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- Shhh! Bossy Book Gift Ideas: Science and the Natural World
Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler ...you may have heard that goldfish have a three-second memory How can such a small fish hold on to the memory of the snaking path of a maze for three months?
- Six Riveting Time-Travel Escapes
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
- 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
- Review of Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi
scene in Kabul with the vivid sights, sounds, smells, and tastes of the past that reemerge in Sitara's memories
- Review of Harrow the Ninth (Locked Tomb #2) by Tamsyn Muir
known to Harrow; characters lie steadily to each other; and Harrow is an unreliable narrator, with memory
- Review of Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (As Told to Me) Story by Bess Kalb
Bobby's recounted memories don't paint her as anything close to a saint; she recounts the evidence of
- Review of A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
arrives in town, digging into Chloe's past and the recent disappearances, he sparks disturbing old memories
- Review of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
What is the value of a life that must be begun anew each day--a life no one else holds memories of? What is the value of a life that must be begun anew each day--a life no one else holds memories of?
- Review of Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
The memories are beginning to slowly shift back into focus, but he needs them now.
- Six Past Book Club Bossy Favorites
In Olive, Again, she ambles through town and reflects on aging, on her life, and especially on 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 Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
Whose memory is solid?
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Review of Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean
There are no memories to anchor our relationship.
- Review of The Gilded Hour by Sara Donati
ICYMI: This is excellent, layered historical fiction with memorable characters and a great big story
- 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 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 Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
thought during certain moments in the past and her emphasis on examining tiny details of situations and memories
- 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 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 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 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
- Six Fascinating Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War
And memory is not strictly mortal in its nature, either.
- Review of With or Without You by Caroline Leavitt
In With or Without You, Leavitt explores fascinating angles related to memory and self.
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
She's built years of happy memories in their low-key beach house rental.
- 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
- 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
- Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You
young adult supernatural mystery series of the same name, and in it, author William Ritter provides memorable
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Six Fascinating Books about Immigrants' Experiences
her experiences through her childlike point of view, which allows for a painfully pure set of painful memories
















































