Jul 31, 2023
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/31/23 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now At the moment I'm listening to Timothy Egan's narrative nonfiction account of the immense power of the Ku Klux...
Jul 28, 2023
July Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
My very favorite Bossy July reads! Here are the books I most loved reading in the heat of July! If you've read any of these books, I'd...
Jul 27, 2023
Review of Hello Stranger by Katherine Center
I couldn't get past the holes in the premise of this lighthearted, romantic, zany rom-com long enough to buy into the story of an artist...
Jul 26, 2023
Review of Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
In the second installment in Leigh Bardugo's Alex Stern series, Alex is as brave, scowling, and unapologetic as ever--and Darlington will...
Jul 25, 2023
Review of Ninth House (Alex Stern #1) by Leigh Bardugo
ICYMI: When tough, stubborn Alex Stern is offered a new start after surviving a mysterious multiple homicide, she becomes an unlikely...
Jul 24, 2023
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/24/23 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm coming off another little Bossy break, courtesy of a great family trip to the beach, where I got lots of...
Jul 14, 2023
Six Chilly Books to Read in the Heat of Summer
Do you have any favorite cold-setting books? When the heat of summer hits, I love to read a story set in a frigid climate. Other books...
Jul 13, 2023
Review of What Remains by Wendy Walker
Wendy Walker's thriller focuses on a detective, her stalker, and the lengths both will go to to try to get what they want. This is a...
Jul 12, 2023
Review of Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Adjei-Brenyah's novel explores in disturbing detail a version of a society that may feel familiar: a corrupt, greedy prison system; the...
Jul 11, 2023
Review of The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
Caroline O'Donoghue's coming-of-age story celebrates friendship, young love, and life-changing decisions and missteps that shape the...
Jul 10, 2023
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/10/23 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading the second in Leigh Bardugo's Alex Stern series, Hell Bent, in which grumpy, tough, magical,...
Jul 7, 2023
Six Fascinating Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels
After the World Falls Apart I have a fascination with postapocalyptic (set in a time after a disaster) and dystopian (set in a time of...
Jul 6, 2023
Review of Maddalena and the Dark by Julia Fine
Julia Fine's Maddalena and the Dark is a gothic story set in 1700s Venice in which two young women's lives and destinies become...
Jul 5, 2023
Review of Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
Ali Hazelwood's light fiction novel is wonderfully immersed in science, offering a forbidden relationship and an enemies-to-lovers...
Jul 4, 2023
Review of Will They or Won't They by Ava Wilder
Ava Wilder's rom-com takes us behind the scenes of a hit teen TV show whose lead characters once liked each other in real life but now...
Jul 3, 2023
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/3/23 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading the first in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean series about a training college for wartime dragon riders,...