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825 items found for "very favorite 2023"
- Review of Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
Hell, my mother said, and more of us marching there every day.
- Review of The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen
Circle, immersing the reader in a cold, unforgiving climate and in the long-held traditions of its varied
- Review of Grey Dog by Elliott Gish
Her cruel, controlling father is high up in the school board, so while he lords over her this "favor" historical fiction story, but I became fully hooked as the tale morphed into something wonderfully eerie
- Review of Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
Cosimano perfectly sets the scene for the next book in the series. Cosimano is also the author of the young adult mystery series Nearly Gone, the young adult fantasy series
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/31/22 Edition
This is the third book in Adrienne Young's Fable series. Click here for my review of Fable, and click here for my review of book two in the series, Namesake.
- Review of Antarctica by Claire Keegan
Antarctica showcases Keegan's masterful ability to distill varied lives into seemingly small moments,
- Review of Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean
Tokyo Ever After is listed as Tokyo Ever After #1, with the second book in the series, Tokyo Dreaming And for young adult royal stories, try Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series.
- Review of The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn
The beginning of the book moves quite slowly, which is fitting for the decadent, ongoing series of lavish
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/14/22 Edition
reading Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead, the second in Elle Cosimano's playful Finlay Donovan mystery series 01 Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead by Elle Cosimano In Elle Cosimano's first book in this series, Finlay In this second book, Finlay has Vero in her confidences as her live-in nanny.
- Review of The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
The point is that in almost every instance of our lives, our social lives, we are, if we pay attention Ross Gay resolved to write about a joy or delight, large or small, every day for a year, beginning on
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/14/21 Edition
Lincoln Highway, listening to Robert Galbraith's 944-page fifth installment in the Cormoran Strike series and Rules of Civility. 02 Troubled Blood by Robert Galbratih In the fifth installment of the mystery series
- Review of Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives by Mary Laura Philpott
As far as I can tell, the uncertain part is: every second we’re alive, until the last.
- Review of The Gods of Howl Mountain by Taylor Brown
I loved every bit of this story. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book?
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/21 Edition
Thomas Silkstone series and the Constance Piper Mystery series as well as The Light We Left Behind),
- Review of The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
And inside the enigmatic pages are the words Any door is every door.
- Review of VenCo by Cherie Dimaline
James is on the verge of snapping--and that's before she finds out she and her increasingly forgetful Through a series of unexpected events, she is offered a mysterious job at a publishing company...but
- Review of The Impossible Destiny of Cutie Grackle by Shawn K. Stout
Stout is also the author of the Penelope Crumb series, the Not-So-Ordinary Girl books, and the historical
- Review of Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
Annie was created to please her owner, Doug, in every way.
- Review of Into the Wilderness (Wilderness #1) by Sara Donati
In this first book of Donati's Wilderness series, it's 1792 and Elizabeth Middleton has traveled with
- Review of Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris
He takes the reader on a roller coaster of emotions, and I love every bit of it.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/3/20 Edition
Head Over Heels Just listen to this premise from Hannah Orenstein's latest book: nineteen-year-old Avery When she hits a version of rock bottom and moves home, Avery's former teammate and crush Ryan (who did become an Olympic champion) talks her into helping him coach a young phenom at the gym where Avery spent
- Review of Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
But a series of coincidences and misunderstandings lead to her being unaware that the head physicist
- Review of Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others by Barbara Brown Taylor
Taylor examines differences in faiths as well as where varied faiths intersect, and by seeing these religions
- Review of The Dream Builders by Oindrila Mukherjee
shapes The Dream Builders by telling the stories from ten different characters, interconnected but varied
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/18/23 Edition
I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Divine Rivals, the first in Rebecca Ross's Letters of Enchantment series
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/12/21 Edition
romaaaance; and I'm listening to Fallen, my first book in Linda Castillo's thirteen-book Kate Burkholder series This is the first book I've read in Castillo's thirteen-book Kate Burkholder series--all set in Amish
- Review of Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
Napolitano takes the reader through a series of disastrous events and through sometimes unconventional
- Review of This Other Eden by Paul Harding
Harding meanwhile offers a quickly unraveling series of events on the island as government officials
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/4/24 Edition
01 Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle Every time Daphne Bell meets a potential love interest, she receives
- Review of World Running Down by Al Hess
Al Hess is also the author of Yours Celestially, Key Lime Sky, and the series Hep Cats of Boise.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/10/23 Edition
April 11. 02 You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie Smith “Life, like a poem, is a series
- Review of Those We Thought We Knew by David Joy
The evil at the center of the mystery was a surprise because of the varied points of view, so while I
- Review of The Girl from Widow Hills by Megan Miranda
Three days later, she was recovered in a miraculous series of events that ended up with her rescue and Missing Girls, which I thought was interesting in its structure (it begins in the present day after a series
- Six Fascinating Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War
pleasure, and saw that I was on the brink of squandering a wondrous gift, the gift of being allowed, every day, to wander this vast sensual paradise, this grand marketplace lovingly stocked with every sublime
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/8/24 Edition
may never be the same. 03 Annie Bot by Sierra Greer Annie was created to please her owner, Doug, in every
- Review of Nothing Like I Imagined (Except for Sometimes) by Mindy Kaling
Nothing Like I Imagined is a short (118 pages, if you're reading; 1 hour 22 minutes if you're listening) series
- Review of One Foot in Eden by Ron Rash
This makes the book feel like a series of character studies with a mystery underlying it all.
- Six Five-Star Bossy Reads to Check Out
Edward tries on the mantle of taking responsibility for every life lost; he wallows in the despair of oddly unresolved at the end--even keeping in mind that there's a second book in Donati's Waverly Place series
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/11/24 Edition
Warren, the FBI Profilers, and the PI Tessa Leoni series. 02 All Our Yesterdays: A Novel of Lady Macbeth
- Review of The Villa by Rachel Hawkins
mysterious long-term illness and in the middle of a contentious divorce, is the author of a successful series
- Review of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
I read Caste with a group and met every other week to discuss it--and we went months past our original
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/2/20 Edition
She has also written the Villains series (two titles in that one so far) and the Shades of Magic series
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/28/21 Edition
courtesy of Knopf Publishing Group and NetGalley. 03 The Book of Delights by Ross Gay “...in almost every Ross Gay resolved to spend a year writing about a joy or delight, large or small, every day, beginning
- Review of Tokyo Dreaming (Tokyo Ever After #2) by Emiko Jean
In the second book in Emiko Jean's fun young adult series, princess Izzy balances pressures, privilege
- Review of Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Now I'd like Miller to please write more books about varied topics, because I like spending time in her
- Review of The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash
“There is an old saying that every story, even your own, is either happy or sad depending on where you
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/22/24 Edition
And inside the enigmatic pages are the words Any door is every door.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/10/22 Edition
author, a respectable citizen, and a disgraced police officer are intertwined through connections to a series
- Review of Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
Krueger has also written eighteen books in his Cork O'Connor mystery series, including Desolation Mountain
- Review of All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
Greenwood's skillful unfolding of the often brutal story, the characters' many layers, and the varied