April - 2023

Apr 28, 2023

April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

My very favorite Bossy April reads! Here are the books I most loved reading in April: Exiles, the third in Jane Harper's Australian Aaron...

Apr 27, 2023

Review of Go As a River by Shelley Read

Read's debut novel is gorgeously written, with vivid details of mid-century Colorado, moments that change everything, impossible...

Apr 26, 2023

Review of Burst by Mary Otis

Mary Otis's debut novel explores the complicated mother-daughter relationship between alcoholic, erratic Charlotte and rigid,...

Apr 25, 2023

Review of Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen by Mary Sharratt

Sharratt's carefully researched, richly detailed historical fiction is based on the life of the medieval mystic who long served as an...

Apr 24, 2023

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/24/23 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Go as a River, historical fiction from Shelley Read; I'm listening to the audiobook version of Mary...

Apr 21, 2023

Six of My Favorite Lighter Fiction Reads from the Past Year

Six Favorite Lighter Fiction Reads I'm having so much fun spending Fridays highlighting books I've loved. And see, my heart is not made...

Apr 20, 2023

Review of The Lonely Hearts Book Club by Lucy Gilmore

I love a book about books, but I was confused as to why the characters would seek out and spend prolonged time with the verbally abusive,...

Apr 19, 2023

Review of Happy Place by Emily Henry

Six longtime friends gather for one last Maine vacation--but each of them has been keeping secrets that impact their relationships. The...

Apr 18, 2023

Review of Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases by Paul Holes and Robin Gaby Fisher

Holes's account of the dogged determination and attention to detail--as well as the cost to his personal life--involved in discovering...

Apr 17, 2023

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/17/23 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to The Lonely Hearts Book Club by Lucy Gilmore; I'm listening to the audiobook version of Emily...

Apr 14, 2023

Six Favorite Bossy Fantasy Reads from the Past Year

Six Favorite Fantasy Reads I love spending Fridays raving about books I've loved! I've also recently posted about favorite reads from...

Apr 13, 2023

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

Poet Maggie Smith's memoir traces the end of her marriage, weaving in the history and the future while she acknowledges that any story is...

Apr 12, 2023

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

Perry recounts the daily reality of his years in a chokehold of addiction to drugs and alcohol, his struggles to quit using, and the many...

Apr 11, 2023

Review of Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld

Sittenfeld's funny and sweet take on an unlikely romance sparked by a longtime SNL-type weekly skit show immediately had me hooked, never...

Apr 10, 2023

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/10/23 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Cold Mountain author Charles Frazier's newest historical fiction, The Trackers, to be published...

Apr 7, 2023

Yet Another Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads from the Past Year

Six More Favorite Fiction Reads I love spending Fridays raving about books I've loved! I listed Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads from...

Apr 6, 2023

Review of You Wouldn't Dare by Samantha Markum

Samantha Markum's young adult novel is set in a small town in the Florida Keys, with plenty of teen angst, tests of friend loyalty, burst...

Apr 5, 2023

Review of Inciting Joy by Ross Gay

Poet and essayist Ross Gay explores the experiences and explorations that have offered him meaning, depth, connection, understanding, and...

Apr 4, 2023

Review of VenCo by Cherie Dimaline

VenCo offers feminist, hard-drinking, foul-mouthed witches bound together by mysterious forces who undergo a quest to secure their...

Apr 3, 2023

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/3/23 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm so excited to be reading the newest book by Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy, to be published April 4;...

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