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Young Cordelia is becoming aware of her mother's significant power and reach, and she is terrified senseless She is made to be magically "obedient" to her mother, and as such she is incapable of warning others about how dangerous her sorceress of a mother is--and how extensive and dastardly her plans are for those His beloved mother Leah kept her son fed and supplied with books, and she worked relentlessly at menial And you can find Bossy reviews of many other mysteries here .

small town, where tragedy in the form of evil white men took their father from them and left their mother The other twin marries a dark-skinned black man and lives as a black woman. months in the life of an extended family--including a stolid patriarch and matriarch, a free-spirited daughter , a spunky and fantastic granddaughter Gussie, a daughter with another grandchild on the way, a deadbeat She is facing her mother’s decline in health and exploring her own identity and meaning in her life,

friends and ex-spouses, live in intimate solitude together, wondering about and worrying about their daughters , each other, themselves, and the world. Lucy explores with insight the perspective of those on the other end of the political spectrum from Lucy They each seem to find the other--and their relationship--awkward and irritating at times, but their Lucy's creation of an imaginary, supportive mother and her loving responses to and comfort for Lucy in

responsibility for it--around imperfect characters who have drifted apart and must now recognize each other's fallibility, whether through sacrificing or trying to protect each other. Seventeen-year-old Charlie, the twins, their father Noah, and their mother Lorelei, an AI leader, are it felt originally, and I was intrigued by watching their shifts, accommodations, and grace for each other You might also be interested in my Bossy reviews of these other novels about AI .

Danielle Henderson; Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile; Speak, Okinawa by Elizabeth Miki Brina; Somebody's Daughter Her mother is presented sympathetically while coming off as odd, and Lockwood herself takes on a somewhat Her mother confided her darkest secrets to young Brodeur as though she was a friend, and she drew the But the story was ultimately more about an emotionally stunted mother, her codependence on her adolescent daughter, and how the author unraveled the many smothering ties to the woman whose conditional love

newlywed, falling into the path set out for her as a young married woman--with an aim of becoming a mother intrigue, exploration of gender and power roles, unconventional friendship, and danger. 02 Firekeeper's Daughter She must stay home from college to care for her ailing mother, which puts on hold her hopes for her future markings (which carry more specific predictions than those she's born with) emerge, she is irresistible to others demands to examine) the girls' naked bodies and markings--including those of their own sisters and daughters

Arthie Casimir and her makeshift gang--Flick, Jin, and vampire leader Laith--are eager to upend Flick's mother's When Yeva runs across sisters posing as participants of the marriage industry in order to find their mother

Gould grew up in Australia the daughter of a paramedic, and she follows in her father's footsteps, training drug-induced hazes, hangovers, regrettable decision-making, extramarital affairs, and doubts about her mothering I feel like this book and I have been circling each other since early May, and I was so delighted as out early on that she faces the impending loss of her sight, that she is somewhat estranged from her daughter To find Bossy reviews of other books I've read, please check out the titles at this link .

I’m dying to know how closely Anita Abriel’s book traces the inspiring events from her mother’s incredible For my full review of this book, please see Florence Adler Swims Forever. 05 Call Your Daughter Home But she and the other characters were developed fully. Their sparks of joy are often related to their relationships to each other. For my full review, please see Call Your Daughter Home. 06 The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue Donoghue

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Other Valley, Scott Alexander Howard's literary speculative 01 The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard In Scott Alexander Howard's The Other Valley, teenaged speculative fiction explores fate, free will, changing the past and implications for the future, and other Meanwhile Emma's unbalanced, often-absent mother is the reason she ended up in foster care multiple times When Justin's situation keeps getting more stressful and Emma's mother shows up, will the potentially

Equation, Christina Lauren's newest light fiction about a logical, practical single mom who adores her daughter She's good at crunching the numbers for work, taking care of her daughter, and leaning on her grandparents Her father wasn't part of her life, her mother disappeared when she was little, and her daughter's father In Namesake, Fable discovers the truth behind the secrets her mother took to her grave, establishes their

Her mother dedicated her life to searching for her own brother, who disappeared decades ago, and enlisted daughter August in her obsessive research and in her driven questioning of even the most tangentially Some of the twists at the end felt implausible, but others wrapped up frustrating revelations in satisfying Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery begins with a mother awaiting her teenage son's return home late

His oldest daughter died as a teenager, and the grief destroyed his marriage. He's self-obsessed and sloppy, and he's allowed himself to become distant from his only living daughter So he packs them into the car, enlists his grumbling grown daughter to help him, and hits the road.

Despite her Taiwanese mother's unrelenting pressure and sky-high expectations, June has always done just Her explorations threaten to destroy her relationship with her mother even past the world-war-level disagreements You can check out my Bossy reviews of other young adult novels here.

Cravens's LGBTQ Western set in a brothel in 1877 Dodge City; I'm reading Tricia Levenseller's debut novel Daughter Set in the American West and Six More Great Historical Fiction Novels Set in the American West. 02 Daughter Daughter of the Pirate King is the first in a duology from Levenseller and is her debut novel. The second book is Daughter of the Siren Queen. 03 Will They or Won't They by Ava Wilder Lilah Hunter But in real life, Shane and Lilah detest each other.

and Simon the Fiddler are two more by Paulette Jiles that I've waxed poetic about on this blog, and others If you like historical fiction, you might also like some of my many other Bossy Bookworm Greedy Reading And: which other books should I add to my Civil War historical fiction to-read list? Marilynne Robinson is also the author of Home , Lila , Jack , Housekeeping , and other books. 05 Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird Bird's Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen is based on the story

full review of this book, see In Pieces. 04 Blood by Allison Moorer "I'm still trying not to be the daughter Allison Moorer is a Grammy- and Academy Award-nominated singer-songwriter whose father killed her mother of an understanding of the people her parents were and the forces that shaped their lives (and their daughters Her interviews and experiences with others who mentor her journey in different ways could have felt disruptive place in the world, her responsibility to humans and animals, and how she might better the lives of others

Every child a wanted child, every mother a willing mother. In this historical fiction, Marshall explores the goings-on at 1960s unwed mothers' homes in Canada-- The female characters' stories are deeply intertwined; I saw some of the events coming but not others

points of view of the persecuted, disrespected, and dismissed: prostitutes, the poor, unwed teenage mothers For my full review, please see Songteller. 02 Blood by Allison Moorer "I'm still trying not to be the daughter Allison Moorer is a Grammy- and Academy Award- nominated singer-songwriter whose father killed her mother extensive emotional manipulation, his elaborate interview accounts of his sexual escapades with her and others

She's a little creaky and sore, sure, but she's ready to be reunited with the team, which includes her mother and the rest of her family, plus many others involved in the complex project. But Divya is too busy crafting strong female main protagonists (complete with working mother guilt, which young adult science fiction novel Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves, young Sena has lost both of her mothers His personal situation is complicated by his grief for his recently deceased daughter, and he aims to

She's days away from bringing her daughter and father to meet her husband in Michigan, But the famine Will they be able to overcome that awkward start and see each other for the perfect match they may naturally be for each other?

She assists her mother with her midwifery, loves her younger sisters, and adjusts to life with a mother-in-law I mentioned Outlawed (along with Firekeeper's Daughter and Body of Stars) in the Greedy Reading List

salvage society despite the Federation's widespread and evil efforts; and the demonization of the "other The more modern storyline concerns Flora's grown daughter Lexie, whose London stage career has ended suddenly and her mother has died. She's eager to learn more about her mother's wartime history, yet desperate not to be defined and constrained review. 03 Writers & Lovers by Lily King Casey is an aspiring writer struggling with her novel, her mother's

She notes that she and her mother particularly leaned on laughing and joking during bleak moments. The author is evolving in her views on the world, and while becoming a mother brought spotlight focus

It is presented as a relatively unanimous sentiment that it's a burden to raise daughters, and there is a frequently verbalized shame for a mother who births a daughter. Rum also explores the perpetuated cruelty of her female characters against their daughters, daughters-in-law , and other young women in the community—in some cases embracing and adding to their suffering because Rum, a daughter of Palestinian immigrants, presents an indictment of the devalued role of women in traditional

straitlaced teen Mary Jane has landed a nanny job with a nearby family--a "respectable" family, her mother suddenly has a front-row seat to wild behavior, musical experimentation, group therapy, and all sorts of other She includes examples from others who have undergone periods of severe challenges and by choice or necessity Angry, confused, and filled with dread, Robin drags her daughter Haley back to Four Points in hopes of

Serle Rebecca Serle's love letter to Italy plays with time to allow a grieving young woman to know her mother She is determined to take the trip to Italy she and her mother had optimistically planned during her begins to recognize what the reader might notice early on: that her intense lifetime reliance on her mother When Katy wakes up one day faced with her actual own mother standing in her hotel lobby in the prime As days pass, Katy realizes she seems to have been been gifted with an opportunity to know her mother

Abroad, in which Uncle Patrick tries to support Maisie and Grant five years after the death of their mother fell into the job years ago while trying to find herself--after a youth in which her father died, her mother since Patrick O'Hara served as a caregiver for his niece Maisie and nephew Grant the summer after their mother Grant are not fans of their dad's plan, and Patrick steps in to try to support them--but he also has other

Two other historical fiction books made it onto My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads: Demon Copperhead and You can click here for other historical fiction books (and lists of favorites) I've reviewed on Bossy Millie and Reginald Thompson make what feels like an impossible choice: to send their eleven-year-old daughter Mary Sharratt also wrote Revelations, historical fiction about the life of Margery of Kempe, a mother In this historical fiction, Marshall explores the goings-on at 1960s unwed mothers' homes in Canada--

You can click here for other historical fiction books (and lists of favorites) I've reviewed on Bossy young women in an early 1800s British boarding school who fall into a clandestine love and break each other's Raine was a wealthy orphan--one of two daughters born to a white British father and an Indian mother, There's a message about faulted mothers doing the best they can here, and there are some opportunities I often feel more invested in one timeline than the other in a dual-timeline story, and here I was more

Jack Troy and his oldest daughter Ronnie are coping with complicated family dynamics when an unexpected But then an infant is left in the care of father and daughter, and as the winter progresses, Jack and You can find Bossy reviews of other novels set in Ireland here . 03 Onyx Storm (The Empyrean #3) by Rebecca

fantastical origin story (stolen by faeries and pressed into service, including his own baby snatching and other He bands with other disillusioned parties abused by faeries with a grand scheme that they hope will end More Books by this Author and Other Bossy Reviews of Retellings If you like retellings, you may want Parry is also the author of The Magician's Daughter , The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep , The Scholar

The more modern storyline concerns Flora's grown daughter Lexie, whose London stage career has ended suddenly and whose mother has died. She's eager to dig in and learn more about her mother's wartime history, yet desperate not to be defined She's also written other books.

Anyhoo, I feel like this book and I have been circling each other since early May, and I was so delighted out early on that she faces the impending loss of her sight, that she is somewhat estranged from her daughter To find Bossy reviews of other books I've read, please check out the titles at this link .

from social media for Lent, and while I love to talk books on Instagram and Facebook and to peruse other Jack Troy and his oldest daughter Ronnie are coping with complicated family dynamics in their drafty, But an unwed mother in that time and place has little chance of keeping a child once the Church has a The delving into the past draws Kat and Heath back into each others' orbits--and reveals secrets they Camilla is a new mother who has just dropped off her baby for her first day of daycare when the police

school board) and Lula Dean (determined to rid public libraries of "inappropriate" books) against each other old-fashioned, out-of-touch books with novels featuring LGBTQ+ love, literary classics, Judy Blume books, and other light--just as Lula and the solid, upstanding, liberal-minded Beverly determine to run against each other learns that his brother's gay identity is not to be feared as he's been taught; a son realizes that his mother Some characters experience dramatic redemptions, while others slip through the cracks or meet a tragic

What brings the book to life are versions of the real-life figures of Mother Jones (the elderly woman Misery Lark is the only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre in the region, and she'd prefer to literally Ali Hazelwood is also the author of Love, Theoretically  and other books. Click here for my full review of Bride . 03 The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard The Other Valley But somewhere along the way, they lose sight of each other--and of themselves.

Libro.fm and Dreamscape Media. 02 Happy Place by Emily Henry Harriet and Win were attracted to each other love, and they've been dating long-distance while Harriet pursues her residency and Win helps his sick mother After sixteen-year-old Bree's mother dies in an accident, she escapes the painful memories of her childhood The experience jogs a buried recollection: a wizard was present at the hospital after her mother's accident

The reader is privy to Valerie's poignant letters to her mother as she struggles to survive in the wild Lena, Valerie, and Bev are inexorably connected, and Valerie's survival depends upon the other two women's

In the seven years since, Belle's mother has reinvented herself as a society woman and has remarried, Belle is fearful--particularly for her mother's sake--that her father's true origins may be uncovered keeping their illnesses a secret from supervisors; and having men go to work sick is likely to infect others

You can also search by category under the Bossy Book Reviews menu to find other historical fiction books delving into the all-consuming obsessions the desperate young Alva likely had with appearances and others With powerful looks at the widespread nineteenth-century prejudice against the Irish and other immigrant Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West and the upcoming The Fire and the Ore . 05 Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird Bird's Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen is based on the story

While characters struggle to make ends meet, support each other, and avoid giving in to the least generous protagonist, despite the novel's title, yet he is central to the story in that his presence pushes others In one timeline, an abused wife makes a stand for a whimsical name suggested by her daughter Maia, Bear produces a vastly different boy, a significantly shaped sister Maia, drastically different paths for mother Supporting characters make easter-egg appearances in other timelines.

01 The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken After her larger-than-life mother's death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book faces the sale of the family home in New England and travels to her mother's She considers whether her role as an author offers an opportunity to write about her mother and gain deeper understanding of her, or whether doing so would violate her mother's long-held, fierce desire I mentioned one of McCracken's short story collections, Thunderstruck & Other Stories, in the Greedy

In 1664, Alouette is the daughter of a master dyer at the famous Gobelin Tapestry Works. When a local young man dies suddenly, Rocky and her young-adult daughter Willa, temporarily living at

Sue Trinder is a teenage orphan, the daughter of a hanged murderess who tries to live up to her fearless mother's bravery and strength. largely sheltered from the evils of the underbelly of Victorian London by her unofficial, doting adoptive mother

Her mother is a street-smart, scrabbling single parent, while Adina is an unusually perceptive child- The book becomes a polarizing work, with many responding positively to Adina's perspective and others The title comes from the name of a cosmetics store that Adina and her mother frequent in Adina's youth

Annalee Newitz is also the author of The Terraformers , Autonomous , The Future of Another Timeline , and other Gillig's Stonewater Kingdom series, The Knight and the Moth , considers Sybil Delling and a group of five other The reader is privy to Valerie's poignant letters to her mother as she struggles to survive in the wild Lena, Valerie, and Bev are inexorably connected, and Valerie's survival depends upon the other two women's

listening to Little Fires by Inheritance author Dani Shapiro; and I'm reading Sarah Addison Allen's novel Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen "There are birds, and then there are other birds. I don't know about you, but I'd much rather be an other bird than just the same old thing." Carolina as Zoey comes to take ownership of her deceased mother's apartment. She befriends her mother's neighbors, and when one new friend dies suddenly, Zoey embarks on a search

Lincoln in the Bardo as well as Tenth of December , A Swim in the Pond in the Rain , Fox 8 , and other But when three women, all strangers to each other, are invited to the reclusive, three-times-widowed rejuvenating and inspiring forces for the young aspiring poet, the outspoken American with a fortune, and the mother For Bossy reviews of other books about books, please check out the titles at this link . For other Victorian-set novels, check out this link .

Her mother Ruby is smart and fierce, but somewhere along the way her youthful dreams of creating a path somehow, despite the many chores of their homespun lives) trek up and down the mountain to see each other Wren understands their friendship to be the primary allegiance in each of their lives, and her mother keeps her at a distance although she does love her daughter.