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  • Review of The Raven Scholar (Eternal Path #1) by Antonia Hodgson

    The first book in Hodgson's trilogy is smart, mysterious, charming, and layered. to Neema and to the plot, and they become a mysterious, mischievous, sometimes sulking, often confusing

  • Review of The Lonely Hearts Book Club by Lucy Gilmore

    If you like light fiction stories, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Lighter Fiction Stories for Great Escapism and Six More Great Light Fiction Stories.

  • Review of The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

    through India, New York, family and romantic relationships, and career false starts, with missteps, mysterious The situations around relationships and life choices are often messy, complex, mystifying, and frustrating Current-day conflicts link to generational trauma, storytelling, and mysterious power.

  • Review of Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

    to become a patient, and I, the clinician, agree to try to fix you, whatever the improbability, the misery interested in books about mortality like I am, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality and Six More Powerful Books about Facing Mortality.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/19/26 Edition

    In 1664, Alouette is the daughter of a master dyer at the famous Gobelin Tapestry Works. The tone and the cozy-magical-mystery focus is so far reminding me of A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping And Rocky is facing a mysterious, possibly grave, illness that doctors find difficult to diagnose.

  • Review of Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez

    You might also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading and Six More Great Light Fiction Stories.

  • Review of October in the Earth by Olivia Hawker

    of Night, and One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow, which I mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/7/23 Edition

    mystery about race and history from David Joy, Those We Thought We Knew; I'm listening to the third book in Deanna Raybourn's wonderful Victorian England mystery series, A Treacherous Curse; and I'm reading The Deep Sky, Yume Kitasei's recent science fiction thriller about a deep space expedition and a mysterious Clever Veronica and gruff Stoker will need to unravel the mystery of an ancient curse and sort out the Asuka must find the real culprit before accusations surrounding the mystery destroy her.

  • Review of The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl

    memoirs Garlic and Sapphires  and Tender at the Bone  were both listed in my Greedy Reading List of Six

  • Review of Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley

    If you like books that play with time, you might also enjoy the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore and Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/2/21 Edition

    I loved last year's gritty, character-driven mystery-thriller Blacktop Wasteland so much that it made my Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads list. In Razorblade Tears, two men are coping with the tragic, violent, mysterious deaths of their married

  • Review of Voyage of the Damned by Frances White

    Frances White's debut is a locked-room mystery on a magical ship full of uncertain alliances, deadly If you're interested in other Bossy reviews of fantasy mysteries I've enjoyed, check out the titles at

  • Review of You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld

    If you enjoy short story collections, you might like to check out Six Short Story Collections to Wow

  • Review of The Briar Club by Kate Quinn

    in a female-only boarding house in 1950s, McCarthy-era Washington, D.C., bookended by the story of a mysterious The Briar Club is bookended by a mysterious murder.

  • Review of The Knight and the Moth (Stonewater Kingdom #1) by Rachel Gillig

    book in Rachel Gillig's Stonewater Kingdom series, The Knight and the Moth , considers Sybil Delling ("Six

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

    I'm coming in early with my six favorite (and varied!) You might also be interested in the titles on my Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Books about Immigrants Looking for Jane is a story of women living in three timelines who are linked through decades by a mysterious

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

    She notes that six million people in the United States are suffering from Alzheimer's at any given moment listed other heartbreaking and beautiful memoirs about facing death and loss in the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Review of A Perilous Undertaking by Deanna Raybourn

    This second book in Raybourn's historical fiction mystery series, set in Victorian London, hooked me Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's sassy Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries studies butterflies and moths) and adventurer Veronica Speedwell teams up with her natural-history and mystery-solving The mystery was interesting, with salacious elements, and everyone was a potential suspect.

  • Review of The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

    When she finds a mysterious book her father had acquired, it shows January unlikely possibilities about This book is part of my Greedy Reading List Six Riveting Time-Travel Escapes.

  • Review of Dimestore: A Writer's Life by Lee Smith

    I mentioned this book in my Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore.

  • Review of Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean

    If you like light fiction, you might want to try some of the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Lighter For other great young adult books, you might try the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic And for young adult royal stories, try Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series.

  • Review of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

    click here to find my review of Malibu Rising, and you can find my glowing review of Daisy Jones & the Six in the Greedy Reading List Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music.

  • Review of The Caretaker by Ron Rash

    included the wonderful Ron Rash short story collection Nothing Gold Can Stay in my Greedy Reading List Six

  • Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Reads

    You might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Five-Star Bossy Reads to Check Out. an immensely readable book rich in period detail, great dialogue, and satisfying elements of love, mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/22/25 Edition

    , the Victorian-England-set historical fiction The Fraud ; and I'm reading Richard Osman's charming mystery In the first installment in Osman's mystery series, four septuagenarians meet each week to discuss unsolved

  • Review of The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

    behind-the-scenes World War II British codebreaking of Nazi messages, along with a rich back story and mysterious Lizzie finds a secret notebook of her mother's, she becomes more determined than ever to solve the mystery

  • Review of Ready or Not by Cara Bastone

    You might also like the novels on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Lighter Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer

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

    The tone and the cozy-magical-mystery focus reminds me of A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping .

  • Review of The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick

    A mysterious therapy center lies in the California desert, and its services are free, but they're only But participation requires traveling to California, consenting to receiving mysterious, purportedly helpful

  • Review of The Second Ending by Michelle Hoffman

    You might also like the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music.

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

    also the author of the nonfiction collection of essays The Anthropocene Reviewed (which was one of my six

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/28/25 Edition

    trilogy, Akata Witch , Noor , Remote Control , and other works. 03 The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick A mysterious without debilitating sorrow, but participating requires traveling to California, consenting to receiving mysterious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/24/23 Edition

    Love Experiment, a spinoff of The Soulmate Equation, which I loved; I'm reading the upcoming Western mystery Undertaking, the second in Deanna Raybourn's sassy Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries tortured and killed nearby, Porter will need to delve into the area's history, ties to the Russians, and mysteries Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's sassy Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries Undertaking, Victorian lepidopterist and adventurer Veronica Speedwell teams up with her natural-history and mystery-solving

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/29/25 Edition

    justice, Heart, Be at Peace ; I'm listening to the 31-hour audiobook of the latest Cormoran Strike mystery I'm reading the newest in the Cormoran Strike mystery series, in which a dismembered body and Freemason

  • Review of Out of Love by Hazel Hayes

    you enjoy reading books that play with time, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories and the Greedy Reading List Six Riveting Time-Travel

  • Review of The Sea Child by Linda Wilgus

    She must flee her London home, and she heads for the Cornish coast where she was once mysteriously washed the bad-guy Revenue Officer was going to serve as the villain; the Sea Bucca was going to serve as a mysterious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/18/21 Edition

    a beautiful modern classic from a bestselling author who writes about faith and life; and a recent mystery is Alexandra Andrews's first book, and so far the mystery's twists and turns are fantastic. If you like fiction about bands and music, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Rocking

  • Review of The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center

    Her sister steps in to help with their dad at home, and Emma moves to Los Angeles for six weeks of inspiring

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

    Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month. In a world of the near future, a young (unnamed) woman is one of several civil servants offered a mysterious

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

    Anyway, here are my six favorite (and varied!) reads of the first month of 2023. Similarly, when he stumbles onto a truth about his own mysterious heritage--a mystery he felt he had heart-pounding pacing, captivating character development, and dark turns in this third book in her young adult mystery

  • Review of Rednecks by Taylor Brown

    The Gods of Howl Mountain, and Fallen Land, a title I loved and included in the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Review of How to Say Goodbye by Wendy MacNaughton

    this book is of interest to you, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading List Six

  • A Short Bossy Break

    got these books going at the moment: recently published fantasy-historical fiction, the second in a mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/21/24 Edition

    If you like the sound of this book, you might also like the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Romantic

  • Shhh! Bossy Nonfiction Book Gift Ideas

    These six nonfiction books look like excellent last-minute additions to a holiday gift list if you're Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays Shhh! More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays Shhh! In Waypoints, Sam Heughan points out places along Scotland's ninety-six-mile West Highland Way that hold

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/8/23 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery that plays with time, Wrong one of my favorite authors, Claire Keegan; and I'm listening to Janice Hallett's unreliable narrator mystery 01 Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery Wrong Place Wrong Things Like These. 03 The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett Janice Hallett's The Twyford Code explores a mysterious he's out of prison and mainly resists sinking back into illegal habits...but he's got a hunch that the mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/30/25 Edition

    Day in December , and The Two Lives of Lydia Byrd , a book that appeared on the Greedy Reading List Six

  • 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 Stevie Bell solved one mystery last year--the mystery of her murdered classmate. But just as she's pulling closer to solving the original mystery that drew her to Ellingham Academy ( And far from forgetting about the decades-old mysteries of Ellingham Academy, Stevie is more obsessed She kept me hooked and moved things along while not making me feel mystery-manipulated.

  • Review of One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle

    If you like books that play with time, you might also enjoy the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore and Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/12/22 Edition

    If you like books that play with time, you might also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore and Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories--or you can search

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