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It may very well feel like oversimplifying for those familiar with mental illness to watch the character emotionally invested in Nora's story although I appreciated the implications of her experiences and was very

I'd love to hear: What are your favorite memoirs? 01 Here For It by R.

this as an audiobook, and it was such a slow build, I was both eager for it to ramp up in pacing and very I was on the verge of becoming impatient, but Waters masterfully draws out the sinister threads of the

The tone of the book feels very earnest, and we spend a significant amount of time in Greene's thoughts

In often very short essays, she explores living genuinely despite others' criticisms; giving herself

It seemed especially off-putting somehow that Miles (who as a male had no markings) was so very interested

Can a person’s character or morality be decided in a moment, or in a series of defining moments? Dust Off the Bones is Howarth's upcoming sequel to Only Killers and Thieves, due out in summer 2021.

*Spoiler* This may not be an enormous spoiler, since Gordievsky would not have lived (or at the very

stories of the youth and origins of the siblings' recently deceased parents--their beloved mother and very

And now every time you cross it again, it just gets grayer and grayer until one day you look around and The story has been adapted into one season of a television series.

but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every She considers every desperate plan she can to try to save Kasia from this horrible fate, knowing all I feel compelled to also mention that Novik has a series of nine books about dragons, the Temeraire series Check out my reviews of Lessons One and Two in the Scholomance series, A Deadly Education and The Last

; I'm also listening to the first in Antonia Hodgson's smart, charming, intricately plotted fantasy series , The Raven Scholar ; and I'm listening to the first in Devney Perry's romantasy series, Shield of Sparrows And after a series of unlikely, unfortunate events, bookworm Neema becomes one of them--the least threatening competition become ever heightened, characters must forge previously unthinkable loyalties and use every

provide honest reflections about their work's meaning in their lives, although the tones of the books are very

Vigil has been one of my most-anticipated reads of 2026.

Side note: I'd like for this story to also become a movie, thank you very much.

Orbital recently won the 2024 Booker Prize. I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this book!

It was very stressful!

It's the last day of high school, and nemeses Rowan Roth and Neil McNair have battled bitterly for every The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins In Rachel Hawkins's mystery The Wife Upstairs, set for January 5, 2021 Today Tonight Tomorrow, my book club's first title of the year, and I do like the idea easing into 2021

allegiance to a personality-over-substance faith leader reminded me of Godshot, although the tone is very

The misogyny and contempt of her peers means she faces a lack of respect and resources at every turn. Wang is also the author of The Sword of Kaigen  and the YA fantasy series The Volta Academy Chronicles

with family drama and dating again, Definitely Better Now ; and I'm listening to Jacqueline Harpman's eerie It feels like every messy part of her life is about to converge in a destructive collision. Harpman's slim novel is mysterious, eerie, and strange.

This section of the book is presented in very short snippets that are often comments, jokes, questions

This book will be published March 9, 2021. I received a prepublication copy of this book, which will be out March 9, 2021, courtesy of Houghton

Welga Ramirez is an elite bodyguard, former special forces, and on the verge of retirement. This book will be published March 2, 2021. I received a prepublication copy of this book, scheduled for publication March 2, 2021, courtesy of Henry

The Books I'm Reading Now It's the first Bossy list of 2022! In this first science fiction title in Becky Chambers's Wayfarers series, young Rosemary feels lucky

The songs are all included again at the very end of the book, by which point the listener understands

Henderson's witchy tale is taking its main protagonist to a very dark place so far, and I'm not sure

It felt as though for much of the story, every character was teetering on the edge of destruction, and This was my book club's first read of 2022. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book?

In 2020, we meet Mirella and Vincent (characters from The Glass Hotel).

The books' tones are very different, but the dark side of stardom is present in both novels. 03 Sorry

of the boys Orenstein interviewed who had had such conversations said the talks had been somewhat or very

Book two of the series sees our septuagenarian characters each trekking their own paths while working I laughed while listening to this one; Osman's series has me hooked. More about This Series Richard Osman is an author and also a producer and television presenter. The Thursday Murder Club is a five-book series, and there's a film based on the first book. For my review of the first book in this series, The Thursday Murder Club , please check click this link

I'm listening to The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, the first installment in Shannon Chakraborty's series Every Osage was a potential target--and many of those who risked investigating the deaths were killed Chakraborty I'm listening to the first wonderful installment in Shannon Chakraborty's Amina al-Sirafi fantasy series

also offers a few links to his Silent Patient characters, including an oddly specific reference at the very

The issues Reid explores are enormous and are important to all of us, every day, and she wraps them in Side note: I’d love a spinoff in the form of an alternate reality series in which they have adventures

This book is generally very well received, so my bossy desire for more character development and motivation

Ken, who was Japanese American in a family that had lived the United States for generations, favored I received an electronic prepublication edition of this book, to be published September 27, 2022, courtesy

Sometimes the trudge toward disaster makes me a very nervous reader.

Bay, Alabama, seems to attract the strongest of hurricanes, and the only building that's withstood every The reclusive author Cate Kay has written a bestselling trilogy (which is about to be made into a series

finding and spreading happiness; I'm reading the third in Naomi Novik's dark, wonderful Scholomance series here. 02 The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik A Deadly Education was the first in Novik's Scholomance series Danger and darkness lurk around every corner for grumpy, powerful El and her classmates. In The Golden Enclaves, the third installment of the series, the unlikely allied force of students faces

I received a prepublication copy of this book, published May 4, 2021, courtesy of Sourcebooks Casablanca This is the first in a series by Axelrod about Toni and the Lillys.

Carr's newest novel is a captivating series of character studies within a tightly knit Irish seaside They had learned, fundamentally, every child washes in from the sea, washes up against the ankles of

by and also deeply irritated by her academic rival, Peter Murdoch, who seems to be showing her up at every and the pacing flagged at times for me as the protagonists passed through court after court--but the eerie

paths of two Southern women; I'm listening to Inside Man , the second book in the Head Cases mystery series Inside Man (Head Cases #2) by John McMahon The initial installment of John McMahon's police procedural series In the second book in the Head Cases series, Camden is back on the job--with two enormous, strange, urgent I heard about this series in a roundup of mystery novels recommended by national security agents. 03

It looks as though Vanderah has a second book set for publication in spring 2021, The Light Through the

The initial installment of John McMahon's police procedural series follows a genius, socially awkward Bossy Love for Mysteries The next installment of this series, Inside Man , was recently published. Marsh series.

The third in the Cal Hooper series is a slow-burn mystery in which Tana French serves up deep character When I Bossily reviewed the first book in this series, The Searcher , I started my review this way: What I continue to stand by all of this appreciation for French and for this series. In this third novel in French's series, the community reels over the disappearance and death of a local While I don't think you must read the other books in the series before this one, I do think readers would

Shteyngart's story of a precocious young girl finding her way in her complicated family and in the world, Vera 01 Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart Through fifth-grader Vera's point of view, we get to know her family They live in New York City and Vera's parents, Anne Mom (her stepmother, a stay-at-home-mom) and Daddy editor and writer), struggle to cope with financial pressures and relationship issues, while precocious Vera

I received a prepublication digital edition of this book, to published May 11, 2021, courtesy of Celadon

collection of interconnected stories about a Jamaican family in Miami; I'm reading Carley Fortune's debut, Every Disappeared, a mystery about a decades-past disappearance that involves time travel and is the first in a series Wow You, or you might like some of these other collections of short stories that I've reviewed. 02 Every Summer After by Carley Fortune In Carley Fortune's debut Every Summer After, Persephone Fraser knows Every Summer After is a love story told over the course of six summers and a weekend. 03 And Then She