black families' purposes and missions, which sometimes intersect and other times 01 Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle Every time Daphne Bell meets a potential love interest, she receives

and lays them alongside Big Moments of Realization--which often require grace and forgiveness, other times feverishly to harvest the cherry crop without the usual support of workers due to the virus, and to make the time Vera Wong is running a largely unvisited tea house, lamenting her grown son's lack of time for her, and particularly Mason's gorgeous writing (the final chapter is a particular knockout), but I did take a long time North Woods. 05 Big Swiss by Jen Beagin Jen Beagin's literary fiction novel is consistently bizarre, at times

Hillier's thriller jumps back and forth in time, deftly weaving a web of secrets and lies, daring escape As a woman once reminded her a long time ago, the common denominator in all the terrible things that Jennifer Hillier weaves a gripping story that jumps back in forth in time from when Paris was a young

Rachel Lynn Solomon crafts another sweet, quirky, funny, romantic young adult story that plays with time She was harassed and publicly shamed as a result, so her time at her state university is bound to be Barrett can't decide if this time loop is a dream come true--or a living nightmare. is excellent at building wonderfully imperfect characters and irresistible premises that play with time

mother's death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book faces the sale of the family home in New England and travels

(Side note: hearing "sweetheart" as his dirty-talk nickname for her felt jarring to me every time.) on that Michelle was having thoughts of suicide and that Grant was in the wrong place at the wrong time I also had a tough time with the premise of this one but remained curious as to whether I was about to

Bryson has also written the smart, wry travel books The Lost Continent, Neither Here nor There, Notes

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 Margo butts up against--and at times, dismantles--frustrating societal expectations and double standards From the overworked dad trying to make it home in time for his daughter's musical, to the mother of two

-type closure for both felt too convenient, and even a little dismissive of the complexities of the time

The details of running the Canadian river, traveling and camping, and Jack and Wynn's friendship itself life in 1924 South Carolina were wonderful, and I still think about this book although I read it some time I was so happy spending time in her point of view throughout this book.

to-read list, including: Corrag by Susan Fletcher; The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec; A Witch in Time Hour of the Witch is a thoroughly researched historical fiction thriller with fantastic details of the time infuriating injustices perpetuated against the female characters--who like the real-life women of the time Kathleen Kent offers a historical fiction tale centered around Martha and the twisted paranoia of the time the family in The Heretic's Daughter, with a vividly imagined setting and wonderful details of the time

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

I'm watching The Good Place for the third time, this time with my youngest, and I love hearing his references and a heartwarming reminder that there are thoughtful, kind, well-meaning people out there spending time

01 Horse by Geraldine Brooks In Geraldine Brooks's newest novel, Horse, she links three moments in time 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

Six Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Mystery Reads This is the time in the year when you may be asking yourself greedy about reading lists like I am, you can also check out the lists I posted last year around this time stumbles into a crime--a gunman is wandering a big-box store, shooting--she draws her gun for the first time Exiles was the right mystery at the right time for me. It's satisfying that Robin gets the majority of page time as she bravely infiltrates the UHC and works

desperately yearns for some measure of independence, which is not easily available to the women of that time But a young woman in that time has little say over her destiny.

But a medication aimed to help her sleep during this difficult time induces an incredible side effect At the same time that Lydia is actively living life in her everyday sad reality in which Freddie is gone

faulted, imperfect Jenna Chen to live as her perfect, beautiful, Harvard-bound cousin Jessica for a time More Ann Liang love I fell in love with Ann Liang's fake-dating young adult novel This Time It's Real

It's time to learn Eridianese. Yes, I just made up that word. No, I don't feel bad about it. I'm doing a lot of things for the first time in human history out here and there's a lot of stuff that The present-day story alternates with peeks back in time to life before this space mission, which show As in his book The Martian, significant page time in Weir's Project Hail Mary is spent on creative problem-solving

He is repeatedly shown to be out of touch with the times, and he illustrates time and time again that and after the story's early, painful tragedy, she shies away from facing difficult realities for a time

into with her eccentric friends, and how Galland deftly places the reader in the story's place and time

his work, and Happy-Go-Lucky is no exception, are Sedaris's unflinching observations of moments in time colors she sees in the world are captivatingly described, and the tenuous situation for a woman at the time and the book within a book, the witchy focus, the renegade feminism, and the details of life at the time I'm watching The Good Place for the third time, this time with my youngest, and I love hearing his references and a heartwarming reminder that there are thoughtful, kind, well-meaning people out there spending time

Keep your powers hidden and use them when it's your time. colors she sees in the world are captivatingly described, and the tenuous situation for a woman at the time and the book within a book, the witchy focus, the renegade feminism, and the details of life at the time

This was a sweet world that I loved spending time in, and the fact that absolutely everything works out