Jun 25, 2024
Review of The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center
Katherine Center offers a writing-focused story in which forced proximity, past secrets, complicated life circumstances, and a fear of...
Jun 20, 2024
Review of A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
ICYMI: Towles's closed-door tale of a Russian aristocrat under house arrest in a grand Moscow hotel manages to be at times playful,...
Jun 19, 2024
Review of Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
ICYMI: The post-Depression-era city of New York is such a powerful presence in this story, it feels like a main character. I was taken by...
Jun 13, 2024
Review of Bride by Ali Hazelwood
Ali Hazelwood brings her wonderful banter and an intriguing mystery to this steamy interspecies romance that has lots of heart and kept...
Jun 12, 2024
Review of Rednecks by Taylor Brown
In this mix of fictional and fascinating historical elements, Brown crafts a character-driven story of the shocking, widespread, deadly...
Jun 11, 2024
Review of Wellness by Nathan Hill
Flawed main characters Jack and Elizabeth try to find their way back to an emotional connection in this literary fiction work. Wellness...
Jun 6, 2024
Review of The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard
The Other Valley is literary fiction with a captivating setup: three adjacent valleys, each of which is a different timeline of the same...
Jun 5, 2024
Review of Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
Just for the Summer is another Jimenez story with wonderful banter and a romantic connection that's anchored in and shaped by incredibly...
Jun 4, 2024
Review of Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley
Crosley's memoir traces a treasured friendship and the gutting loss of that dear friend. She's vulnerable enough to allow the reader in...
May 30, 2024
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,...
May 29, 2024
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...
May 28, 2024
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...
May 22, 2024
Review of The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
This captivating story involves time travel, but it's primarily about deep human connections, complete with fantastic, funny banter;...
May 16, 2024
Review of The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld
ICYMI: A death-row inmate's desperate need for escapism leads to an elaborate world of magical thinking and fantastical scenes in this...
Apr 16, 2024
Review of Funny Story by Emily Henry
Funny Story is the perfect rom-com read. Henry offers funny banter that made me laugh, some steamy moments, and a sweet love story....
Apr 12, 2024
Six More Four-Star (and Up) Mysteries I Loved in the Past Year
Six Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Mystery Reads If you want more favorite-mystery lists, check out round 1 of last year's Bossy favorites. And...
Apr 11, 2024
Review of Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck
Emily Habeck's debut novel offers an unusual premise in which one member of a newlywed couple begins transforming into a great white...
Apr 9, 2024
Review of The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
Katherine Arden, author of the captivating Winternight trilogy, here shares a mysterious, haunting historical fiction story with a...
Mar 29, 2024
March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
My very favorite Bossy March reads! Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month. If you've read any of these titles, I'd...
Mar 28, 2024
Review of Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
The tone of Martyr! was tough for me to get a handle on for much of the book. The story is dark, nerve-racking, irreverent, tragic, and...