May 31, 2023
Review of This Time It's Real by Ann Liang
I was hooked by Liang's fake-dating, famous-everyday relationship duo setup, fantastically funny dialogue, and wonderfully imperfect...
May 30, 2023
Review of Silver in the Bone (Silver in the Bone #1) by Alexandra Bracken
Alternative Arthurian legends twist through this first in a young adult fantasy series, but what hooked me was the fearless, hardened,...
May 25, 2023
Review of The Light of the World: A Memoir by Elizabeth Alexander
ICYMI: Poet Elizabeth Alexander writes a gorgeous account of her love affair with her husband and the trauma of his sudden death in a...
May 24, 2023
Review of Dimestore: A Writer's Life by Lee Smith
ICYMI: Smith evokes a vivid sense of the regional South in her fiction, and in this memoir she traces her Appalachian youth, offering...
May 18, 2023
Review of Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune
Summertime is the backdrop to Fortune's Meet Me at the Lake, light fiction with an anchor in deeper issues, some steamy scenes,...
May 5, 2023
Six of My Favorite Nonfiction Reads from the Past Year
Six Bossy Favorite Nonfiction Reads Fridays are for highlighting books I've loved! I thought these titles were fascinating, surprised me,...
May 3, 2023
Review of Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Sutanto's Vera Wong is playful, brusque, bossy, and connects an unlikely cast of characters, all murder suspects, into a heartwarming...
May 2, 2023
Review of The Trackers by Charles Frazier
Frazier offers an immersive story that morphs from a WPA-funded rural art commission to a leisurely country-wide search, an unlikely...
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 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 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...
Mar 30, 2023
Review of Exiles (Aaron Falk #3) by Jane Harper
The third in Jane Harper's Aaron Falk series offers procedural detail, a lush Australian setting, and character development I found...
Mar 28, 2023
Review of American Mermaid by Julia Langbein
This story within a story is playful and satirical while providing deep issues to contemplate. It's different and captivating and silly...
Mar 24, 2023
Six More Four-Star (and Up) Historical Fiction Reads I Loved in the Past Year
Six More Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Historical Fiction Reads Historical fiction is one of my very favorite genres, and I loved my...
Mar 22, 2023
Review of Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
Ann Napolitano's Hello Beautiful explores family bonds, broken connections, forging through pain, allowing for unconventional routes to...
Mar 16, 2023
Review of The Golden Enclaves (Scholomance #3) by Naomi Novik
The more somber tone of book three and the focus on logistics feel appropriate as the recent graduates of the Scholomance desperately...
Mar 10, 2023
Six More of My Favorite Fiction Reads from the Past Year
Six More Favorite Fiction Reads I listed Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads from Last Year in this Greedy Reading List. In today's post I...
Mar 9, 2023
Review of August Kitko and the Mechas from Space (The Starmetal Symphony #1) by Alex White
White's first Starmetal Symphony installment offers deadly deep-space robots, showcases the power of music, and illustrates how love can...
Mar 8, 2023
Review of The Night Ship by Jess Kidd
Kidd's dual-timeline historical fiction, based on actual events, shines in its vivid settings, richly imagined characters, sea voyage...
Mar 7, 2023
Review of Uprooted by Naomi Novik
ICYMI: Uprooted is a thoughtful, satisfying, grown-up fairy tale with gloriously imagined details. I ate it up and gave it four Bossy...