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2 days ago

Shhh! Bossy Book Gift Ideas: Sports Nonfiction

Sports Nonfiction Book Gift Ideas Here are the 2023 sports books that I'm most excited to give as gifts this holiday season. The list...

3 days ago

Review of The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason

ICYMI: The Winter Soldier is a World War I tale full of medical details and lovely, unlikely bonds. This is a five-star read from the...

4 days ago

Review of Madame Restell by Jennifer Wright

Madame Restell is compelling nonfiction about an ambitious feminist in pre-Gilded Age New York and her profession as a surgeon offering...

5 days ago

Review of The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

Spears's slim memoir offers vulnerability, the shocking details of her now-infamous 13-year conservatorship, self-reflection, and her...

6 days ago

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/4/23 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading a novel in two timelines about a young woman posing as a cabin boy on a pirate's ship and a...

Dec 1

November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

My very favorite Bossy November reads! Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month: a wonderful story about a grumpy...

Nov 30

Review of The Future by Naomi Alderman

Alderman offers a dive into a future world that's crumbling due to greed, disregard for the environment, a loss of human connection, and...

Nov 29

Review of Iron Flame (Empyrian #2) by Rebecca Yarros

Yarros's experience as a romance author remains showcased in book two through teen-angst-dramaaatic, romaaantic dialogue. My favorite...

Nov 28

Review of Woke Up Like This by Amy Lea

I loved the premise of a teen who wakes up as a thirty-year-old, engaged to her high school nemesis. Some of the small moments didn't...

Nov 27

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/27/23 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to the second in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrian series, Iron Flame; I'm reading C. Pam Zhang's...

Nov 24

Shhh! Bossy Book Gift Ideas: Science and the Natural World

Science and Nature Book Gift Ideas I spend most of my reading time on fiction titles, but my favorite book titles to give as gifts are...

Nov 23

Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Reads

Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Favorites I'm always thankful for books and reading, so I wanted to reshare some of my five-star reads from...

Nov 22

Review of North Woods by Daniel Mason

Mason's novel isn't simply a historical fiction story linked through timelines. The book builds to be an often-sinister, Gothic-feeling...

Nov 21

Review of Yellowface by R. F. Kuang

This darkly funny story made me cringe while staying riveted by the main protagonist's deeply faulted reasoning, criminal actions, and...

Nov 20

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/20/23 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading recently published stories by Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men; I'm...

Nov 17

Six More Short Story Collections I Loved

More Bossy Short Story Love Some of my fellow readers have mentioned to me in the past that they don't seek out short stories, whether...

Nov 16

Review of Antarctica by Claire Keegan

Keegan turns her keen eye to the small moments that transform a life in this riveting short story collection. The settings range from the...

Nov 15

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi #1) by Shannon Chakraborty

I loved every bit of the story of willful, sometimes grumpy pirate Amina al-Sirafi and her quest, her strategic swearing, her strength,...

Nov 14

Review of Happiness Falls by Angie Kim

Angie Kim's sophomore novel is a mystery, but Happiness Falls is primarily an exploration of a complicated, loving, messy family and each...

Nov 13

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/13/23 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading a recently published Western by Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone ; I'm reading David Grann's literary...

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