Feb 29, 2024
Review of Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
ICYMI: Lauren Groff explores the secrets, lies, and different lived experiences of spouses in a decades-long marriage in this...
Feb 28, 2024
Review of The Spy Coast (The Martini Club #1) by Tess Gerritsen
A former CIA operative retires to small-town Maine--along with other former agents--to live out a quiet existence, until figures from the...
Feb 27, 2024
Review of The Measure by Nikki Erlick
In Erlick's debut novel, each adult in the world can know the length of their life if they choose to. The story's turns may not feel like...
Feb 26, 2024
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/26/24 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Anna Quindlen's upcoming novel about living after a loved one is lost and staying connected to...
Feb 23, 2024
Six Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Reading in the Past Year
Six Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Mystery Reads This is the time in the year when you may be asking yourself, "Is she going to just keep...
Feb 22, 2024
Review of The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen
Pylväinen's novel explores the cooperation and conflict among cultures in a mid-nineteenth century community in the Arctic Circle,...
Feb 21, 2024
Review of The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn
The Whalebone Theatre begins with offbeat children's performances on a lazy, decadent English estate in the 1920s and builds to the...
Feb 20, 2024
Review of Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs #1) by Jacqueline Winspear
Maisie Dobbs is a formidable, dogged, whip-smart investigator working to ferret out the truth in the aftermath of World War I in this...
Feb 19, 2024
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/19/24 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Hanna Pylväinen's The End of Drum-Time, about a community in the Arctic Circle in the...
Feb 16, 2024
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! If you've read any of these, I'd...
Feb 15, 2024
Review of I Hope This Doesn't Find You by Ann Liang
Ann Liang's newest young adult rom-com pits high school nemeses against each other: one relentless perfectionist and people-pleaser and...
Feb 14, 2024
Review of All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby
I didn't feel drawn into this novel of the horrifying serial killing of children of color in a small Virginia community and the...
Feb 13, 2024
Review of Gwen & Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher
Lex Croucher's queer medieval rom-com--the author's debut young-adult novel--is an absolute gem; it's full of excellent banter and lots...
Feb 12, 2024
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/12/24 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Eilish Quin's upcoming debut, a retelling of the story of the most despised witch in Greek...
Feb 9, 2024
Six Novels I Loved Reading Last Year
Six More Bossy Favorite Reads I've been posting lists of some of my favorite reads of last year by genre; for my all-around favorites,...
Feb 8, 2024
Review of System Collapse (Murderbot #7) by Martha Wells
System Collapse provides more of SecUnit's emotional coping with PTSD than action, and I missed the faster pacing of other books, but I...
Feb 7, 2024
Review of Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
In Beautyland, Bertino offers a poignant, funny, strange story full of extraterrestrial observations of humans and their behavior that...
Feb 6, 2024
Review of Unsinkable by Jenni L. Walsh
I loved each of the story's two timelines--following a stewardess on board The Titanic as well as a British spy working with the WWII...
Feb 5, 2024
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/5/24 Edition
book The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to a wonderfully strange story about the absurdity of human life, Beautyland by Marie-Helene...
Feb 2, 2024
January Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
My very favorite Bossy January reads! Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month: a beautiful, poignant nonfiction book...