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  • Review of Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

    Great swaths of her life were white space to her husband.

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

    other, are invited to the reclusive, three-times-widowed Lady Duxbury's home for tea, they discover a space

  • Review of The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

    Kazantzakis has continued to live in London with her distracted botanist father Kostas, who has little brain space

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

    Yet even more concerning than her situation is the spaceship HMS Fairweather 's current state. In this outer-space-set mystery, Dorothy must figure out who's behind the destruction and how to save

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

    about a traveling librarian in 1930s Appalachia; a luminous story of astronauts on the International Space 05 Orbital by Samantha Harvey The luminous novel Orbital tracks six astronauts in the International Space The story within the space station is emotionally full but quiet plot-wise in contrast to the workings

  • My Very Favorite Bossy 2024 Reads

    01 Orbital by Samantha Harvey The luminous novel Orbital tracks six astronauts in the International Space The story within the space station is emotionally full but quiet plot-wise in contrast to the workings You might also like these books set in space . 02 In Memoriam by Alice Winn Alice Winn's account of the Adina is born on Earth just as Voyager 1 launches into space. He has extra space because he was just dumped by his live-in girlfriend Petra.

  • Review of There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak

    into a tragically beautiful intertwined novel that shines a light on weighty issues at three points in space

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

    Micaiah Johnson is also the author of The Space Between Worlds, a book I loved. 02 The Women by Kristin But I've been frustrated by what feels like odd pacing, soap-opera elements, outlandish events, or too-easy

  • Review of Ready or Not by Cara Bastone

    would keep the baby despite the many challenges and unknowns (lack of money, single parenthood, lack of space

  • Review of How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

    park provides rollercoaster-induced euthanasia to dying children; hotels become elaborately designed spaces The space also offers those in it a tantalizing chance to look back on pivotal moments from their life are able to see the previously unknown perspectives of those who loved them, and those occupying this space

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/18/24 Edition

    exercises, engages with each other, and attends to the minutiae of an extended stay in small quarters in space

  • Review of The Rule Book by Sarah Adams

    faced with increasingly complicated life challenges as they try to balance their careers with making space

  • Six Books I Want, Bossy Holiday 2022 Edition

    Under Fortunate Stars by Ren Hutchings Just look at this gorgeous cover and listen to this excellent space-opera the alien Felen, smuggler Jereth Keeven’s freighter the Jonah breaks down in a strange rift in deep space Other books I've loved with ragtag space crews include Activation Degradation, The Long Way to a Small

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/26/22 Edition

    last necromancer of the Ninth House, wakes disoriented and without her full powers on the Emperor's space Trapped in the eerie space station with three grumpy, unwilling teachers trying to prepare her for the

  • Six More Science Fiction Favorites to Dive Into

    01 The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson Johnson offers a wonderfully imperfect heroine and her Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe (Salvagers #1) by Alex White The first in Alex White's Salvagers space A Big Ship is a space heist book with lots of action, strong female characters driving the plot, and the Universe. 06 Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Andy Weir offers the fascinating story of a desperate space He seems to be in space and isn't sure what has happened, and not only does he not remember his own name

  • Review of Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino

    Adina is born on Earth just as Voyager 1 launches into space.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/5/24 Edition

    01 Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino Adina is born on Earth just as Voyager 1 launches into space.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/3/25 Edition

    , and free of shame and self-doubt in order to create a more appropriately prominent and autonomous space

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

    Lostetter's standalone science fiction about AI, a space crew, friendship, and bravery. Wells's Murderbot books centered around a grumpy, skeptical AI, as well as a wonderful ragtag, loyal space

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/21/24 Edition

    loner Ada Kazantzakis lives in London with her distracted botanist father Kostas, who has little brain space

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

    Small, Angry Planet, the first in Becky Chambers's science fiction series about a big-hearted, ragtag space Chambers Chambers's science fiction is full of heart, heartbreak, and hope--with a fascinating backdrop of space she's adjusting to life on board, the crew gets a lucrative opportunity: to tunnel wormholes through space The book feels much more focused on the characters--with a backdrop of space travel and otherworldly This is a fast-paced book, as Dolly talks about various thoughts as related to 175 of her songs, while

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

    , they're faced with one challenge after another as they try to balance their careers with making space

  • My Favorite Reads of the Year So Far

    Chambers's science fiction is full of heart, heartbreak, and hope--set against a fascinating backdrop of space she's adjusting to life on board, the crew gets a lucrative opportunity: to tunnel wormholes through space The book feels much more focused on the characters--with a backdrop of space travel and otherworldly click here. 04 Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Andy Weir offers the fascinating story of a desperate space The present-day story alternates with peeks back in time to life before this space mission, which show

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/15/23 Edition

    Divya's space opera, Meru. What are you reading these days, bookworms?

  • Six More Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels

    Divya Space! Robots! Artificial intelligence! adult science fiction story has an irresistible premise: teenaged Romy is the sole survivor on her spaceship She's on her own out there in space, and as lonely as any human could imagine being. Romy is on her own in space, haunted by the events that led to her solo venture.

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

    O'Keefe's first space opera in the Devoured Worlds series presents failing worlds filled with conflict The tone of The Blighted Stars  is a somewhat dark and horrifying space adventure, with moments of sweetness

  • Review of Honor by Thrity Umrigar

    Umrigar confronts in Honor are weighty and fascinating, but I found myself distracted by the story's pacing Yet I found myself repeatedly pulled out of the story by its telling--stop-and-go pacing, jarringly petty Umrigar is also the author of The Space Between Us, Bombay Time, and the memoir First Darling of the

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

    ways it sometimes fails, and its captivating capabilities and wonders; Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir's space-focused click here. 05 Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Andy Weir offers the fascinating story of a desperate space The present-day story alternates with peeks back in time to life before this space mission, which show problem-solving, particularly scientific experimentation and high-stakes trial and error, and while it slowed the pace

  • Review of The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

    consecutive days spent wandering and observing the weather and the wild; the work necessary to carve out a space

  • Six More Contemporary Novels I Loved in the Past Year

    The relentless pacing, romantic obsession, twists and turns, dramatic setbacks, exhilarating success, into a tragically beautiful intertwined novel that shines a light on weighty issues at three points in space The pace of the story is swift, and Holsinger keeps the reader uncomfortable as the story draws to a

  • Review of Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley

    appealingly oddball tale explores the specter of newly engaged Lola's past loves and lusts while playing with space

  • Bossy Favorite Reads of the Year So Far

    The premise of Lex Croucher's Gwen & Art Are Not in Love is irresistible, the pacing is great, and the Desperate and devastated, she reluctantly moves into a spare room in the apartment of an acquaintance He has extra space because he was just dumped by his live-in girlfriend Petra. elements, but the novel is far more than that; the story is complex and strange and interesting, with a pace Adina is born on Earth just as Voyager 1 launches into space.

  • Six More Time-Travel Stories to Dive Into

    Click here for my full review of See You Yesterday. 02 The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson Johnson For my full review of this book, please see The Space Between Worlds. 03 In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren

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

    other, are invited to the reclusive, three-times-widowed Lady Duxbury's home for tea, they discover a space The pacing sloooowed during this section, but I was invested.

  • Review of What Doesn't Kill You by Tessa Miller

    “I needed a book written by someone who exists in that foggy space between the common cold and terminal potential sibling resentment, unusual parent-child dynamics (related to body autonomy and personal space

  • Review of Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese

    What else is slipping through the spaces that I don't see?

  • More 2025 Bossy Book Ideas for Your Holiday Gift List

    snowflakes, from permafrost to the history of yoga, and from magnificent maps of animal migrations to space

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

    Desperate and devastated, she reluctantly moves into a spare room in the apartment of an acquaintance He has extra space because he was just dumped by his live-in girlfriend Petra. The story's pacing felt quite slow and the tone extremely dark and hushed for the majority of the book

  • Review of This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

    intrigue lead Red and Blue to begin corresponding in clever, increasingly showy and intricate ways through space far-flung set of locations, missions, and realizations occurring within multiple time strands, points in space

  • Review of The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

    Coates took his time building the story, and I felt as though he deliberately kept us in a plodding pace , Hiram must learn to understand and master his mysterious powers that allow for shifts in time and space Coates took his time building the story, and I felt as though he deliberately kept us in a plodding pace The pacing suited the situation being explored, of the trapped and enslaved, but it was a struggle to

  • Six Long Contemporary Novels to Sink Into

    And far in the future, Konstance is in a vault on the spaceship Argos , destined for a distant planet in Cloud Cuckoo Land  (which is the name of the book-within-a-book) connect these characters across space

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

    I was hooked throughout A Thousand Ships. 02 The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson In The Space This is a powerful, fast-paced, compelling nonfiction read. He's specific without getting bogged down in the details, and the pacing of the book is appealingly quick

  • Review of The Gilded Hour by Sara Donati

    to tying up complicated situations with a bow, but in a book of this length and depth when there's space

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

    And Violet is really distracted by the handsome, grumpy alchemist who's renting her the space for her

  • Review of Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

    She's had to stifle many of her emotions since she was a young girl--there wasn't space in her family

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

    a captivating celebrity memoir from a larger-than-life performer; a comedian's funny memoir; a fast-paced into a tragically beautiful intertwined novel that shines a light on weighty issues at three points in space This was enjoyable, interesting, well paced, and charming. I loved it.

  • Review of Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad

    The journey around the country, in comparison, takes up far less space in Jaouad's memoir although it

  • Six More Bossy Favorite Historical Fiction Reads from the Past Year

    The carelessness that partially leads to the crisis in space felt unrealistic to me, and the high drama

  • Six Lighter Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading

    In a rom-com or lighter fiction story, all of these issues can be explored within a safe space--amid

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