January - 2024

Jan 31

Review of Come and Get It by Kiley Reid

Come and Get It is the story of an RA and the consequences of her actions related to privacy and safety; the book dabbles in issues of...

Jan 30

Review of The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

I loved the 1700s wintry Maine setting and the convictions of the historical fiction novel's strong midwife character, based upon a...

Jan 29

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/29/24 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading an upcoming book by a favorite author, Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts, a historical...

Jan 26

Six More Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year

Six More Four-Star Bossy Historical Fiction Reads Historical fiction is one of my very favorite genres to read, and I recently posted...

Jan 25

Review of The Fragile Threads of Power (Threads of Power #1) by V. E. Schwab

Schwab returns to the world of the four Londons in the first of a wonderfully paced new series featuring established characters, their...

Jan 24

Review of The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff

Lauren Groff's beautiful and brutal novel The Vaster Wilds follows a young servant girl running from the Jamestown colony's disease and...

Jan 23

Review of The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins

The Heiress is set on a North Carolina estate that's always felt claustrophobic to Cam. But his adoptive mother Ruby, an infamous...

Jan 22

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/22/24 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Lauren Groff's newest novel about a colonial servant girl in the wilderness, The Vaster Wilds;...

Jan 19

Six Four-Star (and Up) Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year

Six Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Historical Fiction Reads Historical fiction is one of my very favorite genres, and just as I do every year,...

Jan 18

Review of To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit #1) by Moniquill Blackgoose

Blackgoose offers a fascinating, layered story about a strong-willed, whip-smart young Indigenous woman in a steampunk 1800s Nordic...

Jan 17

Review of Lone Women by Victor LaValle

LaValle mixes a Western setting with strong feminist messages, magical realism, haunting elements, and the terrifying, freeing truth in...

Jan 16

Review of A Power Unbound (Last Binding #3) by Freya Marske

Marske's quirky, funny, richly imagined magical world, complex character-building, relationship exploration, and storytelling continues...

Jan 15

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/15/24 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading the seventh installment in Martha Wells's fantastic science fiction Murderbot series, System...

Jan 12

Six of My Favorite Light Fiction Reads from the Past Year

Six Bossy Favorite Light Fiction Reads from Last Year I love spending Fridays highlighting books I've loved. And I do love rom-com...

Jan 11

Review of Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See

Lisa See offers a vivid peek at the lives of women in 15th century China, complete with a fascinating female-doctor element that kept me...

Jan 10

Review of Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

Atul Gawande writes clearly and poignantly about the search to achieve maximum well-being rather than prolonging diminished life at all...

Jan 9

Review of Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson

Dowry of Blood is a shadowy, spooky, sultry story imagining Dracula's wife Constanta and their relationship, in which he exerts control...

Jan 8

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/8/24 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now For my book club I'm reading Lady Tan's Circle of Women, Lisa See's newest story of women in ancient China; I'm...

Jan 5

My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads

My very favorite reads of 2023! I post my favorite reads each month, and I was having such a great reading run, in late spring I posted...

Jan 4

Review of The Stolen Heir (Stolen Heir #1) by Holly Black

In this return to the world of Elfhame (Folk of the Air trilogy), Holly Black takes us deeper into the story of characters Wren and Oak...

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