Jul 26, 2022
Review of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
A book about childhood friends making a video game is an unexpected, captivating setup for this wonderfully deep, epic dive into...
Jul 7, 2022
Review of White Houses by Amy Bloom
ICYMI: White Houses is gorgeously written, exhaustingly researched historical fiction about Eleanor Roosevelt and her love, Lorena...
Jul 6, 2022
Review of In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom
Amy Bloom writes with brutal honesty about her heartbreak and her determination to support her husband Brian Ameche's desire to end his...
May 6, 2022
My Favorite Reads of the Year So Far
Bossy Bookworm's Very Favorite Books of 2022..So Far! I love a favorites list--check out my favorites lists, posted at the end of each...
Apr 28, 2022
Review of American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
ICYMI: This fictionalized version of a first lady's personal history from the talented Curtis Sittenfeld was a five-star read for me. In...
Apr 13, 2022
Review of Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others by Barbara Brown Taylor
ICYMI: I loved Taylor's exploration of various faiths, striving for open-mindedness, respecting differences, and finding captivating new...
Mar 23, 2022
Review of This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
ICYMI: This five-star read--part memoir/part essay--is one of my favorite books of Ann Patchett's, and I didn't want her reflections and...
Mar 9, 2022
Review of Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams
Williams's historical fiction mystery--based on real-life double agents in the Cambridge Spy Ring--is vividly set in Europe and Russia...
Feb 1, 2022
Review of No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) by Kate Bowler
Touching, honest, raw, funny, and full of gritty reflections about life and faith, this was a read that I absolutely adored and gave five...
Jan 21, 2022
Six Five-Star Bossy Reads to Check Out
Five-Star Bossy Love! Someone recently commented that I "never" give five-star reviews. And it's true that I don't throw five star...
Dec 31, 2021
My Twelve Very Favorite 2021 Reads
My very favorite reads this year! I post a monthly wrap-up of my favorite reads, and now that 2021 is almost over, it's time to share the...
Dec 8, 2021
Review of The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
Jansson offers a vivid Finland isle setting, a wonderfully grumpy grandmother-granddaughter relationship, and the complexities of carving...
Nov 10, 2021
Review of Forty Autumns by Nina Willner
ICYMI: Forty Autumns offers fascinating, wonderfully detailed perspectives in a rich, layered family memoir that reads like fiction. The...
Nov 2, 2021
Review of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Caste is consistently powerful, profound, disturbing, and absolutely necessary nonfiction reading from the brilliant Isabel Wilkerson....
Sep 17, 2021
Review of Circe by Madeline Miller
ICYMI: My recent review of Natalie Haynes's entertaining A Thousand Ships brought to mind this wonderful title by Madeline Miller that I...
Jul 9, 2021
My Very Favorite 2021 Reads So Far
My very favorite reads so far this year! I post a monthly wrap-up of my favorite reads, but now that 2021 is halfway over, it feels like...
Jun 30, 2021
June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
My very favorite books from June! Here's the gist of each of the books I most loved reading during the past month, in the order in which...
Jun 3, 2021
Review of A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls #2) by Hank Green
This ending to Green's duology has tremendous heart without ever flirting with sappiness, deep meaning without being pedantic, and it...
May 14, 2021
Six Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War
The Civil War Books This painful, terrible time in our nation's history makes for some poignant, brutal, often beautiful storytelling....
Mar 26, 2021
Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You
Do you love witchy books like I do? I love a good witch-focused book, and I've been wanting to put together a Greedy Reading List on this...