May 31, 2024
May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
My very favorite Bossy May reads! Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month. If you've read any of these titles, I'd...
May 30, 2024
Review of Love, Lists and Fancy Ships by Sarah Grunder Ruiz
Sarah Grunder Ruiz serves up an irresistible rom-com with great banter and with interesting and difficult, complex issues of loss, grief,...
May 29, 2024
Review of Betting on You by Lynn Painter
Lynn Painter delivers funny, charming banter and an opposites-attract tension in this heartwarming rom-com about divorce, trust, blended...
May 28, 2024
Review of The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak's The Island of Missing Trees explores past Turkish-Greek conflicts in a small island community while illustrating the...
May 27, 2024
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/28/24 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Amor Towles's collection of short stories and a novella, Table for Two; I'm listening to Sarah...
May 24, 2024
Six More Great Historical Fiction Books Set in the American West
Do you enjoy a character-driven Western? I appreciate an unflinching reflection of the atrocities visited upon the indigenous peoples of...
May 23, 2024
Review of The Luminous Web: Essays on Science and Religion by Barbara Brown Taylor
Barbara Brown Taylor is one of my favorite authors, but this slim, early book of hers didn't offer the candid, thought-provoking, wise...
May 22, 2024
Review of The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
This captivating story involves time travel, but it's primarily about deep human connections, complete with fantastic, funny banter;...
May 21, 2024
Review of The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn and Janie Chang
Quinn and Chang share an adventure- and danger-laden story of women artists, women of color, and women of various social classes in San...
May 20, 2024
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/21/24 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Taylor Brown's newest historical novel, Rednecks, which centers around the riveting battles and...
May 17, 2024
Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into
Do you love reading memoirs like I do? I love digging into the story of someone's life--notable because of chance, circumstance, or...
May 16, 2024
Review of The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld
ICYMI: A death-row inmate's desperate need for escapism leads to an elaborate world of magical thinking and fantastical scenes in this...
May 15, 2024
Review of Sleeping Giants by Rene Denfeld
I was taken with the main characters of the past storyline here: a young boy at a children's home and his unlikely best friend. When his...
May 14, 2024
Review of Only If You're Lucky by Stacy Willingham
Only If You're Lucky centers around a group of South Carolina college students who don't truly know each other--and the unpleasant...
May 13, 2024
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/13/24 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Kaliana Bradley's witty time-travel story The Ministry of Time; I'm listening to Only If You're...
May 10, 2024
Bossy Favorite Reads of the Year So Far
My very favorite Bossy reads so far this year! My Greedy Reading Lists are usually made up of six books, but I've had a wonderful start...
May 9, 2024
Review of The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl
This gorgeously written set of fifty-two love letters to nature encourage reflection and urge the reader to pause to honor even the less...
May 8, 2024
Review of Baby X by Kira Peikoff
Baby X explores the complex issues around an imagined future with genetically chosen embryos; Peikoff also digs into origin stories and...
May 7, 2024
Review of None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
Lisa Jewell's haunting psychological thriller centers around birthday twins, an unreliable narrator, disparate lifestyles, and dark...
May 6, 2024
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/6/24 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Lisa Jewell's haunting psychological thriller None of This Is True; I'm listening to The...