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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

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.

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.

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

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

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'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

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 .

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

After Ruth's father was killed by his brother in a grab for power, Ruth's mother married another member For my full review, see Scrappy Little Nobody. 04 Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford shares how she navigated an unforgiving childhood and complicated relationships with her volatile mother Somebody's Daughter is beautifully straightforward and honest as the author follows the fits and starts For my full review, please see Somebody's Daughter. 05 Here For It by R.

Here's a greedy reading question: What other historical fiction mysteries should I read? 04 The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton “There are very few certainties in this world, Mr. The Clockmaker's Daughter took a little page time to start moving along for me, but I loved Kate Morton dreamed of becoming a doctor if society would have allowed it, but as it is, she's stuck working off her mother's

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

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

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

the Stars by Glendy Vanderah I loved this story of how Joanna and Gabe are inextricably drawn to each other Joanna is feeling adrift after her mother's death, and she disappears into the constant attention her Joanna and her reclusive neighbor Gabe become drawn into Ursa's orbit and drawn to each other as they proxy, lies, betrayals, and double-crossing, all within a claustrophobic, isolated, and codependent mother-and-daughter and disabilities play and learn social and practical skills; on other set days she visits the library

brother, and she's learned to make light of everything from cracks about her plus-sized figure to her mother's Why do some cheeses melt better than others? chef in the "why" of cooking--as well as kid-friendly recipes to deliciously illustrate key points. 05 Daughter If so, this fall's Daughter of the Deep from this prolific author may need to go on the shopping list This is a version of the "book" Blades made for her daughter upon her departure for college, making it

His personal situation is complicated by his grief for his recently deceased daughter, and he aims to But when she meets Rachel, a single mother-to-be in her prenatal class, Helen begins to feel unsettled

is a spinster in self-prescribed rigidity, adhering to strict schedules and a quiet life in her late mother's in their mother's old room!--Isabel is more than a little upset.

Father and daughter, brother and sister, and mother and father find their way back together after hurting each other, making mistakes, misunderstanding intentions, and losing their individual paths. our nation's economy, past and present, racial real estate divide, and disparities in wealth, among other Emma is a marine biologist who's devoted to her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby. Sharratt Sharratt offers vivid historical fiction details of the everyday life of Margery of Kempe, a mother

noise in the sorority house, she discovers a horrible tragedy--two of her sisters are dead and two others lives by a careful daily schedule, she is thrown for a loop when her estranged, impulsive, selfish mother She's tempted to defy her mother by not following her bossy demands, but when Stella arrives in Paris

But Jack's mother is sick, he wants to return home to Texas, and he doesn't want his family to know he's The book's sequel is The Book Woman's Daughter, published earlier this year. 03 Weather Girl by Rachel

Then Iris spies a storefront familiar from one of her deceased mother's old photos, a gelato store... Iris may be able to help--if only she could also figure out the store's connection to her mother's past Characters assure Iris that other characters will be fine emotionally in the end if everyone adheres Characters, please talk to each other!

proxy, lies, betrayals, and double-crossing, all within a claustrophobic, isolated, and codependent mother-and-daughter

into pages of interviews and information detailing the young, naive choir member she was then, the daughter Notes on a Silencing is a memoir in which Crawford, now a wife and mother, faces the challenges of asserting The stories of Immanuelle's mother Miriam all have one thing in common: her defiance of the Prophet. a set of curses that threaten to destroy all of Bethel--unless Immanuelle can use the clues in her mother's

Rebecca Serle's love letter to Italy plays with time to allow a grieving young woman to know her mother In Rebecca Serle's One Italian Summer, Katy is reeling after the death of her beloved mother, who was She is determined to take the trip to Italy she and her mother had optimistically planned during her She's falling in love with the piece of Italy that helped shape her beloved mother into who she was. I enjoyed how Serle played with time to allow a young woman to know her mother at her same age.

01 Buried Deep and Other Stories by Naomi Novik Naomi Novik is the author of fantasy novels featuring I received a prepublication copy of Buried Deep and Other Stories courtesy of NetGalley and Ballantine Colm Toibin is also the author of The Master , The Magician , and other novels. 03 Trespasses by Louise Along with her alcoholic mother and her impatient barkeep brother, she grieves the loss of her father