Review of This Other Eden by Paul Harding
Harding bases his slim historical fiction novel This Other Eden on a real-life, racially integrated island off the coast of Maine,...
Mar 14, 2023
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/13/23 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to William Kent Krueger's historical fiction novella set on the banks of the overflowing...
Mar 13, 2023
Six More of My Favorite Fiction Reads from the Past Year
Six More Favorite Fiction Reads I listed Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads from Last Year in this Greedy Reading List. In today's post I...
Mar 10, 2023
Review of August Kitko and the Mechas from Space (The Starmetal Symphony #1) by Alex White
White's first Starmetal Symphony installment offers deadly deep-space robots, showcases the power of music, and illustrates how love can...
Mar 9, 2023
Review of The Night Ship by Jess Kidd
Kidd's dual-timeline historical fiction, based on actual events, shines in its vivid settings, richly imagined characters, sea voyage...
Mar 8, 2023
Review of Uprooted by Naomi Novik
ICYMI: Uprooted is a thoughtful, satisfying, grown-up fairy tale with gloriously imagined details. I ate it up and gave it four Bossy...
Mar 7, 2023
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/6/23 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Inciting Joy, Ross Gay's newest collection of essays about finding and spreading happiness; I'm...
Mar 6, 2023
Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year
Six Favorite Memoir Reads The Bossy memoir love continues! I've been posting roundups of my favorite reads from last year by genre. I...
Mar 3, 2023
Review of Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
ICYMI: This five-star retelling of the story of Rumpelstiltskin offers kickass female protagonists, haunting twists and turns, wonderful,...
Mar 2, 2023
Review of I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
Makkai's boarding school-set mystery offers depth as it exposes age-old power mismatches; offers young characters agency; explores...
Mar 1, 2023
Review of Nocturne by Alyssa Wees
The early story captured my attention with ballet, an orphan's struggles, and Depression-era Chicago, but once Nocturne shifted into dark...
Feb 28, 2023
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/27/23 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Foster, Claire Keegan's slim Irish novel about a young girl sent to live with relatives for a hot...
Feb 27, 2023
February Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
My very favorite Bossy February reads! I'm coming in early with my six favorite (and varied!) reads of February, but I feel recklessly...
Feb 24, 2023
Review of All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham
I was hooked on Willingham's past and present storylines and by her unreliable narrator Isabelle, who is desperate to find her missing...
Feb 23, 2023
Review of We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman
Newman offers a heartbreaking and heartwarming tribute to friendship that centers around witty dialogue, unconventional arrangements,...
Feb 22, 2023
Review of Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
Jen Beagin's literary fiction novel is consistently bizarre, at times base, and often darkly funny as her characters alternately dive...
Feb 21, 2023
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/20/23 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Nocturne, Alyssa Wees's fantasy novel about a prima ballerina in 1930s Chicago and her mysterious...
Feb 20, 2023
Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads Last Year
Six Favorite Fiction Reads I recently posted about Six Four-Star Mystery Reads I Loved Last Year, Six More Four-Star Mysteries I Loved...
Feb 17, 2023
Review of Swift the Storm, Fierce the Flame by Meg Long
The sequel to Long's young adult fantasy/science fiction debut Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves takes Remy and Sena to a storm-wracked...
Feb 16, 2023
Review of Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall
Marshall's debut historical fiction centers around women's searches for body autonomy in three timelines of interconnected characters and...
Feb 15, 2023