May - 2023

7 hours ago

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...

3 days ago

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...

4 days ago

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...

5 days ago

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...

6 days ago

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 22

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 19

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 18

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 17

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 16

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 15

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 12

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 11

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 10

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 9

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 8

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 5

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 4

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 3

Review of Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Sutanto's Vera Wong is playful, brusque, bossy, and connects an unlikely cast of characters, all murder suspects, into a heartwarming...

May 2

Review of The Trackers by Charles Frazier

Frazier offers an immersive story that morphs from a WPA-funded rural art commission to a leisurely country-wide search, an unlikely...

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