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- Review of This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
You love that new person, but it's different, and it all happens so fast, even the parts that feel like This Time Tomorrow indulged my own personal desire for sentimentality, while also emphasizing the value
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/4/24 Edition
interest, she receives a mysterious slip of paper that details how many days she will spend with that person
- Review of Activation Degradation by Marina J. Lostetter
Activation Degradation explores what makes a person worth saving--or simply existing--as well as unconventional love and relationships, personal responsibility, sacrifice and bravery, and staying open to revolutionarily
- Review of Time's Mouth by Edan Lepucki
I loved the father-daughter bond, and Opal is a wonderfully quirky, self-possessed young person.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/15/24 Edition
The work is personal for Bray--and essential.
- Review of How to Say Goodbye by Wendy MacNaughton
the title's process--of standing by, helping, embracing silence, and turning over the reins to the person
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/4/22 Edition
I'm listening to The Personal Librarian, historical fiction with race and art at the heart of it, set 01 The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray The Personal Librarian is
- June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
feel torn between the two lives she's led, each of which have without question shaped her into the person I loved this story about relationships, complications, famous/everyday person romance, and a love of The everyday-person/famous-person love is a favorite trope of mine, and Norman adds emotional complexities
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/24/22 Edition
The Good Place), nonfiction that explores how to be a "good" human being and what duty to our fellow persons What does being a "good" person mean? What do we owe to each other?
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/22/24 Edition
Each decision she made as a young person was done to try to shape her future as an actor.
- My Very Favorite Bossy 2024 Reads
the author of other books I love: We All Want Impossible Things , Waiting for Birdy , and How to Be a Person see my full review of Intermezzo . 12 Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten Ina's memoir is personal of her former specialty food shop in the Hamptons (and television show), Barefoot Contessa, offers a personal
- Six Fascinating Stories Set in Space
Activation Degradation explores what makes a person worth saving--or simply existing--as well as unconventional love and relationships, personal responsibility, sacrifice and bravery, and staying open to revolutionarily make room in the mix for Rosemary, who's grateful--and who's frankly glad to leave her significant personal
- Review of Alias Emma (Alias Emma #1) by Ava Glass
who have hacked the city's thousands of cameras, and their assassins, who are out to eliminate the person And they don't realize she's got her own personal vendetta against Russian intelligence--which is the
- Review of Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash
feel torn between the two lives she's led, each of which have without question shaped her into the person
- Review of The Last Ranger by Peter Heller
Ren is emotionally closed off due to past personal tragedy, yet he is endearingly connected to his fellow
- Review of Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley
every man in her life, who constantly questions whether she has it in her to remain committed to one person "baby," brainwashes you, then makes you think that your soul will wither and die if you let go of a person
- Review of The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young
certain that the bundle of events affected by time-travel added up (which age and version of which person
- Review of The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett
I also didn't feel at all convinced that the person trying to sort out the convoluted situation at the
- Review of The Price You Pay for College by Ron Lieber
define success and considering what college is really for (learning, kinship, a credential and a job, personal
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/14/23 Edition
it all, as well as offering tips as to how to evaluate whether a school might be a match for a young person
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/25/23 Edition
The book is written in a second-person stream of consciousness, which is taking a little bit of getting
- Six Novels I Loved Reading Last Year
beautifully illuminates tiny moments alongside momentous decisions and explores how together, they form a person Keegan takes the small moments, impulses, generosities, omissions, and aversions that make up a day, I was intrigued by the intersection of the women's personalities and lives, and Beagin kept me consistently
- Review of Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter
negotiation of time spent with love interests, friends, and family, and their hilarious texting and in-person
- Review of Doctors and Friends by Kimmery Martin
But as they catch up on each other's careers and personal lives, explore, eat, drink, and celebrate, The various ways Martin made the pandemic feel personal to the story--as with the account of Patient
- Six of My Favorite Nonfiction Reads from the Past Year
The Anthropocene Reviewed is a collection of personal essays from John Green. learning, constant trying, constant searching” is what results from it: a mature yet still pliable person What does being a "good" person mean? What do we owe to each other?
- Review of Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
civilization and safety--and as she considers what it would mean to try to cobble together some version of personal As increasingly jarring and illuminating personal events unfold in fluid-feeling flashbacks, we see Franny's in and among the grim ecological disasters, and glimmers of human connection and love persist amid personal
- September Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
criminal mastermind Jacob Fagin into a character with a rich backstory, showing him to be a man shaped by personal
- Six Fascinating Books about Immigrants' Experiences
Guerrero's interest in drama and her later fame ultimately help buoy her up despite her personal agony
- Review of Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile
She weaves more than thirty songs into her stories and personal history, and the placement of the music her struggles with feeling at peace with herself, and the specifics of her musical journey and her personal experiences, specific inspirations, an exhaustive exhuming of pivotal moments--and also a panoramic view of a person If I'm getting a peek at a person, I also want it all, however unreasonable that may be.
- Review of Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall
fiction, Marshall explores the goings-on at 1960s unwed mothers' homes in Canada--based upon actual first-person
- June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
would make her even more feared, a deeper outcast, and a terrifyingly unknown quantity to both types of person
- Review of Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel by Martha Wells
its tender side too--and it does some human-worthy panic cleaning (and ordering everyone to throw the mess
- Review of The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
If a person pleads ignorance or credits terrible actions to the power of fear, can such acts ever be Can a person--or a nation--ever truly move on from evil?
- Review of The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
this striking coincidence when faced with the nickname again, not does she recall the voice of the person
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/30/23 Edition
Winkler explores his childhood and his critical, yelling, stressed parents; his joy in putting on other personas
- Review of Changeless (Parasol Protectorate #2) by Gail Carriger
My only issue here is personally logistical--my library doesn't own a copy of the next book in the series
- February Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
from across the globe; her older brother never seems to be around to help; and she's the only Black person I was intrigued by the intersection of the women's personalities and lives, and Beagin kept me consistently fiction, Marshall explores the goings-on at 1960s unwed mothers' homes in Canada--based upon actual first-person
- Review of Uncultured: A Memoir by Daniella Mestyanek Young
Uncultured is primarily an affecting account of Young's impressive perseverance, hard-fought growth, personal
- Review of Honor by Thrity Umrigar
Delving into Meena's story makes clear to Smita that tradition continues to overpower personal choice In one example among many, Smita actively asks a companion a personal question, then shares with the
- Review of Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
her fierce determination, her (rusty) skills, and her desire to be the best, Carrie is the perfect person She is painted as a villain there, and I loved digging into her personality and motivations here.
- Review of Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
We are going through a societal learning curve, one person at a time.
- Review of Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris
oddball, incisive, skewering observations are poignant, funny, heartfelt, complicated moments from his personal
- Six More of My Favorite Fiction Reads from the Past Year
But as they catch up on each other's careers and personal lives, explore, eat, drink, and celebrate, The various ways Martin made the pandemic feel personal to the story--as with the account of Patient This Time Tomorrow indulged my own personal desire for sentimentality, while also emphasizing the value
- Review of An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken
“I want a book that acknowledges that life goes on, but death goes on too, that a person who is dead
- Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans and Alien Life, and AI
effects are shown in shades of gray rather than black-and-white, including the meaning and value of personhood Neuvel explores concepts of personal responsibility, how the possibility of life beyond Earth affects
- Shhh! Coffee Table Bossy Book Gift Ideas
McCartney shares commentaries on his life and music for 154 songs and includes images from his personal archives, offering a personal look at the story behind the music from one of our greatest songwriters
- Review of August Kitko and the Mechas from Space (The Starmetal Symphony #1) by Alex White
quirky characters and their banter; the presence of giant fighting robots (they are not imbued with personality
- Six More of My Favorite Fantasy Reads of the Past Year
Sciona's fight to pursue magic and her oft-frustrated ambition, her personal journey of reconsidering
- Six Four-Star (and Up) Science Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year
make room in the mix for Rosemary, who's grateful--and who's frankly glad to leave her significant personal Activation Degradation explores what makes a person worth saving--or simply existing--as well as unconventional love and relationships, personal responsibility, sacrifice and bravery, and staying open to revolutionarily
- Review of You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie Smith
her marriage, weaving in the history and the future while she acknowledges that any story is only one person's
















































