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- Review of The Summer War by Naomi Novik
often-overlooked, glum, not particularly academic or talented middle brother Roric (whose mother was a lowly traveling Roric and Celia forge a bond, with Celia nurturing his abilities and taking time with him, and Roric
- Review of Into the Wilderness (Wilderness #1) by Sara Donati
In this first book of Donati's Wilderness series, it's 1792 and Elizabeth Middleton has traveled with scratch the itch of reading a combination of historical fiction, romance, and rich descriptions of taming Elizabeth is a feminist in a time in which independence and freedom are not encouraged in a woman.
- November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
academia story that centers around feminism and building new perspectives; historical fiction about a traveling I looked forward to getting back to this book each time I could, and I was as charmed by Ina's guileless Bonnie Blaylock's Light to the Hills , it's 1930 in the Kentucky Appalachians, and Amanda Rye is a traveling Amanda makes a special connection with a mountain family on her route that's facing tough times despite astronauts orbiting the earth at seventeen thousand miles an hour, clinging to Coordinated Universal Time
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/8/24 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I took a Bossy break last week while traveling with family, but I spent time We track back through time to witness Wren's mother's youth and the way her own mutation and diagnosis
- Review of A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar
And by happenstance, this revenge also threatens Ma's family's ability to travel to a land of plenty. As the time for departure from India nears for Ma, her elderly father, and her small daughter, a few
- Six More of My Favorite Historical Fiction Reads of the Year
story in two timelines introduces the little-known real-life figure of librarian Jessie Carson, who traveled Click here for my full review of Miss Morgan's Book Brigade. 02 The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen In Hanna Pylväinen's The End of Drum-Time , it's 1851 in the Arctic Circle, and a small community of The End of Drum-Time was intriguing and kept me interested throughout; it was brutal and frustrating For my full review of this book, please see The End of Drum-Time . 03 Table for Two: Fictions by Amor
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/26/22 Edition
When Jaryk learns that his father has been killed under mysterious circumstances in India, he travels But he becomes involved in the complicated politics of the time and finds himself stuck between past Time passes, and a young family moves onto Division Street. “If only time could be seen whole, then you could see the past remaining intact, instead of vanishing
- Review of Chenneville: A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance by Paulette Jiles
stark, beautiful, heartbreaking historical fiction tracks former Union soldier John Chenneville as he travels Chenneville single-mindedly travels through the Reconstruction-era United States on a relentless search flung into certain trajectories to accompany each other through trials, troubles, and perhaps even times
- Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West
look promising. 03 West by Carys Davies This isn't strictly a Western, but the main protagonist does travel He feels unshakably compelled to travel west to find out if the mammoth animals he's heard described with his sister, Bess's short-tempered aunt, although he expects to be away on his irrational, foolish travels Bess, stuck at home, traces Cy's optimistic travel route on a map (and, disturbingly, struggles multiple Hawker is also the author of The Ragged Edge of Night. 05 The Widow Nash by Jamie Harrison Dulcy has traveled
- Review of Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
she becomes convinced that what happened to Ruth is linked to the Florida sorority attack, and she travels throughout) are so disturbing, I welcomed the breaks from the immediate aftermath of the heinous crimes and time
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/19/25 Edition
Kevin Wilson is also the author of Now Is Not the Time to Panic , Nothing to See Here , Baby, You're Three years later, she traveled to a remote Australian island to sit with Tony's journals, dive into
- Six Fascinating Books about Immigrants' Experiences
So it feels like an opportune time to highlight just a few powerful stories about or by immigrants. But when the relationship falters, she flees into a marriage with a sickly traveling minister and escapes The author's tone and voice is like poetry at times, raw and spare and true. 03 In the Country We Love
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/2/23 Edition
New York Times journalist Frank Bruni and UNC alum considers the "terrifying and occasionally devastating Must be time for...the winter books! Sara Donati In this first book of Donati's Wilderness series, it's 1792 and Elizabeth Middleton has traveled
- Review of Lucky Loser: Adventures in Comedy and Tennis by Michael Kosta
months, attempts to improve ATP ranking, sleeping on floors, and struggling to focus as a young man traveling youthful missteps, bonding (or clashing) with other players, and trying to be savvy about money, lodging, travel
- Review of A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock #1) by Sherry Thomas
presents Charlotte Holmes, a clever, forward-thinking, independent woman trapped in the Victorian age, a time Because a Victorian woman could not independently travel to visit witnesses--nor could she openly question While I liked the inspector character, I was disappointed at having less page time to spend with Charlotte Yet the lack of autonomy and status for a woman in the time necessitates this approach; a woman simply The intersection of scandal, virtue, power, and perception in the place and time in which the story takes
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/7/24 Edition
Tallahassee, she becomes convinced that what happened to Ruth is linked to the sorority attack, and she travels I fell in love with Ann Liang's fake-dating young adult novel This Time It's Real , read it in one rainy
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/15/22 Edition
novel about a 1960s female scientist and cooking show host by Bonnie Garmus; Emma Straub's playing-with-time , reliving-the-past story This Time Tomorrow; and Something Wilder, Christina Lauren's newest, about a treasure hunter's daughter who gets roped into time with her ex. Lessons in Chemistry is Bonnie Garmus's first book. 02 This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub What if you When the trip involves mishap after mishap, the travelers begin to wonder whether the legend of the treasure
- October Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
The Everlasting is filled with rich adventure; twisty jaunts through time; tragedy and loss; dark turns Woolever also recounts her time as assistant to the kind, passionate Tony Bourdain until the time of I was most interested in the travel, food-focused writing, eating accounts, and breakneck-speed, often The Correspondent was the right book at the right time for me.
- Review of What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
of which was read aloud for the (obtuse, grumpy, belligerent) poet's wife's birthday, then lost to time I’d like to shout down through a hole in the ceiling of time and advise the people of a hundred years willful march toward global destruction, our exploded population and its range on the earth, our ease of travel
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/2/25 Edition
account, Tomlinson focuses on one promising show dog, Striker, and his handler, Laura King, as they travel months, attempts to improve ATP ranking, sleeping on floors, and struggling to focus as a young man traveling
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/12/24 Edition
by the elusive fox gods--and he feels tantalizingly close to making contact with them for the first time But Snow is hunting the killer of her child, and Snow and Bao will travel through China and Japan on
- Six Bossy Favorite Nonfiction Reads of the Past Year
of a couple shipwrecked and fighting for survival; a charming glimpse into the world of dog shows; a timely For my full review, please check out A Marriage at Sea. 05 Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time In a fascinating, heartwarming, lovely account, Tomlinson spends three years traveling dog shows across At times he good-naturedly highlights the absurdity of this world, at least for those looking in from
- More 2025 Bossy Book Ideas for Your Holiday Gift List
This is the only time I post about books I may not have read: promising reads for particular people in burn unit in Boston, a xeno-pigsty in China, and a stem cell "hair nursery" in San Diego; spending time with an iron lung from the 1950s; and traveling across Mongolia with cataract surgeons.
- A Bossy Holiday Break
I hope you're settling in for a wonderful holiday, whether you're home or traveling and whether you're
- Six Fantasy Novels I Loved in the Past Year
The Everlasting is filled with rich adventure; twisty jaunts through time; tragedy and loss; dark turns At almost 650 pages long, there's enough page time for Link to build various realities, tear them down but she's plainly dressed, tall, work-driven, and uninterested in social niceties, so she spends her time and outs of royal customs, adjust her practical wardrobe, and leave her personal research behind to travel
- Review of Family Family by Laurie Frankel
; when Fig is told they must travel incognito, she conveniently doesn't use context clues, instead replying Kids say the darnedest and adorable things, but these instances pulled me out of the story each time
- May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
loss, adjusting goals and the pictures of our life as we age, and second chances; Wrong Place, Wrong Time author Charles Frazier offers historical fiction featuring a Great Depression-era painter, Val Welch, traveling Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery Wrong Place Wrong Time plays with time, and I love books that play with time. Please click here for my full review of Wrong Place, Wrong Time. 05 This Time It's Real by Ann Liang
- June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
By the time the uproar and intensive violence that shook West Virginia begin to take shape, Brown has considers applying for the powerful Conseil, which makes decisions about who is allowed to anonymously travel But her life in Texas is complicated: her father requires a full-time caregiver, and Emma is it. A month before that horrible loss, her New York City apartment is burgled, and at that time, all of her Wellness is darkly funny, intriguing, and, at times, poignant.
- Review of Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad
accompanying emotions, fears, and side effects--along with a road-trip journey following her New York Times a few highs; being ill and in love, then ending her long-term relationship, and writing a New York Times selfless work in Will's position and in his twenties, Suleika seems to consider seriously--for the first time The vast majority of page time in Between Two Kingdoms is spent on Suleika's struggle with her physical comparison, takes up far less space in Jaouad's memoir although it is an interesting bookend to her solo travel
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/29/26 Edition
brings his edgy, offbeat humor, acerbic observations, and surprising heart to recounting stories about travel
- Shhh! Coffee Table Bossy Book Gift Ideas
Which is all to say that this book feels like the right book at the right time for the ongoing and also selection of photos highlighting a range of experiences from our 200 years of American history. 03 The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World by Lonely Planet The Travel Book is a 2021 stunner This is a 416-page book perfect for those planning to explore the world--or those who want to "travel
- Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore
member of the congregation, and Ruth's life, along with those of her siblings, became centered around travel She’d repeated that countless times throughout my childhood. No, I thought, they don’t.” Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick I would have liked more introspection, but I loved spending time I loved spending time with the uproariously funny Thomas. I loved spending time with the uproariously funny Thomas as he recounts how he's navigated situations
- Six More Novels I Loved Reading Last Year
Our time here is limited, gone in the blink of an eye. mysterious circumstances while in India (on a trip he had wanted Jaryk to accompany him on), Jaryk travels Dani Shapiro In Signal Fires, Dani Shapiro offers characters and consequences that connect through time Time passes, and a young family moves onto Division Street. “If only time could be seen whole, then you could see the past remaining intact, instead of vanishing
- Six More Contemporary Novels I Loved in the Past Year
A late portion of the story takes places in a time period years later than Birdie and Emaleen's foray tragically beautiful intertwined novel that shines a light on weighty issues at three points in space and time And by happenstance, this revenge also threatens Ma's family's ability to travel to a land of plenty.
- Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You
Let the playing with points of view and the time-turning begin! This book had many moving parts, evolving points of view and senses of self, shifts between days and times with progressive ideas, and I adore how matter-of-factly and innocently she presents her wild-for-the-times Veronica finds herself entangled in a dangerous set of circumstances, complete with intrigue, a traveling The Clockmaker's Daughter took a little page time to start moving along for me, but I loved Kate Morton
- Review of How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
viruses we’ve never encountered before can both redefine what we know about being human and at the same time children; hotels become elaborately designed spaces used for saying goodbye or for cremation rather than travel combines linked elements that wind through the book—a symbol of a planet with three stars repeats through time and reappears in a casual mention around the neck of another character across the world in another time
- Six Bossy Favorite Memoir Reads of the Past Year
betrayal, and shock, nor does she mine those experiences for drama or sit in them for a gratuitously long time Three years after his death, she traveled to a remote Australian island--where she had once considered anger, sadness, confusion, and desperation, then, in her journey and in her deliberate way of taking time Desperate for food and shelter and tired of overstaying her welcome and never having security, she was
- Review of A Play for the End of the World by Jai Chakrabarti
mysterious circumstances while in India (on a trip he had wanted Jaryk to accompany him on), Jaryk travels With his last tie to Poland gone--without Jaryk having entrusted him with the truth of his escape from unwittingly, then uncomfortably, then somewhat resignedly, becomes tangled in the complicated politics of the time
- Review of Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
loved him, and back and forth to the past where the actor got his start and to the future, where a traveling I was taken with her writing style and loved how smoothly the shifts in time and chronology worked.
- Review of Wingwalkers by Taylor Brown
fiction novel Wingwalkers, Zeno, a former World War I ace pilot, and Della, his daring wingwalking wife, travel Depression-era America, wowing audiences and inspiring hope in a dark, sober time. and at close range; vivid moments placing these wonderfully wrought characters solidly in place and time various views of a broken landscape that perfectly mirrors the dashed dreams of so many during grim times
- Review of Tokyo Dreaming (Tokyo Ever After #2) by Emiko Jean
She was thrilled to travel to Japan to meet her father and the rest of her royal family for the first time.
- October Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Kennedy draws the reader into the specific place and time of the story, vividly building the constant From the overworked dad trying to make it home in time for his daughter's musical, to the mother of two she becomes convinced that what happened to Ruth is linked to the Florida sorority attack, and she travels mention of the Temeraire series, below) and Pride and Prejudice , and it made me grin with glee the whole time
- Six More Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year
Bird Isabella Bird's nonfiction account of her 1873 travels through the rugged, wondrous American West characters she encounters in the west combined with her mix of no-nonsense practicality and ambitious traveling There's relatively little page time spent on the later years of Hildegard's life at the abbey. in a family of difficult men, living on a rural Colorado peach farm--its existence in that place and time
- Review of Platform Decay (Murderbot #8) by Martha Wells
danger, attempted evasion, and daring escape focused largely on logistics, but I am all in for spending time SecUnit), who in this eighth book in the series is faced with another high-stakes rescue attempt--this time Then SecUnit, along with its charges, finds itself confronted with an additional time-sensitive side on logistics and off-screen political and business loyalties a little bit tedious, and I didn't have time to other characters and storylines, I couldn't help wishing for more significant Mensah-SecUnit page time
- My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads
stark, beautiful, heartbreaking historical fiction tracks former Union soldier John Chenneville as he travels Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery Wrong Place Wrong Time plays with time, and I love books that play with time. For the rest of our lives, every time one of us goes somewhere and doesn’t return on time, doesn’t let the others know where we are, we will remember this time, what can happen.
- Review of Alchemised by SenLinYu
pages) tracks a healer and alchemist suffering from significant memory gaps through three periods of time was brutal text to dive into, and reading about her mental and sexual violation for significant page time to read the origin story of Helena and Kaine, we find an unlikely love story built within a time of An eventual second skip in time in the book follows chronologically from the first section, so it picks The intense darkness and necromancy of this novel reminded me at times of Tamsyn Muir's The Locked Tomb
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/3/25 Edition
And by happenstance, this revenge also destroys Ma's family's ability to travel to safety.
- Review of A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird
Isabella Bird's nonfiction account of her 1873 travels through the rugged, wondrous American West is characters she encounters in the west combined with her mix of no-nonsense practicality and ambitious traveling
- July Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
I did a lot of traveling and some great reading last month, but I didn't do a lot of reviewing. years away, because Rocky's menopausal rage threatens to undo any joy she might gain from spending time To save their treasured family time together, Rocky may have to share secrets she never intended to reveal Yet the cast of characters is colorful, and I enjoyed the time I spent with them.
- Six Fascinating Stories Set in Space
whose biggest hope for the pending end of the world was to play at the most epic goodbye party of all time Chambers's science fiction is full of heart, heartbreak, and hope--with a fascinating backdrop of space travel The book feels much more focused on the characters--with a backdrop of space travel and otherworldly The Sparrow took a little time to get going for me, but then I was blown away.
















































