

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 31, 2023


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 30, 2023


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 29, 2023


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 28, 2023


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 27, 2023


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 24, 2023


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 23, 2023


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 22, 2023


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 21, 2023


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 20, 2023


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 17, 2023


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 16, 2023


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 15, 2023


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 14, 2023


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 13, 2023


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 10, 2023


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 9, 2023


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 8, 2023


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 7, 2023


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...
Mar 6, 2023