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  • Review of Funny Story by Emily Henry

    And as far as she can tell, Miles does odd jobs and traveled around without a permanent address for months at a time when he and Petra were together. The banter is fantastic, and I laughed many times while reading this one.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/4/24 Edition

    Wedding People ; and I'm reading Bonnie Blaylock's Appalachian-set 1930s historical fiction about a traveling Bonnie Blaylock's Light to the Hills , it's 1930 in the Kentucky Appalachians, and Amanda Rye is a traveling She makes a special connection with a mountain family facing tough times despite their double work at

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/29/24 Edition

    Winner Take All , and How to Break a Boy . 02 You Are Here by David Nicholls “It’s true I do have time But the notion that I should be 'making the most of it,' travelling the world or out every night, there Can’t I just be happy, or unhappy, just mess about and read and waste time and be unfulfilled by myself After meeting for the first time, Michael, a recently divorced teacher, studious and thoughtful, and

  • Review of Orbital by Samantha Harvey

    astronauts orbiting the earth at seventeen thousand miles an hour, clinging to Coordinated Universal Time Some of those on the ground try to insist upon imposing barriers upon the space travelers. The six space-station astronauts are circling the earth without traveling anywhere, they reflect, while down of human space exploration in light of the growing promise of robots' clean, streamlined space travel

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

    In this first book of Donati's Wilderness series, it's 1792 and Elizabeth Middleton has traveled with scratch the itch of reading a combination of historical fiction, romance, and rich descriptions of taming Elizabeth is a feminist in a time in which independence and freedom are not encouraged in a woman.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/15/24 Edition

    But when the doctor tries to help a crew who has suffered the loss of one of its own due to ERS, she travels And as far as she can tell, Miles does odd jobs and traveled around without a permanent address for months at a time when he and Petra were together.

  • Six More Great Historical Fiction Books Set in the American West

    fascinated by the optimistic explorer spirit--and I love reading about strong female characters in a time Mary Doria Russell also interestingly explores Holliday's career as a dentist (at a time when the dental profession was tainted by traveling butchers and thieves), and his gallant, grumpy, well-read, mischievous but here it gives a fittingly old-fashioned quality to the writing that feels as though it suits the time Paulette Jiles Captain Kidd has fought in three wars, and after the Civil War's end, he serves as a traveling

  • Bossy Holiday Gift Ideas: Books about Music

    Six more that made my honorable mention list: Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell by Ann Powers Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk by Kathleen Hanna A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Harmonize: How FDR's Hidden Music Unit Sought to Save America from the Great Depression—One Song at a Time Netherlands, to their family's move to working-class Pasadena; of their proper Indonesian mother and traveling author of Dreaming the Beatles ,  On Bowie, and   Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/26/22 Edition

    When Jaryk learns that his father has been killed under mysterious circumstances in India, he travels But he becomes involved in the complicated politics of the time and finds himself stuck between past Time passes, and a young family moves onto Division Street. “If only time could be seen whole, then you could see the past remaining intact, instead of vanishing

  • Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West

    look promising. 03 West by Carys Davies ​This isn't strictly a Western, but the main protagonist does travel He feels unshakably compelled to travel west to find out if the mammoth animals he's heard described with his sister, Bess's short-tempered aunt, although he expects to be away on his irrational, foolish travels Bess, stuck at home, traces Cy's optimistic travel route on a map (and, disturbingly, struggles multiple Hawker is also the author of The Ragged Edge of Night. 05 The Widow Nash by Jamie Harrison Dulcy has traveled

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/8/24 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I took a Bossy break last week while traveling with family, but I spent time We track back through time to witness Wren's mother's youth and the way her own mutation and diagnosis

  • Review of A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock #1) by Sherry Thomas

    presents Charlotte Holmes, a clever, forward-thinking, independent woman trapped in the Victorian age, a time Because a Victorian woman could not independently travel to visit witnesses--nor could she openly question While I liked the inspector character, I was disappointed at having less page time to spend with Charlotte Yet the lack of autonomy and status for a woman in the time necessitates this approach; a woman simply The intersection of scandal, virtue, power, and perception in the place and time in which the story takes

  • November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    academia story that centers around feminism and building new perspectives; historical fiction about a traveling I looked forward to getting back to this book each time I could, and I was as charmed by Ina's guileless Bonnie Blaylock's Light to the Hills , it's 1930 in the Kentucky Appalachians, and Amanda Rye is a traveling Amanda makes a special connection with a mountain family on her route that's facing tough times despite astronauts orbiting the earth at seventeen thousand miles an hour, clinging to Coordinated Universal Time

  • Review of Chenneville: A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance by Paulette Jiles

    stark, beautiful, heartbreaking historical fiction tracks former Union soldier John Chenneville as he travels Chenneville single-mindedly travels through the Reconstruction-era United States on a relentless search flung into certain trajectories to accompany each other through trials, troubles, and perhaps even times

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/15/22 Edition

    novel about a 1960s female scientist and cooking show host by Bonnie Garmus; Emma Straub's playing-with-time , reliving-the-past story This Time Tomorrow; and Something Wilder, Christina Lauren's newest, about a treasure hunter's daughter who gets roped into time with her ex. Lessons in Chemistry is Bonnie Garmus's first book. 02 This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub What if you When the trip involves mishap after mishap, the travelers begin to wonder whether the legend of the treasure

  • Review of Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

    she becomes convinced that what happened to Ruth is linked to the Florida sorority attack, and she travels throughout) are so disturbing, I welcomed the breaks from the immediate aftermath of the heinous crimes and time

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/2/23 Edition

    New York Times journalist Frank Bruni and UNC alum considers the "terrifying and occasionally devastating Must be time for...the winter books! Sara Donati In this first book of Donati's Wilderness series, it's 1792 and Elizabeth Middleton has traveled

  • May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    loss, adjusting goals and the pictures of our life as we age, and second chances; Wrong Place, Wrong Time author Charles Frazier offers historical fiction featuring a Great Depression-era painter, Val Welch, traveling Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery Wrong Place Wrong Time plays with time, and I love books that play with time. Please click here for my full review of Wrong Place, Wrong Time. 05 This Time It's Real by Ann Liang

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/12/24 Edition

    by the elusive fox gods--and he feels tantalizingly close to making contact with them for the first time But Snow is hunting the killer of her child, and Snow and Bao will travel through China and Japan on

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/7/24 Edition

    Tallahassee, she becomes convinced that what happened to Ruth is linked to the sorority attack, and she travels I fell in love with Ann Liang's fake-dating young adult novel This Time It's Real , read it in one rainy

  • Review of Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad

    accompanying emotions, fears, and side effects--along with a road-trip journey following her New York Times a few highs; being ill and in love, then ending her long-term relationship, and writing a New York Times selfless work in Will's position and in his twenties, Suleika seems to consider seriously--for the first time The vast majority of page time in Between Two Kingdoms is spent on Suleika's struggle with her physical comparison, takes up far less space in Jaouad's memoir although it is an interesting bookend to her solo travel

  • Review of How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

    viruses we’ve never encountered before can both redefine what we know about being human and at the same time children; hotels become elaborately designed spaces used for saying goodbye or for cremation rather than travel combines linked elements that wind through the book—a symbol of a planet with three stars repeats through time and reappears in a casual mention around the neck of another character across the world in another time

  • Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore

    member of the congregation, and Ruth's life, along with those of her siblings, became centered around travel She’d repeated that countless times throughout my childhood. No, I thought, they don’t.” Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick I would have liked more introspection, but I loved spending time I loved spending time with the uproariously funny Thomas. I loved spending time with the uproariously funny Thomas as he recounts how he's navigated situations

  • A Bossy Holiday Break

    I hope you're settling in for a wonderful holiday, whether you're home or traveling and whether you're

  • Review of Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

    loved him, and back and forth to the past where the actor got his start and to the future, where a traveling I was taken with her writing style and loved how smoothly the shifts in time and chronology worked.

  • Review of Family Family by Laurie Frankel

    ; when Fig is told they must travel incognito, she conveniently doesn't use context clues, instead replying Kids say the darnedest and adorable things, but these instances pulled me out of the story each time

  • June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    By the time the uproar and intensive violence that shook West Virginia begin to take shape, Brown has considers applying for the powerful Conseil, which makes decisions about who is allowed to anonymously travel But her life in Texas is complicated: her father requires a full-time caregiver, and Emma is it. A month before that horrible loss, her New York City apartment is burgled, and at that time, all of her Wellness is darkly funny, intriguing, and, at times, poignant.

  • Shhh! Coffee Table Bossy Book Gift Ideas

    Which is all to say that this book feels like the right book at the right time for the ongoing and also selection of photos highlighting a range of experiences from our 200 years of American history. 03 The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World by Lonely Planet The Travel Book is a 2021 stunner This is a 416-page book perfect for those planning to explore the world--or those who want to "travel

  • Review of Wingwalkers by Taylor Brown

    fiction novel Wingwalkers, Zeno, a former World War I ace pilot, and Della, his daring wingwalking wife, travel Depression-era America, wowing audiences and inspiring hope in a dark, sober time. and at close range; vivid moments placing these wonderfully wrought characters solidly in place and time various views of a broken landscape that perfectly mirrors the dashed dreams of so many during grim times

  • Review of The River by Peter Heller

    The details of running the Canadian river, traveling and camping, and Jack and Wynn's friendship itself I thought about it long after I finished it and I still think about it from time to time.

  • Review of Tokyo Dreaming (Tokyo Ever After #2) by Emiko Jean

    She was thrilled to travel to Japan to meet her father and the rest of her royal family for the first time.

  • Six More Novels I Loved Reading Last Year

    Our time here is limited, gone in the blink of an eye. mysterious circumstances while in India (on a trip he had wanted Jaryk to accompany him on), Jaryk travels Dani Shapiro In Signal Fires, Dani Shapiro offers characters and consequences that connect through time Time passes, and a young family moves onto Division Street. “If only time could be seen whole, then you could see the past remaining intact, instead of vanishing

  • Review of A Play for the End of the World by Jai Chakrabarti

    mysterious circumstances while in India (on a trip he had wanted Jaryk to accompany him on), Jaryk travels With his last tie to Poland gone--without Jaryk having entrusted him with the truth of his escape from unwittingly, then uncomfortably, then somewhat resignedly, becomes tangled in the complicated politics of the time

  • Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You

    Let the playing with points of view and the time-turning begin! This book had many moving parts, evolving points of view and senses of self, shifts between days and times with progressive ideas, and I adore how matter-of-factly and innocently she presents her wild-for-the-times Veronica finds herself entangled in a dangerous set of circumstances, complete with intrigue, a traveling The Clockmaker's Daughter took a little page time to start moving along for me, but I loved Kate Morton

  • Review of A Well-Behaved Woman by Therese Anne Fowler

    The detail of the time Fowler manages to capture in A Well-Behaved Woman is truly wonderful, both in Alva Vanderbilt emerges a strong feminist, but at times before she rises from the ashes, her thoughts She still loves architecture, fashion, and travel—and secures a financially stable future for her daughter

  • Review of The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E. Smith

    And if the latter, why were his friends willing to travel with him, much less remain friendly on a regular There are tiny moves forward until a big shift that occurs at the end of the book, and the timing and Greta spends a lot of time day drinking (and night drinking) on the cruise, and she uses alcohol to connect new beau, to dull the pain of her mother's death, to soften her annoyance at her father, and to kill time

  • Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West

    fiction books that look promising. 03 West ​ This isn't strictly a Western, but the main protagonist does travel He feels unshakably compelled to travel west to find out if the mammoth animals he's heard described with his sister, Bess's short-tempered aunt, although he expects to be away on his irrational, foolish travels Bess, stuck at home, traces Cy's optimistic travel route on a map (and, disturbingly, struggles multiple Hawker is also the author of The Ragged Edge of Night. 05 The Widow Nash ​ Dulcy has traveled all over

  • Review of Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

    He shares notable moments from his travels; industry stories; and family tales. At times he's guided in his decision-making by interpreting his own wet dreams (truly)--they aren't necessarily It’s up to us, our choice every time.” McConaughey shares vulnerable moments and times when he questioned aspects of his life, and through hindsight Rather than struggle against time and waste it, let’s dance with time and redeem it.

  • Review of Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout

    William has always leaned on Lucy for support, despite the fact that he has been married two other times Now William has uncovered a family secret that shakes him, and he asks Lucy to travel with him to investigate The people Lucy has built her life around admiring and has spent her time clinging to as steady presences

  • My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads

    stark, beautiful, heartbreaking historical fiction tracks former Union soldier John Chenneville as he travels Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery Wrong Place Wrong Time plays with time, and I love books that play with time. For the rest of our lives, every time one of us goes somewhere and doesn’t return on time, doesn’t let the others know where we are, we will remember this time, what can happen.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/10/21 Edition

    depression; and The Space Between Worlds, Micaiah Johnson's science-fiction story about multiverse travel and fears. 02 Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig The author of The Midnight Library and How to Stop Time I'm listening to Haig read this audiobook. 03 The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson Cara can travel

  • Review of Festival Days by Jo Ann Beard

    beautifully about moments large and small, from the weightiness of saying goodbye to loved ones for the last time She reflects on various travels and other measures meant to distract and inspire or comfort—and the disrupted

  • Six More Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year

    Bird Isabella Bird's nonfiction account of her 1873 travels through the rugged, wondrous American West characters she encounters in the west combined with her mix of no-nonsense practicality and ambitious traveling There's relatively little page time spent on the later years of Hildegard's life at the abbey. in a family of difficult men, living on a rural Colorado peach farm--its existence in that place and time

  • October Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Kennedy draws the reader into the specific place and time of the story, vividly building the constant From the overworked dad trying to make it home in time for his daughter's musical, to the mother of two she becomes convinced that what happened to Ruth is linked to the Florida sorority attack, and she travels mention of the Temeraire series, below) and Pride and Prejudice , and it made me grin with glee the whole time

  • Review of A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird

    Isabella Bird's nonfiction account of her 1873 travels through the rugged, wondrous American West is characters she encounters in the west combined with her mix of no-nonsense practicality and ambitious traveling

  • Six Fascinating Stories Set in Space

    whose biggest hope for the pending end of the world was to play at the most epic goodbye party of all time Chambers's science fiction is full of heart, heartbreak, and hope--with a fascinating backdrop of space travel The book feels much more focused on the characters--with a backdrop of space travel and otherworldly The Sparrow took a little time to get going for me, but then I was blown away.

  • Review of Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens

    in the wilderness and rugged terrain of British Columbia, along a highway where unsuspecting women traveling alone go missing from time to time--yet a predator never ends up being brought to justice. She can't return to her aunt's, and for a time the book is satisfyingly focused on her survival skills

  • Review of A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

    annoyance at the bards' reported tales of Odysseus as he extends his outrageously complicated and indulgent travels vulnerable in order to try to save each other, and they carve out meager existences as they bide their time

  • July Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    I did a lot of traveling and some great reading last month, but I didn't do a lot of reviewing. years away, because Rocky's menopausal rage threatens to undo any joy she might gain from spending time To save their treasured family time together, Rocky may have to share secrets she never intended to reveal Yet the cast of characters is colorful, and I enjoyed the time I spent with them.

  • Review of The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason

    middle-aged, shy piano tuner Edgar Drake is asked to do something unusual for the British War Office: travel

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