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bookriot.com | Lev Rosen |Vikas Adam |Julia Rittenberg
Penguin Random House Audio, For readers of cozy murder mysteriesVera Wong is back—and just as meddling as ever! In this follow-up to the hit VeraWong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, USA Today bestselling author Jesse Q. Sutantoserves up another feel-good mystery, brimming with charm and intrigue. Vera Wong'sGuide to Snooping (on a Dead Man), narrated by Eunice Wong is now availablewherever audiobooks are sold!Settling into a good mystery novel is a balm on the soul.
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flipboard.com | Julia Rittenberg
1 hour agoOne Minute More, Robert Rotenberg (Simon & Schuster, 336 pages) Robert Rotenberg is emerging as one of Canada’s best crime authors with his terrific series featuring Toronto cop Ari Greene. In this excellent prequel to that series, Rotenberg takes us back to 1988 for Greene’s first case and it’s a …
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2 weeks ago | 
bookriot.com | Julia Rittenberg
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Beverly Cleary is not just a writer of beloved kids and teen books but a major influence on children’s literature in general. From her first novel, Henry Huggins, to her last, Ramona’s World, Cleary built emotionally immersive series that still resonate with children today.
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flipboard.com | Julia Rittenberg
1 day agoAfter 100 years, The Great Gatsby still reminds us of the ability of literature to transform everyday lifeLast November, I flew to New York to see a play: Gatz, an eight-hour reading of the entire text of The Great Gatsby by the experimental theatre …13 hours agoNot as advertised: The false god in 'The Great Gatsby'(RNS) — Revisiting that infamous billboard on the novel’s 100th anniversary.
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audible.com | Julia Rittenberg
Letter writing on its own is an art form, a craft demonstrated in works of epistolary fiction—stories told through the use of letters, documents, diaries, newspapers, and more. In novels, this style offers a unique method of characterization and plot development, allowing the story to unfold from a variety of styles and viewpoints. Utilizing everything from telegrams to quotations from other works of literature, these multifaceted narratives are feats of storytelling.
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4 weeks ago | 
bookriot.com | Julia Rittenberg
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Season three of HBO’s The White Lotus includes an achingly familiar friendship dynamic between three women. Three adult women have known each other since childhood and are on a girls’ trip to reconnect, but whenever one leaves the room, the other two inevitably gossip about the other.
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1 month ago | 
bookriot.com | Julia Rittenberg
Romance novels cause debate, and they always have. There are regular arguments about if they are the correct books to read, if women are developing unrealistic expectations through reading them, and how the books themselves come into existence. Despite, or maybe because of, ongoing debates, romance novels are unavoidable. Considering this, in addition to recent trends in book buying, we’re living through a major romance renaissance.
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audible.com | Julia Rittenberg
From major revelations to that shocking twist ending, here's everything we learned in the latest installment of the Empyrean series. Like the first two installments of the Empyrean series, Onyx Storm ends on a major cliffhanger. The final battle sees our squad face the venin and continue the fight for their future. Throughout the book, we got answers to questions that have built up throughout the series, but author Rebecca Yarros also introduces new characters and a variety of fresh conflicts.
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audible.com | Julia Rittenberg
The scale and detail of the story’s world-building is among the greatest aspects of The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins. The books’ titular Games have their own fascinating history, amounting to so much backstory and lore that Collins continued to explore the setting of the original trilogy with two prequels, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakesand Sunrise on the Reaping. The drama of the Games made The Hunger Games series a global sensation.
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bookriot.com | Xio Axelrod |Julia Rittenberg
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. The journalist heroine in a romantic comedy movie was so ubiquitous, she almost became a cliché. From Never Been Kissed to 13 Going on 30, a magazine job was basically the pinnacle of importance for a woman in a rom-com.
