November - 2022

Nov 30, 2022

Review of An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken

ICYMI: Elizabeth McCracken shares her heartbreaking, gorgeous, terrible story of loss and love surrounding the loss of her baby at nine...

Nov 29, 2022

Review of The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken

McCracken straddles the line between novel and memoir in a work whose heart is a love letter to her extraordinary mother. The author...

Nov 28, 2022

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/28/22 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Circus Train, Amita Parikh's upcoming novel set in a 1920s circus world as World War II looms;...

Nov 25, 2022

Shhh! Holiday Cookbook Gift Ideas

The Cookbook Gift Ideas This is the first of several Bossy book gift idea lists I'll share on Fridays leading up to the holidays. I hope...

Nov 24, 2022

Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Reads

Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Favorites I've been thinking through my favorite books of the year for an upcoming year-end Greedy Reading...

Nov 23, 2022

Review of True Biz by Sara Nović

True Biz is a coming-of-age story, a beginner's primer on Deaf culture, and a captivating novel about romance, disappointment, fury, and...

Nov 22, 2022

Review of Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson

Kevin Wilson's wonderfully odd 1990s coming-of-age novel centers around teens Frankie and Zeke, their mysterious artistic creation, and...

Nov 21, 2022

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/21/22 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Blackwater Falls, a recently published thriller by Ausma Zehanat Khan about the mystery of missing...

Nov 18, 2022

My Six Favorite Book Club Books of 2022

Book club love! These are my favorite book club reads from the past year. We also read Betty, We Are Not Like Them, All Her Little...

Nov 17, 2022

Review of The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore

ICYMI: Graham Moore tells a historical fiction tale based on real events surrounding the rise of the light bulb--with compelling...

Nov 16, 2022

Review of A Restless Truth (Last Binding #2) by Freya Marske

The second book in Marske's series is an irresistible queer magical mystery thriller with Edwardian England details, racy encounters,...

Nov 15, 2022

Review of Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks

ICYMI: Geraldine Brooks crafts a historical fiction story of 1666, a year in which disease, fear, and loss make way for redemption,...

Nov 14, 2022

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/14/22 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Kate Atkinson's newest book, historical fiction set in 1926 jazz-era London; I'm reading Kevin...

Nov 11, 2022

Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into

Do you love memoirs like I do? I love digging into the story of someone's life--notable because of chance, circumstance, or choice--and...

Nov 10, 2022

Review of The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell

I was hooked on the captivating details of Renaissance life, masterfully paced swirling danger and paranoia, and richly developed major...

Nov 9, 2022

Review of The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin

I was interested in both of Martin's World War II storylines. The author's historical fiction romance-writing is evident here, in...

Nov 8, 2022

Review of A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock #1) by Sherry Thomas

This first book in Sherry Thomas's gender-flipped Sherlock Holmes mystery series offers not only an irresistible heroine, but a...

Nov 7, 2022

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/7/22 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Sherry Thomas's Victorian mystery (the first in a hefty series) starring an independent young...

Nov 4, 2022

Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite

It's time for the foooood books! The shout-out: this Greedy Reading List theme was suggested by my lovely longtime friend, fellow book...

Nov 3, 2022

Review of The Other Side of Night by Adam Hamdy

The twist in The Other Side of Night is fascinating, but I wanted to feel more for the characters, who experience extensive trauma, feel...

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