December - 2023

Dec 29, 2023

December Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

My very favorite Bossy December reads! I hope every Bossy reader who celebrates had a wonderful Christmas this week! I scheduled a little...

Dec 22, 2023

Review of Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment #1) by Rebecca Ross

I liked Divine Rivals and the gutsy characters facing wartime struggles and challenges, but I was surprised that the book's fantasy...

Dec 21, 2023

Review of Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes #1) by Travis Baldree

The first in the Legends & Lattes series is a cozy fantasy story about new beginnings, the transformative power of coffee, and...

Dec 20, 2023

Shhh! Bossy Gift Ideas: Cookbooks

Cookbook Book Gift Ideas Here are the 2023 cookbooks (with the exception of The National Parks Cookbook, which was published in fall...

Dec 19, 2023

Review of The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike #7) by Robert Galbraith

In what's possibly my favorite book yet of the seven in the Cormoran Strike series, we see some emotional growth, potentially...

Dec 18, 2023

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/18/23 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Divine Rivals, the first in Rebecca Ross's Letters of Enchantment series, about a magical...

Dec 15, 2023

Shhh! Bossy Gift Ideas: Books about Media, Movies, and Music

Movie, Media, and Music Book Gift Ideas Here are the 2023 books about television, movies, and music that I'm most excited to give as...

Dec 14, 2023

Review of The Power by Naomi Alderman

ICYMI: In Naomi Alderman's novel The Power, teenage girls develop unimaginable powers, including the ability to inflict harm. This resets...

Dec 13, 2023

Review of So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan

Claire Keegan is one of my favorite writers; in these three stories, she builds layered situations--and then turns them on their heads,...

Dec 12, 2023

Review of The Madstone by Elizabeth Crook

The Madstone begins as an against-the-odds attempt to evade evil and develops into a beautiful heartbreaker of a story about duty,...

Dec 11, 2023

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/11/23 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to The Running Grave, the newest in the mystery series by Robert Galbraith (J. K. Rowling's pen...

Dec 8, 2023

Shhh! Bossy Book Gift Ideas: Sports Nonfiction

Sports Nonfiction Book Gift Ideas Here are the 2023 sports books that I'm most excited to give as gifts this holiday season. The list...

Dec 7, 2023

Review of The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason

ICYMI: The Winter Soldier is a World War I tale full of medical details and lovely, unlikely bonds. This is a five-star read from the...

Dec 6, 2023

Review of Madame Restell by Jennifer Wright

Madame Restell is compelling nonfiction about an ambitious feminist in pre-Gilded Age New York and her profession as a surgeon offering...

Dec 5, 2023

Review of The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

Spears's slim memoir offers vulnerability, the shocking details of her now-infamous 13-year conservatorship, self-reflection, and her...

Dec 4, 2023

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/4/23 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading a novel in two timelines about a young woman posing as a cabin boy on a pirate's ship and a...

Dec 1, 2023

November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

My very favorite Bossy November reads! Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month: a wonderful story about a grumpy...

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