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- Review of Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers by Caroline Fraser
but her painstakingly detailed account offers a cohesive, extensive argument) between the numerous mass-murderers
- Six of My Favorite Contemporary Fiction Reads of the Year
the author of other books I love: We All Want Impossible Things , Waiting for Birdy , and How to Be a Person She defies societal expectations to provide for her baby and to find fulfillment in her personal and going through the plane as if in a trance, announcing expected ages of and causes of death for each person couple, to Allegra herself, the Death Lady (as she is later called) announces a prediction of each person's
- Review of Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be by Frank Bruni
But for every person whose contentment and fulfillment come from faithfully executing a predetermined or no from Amherst or Dartmouth or Duke or Northwestern is seen as the conclusive measure of a young person's He emphasizes that it's what a young person does with the opportunities available to them that makes college and the increasing pressure and weight put upon the acceptance/rejection equation for a young person of intelligence and competence, what drives earnings isn't the luster of the diploma but the type of person
- Review of The Villain Edit by Laurie Devore
the way we all have a best and worst self, and they both live in the same body, and the most generous person can have the most toxic ideas of what a relationship is or how you can so desperately want the worst person
- Review of Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of our Deadliest Infection by John Green
Green makes the situation personal, following the cases of real people, tracking roadblocks to care,
- Review of I Am Not Jessica Chen by Ann Liang
she looks like Jessica, she has retained her own average academic abilities and her own thoughts and personality how it allows peeks behind the scenes at another life and the literal walking in the shoes of another person
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/11/22 Edition
Dragons, a historic event has occurred but is being denied by the government and historians alike: a Mass
- Review of Orbital by Samantha Harvey
planet is safe at the centre of it all to knowing in fact it's a planet of normalish size and normalish mass
- Review of All the Broken Places by John Boyne
of World War II fade in contrast to the responsibility and haunting we witness as Gretel relives her personal
- Review of The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
And Quinn's inspiration for the Grace March storyline is a personal favorite; The Americans is one of
- Review of The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
author’s note as I read because of how much of the stories of the women’s lives was pulled from first-person
- November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
novel set during the week leading up to an ill-fated wedding; the memoir of a beloved cooking show personality book, please see The Wedding People . 02 Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten Ina's memoir is personal of her former specialty food shop in the Hamptons (and television show), Barefoot Contessa, offers a personal Sciona's fight to pursue magic and her oft-frustrated ambition, her personal journey of reconsidering
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/20/25 Edition
His personality is overbearing, he is frequently sexist, verbally abusive, groping, petty, and prone
- Review of The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club #1) by Richard Osman
He has created a complementary gang of four with disparate personalities, pasts, motivations, and abilities
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/3/24 Edition
are strangers, but they both seem to have the same curse: after they break up with someone, the next person that person dates ends up being their soulmate.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/2/23 Edition
occasionally devastating" process of applying to college--and the dangerous potential belief that a young person's worth could feel determined by which schools offer the person admission and which do not. serve as jumping-off points for happy, fulfilling, successful careers and lives--it's what a young person
- Six Books Set in Australia that Are Fair Dinkum Fascinating
Is remorse useful, and does it make a person more redeemable? Can a person’s character or morality be decided in a moment, or in a series of defining moments?
- Review of This Time It's Real by Ann Liang
drifting apart from treasured friends and trying to find their way back together, and allowing another person I loved these two books with the premise in which a famous person dates a not-famous person: Nora Goes
- Review of Blood Over Bright Haven by M. L. Wang
Sciona's fight to pursue magic and her oft-frustrated ambition, her personal journey of reconsidering
- Review of Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
Both the world and the characters' personal lives are complicated, messy, wonderful, and fragile.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/31/22 Edition
Meanwhile, her own love life is a mess and she's reluctant to be vulnerable again (her ex was a selfish
- Review of Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller
The reality of the open-minded, empowering, honest content in Lula's personal library seems destined
- Six Illuminating Memoirs to Check Out
Here are six personal stories that I found captivating! Scorah tells a fascinating personal story of growth and fear and change. Her evolution as a person and transition into her current profession was satisfying to witness as well
- Review of Iron Flame (Empyrian #2) by Rebecca Yarros
I have been since the night the snow fell in your hair and you kissed me for the first time.").
- Bossy Holiday Book Gift Ideas: Sports and Recreation Nonfiction
They have a fantastic selection of titles, staff members offer spot-on recommendations (and sparkling personalities The author's obsession with the sport serves as a catalyst to reflect with personal, sometimes poetic Author Peter Kaminsky offers a beautifully illustrated set of first-person accounts of fly-fishing experiences
- Review of Family Family by Laurie Frankel
Each decision she made as a young person was done toward trying to shape her future as an actor. I had to check my assumptions repeatedly as I entered into her mindset around her version of personal
- Review of Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases by Paul Holes and Robin Gaby Fisher
Holes's account of the dogged determination and attention to detail--as well as the cost to his personal Holes presents his single-focus personality and obsessive immersion--in the gritty details of homicides the various movements of potential suspects over months and years--as historically detrimental to his personal
- Review of The Trap (Alias Emma #3) by Ava Glass
I questioned one of Emma's forays into the past, which seems likely to place a person she treasures in
- Review of Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions by Jeffrey Selingo
take on how to assess complex acceptance statistics and the importance of a specific school to a young person's He also offers tips on how to evaluate whether a school might be a match for a young person looking toward And he emphasizes his own strong belief (and the supporting data) that what a young person does with firsthand data reinforced the conclusion that acceptances aren't, of course, reflections of a young person's
- Review of Sandwich by Catherine Newman
the author of other books I love: We All Want Impossible Things , Waiting for Birdy , and How to Be a Person
- Review of The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
For a resolution to their personal and romantic troubles, both women will need to be more brave and more
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/4/23 Edition
Centuries later, professor Marian Beresford pieces together the story of Hannah's life from her first-person shocking loss of freedom and rights she suffered for years while her parents abused their power over her person
- Review of Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live by Susan Morrison
for the featured episode) are interspersed with past evolutions of the show, its cast, and Lorne's personal
- Review of The Favorites by Layne Fargo
appealingly messy second-chance attempts at being true to themselves and finally finding professional and personal
- Review of Hum by Helen Phillips
Selective coverage and edited footage set up May for social, professional, and personal ruin.
- Review of Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
She defies societal expectations to provide for her baby and to find fulfillment in her personal and
- Review of The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Their common disjointedness brings them together, and the mashup of personalities and histories was fantastic
- Review of Kills Well with Others (Killers of a Certain Age #2) by Deanna Raybourn
Because the person you're supposed to kill has been chosen for a good reason.
- Review of The Measure by Nikki Erlick
The source of the boxes is unknown, but it quickly becomes clear that each person's string length correlates
- Review of Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
You can find other Bossy reviews of books that tell the stories of enslaved persons here .
- Review of Dream State by Eric Puchner
Anyway, later Dream State is a meditation on memory and memory loss as related to personhood. history together; forgiveness for past missteps; then a poignant considering of what it all means if one person's
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/24/25 Edition
moving into heavy emphasis on her mother's unusual, difficult childhood and youth before sharing the personal
- Six Musicians' Memoirs that Sing
experiences, specific inspirations, an exhaustive exhuming of pivotal moments--and also a panoramic view of a person If I'm getting a peek at a person, I also want it all, however unreasonable that may be. She shares her ongoing, active commitment to personal and emotional growth, bettering the world, being
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/21/24 Edition
and enjoys over the course of a year to add structure to the passage of 365 days--while interspersing personal
- Review of The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
As I learned that year in Shandon Street, there is nothing that my personality or my humour thrives on more than being able to see the same person at the same time every day.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/10/25 Edition
But the person who brought her to the house has disappeared, and Morning House has a gruesome history
- Review of Ready or Not by Cara Bastone
administrative assistant at a wildlife conservation organization who's obsessed with creating a homey, personalized
- Review of Isola by Allegra Goodman
abandonment on an unforgiving, uninhabited island after our main protagonist falls in love with the wrong person
- Review of Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst
The story also explores Dave's and his mother's personal, individual paths through various experiences
- Review of Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
with Big Swiss, and their sex life is full of unflinching detail about desire, repulsions, particular personal unaware of Big Swiss's revelations when Big Swiss is vulnerable enough to share them with Greta in person I was intrigued by the intersection of the women's personalities and lives, and Beagin kept me consistently
















































