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investigator, despite the fact that a female entrepreneur investigator is an unheard-of position for the time Jacqueline Winspear is the author of 18 Maisie Dobbs novels as well as a memoir, This Time Next Year

But she's gone through a breakup because of her partner's betrayal, and she's having a hard time getting Then Florence's beloved father dies, and she returns to her hometown for the first time in many years elements (the missed deadline driving the story's initial tension that was all but forgotten for a time

This was the right book at the right time for me, and I loved it. retired from tennis at the top of her game, as the best player in the world and the greatest of all time I suspect that as with Daisy Jones and the Six and its page time spent on the music world, bandmate negotiations Carrie is back, but she's also considering her life beyond tennis for the first time, and this leads I flew through this story--it was solidly a "right book at the right time" situation for me, and I also

from sharing the context of his repeated decision of drugs or alcohol over sobriety--despite having at times The pain of his compulsion to use and his longtime inability to stop causes him to share multiple times Perry spends much of the page time focusing on the many (beautiful) women who got away. The book zigzags through time to paint a picture of years of damaging substance abuse, and Perry's honesty

It's time for the foooood books! Ruth Reichl was editor in chief of Gourmet and a world-renowned food critic for The New York Times, and I wondered at first if Bourdain's "I'm tough, I've been pretty screwed up at times, and I'm also sometimes before I spent endless evenings happily watching multiple television series featuring Anthony Bourdain traveling

, historical fiction set in 1926 jazz-era London; I'm reading Kevin Wilson's newest, Now Is Not the Time Life After Life, Human Croquet, When Will There Be Good News, and many more books. 02 Now Is Not the Time Check out this link for my review of Kevin Wilson's Now Is Not the Time to Panic.

I loved spending time with the uproariously funny Thomas as he recounts how he's navigated situations and abused, opening her own long-closed (and hitherto unknown to her) file and seeing for the first time her fully realized adult self, and this journey is satisfying to watch after living through the page time I was so happy spending time in her point of view throughout this book. I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come. 06 Wild Life by Keena Roberts Keena Roberts grew up splitting her time

Bryson has also written the smart, wry travel books The Lost Continent, Neither Here nor There, Notes

This was the right book at the right time for me, and I loved everything about it. Click here for my full review of Romantic Comedy. 03 This Time It's Real by Ann Liang I was hooked by In Ann Liang's young adult rom-com This Time It's Real, when seventeen-year-old Eliza's class essay about But she's gone through a breakup because of her partner's betrayal, and she's having a hard time getting Then Florence's beloved father dies, and she returns to her hometown for the first time in many years

That said, I have a tough time reading memoirs in which someone is fighting cancer, and this one may Now I'd like Miller to write more books about varied topics, because I like spending time in her head At times there is some silliness and some superficial focus, but I felt as though Simpson was laying Interestingly, she spends a lot more page time on John Mayer than Nick Lachey—and provides what ultimately

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading First Time for Everything, the upcoming novel (to be published 01 First Time for Everything by Henry Fry In Henry Fry's new (to be published tomorrow!) novel First Time for Everything, Danny Scudd has spent five years trying to make good on his dreams. pilgrimage across Europe and the Near East, sharing Julian's papers and her own visions, meeting at times with aggression, lies, and immense challenges; at other times feeling her hope and religious fervor

Could she spend regular time in the water near him, successfully reminding him of her identity and thereby We track back through time to witness Wren's younger years, then farther back to understand Wren's mother's

moment by multiple instances of odd tone shifts and what felt like repeated nonsensical or strange timing exclamation "I miss sex" seems to come out of nowhere; sexual innuendos seem to come at strange, inopportune times rises") and intense fixations on elements such as a character's "incredible scent" that stopped me at times

I Told You; I'm reading a light-fiction romantic comedy about a fake relationship, Ann Liang's This Time you might also like the titles on my Greedy Reading List Six Musicians' Memoirs that Sing. 02 This Time It's Real by Ann Liang In Ann Liang's light fiction rom-com This Time It's Real, when seventeen-year-old

mother's death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book faces the sale of the family home in New England and travels

Rachel Lynn Solomon crafts another sweet, quirky, funny, romantic young adult story that plays with time She was harassed and publicly shamed as a result, so her time at her state university is bound to be Barrett can't decide if this time loop is a dream come true--or a living nightmare. is excellent at building wonderfully imperfect characters and irresistible premises that play with time

I do love a dragon book, and the second in the Empyrian series offers more page time for the talking I have been since the night the snow fell in your hair and you kissed me for the first time."). allows the characters to be less earnest and more playful and to invoke a little bit of dark humor at times

Yet the pacing was slow for me, so it took me some time to get through this one.

has disappeared, God of the Woods ; and I'm listening to Joy Callaway's historical fiction set in the time 01 Long Live Evil (Time of Iron #1) by Sarah Rees Brennan I love a story that flips a traditional setup

Hillier's thriller jumps back and forth in time, deftly weaving a web of secrets and lies, daring escape As a woman once reminded her a long time ago, the common denominator in all the terrible things that Jennifer Hillier weaves a gripping story that jumps back in forth in time from when Paris was a young

funny, feminist story about a retiring female team of elite assassins was the right book at the right time After four decades of successfully ridding the world of cruelty and destruction one person at a time, Time passes, and a young family moves onto Division Street. “If only time could be seen whole, then you could see the past remaining intact, instead of vanishing I loved reading this and spending time with Michelle Obama.

Spoiler: a dragon appears at the very end of the book, laying the groundwork for more dragon page time country who is advancing medical techniques and is sought out for her helpful salves and methods in a time given basic animal care instructions and "take" their unconventional cat prescriptions for a period of time tells the tales of various characters, lost or in pain, who find themselves transformed by spending time The clinic is not always accessible--at times, the roads and alleys around the convoluted address do

But on her own time, Mary is Irish exile Maire O’Farren, and she keeps mixed company as part of a secret characters to cross unlikely paths, caused characters to avoid making important discoveries until the timing freed black person—and the often desperate circumstances of women (especially black women) in that time Hardinger offers up many crisp and varied details of the time, she captures Bertie’s speech patterns,

to-read list, including: Corrag by Susan Fletcher; The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec; A Witch in Time Hour of the Witch is a thoroughly researched historical fiction thriller with fantastic details of the time infuriating injustices perpetuated against the female characters--who like the real-life women of the time Kathleen Kent offers a historical fiction tale centered around Martha and the twisted paranoia of the time the family in The Heretic's Daughter, with a vividly imagined setting and wonderful details of the time

It's time to learn Eridianese. Yes, I just made up that word. No, I don't feel bad about it. I'm doing a lot of things for the first time in human history out here and there's a lot of stuff that The present-day story alternates with peeks back in time to life before this space mission, which show As in his book The Martian, significant page time in Weir's Project Hail Mary is spent on creative problem-solving

I'm watching The Good Place for the third time, this time with my youngest, and I love hearing his references and a heartwarming reminder that there are thoughtful, kind, well-meaning people out there spending time

He is repeatedly shown to be out of touch with the times, and he illustrates time and time again that and after the story's early, painful tragedy, she shies away from facing difficult realities for a time

trying to focus on some of the things that bring me peace and joy--including family love and support, time downstairs via FaceTime--and reading and talking about books, which I was doing as much as ever during that time Thank you for spending some of your precious time on this site, commenting to me here or otherwise about these and other books, and for taking your reading time to explore some of the books I mention here. Reading the right book at the right time can be magical, and I hope some of the information here might

01 Horse by Geraldine Brooks In Geraldine Brooks's newest novel, Horse, she links three moments in time But she's gone through a breakup because of her partner's betrayal, and she's having a hard time getting Then Florence's beloved father dies, and she returns to her hometown for the first time in many years

Spoiler: a dragon appears at the very end of the book, laying the groundwork for more dragon page time

The Civil War Books This painful, terrible time in our nation's history makes for some poignant, brutal at the end of the Civil War, amid the confusion and desperation and cruelty and kindnesses of that time characters to cross unlikely paths, caused characters to avoid making important discoveries until the timing often desperate circumstances of women (especially Black women) without men to protect them at the time

neighborhood and its' Jewish and Black families' purposes and missions, which sometimes intersect and other times 01 Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle Every time Daphne Bell meets a potential love interest, she receives

and lays them alongside Big Moments of Realization--which often require grace and forgiveness, other times feverishly to harvest the cherry crop without the usual support of workers due to the virus, and to make the time Vera Wong is running a largely unvisited tea house, lamenting her grown son's lack of time for her, and particularly Mason's gorgeous writing (the final chapter is a particular knockout), but I did take a long time North Woods. 05 Big Swiss by Jen Beagin Jen Beagin's literary fiction novel is consistently bizarre, at times

Migrations follows Franny as she travels farther from civilization and safety--and as she considers what

(Side note: hearing "sweetheart" as his dirty-talk nickname for her felt jarring to me every time.) on that Michelle was having thoughts of suicide and that Grant was in the wrong place at the wrong time I also had a tough time with the premise of this one but remained curious as to whether I was about to

man working in a warehouse in the seaside town where she's staying temporarily, she invites Felix to travel

his work, and Happy-Go-Lucky is no exception, are Sedaris's unflinching observations of moments in time colors she sees in the world are captivatingly described, and the tenuous situation for a woman at the time and the book within a book, the witchy focus, the renegade feminism, and the details of life at the time I'm watching The Good Place for the third time, this time with my youngest, and I love hearing his references and a heartwarming reminder that there are thoughtful, kind, well-meaning people out there spending time

listening to The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, Kim Michele Richardson's historical fiction about a traveling

In Williams's historical fiction mystery, which skips back and forth in time, four years later, Iris's There was significant page time dedicated to Ruth's work managing a modeling agency and to the groundbreaking signing of a Black model at the time, as well as side stories such as elaborate mishaps on sailing trips

desperately yearns for some measure of independence, which is not easily available to the women of that time But a young woman in that time has little say over her destiny.

Keep your powers hidden and use them when it's your time. colors she sees in the world are captivatingly described, and the tenuous situation for a woman at the time and the book within a book, the witchy focus, the renegade feminism, and the details of life at the time

it, but Poppy has convinced Alex to join her again on vacation to try to recapture their effortless times She'll just push down her strange feelings about Alex and pretend that fateful time never even happened and Poppy to the present day is never jarring, and watching Poppy and Alex's friendship build over time In a way, their annual vacations--which become the sole times they reliably spend time together--bring

-type closure for both felt too convenient, and even a little dismissive of the complexities of the time

But a medication aimed to help her sleep during this difficult time induces an incredible side effect At the same time that Lydia is actively living life in her everyday sad reality in which Freddie is gone

mother's death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book faces the sale of the family home in New England and travels

House (which, Bloom recounts in interviews, functioned more like a not-very-fancy boarding house at the time whole remarkable relationship between Eleanor and Lorena, especially in that place and during that time

Six Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Mystery Reads This is the time in the year when you may be asking yourself greedy about reading lists like I am, you can also check out the lists I posted last year around this time stumbles into a crime--a gunman is wandering a big-box store, shooting--she draws her gun for the first time Exiles was the right mystery at the right time for me. It's satisfying that Robin gets the majority of page time as she bravely infiltrates the UHC and works

James explores race, friendship, ambition, and the absurdities and rhythm of daily life during her time herself to delve more deeply into aspects of her years at Taft that she largely glossed over at the time The majority of page time is focused on aspects of James's boarding-school life, including its rhythms The author notes that when she was a high schooler, in that place and time in our society, she didn't and gender-based; and the social segregation of social groups by race--feels hesitantly explored at times

Novelist Alice just met Felix, but she invites him to travel to Rome with her.

She can travel through the multiverse, but only to worlds where another version of herself no longer She's hacked into the game plenty of times and glitched the system to work in her favor.