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  • Review of Doctors and Friends by Kimmery Martin

    Kimmery Martin's Doctors and Friends begins with a group of seven women, friends since medical school As the story progresses, Martin mentions each of women and their families, but keeps the story relatively

  • Review of Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

    The swirl of events draws other innocent young women into Miryem's complicated web and toward potential

  • Review of Violet Thistlewaite is Not a Villain Anymore by Emily Krempholtz

    and Violet Thistlewaite is determined to shed her identity as the Thornwitch, Shadowfade's right-hand woman

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/22/24 Edition

    She loves true crime podcasts and dates a variety of women from dating apps.

  • Review of How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

    "It’s strange how the discovery of an ancient girl in Siberia and viruses we’ve never encountered before But the young woman he has found may have died of an ancient virus, and thawing the body for study could The interconnected stories here are made up of strange, affecting situations, including those in which

  • Six More of My Favorite Literary Fiction Reads of the Year

    This is a feminist historical fiction story in which women--long kept quiet and still, supervised to that haunts, challenges, and pushes them to take the form of a beast, whose presence only the bravest women

  • Six Powerful Memoirs About Facing Mortality

    The Bright Hour is a North Carolina woman's thoughtful account of events, written with an aim of preserving Bowler recently spoke at a virtual women's retreat I attended.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/5/25 Edition

    Married Landon was having a passionate affair with a beautiful, spunky local young woman, Lo Bailey, Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood The main protagonist in Stone Yard Devotional is a middle-aged woman

  • Review of Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash

    You might also like the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World

  • Review of Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

    Ali Hazelwood's light fiction novel is wonderfully immersed in science, offering a forbidden relationship and an enemies-to-lovers dynamic, plus lots of steamy scenes. Elsie Hannaway is an adjunct physics professor, but her dream is to dedicate herself to a career in research. She's gotten some positive attention for her innovative work on liquid crystals, but her crochety male advisor assures her there's little interest in hiring her for full-time positions. To help pay the bills, Elsie is a paid escort (who does not have sex with her clients, as she keeps explaining to certain of them). She's fake-dating a nice man in order to keep his family off of his back. She uses a different last name and poses as a librarian rather than a physicist in order to stay anonymous. But her fake boyfriend's brother John seems suspicious of her story and oddly interested in the details of her life. Now Elsie has the interview of a lifetime, at MIT. But a series of coincidences and misunderstandings lead to her being unaware that the head physicist on site...is her fake boyfriend's brother. I loved the significant science element here, the jargon, the exploration of academic politics, and the passion for research and discovery. The factors keeping Elsie and Jack apart are one part zany (a fake-dating-the-brother code of silence) and two parts believable (longstanding professional conflict; a power mismatch). I was frustrated by Elsie's lack of assertiveness, although I recognized that it was set up in order to have her ultimately find her own opinions and set her course. I found the family dynamic related to her mother's demands of Elsie absurd. The situation with her twin brothers felt slapstick and silly to me. The steamy scenes, the twisty route to the relationship, the career shifts, and the science focus were all winners for me. I'd like to read more by Ali Hazelwood. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book? I received a prepublication audio version of Love, Theoretically, narrated by Thérèse Plummer, courtesy of Libro.fm and Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. If this book sounds intriguing, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading, Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading, and Six More Great Light Fiction Stories.

  • Review of Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty

    I loved this dive into the repercussions of a seemingly psychic woman's predictions of demise for her But on today's flight, an elderly woman is causing a major disruption.

  • Review of Buckeye by Patrick Ryan

    Women had the babies, and men, if they felt like it, began to distance themselves the moment they pulled

  • August Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    The Humans is funny, strange, deep, and lovely. I loved it. The young women's wartime experiences take Viv to glamorous Harrod's, settle Grace in a dusty old bookshop II stories, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women

  • Review of Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

    imagined Agnes, wife to John (the fictionalized William Shakespeare character) as an independent, witchy, strong

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/21/25 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading comedian Zarna Garg's upcoming memoir, This American Woman ; I'm 01 This American Woman: A One-in-a-Billion Memoir by Zarna Garg Zarna Garg avoided an unwanted arranged

  • Review of Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner

    When she alludes to mysterious connections between the women--and a long-ago crime--her persistent presence attended prenatal classes before the birth of her first child and noted the immediate intimacy between the women

  • Review of Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

    Saunders's strange, fascinating novel involves griping, sniping characters in limbo between life and I read this in 2017 and still think of this strange novel.

  • Review of The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren

    The story is heartwarming, funny, with strong friendships, plus it's steamy and romantic at times without

  • Review of Down Comes the Night by Allison Saft

    be cruel, ruthless, and he's Wren's sworn enemy, a deadly force who has destroyed her countrymen and women side note: the title felt so oddly vague that I kept forgetting what the book was called, which felt strange

  • Review of Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen by Mary Sharratt

    I read Illuminations with a group of women over a period of months, and we were captivated by the details

  • September Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    In the seven years since, Belle's mother has reinvented herself as a society woman and has remarried, When she comes home alive, only Chelsey finds it strange that Ellie has left her captor and remains alive friend in her last remaining roommate, who until then seemed primarily a source of rent; she finds a strange In Michelle Moran's novel Maria , she uses two timelines to shape the story of the real woman behind

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/2/21 Edition

    Each of the three young women is in the middle of her own high-stakes crisis, and none of them expects The women must decide whether to ignore what's occurred or to harness and master the spells they've been difficulties of their own--an out-of-wedlock pregnancy; involvement in the much-maligned and persecuted women's There's also a theme running through all three of women striving for more--more opportunities, justice

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/16/25 Edition

    Luke Brooks is a bar owner, womanizer, Emmy's brother's longtime best friend, and an honorary member Barker's novel features Janet, a misunderstood, mocked, badly treated young woman coming of age in a

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/26/25 Edition

    listening to Karen Thompson Walker's speculative mystery around memory and the dimensions of the mind, The Strange Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous , Night Sky with Exit Wounds , Time Is a Mother , and other books. 03 The Strange I'm listening to The Strange Case of Jane O. as an audiobook.

  • Review of The Arsonists' City by Hala Alyan

    There are women who take care of your grandfather...women whose own families are thousands of miles away , women who are washing your plates and washing vegetables for your dinner.

  • Review of The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden

    This is the third and final book in Katherine Arden's strong, fanciful, often wonderfully dark Winternight

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/28/22 Edition

    reading A Flicker in the Dark, Stacy Willingham's recent mystery about the disappearances of young women the crimes of decades earlier--or if she's about to help identify another killer who preys on young women

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/14/24 Edition

    But on today's flight, an elderly woman is causing a major disruption. He's struggling to maintain two relationships--one with Naomi, a playful younger woman, and one with

  • Review of Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens

    is set in the wilderness and rugged terrain of British Columbia, along a highway where unsuspecting women Cold Creek Highway setting is based on the real-life "Highway of Tears" in British Columbia, where women have gone missing since the 1970s, and where a disproportionate number of Indigenous women have been

  • Six Five-Star Bossy Reads to Check Out

    eccentric family and a broad surrounding cast of characters--and it's all centered around independent women with unconventional women's roles in society in nineteenth century New York City. The Gilded Hour explores how these women's abilities and constraints intersect with women's rights of

  • Review of The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry

    historical fiction, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women

  • Review of Changeless (Parasol Protectorate #2) by Gail Carriger

    navigates danger and helps achieve justice by using her smarts, eschewing societal tradition and limits on women

  • Review of Black Bottom Saints by Alice Randall

    , but the fifty-two sections and rambling pace of the book left me feeling unmoored. “...I’ve known women And I have also seen women driving Cadillac cars wearing furs who have never voted. Hoffman's The World That We Knew (featured in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/31/23 Edition

    nonfiction account of the immense power of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s and how the bravery of a young woman 01 A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Stephenson was a con man and womanizer who had told enough enormous lies to reinvent himself into one But when he met a young woman and promised her career assistance, then abused his position, she threatened

  • Review of Burst by Mary Otis

    The two women clash, resisting their reliance on each other as they become more deeply intertwined.

  • Review of The Price You Pay for College by Ron Lieber

    colleges and programs; college abroad; diversity and compatibility of peers and potential partners; women's

  • Review of The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue

    Caroline O'Donoghue is also the author of Scenes of a Graphic Nature, Promising Young Women, and the

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/3/23 Edition

    she pokes fun at her fellow writer in a sketch about talented but average-looking men dating gorgeous women

  • My Twelve Very Favorite 2021 Reads

    The author has created two independent, defiant, appealingly strong young women split by time (and, secondarily , complex male characters the women love as family or romantic partners).

  • Review of All Her Little Secrets by Wanda M. Morris

    of being a Black female lawyer in what seems like an Atlanta company that is increasingly hostile to women

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/23/21 Edition

    twentieth century New York and his mysterious death; and a science fiction-slanted story about young women Her mother's disappearance leads Josie to track down the other Girls, and together they discover strange

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/22/20 Edition

    Orphan Train (which I really liked) and A Piece of the World (which I loved), tells the story of three women's becomes pregnant and is ultimately sent to prison in “the land beyond the seas"; Hazel, a savvy young woman

  • Review of Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue

    Donoghue's captivating historical fiction centers around two real-life young women in an early 1800s

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/11/23 Edition

    A friend's borrowed, rambling home becomes a house for unwed mothers and mothers-to-be, with the women

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/13/23 Edition

    Ursule Orchière watches her mother fooling local women with her false spells, using her family history

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/4/23 Edition

    Reading Now I'm reading Emma Donoghue's newest historical fiction, Learned by Heart, set at an 1800s women's

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/26/24 Edition

    mysterious box with an inscription on the outside reading "The measure of your life lies within" and a string The source of the boxes is unknown, but it quickly becomes clear that the string length correlates to Some choose not to look into their boxes at all, while others use the knowledge of their short strings as excuses to act without the same consequence as before; some with long strings question the participation

  • Review of Things in Jars by Jess Kidd

    Bridie is a strong female protagonist, and Things In Jars offers solid historical fiction details of

  • Review of Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

    male-dominant battle system and their qi is used to boost the men's efforts, often at enormous cost to the women begins to suspect that none of the fighters know the true hierarchy of pilot qi power and believes the women's

  • Review of The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

    I love the tone of this trilogy: playful, otherworldly, and with faulted, greedy, scared, strong, angry

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