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The Rose Code is a wonderfully spun story of three very different women who answer the wartime call to

This book was published in 2014, but I finally read it this year and am so very glad. I found them all fascinating and very different from each other.

The last quarter of the book involved some transformation, action, and surprises, and the ending is very

The songs are all included again at the very end of the book, by which point the listener understands

Her second book, Anywhere You Run, is scheduled for publication in October 2022.

It may very well feel like oversimplifying for those familiar with mental illness to watch the character emotionally invested in Nora's story although I appreciated the implications of her experiences and was very

*Spoiler* This may not be an enormous spoiler, since Gordievsky would not have lived (or at the very

Can a person’s character or morality be decided in a moment, or in a series of defining moments? Dust Off the Bones is Howarth's upcoming sequel to Only Killers and Thieves, due out in summer 2021.

Lady Tan's Circle of Women is my first book club read of 2024, and wow, does this one start off with

In often very short essays, she explores living genuinely despite others' criticisms; giving herself

I'd love to hear: What are your favorite memoirs? 01 Here For It by R.

this as an audiobook, and it was such a slow build, I was both eager for it to ramp up in pacing and very I was on the verge of becoming impatient, but Waters masterfully draws out the sinister threads of the

stories of the youth and origins of the siblings' recently deceased parents--their beloved mother and very

The greatest threat of all to [American Indians'] identity, and to the very idea of a nomadic hunter

provide honest reflections about their work's meaning in their lives, although the tones of the books are very

It seemed especially off-putting somehow that Miles (who as a male had no markings) was so very interested

Elaborate mythology swirls around the mysterious author of the blockbuster fantasy series The Falling self-esteem--and when she was starting out, she naively signed away most of her rights to the millions the series She's months late delivering the newest installment of the series, and her publisher and fans are losing This is a zany romp, as Libby's determination to push on to an ending for her series combines with her lack of commanding details around the mission she has set out on to cause upheaval at every turn.

It was very stressful!

Lockwood notes that she is not a Christian but is very much “of” the church because of her upbringing This is every reader's catch-22: the more you read, the more you realize you haven't read; the more you

It's the last day of high school, and nemeses Rowan Roth and Neil McNair have battled bitterly for every The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins In Rachel Hawkins's mystery The Wife Upstairs, set for January 5, 2021 Today Tonight Tomorrow, my book club's first title of the year, and I do like the idea easing into 2021

allegiance to a personality-over-substance faith leader reminded me of Godshot, although the tone is very

The tone of the book feels very earnest, and we spend a significant amount of time in Greene's thoughts

but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every She considers every desperate plan she can to try to save Kasia from this horrible fate, knowing all I feel compelled to also mention that Novik has a series of nine books about dragons, the Temeraire series Check out my reviews of Lessons One and Two in the Scholomance series, A Deadly Education and The Last

This book will be published March 9, 2021. I received a prepublication copy of this book, which will be out March 9, 2021, courtesy of Houghton

Welga Ramirez is an elite bodyguard, former special forces, and on the verge of retirement. This book will be published March 2, 2021. I received a prepublication copy of this book, scheduled for publication March 2, 2021, courtesy of Henry

Side note: I'd like for this story to also become a movie, thank you very much.

This section of the book is presented in very short snippets that are often comments, jokes, questions

Henderson's witchy tale is taking its main protagonist to a very dark place so far, and I'm not sure

The Books I'm Reading Now It's the first Bossy list of 2022! In this first science fiction title in Becky Chambers's Wayfarers series, young Rosemary feels lucky

The books' tones are very different, but the dark side of stardom is present in both novels. 03 Sorry

Orbital recently won the 2024 Booker Prize. I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this book!

of the boys Orenstein interviewed who had had such conversations said the talks had been somewhat or very

The misogyny and contempt of her peers means she faces a lack of respect and resources at every turn. Wang is also the author of The Sword of Kaigen  and the YA fantasy series The Volta Academy Chronicles

In 2020, we meet Mirella and Vincent (characters from The Glass Hotel).

It felt as though for much of the story, every character was teetering on the edge of destruction, and This was my book club's first read of 2022. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book?

This book is generally very well received, so my bossy desire for more character development and motivation

Sometimes the trudge toward disaster makes me a very nervous reader.

It looks as though Vanderah has a second book set for publication in spring 2021, The Light Through the

also offers a few links to his Silent Patient characters, including an oddly specific reference at the very

The songs are all included again at the very end of the book, by which point the listener understands

I received a prepublication copy of this book, published May 4, 2021, courtesy of Sourcebooks Casablanca This is the first in a series by Axelrod about Toni and the Lillys.

I'm listening to The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, the first installment in Shannon Chakraborty's series Every Osage was a potential target--and many of those who risked investigating the deaths were killed Chakraborty I'm listening to the first wonderful installment in Shannon Chakraborty's Amina al-Sirafi fantasy series

Ken, who was Japanese American in a family that had lived the United States for generations, favored I received an electronic prepublication edition of this book, to be published September 27, 2022, courtesy

I received a prepublication digital edition of this book, to published May 11, 2021, courtesy of Celadon

Harrow has another amazing-sounding book coming out in October 2020, The Once and Future Witches.

finding and spreading happiness; I'm reading the third in Naomi Novik's dark, wonderful Scholomance series here. 02 The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik A Deadly Education was the first in Novik's Scholomance series Danger and darkness lurk around every corner for grumpy, powerful El and her classmates. In The Golden Enclaves, the third installment of the series, the unlikely allied force of students faces

The issues Reid explores are enormous and are important to all of us, every day, and she wraps them in Side note: I’d love a spinoff in the form of an alternate reality series in which they have adventures

I can't wait to read his book A Beginning at the End, published in early 2020.

Lisa Gardner's recent mystery One Step Too Far is the second in her Frankie Elkin series (the first was One Step Too Far felt far more eerie than Before She Disappeared, and haunting, creepy elements are uncovered I love a character-driven mystery but haven't read any of Lisa Gardner's other series. Gardner is also the author of Before She Disappeared, the first in the Frankie Elkin series, as well as multiple other mystery series (Tessa Leoni, Detective D.D.

collection of interconnected stories about a Jamaican family in Miami; I'm reading Carley Fortune's debut, Every Disappeared, a mystery about a decades-past disappearance that involves time travel and is the first in a series Wow You, or you might like some of these other collections of short stories that I've reviewed. 02 Every Summer After by Carley Fortune In Carley Fortune's debut Every Summer After, Persephone Fraser knows Every Summer After is a love story told over the course of six summers and a weekend. 03 And Then She