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  • Review of Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

    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

  • Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You

    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

  • Review of Now You Say Yes by Bill Harley

    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.

  • Review of What Remains by Wendy Walker

    guilt and self-doubt lead her to track down the almost-victim, Wade Austin, he assures her that her actions Wendy Walker is also the author of Don't Look for Me, The Night Before, Emma in the Night, All Is Not

  • April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    reflects on human nature, recognizes the intense delights of food and love and friendship, shines a light thriller is about the forces that drive apart a husband and wife, but it's not the other-woman story you might

  • Bossy Holiday Gift Ideas: Science and Nature Books

    books, perennial classics, modern favorites, nonfiction must-haves, or other new-to-you titles that might But despite the fight to come out on top in the naturalists' matchup, many of the birds around them were

  • Review of The Land and Its People: Essays by David Sedaris

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  • Review of Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

    But Lucy suffered a head wound the night of Savvy's death and now she can't remember anything about the night Savvy was murdered.

  • Review of Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions by Jeffrey Selingo

    He also offers tips on how to evaluate whether a school might be a match for a young person looking toward Aiming for the most talked-about institutions (and fighting to be one included in the infamous single-digit

  • Review of Platform Decay (Murderbot #8) by Martha Wells

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  • Review of Evil Eye by Etaf Rum

    The challenging process of Yara's therapy and fight for growth is really satisfying to witness. As Yara considers the same path, she has to fight against the voices in her head.

  • Review of The Awakening: The Dragon Heart Legacy #1 by Nora Roberts

    could beef up my Dragons shelf on Goodreads and put together a post of my favorite dragon books (that's right I wonder if they might be a bigger part in subsequent books.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/21/22 Edition

    considers the ease with which she could enter a casual romantic entanglement--while she desperately fights for Meena's right to make basic choices about her love and her life path. 02 Nobody Will Tell You This

  • Review of Rebel Rising by Rebel Wilson

    Wilson overcame tough childhood circumstances before setting her sights on becoming a performer, and I love to listen to the audiobook version of a memoir (if you haven't yet, you might want to check out The sections regarding Wilson's childhood were most engaging to me, as well as her zigzagging path toward

  • Review of I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

    set of answers as to why the women were chosen for this imprisonment, insight into what its purpose might

  • Review of Heart, Be at Peace by Donal Ryan

    for revenge takes hold, and it becomes clear that something big is about to come to a head, and it might

  • Review of Say You'll Remember Me (Say You'll Remember Me #1) by Abby Jimenez

    But Xavier's painful past and Samantha's challenging present might make a future for the two impossible

  • Review of Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian

    If you like stories about witches, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Wonderfully Armenian genocide that is personal to Bohjalian himself, The Sandcastle Girls, as well as Midwives, The Flight

  • Review of We'll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida

    If you're looking for more heartwarming stories, you might like my Bossy reviews of books like these

  • Review of The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason

    The story's jungle setting and music focus mean that the languorous and sultry tone feels just right.

  • Review of The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow

    and change, bravely outsmart those who would control them, dare to hope for a future together, and fight

  • Review of Exiles (Aaron Falk #3) by Jane Harper

    Exiles was the right mystery at the right time for me.

  • Review of Ink & Sigil by Kevin Hearne

    Hearne offers a playful, action-packed, magical, layered modern-day London. Al MacBharrais is a widower (who adored his wife) who uses unconventional methods to right wrongs, to corruption, and gun control, while the characters' banter and affection for each other keeps you rolling right (I wonder if these might be Iron Druid Chronicles references that I'm missing since I haven't yet read

  • Review of Theo of Golden by Allen Levi

    no gray areas or complex motivation, and he ultimately upends the circumstances around the Most Kind Actions Heartwarming Titles You Might Like This book was originally self-published, then picked up by Atria Books

  • June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    You might also like these Bossy reviews of other books set in Scotland. 02 How to Be Okay When Nothing You might also like these other Bossy reviews of books about tennis. But in doing so, she realizes she is losing sight of her identity, her emotional connection to her life You might also want to check out these Bossy reviews of other celebrity memoirs or these lists of favorite

  • Review of Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin

    Reid is a straitlaced young man for whom things are black-and-white, clearly right and wrong. surprisingly limited, and her witchiness less pronounced than her identity as a thief and as a young woman fighting

  • Six Books Set in Australia that Are Fair Dinkum Fascinating

    Other books with Australian settings that I've been hooked by include Jess Kidd's The Night Ship; Christina Exiles was the right mystery at the right time for me. judgment leads to another, foolish choices end in bloodshed, and one brother makes justifications for his actions

  • Review of Culpability by Bruce Holsinger

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  • Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans and Alien Life, and AI

    It gleans tips about holding conversations and functioning around others by watching its favorite show 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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/10/21 Edition

    the resigned, broken existence of the imprisoned, the masters' willful brutality, and the spark to fight You can't copyright a plot anyway, right? RIGHT?

  • Review of Deadly Waters by Dot Hutchison

    and predation might have taken a turn toward homicide. I imagined that the alligator angle might make for a campy revenge fantasy. unacceptable, or simply ignored), and she reinforces how infrequently men are prosecuted for their abusive actions suspicions that Ellie may be behind the deaths of the men, "How do I condemn Ellie for taking a terrible action --maybe taking a terrible action--when I'm so damn grateful for the results?"

  • Review of A Very Punchable Face: A Memoir by Colin Jost

    Colin Jost retraces his journey toward and through his fifteen seasons at Saturday Night Live and offers He retraces his journey toward and through his fifteen seasons at Saturday Night Live, from early tryouts during busy SNL seasons; for a long time he left the SNL office multiple times a week to put on late-night I mentioned this book in the Greedy Reading List Three Wackily Different Books I'm Reading Right Now,

  • Review of The Love Haters by Katherine Center

    precautions taken, life vests forthcoming, and she can probably even film from the deck of the boat...right

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/16/26 Edition

    When a piece of her art wins a competition, she garners added attention and publicity that might uncover

  • Review of So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

    specific in her approach here; each chapter is crafted around a potential race-related statement you might encounter that may be loaded, unfair, unfounded, and/or fraught with racism, followed by rebuttals that might write "in the hopes that what I write and say, and what others write and say, will inform and inspire action often-traditional colorblind approaches to race; and how guilt can paralyze and prevent productive action Oluo wrote So You Want to Talk About Race to "help people fight the systemic oppression that is harming

  • Review of A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea #1) by Hafsah Faizal

    offers intriguing secrets, a swirling mystery, terrible betrayal, heartwarming found family, steady action Her exclusive tea room becomes a posh hangout for vampires each night, but when her bloodhouse is threatened

  • Review of Voyage of the Damned by Frances White

    full of uncertain alliances, deadly vendettas, and a sassy and flamboyant main protagonist who just might

  • Review of Memorial Days: A Memoir by Geraldine Brooks

    It might not be your best work, but it will be good work, and it will be what saves you.”

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/6/21 Edition

    But right before Simon gets a chance to go on tour, and just as he's letting his hopes soar that this might finally be his big break, Stella falls into a coma. many other readers, I had mixed feelings about, and which probably warrants inclusion on a Titles That Might

  • Review of All the Broken Places by John Boyne

    perfectly straddling the status of unaware childhood and responsible young adulthood and a capability for action The situation allows for an intriguing gray area rather than an easy, black-and-white sense of right-and-wrong

  • Review of Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton

    realize that he exists; figure out what his vivid, recurring dreams and his brother August's premonitions might mean; and determine whose voice is on the other end of that damn red phone, things just might turn out all right.

  • Review of American Girl by Wendy Walker

    also the author of What Remains and Don't Look for Me as well as All Is Not Forgotten, Emma in the Night , and The Night Before.

  • Review of The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything that Comes After

    farewell to her family but also holds meaning for anyone considering the way they live and how they might That said, I have a tough time reading memoirs in which someone is fighting cancer, and I understand

  • Review of Blood Over Bright Haven by M. L. Wang

    Sciona's fight to pursue magic and her oft-frustrated ambition, her personal journey of reconsidering The final section of the book doesn't shy away from violence, end-of-days drama, and a nuclear option

  • Review of Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

    This was the right book at the right time for me, and I loved it. I flew through this story--it was solidly a "right book at the right time" situation for me, and I also

  • Review of His Majesty's Dragon: Temeraire #1 by Naomi Novik

    Temeraire series, we're introduced to Captain Will Laurence, a young, upstanding seafaring captain fighting

  • Review of The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn Clarke

    But they only have 72 hours to write well enough to fight for the money and recognition they're each another case, a meta story-within-the-same-story structure felt like an entertaining hiding-in-plain-sight The killer is, ultimately, also hiding in plain sight, and a few loose ends are resolved.

  • Review of A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

    later in a doubling pattern that ends sixteen years later, then presents events in halved time periods (eight

  • Review of Go As a River by Shelley Read

    You can be a good girl, a good horse, you can obey, you can love, but don't expect that if you do right then right will come to you. Read brings Go As a River to life through the sights, sounds, and wildlife in the high Colorado forest An epistolary section is illuminating, if convenient, and it sets up the buoy of hope and version of

  • Bossy Holiday Gift Ideas: Books about Music

    books, perennial classics, modern favorites, nonfiction must-haves, or other new-to-you titles that might popular performers on the planet--and along the way created the background soundtrack for the Civil Rights

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