killer in the 1970s, Bright Young Women ; I'm reading Ann Liang's novel based on myth, A Song to Drown Rivers Tallahassee, she becomes convinced that what happened to Ruth is linked to the sorority attack, and she travels I'm reading Bright Young Women for my book club. 02 A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang In Ann Liang's A Song to Drown Rivers , Xishi is a beautiful young woman who makes her village of Yue proud, for she I fell in love with Ann Liang's fake-dating young adult novel This Time It's Real , read it in one rainy

Stedman A Far-Flung Life is an epic family story of generations carving out existence in remote Western Meanwhile, Lauren Okie playfully works every imaginable trope into both the story Katie and Tyler are essays, he brings his edgy, offbeat humor, acerbic observations, and surprising heart to recounting stories about travel, adventures, mishaps, shortcomings, true friendship, love, families, loss, aging, and the

astronauts orbiting the earth at seventeen thousand miles an hour, clinging to Coordinated Universal Time Some of those on the ground try to insist upon imposing barriers upon the space travelers. The six space-station astronauts are circling the earth without traveling anywhere, they reflect, while down of human space exploration in light of the growing promise of robots' clean, streamlined space travel The story within the space station is emotionally full but quiet plot-wise in contrast to the workings

installment of Deanna Raybourn's Killers of a Certain Age series was a fun, darkly funny, feminist story It was the right book at the right time for me: entertainment in the perfect combination of action and The Antidote tracks multiple characters to tell a story of caution, folly, and redemption: a Prairie Gillian McAllister is also the author of Wrong Place, Wrong Time , a book I loved and not only listed in my Greedy Reading List Six More Time-Travel Stories to Explore , but included as one of my favorite

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 focuses primarily on the path of one promising show dog, Striker, and his handler, Laura King, as they travel

For my full review of this book, please see Listen for the Lie . 04 Smart Historical Fiction with a Time-Travel Twist The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley This captivating story involves time travel, but it's For my full review, please see The Ministry of Time . 06 A Funny, Steamy, Sweet Rom-Com Funny Story by Emily Henry Funny Story  is the perfect rom-com read. For my full review of this book, please see Funny Story .

that centers around feminism and building new perspectives; historical fiction about a traveling librarian in 1930s Appalachia; a luminous story of astronauts on the International Space Station; and a novel Wang doesn't shy away from a dramatic reckoning for the story's main characters in the end. The story showcases a love for books and the power of the written word. The bad guy in the story is pure evil, and there's little doubt he'll get a comeuppance by the story's

I love Aaron Falk stories and I loved the twisty interconnectedness of the characters in Exiles. I wasn't ever sure who was responsible for the multiple tragedies at the heart of the story, and the I'm in for all Jane Harper and all Aaron Falk stories! Exiles was the right mystery at the right time for me. The unexpected twists and turns kept me riveted while Pip's unfailing bravery and her hero's struggles

travel and is the first in a series. If you like short stories, you might also want to check out the stories on the Greedy Reading List Six Short Story Collections to Wow You, or you might like some of these other collections of short stories back through time. He repeatedly attempts to time travel to the night Amy disappeared, but the time he can spend in the

Early on, I found the academic focus somewhat tedious, but then the story builds into unexpected, often They are not allowed to touch each other but may speak, and to bond and pass the time, they share stories By the time John's wife appears--fresh from a rough sea journey, inspired to travel by a sense that John But the world of the story is grounded in day-to-day stressors and challenges. This story is beautiful and powerful.

She's going to miss her family terribly, but she can't focus on quality time with them either. order to grasp the fascinating changes here, and Jackson's recaps are skillfully interwoven into the story However, I was completely hooked not only by Jackson's story but by the character evolution, the loyal If someone had laid out the events of this book before I could read the story as presented by the talented The unexpected twists and turns kept me riveted while Pip's unfailing bravery and her hero's struggles

fascinated by the optimistic explorer spirit--and I love reading about strong female characters in a time I read this story as an e-book and was therefore robbed of gazing at this gorgeous cover. "Stories, Jessilyn. We tell ourselves the wrong stories.” profession was tainted by traveling butchers and thieves), and his gallant, grumpy, well-read, mischievous Paulette Jiles Captain Kidd has fought in three wars, and after the Civil War's end, he serves as a traveling

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 The story dives into the plot with little hesitation (we do have to get going, after all--we only have wrought fantasy novels featuring main protagonists I love: Uprooted  and Spinning Silver  as well as the story

At times this debut novel about an octogenarian and mistaken identity was too cloyingly sweet for me, but Fred's stumbling through life after grief and loss is poignant, and the story of mistakes and redemption of where to go or what to do, and he's worrying over it all when he takes a forlorn walk along the river This is very sweet--at times it felt too cloyingly sweet for me. The story is heavily reliant upon the suspension of disbelief so that all of the coincidences work.

We meet two main protagonists: independent young adult Birdie, who travels from her rural hometown to The story is long enough to meander at times; we drift in and out of Birdie's and Meg's lives without But by the time key matters are resolved, after so much page time, the resolutions feel somewhat abrupt Blake includes wonderful scientific detail and details of life in that time. The story would have stood on its own for me, but the references to the Cinderella story were a fun added

memoir, Being Henry; and I'm reading Secondhand Daylight, Eugen Bacon and Andrew Hook's science fiction story about time travel gone wrong--and a connection from the future that could be one man's saving grace. 01 North Woods by Daniel Mason Mason's novel tells the story of a New England house in the woods by tracking The story explores cycles and links through history, considering how each of us may live on after we're Winkler brings heart and honesty to the story of his life so far, and I love it.

pay for her father's cancer treatment and has just been fired from her cashier's job at the corner store Which means traveling together to a tropical island for his sister's wedding, pretending to be soulmates the Past Year Six More of My Favorite Light Fiction Reads of the Past Year Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading , and Six More Great Light Fiction Stories

This was also listed in my Greedy Reading List Six Riveting Time-Travel Escapes.

family treks from California and traipses into a town with a colorful cast of characters, legends and stories The Foursome paints a fascinating story of of the uncommon family structure and its logistics. She is skilled at building a story within a specific place and time, and the details made this story I loved this sweet story of renewed hope, platonic love, and romantic promise. about travel, adventures, mishaps, shortcomings, true friendship, love, families, loss, aging, and the

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Edan Lepucki's science-fiction time-travel novel, Time's Mouth 01 Time's Mouth by Edan Lepucki When Ursa was a child she was horribly abused by her father, and while When she flees to remote California, her ability to travel through memory to revisit the past secures But Ursa's ability to travel through time has, unbeknownst to all, passed on to Ray's child Opal. He single-mindedly travels through Reconstruction-era United States on a search for A.J.

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading recently published stories by Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day : Stories of Women and Men; I'm reading Amy Lea's feel-good time-travel story, Woke Up Like This; and 01 So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan In the brilliant, Irish-born Claire T. seem to have been thrown forward in time and into the thick of young adulthood. But wasn't Athena working on such a story before her untimely end?

After recently pulling together the Bossy Bookworm Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave books, but clearly I need to keep at it, because aside from Hour of the Witch and the difficult but riveting story The Guest Room, I still haven't read many others I want to: a book about the Armenian genocide This is the gorgeous cover of the edition of the book I read--and owned at one time--and I adore this

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Kaliana Bradley's witty time-travel story The Ministry of Time; 01 The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley In a world of the near future, a young woman is one of many They're from other times. To read about other books I've reviewed that play with time, check out this link. I've read and reviewed another book called Sleeping Giants; that one was a science fiction story by Sylvain

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 story is told with alternating chapters focused on a chilling crime that feels connected to the Elise-Wade The unexpected twists and turns kept me riveted while Pip's unfailing bravery and her hero's struggles I love Aaron Falk stories and I loved the twisty interconnectedness of the characters in Exiles. I wasn't ever sure who was responsible for the multiple tragedies at the heart of the story, and the I'm in for all Jane Harper and all Aaron Falk stories!

I can't stop thinking about this fascinating near-future climate-change story of desperation, loyalty And by happenstance, this revenge also threatens Ma's family's ability to travel to a land of plenty. If they were for a moment patient with one another, or generous, or empathetic, the course of the story As the time for departure from India nears for Ma, her elderly father, and her small daughter, a few

an in-between state that is not life and not death, in the form of a library that exists outside of time Nora dips in and out of different lives, trying on careers, love lives, travel adventures, fame and fortune This meant that I didn't feel emotionally invested in Nora's story although I appreciated the implications Haig is also the author of How to Stop Time, his memoir Reasons to Stay Alive, and other books. Reading List Six Riveting Time-Travel Escapes.

Six more that made my honorable mention list: Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell by Ann Powers Alex shares stories of the brothers' young lives spent in the Netherlands, to their family's move to the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music by Rob Sheffield "Every Swiftie is full of stories The stories about the song that changed their life, the song nobody appreciates the way they do, the We go to these songs because they tell us our stories.

The Books I'm Reading Now I took a Bossy break last week while traveling with family, but I spent time I'm listening to Emily Habeck's odd and sweet novel Shark Heart: A Love Story; I'm reading Heather Webb's and a female police officer clashing after World War I, Queens of London; and I'm listening to the story 01 Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck Wren's kind, artistic, loving--and recent--husband Lewis Shark Heart: A Love Story follows Wren and Lewis as they adjust to the prospect of such a drastic, potentially

The list includes: literary fiction that's part of an interconnected series; a romantic story about starting is another Strout book linked to this story, but I didn't respond to that one as much as Lucy Barton   Dean's escape from media scrutiny leads him to rent Evvie's apartment for a time. I listened to it as an audiobook while I gardened, and it was a perfect summer story. The mystery of what happened to the man is a subplot that winds through the story.

I loved the key elements of this story: the capable con woman, the past coming back to haunt her, the A Captivating Historical Fiction Survival Story 02 Isola by Allegra Goodman Isola , based upon the story Isola  is inspired by the story of the real-life Marguerite de la Rocque de Roberval. A Rich Time-Travel Fantasy by a Favorite Author 03 The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow The Everlasting  involves jaunts through multiple versions of the same story, as our fantastic

The Hallmarked Man is the newest in the Cormoran Strike mystery series, and in the story, a dismembered Cormoran keeps trying to conjure up reasons he and Robin would need to travel somewhere beautiful to And Ryan Murphy is showing some weak points, and every time he does, Strike gets a bigger chance with

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 Pachinko is a sweeping generational story of hardship, sacrifice, and fifty years of Korean-Japanese In The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After , Wamariya recalls her experiences The author's tone and voice is like poetry at times, raw and spare and true. 03 In the Country We Love

Leave the party right when you think, I'm having such a nice time at this party. His assistant Cody has all of the details in hand for the retired executive who is traveling to his final The poignant premise is also darkly funny at times, often absurd, and frequently breathtakingly, messily

based on real-life events; and a collection of fantasy stories. Kennedy draws the reader into the specific place and time of the story, vividly building the constant she becomes convinced that what happened to Ruth is linked to the Florida sorority attack, and she travels  I enjoyed all of the stories but particularly loved three. , below) and Pride and Prejudice , and it made me grin with glee the whole time I read it.

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 Minor note: I love that toward the end of the story, the text briefly references Captain Kidd from Jiles's World ("...a man had come who read aloud from newspapers gathered from the entire world over, including stories

New York Times journalist Frank Bruni and UNC alum considers the "terrifying and occasionally devastating Must be time for...the winter books! Handsome Gio, son of the ill owner, explains that the store is in danger of being shuttered. Lydia Byrd, a book that appeared on the Greedy Reading List Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories Sara Donati In this first book of Donati's Wilderness series, it's 1792 and Elizabeth Middleton has traveled

Wilson I'm a Kevin Wilson fan, and I'm here for all of his wonderfully eccentric characters and his story But when a stranger who calls himself Rube shows up in a rented PT Cruiser and a story about how Mad Kevin Wilson is also the author of Now Is Not the Time to Panic , Nothing to See Here , Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine , The Family Fang, Perfect Little World , and Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories Three years later, she traveled to a remote Australian island to sit with Tony's journals, dive into

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 It was horrifying that the sorority girls in the story received so little guidance and support after families and painful relationships--were welcome distractions from the horror at the heart of this story

of the Witch is a thoroughly researched, witchy, historical thriller with fantastic details of the time If you like stories about witches, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You. is also the author of a fantastic book about World War II, Skeletons at the Feast, the difficult but riveting story The Guest Room, and a book about the Armenian genocide that is personal to Bohjalian himself,

This story is beautiful and powerful. For my full review of this book please see Time of the Child . 02 Show Don't Tell: Stories by Curtis In Curtis Sittenfeld's first short-story collection, You Think It, I'll Say It , she offered ten stories If you enjoy short story collections, you might like to check out Six Short Story Collections to Wow McAllister's Wrong Place, Wrong Time  relied on an intriguing time-travel element as its twist.

This book is part of my Greedy Reading List Six Riveting Time-Travel Escapes.

Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month: a wonderful story about a grumpy female travel; and a captivating mystery about a complicated family. The tone is spooky and the story moves at a measured pace. illness...until she realizes that the red door and visions of the past are real memories from her own time-travel For the rest of our lives, every time one of us goes somewhere and doesn’t return on time, doesn’t let

ICYMI: Daniel Mason's atmospheric, mysterious, languorous story is of a shy piano tuner's trip to Burma middle-aged, shy piano tuner Edgar Drake is asked to do something unusual for the British War Office: travel The Piano Tuner is a strange, slowly paced adventure story but also an anti-imperialist, pro-music take The story's jungle setting and music focus mean that the languorous and sultry tone feels just right.

in her fiction, and in this memoir she traces her Appalachian youth, offering striking depth and, at times For life has turned out to be wild and various, full of the unexpected, and it’s a monstrous big river store and the community that flocked to it. memoir about growing up in Appalachia and an account the incredible changes in rural Virginia from the time Lee Smith has written numerous fictional stories about the Appalachian South, including Fair and Tender

01 Miss Morgan's Book Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles This historical fiction story in two timelines introduces the little-known real-life figure of librarian Jessie Carson, who traveled from the NYPL The story is told in two timelines. At times the story felt as though it was shifting into overly dramatic soap-opera territory for me, and The story's later timeline takes place in the time of World War II as Daphne, an intelligent and educated

about a dating-focused reality TV show by Laurie Devore; I'm listening to You Are Here , a charming story Winner Take All , and How to Break a Boy . 02 You Are Here by David Nicholls “It’s true I do have time But the notion that I should be 'making the most of it,' travelling the world or out every night, there Can’t I just be happy, or unhappy, just mess about and read and waste time and be unfulfilled by myself After meeting for the first time, Michael, a recently divorced teacher, studious and thoughtful, and

Communication and travel between Earth and the planet New Sonora may be established again, and Oliver Jane Castello Jules is a fortysomething widow, single mom, and a busy buyer for a chain of lifestyle stores The new source of friendship, challenge, release, confidence, and time with Sam might just offer Jules

The Books I'm Reading Now I went skiing for spring break last week, and during my travels and some lazy Hooper mystery series, The Keeper ; and I'm reading a mystery built around a fictitious podcast, This Story You might also be interested in my Bossy reviews of other Tana French novels . 03 This Story Might Save

​Frankel's story of a nontraditional, loving, zany family flips traditional views of unplanned, young “Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. This is your story. ; 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