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- Review of Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
But it did--and I was gleefully talking about the highlights of this book to the other people in this she's got a grudging respect for the purity of the revenge missions of the "bad guys" (and girls, and others She doubles down on her contempt for the good guys and her annoyance at how others see them as infallible , and their complicated relationships--as well as how henches and sidekicks continued to crop up in others performance reviews; the need for higher-ups to sign off on manpower requests and project plans; and other
- Review of Nothing Like I Imagined (Except for Sometimes) by Mindy Kaling
Mindy Kaling is also the author of Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me (And Other Concerns) and Why Not
- Review of The Unwilling by John Hart
brutality or frozen by the fear of their potential involvement in battle; the destruction of drugs and other He's written many other books, including The Hush, the second in the Johnny Merrimon series, and the
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/21/22 Edition
River Valley School for the Deaf are trying to get through finals, have typical teenage crushes on each other
- January Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
month and lays them alongside Big Moments of Realization--which often require grace and forgiveness, other She builds her book around pivotal encounters with others or aims to answer questions that have been For my full review (and links to my reviews of the other books in this series), check out As Good As
- Review of The Villa by Rachel Hawkins
childhood friends and were once as close as sisters--sisters who fight and snarkily undermine each other
- Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels
Some of this is odd, other parts are disturbing, and there are some wonderful implausibly amusing standoffs man with two stark options: safety and loneliness or potential danger and finally making contact with others But the other, the more certain, the more inevitable, is that those thousand thousand points of light epidemiologist; single-minded young Stephen the wunderkind; gruff, bighearted Colonel Carlisle; and the others Which other books along these lines should I be reading?
- Review of This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
Emma Straub is also the author of The Vacationers, All Adults Here, Modern Lovers, and other books.
- Shhh! More Book Gifts for Kids and Teens
Other "Jeopardy"-related books I've given to factoid-loving young people in the past with positive results Another basketball-focused book gift I like is Basketball (and Other Things): A Collection of Questions and other sometimes ridiculous issues in this fun exploration of basketball controversy and information Other cookbooks my kids have loved and cooked their way through recently--and which incidentally don't Two other cookbooks I'm gifting to young people in my own house this year are The Unofficial Harry Potter
- Review of The People We Keep by Allison Larkin
has been dealt a difficult hand in life, and watching her struggle to make her way and connect with others ultimately it isn't nearly as weighty an element as April's constant fight to connect with and to to trust others
- Review of In the Serpent's Wake (Tess of the Road #2) by Rachel Hartman
character of Tess and her personal story--and less on political strategies, power plays, and the many other
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/24/23 Edition
The writing team Christina Lauren also authored the books The Unhoneymooners, In a Holidaze, Love and Other
- Review of The Best of Me by David Sedaris
Me Talk Pretty One Day, Calypso, Naked, Holidays on Ice, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, and many other
- Review of Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook by Celia Rees
use the horrifying knowledge of Nazi doctors who enacted abuse and torture upon Jews during the war; others want due process for these criminals; still others want to assassinate the monsters without delay. Rees has written other books that look fantastic: Pirates!
- Review of The Ink Black Heart (Cormoran Strike #6) by Robert Galbraith
described as having a pubic texture, and he's overweight, a frequent smoker, and has a prosthetic leg that bothers
- Review of Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
pharmaceutical giant Purdue--while making lavish donations of their opioid profits through art, buildings, and other
- Review of The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell
not recognizing the Professor for who he really was, without any magical manipulation of his looks or other , but others wrapped up frustrating revelations-come-too-late (the identification of her parents; the
- Review of The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez
The other is a shockingly talented artist who abandoned the creation of new work after an incredibly Have you read Jimenez's other book, The Friend Zone? #heartwarming, #lightfiction
- Review of What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline
Scottoline is the author of Eternal and 31 other mysteries.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/18/21 Edition
01 Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo Evaristo won the Booker Prize in 2019 for this novel, which Girl, Woman, Other is a set of twelve interconnected stories about Black British women and their friendships
- Review of When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald
highly structured routines—on certain days she finds her own way to the community center where she and other young adults with challenges and disabilities play and learn social and practical skills; on certain other uses Old Norse words in her speech and thoughts; she frequently mentions bravery, combat, wisdom, and other
- Review of The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin
early on see the truth behind what ends up being a shocking surprise to Ava late in the book regarding others
- Six Five-Star Bossy Reads to Check Out
Edward tries on the mantle of taking responsibility for every life lost; he wallows in the despair of others I kept thinking about it while I was doing other things, and I just wanted to get back to Edward to find She also says "Everyone needs to hear that other person's voice saying, 'I believe in you.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/29/24 Edition
He teaches English to children and adjusts to living in a flat with many other people.
- Six Chilly Books to Read in the Heat of Summer
The elements that feel potentially familiar or could have felt overused from use in other stories (a Stead is also the author of the outstanding Goodbye Stranger, as well as other great books: When You Other books I've loved that could have appeared on this list include Eowyn Ivey's The Snow Child, mentioned What other books would you include on this list?
- Review of What You Can See from Here by Mariana Leky
None of Leky's other books have been translated from German into English.
- Review of The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
For more about Kate Quinn’s The Huntress (and five other historical fiction books I loved), check out
- Review of Big Time: Stories by Jen Spyra
Other short story collections I've reviewed lately include Sarahland by Sam Cohen, Half Wild by Robin
- Review of A Play for the End of the World by Jai Chakrabarti
You might also like some of the other books with Indian settings I've reviewed on this Bossy site.
- Review of The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama
She builds her book around pivotal encounters with others or aims to answer questions that have been
- Six Fantastic Stand-Alone Young Adult Books
Some other Bossy Bookworm Greedy Reading Lists you might like featuring young adult books: Six Royally You can search to find alllll of my young adult posts on this site--some are part of a series, others When Violet and Theodore encounter each other, they find that they can finally let down their guards, showing each other the good, the bad, and the ugly parts of themselves. I know they yearned for connections with each other, but this didn't seem to fit.
- Review of Black Bottom Saints by Alice Randall
mission particularly interesting: “King doesn’t preach as I would like to hear him on how we treat each other He works one side of the street; I work the other. King doesn’t let himself get tired.
- Review of One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
suitors and her attempts to give each his due while simultaneously dating and honestly considering the others experience while reflecting on what she wanted her future to look like after the show, above and beyond what others
- Review of A Conspiracy in Belgravia (Lady Sherlock #2) by Sherry Thomas
I can't wait to read all of the other books in this series!
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/28/21 Edition
publication next week, is a prequel to Erika Johansen's Queen of the Tearling series (there are three other He has written many other books, including The Hush, the second in the Johnny Merrimon series, and the
- Review of Herrick's End (The Neath #1) by T.M. Blanchet
The story is funny, sometimes grotesque, at other times sweet, and full of surprises.
- Shhh! More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays
Harnden's slim (144-page) book is Traveling Light with Thomas Merton, Bashō, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard & Others books monthly to young children across the country through Imagination Library, and kept up her various other Darby; and Beletsky's Bird Songs--which comes with a digital audio player of 250 songs--are several other This is a small (6 by 6) book perfect for tucking in with other books or gifts for the holidays.
- Review of You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie Smith
author mentions much of the music she finds powerful and inspiring or comforting, and she references other
- Review of Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
result in punishment such as the bulldozing of their homes, where a crush of population means knowing others juvenile trains of thought, and his otherwise simple and age-appropriate concerns (Does he seem smart to others
- Review of The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
Behind a door without a key--a door that is sometimes locked and other times mysteriously not--a "silent Purcell has also written other gothic novels I'd like to read: The Poison Thread, Bone China, and her
- Review of Two White Queens and the One-Eyed Jack by Heidi von Palleske
Characters’ unusual career paths (ocularist, opera-punk singer) are laid out by others and then, against As there is not a train-of-thought, avant-garde, stream of consciousness or other unusual structure to
- The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year
Cam had been bothered by something before dying unexpectedly in the Australian outback desert, but was Hart has written many other books, including The Hush, which is the second in the Johnny Merrimon series
- Six of the Best Nonfiction Books I've Read This Year
and fascinating look at the elaborate schemes undertaken by Harvey Weinstein and associates but also other up instances but altogether deny an existing culture of male sexual power plays, rape, and various other I found them all fascinating and very different from each other.
- Review of Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby
show up with a promising, straightforward job that might offer some financial breathing room--if the others Cosby has other books that look well-received, but I haven't read them yet. This is his newest.
- Review of The Golden Enclaves (Scholomance #3) by Naomi Novik
Novik is also the author of other fantasy novels featuring main protagonists I love: Uprooted and Spinning
- Shhh! Science and Nature Bossy Book Gift Ideas
Guide to the Night Sky, 2nd Edition, which also offers photos, maps, key facts about black holes and other himself, Neil deGrasse Tyson, along with other experts.
- Review of Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
are developing young-feeling (dirty dishes in the common area; spreading hurtful gossip; excluding others
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/29/24 Edition
That is, until the emails that were never meant for others' eyes are mistakenly sent out.
- Review of The Fate of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
The nemeses come to understand each other more deeply in an unlikely situation, and it was an evolution helpful for me to read this ending to the trilogy before delving into the prequel because I'd read the others
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/3/23 Edition
and demonstrating her ability to neutralize the supernatural abilities of werewolves, vampires, and other


















































