Five-Star Book Review

Jan 2

My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads

My very favorite reads this year! I post my favorite reads each month, and I was having such a great reading year, in late spring I...

Dec 27, 2022

Review of The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton

This gorgeously written postapocalyptic climate-fiction story offers up a future in which civilization buckles to the power of weather...

Nov 30, 2022

Review of An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken

ICYMI: Elizabeth McCracken shares her heartbreaking, gorgeous, terrible story of loss and love surrounding the loss of her baby at nine...

Nov 24, 2022

Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Reads

Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Favorites I've been thinking through my favorite books of the year for an upcoming year-end Greedy Reading...

Sep 21, 2022

Review of The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin

Cronin's debut novel explores mortality, vulnerability, surprising moments of joy and reflection, an irresistible young protagonist, and...

Sep 8, 2022

Review of Less (Arthur Less #1) by Andrew Sean Greer

ICYMI: This funny, wry, silly, sweet, heartbreaking story feels light on the surface but has deep meaning churning underneath. “I look at...

Aug 12, 2022

The Bossy Five-Star Reads So Far This Year

The Five-Star Bossy Favorites Someone asked me a while back if I ever give five-star ratings to the books I read. And the answer is: yes!...

Jul 26, 2022

Review of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

A book about childhood friends making a video game is an unexpected, captivating setup for this wonderfully deep, epic dive into...

Jul 7, 2022

Review of White Houses by Amy Bloom

ICYMI: White Houses is gorgeously written, exhaustingly researched historical fiction about Eleanor Roosevelt and her love, Lorena...

Jul 6, 2022

Review of In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom

Amy Bloom writes with brutal honesty about her heartbreak and her determination to support her husband Brian Ameche's desire to end his...

Jun 2, 2022

Review of The Impossible Destiny of Cutie Grackle by Shawn K. Stout

Stout's recently published middle-grade story is irresistibly strange, full of difficulties and a tough young heroine's gritty...

May 6, 2022

My Favorite Reads of the Year So Far

Bossy Bookworm's Very Favorite Books of 2022..So Far! I love a favorites list--check out my favorites lists, posted at the end of each...

Apr 28, 2022

Review of American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld

ICYMI: This fictionalized version of a first lady's personal history from the talented Curtis Sittenfeld was a five-star read for me. In...

Apr 13, 2022

Review of Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others by Barbara Brown Taylor

ICYMI: I loved Taylor's exploration of various faiths, striving for open-mindedness, respecting differences, and finding captivating new...

Apr 12, 2022

Review of The Gods of Howl Mountain by Taylor Brown

ICYMI: Taylor Brown's five-star, 1950s North Carolina-set novel offers mountain clans, whiskey runners, folk healers, family conflict,...

Mar 23, 2022

Review of This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett

ICYMI: This five-star read--part memoir/part essay--is one of my favorite books of Ann Patchett's, and I didn't want her reflections and...

Mar 9, 2022

Review of Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams

Williams's historical fiction mystery--based on real-life double agents in the Cambridge Spy Ring--is vividly set in Europe and Russia...

Mar 1, 2022

February Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

My very favorite books from February! Here are my favorite reads of the past month, in no particular order: No Cure for Being Human, a...

Feb 1, 2022

Review of No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) by Kate Bowler

Touching, honest, raw, funny, and full of gritty reflections about life and faith, this was a read that I absolutely adored and gave five...

Jan 21, 2022

Six Five-Star Bossy Reads to Check Out

Five-Star Bossy Love! Someone recently commented that I "never" give five-star reviews. And it's true that I don't throw five star...

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