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  • Review of Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

    boast forces Miryem into a position of meeting the tsar's impossible challenge, she finds that the mysterious I mentioned Spinning Silver in the Greedy Reading List Six Magical Fairy Tales Grown-Ups Will Love.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/27/22 Edition

    But her adorably quirky roommates and a mystery woman she keeps running into on the Q train might just I recently listed some of my favorite romantic, light stories in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Light you might like to search the site for other books in this vein, or check out the Greedy Reading Lists Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories or Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore. 03 Bomb

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/14/21 Edition

    Robert Galbraith's 944-page fifth installment in the Cormoran Strike series, Troubled Blood, and reading Six Moscow and Rules of Civility. 02 Troubled Blood by Robert Galbratih In the fifth installment of the mystery A woman recognizes him and impulsively spills the story of her mother Margot Bamborough's mysterious So far it feels nicely paced, and I like having time to dig into the characters' evolution and the mystery's twists and turns. 03 Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim In this young adult novel, the first in a duology

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

    Anyway, here are the six books I most loved reading this past month: a heartbreaking, lovely, epistolary stories by a favorite author; a vulnerable celebrity memoir; the latest loooong installment in a favorite mystery If you're interested in this book, you might also like the titles on my Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West and Six More Great Historical Fiction Stories Set Story Collections to Wow You and Six More Short Story Collections I Loved.

  • Bossy Holiday Book Gift Ideas: Sports and Recreation Nonfiction

    Below you can find short snippets about the six 2024 sports-focused releases that sound so promising, I'm excited to give them as gifts this holiday season--plus six bonus books, listed below, that also Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know about Women by Maggie Mertens (2024) 1923: The Mystery Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays   Shhh!

  • 2025 Bossy Book Ideas for Your Holiday Gift List

    Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays Shhh! For the Tween Mystery Fan 04 The Midwatch Institute for Wayward Girls by Judith Rossell Along with The chance, I'll be giving a certain someone this 2025 title, described as " a whimsical, adventure-filled mystery But the place is filled with young ladies solving mysteries, protecting the city, and fighting bad guys

  • Review of You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie Smith

    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 Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese

    lifesaving Black neighbors--who share resources, offer advice, and otherwise keep to themselves--and their mysterious 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.

  • My Twelve Favorite 2020 Books

    Fiction Books I Loved This Year Six of the Best Nonfiction Books I've Read This Year Six Lighter Fiction Stories for Great Escapism Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads Six More For my full review, see Utopia Avenue. 04 Long Bright River by Liz Moore Long Bright River is a mystery disappears and a string of murders rock the community, everyone is suspect and Mickey's desire to solve the mystery

  • Review of Woke Up Like This by Amy Lea

    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 and Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories, Six More Time-Travel Stories to Dive Into, and Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore.

  • 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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/17/24 Edition

    thriller, which is set in the wilderness and concerns old lovers thrown together in hopes of finding a mysteriously Her sister steps in to help with their dad, and Emma moves to Los Angeles for six weeks of inspiring,

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

    melded into another: young friendship, serial killer, outlaw search, small-town intrigue, and longtime mysteries But a young, half-feral female student and a shockingly unorthodox widow both seem to hold mysterious In Table for Two: Fictions , Amor Towles offers six short stories set in New York City and a novella The six New York-set stories all take place around the year 2000, and they consider the impacts of chance act as a Hollywood movie star, linking the story's two timelines and revealing long-held secrets and mysteries

  • 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 Gregor the Overlander (The Underland Chronicles #1) by Suzanne Collins

    talking) creepy-crawlies in this middle-grade novel, you'll find a noble quest, unlikely heroes, a mysterious You might like the books I included on the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series

  • Review of Table for Two: Fictions by Amor Towles

    In Table for Two: Fictions , Amor Towles offers six short stories set in New York City and a novella The six New York-set stories all take place around the year 2000, and they consider the impacts of chance

  • Review of The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry

    tragedy of Flora's disappearance), anyone who might have been connected to Flora's disappearance, and the mysterious interested in World War II-set historical fiction, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading List Six

  • 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 .

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

    Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month. see Rednecks . 02 Bride by Ali Hazelwood Ali Hazelwood brings her wonderful banter and an intriguing mystery As a child, Misery was given up by her family and community as collateral to keep the peace. Her sister steps in to help with their dad at home, and Emma moves to Los Angeles for six weeks of inspiring can't let go of the fear that he might have targeted her specifically, and feels as though solving the mystery

  • 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

  • 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 Lost in Time by A.G. Riddle

    The characters move through interesting moments and shift their understanding of previously mysterious 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

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

    Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month. Everyone assumes she killed Savvy, and Lucy can't escape the suspicions and resentment surrounding the mysterious books about World War II and women spies, you might also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II and Six Books about Brave Female Spies. I listened to Good Material as an audiobook.

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

    , Roaring Twenties-set historical fiction, postapocalyptic fiction, and the newest in a young adult mystery review of The Light Pirate. 03 The Box in the Woods (Truly Devious #4) by Maureen Johnson The fourth mystery The Box in the Woods is another smart, funny, intriguing young adult mystery from Maureen Johnson. here for my full review of Tell Me an Ending. 05 Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson Atkinson's newest mystery by the intersection of Gwendolyn and Ma Coker's golden child, her eldest son Niven--along with the mystery

  • 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 I mentioned Dani Shapiro's fascinating memoir Inheritance in the Greedy Reading List Six More Illuminating

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

    Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month: a beautiful, poignant nonfiction book about interested in books about mortality like I am, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality and Six More Powerful Books about Facing Mortality. In LaValle's magical, dark Western, people tend to disappear whenever Adelaide's mysterious trunk opens connection, to the young daughter of her former household, her former charge--and her growing wonder at the mysteries

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/26/23 Edition

    You might also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Great Historical Fiction Novels Set in the American West and Six More Great Historical Fiction Novels Set in the American West. 02 Daughter of 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.

  • 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 ).

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 connection, to the young daughter of her former household, her former charge--and her growing wonder at the mysteries Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality and Six More Powerful Books about Facing Mortality. In LaValle's magical, dark Western, people tend to disappear whenever Adelaide's mysterious trunk opens If you like this book, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Great

  • 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.

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

    Bossy Favorites of the Month Here are my six favorite reads of November. writes my favorite kind of fantasy novel: a wonderfully oddball main protagonist, a strange adventure, a mystery through India, New York, family and romantic relationships, and career false starts, with missteps, mysterious The situations around relationships and life choices are often messy, complex, mystifying, and frustrating Current-day conflicts link to generational trauma, storytelling, and mysterious power.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/14/22 Edition

    Nellie Coker is shamelessly thrusting her six children into the forefront of the social scene in Soho Frankie and Zeke come up with an enigmatic phrase and attention-getting artwork, and they spread the mysterious

  • Review of Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

     was one of my favorite books the year I read it, and it also 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 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 ).

  • Review of The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore

    You might also like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Historical Fiction Favorites, Six Historical Fiction Backlist Favorites, Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year, and Six Historical Fiction

  • My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads

    You might also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Satisfying Novels about Revenge and Six Summer is ending, and there's a mysterious, unspoken, dark undercurrent at the Kinsellas'. Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery Wrong Place Wrong Time plays with time, and I love books that play review of Wrong Place, Wrong Time. 08 Happiness Falls by Angie Kim Angie Kim's sophomore novel is a mystery Kim's missing-person novel is a mystery and is structured around the discovery and exploration of what

  • 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

  • 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.

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

    Old Hollywood starlet; and A Marvellous Light, Freya Marske's fantastical Edwardian England story of mystery 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

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

    Bossy Favorites of the Month Please enjoy this roundup of my six favorite reads of March. friendship . 02 Saoirse by Charleen Hurtubise Count me in for Irish-set novels--and for suspenseful, mysterious-past When she was old enough, Sarah ran from an emotionally cold childhood in Michigan and mysterious circumstances I also love a story involving a character's mysterious past, and I love a suspenseful story that I'm In Half His Age  McCurdy offers a complicated story about an illegal, inappropriate, mystifying, all-encompassing

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/1/26 Edition

    diverging paths of two Southern women; I'm listening to Inside Man , the second book in the Head Cases mystery series about a special FBI unit solving complex mysteries; and I'm listening to memoirist Jennette McCurdy's That first book was a smart, intriguing, and satisfying mystery. militias arming themselves with black-market guns, a serial killer, and missing women with something mysterious I heard about this series in a roundup of mystery novels recommended by national security agents. 03

  • 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.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/13/26 Edition

    Book Made Me Think of You by Libby Page; I'm reading the third in Tana French's Irish-set Cal Hooper mystery series, The Keeper ; and I'm reading a mystery built around a fictitious podcast, This Story Might Save She receives a mysterious message from the owner of a local London bookshop and learns that Joe had made been highly involved in the management of the podcast and Benny and Joy's finances, go missing under mysterious Another mystery that invoves a podcaster is the great novel Listen for the Lie .

  • Review of The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

    Jackson's gothic horror tale is made all the more frightening by its reliance on terror, shadows, and mystery unorthodox woman with an open mind and brave disposition, Theodora; a young woman who has witnessed mysterious Jackson's gothic horror tale is made all the more frightening by its reliance on terror, shadows, and mystery Shirley Jackson wrote six novels, including We Have Always Lived in the Castle, two memoirs, and the

  • 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.

  • 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 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.

  • Review of The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

    and she lives in uncertain status, without citizenship or security aside from her employment for the mysterious If I figured anything out in these last six years, it is this: human beings are unknowable. But when one of Cara's eight remaining selves mysteriously dies while she is world walking, shocking If you like books with a postapocalyptic feel, check out the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic

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