- Jul 31
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,...