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- Review of Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith
As always in Cormoran Strike world, the details of the crime are often grisly and disturbing.
- Review of Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
Welcome to Matthew McConaughey's world! When I started this book, I messaged my friend Hannah: "It's Matthew McConaughey's world and we're all
- Review of The Other Side of Night by Adam Hamdy
behavior, who seem untrustworthy and whose accounts feel unreliable, and in a grim, twisted, mysterious world
- Review of Writers & Lovers by Lily King
tension (one that exists in both of these King novels) that made me worry whether the presented situation would restaurant and the twisted but familial community forged among the stresses and frantic pace of that world
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/14/21 Edition
revenge; and Sally Rooney's heart-wrenching coming-of-age story about two young people from different worlds recently messaged my friend Hannah about how I'm feeling about this book: "It's Matthew McConaughey's world
- Review of August Kitko and the Mechas from Space (The Starmetal Symphony #1) by Alex White
Starmetal Symphony space opera series, Gus is a jazz pianist whose biggest hope for the pending end of the world
- Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading
Orenstein didn't hit any false notes for me and kept me satisfyingly wrapped up in the elite gymnastics world The premise of Dear Emmie Blue made me wonder if the story would feel too far-fetched. Click here for my reviews of Lauren's The Unhoneymooners, In a Holidaze, Love and Other Words, The Soulmate one of them), Bea is surprised when a show producer reaches out to her with an unexpected question: Would
- Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music
I worried that they would be insufferable martyrs I wouldn't believe in. complicated interpersonal conflicts, and the band's mysterious breakup, which broke hearts around the world stumbles into a warehouse party full of misfits embracing their otherness, Elise begins to see that the world
- Review of We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman
, wife, and friend as she tries to figure out how to say goodbye to her longest, best friend in the world
- Review of The Empress by Laura Martinez-Belli
Charlotte, called Empress Carlota by the people, is behind the scenes in Mexico running things for Napoleon III are maddeningly following their own whims and wielding the power here as they are everywhere in the world
- Review of This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
“We are, on this earth, so incredibly small, in the history of time, in the crowd of the world, we are
- Review of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
A programmer is a diviner of possible outcomes, and a seer of unknown worlds.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/17/21 Edition
Jude is the exiled Queen of Faerie, scrambling to make a living in the human world by freelancing, carrying When her twin sister Taryn arrives in the human world, fearing for her life, Jude finds herself drawn
- Review of A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Feyre is drawn into a dangerous, glorious faery world of wicked beasts and complicated alliances to live kingdom in the nonsensical way specified after the fact; the absurdity that a ruler who was centuries old would
- Review of Sarahland: Stories by Sam Cohen
rooted where universal experience intersects with the uniqueness of Any Woman’s experiences in the world
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/10/21 Edition
brave young woman shaped by her Native American heritage; and a young adult book set in an alternate world NetGalley. 03 Body of Stars by Laura Maylene Walter In Body of Stars, debut author Walter imagines a world
- Review of Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley
Romance may be the world’s oldest cult.
- Review of The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama
point of this book, after all: offering meaningful ways to be and to keep hope and be a light in the world
- Review of How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang
adjusting to the showy personas she's encountering and to participating in the process of shifting her words It also seemed as though their sex life would have felt more intriguing and would have carried more weight about the events surrounding Helen's sister's death, or their relationship, or something else that would I was imagining that eventually Helen would dig further into her past and complicated trauma, so that
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/3/22 Edition
author of The Wife Upstairs), Lux is a frustrated young woman who's just done what she said she never would But the couple's grand plans to sail the world have come to a standstill.
- Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year
is funny without trying too hard, and his tone is accessible even as he takes the reader deep into worlds worthwhile issues without ego, and in being actively involved in improving the lives of others around the world I love to laugh at Sedaris's darkly funny reflections about the world and society--and at his recognition
- Review of The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl
The author is deeply connected to nature and has a poet's way with words as she explores the wonder of I listened to The Comfort of Crows as an audiobook, but I think this one would have been even better
- Shhh! Bossy Gift Ideas: Books about Media, Movies, and Music
Bossy Book Gift Ideas: Science and the Natural World Shhh! and Ebert often disagreed--on which movies to review, the wisdom of casting choices, which of them would
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/19/22 Edition
"Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose."
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/1/24 Edition
This book returns to the world of Elfhame, and I think it's important to first read the Folk of the Air
- Review of A Conspiracy in Belgravia (Lady Sherlock #2) by Sherry Thomas
Charlotte's various views on the world are absolute gems, and I absolutely love spending time in her
- Review of Cher: The Memoir, Part One by Cher
I was curious to find out if Cher would provide more reflection around events as she grew older and more This is very minor, but Block's occasional emphasis on certain words and infrequent, but present, perplexing
- Review of Horse by Geraldine Brooks
in each of the other interconnected timelines, as we see privileged Martha Jackson dive into the art world
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/25/22 Edition
retelling swirls with family drama, intrigue, bravery--and a young woman determined to make her mark in a world
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/27/23 Edition
space opera series The Starmetal Symphony, Gus is a jazz pianist whose biggest hope for the end of the world
- Review of Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1) by Sylvain Neuvel
Years later Rose is a world-renowned physicist working to unlock the secrets of the hand and the curious
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/13/23 Edition
, wife, and friend as she tries to figure out how to say goodbye to her longest, best friend in the world
- Review of Wild Life by Keena Roberts
Roberts reflects upon her identity and place in the world in a raw and genuine way that I found gripping Her disparate life experiences ultimately lead her to think deeply about her place in the world, her
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/23/23 Edition
Adrienne Young is also the author of Fable, its sequel Namesake, and The Last Legacy, loosely set in the worlds
- Review of Swift the Storm, Fierce the Flame by Meg Long
unforgivingly cruel ice of the first book, and I found myself missing the richness of that earlier world
- Review of Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
and your husband goes by on the Gator and you are positive that this is all you've ever wanted in the world
- Six Historical Fiction Mysteries Sure to Intrigue You
(Although I really would have enjoyed having a futuristic ability to create fact webs, detailed maps Curious Beginning. 04 The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton “There are very few certainties in this world Ji Lin is a young girl who would have dreamed of becoming a doctor if society would have allowed it,
- Review of State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny
to an underling in the Oval Office--and violent terrorist attacks soon begin taking place around the world
- Review of Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
The interconnectedness between strangers and family members and the world was one of the most interesting
- May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
I listened to The Comfort of Crows as an audiobook, but I think this one would have been even better In a world of the near future, a young (unnamed) woman is one of several civil servants offered a mysterious
- Review of The Grace Year by Kim Liggett
some major issues: consorting with the gruesomely brutal enemy; the prospect of folding back into the world
- Review of The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin
In the world of Griffin's young adult fantasy novel The Nature of Witches, witches control the weather
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/31/22 Edition
station, Lucrezia struggles to get to know her new husband--and to figure out how to exist in this new world
- Review of Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese
Isobel's needlework and the colors she sees in the world are captivatingly described, and the tenuous
- Review of The Witch Elm by Tana French
Others seemed to take a sensitive look at their places within the world but became embroiled in ugly
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/29/21 Edition
There's no real choice to make--Jack would never allow his brother to go. mischievous performance art rebel Nico; and their new friend, Mick, who hasn't quite found her place in the world
- Review of Blood: A Memoir by Allison Moorer
I carry the structure of their bones around my insides...and try to tell the world, '...They were more Late in the book Moorer notes, "I learned to hold my fists up to the world to try to protect myself from
- Review of Long Bright River by Liz Moore
Moore's books Heft and The Unseen World also look good, but I haven't read them yet.
- Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year
dysfunctionalfamily, #fourstarbookreview, #leavingthewitness 02 The Unexpected Spy I love a peek at a secret world , and in The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's accounts of his sexual escapades with her and others, and, incredibly and most damningly, his use of the N-word
- Review of Going There by Katie Couric
Going There shines through Couric's insider peeks at the media world, playful insights about famous people