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Mar 16

Review of The Golden Enclaves (Scholomance #3) by Naomi Novik

The more somber tone of book three and the focus on logistics feel appropriate as the recent graduates of the Scholomance desperately...

Mar 15

Review of Weyward by Emilia Hart

Emilia Hart's debut novel links women in three timelines through blood and a powerful connection to the natural world as they resist male...

Mar 14

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 13

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 10

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 9

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 8

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 7

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 6

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 3

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 2

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 1

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...

Feb 28

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 27

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 24

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 23

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 22

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 21

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 20

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 17

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...

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