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154 items found for "mortality"
- My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads
always, her main characters are richly layered, struggle with terrible circumstances, retain strong moral I find myself drawn to books that explore mortality.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/24/22 Edition
03 How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur In How to Be Perfect , Michael Schur, the creator of Parks and Recreation and The Good Place, uses 2,400 years of morality
- Review of Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
pandemic, moon colonization, the universal connection of music, the temptation to change the past, portals fiction novel, Mandel plays with time and time travel as well as mysteries surrounding what may be a portal
- Review of A Murderous Relation (Veronica Speedwell #5) by Deanna Raybourn
privilege: the story revisits a working-class character from an earlier book--and presents society's moral
- Review of Lost in Time by A.G. Riddle
(The moral responsibility or weight of this process is not deeply examined in the book.) really delve into such feelings, and the characters seemed secure in what felt likely to be impossibly morally
- Review of Land of Milk and Honey by C. Pam Zhang
the wealthiest elite on a lush mountaintop compound, and she loses more and more of herself and her morals
- Review of Baby X by Kira Peikoff
Meanwhile Baby X explored interesting, complex, sometimes moral and ethical issues, including those around
- Review of Activation Degradation by Marina J. Lostetter
that slowed things for me, but as of page 66 the action and character development and exploration of morality
- Review of What the Mountains Remember by Joy Callaway
The complex moral and practical aspects of the TB raging through the area are not fully resolved.
- Review of The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
For me, much of the story’s depth lay in its exploration of conflicting elements of morality and necessity
- Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore
pandemic, moon colonization, the universal connection of music, the temptation to change the past, portals fiction novel, Mandel plays with time and time travel as well as mysteries surrounding what may be a portal
- Six Favorite Bossy Fantasy Reads from the Past Year
Our brave main protagonist (and rebel) Talin is forced to submit to the Federation's morally questionable Roberts's Dragon Heart Legacy series, she set up a romantic fantasy about a chosen one, a long-lost family, portals
- Review of No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
In the main character's take on "the portal," as she refers to the internet, she straddles the line between About the portal, the protagonist says: “It had also been the place where you sounded like yourself.
- Review of Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski
responses to try to counterbalance "...a cultural pigeonholing of experience shaped by...three messages--Moral
- October Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
review, please check out A Psalm for the Wild-Built. 06 How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral questions, scenarios, and ideas, How to Be Perfect is nonfiction that makes considering ethics and morality creator of the television series The Good Place, explores various schools of thought about ethics and morality
- Review of The Best of Me by David Sedaris
memories and mining them for poignancy and also laughs, or presenting his own distorted versions of morality
- Review of Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor
Privileged protagonists display cruelty and a disassociation from morality.
- Review of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality.
- Review of Chenneville: A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance by Paulette Jiles
always, her main characters are richly layered, struggle with terrible circumstances, retain strong moral
- Review of A Conspiracy in Belgravia (Lady Sherlock #2) by Sherry Thomas
And then Sherlock Holmes had turned out to be a woman with loose morals and no remorse.
- Review of Steelstriker (Skyhunter #2) by Marie Lu
Our brave main protagonist (and rebel) Talin is forced to submit to the Federation's morally questionable
- Review of Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
I could imagine a story scenario in which Millie compromised her morals as the situation bloated into
- Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore
pandemic, moon colonization, the universal connection of music, the temptation to change the past, portals fiction novel, Mandel plays with time and time travel as well as mysteries surrounding what may be a portal
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/8/22 Edition
Roberts's Dragon Heart Legacy series, she set up a romantic fantasy about a chosen one, a long-lost family, portals
- Review of Return of the Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
consistently and wonderfully unexpected developments related to plot, character arc, point of view, morality
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/27/21 Edition
The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/2/22 Edition
fiction novel, Mandel plays with time and time travel, as well as mysteries surrounding what may be a portal
- Six of My Favorite Nonfiction Reads from the Past Year
playful, often weighty questions, scenarios, and ideas, How to Be Perfect makes considering ethics and morality , Michael Schur, the creator of Parks and Recreation and The Good Place, relies upon takeaways from morality
- Review of Only Killers and Thieves by Paul Howarth
Can a person’s character or morality be decided in a moment, or in a series of defining moments?
- Review of In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
In Other Lands is the epitome of glorious young adult fantasy—there’s a portal; there are mermaids, elves
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/6/22 Edition
that slowed things for me, but as of page 66 the action and character development and exploration of morality
- Review of One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
significantly faulted characters, and the kids are left to find their own ways emotionally or financially or morally
- May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
pandemic, moon colonization, the universal connection of music, the temptation to change the past, portals fiction novel, Mandel plays with time and time travel as well as mysteries surrounding what may be a portal
- Review of The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
I wanted to explore that complexity and that moral ambiguity.
- Review of Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March
story keeps a patient pace as Captain Jim uncovers clues, uses deduction, and emphasizes loyalty and moral
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/21/22 Edition
efforts, through immeasurable difficulty and challenge, and to her life cut short because of her repeated moral
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/18/22 Edition
Our brave main protagonist and rebel Talin is forced to submit to the Federation's morally questionable
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/7/21 Edition
feminists to magnates, well-read wanderers to brutal murderers, and every shade of crooked dealer, morally
- Review of A Burning by Megha Majumdar
the manifestation of positive and negative expectations; and the thorny rewards of compromising one's morals
- Review of The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman
The Scarlet Letter explores humanity's sins and judgments and offers moral lessons--I could see her responding
- Review of The Fate of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
is presented as a swift, sweeping, destructive force in the Town without offering any redemption or morality
- Review of When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald
Her pinpoint focus on morality, bravery, and what is right (which is beautifully spot-on and also makes
- May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Meanwhile Baby X explored interesting, complex, sometimes moral and ethical issues, including those around
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/24/21 Edition
consistently and, for me, wonderfully unexpected developments related to plot, character arc, point of view, morality
- Six of My Pandemic-Era Book Buys
In We Are Called to Be a Movement, Barber makes an impassioned case for change and a "moral revival,"
- October Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
privilege: the story revisits a working-class character from an earlier book--and presents society's moral
- Six Books Set in Australia that Are Fair Dinkum Fascinating
Can a person’s character or morality be decided in a moment, or in a series of defining moments?
- Six Fascinating Stories Set in Space
that slowed things for me, but as of page 66 the action and character development and exploration of morality
- Six More Satisfying Novels about Revenge
significantly faulted characters, and the kids are left to find their own ways emotionally or financially or morally
- November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
memories and mining them for poignancy and also laughs, or presenting his own distorted versions of morality