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  • Review of Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You by Lucinda Williams

    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

  • Review of John of John by Douglas Stuart

    More Books You Might Enjoy Douglas Stuart is also the author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo. You might also like these Bossy reviews of other books set in Scotland.

  • Review of Don't Let Him In by Lisa Jewell

    But Nina's young-adult daughter Ash thinks Nick might be too smooth, and the timing of his entrance into You might want to check out the lists and titles at this link for more Bossy mystery reviews.

  • Review of Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad

    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

  • Review of How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur

    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,

  • Review of This American Woman: A One-in-a-Billion Memoir by Zarna Garg

    determining her own destiny after years of struggles and constant worries about being a burden on those who might More memoir love For more memoirs you might like, please check out these Bossy reviews as well as Greedy

  • Review of The Future by Naomi Alderman

    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

  • Review of Hello, Molly! by Molly Shannon

    also explores her mainly positive, almost dreamlike Saturday Night Live years, her writing and collaboration Shannon is so enthusiastic, full of wonder about the world, and unfailingly optimistic (with a slight For more more MORE memoirs I've loved that you might want to try, check out the Greedy Reading Lists

  • Review of Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird

    Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen was mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Books

  • Six Fantastic Stand-Alone Young Adult Books

    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.

  • Review of Violet Thistlewaite is Not a Villain Anymore by Emily Krempholtz

    is dead, and Violet Thistlewaite is determined to shed her identity as the Thornwitch, Shadowfade's right-hand

  • Review of Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne

    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

  • Review of The Last Legacy by Adrienne Young

    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

  • Review of The Life We Bury (Joe Talbert #1) by Allen Eskens

    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 .

  • Review of Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

    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

  • Review of Harrow the Ninth (Locked Tomb #2) by Tamsyn Muir

    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

  • Review of Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci

    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

  • Review of My Heart Went Walking by Sally Hanan

    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

  • Review of The Keeper (Cal Hooper #3) by Tana French

    causing with an act or question, or which move increases his loyalty to his best buddies, or how he might You might also be interested in my Bossy reviews of other Tana French novels .

  • Review of A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham

    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

  • Shhh! Bossy Gift Ideas: Cookbooks

    books, perennial classics, modern favorites, nonfiction must-haves, or other new-to-you titles that might shhh, I'm giving my parents more Milk Street foodstuffs for Christmas--and I own Milk Street Tuesday Nights Diner Donuts and from Pickle-Brined Roast Chicken to Gram's Clam Dip, with flavors ready for a cozy night

  • Review of Honor by Thrity Umrigar

    considers the ease with which she could enter a casual romantic entanglement--while she desperately fights for justice regarding another woman's stolen right to make choices about her love and her life path pulled out of the story by its telling--stop-and-go pacing, jarringly petty arguments and perceived slights

  • Review of The Last Hour Between Worlds (Echo Archives #1) by Melissa Caruso

    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

  • Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In

    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

  • Review of My Friends by Fredrik Backman

    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

  • Review of The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean

    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

  • Review of The Wreckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson

    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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/20/23 Edition

    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

  • Review of Bull Moon Rising (Royal Artifactual Guild #1) by Ruby Dixon

    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

  • Review of An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (The Carls #1) by Hank Green

    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

  • Review of The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz

    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?

  • Review of Don't Look for Me by Wendy Walker

    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.

  • Review of Kill for Me, Kill for You by Steve Cavanagh

    More Mystery Novels You might also want to check out my Bossy reviews of other mysteries .

  • More 2025 Bossy Book Ideas for Your Holiday Gift List

    for quirky books, perennial classics, modern favorites, nonfiction must-haves, or other titles that might They are summoned to a posh townhouse where one is stabbed right in front of the others, but somehow

  • Review of Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash

    You might also like these edgy books, darkly funny books, oddball, and bonkers books, as well as books

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/23/21 Edition

    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

  • Review of The Shippers by Katherine Center

    Her sister Ashley's cruise-ship destination wedding feels like the perfect opportunity to put into action But is Finn the right one for JoJo?

  • Review of The Child Finder (Naomi Cottle #1) by Rene Denfeld

    More missing-person stories If you like unlikely heroines and missing-person plots, you might also like

  • Review of Head Cases (Head Cases #1) by John McMahon

    assisting the killer, or at least compromising the investigation, and McMahon made me question who this might This was smart, intriguing, action-packed at times, and both the complexity of the investigation and

  • Review of Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead by Mai Nguyen

    despairing, and often gallows-humor-fed path through the depths of her grief to a place where she can function More Books You Might Like Mai Nguyen is also the author of Sunshine Nails.

  • Review of The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins

    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

  • Review of This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger

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

  • Review of Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister

    The story begins with a mother awaiting her teenage son's return home late one night. relieved to find that her son hasn't killed anyone, he hasn't been arrested, and in fact, none of last night's But she knows that last night was real. But somehow she's reliving yesterday again.

  • Review of Lady Tremaine by Rachel Hochhauser

    More Retellings to Check Out You might also be interested in Bossy reviews of other retellings.

  • Review of The Pirate Queen by Ariel Lawhon

    this structure would have been jarring and potentially difficult to dive into, but after the first few sections The mother fighting for her children.

  • Review of Between Two Fires: An Epic Tale of Medieval Horror by Christopher Buehlman

    More Books You Might Like Christopher Buehlman is also the author of The Blacktongue Thief and The Daughters

  • Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite

    If you like memoirs, you might want to also check out these Bossy Bookworm reads and Greedy Reading Lists of the book, in which case I might have been tempted to abandon it. I found the sections about a day in the life of Bourdain's kitchen and a day in the life of a three-star I really fell for Bourdain watching him in action on television--witnessing his bristly manner and his to live vicariously through the details of her experience but also come away with simple steps they might

  • Review of The Amateur by Chris Bohjalian

    I thought Mira might be headed toward a period of sexual empowerment and her owning of it (after turning

  • Review of Care and Feeding: A Memoir by Laurie Woolever

    Bossy Foodie Memoir Favorites You might also be interested in the books on the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Review of We Are All Guilty Here (North Falls #1) by Karin Slaughter

    But when Madison and her best friend go missing that night, Emmy realizes the girls have been keeping

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