Time of the Child feels like poetry in prose form, and Williams richly shapes a small-town Irish community's everyday and extraordinary...

Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Favorites I'm always thankful for books and reading, so I wanted to reshare some of my five-star reads from...

The luminous novel Orbital tracks six astronauts in the International Space Station for one day as they goggle at the majestic beauty of...

Alice Winn's account of the unrelenting slog of World War I and the beautiful young men set against each other in the trenches serves as...

Atul Gawande writes clearly and poignantly about the search to achieve maximum well-being rather than prolonging diminished life at all...

ICYMI: The Winter Soldier is a World War I tale full of medical details and lovely, unlikely bonds. This is a five-star read from the...

Keegan turns her keen eye to the small moments that transform a life in this riveting short story collection. The settings range from the...

My Very Favorite Bossy Summer Reads! I had a great reading summer, so I had a tough time deciding on the six books I most loved reading...

I LOVED this young adult book. It's perfectly charming, funny, quirky, and sweet, yet it deals with grief and fear, hope and forgiveness,...

Lucinda Williams offers a gritty, honest, captivating, spare yet fully developed memoir in which she explores her musical influences and...

Gillian McAllister offers a smart, intriguing, twisty story that plays with time and offers second chances, revelations, betrayals, deep...

ICYMI: Sittenfeld shapes fully realized, fascinating characters that stuck with me in the ten stories of You Think It, I'll Say It. I...

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

Newman offers a heartbreaking and heartwarming tribute to friendship that centers around witty dialogue, unconventional arrangements,...

My very favorite reads this year! I post my favorite reads each month, and I was having such a great reading year, in late spring I...

This gorgeously written postapocalyptic climate-fiction story offers up a future in which civilization buckles to the power of weather...

ICYMI: Elizabeth McCracken shares her heartbreaking, gorgeous, terrible story of loss and love surrounding the loss of her baby at nine...

Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Favorites I've been thinking through my favorite books of the year for an upcoming year-end Greedy Reading...

Cronin's debut novel explores mortality, vulnerability, surprising moments of joy and reflection, an irresistible young protagonist, and...

The Five-Star Bossy Favorites Someone asked me a while back if I ever give five-star ratings to the books I read. And the answer is: yes!...