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- Review of My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows
This first book in the Lady Janies trilogy is funny, and smart, with clever asides, wonderful character This is funny, and smart, with clever asides, wonderful character development, and fantastic banter.
- Review of The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
The Body: A Guide for Occupants is made up of fascinating, funny, odd, and often unexpected information
- My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads
07 No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) by Kate Bowles Touching, honest, raw, funny No Cure for Being Human is beautiful, funny, heartwarming, practical, and Kate Bowler is so wise and This was fascinating, sometimes funny, thoughtful, and lovely. The Humans is funny, strange, deep, and lovely. I loved it.
- Review of Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick
I would have liked more introspection, but I loved spending time in Kendrick's funny, honest, often wonderfully I loved spending time in her funny, honest, often wonderfully wacky point of view.
- Review of Big Time: Stories by Jen Spyra
The standout highlights of Big Time for me were two clever, funny stories I really liked, "The Secret
- Six of My Favorite Nonfiction Reads from the Past Year
With sections read by stars of The Good Place, Schur's How to Be Perfect is funny, interesting--and a The Body: A Guide for Occupants is made up of fascinating, funny, odd, and often unexpected information
- Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore
Nobody by Anna Kendrick I would have liked more introspection, but I loved spending time in Kendrick's funny 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
- Review of Festival Days by Jo Ann Beard
It's also often wryly funny.
- Review of Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
anything, but I found it irresistible to hear Stanley Tucci calmly list ingredients, make a few corny-but-funny
- Six More Science Fiction Reads I Loved in the Past Year
This was fascinating, sometimes funny, thoughtful, and lovely. The Humans is funny, strange, deep, and lovely. I loved it.
- Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories I Loved
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August is often funny, but North layers darkness into her book, as
- Review of See You Yesterday by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Rachel Lynn Solomon crafts another sweet, quirky, funny, romantic young adult story that plays with time
- Review of Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes by Jessica Pan
Pan is wonderfully honest, appealingly thoughtful, and often so so funny. Pan is wonderfully honest, appealingly thoughtful, and often so so funny.
- My Very Favorite Bossy 2025 Reads
Her memoir is candid, poignant, funny, and always entertaining. I laughed out loud repeatedly while I was reading this charming memoir by this strong, funny woman.
- Review of A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls #2) by Hank Green
Green tells his funny, poignant, tech-focused story through characters' alternating viewpoints, and April
- Six Short Story Collections to Wow You
Funny or sad. Guys like it funny, with lots of gore and a grin on your face when you get to the end.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/22/22 Edition
This is funny, strange, and lovely.
- January Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
This is charming, funny, and adorable.
- Six Musicians' Memoirs that Sing
full review, check out Open Book. 05 The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl Grohl is funny His funny, self-effacing, thoughtful, sensitive, music-obsessed tone makes for captivating listening,
- June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
struggles; she is practical with her approaches to coping with various challenges; and she's often funny
- Thankful for More Five-Star Bossy Reads
The characters in White Houses are funny, heartbreaking, and feel alive.
- Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into
I loved spending time with the uproariously funny Thomas as he recounts how he's navigated situations Pan is wonderfully honest, appealingly thoughtful, and often so so funny.
- The Bossy Five-Star Reads So Far This Year
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. 06 No Cure for Being Human by Kate Bowler Touching, honest, raw, funny No Cure for Being Human is beautiful, funny, heartwarming, practical, and Kate Bowler is so wise and
- Review of The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz
Joan is a funny, heartbreaking, meddlesome, irresistible main protagonist.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/6/22 Edition
Cult Classic is a funny, suspenseful story of love, memory, and mind control from the author of I Was
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/12/21 Edition
His funny, self-effacing, thoughtful, sensitive, music-obsessed tone makes for captivating listening,
- Review of Warcross (Warcross #1) by Marie Lu
“...sometimes people kick you to the ground at recess because they think the shape of your eyes is funny
- Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans and Alien Life, and AI
The Murderbot series is funny and poignant and odd and wonderful.
- Six More Fantasy Novels I Loved in the Past Year
fun magical story featuring an oddball cast of characters, satisfying justice, love, chosen family, funny
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/2/22 Edition
Funny, sometimes grotesque, and full of surprises, Herrick's End is the first in Blanchet's Neath Trilogy
- Review of The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
Fisher is candid, funny, charmingly offbeat, and she's mastered the art of honest self-examination.
- Six Five-Star Bossy Reads to Check Out
The characters in Autoboyography are thoughtful and young and funny and defiant but good, and they make Wood's memoir is heartwarming and funny and tragic and vivid. I ate it up in a single day.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/28/22 Edition
series. 02 You Can't Be Serious by Kal Penn I'm in for memoirs, and lately I've been drawn to memoirs by funny
- Review of When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine by Monica Wood
Wood's memoir is heartwarming and funny and tragic and vivid. This memoir is fantastic.
- Six Lighter Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading
But after that, Beach Read met all of my criteria above and more; it's sweet and funny, it's about writing
- Six Fascinating Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War
This is twisted, base, and funny, but sometimes also sentimental and poignant, with peeks into deceased
- Review of The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
Sunny Shelton shapes an oral history of two music idols, tracing their family lives, youthful experiences Reporter Sunny's connection to the two performers and their past was intriguing, and I very much enjoyed
- Review of Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
doesn't examine in any depth the reasons for their fractured relationship (ahem, Doug wanted a "cuddle bunny
- Review of The Guncle by Steven Rowley
In Steven Rowley's fun, funny, and heartwarming light fiction story The Guncle, aging former sitcom star
- Thankful for More Five-Star Bossy Reads
The characters in White Houses are funny, heartbreaking, and feel alive.
- Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore
time-jump premise McQuiston's characters explore loyalty, love, connection, and heartbreak in poignant, funny
- Six of My Favorite Historical Fiction Reads of the Year
story involves time travel, but it's primarily about deep human connections, complete with fantastic, funny
- Bossy Book Talk: Starting a Blog During a Pandemic
And, funny story, it turns out that being quarantined for weeks and feeling mildly delirious during a
- My Favorite Science Fiction Reads of the Year
01 Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino In Beautyland , Bertino offers a poignant, funny, strange story
- Review of Beach Read by Emily Henry
Beach Read met all of my criteria above; it's sweet and funny, it's about writing and books, there are , and their banter is so smart and funny, it made me laugh repeatedly.
- Review of Shoulder Season by Christina Clancy
standouts of Shoulder Season for me were the atmospheric setting, the training and strict rules surrounding Bunnies workers and guests from the Midwestern hub where hit musicians, family vacationers, single men, and Bunnies
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/10/21 Edition
01 The Guncle by Steven Rowley In Steven Rowley's fun, funny, and heartwarming fiction The Guncle, aging
- Six Fantastic Stand-Alone Young Adult Books
Her young voice is honest and lovely and funny and powerful. In Goodbye Days, we get what feels like a genuine peek into the boys’ friendship via their really funny Goodbye Days is so very very sad and so very very funny.
- Review of The Arsonists' City by Hala Alyan
There are funny, tangled, heartwarming exchanges.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/4/21 Edition
music, her influences, and her life; The Last Graduate, the second in Naomi Novik's dark, brooding, funny















































