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  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/3/22 Edition

    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 Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

    Migrations follows Franny as she travels farther from civilization and safety--and as she considers what

  • Review of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt

    He uses his decades of research into moral psychology to explore a timely, potent issue: the power in And while an attempt to understand the underpinnings of these conflicts feels more timely than ever,

  • Review of Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School by Kendra James

    James explores race, friendship, ambition, and the absurdities and rhythm of daily life during her time herself to delve more deeply into aspects of her years at Taft that she largely glossed over at the time The majority of page time is focused on aspects of James's boarding-school life, including its rhythms The author notes that when she was a high schooler, in that place and time in our society, she didn't and gender-based; and the social segregation of social groups by race--feels hesitantly explored at times

  • Six Fascinating Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels

    After the World Falls Apart I have a fascination with postapocalyptic (set in a time after a disaster ) and dystopian (set in a time of darkness and desperation) books, and I think it's for the same reason Fletcher was tough to read at times because of the frequent reckless, life-and-death, sometimes ill-advised This is one of my all-time favorite books.

  • Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads Last Year

    a forbidden young love, exploring the vulnerability of allowing one's self to be seen for the first time For my full review, check out Young Mungo. 02 Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson Kevin Wilson's As he did in a different way in his novel Nothing to See Here, in Now Is Not the Time to Panic, Wilson For my full review, check out Now Is Not the Time to Panic. 03 Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins retired from tennis at the top of her game as the best player in the world and the greatest of all time

  • Review of Hell for Hire (Tear Down Heaven #1) by Rachel Aaron

    Over time, some of these demons have evolved into grumbling lackeys for the Eternal King, or bound slaves

  • Review of People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

    it, but Poppy has convinced Alex to join her again on vacation to try to recapture their effortless times She'll just push down her strange feelings about Alex and pretend that fateful time never even happened and Poppy to the present day is never jarring, and watching Poppy and Alex's friendship build over time In a way, their annual vacations--which become the sole times they reliably spend time together--bring

  • Review of Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

    man working in a warehouse in the seaside town where she's staying temporarily, she invites Felix to travel

  • Review of The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

    heritage in order to serve in this powerful role—one that was unusual for a woman to serve in at the time Belle mixes with high-society white figures of the time who wield control over both the financial and The tone of the book feels very earnest, and we spend a significant amount of time in Greene's thoughts and risking discovery, but the authors repeatedly illustrate the events occurring in society at the time

  • Six More Science Fiction Favorites to Dive Into

    She can travel through the multiverse, but only to worlds where another version of herself no longer She's hacked into the game plenty of times and glitched the system to work in her favor.

  • Review of The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton

    This one took a little page time to start moving along for me, but I love Kate Morton’s writing and her

  • Review of Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

    The various "let me teach you about" types of asides regarding art and social constructs of the time,

  • Review of The Nature of Disappearing by Kimi Cunningham Grant

    The story is more of a thriller than a mystery; after a time we aren't wondering what happened, rather

  • Review of All the Broken Places by John Boyne

    friends with her younger across-the-hall neighbor Helen, who is coping with dementia, and Gretel's three-times-married-and-divorced

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/27/25 Edition

    Parry I feared this was the best of times; I hoped it could not get any worse. H. G.

  • Review of Bride by Ali Hazelwood

    For me, there was a little bit of excessive detail in some of the racy moments, and the copious page time

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

    ; a gothic, magical-realism Western; a historical fiction escape through the wilderness, set in the time Full-force details of foot-binding, and See doesn't stint on the page time spent on the topic. her, particularly those credited to tradition rather than wisdom, yet she feels authentically of this time captivated by that aspect of Lady Tan, including the treatments, techniques, and beliefs that feel of the time Upon being on her own for the first time, she discovers that she is capable of cleverness in the wild

  • Review of Moonbound by Robin Sloan

    The fantasy-science-fiction novel Moonbound spans time and splits into several stories, for me never

  • Review of Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley

    A month before that horrible loss, her New York City apartment is burgled, and at that time, all of her

  • Review of Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor

    Deepti Kapoor's Age of Vice shifts through time and points of view to explore outrageous wealth, ruthless the book went on, I found myself regularly cringing over what horror might possibly come next, and at times

  • Review of The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

    The Correspondent was the right book at the right time for me.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/1/23 Edition

    Sutanto Vera Wong is running a largely unvisited tea house, lamenting her grown son's lack of time for Focusing on respect, love, and closure, MacNaughton offers a guide to creating a path through the precious time

  • Review of Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart

    blossoming of a forbidden young love, the vulnerability of allowing one's self to be seen for the first time The timing of the story isn't explicitly stated, but it feels like a 1980s setting.

  • Review of Trespasses by Louise Kennedy

    Kennedy draws the reader into the specific place and time of the story, vividly building the constant

  • Review of The Humans by Matt Haig

    nevertheless assumes the appearance of Professor Andrew Martin and clumsily takes on the man's life for a time So, we must conclude that madness is sometimes a question of time, and sometimes of postcode. Matt Haig is also the author of How to Stop Time, Reasons to Stay Alive, and The Midnight Library.

  • Review of The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn

    This time she tells the World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female She weaves in interesting aspects of the time such as the contrast between active female roles in the supportive, more peripheral positions women were allowed to hold in the United States military at the time

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/27/21 Edition

    Novelist Alice just met Felix, but she invites him to travel to Rome with her.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/28/24 Edition

    But the girls' emotional pain naturally creeps through from time to time, and it's bringing up uncomfortable

  • Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore

    I felt like a little too much time was spent on youthful poetry and fanciful teenaged musings, yet the charming memoir about growing up in Appalachia and the incredible changes in rural Virginia from the time her grandparents came to Alaska from Switzerland around World War II) with her extended family from time to time, which I love to see. She seems like a good egg, and I really liked spending time with her through this memoir. 04 The Light

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

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading See You Yesterday, the recent young adult novel that plays with time Summer, Rebecca Serle's love letter to Italy, a story about a mother and daughter, which also plays with time High school was largely a nightmare, so her time at her state university is bound to be an improvement Barrett can't decide if this time loop is a dream come true--or a living nightmare.

  • Review of Harmattan Season by Tochi Onyebuchi

    "Harmattan season" refers to a months-long time that spans the end of one year and beginning of the next

  • Review of The Villa by Rachel Hawkins

    The stresses and pulls on their time have caused them to grow apart, so a writing vacation together at Thanos's catchphrase "I am inevitable," and the Marvel mental images jarred me from this story each time

  • Review of Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout

    Lucy by the Sea captures an otherworldly feeling of drifting in time while facing horrifying, previously illness and death, disease risk and spread, and the weight of the unknown: There was for me during this time They each seem to find the other--and their relationship--awkward and irritating at times, but their

  • Review of The Trap (Alias Emma #3) by Ava Glass

    boundaries they can push and how many lines they're willing to cross in order to uncover the truth in time

  • Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into

    Baby by Chris Belcher; Raising a Rare Girl by Heather Lanier, Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times I loved spending time with the uproariously funny Thomas as he recounts how he's navigated situations and abused, opening her own long-closed (and hitherto unknown to her) file and seeing for the first time her fully realized adult self, and this journey is satisfying to watch after living through the page time I was so happy spending time in her point of view throughout this book.

  • Review of August Kitko and the Mechas from Space (The Starmetal Symphony #1) by Alex White

    whose biggest hope for the pending end of the world was to play at the most epic goodbye party of all time I think it's time for me to read more Alex White books--I've heard that the alien novels The Cold Forge

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/16/22 Edition

    authors, Maggie Shipstead; The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Collections to Wow You. 02 The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times this hefty expansion of the 1619 Project, which was spearheaded by Nikole Hannah-Jones at The New York Times

  • Six More Great Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading

    These Bossy favorites from a summer past stand the test of time. And soon I'll post another set of Bossy romantic favorites, this time titles that were published this There's a ton of steaminess as Lilah and Shane at times can't deny their attraction and act upon it.

  • Review of Revelations by Mary Sharratt

    papers and her own visions; meeting largely with aggression, lies, and immense challenges; at other times I've underlined many, many meaningful passages in Revelations, and I found exploring this time through Margery's imagined point of view to be fascinating, particularly the everyday details of life at the time

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

    Astrid is always on time. And her sense of what it's possible to achieve within windows of time is practically her superpower. hand, Max is always crashing in late for their dates and dashing off abruptly in the middle of their time Astrid's apartment to kidnap her--she has organic chemistry to study for and she really does not have time Lessons in Chemistry explores deep issues, conflict, and dark times, yet offers hope and joy.

  • Six More Four-Star (and Up) Mysteries I Loved in the Past Year

    greedy about reading lists like I am, you can also check out the lists I posted last year around this time funny, feminist story about a retiring female team of elite assassins was the right book at the right time Charlotte's various views on the world are absolute gems, and I love spending time in her point of view Traitor (Alias Emma #2) by Ava Glass Emma Makepeace returns with new enemies in her sights--but this time

  • Review of We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman

    That is the whole premise of this life, of this time we have with each other. in doing so she gains human connections that are fleeting, without boundaries, and comforting in a time

  • Review of Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

    As time passed, their dynamics became more complicated, tangled in the messiness of growing up together

  • Review of Silver Elite by Dani Francis

    However, the forbidden attraction in Silver Elite lasts a tantalizingly long time, and while the "romantasy

  • Review of Madame Restell by Jennifer Wright

    Wright positions Restell's career and wealth within the volatile events of the time--particularly society's

  • Shhh! Book Gifts for Kids and Teens

    Obscura: Explorer's Guide for the World's Most Adventurous Kid by Dylan Thuras Here's a little pseudo travel for Pandemic Times: Atlas Obscura's book for kids offers gorgeous images and factoids (in high quality

  • Review of Maame by Jessica George

    her father, who has Parkinson's disease; she pays the bills; her mother spends the majority of her time But there's little time for introspection when so much needs doing day to day.

  • Shhh! Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays

    The Comfort Book is the newest book from Matt Haig, author of the novel How to Stop Time and the memoir and they serve as an uplifting collection of reassurances that are perfect for giving as a gift. 02 Time Hussain Nadiya Hussain, former winner of The Great British Baking Show, hosts a Netflix cooking show, Time In Time to Eat, Hussain offers weeknight meal solutions, ways to streamline meal preparation, precise More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays), and he has a new book out in time for the holiday gift-giving

  • Review of Wholehearted Faith by Rachel Held Evans

    The book's pace felt halting at times and its substance somewhat light at points. The pace of the book is sometimes halting and its sections about scripture at times felt a little light But Evans was an open, loving, inclusive, curious faith leader, and it was a pleasure spending time with

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