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  • Review of Lost in Time by A.G. Riddle

    Riddle is also the author of Departure and Winter World.

  • Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into

    column "Eric Reads the News," shares his thoughts, experiences, and reflections about life and the world I carry the structure of their bones around my insides...and try to tell the world, '...They were more Her disparate life experiences ultimately led her to think deeply about her place in the world, her responsibility

  • Review of Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird

    the tension and making clear the high stakes of Williams’s enormous secret and the destruction that would teenaged girls, an American and an Okinawan, whose lives are connected across seven decades and across the world

  • Review of Here For It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America by R. Eric Thomas

    column "Eric Reads the News," shares his thoughts, experiences, and reflections about life and the world

  • Six More Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Last Year

    (Robin's sister, introduced in book one) expects adventure when she agrees to help save the magical world may have created a situation in which she has fewer options than her constrained existence as a lady would might allow for too-easy deception, and also that seeing others take advantage of Molly's innocence would

  • Review of The Guncle by Steven Rowley

    Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP), life in recent years has been primarily focused on shutting off the outside world

  • Review of The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

    “In our world, if people believe at all, they believe that God is love, God is hearts and flowers, and

  • Review of Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang

    In Chinese, the word for America translates as "beautiful country." But stress and the constant fear of illness and tragedy—any misfortune that would draw attention to the I would have loved more of that older point of view.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/20/21 Edition

    listening to the author's snarky, silly, spot-on, sometimes gross, and often farcical takes on the world

  • Shhh! More Book Gifts for Kids and Teens

    Forgotten Fairy Tales offers ten stories you may never have heard before that take place around the world backgrounds in those books, I find myself actively trying to separate this immersive, love-filled fictional world The Ickabog is about a monstrous legend in the perfect and delicious world of Cornucopia.

  • Review of How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C. Pam Zhang

    Is Gold, Lucy and Sam are orphaned siblings who must become tough as nails to make their way in the world

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/1/21 Edition

    For the unfortunate one, the only hope of regaining glory would be to win the elaborate seniors' game "Eric Reads the News" column, shares his thoughts, experiences, and reflections about life and the world

  • My Twelve Favorite 2020 Books

    debut novel has remained largely under the radar since its publication last June, but I adored it and would has never met, in the conversational tone of a pen pal writing to someone who will love her and her words She uses Old Norse words in her speech and thoughts; she frequently mentions bravery, combat, wisdom, She can make no mark on the world--she cannot write or draw, she cannot disturb the snow by walking through sometimes desperately creative attempts to preserve lives; and the occasional triumphs that the rest of the world

  • Review of Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions by Jeffrey Selingo

    reinforces the approach for students of doing their thing, doing their best, being curious about the world

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/17/25 Edition

    The Antidote ; and I'm listening to Gillian McAllister's newest twisty, smart mystery, Famous Last Words 03 Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister Famous Last Words is another smart, twisty mystery from Gillian I'm listening to an audiobook edition of Famous Last Words , published February 25, courtesy of HarperAudio

  • Review of Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots

    She builds the world in her book gracefully--her job as a game designer probably plays into this ability But she can't stop trying to destroy the heroes' false perfection that is devastating so much of the world

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/23/21 Edition

    When a crisis erupts, Inti must choose between her beloved wolves and the outside world and its pressures

  • Review of The People We Keep by Allison Larkin

    she considers what she truly wants from her life; and she writes songs to cope with and interpret the world

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/28/21 Edition

    she considers what she truly wants from her life; and she writes songs to cope with and interpret the world

  • Review of Ink & Sigil by Kevin Hearne

    insufferably mischievous but in rare cases redeemable; all manner of creatures coexist in and visit our world

  • Review of A Deadly Education: Lesson One of the Scholomance by Naomi Novik

    I adored that El's mom seems like a peaceful hippie and inspires iconic obsession in the world of magic

  • Review of Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be by Frank Bruni

    your brain a vigorous workout and your soul a thorough investigation, to realize how very large the world

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

    We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu's fascinating, disturbing, strange exploration of a post-plague world is funny without trying too hard, and his tone is accessible even as he takes the reader deep into worlds

  • Review of The Lonely Hearts Book Club by Lucy Gilmore

    I love a book about books, but I was confused as to why the characters would seek out and spend prolonged Who would have stuck around to find this out? Who would give him the benefit of the doubt so many times? Who would be brought to tears and then move in to help him, without his having shown remorse, reflection The idea that the group would even consider asking Sloane to shift her life plans in order to stay local

  • Six Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Last Year

    And Emma would very much like to make it out of this alive as well. Oval Office--and it seems linked to violent terrorist attacks that soon begin taking place around the world

  • Review of Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens

    In Dark Roads, characters figure out their places in the world, find internal strength when they need

  • Review of The Life We Bury (Joe Talbert #1) by Allen Eskens

    It always seemed clear that we would have clean resolutions to the mystery; the sometimes-gruesome aspects It never felt as though the loose ends that needed resolving would be anything but cleanly unraveled-

  • Review of A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America by Timothy Egan

    Indiana—a state that had lost 25,000 men fighting the Confederacy just a half century earlier—would soon A majority would soon elect a Klansman as their mayor. Should they call the police, they would be reporting something already known, and even encouraged. He discovered that if he said something often enough, no matter how untrue, people would believe it.

  • Review of The Last Graduate (Scholomance #2) by Naomi Novik

    I found myself trying to slow down and savor Novik's irresistible Scholomance world while reading The

  • Six Lighter Fiction Stories for Great Escapism

    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. one of them), Bea is surprised when a show producer reaches out to her with an unexpected question: Would

  • Review of The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

    I started The Unhoneymooners curious to find out how Ethan would grow to be a redeemable character worthy (Side note: I can easily envision this as an excellent rom-com that I would definitely watch.) reviewed the fun and romantic Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating on this site, as well as Love and Other Words

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/14/20 Edition

    reputation over the safety and security of its teenaged students. 02 I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World

  • Review of The Favorites by Layne Fargo

    dramatic emotional turmoil and external sources of conflict (when they're advised to "trust no one," they would reality, but I didn't mind and was hooked on the roller coaster of a story, wondering what the heck would

  • Three Offbeat Series I Just Started and Love

    insufferably mischievous but in rare cases redeemable; all manner of creatures coexist in and visit our world

  • Review of Betty by Tiffany McDaniel

    She revels in the wonders of the natural world, soaks in her father's rich stories, loves her sisters

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/3/20 Edition

    of Stars is 878 pages, so if you never hear from me again, just know that I'm still out there in the world

  • Review of You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld

    I had no idea, of course, that of all the feelings of my youth that would pass, it was this one, of an abundance of time so great as to routinely be unfillable, that would vanish with the least ceremony.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/22/20 Edition

    The Exiles Christina Baker Kline, who authored Orphan Train (which I really liked) and A Piece of the World

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/20/21 Edition

    Feyre is drawn into a dangerous, glorious faery world of wicked beasts and complicated alliances to live

  • Review of The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz

    And my heart raced while I read to find out if this fraught situation would blow up in fantastic form I also wasn't sure that certain driving forces of Korelitz's story made sense (why would anyone in this My mom told me about a movie with a plot centering around a stolen book idea, The Words (starring Bradley

  • Review of Apeirogon by Colum McCann

    McCann is also the author of Let the Great World Spin, which I liked, but not as much as I did this book

  • My Twelve Favorite 2020 Books

    debut novel has remained largely under the radar since its publication last June, but I adored it and would has never met, in the conversational tone of a pen pal writing to someone who will love her and her words She uses Old Norse words in her speech and thoughts; she frequently mentions bravery, combat, wisdom, She can make no mark on the world--she cannot write or draw, she cannot disturb the snow by walking through sometimes desperately creative attempts to preserve lives; and the occasional triumphs that the rest of the world

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/24/21 Edition

    She's set on finding her father again and on making her way in a rough world made for men in order to

  • Review of Light Changes Everything by Nancy E. Turner

    Turner’s book These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 (despite the title, which Also, Aubrey was such an evil git, I admit to having hoped he would meet a more specific and particularly

  • Six of My Favorite Rom-Com Reads of the Year

    Jimenez is also the author of Part of Your World , Yours Truly , The Friend Zone , and The Happy-Ever-After

  • Review of Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry

    “I am no saint—none of us are—but once you have been at death’s door and you don’t die, you would think you would be bathed in relief and gratitude. his compulsion to use and his longtime inability to stop causes him to share multiple times that he would He feels he would do anything to be free of the chokehold of his addiction, which he feels is more severe

  • Review of City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

    It's not entirely clear why the recipient of the letter would want to hear the full details of Vivian's the very end of the book Vivian writes something wonderfully matter-of-fact to Angela regarding this; words

  • Six More Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You

    List Six Magical Fairy Tales Grown-Ups Will Love. 06 The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin In the world

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/22/20 Edition

    I've been saving French's newest book because I've had such high hopes that it would be stellar, so my Did one of them want so desperately to stop him that they would kill to keep him quiet? holiday and about the mistakes she feels she's made, Mae makes a plea to the universe to show her what would duo also wrote the fun and romantic Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating as well as Love and Other Words

  • Six of My Favorite Mystery Reads of the Year

    Liz Moore is also the author of Long Bright River  as well as Heft and The Unseen World .

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