Review of This Time It's Real by Ann Liang
I was hooked by Liang's fake-dating, famous-everyday relationship duo setup, fantastically funny dialogue, and wonderfully imperfect...
May 31, 2023
Review of Silver in the Bone (Silver in the Bone #1) by Alexandra Bracken
Alternative Arthurian legends twist through this first in a young adult fantasy series, but what hooked me was the fearless, hardened,...
May 30, 2023
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/29/23 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Guncle author Steven Rowley's upcoming novel, The Celebrants, about old friends holding living...
May 29, 2023
Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore
You Had Me at "Time Travel" I love a time-travel story in any genre. This Greedy Reading List offers a little of everything: light...
May 26, 2023
Review of The Light of the World: A Memoir by Elizabeth Alexander
ICYMI: Poet Elizabeth Alexander writes a gorgeous account of her love affair with her husband and the trauma of his sudden death in a...
May 25, 2023
Review of Dimestore: A Writer's Life by Lee Smith
ICYMI: Smith evokes a vivid sense of the regional South in her fiction, and in this memoir she traces her Appalachian youth, offering...
May 24, 2023
Review of Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You by Lucinda Williams
Lucinda Williams offers a gritty, honest, captivating, spare yet fully developed memoir in which she explores her musical influences and...
May 23, 2023
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/22/23 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Lucinda Williams's memoir, Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You; I'm reading a...
May 22, 2023
Six Books Set in Australia that Are Fair Dinkum Fascinating
Six Great Australian Reads Fridays are for highlighting books I've loved, and I have a thing for books set in Australia (this is...
May 19, 2023
Review of Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune
Summertime is the backdrop to Fortune's Meet Me at the Lake, light fiction with an anchor in deeper issues, some steamy scenes,...
May 18, 2023
Review of Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
Gillian McAllister offers a smart, intriguing, twisty story that plays with time and offers second chances, revelations, betrayals, deep...
May 17, 2023
Review of You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld
ICYMI: Sittenfeld shapes fully realized, fascinating characters that stuck with me in the ten stories of You Think It, I'll Say It. I...
May 16, 2023
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/15/23 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Carley Fortune's newest light fiction about a missed opportunity and second chances, Meet Me...
May 15, 2023
Six of My Favorite Reads of the Year So Far
Some of my very favorite reads of the year...so far! I've also had three Bossy five-star reads in 2023, and I'm hoping I rack up some...
May 12, 2023
Review of The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett
The transcripts of 200 audio files make up much of the novel, and I had difficulty feeling invested in this structure, which felt more...
May 11, 2023
Review of The Wife and the Widow by Christian White
White's twisty mystery is set against the backdrop of an unforgiving winter on an Australian island, with two women attempting to piece...
May 10, 2023
Review of The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry
The premise and setting of The Secret Book of Flora Lea are captivating. I was distracted by what felt like overly dramatic dialogue and...
May 9, 2023
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/8/23 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery that plays with time, Wrong Place Wrong Time; I'm reading...
May 8, 2023
Six of My Favorite Nonfiction Reads from the Past Year
Six Bossy Favorite Nonfiction Reads Fridays are for highlighting books I've loved! I thought these titles were fascinating, surprised me,...
May 5, 2023
Review of How to Say Goodbye by Wendy MacNaughton
A former artist-in-residence at a hospice, MacNaughton distills the process of witnessing a loved one's end of life into a few elements...
May 4, 2023