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  • Review of Fourth Wing (The Empyrean #1) by Rebecca Yarros

    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

  • Review of Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

    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

  • Review of People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

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

  • Six Historical Fiction Backlist Favorites

    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,

  • Review of Iron Flame (Empyrian #2) by Rebecca Yarros

    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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/22/23 Edition

    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

  • Review of We Are All Guilty Here (North Falls #1) by Karin Slaughter

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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/9/22 Edition

    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

  • Review of The Shadow of the Gods (The Bloodsworn #1) by John Gwynne

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

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

    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.

  • Review of Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

  • Six Fascinating Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War

    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

  • Review of Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

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

  • Review of See You Yesterday by Rachel Lynn Solomon

    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

  • Review of Things We Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier

    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

  • Six Book Club Books I Loved Last Year

    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.

  • Review of The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken

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

  • Review of The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson

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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/4/24 Edition

    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

  • Review of I'll Be Right Here by Amy Bloom

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

  • Six Novels I Loved Reading Last Year

    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

  • Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite

    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

  • Review of How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang

    (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

  • Six More Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You

    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

  • Review of The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

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

  • Six of My Favorite Contemporary Fiction Reads of the Year

    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

  • Review of How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur

    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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/17/22 Edition

    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 Mysteries I Loved Reading in the Past Year

    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

  • Review of Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

    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

  • Review of Maddalena and the Dark by Julia Fine

    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.

  • Review of The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton

    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

  • Review of The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

    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

  • Review of I Am Not Jessica Chen by Ann Liang

    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

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

    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

  • Review of Boy by Nicole Galland

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

  • Review of Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese

    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

  • It's Bossy Bookworm's First Birthday!

    trying to focus on some of the things that bring me peace and joy--including family love and support, time downstairs via FaceTime--and reading and talking about books, which I was doing as much as ever during that time Thank you for spending some of your precious time on this site, commenting to me here or otherwise about these and other books, and for taking your reading time to explore some of the books I mention here. Reading the right book at the right time can be magical, and I hope some of the information here might

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/14/23 Edition

    Year Inside College Admissions by Jeffrey Selingo I have a rising high school senior, so maybe it's time serving as mediator between wealthy vacationers temporarily in the park and the working-class full-time

  • Review of Dungeons and Drama by Kristy Boyce

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

  • Review of The Gunners by Rebecca Kaufman

    out: the friends' falling asleep in each others' arms at the lake house, which was mentioned multiple times

  • Review of Wellness by Nathan Hill

    Wellness is darkly funny, intriguing, and, at times, poignant.

  • Review of Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams

    In Williams's historical fiction mystery, which skips back and forth in time, four years later, Iris's There was significant page time dedicated to Ruth's work managing a modeling agency and to the groundbreaking signing of a Black model at the time, as well as side stories such as elaborate mishaps on sailing trips

  • Review of White Houses by Amy Bloom

    House (which, Bloom recounts in interviews, functioned more like a not-very-fancy boarding house at the time whole remarkable relationship between Eleanor and Lorena, especially in that place and during that time

  • Review of The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow

    The Everlasting is filled with rich adventure; twisty jaunts through time; tragedy and loss; dark turns

  • Review of Changeless (Parasol Protectorate #2) by Gail Carriger

    But after raving about it for two years it seemed time to stop letting this second installment languish This installment involves technology of the time, ancient Egyptian artifacts, revelations about Alexia's

  • Review of The Price You Pay for College by Ron Lieber

    Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make, Ron Lieber, New York Times Should you let a 17-year-old drive this enormously important process--which can largely determine the timing

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/18/22 Edition

    listening to The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, Kim Michele Richardson's historical fiction about a traveling

  • Review of Nine Liars (Truly Devious #5) by Maureen Johnson

    mystery series showcases Stevie Bell's instincts, doggedness, and ability to uncover the truth, this time

  • Review of The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue

    Despite some of the questionable, haunting choices that are made at times in the story, I was so taken that my personality or my humour thrives on more than being able to see the same person at the same time

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