December - 2022

Dec 30, 2022

December Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

My very favorite December reads! Here are my six favorite reads of the past month: a book that plays with time, a book that plays with...

Dec 29, 2022

Review of Gilded Mountain by Kate Manning

I was hooked on the gritty details of mining camp life, particularly as contrasted with the excesses in the mine owners' mansion. The...

Dec 28, 2022

Review of Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono

Thoughtful, self-deprecating, earnest, and honest, Surrender is a captivating peek into the four decades (and counting) of U2. Bono...

Dec 27, 2022

Review of The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton

This gorgeously written postapocalyptic climate-fiction story offers up a future in which civilization buckles to the power of weather...

Dec 26, 2022

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/26/22 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading A Play for the End of the World by Jai Chakrabarti, my book club's first read of 2023; I'm...

Dec 23, 2022

Shhh! Bossy Nonfiction Book Gift Ideas

The Nonfiction Book Gift Ideas I tend to give nonfiction books for holiday gifts. I'm not sure if it's because it feels easier to hone in...

Dec 22, 2022

Review of Blackwater Falls by Ausma Zehanat Khan

I was intrigued by the issues raised in Blackwater Falls--police corruption, racial conflict, religious fervor and faith, secret...

Dec 21, 2022

Six Books I Want, Bossy Holiday 2022 Edition

The Bossy Wish List Sometimes it's tough to buy books for a greedy reader like the one writing this post. What have they already read,...

Dec 20, 2022

Review of Tell Me an Ending by Jo Harkin

Harkin's fascinating debut speculative fiction considers a memory clinic that erases and reinstates memories at clients' requests, the...

Dec 19, 2022

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/19/22 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Killers of a Certain Age, Deanna Raybourn's book about aging female assassins trying to evade a...

Dec 16, 2022

Shhh! Coffee Table Bossy Book Gift Ideas

The Coffee Table Book Gift Ideas I've been sharing some Bossy book gift ideas on Fridays leading up to the holidays. I hope you'll find a...

Dec 15, 2022

Review of Lost in Time by A.G. Riddle

A.G. Riddle's time-travel story centers around reconciling the inability to change what has already occurred, but the necessity of doing...

Dec 14, 2022

Review of The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious #2) by Maureen Johnson

ICYMI: The second in Johnson's young adult mystery series offers growing friendships, determined sleuthing, and young detectives'...

Dec 13, 2022

Review of The Book Woman's Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson

Richardson focuses her historical fiction on Kentucky again, picking up the story of the rural book delivery, Blue People, friendship,...

Dec 12, 2022

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/12/22 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Surrender, Bono's memoir about inspiration, faith, pain, love, and music; I'm reading Lost in...

Dec 9, 2022

Shhh! Science and Nature Bossy Book Gift Ideas

The Science and Nature Gift Ideas I'll be sharing some Bossy book gift ideas on Fridays leading up to the holidays. I hope you'll find a...

Dec 8, 2022

Review of The Box in the Woods (Truly Devious #4) by Maureen Johnson

The fourth mystery in Johnson's Truly Devious series delivers more smart, creative sleuthing from Stevie Bell and the gang, great...

Dec 7, 2022

Review of Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson

Atkinson's newest mystery is set in vivid Roaring Twenties London as Nellie Coker struggles to hold on to her empire of clubs while...

Dec 6, 2022

Review of The Ink Black Heart (Cormoran Strike #6) by Robert Galbraith

The mystery's investigative work involves the somewhat tedious examination of online messages, and the Cormoran-Robin romantic tension...

Dec 5, 2022

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/5/22 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Light Pirate, Lily Brooks-Dalton's upcoming novel (to be published tomorrow!) about natural...

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