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shocking loss of freedom and rights she suffered for years while her parents abused their control over her person The tone feels carefully crafted, and the book reveals disturbing, ongoing abuse and frightening misuse

The subject matter is weighty and emotional, and McCann manages to make the story both personal and political

The only person he can trust is Scales.

Her people celebrate her as a Nampeshiweisit, a respected person who builds a revered relationship with

offers fascinating details of flora, fauna, and the people she encountered; and showcases her sparkling personality feel torn between the two lives she's led, each of which have without question shaped her into the person fiction, Marshall explores the goings-on at 1960s unwed mothers' homes in Canada--based upon actual first-person

Each of them must find a way back to themselves and back to each other without their key person in After

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

is lost and staying connected to them, After Annie; I'm listening to Nikki Erlick's story about each person

explains that the character of Violet and the arc of her life is somewhat loosely based upon a real person

Green's party-guy, train-of-thought-spewing, reactive personality made it tough for me to follow what

the other's loyalties begin and end, nor are they intimately acquainted with the other's history or personal I think this was because of personal timing and my reading-during-vacation distraction circumstances, by the rievs (former battle robots) who mysteriously show sentience and surprising preferences for personal

I wished for more of a focus on the character of Tess and her personal story--and less on political strategies This second installation departs from a focus on Tess and her personal growth.

offers fascinating details of flora, fauna, and the people she encountered; and showcases her sparkling personality

this enormous loss--which occurred days after Ghebreyesus's fiftieth birthday surprise party--and her personal

beautifully illuminates tiny moments alongside momentous decisions and explores how together, they form a person inconsequential moments and one's reactions to them can together form the framework that makes up a person's Keegan takes the small moments, impulses, generosities, omissions, and aversions that make up a day,

interest, she receives a mysterious slip of paper that details how many days she will spend with that person

The work is personal for Bray--and essential.

periods to reenter society with support; and build Montgomery's Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass

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

I loved the father-daughter bond, and Opal is a wonderfully quirky, self-possessed young person.

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

the title's process--of standing by, helping, embracing silence, and turning over the reins to the person

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

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

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?

Each decision she made as a young person was done to try to shape her future as an actor.

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

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

feel torn between the two lives she's led, each of which have without question shaped her into the person

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

Ren is emotionally closed off due to past personal tragedy, yet he is endearingly connected to his fellow

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

certain that the bundle of events affected by time-travel added up (which age and version of which person

I also didn't feel at all convinced that the person trying to sort out the convoluted situation at the

define success and considering what college is really for (learning, kinship, a credential and a job, personal

it all, as well as offering tips as to how to evaluate whether a school might be a match for a young person

The book is written in a second-person stream of consciousness, which is taking a little bit of getting

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

negotiation of time spent with love interests, friends, and family, and their hilarious texting and in-person

criminal mastermind Jacob Fagin into a character with a rich backstory, showing him to be a man shaped by personal

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

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?

Guerrero's interest in drama and her later fame ultimately help buoy her up despite her personal agony

would make her even more feared, a deeper outcast, and a terrifyingly unknown quantity to both types of person

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

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.

fiction, Marshall explores the goings-on at 1960s unwed mothers' homes in Canada--based upon actual first-person

this striking coincidence when faced with the nickname again, not does she recall the voice of the person

Winkler explores his childhood and his critical, yelling, stressed parents; his joy in putting on other personas

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?