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Aug 2, 2021

Review of The People We Keep by Allison Larkin

Teenaged April has been dealt a difficult hand in life, and watching her struggle to make her way and connect with others in Allison...

Jul 30, 2021

July Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

My very favorite books from July! Here are the books I most loved reading during the past month. I'd love to hear: what are some of your...

Jul 26, 2021

Review of Rule of Wolves (King of Scars #2) by Leigh Bardugo

The moments of redemption aren’t too easy, and I found the various threads building toward the amazing ending to be satisfying and...

Jul 23, 2021

Six Fascinating Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories

The Second-Chance Books I love a good second-chance book in which the main character gets the opportunity to go back and try again, redo...

Jul 9, 2021

My Very Favorite 2021 Reads So Far

My very favorite reads so far this year! I post a monthly wrap-up of my favorite reads, but now that 2021 is halfway over, it feels like...

Jul 6, 2021

Review of Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby

This is a brutally violent story shadowed with heartbreaking regret. It's a fast read, and after my love of Blacktop Wasteland last year,...

Jul 5, 2021

Review of No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

The first section of Lockwood's story about an internet darling is absurd, frivolous, vulgar, irritating, and frequently disturbing; the...

Jun 30, 2021

June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

My very favorite books from June! Here's the gist of each of the books I most loved reading during the past month, in the order in which...

Jun 25, 2021

Review of The Great Mistake by Jonathan Lee

Lee shapes a lovely, tragic, wonderfully detailed story around the forgotten, real-life figure of Andrew Green and his essential...

Jun 22, 2021

Review of One of Us Is Next by Karen M. McManus

This is a great, character-driven sequel to McManus’s young adult mystery One of Us Is Lying. Last year, in McManus's great young adult...

Jun 21, 2021

Review of The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

Dave offers unexpected twists and turns and complex relationships in this great mystery. In The Last Thing He Told Me, Hannah has just...

Jun 17, 2021

Review of Half Wild: Stories by Robin MacArthur

ICYMI: MacArthur's stories, set in rural Vermont, are tragic, beautiful, heartwarming, and heartbreaking. MacArthur, who is from Vermont...

Jun 15, 2021

Review of Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1) by Sylvain Neuvel

ICYMI: I've been thinking lately about robot books and specifically about this great series by Neuvel, in which a girl stumbles upon...

Jun 11, 2021

Six Chilly Books to Read in the Heat of Summer

ICYMI: I first posted this Greedy Reading List as a list of cold-setting books to read by a wintry fire, but the heat of summer has...

Jun 7, 2021

Review of The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren

The story is heartwarming, funny, with strong friendships, plus it's steamy and romantic at times without being dramatic. I loved this...

Jun 4, 2021

Review of A Song for the Road by Kathleen Basi

Basi manages an incredible feat: the book involves messy feelings and grief, yet it isn't maudlin or sappy despite the tragedy and...

Jun 3, 2021

Review of A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls #2) by Hank Green

This ending to Green's duology has tremendous heart without ever flirting with sappiness, deep meaning without being pedantic, and it...

Jun 2, 2021

Review of An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (The Carls #1) by Hank Green

ICYMI: This is a gloriously oddball book with lots of heart featuring unorthodox friendships, the frightening power of social media, the...

Jun 1, 2021

Review of Namesake by Adrienne Young

I love Young's tone and her characters. Namesake was fantastic, and I wish more books were coming in this series. Namesake is the second...

May 28, 2021

May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

My very favorite books from May! In no particular order, here's the gist of each of the books I most loved reading during the past month:...

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