

Oct 6, 2023
Another Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You
More Witchy Book Love It's the perfect time of year to read a spooky book full of magic and feisty witches galore! If you like witchy...


Apr 4, 2023
Review of VenCo by Cherie Dimaline
VenCo offers feminist, hard-drinking, foul-mouthed witches bound together by mysterious forces who undergo a quest to secure their...


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 15, 2023
Review of Weyward by Emilia Hart
Emilia Hart's debut novel links women in three timelines through blood and a powerful connection to the natural world as they resist male...


Oct 19, 2022
Review of Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese
Hester is richly imagined historical fiction with connections to themes and characters from The Scarlet Letter. It's magical and...


Oct 7, 2022
Six More Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You
Witchy Book Love It's the perfect time of year to read a spooky book full of magic! If you haven't already, I hope you'll check out the...


Aug 26, 2022
Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories
Do you love witchy books like I do? I love a good witch-focused book. If you like books about magic, here are two other Bossy Bookworm...


Feb 4, 2022
Six More Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You
Witchy Book Love Last year I published a Greedy Reading List of Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You, and because I do love a...


Oct 18, 2021
Review of The Last Graduate (Scholomance #2) by Naomi Novik
This second book in Naomi Novik's Scholomance series builds on book one's dark humor, dangerous forces, and the irresistible attraction...


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...


Aug 31, 2021
August Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
My very favorite books from August! These are the books I most loved reading during the past month. The list skews toward light fiction,...


Aug 24, 2021
Review of The Manningtree Witches by A.K. Blakemore
Blakemore's book--which is based upon witch hunts during the seventeenth-century English Civil War--is smart, shadowy and gothic, often...


Aug 18, 2021
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/18/21 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Shoulder Season, Christina Clancy's novel set in 1981 Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, at a Playboy resort;...


Jul 13, 2021
Review of The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin
Small moments in this young adult book ring true, and the story feels primarily about relationships, set against a witchy background. In...


Jul 12, 2021
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/12/21 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading a bizarre, dark set of short stories by a former Late Show with Stephen Colbert writer, Jen Spyra;...


May 17, 2021
Review of Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian
Hour of the Witch is a thoroughly researched, witchy, historical thriller with fantastic details of the time. Bohjalian's newest book,...


Apr 28, 2021
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/28/21 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading an upcoming book from Chris Bohjalian (author of Midwives), a historical fiction story Hour of the...


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...


Feb 4, 2021
Review of The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
I was especially taken with the sisters' complicated relationships and with the link Harrow draws between witching and the women's...


Dec 16, 2020
Review of The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
There's brutality and bravery in this spooky tale--and the atmospheric descriptions of the remote, tiny town setting created an eerie,...