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Jan 11

Review of Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See

Lisa See offers a vivid peek at the lives of women in 15th century China, complete with a fascinating female-doctor element that kept me...

Jan 5

My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads

My very favorite reads of 2023! I post my favorite reads each month, and I was having such a great reading run, in late spring I posted...

Dec 29, 2023

December Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

My very favorite Bossy December reads! I hope every Bossy reader who celebrates had a wonderful Christmas this week! I scheduled a little...

Dec 22, 2023

Review of Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment #1) by Rebecca Ross

I liked Divine Rivals and the gutsy characters facing wartime struggles and challenges, but I was surprised that the book's fantasy...

Dec 21, 2023

Review of Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes #1) by Travis Baldree

The first in the Legends & Lattes series is a cozy fantasy story about new beginnings, the transformative power of coffee, and...

Dec 19, 2023

Review of The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike #7) by Robert Galbraith

In what's possibly my favorite book yet of the seven in the Cormoran Strike series, we see some emotional growth, potentially...

Dec 14, 2023

Review of The Power by Naomi Alderman

ICYMI: In Naomi Alderman's novel The Power, teenage girls develop unimaginable powers, including the ability to inflict harm. This resets...

Dec 12, 2023

Review of The Madstone by Elizabeth Crook

The Madstone begins as an against-the-odds attempt to evade evil and develops into a beautiful heartbreaker of a story about duty,...

Dec 5, 2023

Review of The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

Spears's slim memoir offers vulnerability, the shocking details of her now-infamous 13-year conservatorship, self-reflection, and her...

Dec 1, 2023

November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

My very favorite Bossy November reads! Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month: a wonderful story about a grumpy...

Nov 22, 2023

Review of North Woods by Daniel Mason

Mason's novel isn't simply a historical fiction story linked through timelines. The book builds to be an often-sinister, Gothic-feeling...

Nov 21, 2023

Review of Yellowface by R. F. Kuang

This darkly funny story made me cringe while staying riveted by the main protagonist's deeply faulted reasoning, criminal actions, and...

Nov 6, 2023

Review of Into the Wilderness (Wilderness #1) by Sara Donati

Sara Donati's historical fiction includes nods to Outlander and The Last of the Mohicans, considers the trials and adventures of a...

Nov 1, 2023

Review of Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

ICYMI: Morton masterfully weaves together timelines, threads of family history, and long-held secrets now revealed, while her main...

Oct 31, 2023

Review of Being Henry: The Fonz...and Beyond by Henry Winkler

Winkler is candid, charming, self-deprecating, and delighted by life and his experiences. I loved listening to him read the audiobook of...

Oct 26, 2023

Review of The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young

June struggles with the complicated implications of her family's curse of hallucinations and mental illness...until she realizes that the...

Oct 25, 2023

Review of Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

Starling House is another wonderful, dark, twisty story from Alix E. Harrow, with imperfect characters, a noble, messy quest, layers of...

Oct 24, 2023

Review of American Girl by Wendy Walker

This is another whodunit winner from Wendy Walker: a character-driven mystery with a neurodivergent main protagonist, small-town...

Oct 20, 2023

Six of My Favorite Book Club Books of 2023

More book club love! My book club has been meeting for 17 years; we're all from a moms' group we joined when our kids were tiny and I'm...

Oct 18, 2023

Review of October in the Earth by Olivia Hawker

Hawker's newest historical fiction gives a wonderfully evocative peek into a gritty period, as her main protagonist escapes a bad...

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