Shhh! Bossy Nonfiction Book Gift Ideas
The Nonfiction Book Gift Ideas I tend to give nonfiction books for holiday gifts. I'm not sure if it's because it feels easier to hone in...
Dec 23, 2022
Review of Blackwater Falls by Ausma Zehanat Khan
I was intrigued by the issues raised in Blackwater Falls--police corruption, racial conflict, religious fervor and faith, secret...
Dec 22, 2022
Six Books I Want, Bossy Holiday 2022 Edition
The Bossy Wish List Sometimes it's tough to buy books for a greedy reader like the one writing this post. What have they already read,...
Dec 21, 2022
Review of Tell Me an Ending by Jo Harkin
Harkin's fascinating debut speculative fiction considers a memory clinic that erases and reinstates memories at clients' requests, the...
Dec 20, 2022
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/19/22 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Killers of a Certain Age, Deanna Raybourn's book about aging female assassins trying to evade a...
Dec 19, 2022
Shhh! Coffee Table Bossy Book Gift Ideas
The Coffee Table Book Gift Ideas I've been sharing some Bossy book gift ideas on Fridays leading up to the holidays. I hope you'll find a...
Dec 16, 2022
Review of Lost in Time by A.G. Riddle
A.G. Riddle's time-travel story centers around reconciling the inability to change what has already occurred, but the necessity of doing...
Dec 15, 2022
Review of The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious #2) by Maureen Johnson
ICYMI: The second in Johnson's young adult mystery series offers growing friendships, determined sleuthing, and young detectives'...
Dec 14, 2022
Review of The Book Woman's Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson
Richardson focuses her historical fiction on Kentucky again, picking up the story of the rural book delivery, Blue People, friendship,...
Dec 13, 2022
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/12/22 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Surrender, Bono's memoir about inspiration, faith, pain, love, and music; I'm reading Lost in...
Dec 12, 2022
Shhh! Science and Nature Bossy Book Gift Ideas
The Science and Nature Gift Ideas I'll be sharing some Bossy book gift ideas on Fridays leading up to the holidays. I hope you'll find a...
Dec 9, 2022
Review of The Box in the Woods (Truly Devious #4) by Maureen Johnson
The fourth mystery in Johnson's Truly Devious series delivers more smart, creative sleuthing from Stevie Bell and the gang, great...
Dec 8, 2022
Review of Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
Atkinson's newest mystery is set in vivid Roaring Twenties London as Nellie Coker struggles to hold on to her empire of clubs while...
Dec 7, 2022
Review of The Ink Black Heart (Cormoran Strike #6) by Robert Galbraith
The mystery's investigative work involves the somewhat tedious examination of online messages, and the Cormoran-Robin romantic tension...
Dec 6, 2022
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/5/22 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Light Pirate, Lily Brooks-Dalton's upcoming novel (to be published tomorrow!) about natural...
Dec 5, 2022
November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
My very favorite November reads! Here are my six favorite reads of the past month: Renaissance-set historical fiction, two historical...
Dec 2, 2022
Review of Truly Devious (Truly Devious #1) by Maureen Johnson
ICYMI: This is the first in Johnson's young adult series, set in a boarding school in rural Vermont, with compelling past and present...
Dec 1, 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 30, 2022
Review of The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken
McCracken straddles the line between novel and memoir in a work whose heart is a love letter to her extraordinary mother. The author...
Nov 29, 2022
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/28/22 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Circus Train, Amita Parikh's upcoming novel set in a 1920s circus world as World War II looms;...
Nov 28, 2022