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

    listening to A Perilous Undertaking, the second in Deanna Raybourn's sassy Veronica Speedwell series of historical retired FBI agent is brutally tortured and killed nearby, Porter will need to delve into the area's history I loved A Curious Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's sassy Veronica Speedwell series of historical Perilous Undertaking, Victorian lepidopterist and adventurer Veronica Speedwell teams up with her natural-history

  • Bossy Holiday Gift Ideas: Science and Nature Books

    Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays Shhh! discoveries of the famous ornithologist John James Audubon in this combination of biography/memoir, art, history

  • Review of Lost in Time by A.G. Riddle

    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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/4/21 Edition

    Henry's Beach Read was a favorite book of mine last year, and it made it into the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Review of Charm City Rocks: A Love Story by Matthew Norman

    If this book sounds intriguing, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading List, Six

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/19/24 Edition

    For more cold-setting stories, check out my Greedy Reading List Six Books with Cold, Wintry Settings

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/17/22 Edition

    enjoy reading books that play with time, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Fascinating Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories and Six Riveting Time-Travel Escapes. 03 Dolly

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/29/24 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Kate Quinn and Jamie Chang's historical fiction novel about two disparate women in 1906 San Francisco, The Phoenix Crown; I'm listening to We Must Not Think of Ourselves, historical Stories of various characters are interwoven through the historical fiction novel and add depth to the Grodstein is also the author of Our Short History, The Explanation for Everything, and A Friend of the

  • Review of Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro

    I mentioned Dani Shapiro's fascinating memoir Inheritance in the Greedy Reading List Six More Illuminating

  • Review of Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

    I mentioned Spinning Silver in the Greedy Reading List Six Magical Fairy Tales Grown-Ups Will Love.

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

    Here are my six favorite reads of the past month: a book that plays with time, a book that plays with memory, a musician's memoir, Roaring Twenties-set historical fiction, postapocalyptic fiction, and the But not everyone she's paying off can be trusted, some of her six children are undermining her, and goings-on

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/2/25 Edition

    engaging nonfiction about the Westminster Dog Show, Dogland ; I'm listening to Carys Davies's luminous historical Kosta digs into his history as a young professional tennis player--including the unglamorous early tour

  • Review of The Last Green Valley by Mark Sullivan

    life-and-death period in the life of an ethnically German family at the end of World War II in this historical Sullivan built this historical fiction around the true story of an ethnically German family running from Mark Sullivan also wrote Beneath a Scarlet Sky, another historical fiction book based upon a real person

  • Review of You Have a Friend in 10A by Maggie Shipstead

    If you like short stories, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Short Story Collections

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/16/20 Edition

    #historicalfiction, #WWI, #thepullofthestars 02 Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating ​ Josh and Hazel Historical fiction, light fiction, and fantasy/science fiction is the wacky concurrent combo working

  • Review of Annie Bot by Sierra Greer

    You might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans and Alien

  • Review of No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) by Kate Bowler

    Kate's book Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I've Loved) in the Greedy Reading List Six For more books I thought warranted five big stars, check out the Greedy Reading List Six Five-Star Bossy

  • Review of Black Bottom Saints by Alice Randall

    Nothing to See Here and Alice Hoffman's The World That We Knew (featured in the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Review of Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

    Taylor Jenkins Reid is the author of Daisy Jones & the Six, a book I really liked and that I included in the Greedy Reading List Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music, as well as the books The Seven

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/29/22 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The War Librarian by Addison Armstrong, a recently published historical 01 The War Librarian by Addison Armstrong Addison Armstrong's recently published historical fiction The women's secrets could be their undoing, and they must each fight harder for their rightful places in history sacrificed everything to get her to the top, setting records that should cement her place in tennis history the American West, particularly focusing on Quanah, the chief of the most powerful tribe in American history

  • Review of In the Wild Light by Jeff Zentner

    Author Jeff Zentner is also the author of Goodbye Days , a book I listed in the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Review of The Manningtree Witches by A.K. Blakemore

    like Chris Bohjalian's witch hunt-focused Hour of the Witch or the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Review of Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau

    Blau is also the author of six other books. Because of the music involved in the story, Mary Jane reminded me of the books on the Greedy Reading List Six

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

    Here are my six favorite reads of the past month, all of which I rated 4.5 stars. If you like World War II stories, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Females are overshadowed, abused, and generally wronged throughout the book, a reflection of realistic, historic

  • Review of What We Can Know by Ian McEwan

    poet's put-upon wife trade points of view to illuminate across two timelines a calculated rewriting of history I treasured the crazy music and fads and troubled movies and serious science, serious history, serious forms of music festivals, and people's gardening and cooking, their need for holidays, extreme sports, historical Written personal histories are shown to be heavily curated, outrageously selective, and powerfully manipulative The falsified accounts are later painstakingly examined and accepted as truth, so that history is effectively

  • Review of White Houses by Amy Bloom

    ICYMI: White Houses is gorgeously written, exhaustingly researched historical fiction about Eleanor Roosevelt

  • 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 David Joy Toya Gardner has returned from Atlanta to her rural North Carolina town to track her family's history When two terrible crimes shake the small community, they also bring to light generations of dark history loved A Curious Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series of historical

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/24 Edition

    But Bruno is telling his own stories and reshaping history, sharing his tragic past and garnering sympathy the Sherriff of Nottingham, things get complicated for both Mariel and Clem in this sassy, fun, queer historical

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

    Bossy Favorites of the Month Please enjoy this roundup of my six favorite reads of March. Like many of us who question historical accounts that feel whitewashed or wiped of women due to sexism

  • Review of Light to the Hills by Bonnie Blaylock

    When a haunting figure from the past shows up in town again, Amanda's history not only threatens to shake I love a historical fiction story set in Appalachia , and I also love to read books about books .

  • Review of Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino

    If you like this book, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Great

  • Review of American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld

    ICYMI: This fictionalized version of a first lady's personal history from the talented Curtis Sittenfeld In American Wife, Sittenfeld takes a few facts from Laura Bush's life and the Bush family history and

  • Review of The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman

    based upon Nathaniel Hawthorne--although the author treats him very differently as a character--is the historical

  • Review of The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

    This gem from Mitchell is a set of six intriguing tracks through time that are full of surprises. David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks is a set of six intriguing tracks through time that are full of surprises This book is part of my Greedy Reading List Six Riveting Time-Travel Escapes.

  • Review of Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir by Bob Odenkirk

    If you like memoirs, you might want to check out this Greedy Reading List, Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore--which links to six more memoir lists for you to dig into!

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

    Egyptian artifacts, revelations about Alexia's mysterious father (and about her husband's centuries of history

  • Review of The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell

    In The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O'Farrell turns her attention to Renaissance Italy to tell a historical

  • Review of Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora

    You might also like the books I listed on the Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Books about the Immigrant

  • Shhh! Bossy Gift Ideas: Books about Media, Movies, and Music

    Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays Shhh! : An Oral History of the '60s Girl Groups by Laura Flam and Emily Sieu Liebowitz "...I never really wanted

  • Review of The Dream Builders by Oindrila Mukherjee

    Maneka Roy has temporarily returned to India after six years teaching creative writing in the American

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/21/23 Edition

    A book that keeps coming to mind as I read this one is This Tender Land, historical fiction by William and the "restructuring" that cut off American Indians from their culture, their families, and their history character based upon Nathaniel Hawthorne--although it treats him very differently as a character--is the historical

  • Shhh! Bossy Book Gift Ideas: Sports Nonfiction

    Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays Shhh! including Bill Laimbeer, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Danny Ainge, and Charles Oakley. 02 Why We Love Baseball: A History

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/17/24 Edition

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

  • Shhh! Bossy Book Gift Ideas: Science and the Natural World

    Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays Shhh! the author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore 03 Beautiful Experiments: An Illustrated History Ackerman, author of The Bird Way and The Genius of Birds, here tackles biology and natural history of With vivid details that bring to life the odd history (counting silhouettes of birds as they passed in

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/21 Edition

    If you like World War II-set books, you might also like the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Great you like books set in the unforgiving cold, you might also like the books on the 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. review, please see Dear Edward. 05 The Gilded Hour by Sara Donati In The Gilded Hour, Donati shapes a historical I loved digging into this 750-page historical fiction wonder.

  • Review of Red Notice by Bill Browder

    you like nonfiction books that read like fiction, you might try the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Compelling Nonfiction Books that Read Like Fiction or Six of the Best Nonfiction Books I've Read This

  • A Short Bossy Break

    I've got these books going at the moment: recently published fantasy-historical fiction, the second in Maine, a novel about an unconventional family in late 20th century Manhattan, Victorian-England-set historical

  • Review of Gregor the Overlander (The Underland Chronicles #1) by Suzanne Collins

    You might like the books I included on the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series

  • Review of A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock #1) by Sherry Thomas

    Sherry Thomas also writes young adult fantasy books as well as historical romances.

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