Six More of My Favorite Fantasy Reads of the Past Year
Six More Great Bossy Fantasy Reads I read lots of entertaining, imaginative, sometimes funny, fantastic fantasy in the past year--enough...
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Review of The Child Finder (Naomi Cottle #1) by Rene Denfeld
I love a frigid setting, and Rene Denfeld's The Child Finder immerses the reader in an icy, wild forest as instinctive, savvy, and...
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Review of Pony Confidential by Christina Lynch
Pony Confidential is a cute story of a bond between a pony and its long-ago owner. It's nominally a mystery, but it's mainly a...
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Review of All Fours by Miranda July
The unnamed main protagonist in All Fours frequently made me feel uncomfortable because of her unorthodox decision-making and...
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Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/7/25 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Jennifer Weiner's upcoming novel, The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits ; I'm listening to Miranda...
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Six More of My Favorite Rom-Com Reads of the Year
More of My Favorite Rom-Com Reads This is my second favorites lists of rom-coms and romantic reads from the past year. In my last list I...
Apr 4
Review of The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty
I loved the worldbuilding and the headstrong, powerful loose cannon of Nahri, as well as the Middle Eastern fantasy setting. I found...
Apr 3
Review of Kills Well with Others (Killers of a Certain Age #2) by Deanna Raybourn
Killers of a Certain Age was darkly funny, action-packed, feminist, and friend-focused. I love the second installment's return to my...
Apr 2
Review of Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
In Hall's Broken Country , characters do their duties, find wondrous love, feel heartbreak, suffer tragedies, sometimes act impulsively,...
Apr 1
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/31/25 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's upcoming novel, Dream Count ; I'm listening to the first in S. A....
Mar 31
March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
My very favorite Bossy March reads! I'm taking a break from social media for Lent, and while I love to talk books on Instagram and...
Mar 28
Review of Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne
Gagne never experienced emotions the way other kids did, and when she grew older, while acting out, lying, stealing, and fighting violent...
Mar 27
Review of I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying: A Memoir by Youngmi Mayer
Mayer's memoir focuses on straddling two cultures without feeling fully integrated into either; the various frustrations, injustices, and...
Mar 26
Review of Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live by Susan Morrison
Lorne is a thorough, 650-page look at Michaels's creation of and steering of SNL . What I found most fascinating were the...
Mar 25
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/24/25 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading an upcoming mystery set in glamorous Capri by Katy Hays, Saltwater ; I'm listening to standup...
Mar 24
Six More of My Favorite Historical Fiction Reads of the Year
Six More Great Bossy Historical Fiction Reads It's March, and I'm still spending Fridays obsessing over my favorite reads of the past...
Mar 21
Review of Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister
The author of the fantastic Wrong Place, Wrong Time is back with a smart, twisty mystery that's wonderfully heavy on character...
Mar 20
Review of Show Don't Tell: Stories by Curtis Sittenfeld
In Curtis Sittenfeld's wonderful second short-story collection, we meet imperfect characters, often fortysomething women, in moments...
Mar 19
Review of The Favorites by Layne Fargo
I loved the behind-the-scenes peeks at the drama, punishing hard work, sequins, and mind games of competitive figure skating. The...
Mar 18
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/17/25 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading the recently published Kills Well with Others , the newest novel in Deanna Raybourn's irresistible...
Mar 17