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- Review of When Ghosts Come Home by Wiley Cash
Rumors, long-simmering conflicts, clashing loyalties, and Barnes's personal tragedy all complicate the The very end of the story brought to light a sudden burst of twisty complications and cemented the course of events, but these goings-on occurred off the page and were summarized for the reader.
- Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore
Very very happy. Rebecca Serle is also the author of One Italian Summer and other novels. 04 The Ten Thousand Doors
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/26/22 Edition
the Road series by Rachel Hartman; and I'm listening to Harrow the Ninth, the second in Tamsyn Muir's very 01 Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young When Emery Blackwood's best friend was killed and Emery's August knows he isn't welcome in Emery's orbit. bursts and gleams on the island--and long-held secrets come to light that will threaten everything Emery Trapped in the eerie space station with three grumpy, unwilling teachers trying to prepare her for the
- Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved in the Past Year
Anton is searching for redemption after horrific events surrounding his students and school. I would very happily read a full Little House in the Prairie-length series about Bertie and her life.
- Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into
eventually allowed Field to come into her fully realized adult self, and this journey is satisfying to watch after
- March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
My very favorite books from March! After a series of almost slapstick misunderstandings, Finlay is left a mysterious note implying that
- Six More Contemporary Novels I Loved in the Past Year
You can explore the twelve titles on My Very Favorite Bossy 2025 Reads to find out about my overall Edge of the World , which I listed in the Greedy Reading List Six Chilly Books to Read in the Heat of Summer
- Review of The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The black twin returns to the girls' hometown and shakes things up by bringing her very dark-skinned This book is also part of the Greedy Reading List My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads.
- Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West
along with what I thought were perfect amounts of self-actualization and character development, without ever Vengeance Road is a rough and tumble story with enough suspense that I wasn't ever confident that the The before and after of certain pivotal events almost felt like two separate books, but I was hooked
- Review of The Ragged Edge of Night by Olivia Hawker
Anton is searching for redemption after horrific events surrounding his students and school.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/28/21 Edition
skilled surfer Nina Riva--the daughter of legendary crooner Mick Riva--is about to throw her end-of-summer
- Review of Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby
what loyalty means, and to face how dark the path ahead might become when the bad guys are truly evil, very This book made my Greedy Reading List of My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads.
- Shhh! More Book Gifts for Kids and Teens
They need and appreciate our business now more than ever! positive results include two of longtime "Jeopardy" contestant (and highest earning game show contestant ever incredible nine TV seasons aired in the United States--including the story of how it was almost canceled after
- Review of Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
Nothing is too easy here, nor is it ever melodramatic in Napolitano’a hands. Edward tries on the mantle of taking responsibility for every life lost; he wallows in the despair of
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/6/25 Edition
I'm reading Lily King's newest novel, set during university years and decades afterward, Heart the Lover
- Review of Dear Emmie Blue by Lia Louis
This is a lovely light summer read I recently mentioned in my Greedy Reading List Three Wackily Different
- Review of Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
Jacob de Zoet make appearances, and the links to other books felt cozy, like I was coming home to more very This book made the Greedy Reading List for My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads.
- Review of Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center
Clearly everything is about to be upended so that Cassie is forced to alter her plans and careful schedule
- Review of My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows
an oddball fantasy element in which the life-and-death conflict is not religion, but the rights and very The tensions of the real-life situation are creatively altered, the facts are toyed with extensively,
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/6/21 Edition
With or Without You by Caroline Leavitt In Leavitt's novel, published by Algonquin Books late last summer that his struggling music career would someday take off, but it didn't look as though his dreams would ever
- Review of Dungeons and Drama by Kristy Boyce
Waitress out of town with her best friend, so: worth it) and gets grounded, she suddenly has to spend afternoons
- Review of Heart, Be at Peace by Donal Ryan
The world is a more dangerous place now for a young girl than ever it was before, for all the so-called Ryan moves the reader through some of the simmering resentments borne of close-knit histories, professions
- Review of The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman
She realizes that altering his life path and writing is a very real danger, yet she continues to insert Another book with a character based upon Nathaniel Hawthorne--although the author treats him very differently
- Three Wackily Different Books I'm Reading Right Now, 9/12/20 Edition
01 Surrender Your Sons This summer stinks. #LGBTQ, #youngadult, #mysterysuspense 02 A Very Punchable Face Has Colin Jost lived long enough to He started A Very Punchable Face with a story that is really his mother's (to be fair, it's interesting (For my full review, see A Very Punchable Face.)
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/24 Edition
Avery, the oldest, ten years sober, is a married lawyer (her wife is her former therapist, eek) making
- Three Wackily Different Books I'm Reading Right Now
01 Dear Emmie Blue This is a lovely light summer read so far. heartwarming 02 Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel Boy oh boy, this fifth book in the series is so very
- Review of A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler
power of allegations, the guilty-until-proven-innocent nature of accusations, the impossibility of ever amazing future as a musician and his college scholarship, and he's soaking up the last few months of summer
- Review of Head Over Heels by Hannah Orenstein
Here's the premise of Hannah Orenstein's latest book: nineteen-year-old Avery Abrams was set to be the When she hits a version of rock bottom and moves home, Avery's former teammate and crush Ryan (who did become an Olympic champion) talks her into helping him coach Hallie, a young phenom at the gym where Avery Avery has to figure out quickly if she can come to terms with her potential new role in the gymnastics breaks and multiple revelations of abuse within the gymnastics community are made public, what can Avery
- January Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
My very favorite Bossy January reads! A servant girl is fleeing her early colonial household in the brutal aftermath of plague and starvation
- Review of The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
A servant girl is fleeing her early colonial household in the brutal aftermath of plague and starvation
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/1/24 Edition
But when she borrows her mom's car without permission and gets grounded, she suddenly has to spend afternoons
- June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
My very favorite Bossy June reads! These were my favorite reads in June. different boy, a significantly shaped sister Maia, drastically different paths for mother Cora, and altered
- Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads Last Year
(And check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for my overall favorite reads from last year.) their mysterious artistic creation, and the work's ripple effect, which reaches well beyond what they ever Sixteen-year-old aspiring writer Frankie is just trying to get through a late 1990s summer in Coalfield
- Six Book Club Books I Loved Last Year
Nothing is too easy here, nor is it ever melodramatic in Napolitano’a hands. Edward tries on the mantle of taking responsibility for every life lost; he wallows in the despair of
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/23/23 Edition
Billy's witnessing of the mysterious crash aftermath seems bound to bring him trouble.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/3/20 Edition
Head Over Heels Just listen to this premise from Hannah Orenstein's latest book: nineteen-year-old Avery When she hits a version of rock bottom and moves home, Avery's former teammate and crush Ryan (who did become an Olympic champion) talks her into helping him coach a young phenom at the gym where Avery spent
- Review of The Ink Black Heart (Cormoran Strike #6) by Robert Galbraith
The agency doesn't take the case, but when Edie turns up dead soon afterward, Cormoran and Robin can't His main interest, Robin, is strong and savvy, yet even she is coping with trauma and the aftermath of
- Review of Autoboyography by Christina Lauren
I read their book Love and Other Words after Autoboyography ratcheted my expectations into outer space
- Review of I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
Lists include cases summarized in the vein of "It was the one where [insert specific circumstances of
- Review of The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin
I very much enjoyed the French Resistance storyline, with its details of safe houses, document drops, For example, the reader may very early on see the truth behind what ends up being a shocking surprise Some of the story is summarized rather than shown, and I felt that I could see evidence of Martin's historical
- Review of A Conspiracy in Belgravia (Lady Sherlock #2) by Sherry Thomas
Charlotte to discover various illuminating aspects to Lord Ingram's past and his marriage, and her simmering
- Review of Circe by Madeline Miller
deserted island, Circe perfects her witchy powers, tames beasts, considers the world and her place in it, simmers
- June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
My very favorite books from June! I loved this one for a summer read! this series, Fable, click here. 02 A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green This was one of my very The ending to Green's duology has tremendous heart without ever flirting with sappiness, deep meaning
- Review of The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
this life-and-death crisis and with immediate serial killer danger lurking getting drinks in the early afternoon also offers a few links to his Silent Patient characters, including an oddly specific reference at the very
- Review of The Girl with Stars in Her Eyes by Xio Axelrod
Toni grows up feeling like a painful afterthought to her mother's desperate efforts to advance her own
- Review of The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Reading about lying and stealing makes me very stressed out, so I was biting my nails while reading Korelitz's When the student abruptly dies soon afterward without publishing his book, Bonner banks on the probability
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/10/21 Edition
When the student abruptly dies soon afterward, Bonner banks on the probability that he hadn't trusted
- Review of The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
and the mismatch of their personalities and lifestyles) from the vantage point of this moment decades afterward
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/24/21 Edition
In timelines alternating between the expedition and the events of a year and a half afterward, Macallister
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/2/22 Edition
This one is difficult to summarize so far, but in this science fiction novel, Mandel plays with time
















































