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If you like books about magic, here are two other Bossy Bookworm Greedy Reading Lists you might enjoy Reid is a straitlaced young man for whom things are black-and-white, clearly right and wrong. I think the second book in the All Souls series (Shadow of Night) is even stronger, as it delves more When Zeus, fearful of what she might be capable of, banishes her to a deserted island, Circe perfects

is suffering from dissociative fugue, a rare condition that could account for her ability to act and function

Come and Get It is the story of an RA and the consequences of her actions related to privacy and safety She's got her sights set on graduating and settling down with a job and a house of her own. a moment during one of her many opportunities to do so and considered the way in which the scenario might

I thought reading a second Carley Fortune novel might be a nice way to close out the summer, so I went You might also like my Bossy reviews of these romantic novels .

She emerged from spending years with her head down, fighting to survive, to realize that she needed to Maybe it's okay to not have the answers right now." States, visiting many of the people--until then, strangers--who had written to her during her cancer fight

But deciphering the nebulous ingredients required to enact it might just be impossible. You might also want to check out more cozy stories  I've reviewed.

middle, but Wells provides a fantastically unique point of view, and this series is perfect science-fiction else) strengthened loyalties, there is more of Wells's fantastically understated robot banter, there's action

desperate widowed swordswoman, and a street-smart young man searching for his disappeared friend just might swordswoman willing to make deep sacrifices to ally with the fated, powerful, dangerous dragon who might May finds herself willing to surgically alter her facial features for a sum that might keep her family

and intersections with money, friendship, and knowledge, and, in the words of Samuel Beckett, how we might , temperate by doing temperate actions, brave by doing brave actions.” to rules such as "no lying" will win a person friends; and when and why to help others or to do the "right With sections read by stars of The Good Place, Schur's How to Be Perfect is funny, interesting--and a The acknowledgments section of this book is so funny, generous, specific, thanks-filled, and lovely,

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the song Lucinda sold when she was young, without an agent or lawyer and without an understanding of rights If you're interested in this title, you might also like the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Musicians

In Young's story, loosely set in the world of her Fable series, strong young Bryn fights for her own It might be an understatement to say that she has mixed emotions about returning, but Henrik has plans

It feels unfair to compare Cloud Cuckoo Land to Doerr's beloved and quite different book All the Light

When Martha and Zhen connect, the collision might just change everything...for everyone in the world. The behavior of three key tech billionaires might seem like the symptom of all the biggest world problems You might also want to check out the books on the Greedy Reading List Six More Fascinating Dystopian

But these four fiction works and two nonfiction titles have especially resonated with me since I read

behind his Italian-American culinary origins; his experiences starring in the food-focused movies Big Night For more memoirs you might like, check out the Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore

and she can't explain it, except to feel that this is what people mean when they say "love at first sight tell Sarah the truth, and she's not even sure Jack remembers their non-encounter--much less that he might characters had juvenile-seeming reactions that I found frustrating (for example, calling a moment's sighting

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her family, left Cullen--she's left behind everything she knows in a desperate attempt to make things right She questions whether she's doing the right thing, meanwhile various complications--including the discovery If you love books set in Ireland, you might try Patrick Radden Keefe's powerful nonfiction Say Anything

In the middle of the night on a New York City street, April and her friend Andy stumble across something Are they neutral, are they sinister, or might they be here to save humanity? The faulted character of April May was wonderful, and I was fascinated by the way her actions and hopes

Some other Bossy Bookworm Greedy Reading Lists you might like featuring young adult books: Six Royally focused on settling responsibility (and while Carver is being vilified), this felt like something that might His book In the Wild Light, a book about best friends set in Appalachia, will be published in August.

So he's not stealing, right? It's completely fine. Everything is going to be fine. You can't copyright a plot anyway, right? RIGHT? readers down the uncomfortable path of a protagonist who steals, feels terrible guilt, rationalizes his actions I wonder how that story might compare to this one?

When a local young woman goes missing, Chloe fights her rising panic. sure what she's seen or what to make of it, staggering through her days, unsure whether it's day or night

I already offer many of my fiction and nonfiction book recommendations through this blog. Green's observations are fun, often oddball, and sometimes poignant, with short sections that are easily For example, in the Falling Out of History section, he sets the scene for the concept of forgotten songs

Casey Wilson, actress (Happy Endings), comedian (Saturday Night Live), and writer, shares essays and If you like memoirs, you might try the books on some of these Greedy Reading Lists: Six Illuminating

Ninth, the sequel to Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth, is a complex, fascinating, gruesome story full of action and shifts in reality as well as endless bad language, wicked barbs, and dark-as-night humor. because she’s bored or whatever, and you sort of have this maybe-flirting maybe-not thing going on, right

of the wrap-up details near the very end felt a little bit unsatisfying, but resolving them cleanly might Wendy Walker has written multiple other books, including All Is Not Forgotten and Emma in the Night.

experienced emotions the way other kids did, and when she grew older, while acting out, lying, stealing, and fighting because she was stealing loved ones' treasured possessions, breaking into homes, lying, and frequently fighting fascinated by the author's in-depth explorations of her motivations, triggers, abilities, needs, and fight

You might see Lila and Joe's budding love coming from a mile off (his early, eager interest in her came If you like reading mysteries, you might enjoy some of my Bossy reviews of other mystery novels .

faulted, privileged few are terrifying in their elaborate, exclusive plans, which exclude all but a fraction

And what is the course of action that best serves this understanding? our culture's never-give-up mentality and many loved ones' resulting feeling that it's their duty to fight If you're interested in books about mortality like I am, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading

Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Once There Were Wolves, Charlotte McConaghy's novel about a biologist fighting The Wreckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson Casey Wilson, actress (Happy Endings), comedian (Saturday Night and horrified: she was the cause of a drunk-driving accident in her adopted town of Los Angeles the night

I thought Hannah Kent skillfully captured the setting, the accused's feelings of futility in fighting back, and the panicked realization of those surrounding her that the truth might upend the events already

illegal--relationship, one that is sure to at the very least cause a significant rift in her family, might on--makes him seem like an unlikely candidate for practical, goal-focused Della to set her romantic sights If we were the only ones left after the world ended, and we made the rules, they really might work just

magic--more powerful than any of her classmates realize, which is just how El wanted it--feared she might A lot of page time was spent on logistics and on explaining why magical processes and machinations functioned

Irish-born Claire Keegan's newest collection, her stories explore gender dynamics, expectations, and what might be or might have been between the sexes. at a retreat who faces a headstrong fellow writer; and in So Late in the Day, a man reflects on what might

A seasoned and a rookie con artist together set their sights on taking advantage of a spoiled socialite—and one of the cons aims to right some wrongs in two of the characters' shared (but mysterious and complicated

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The last time Kembral and Rika came into contact, Kembral thought they might be building something real I was repeatedly left wondering who was who, much less what their motivations, pasts, and realities might

They spend their nights desperately avoiding the cruelties and horrors they might suffer at the hands

of the month: Hank Green's second book in his quirky, lovely, character-driven, big-hearted science fiction It features the fantastic characters from book one, and the plot picks up with a new version of the fight

Chelsey is thrilled that Ellie is back, she's frustrated by Ellie's refusal to provide information that might significant trauma) and wasn't pressed for details regarding the culprit who snatched her, where she might

I was hooked on the story of a team of young women fighting for admittance to a guild, their bonds, and The world-building felt a little unfinished, but the adventure story was compelling, with women fighting

While she might empathetically feed into the depth of feeling described to her and suffered by her artistic More Stories about Best Friends You might want to check out these other Bossy reviews of stories about

For more memoirs I've loved that you might want to try, check out the Greedy Reading Lists Six Illuminating But it's truly unlike anything I have ever read, and the second section, which is an enormous departure in tone from section one, brought me repeatedly to tears. make me feel like the worst type of voyeur—that the details of the affair at the center of this story might London, shuffling it from apartment to apartment where it holds a place of honor and has for twenty-eight

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humor-filled Charlie Bumper series (which my son read and absolutely adored) as well as the middle-grade books Night of the Spadefoot Toads and The Amazing Flight of Darius Frobisher.

that survived the immense destruction of the climate crisis, but secrets, danger, and a double life might You might also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Fascinating Dystopian and Postapocalyptic

I thought some of these to-reads might end up on this list, but I can't wait around forever while I manage Here are six varied books about witches, some I might call modern witchy classics (Wicked and Circe) If you like books about magic, here are two other Bossy Bookworm Greedy Reading Lists you might enjoy Reid is a straitlaced young man for whom things are black-and-white, clearly right and wrong. I think the second book in the All Souls series (Shadow of Night) is even stronger, as it delves more

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