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- May 31
May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
My very favorite Bossy May reads! Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month. If you've read any of these titles, I'd...
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- May 30
Review of Love, Lists and Fancy Ships by Sarah Grunder Ruiz
Sarah Grunder Ruiz serves up an irresistible rom-com with great banter and with interesting and difficult, complex issues of loss, grief,...
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- May 29
Review of Betting on You by Lynn Painter
Lynn Painter delivers funny, charming banter and an opposites-attract tension in this heartwarming rom-com about divorce, trust, blended...
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- May 28
Review of The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak's The Island of Missing Trees explores past Turkish-Greek conflicts in a small island community while illustrating the...
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- May 27
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/28/24 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Amor Towles's collection of short stories and a novella, Table for Two; I'm listening to Sarah...
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- May 24
Six More Great Historical Fiction Books Set in the American West
Do you enjoy a character-driven Western? I appreciate an unflinching reflection of the atrocities visited upon the indigenous peoples of...