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  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/27/25 Edition

    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 My Bossy Favorite

  • Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West

    There are additional books in the Sarah Agnes Prine series: Sarah's Quilt and The Star Garden, neither Carson is also the author of the Fire and Thorns series, four young adult fantasy books plus related Do you have any favorite books set in the American West?

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/29/24 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading an upcoming book by a favorite author, Katherine Arden, The Warm 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 My Bossy Favorite

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

    because Rocky's menopausal rage threatens to undo any joy she might gain from spending time in her favorite Kimi Cunningham Grant's newest thriller, The Nature of Disappearing, Emlyn is a wilderness guide who very

  • Review of So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan

    Claire Keegan is one of my favorite writers; in these three stories, she builds layered situations--and Keegan is one of my favorite authors, and I'm in for all of her books.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/28/21 Edition

    Keep, which is set for publication next week, is a prequel to Erika Johansen's Queen of the Tearling series (there are three other books in the series, the fantastic Queen of the Tearling as well as The Invasion I'm curious to see if the characters I loved from the rest of the series (I'm looking at you, Mace) are He has written many other books, including The Hush, the second in the Johnny Merrimon series, and the I'm liking this mix: young adult space science fiction story, dystopian fantasy series prequel, and character-driven

  • Review of The Survivors by Jane Harper

    This is my favorite Harper mystery so far. But as with every visit home, Kieran is reminded of a careless mistake he made as a teenager that led No one's forgotten the heartbreak of that day, nor has there been very much healing from the pain of The Survivors is my favorite Harper book yet.

  • Review of All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley

    you might like to check out some of my Bossy memoir reviews , or some of my Greedy Reading Lists of favorites Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality Six of My Favorite

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/16/22 Edition

    from one of my favorite authors, Maggie Shipstead; The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, Nikole Hannah-Jones From the author of Astonish Me, Seating Arrangements, and Great Circle, one of my favorite reads last community members) and a successful city doctor with an impressive family pedigree, expensive taste, and very

  • Thankful for More Five-Star Bossy Reads

    Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Favorites I'm always thankful for books and reading, so I wanted to reshare Do you have all-time favorite reads that you often recommend to others? Marianne Cronin has a new book coming out in December 2024, Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love . 02 White rooms of the Roosevelt White House (which, Bloom recounts in interviews, functioned more like a not-very-fancy

  • Review of Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

    Marcellus the octopus is the very deserving star of the show here, and being able to predict much of He was my absolute favorite element, and I adored every scene that involved him.

  • Six Great Books about Brave Female Spies

    I love a peek at a secret world, and each of these books (all but one are fiction) offers that very thing I'd love to hear: What are your favorite (fiction or nonfiction) books about tough lady spies? But mainly, so very, very stupid. I desperately want to grow old. Elizabeth Wein is also the author of many other novels, including additional novels in the Code Name Verity series I would have been in favor of having the romantic element being tied up without the Eve aspect, or having

  • Review of Care and Feeding: A Memoir by Laurie Woolever

    Bossy Foodie Memoir Favorites You might also be interested in the books on the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/20/23 Edition

    But The Survivors, which is set on the Tasmanian coast, is my favorite Harper novel so far. 02 The Dream shapes The Dream Builders by telling the stories from ten different characters, interconnected but varied The story is narrated by Soneela Nankani. 03 American Mermaid by Julia Langbein I've been so very excited

  • Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories

    Here are the six titles that made up my very first Greedy Reading List on this theme. are two other Bossy Bookworm Greedy Reading Lists you might enjoy: Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series Which witchy books are your favorites? 01 The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. There is a lot more sexy yoga here than I could have dreamed of, plenty of romance, so very much wine There are four books in this series from Harkness, and I found the others even more magical than this

  • Review of Trip by Amie Barrodale

    This was one of my favorite elements of the book. , inept individuals), she attempts to save her autistic teenaged son Trip, who, through an unlikely series A surreal, extended series of sexual fetish vignettes pop up regarding dead-spirit Sandra and a man from

  • Review of The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

    ICYMI: My favorite Kate Quinn books center around strong young women proving their mettle during wartime I would have been in favor of having the romantic element be tied up without the Eve aspect, or having

  • Review of The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason

    This isn't my absolute favorite Mason book, and I didn't connect to the characters as I did in The Winter

  • Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Reads

    Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Favorites I'm always thankful for books and reading, so I wanted to reshare Do you have all-time favorites you always recommend to others? What makes them your favorites? Edward tries on the mantle of taking responsibility for every life lost; he wallows in the despair of oddly unresolved at the end--even keeping in mind that there's a second book in Donati's Waverly Place series

  • Six Fantasy Reads I Loved in the Past Year

    You can find last year's version of this list here: Six Favorite Bossy Fantasy Reads from the Past Year You can find my recent-ish two lists of favorite science fiction and fantasy reads from the past year What are some of your favorite fantasy reads? But I'm fully invested in this series. Novik has also written a wonderful series of nine books about dragons, the Temeraire series.

  • Review of Heartwood by Amity Gaige

    Amity Gaige's Appalachian Trail-set novel offers several of my favorite elements: a Maine setting, a

  • Review of Say You'll Remember Me (Say You'll Remember Me #1) by Abby Jimenez

    More Abby Jimenez love Jimenez is also the author of Just for the Summer   (one of my Favorite Rom-Coms

  • Six Powerful Memoirs About Facing Mortality

    This is a departure from many of my more playful Greedy Reading Lists: witchy books, young adult favorites Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality Six of My Favorite Her, waiting on the street in Paris while he visits his favorite bookstore but she's too sickly to climb Kate Bowler's book No Cure for Being Human is a five-star, all-time favorite read of mine.

  • Review of Fallen Land by Taylor Brown

    The debut novel from one of my favorite authors tracks a horse thief and an orphan who bond and find

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/26/24 Edition

    Lauren In Christina Lauren's newest romantic fiction, Anna and West are a young married couple on the verge Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading , Six More Great Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading , Six of My Favorite Light Fictions Reads of the Past Year , Six More of My Favorite Light Fiction Reads of the Past Year

  • Review of Happiness Falls by Angie Kim

    For the rest of our lives, every time one of us goes somewhere and doesn’t return on time, doesn’t let But my favorite element of the novel was the messy, wonderful family members that forge deeper connections

  • Review of What In the World?! A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful Blessings by Leanne Morgan

    Her voice is a striking, uniquely nasal Southern drawl, and her Netflix special "I'm Every Woman" features You can find Bossy reviews of other memoirs--and Greedy Reading Lists of my favorites by theme-- here

  • Review of The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

    The Unhoneymooners is fun escapism, even if it's not my very favorite Christina Lauren book. I listened to The Unhoneymooners and it was fun escapism, even if it's not my very favorite Christina

  • Six More Science Fiction and Fantasy Reads I Loved in the Past Year

    Six More Great Bossy Science Fiction and Fantasy Reads The Obsessive Wrap-Up of Favorite Reads continues What are some of your favorite science fiction reads? I really enjoyed Alex White's Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe, the first in the Salvagers series Asuka is very intelligent and capable, but she was chosen for the once-in-history journey as an alternate tell Arthur that she's been dreaming of the decrepit, rambling house for years, and that she has some eerie

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/5/25 Edition

    Say You'll Remember Me ; and I'm reading Olivia Waite's slim science fiction-mystery, the first in a series Jimenez is also the author of Just for the Summer (one of my Favorite Rom-Coms of the Year last year

  • Review of A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

    And the found-family element is a favorite of mine; Kingfisher builds this aspect poignantly, messily Kingfisher/Vernon is a prolific author who has published many standalone novels as well as multiple series

  • Review of Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

    And I love that about humanity, and in fact it's the very reason I root for us to survive--because we sometimes hard-fought expressions of their vulnerabilities were poignant and powerful, and this was my favorite taken with Rooney's sometimes discomforting book Normal People last year--and was all in for the TV series

  • Review of The Saints of Swallow Hill by Donna Everhart

    Everhart includes one of my favorite setups, in which a woman dresses as a man in order to achieve some I'm so very glad I stuck this one out so I could see these characters through and witness their journeys

  • Review of A Murder by Any Name by Suzanne M. Wolfe

    I also enjoyed the second book in this series, A Course of All Treasons (mentioned in the Greedy Reading

  • Shhh! Holiday Cookbook Gift Ideas

    Have you received any favorite cookbook gifts in years past? I'd love to hear! Olvera is the chef featured in the Netflix series Chef's Table, and in Tu Casa Mi Casa, he shares 100 for Balanced, Flexible, Feel-Good Meals by Tieghan Gerard In her newest cookbook, Half Baked Harvest Every recipes for "wholesome decadence," including recipes for a crowd and those sure to become everyday family favorites Some are favorites from her site, and others are new meals with the Smitten Kitchen stamp of approval

  • Review of Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher

    Kingfisher writes my favorite kind of fantasy novel: a wonderfully oddball main protagonist, a strange

  • Six More Books about Brave Female Spies

    Every heart-stopping moment; every exquisite detail; the characters' growth, emotional distance, and I also enjoyed the second book in this series, A Course of All Treasons . The Rose Code is a wonderfully spun historical fiction story of three very different women who answer Macintyre also wrote the fantastic Spy and the Traitor , which was one of my Six Favorite Nonfiction

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/8/23 Edition

    with time, Wrong Place Wrong Time; I'm reading Antarctica, a collection of short stories by one of my favorite McAllister Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery Wrong Place Wrong Time plays with time (like some of my favorite

  • Six Four Star (And Up) Science Fiction and Fantasy Reads I Loved in the Past Year

    Six Great Bossy Science Fiction and Fantasy Reads The Obsessive Wrap-Up of Favorite Reads continues! I'd love to hear: what are some of your favorite science fiction reads? 01 The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi #1) by Shannon Chakraborty I loved every bit of I am alllll in on this series and can't wait for the second installment. The book ends on a cliffhanger, setting up book two, which will hopefully be published in 2024 and which

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/20/25 Edition

    Shannon Bowring's debut novel The Road to Dalton ; I'm reading the first in Sebastian de Castell's series Sebastian de Castell's worldbuilding is fascinating, the magic-school setting is a favorite, and the

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/1/21 Edition

    Universe; and I'm reading the young readers' book Pretty Funny for a Girl by Rebecca Elliott from my favorite I'm in love with the title of the second book in this series, A Bad Deal for the Whole Galaxy. Possible Worlds. 03 Pretty Funny for a Girl by Rebecca Elliott In her novel for young readers from my favorite The next book in this series is Pretty Rude for a Girl. Elliott is also the author of the Owl Diaries series and over twenty picture books.

  • Review of Sandwich by Catherine Newman

    because Rocky's menopausal rage threatens to undo any joy she might gain from spending time in her favorite

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/18/25 Edition

    In 2022, Heron, Maggie's father, has just received terrible news about his health, and he works to come Meanwhile, Sera realizes there is a very old spell that could restore her powers. Sangu Mandanna is also the author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches .

  • Review of The Book Woman's Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson

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

  • Review of The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

    The black twin returns to the girls' hometown and shakes things up by bringing her very dark-skinned This book is also part of the Greedy Reading List My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads.

  • Six Four-Star Mysteries to Check Out, ICYMI

    Mystery and Suspense Reads These six four-star mysteries are all so good and so different--they were my favorites I'd love to hear about your favorite mystery reads! radar, French is the author of six Dublin Murder Squad books (In the Woods, The Likeness--this is my favorite was a series until after the fact, it stands so well on its own. Panowich also wrote Like Lions and Hard Cash Valley, the next two books in this series.

  • Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music

    Here are six of my favorite fiction works that have to do with rock and roll, writing songs, performing This book was listed in the Greedy Reading Lists My Favorite Six Summer Reads of 2020 and My Twelve Favorite 2020 Books. And suddenly you possess the very dangerous information that you can break the rule and the world won And if you don't know yourself very well, you might even believe that they are right.

  • Review of A Treacherous Curse (Veronica Speedwell #3) by Deanna Raybourn

    In the third book in the irresistible Veronica Speedwell series, we learn more about Stoker's past, secrets In the third installment of Deanna Raybourn's Veronica Speedwell series, set in 1888 London, Veronica is interesting and unfolds at an engaging pace, but it's not the primary focus of the book--or the series My favorite element of the Veronica Speedwell series is the character development, and A Treacherous I adore this series. Raybourn can do no wrong! Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book?

  • Review of The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

    More Books You Might Like If you're interested in long books, check out this short list of Bossy favorites

  • Review of Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of our Deadliest Infection by John Green

    the author of the nonfiction collection of essays The Anthropocene Reviewed  (which was one of my six favorite

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