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O'Keefe's Devoured Worlds series, The Blighted Stars , in which the heir to a galaxy-wide mining fortune Sarah Manguso is also the author of Very Cold People . 02 Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicenzio Catalina O'Keefe's Devoured Worlds series, The Blighted Stars , studious Tarquin Mercator is the unlikely heir O'Keefe is also the author of the The Protectorate series and The Scorched Continent series.

In despair about having had a rotten holiday and realizing that future holidays at her favorite place

I recently listed some of my favorite romantic, light stories in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Light

Henry's Beach Read was one of my favorite books last year, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading List

Elizabeth Strout is one of my favorite authors, and this recently published book is her newest in the

I very much enjoyed the French Resistance storyline, with its details of safe houses, document drops, For example, the reader may very early on see the truth behind what ends up being a shocking surprise In addition, Martin is the author of the series Mercenary Maidens, Highlander, Wicked Earls' Club, Wedding

It seemed very odd that Millie--who is so focused on goals, doing her duty, behaving in a manner that's are just versions of what she was willing to go along with--without asking any questions--from the very this culminating situation of neglectful, inept damage that is ultimately inflicted by practically every

be involved. 03 So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell My friend James mentioned this one as a favorite

At the very least it's an intriguing peek at what makes certain songs pivotal to people who choose to is a decade-by-decade look at Seinfeld's favorite notes from his career in stand-up comedy, featuring

There's a second book in this Naomi Cottle series, The Butterfly Girl, which I haven't yet read, and Disappearing Earth is a story that is as much about the varied cast of characters, the closed-off, remote The very existence of Hurley's images is incredible; the glass plate negatives lasted through months What are some of your favorite cold-setting books? Captive by Fiona King Foster, Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice, Winter World, the first in a series

I love a peek at a secret world, and each of these books offers that very thing. I'd love to hear: What are your favorite (fiction or nonfiction) books about tough lady spies? found it really satisfying. 04 The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah The Nightingale is Kristin Hannah's very I would have been in favor of having the romantic element being tied up without the Eve aspect, or having

Here are six of my favorite fiction works that have to do with rock and roll, writing songs, performing And now every time you cross it again, it just gets grayer and grayer until one day you look around and And if you don't know yourself very well, you might even believe that they are right.

There's a second book in this Naomi Cottle series, The Butterfly Girl, which I haven't yet read, and Disappearing Earth is a story that is as much about the varied cast of characters, the closed-off, remote The very existence of Hurley's images is incredible; the glass plate negatives lasted through months What are some of your favorite cold-setting books? Captive by Fiona King Foster, Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice, Winter World, the first in a series

For a more playful take on vampires, check out Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate series; you can read I plan to finish this great series at some point. For a very different take, you might check out The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, in

Macintyre also wrote the fantastic Spy and the Traitor, which was one of my Six Favorite Nonfiction Books

I don't think it benefited me to listen to The Last Magician , the first in Maxwell's series, as an audiobook , what with the jumps through time; varied points of view; layered disloyalties, misdirections, and motivations This was one of my favorite reads of the year last year.

groups radicalizing new members, and kids sending each other literal death threats in defense of their favorite

NASA contact, Molly, who sends her audio messages (and occasionally forwards along episodes of Romy's favorite

I'm sooooo very excited to be reading each of these books: Blake Crouch's upcoming science fiction, Upgrade the doctors say he's been infected by a virus--one designed not to make him sick, but to modify his very He’s becoming stronger and smarter every day–but he’s also being hunted down by his enemies for potential

Tower and The Winter of the Witch are the others, and I think Arden's stories get even stronger as the series This is magical realism, folklore, and historical fiction wrapped up in one very interesting read. 05 She considers every desperate plan she can to try to save Kasia from this horrible fate, knowing all I feel compelled to also mention that Novik has a series of nine books about dragons, the Temeraire series What are some of your favorite fairy tale-type books or retellings?

The found-family element of My Heart Went Walking was heartwarming and a favorite aspect of mine.

How to Say Goodbye is scheduled for publication July 18, 2023.

I would very happily read a full Little House in the Prairie-length series about Bertie and her life. Hardinger offers up many crisp and varied details of the time, she captures Bertie’s speech patterns, What are some of your favorite historical fiction books you've read lately?

Gagne asserts that she and others with sociopathy feel very little, don't adhere to societal safety standards Those without her resources and safety net could (and likely do) very well have had their story cut short

The secondary character of Thomas Noble was my favorite in the book.

As she's putting her former favorite romance books in a Little Free Library, a wizened old woman approaches

Very very happy. #alternatereality, #timetravel, #fantasyscifi, #fourstarbookreview What are your favorite time travel

Henry's Beach Read was a favorite book of mine last year, and it made it into the Greedy Reading List

But the definition of mad, on Earth, seems to be very unclear and inconsistent. The Murderbot series (check out my reviews of three first three books here; the others are searchable on this blog) is another, very different book that also does this wonderfully.

That there would be two lines, heading in very different directions... shifts, and many chapters are short, but I felt connected to each of the characters and thought the varied

The very end felt a little abrupt to me, but by that time I had already become satisfied with the lead-up I received a prepublication digital edition of this book, published May 11, 2021, courtesy of Alcove

Through the very different but interconnected storylines and the varied, complicated set of characters

On the other hand, wasn't that the very definition of life? Constant adaptations brought about by a series of never-ending mistakes? Exciting news for story-to-screen fans: the book is reportedly being adapted into a streaming series

This section was my favorite part of the book.

about small-town Ireland; I'm reading Changeless, the second in Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate series , Soulless (I also listed it on the Greedy Reading List Three Offbeat Series I Just Started and Love) The series takes place in 1870s London, and as in book one, the immensely appealing, practical, fearless ‘You haven’t even picked out a new duvet set; I’m told that’s a very important milestone.” Like Changeless, above, As Good As Dead is a sequel in a series I've loved (book one is A Good Girl's

Do you have any favorite books that involve revenge? It's intriguing, and I was definitely hooked for the second book in the series. The second book in this series is Hell Bent. I mentioned Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone series in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series.

The Last Bookshop in London is never sentimental but very powerful, and I was brought to tears while Madeline Martin is also the author of The Librarian Spy and various romance series.

I don't think it benefited me to listen to The Last Magician, the first in Maxwell's series, as an audiobook , what with the jumps through time; varied points of view; layered disloyalties, misdirections, and motivations This was one of my favorite reads of the year last year.

It's a young adult book, with lots of love and attraction but very little steaminess (none explicit),

a social media guru bent on controlling everything, and she's starting to wonder if she's ventured very final installment in Freya Marske's Last Binding trilogy, a queer historical fiction fantasy-mystery series

is one of several civil servants offered a mysterious job: she'll be a handler for expats--and paid very

relationship, Ann Liang's This Time It's Real; and I'm reading the third book in Tamsyn Muir's dark, eerie Locked Tomb series, Nona the Ninth. The Locked Tomb series so far is dark dark dark, with death, nefarious plotting, and gleefully gruesome For my review of the first book in this series, Gideon the Ninth, check out the info at this link. Book four, Alecto the Ninth, is expected to be published early in 2024.

adversity and overcoming difficulties; I'm reading This Woven Kingdom, the first in Tahereh Mafi's series father's death that he has become obsessed with centers around the striking servant girl under his very

Do you have any favorite reads set in Australia? 01 Exiles (Aaron Falk #3) by Jane Harper The third in Jane Harper's Aaron Falk series offers procedural Can a person’s character or morality be decided in a moment, or in a series of defining moments?

Marilynne Robinson offers another gentle yet affecting book in her Gilead series, this time about faith When we pick up with him at the start of Robinson's book, he has frequently been very drunk, often sleeping willing to enter into such a fraught--and, at the time, illegal--relationship, one that is sure to at the very If you've read the gentle, lovely Gilead, one of Robinson's other three novels in the Gilead series (

scope of Vivian's reason for writing, but I didn't much care about this potential issue because I loved every At the very end of the book Vivian writes something wonderfully matter-of-fact to Angela regarding this Gilbert is a lovely writer who authored the very interesting nonfiction book Last American Man and the

Reading Now I'm reading A Play for the End of the World by Jai Chakrabarti, my book club's first read of 2023

makes enemies of multiple fellow contestants, she struggles with the staged and manipulated nature of every while navigating the sparkly idea--and messy reality--of romance, with the inspiration of her mom's favorite

into role-playing video games and write fan fiction, to bond with a few classmates through watching favorite

But Brody is beginning to think that the couple may be hiding a very good reason for wanting to get rid