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  • Review of Uncultured: A Memoir by Daniella Mestyanek Young

    For more more more memoirs that you might want to try, check out these Greedy Reading Lists: Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality

  • Review of Show Don't Tell: Stories by Curtis Sittenfeld

    If you enjoy short story collections, you might like to check out Six Short Story Collections to Wow You  and Six More Short Story Collections I Loved .

  • October Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Here are my six favorite reads of the past month: a bitingly funny, poignant book of essays; a candid memoir of abuse and inner strength; two fascinating historical fiction stories; an unorthodox friendship my full review of I'm Glad My Mom Died. 03 Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese Hester is richly imagined historical Ore by Olivia Hawker Hawker offers irresistible details of daily life and historical elements that add The author's note explains the historical events at play and illuminates the ways in which Hawker's historical

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/7/24 Edition

    novel This Time It's Real , read it in one rainy afternoon, and included it in my Greedy Reading Lists Six of My Favorite Light Fiction Reads from the Past Year , Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading , and memoirs Garlic and Sapphires  and Tender at the Bone  were both listed in my Greedy Reading List of Six

  • Review of Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry

    For memoirs I've loved that you might want to try, check out these Greedy Reading Lists: Six Musicians ' Memoirs that Sing Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality

  • Review of Dimestore: A Writer's Life by Lee Smith

    I mentioned this book in my Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore. about the Appalachian South, including Fair and Tender Ladies, On Agate Hill, The Last Girls, and Oral History

  • Review of The Power by Naomi Alderman

    I included The Power in the Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels. You can find more books like this on the Greedy Reading List Six More Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic

  • Review of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

    click here to find my review of Malibu Rising, and you can find my glowing review of Daisy Jones & the Six in the Greedy Reading List Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music.

  • Review of Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey

    Ivey is also the author of To the Bright Edge of the World , which I listed in the Greedy Reading List Six Chilly Books to Read in  the Heat of Summer , and The Snow Child , which I included in the list Six

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/3/25 Edition

    extensive; the many points of view may explain some comparisons of this book to Daisy Jones and the Six ( a book I included in the Greedy Reading List Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music ).

  • November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month: a wonderful story about a grumpy female I mentioned Naomi Alderman's novel The Power in the Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Dystopian and You might also want to check out the books on the Greedy Reading List Six More Fascinating Dystopian here for my full review of The Future. 03 North Woods by Daniel Mason Mason's novel isn't simply a historical But North Woods isn't a charming historical fiction novel.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/18/24 Edition

    reading Micaiah Johnson's science-fiction novel Those Beyond the Wall; I'm listening to Kristin Hannah's historical Kristin Hannah I loved Kristin Hannah's book The Nightingale and mentioned it in my Greedy Reading List Six

  • Review of The Measure by Nikki Erlick

    you're interested in books that explore mortality, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality and Six More Powerful Books about Facing Mortality.

  • Review of Time's Mouth by Edan Lepucki

    you're intrigued by time-travel stories, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, and Six Second-Chance

  • Review of The Favorites by Layne Fargo

    points of view used to offer varied perspectives to past events beg comparisons to Daisy Jones and the Six  ( a title I included in the Greedy Reading List Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music ).

  • August Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    toward light fiction, but I've got a mystery, a great novel by Allison Larkin, and a wonderfully witchy historical Henry's Beach Read was one of my favorite books last year, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading List Six I mentioned Life After Life in the Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life For more summer reads, check out the Greedy Reading List Six Lighter Fiction Stories for Great Escapism like Chris Bohjalian's witch hunt-focused Hour of the Witch or the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Review of All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby

    agent, has returned to his hometown in Charon County, Virginia, to serve as the first Black sheriff in history Cosby is also the author of Razorblade Tears, a book I listed on my Greedy Reading List Six Satisfying

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/10/23 Edition

    I mentioned Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone series in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse is made up of her Shadow and Bone trilogy, the Six of Crows duology, and If this book sounds intriguing, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading, Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading, and Six More Great Light Fiction Stories.

  • Review of The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man by Paul Newman

    Life of an Ordinary Man to be available through my library, I started watching The Last Movie Stars, a six-part If you love memoirs, you might like some of the books on my many Bossy lists of favorites: Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into, Six Illuminating Memoirs to Check Out, Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore, Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore, Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite, and Six Musicians' Memoirs

  • Bossy Holiday Gift Ideas: Novels for Everyone on Your List

    Bossy Gift Ideas: The Novels Here are six great novels that I'm excited to give as gifts this holiday Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays Shhh! For my full review of this book, please see Listen for the Lie . 04 Smart Historical Fiction with a Time-Travel They're from other times in history. protagonist's focus in her work is Commander Graham Gore (a character based upon a real figure from history

  • Review of The Gods of Howl Mountain by Taylor Brown

    is still on my to-read list), Fallen Land, a title I loved and included in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War, and the upcoming (to be published next week) historical

  • Review of A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang

    novel This Time It's Real , read it in one rainy afternoon, and included it in my Greedy Reading Lists Six of My Favorite Light Fiction Reads from the Past Year , Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading , and

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/4/22 Edition

    I'm listening to The Personal Librarian, historical fiction with race and art at the heart of it, set Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray The Personal Librarian is Benedict and Murray's historical I recently listed some of my favorite romantic, light stories in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Light listed other heartbreaking and beautiful memoirs about facing death and loss in the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Review of Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese

    Hester is richly imagined historical fiction with connections to themes and characters from The Scarlet If you're interested in books about witches, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories and Six More Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You.

  • July Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Bossy Favorites of the Month Here are my six Bossy favorite reads of July. I was already in love with five of these six authors' other books before I read these newest works, and Her heartbreaking history surprised me, as did the revelations at the end of the novel.

  • Review of The Secret Book Society by Madeline Martin

    The power of books and of friendship ultimately triumph in Martin's historical fiction.

  • Review of Pines (Wayward Pines #1) by Blake Crouch

    strange place, by a river, horribly bruised and in pain--with no memory of his own name, his job, or his history Blake Crouch's Upgrade here , my review of his novel Recursion (mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Review of Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian

    Hour of the Witch is a thoroughly researched, witchy, historical thriller with fantastic details of the Hour of the Witch is a thoroughly researched historical thriller with fantastic details of the time that If you like stories about witches, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Wonderfully

  • My Bossy Favorite Reads of the Summer

    I had a great reading summer, so I had a tough time deciding on the six books I most loved reading during You might also want to check out the books on my spring Greedy Reading List Six of My Favorite Reads This book made it onto the recent Greedy Reading List Six More Great Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading, Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading, and Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, and Six Second-Chance

  • Review of Will They or Won't They by Ava Wilder

    If this book sounds intriguing, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading, Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading, and Six More Great Light Fiction Stories.

  • November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    show personality; a dark academia story that centers around feminism and building new perspectives; historical The janitor is a cultural outsider with a complicated history, and what he lacks in training he makes full review of Light to the Hills . 05 Orbital by Samantha Harvey The luminous novel Orbital tracks six Samantha Harvey's astronaut-focused novel Orbital  traces a single day in the lives of six astronauts

  • Review of Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

    sacrificed everything to get her to the top, setting records that have cemented her place in tennis history I suspect that as with Daisy Jones and the Six and its page time spent on the music world, bandmate negotiations Reid is also the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Malibu Rising, and Daisy Jones and the Six , a book I included in the Greedy Reading List Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/24/25 Edition

    If you enjoy short story collections, you might like to check out Six Short Story Collections to Wow You and Six More Short Story Collections I Loved .

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/6/23 Edition

    I mentioned Naomi Alderman's novel The Power in the Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Dystopian and been sooooo excited to read this final installment in Freya Marske's Last Binding trilogy, a queer historical

  • Review of Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

    If this book sounds intriguing, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading, Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading, and Six More Great Light Fiction Stories.

  • Review of Hello Stranger by Katherine Center

    If this book sounds intriguing, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading, Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading, and Six More Great Light Fiction Stories.

  • Shhh! Bossy Nonfiction Book Gift Ideas

    These six nonfiction books look like excellent last-minute additions to a holiday gift list if you're Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays Shhh! More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays Shhh! by Alex Johnson In Art Day by Day, editor Alex Johnson offers snapshots of important moments in art history thefts, murders, and mishaps included too, Johnson's Art Day by Day offers unexpected gems from art history In Waypoints, Sam Heughan points out places along Scotland's ninety-six-mile West Highland Way that hold

  • September Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Here are my six Bossy favorite reads of September. We've got a dark fantasy sequel, the first in a science fiction series, the first in a historical fiction mystery series, a feminist mythological retelling, captivating and strange literary historical fiction The worldbuilding and Thorne's various creatures and their histories were intriguing.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/12/22 Edition

    time-travel mind-bender that's also about responsibility and causality; and I'm listening to a stand-alone historical If you like books that play with time, you might also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore and Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories--or you can search

  • Review of World Running Down by Al Hess

    book sounds down your alley, you might want also to check out the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Fascinating Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels, Six More Fascinating Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels, and Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans and Alien Life, and AI.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/13/22 Edition

    I'm Reading Now I'm reading Woman of Light, Kali Fajardo-Anstine's upcoming fantastical, indigenous historical fiction; The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid's dual-timeline historical fiction about can click here to find my review of Malibu Rising, and you can find my review of Daisy Jones & the Six in the Greedy Reading List Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music. 03 A Marvellous Light (The Last

  • Bossy Favorite Reads of the Year So Far

    My Greedy Reading Lists are usually made up of six books, but I've had a wonderful start to 2024 reading dragons, dragon-related science, emotional and physical ties to dragons, and the cultural importance, historical Because the restrictive Anglish world--and its selective history of the destruction of the Indigenous Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality and Six More Powerful Books about Facing Mortality. If you like this book, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Great

  • Review of Queens of London by Heather Webb

    Queens of London is fascinating historical fiction that explores the gritty underbelly of post-World I loved the girl power, historical detail, and the intersecting storylines. This is immensely readable historical fiction.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/14/25 Edition

    Read  was one of my favorite books the year I read it, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading List Six story; you can check out my review here , and you might like to check it out on the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Review of The Child Finder (Naomi Cottle #1) by Rene Denfeld

    I mentioned The Child Finder in the Greedy Reading List Six Chilly Books to Read in the Heat of Summer

  • Review of This House Is Not a Home by Katlia

    A book that kept coming to mind as I read this one is This Tender Land, historical fiction by William the "restructuring" that cut off many American Indians from their culture, their families, and their history

  • Review of A Conspiracy in Belgravia (Lady Sherlock #2) by Sherry Thomas

    Raybourn's Veronica Speedwell series (A Curious Beginning, A Perilous Undertaking, A Treacherous Curse, and six

  • Review of The Goddess of Warsaw by Lisa Barr

    Lisa Barr's World War II-set historical fiction follows a Jewish resistance fighter and spy through the In Lisa Barr's newest historical fiction, The Goddess of Warsaw , the author tells a story in two timelines

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/19/22 Edition

    For more more more memoirs that you might want to try, check out these Greedy Reading Lists: Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality 02 The Frederick Sisters Are

  • Review of The Future by Naomi Alderman

    I mentioned Naomi Alderman's novel The Power in the Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Dystopian and You might also want to check out the books on the Greedy Reading List Six More Fascinating Dystopian

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