March - 2023

Mar 31

March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

My very favorite Bossy March reads! I had so many favorite reads this month, I'm saving back two from the past week for April in case I...

Mar 30

Review of Exiles (Aaron Falk #3) by Jane Harper

The third in Jane Harper's Aaron Falk series offers procedural detail, a lush Australian setting, and character development I found...

Mar 29

Review of The Dream Builders by Oindrila Mukherjee

I love a novel set in India, and the details of the sparkling promise and darker underpinnings of the city of Hrishipur were a standout...

Mar 28

Review of American Mermaid by Julia Langbein

This story within a story is playful and satirical while providing deep issues to contemplate. It's different and captivating and silly...

Mar 27

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/27/23 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Amy Harmon's Revolutionary War-set historical fiction about a young woman passing as a soldier in...

Mar 24

Six More Four-Star (and Up) Historical Fiction Reads I Loved in the Past Year

Six More Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Historical Fiction Reads Historical fiction is one of my very favorite genres, and I loved my...

Mar 23

Review of The Levee by William Kent Krueger

William Kent Krueger's writing is beautiful, and J.D. Jackson reads the audiobook wonderfully, but I felt impatient with the focus on...

Mar 22

Review of Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

Ann Napolitano's Hello Beautiful explores family bonds, broken connections, forging through pain, allowing for unconventional routes to...

Mar 21

Review of Foster by Claire Keegan

Keegan offers a gorgeously wrought Irish story of childhood, hope, love, and loss that is spare, lovely, heartbreaking, and that brought...

Mar 20

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/20/23 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Jane Harper's newest Australian-set Aaron Falk mystery, Exiles; I'm listening to a Libro.fm...

Mar 17

Six More Science Fiction Reads I Loved in the Past Year

Six More Great Bossy Science Fiction Reads The Obsessive Wrap-Up of Favorite Reads continues! A while back I posted about Six Four-Star...

Mar 16

Review of The Golden Enclaves (Scholomance #3) by Naomi Novik

The more somber tone of book three and the focus on logistics feel appropriate as the recent graduates of the Scholomance desperately...

Mar 15

Review of Weyward by Emilia Hart

Emilia Hart's debut novel links women in three timelines through blood and a powerful connection to the natural world as they resist male...

Mar 14

Review of This Other Eden by Paul Harding

Harding bases his slim historical fiction novel This Other Eden on a real-life, racially integrated island off the coast of Maine,...

Mar 13

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/13/23 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to William Kent Krueger's historical fiction novella set on the banks of the overflowing...

Mar 10

Six More of My Favorite Fiction Reads from the Past Year

Six More Favorite Fiction Reads I listed Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads from Last Year in this Greedy Reading List. In today's post I...

Mar 9

Review of August Kitko and the Mechas from Space (The Starmetal Symphony #1) by Alex White

White's first Starmetal Symphony installment offers deadly deep-space robots, showcases the power of music, and illustrates how love can...

Mar 8

Review of The Night Ship by Jess Kidd

Kidd's dual-timeline historical fiction, based on actual events, shines in its vivid settings, richly imagined characters, sea voyage...

Mar 7

Review of Uprooted by Naomi Novik

ICYMI: Uprooted is a thoughtful, satisfying, grown-up fairy tale with gloriously imagined details. I ate it up and gave it four Bossy...

Mar 6

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/6/23 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Inciting Joy, Ross Gay's newest collection of essays about finding and spreading happiness; I'm...

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