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  • Review of Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth

    Delving into Elsie's childhood is heartbreaking, and some moments she relates without passion might take More Reads You Might Like Sally Hepworth is also the author of The Good Sister, Darling Girls, The Mother-in-Law

  • Review of VenCo by Cherie Dimaline

    foul-mouthed witches bound together by mysterious forces who undergo a quest to secure their survival by fighting job at a publishing company...but she and her grandmother are folded into what feels like an oddly tight-knit If you like stories about witches, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Wonderfully

  • Six More Mysteries I Loved Reading Last Year

    I've been in a mystery-reading mood lately, and I thought you might be too, so I'm sharing more mystery friends for emotional support and for sleuthing assistance, and I liked the continued focus on the tight I support transgender rights and therefore am uncomfortable with some of views expressed by J. K. But when Madison and her best friend go missing that night, Emmy realizes the girls have been keeping is suffering from dissociative fugue, a rare condition that could account for her ability to act and function

  • Review of Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley

    In Sloane Crosley's Cult Classic, Lola is leaving dinner with former colleagues one night in New York The story went roughly where I thought it might, but I didn't anticipate the quirky details or the unexpected If you like books that play with time, you might also enjoy the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six

  • Review of Frog: The Secret Diary of a Paramedic by Sally Gould

    More Books You Might Like This is Sally Gould's first book. You might also be interested in Bossy reviews of books involving medical or health elements, or in

  • Review of Famesick by Lena Dunham

    But in doing so, she realizes she is losing sight of her identity, her emotional connection to her life Other Memoirs You Might Like You might also want to check out these Bossy reviews of other celebrity

  • Review of The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

    that this is a second reality for Lydia and unaware of anything odd about this life, and Lydia must fight conflicting paths to coping with their grief, and their complicated feelings about what life and love might

  • Review of Foster by Claire Keegan

    Her bitter mother has just had another baby, and her various other siblings are fighting for resources She can't help wondering if she might possibly be here to stay of if she'll be thrust back into her rough

  • Review of Uncultured: A Memoir by Daniella Mestyanek Young

    She spent years fighting against destructive misogynistic power structures and making her way, struggling For more more more memoirs that you might want to try, check out these Greedy Reading Lists: Six Fascinating

  • Review of The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans

    The danger came over for movie night and bought them a popcorn maker for Christmas. In "Boys Go to Jupiter," a young woman wears a gifted confederate flag bikini, is careless about her actions order to have something to stand for, and questions who she would be without the conflict, without a fight She breaks her own heart by doing the right thing. That my country might always expect me to audition for my life I accepted as fact...

  • Six Great Books about the Immigrant Experience

    But these four fiction works and two nonfiction titles are some that have stuck with me in one way or

  • Review of The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri

    medieval setting, magical elements, a story within a story, romantasy without swooning, and characters fighting They fight, they figure things out, and they fall in love.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/3/23 Edition

    Sally Milz is a sketch writer for a late-night comedy show, and she's sworn off love. you; that had drawn some thin silk thread of empathy, person to person, in a planet-wide net--what might

  • Review of Legend (Legend #1) by Marie Lu

    and Colonies war with each other, a plague separates the haves from the have-nots, and young people fighting to find out the truth might just upend established, corrupt power structures for good. name, the west of the United States is a region called the Republic, and it frequently clashes and fights When the murder of June's brother pushes June and Day together, the two must fight to uncover the truth The bad-character/good-character split is pretty clear, with purely evil actions set against hearts of

  • Review of Upward Bound by Woody Brown

    Other Books You Might Like You might also be interested in my Bossy reviews of other novels featuring

  • Review of The Foursome by Christina Baker Kline

    Kline takes what might be a voyeuristic-feeling story of two North Carolina sisters (distant relations More Books You Might Like Christina Baker Kline is also the author of Exiles, which I liked, Orphan Train

  • Review of And Then She Vanished (Joseph Bridgman #1) by Nick Jones

    He obsesses over what he might have done differently, how he might have paid more attention, how he might He repeatedly attempts to time travel to the night Amy disappeared, but the amount of time he can spend

  • Review of Field Notes from an Extinction by Eoghan Walls

    Her formidable, fearsome presence looms from afar, and Ig dreads the possibility that she might come You might also like these books set in Ireland, books about found family, or books about island life.

  • Review of The Parting Glass by Gina Marie Guadagnino

    This book was mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved Over the Past

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/19/24 Edition

    O'Keefe's Devoured Worlds series, The Blighted Stars , in which the heir to a galaxy-wide mining fortune Karla Cornejo Villavicencio is also the author of The Undocumented Americans . 03 The Blighted Stars O'Keefe's Devoured Worlds series, The Blighted Stars , studious Tarquin Mercator is the unlikely heir I'm listening to The Blighted Stars as an audiobook. Megan E.

  • Review of Little Wonder by Sophie Chen Keller

    all-consuming terror, and fear of seemingly endless, potentially devastating ends that a young boy alone might More Books You Might Like Sophie Chen Keller is also the author of The Luster of Lost Things.

  • Review of The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins

    Certain characters' emotional roller coasters and loyalties felt abhorrent in light of what I believed

  • Review of Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

    both Ivan and Peter are repeatedly forced to consider their place in the world and what the future might their distinct voices--one machine-gun-like, one softly pensive--emphasized that while appearances might suggest that the older, responsible lawyer brother might be more steady than the just-out-of-college

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/28/26 Edition

    But her first night out at a California party with her new roommate Gloria holds more than a carefree But when figures from that night begin showing up in Ari's life in rural Ohio and again when she moves

  • Review of The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

    This sci-fi thriller is about betrayal and revenge, but it's not the other-woman story you might expect . ...no matter how much Martine developed her own personality and desires, she didn't have a right to She was a tool, and tools don't have the right to decide how they're used. thriller is about the forces that drive apart a husband and wife, but it's not the other-woman story you might

  • Review of Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty

    the repercussions of a seemingly psychic woman's predictions of demise for her fellow passengers on a flight Flight attendant Allegra Patel loves her work--despite the sometimes-bossy passengers, their overstuffed But on today's flight, an elderly woman is causing a major disruption.

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

    governments, and criminals thought to be unredeemable are sent back to the time of dinosaurs, presumably to fight Most of the action occurs in more modern-day timelines. such feelings, and the characters seemed secure in what felt likely to be impossibly morally fraught actions and that actively manipulating outcomes related to life and death on the scale presented in the story might If you like books that play with time, you might also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting

  • Review of Woodworking by Emily St. James

    Other Titles You Might Like Woodworking is Emily St. James's first novel. You might also want to check out Bossy reviews of a few more books with transgender characters and protagonists

  • Review of Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford

    Bamford evaluates her ongoing search for and her innate need to find a group where she might focus her You might also want to check out these Bossy reviews of memoirs  I've read.

  • Review of Shut Up and Read: A Memoir from Harriett’s Bookshop by Jeannine A. Cook

    presenting themselves despite logistical roadblocks (and, sometimes, what feel like logical challenges that might More Books You Might Like I listened to Shut Up and Read courtesy of Amistad and Libro.fm . Please also check out these Bossy reviews of other books about books and memoirs you might enjoy.

  • Review of Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

    His golden heart and grit allow him to keep fighting through brokenness, pain, and disappointment in security; seemingly reliable sleeping conditions for a time; or the promise of outside figures who might If you're standing on a small pile of shit, fighting for your one place to stand, God almighty how you fight.

  • Review of The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

    We find out early on that she faces the impending loss of her sight, that she is somewhat estranged from The Correspondent was the right book at the right time for me.

  • Review of Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott

    Sometimes, one cannot know until retelling what was right and what was wrong. If you like magical realism and folklore, you might also like the books on my Greedy Reading List Six

  • Review of Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang

    but struggling sweatshop workers, as they are illegal immigrants who must remain unnoticed as they fight including seeing the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lit up, her first bite of pizza, and the dizzying sights When her mother faces a health crisis, as they’ve long feared one of them might, the family's security For more more MORE memoirs I've loved that you might want to try, check out the Greedy Reading Lists

  • Review of Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

    After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at her local aquarium as a custodian If you like stories with heart, you might want to check out other books I've reviewed as heartwarming

  • Review of The Eighth Detective by Alex Pavesi

    There's a book within a book here, and the fictitious author of the stories has approached the murder

  • Six Favorite Nonfiction and Memoir Reads of the Year

    If you like to read memoirs, you might like to check out some of my  Bossy memoir reviews , or some of She obsesses over trying to track down the robber, can't let go of the fear that he might have targeted Renkl's beautiful, striking observations range from a New Year's Day sighting of a crow and her exploration If you're interested in books about mortality like I am, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading writing the nuclear energy budget and policy papers under President Ford and President Carter, then a flight

  • Review of A Play for the End of the World by Jai Chakrabarti

    "For family you must fight like a tiger," Misha once told him. You might also like some of the other books with Indian settings I've reviewed on this Bossy site.

  • Review of This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune

    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 .

  • Review of A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna

    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.

  • Shhh! Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays

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

  • Review of The Bright Years by Sarah Damoff

    links, and for me this also made the novel feel a little bit overplanned and less authentic than it might More Family Stories If you like reading stories about families, you might want to check out the books

  • Review of The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

    More Books You Might Like If you're interested in long books, check out this short list of Bossy favorites For other books about India, you might try these titles .

  • Review of So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan

    slim story collection, she explores gender dynamics and defied expectations, and she considers what might be or might have been between the sexes. a retreat who faces a headstrong fellow writer; and in "So Late in the Day," a man reflects on what might You might also want to check out the short story collections listed in my Greedy Reading Lists Six Short

  • Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories

    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

  • Review of The Golden Enclaves (Scholomance #3) by Naomi Novik

    The fractured nature of the fight in The Golden Enclaves meant that I didn't get to spend extended page Who might be allies for her, if anyone?

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/6/25 Edition

    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

  • Review of The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

    I could easily have read it in one night. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book? You might also be interested in the books on one of my earliest Greedy Reading Lists on the site, Six

  • It's Bossy Bookworm's First Birthday!

    Reading the right book at the right time can be magical, and I hope some of the information here might

  • Six Four-Star Mysteries to Keep You Guessing

    You might also like these other Greedy Reading Lists of Bossy mystery favorites. You might also be interested in Julia Phillips's second book, Bear. 04 The Last Child by John Hart I You might also like these Bossy small-town reads and novels that center around law enforcement officers

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