Every Osage was a potential target--and many of those who risked investigating the deaths were killed

Edge of the World , which I listed in the Greedy Reading List Six Chilly Books to Read in the Heat of Summer

Yet Lena, in a wheelchair after being stricken with polio, is bright and driven--and would much prefer

The summer Chloe Davis was twelve, six girls went missing in her rural Louisiana community. By the end of that summer, Chloe's father had confessed to the crimes of killing those girls, was convicted what to make of it, staggering through her days, unsure whether it's day or night and less sure than ever

A new United States administration has been sworn in after a period of upheaval and upset.

Rwanda and through six other African countries—with her tough, hustling older sister Claire—during and after In The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After, Wamariya recalls her experiences through

After the World Falls Apart I have a fascination with postapocalyptic and dystopian books, and I think Teenage Andra finally wakes up after being cryogenically preserved for a century-long journey to a new

He takes the reader on a roller coaster of emotions, and I love every bit of it.

family is lovely, and there's a subplot in which Jack and his brother Hank are furious with each other after

she rides her mule Eugenia through all the hollers and up through the mountains, delivering sought-after

My very favorite Bossy January reads! It looks like Kembral will have to work tonight after all--and, even worse, she'll need to cooperate when their paths intersect, they realize that together, they are more formidable than they could have ever

It's possible very little in the book was changed in light of real-world events, but, and maybe this is unreasonable, but I very much wished that Martin's pre-Covid-19 version of events had been purely technological advancements that allowed for the scientists' and government's responses in the novel, and I'd very After she spoke at our library foundation event last year, my book club read this book together.

As far as I can tell, the uncertain part is: every second we’re alive, until the last.

deflect racism from casting heads and writers; and digs in to try to be one of what he hopes will be an ever-increasing various early road bumps he encountered, and his dogged determination--which was admittedly shaken after landing very few roles, and consistently stereotypical ones at that. and grilling about where he was "from," and he wondered if this acting thing would ever work out. service to others, and he tried to reconcile his two seemingly conflicting paths, wondering if they can ever

Spoiler: a dragon appears at the very end of the book, laying the groundwork for more dragon page time Jack Alston (Lord Hawthorn) swore that he was finished with magic for good after his twin sister Elsie of the Weres, and he's as unpredictable, volatile, and unforgiving as any Were stereotype Misery has ever

Six Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Historical Fiction Reads Historical fiction is one of my very favorite genres Here are six of my very favorite historical fiction reads of last year--with another list to come! (Check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for my overall favorite reads from last year.) husband abruptly leaves her penniless and alone, jumping on a ship departing Massachusetts shortly after she rides her mule Eugenia through all the hollers and up through the mountains, delivering sought-after

My very favorite Bossy January reads! After four decades of successfully ridding the world of cruelty and destruction one person at a time, about overcoming thwarted emotional connection and forging new ways of coming together through and after Ever since Pip's book two detective work ended in an important resolution, she's been coping with the

the countless incarcerated people in dire and heartbreaking situations--whether they are on death row after wrongful incarceration; on death row or imprisoned for life after being tried and convicted while children adults; incarcerated but should never have been placed in prison due to mental illness; or facing death after

It meanders as Beard is unmoored after heartbreak and betrayal, and her dear friend is dying.

I loved every bit of this story. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book?

insights, and the vulnerability she shares about difficult periods in her own life and moving forward after

Blair also lays bare her experiences with depression and her attempted suicides after heartbreaks; her --such as a disturbing movie seen too young and the long-term fright she and her sister experienced afterward

is over and the knaffea is just a pleasant memory—like a lovely dream that you forget a few seconds after He does have sordid tales to tell, but he seems less puffed up over his kitchen war stories after the I pledged after reading this book I wasn't going to forget to not eat fish on Sunday or Monday because of supply and delivery patterns (I did forget this, but now after rereading my original review I'm reminded written a memoir about marriage, unexpected yearnings, and the messy process of finding herself again after

Why do we keep going for thirty years after our bodies can no longer reproduce? missing girls, you might also like the book Before She Disappeared, although the tone of that book is very

a movie with a budget of 3.5 million earned more than 200 million and became influential for comedy ever after its 1980 release. 06 But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?

awkward and irritating at times, but their deep caring for each other and their moments of shorthand after

of the Czech hockey team's noble quest to win an Olympic gold medal over the juggernaut Soviet team--after

Stay True is Hua Hsu's coming-of-age memoir of growing up Taiwanese American and coping with grief after

It's full of rough characters and men eager to leave their pasts behind, including Patrick Sumner, a But the ship's fate proves more disastrous than Sumner could have imagined when a cabin boy is brutally Phillips Julia Phillips's interconnected stories follow in chapters that take place each month for a year after I still think about Disappearing Earth from time to time, long after reading it. The very existence of Hurley's images is incredible; the glass plate negatives lasted through months

Just be glad I don't name stuff after myself.

royalty Lila loves to hate; Rhys, Kell's prince and brother; and one of my favorites, Captain Alucard Emery Necessity makes for strange bedfellows; as crisis after crisis erupts, situations require ingenuity,

My very favorite Bossy June reads! Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month. of the Weres, and he's as unpredictable, volatile, and unforgiving as any Were stereotype Misery has ever Center doesn't rely on a miscommunication trope (my very least favorite), and I could see where both In Sloane Crosley's memoir Grief Is for People , she explores life after the loss of her closest friend

Ten years after her arrival, Riley is twenty-one and has begun to chafe at the small scope of her life I very much enjoyed the matter-of-fact acceptance of Kiran and his interests, his expression of his identity

I listened to the audiobook, read wonderfully by Emily Woo Zeller, with an afterword by Yip-Williams's my full review of The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything that Comes After of dying, death, appreciating the beauty of the impermanence of our lives, planning for loved ones after

today. 03 Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez In Part of Your World, Abby Jimenez, author of The Happy Ever After Playlist, takes on a meet-cute between a rural renaissance man (he's the small-town mayor, a graceful community members) and a successful city doctor with an impressive family pedigree, expensive taste, and very

In "Happily Ever After" the main character faces the possibility of not being able to have a biological Through the artist's gimmicky attempts to try to move on, the story shows the limitations of an apology after It was the winter after the most depressing election of my adult life, a low point for my faith in the

She is interestingly faulted, and after the story's early, painful tragedy, she shies away from facing Reporter Sunny's connection to the two performers and their past was intriguing, and I very much enjoyed

And those rules stayed in my head, each and every one.

When the book begins, it's 1412 in Bishop's Lynn, England, and Margery has almost died after giving birth

my personality or my humour thrives on more than being able to see the same person at the same time every

eventually allowed Field to come into her fully realized adult self, and this journey is satisfying to watch after

But to be fair, she's emerging from a fog of trauma after her mother's death, her father has abandoned largely stay in drunken, sunburned fogs of excess and denial, and they do it all against a luxurious, eerie

And I love that about humanity, and in fact it's the very reason I root for us to survive--because we I wasn't sure if I was ready for another Sally Rooney book after reading Conversations with Friends a

My very favorite Bossy December reads! conflicts to consider at the story's close: duty, corrupt power, the suffering of the common people, regret after Spoiler: a dragon appears at the very end of the book, laying the groundwork for more dragon page time It's a young adult book, with lots of love and attraction but very little steaminess (none explicit),

constricting-and-controlled scenario is orchestrated by an evasive, sinister, and, I felt, annoying man (every

belief could legitimately help us understand what motivates people's fanatical behaviors during this ever-restless explanations about what draws people to them, and I share this curiosity--but I didn't feel Montell ever like CrossFit in the discussion, then to dismiss them late in the book as not fitting the "cult" model after

And I suppose the real answer is it started years before you could have ever imagined it did. through the creepy letters interspersed throughout, written by a dark, omniscient player in all of this after

My very favorite Bossy March reads! Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month. "You don't know how beautiful you are" types of lines; unrealistically convenient run-ins; not-dead-after-all

My very favorite Bossy July reads! historical fiction story, but I became fully hooked as the tale morphed into something wonderfully eerie In Memoriam is beautiful, frequently painful, and offers a layered, complicated version of happy ever after.

When the book begins, it's 1412 in Bishop's Lynn, England, and Margery has almost died after giving birth