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- Review of Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad
When Suleika's beloved father later admits to her that he doesn't know if he would have done the same
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/24/21 Edition
“For the rest of my life there would be a splinter in my being, stinging from the moment my mother died
- Review of Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
This is a place that those in higher castes would prefer to pretend does not exist, where residents worry
- Review of books 1-3 of the Murderbot series by Martha Wells
It's impatient with humans and other droids, and it would prefer to watch the endless hours of media
- Review of Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby
It seems like it would be difficult to write those descriptions compellingly, but S.A.
- February Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
one evening, tabbed many, many passages, immediately bought my own copy, re-tabbed everything, and would control and her reckoning with the way in which she considers her body after cancer treatment ("Who would
- Review of Red Notice by Bill Browder
their dress is said to be "classy" or "beautiful"; and on multiple occasions Browder relates that his words
- Review of 142 Ostriches by April Davila
some more character development—for example, that each of the black sheep in the family (Scott, Mom) would
- Review of Hard Cash Valley by Brian Panowich
which he was so back and forth, he and his point of view were tough to get a read on: “I wished she would
- Review of The Fire and the Ore by Olivia Hawker
the church espoused its great dream of building Zion, a cooperative community where all who worked would
- Review of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #1) by Holly Jackson
I wondered if this would be a sort of young adult fiction version of the Serial podcast, and it IS, in
- Review of A Burning by Megha Majumdar
Many years ago I would have been asking why is this happening?
- Review of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
I had imagined that the tone of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires would be campy, but
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/4/21 Edition
Poppy is impulsive and fun-loving, and Alex would generally rather stay home and read than seek out adventure
- Review of Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel by Martha Wells
I love Murderbot, and I would have read this book even had I known this going in, but the logistics,
- Review of The Fate of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
the Tearling also appeared (along with The Girl from Widow Hills by Megan Miranda and I Was Told It Would
- Review of Shiner by Amy Jo Burns
When tragedy strikes and Briar attempts to address the crisis with words and faith rather than emergency
- Review of Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon
For the unfortunate one, the only hope of regaining glory would be to win the elaborate seniors' game
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/16/20 Edition
the pen name Christina Lauren) book Autoboyography but did not feel as strongly about Love and Other Words
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/2/21 Edition
wineries on Long Island, and most members of the Hollander family took for granted that the winery would
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/20 Edition
Lauren's fun and romantic Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating on this site, as well as Love and Other Words
- Review of So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Chapter Nine was regarding the N-word, and I continue to think about the fact that Oluo felt it necessary
- Review of Goodnight Beautiful by Aimee Molloy
twist occur in the audiobook may have made the unreliable narrator aspect even more arresting than it would
- Review of The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
inconvenient and seemed to primarily exist in order to drive the plot: a character reads part of a diary that would
- Review of City of Windows (Lucas Page #1) by Robert Pobi
And I think there would have likely been police protection on site in Montauk.
- Six Newish Young Adult Mysteries I Want to Read
or I would have been completely out of luck.
- Six Riveting Backlist Reads
has never met, in the conversational tone of a pen pal writing to someone who will love her and her words
- Review of Deadly Waters by Dot Hutchison
Could she--would she do such a thing?
- Six Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Reading in the Past Year
I never would have predicted the twists.
- Review of Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
sometimes put-upon wife, mother , and teacher (although we never see her head to work or hear another word
- Six of My Favorite Reads of the Year So Far
I never would have predicted the twists.
- Six Captivating Nordic Stories
I think I would love the details of a Nordic setting in any genre.
- Six Five-Star Bossy Reads to Check Out
it makes me feel all the feelings, it makes me consider things in a new way, it gives me more than I would
- Review of Force of Nature (Aaron Falk #2) by Jane Harper
I would like more more more Falk and for him to be at the heart of all of Harper's stories.
- Six Backlist Summer Favorites
has never met, in the conversational tone of a pen pal writing to someone who will love her and her words
- Six 2020 Mysteries for You to Check Out
largely unsympathetic, yet Janelle Brown kept me happily turning the pages of Pretty Things to see who would
- Review of Autoboyography by Christina Lauren
I read their book Love and Other Words after Autoboyography ratcheted my expectations into outer space
- April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
There's no real choice to make--Jack would never allow his brother to go.