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  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/12/23 Edition

    about young friends and musicians in 1700s Vienna; I'm reading Beyond That, the Sea, Julia Spence-Ash's historical If this book sounds intriguing, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories, and Six

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

    Here are the six books I most loved reading in the heat of August. There's a little bit of romantic, funny, steamy light fiction; the next wonderful installments in two historical Asuka is very intelligent and capable, but she was chosen for the once-in-history journey as an alternate 06 A Perilous Undertaking (Veronica Speedwell #2) by Deanna Raybourn This second book in Raybourn's historical lepidopterist (she studies butterflies and moths) and adventurer Veronica Speedwell teams up with her natural-history

  • Review of Grey Dog by Elliott Gish

    Grey Dog begins as an immersive historical fiction story of a young teacher with a shocking past in It is such a narrow, stunted, blighted way to be that I wonder any woman throughout history has been This is a feminist historical fiction story in which women--long kept quiet and still, supervised to I loved the setting and detail of the historical fiction story, but I became fully hooked as the tale You might also like my Bossy reviews of other historical fiction books set in the 1900s .

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

    Here are my six favorite reads of the past month. There's suspense, memoir, science fiction, and historical fiction here. The Rose Code is a wonderfully spun historical fiction story of three very different women who answer War II story about strong women making a difference, but I admit that I was curious about how even a historical sure where the other's loyalties begin and end, nor are they intimately acquainted with the other's history

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/4/23 Edition

    If you like to read memoirs like I do, you might be interested in the Greedy Reading Lists here: Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Musicians' Memoirs that Sing Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/15/24 Edition

    If you like Westerns, you might want to check out the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West and  Six More Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/5/24 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby , an art-focused historical by Ellery Lloyd In The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby , Ellery Lloyd offers a gorgeously wrought historical Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett In Robert Jackson Bennett's novel, The Tainted Cup , he blends a rich, historical You might also like the novels on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Lighter Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/26/24 Edition

    You might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading , Six More Great Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading , Six of My Favorite Light Fictions Reads of the Past Year , Six More of My Favorite Light Fiction Reads of the Past Year , Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading , and Six More Great Light Fiction Stories . 02 Moonbound by Robin

  • Review of The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard

    You might also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, Six More Time-Travel Stories to Dive Into, and Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore.

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

    , science fiction, and historical fiction titles. In Taylor Brown's recently published historical fiction novel Wingwalkers, Zeno, a former World War I Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War. my full review, check out The Love of My Life. 06 Revelations by Mary Sharratt Sharratt offers vivid historical In Revelations, Sharratt offers an immersive historical fiction novel that includes thoroughly researched

  • Review of Only Pretty Damned by Niall Howard

    I listened to Niall Howell's debut, Only Pretty Damned, noir historical fiction set behind the scenes You might also like the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Spooky, Gothic Tales.

  • Review of Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases by Paul Holes and Robin Gaby Fisher

    circumstances, the aftermaths, and the various movements of potential suspects over months and years--as historically If you like nonfiction books, you might also like the books I list on my Greedy Reading List Six Compelling Nonfiction Reads--and stay tuned for my upcoming list of Six Nonfiction Bossy Favorites from the Past

  • Review of Gilded Mountain by Kate Manning

    If you also like stories like this, you might enjoy the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical

  • Review of How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang

    Bossy reviews of lighter fiction or rom-com books I've loved, check out these Greedy Reading Lists: Six More of my Favorite Romantic Fiction Reads from the Past Year Six More Great Light Fiction Stories Six Lighter Fiction Stories for Great Escapism Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading Six More Great Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading Six of My

  • Review of Wingwalkers by Taylor Brown

    In Taylor Brown's recently published historical fiction novel Wingwalkers, Zeno, a former World War I list that looks wonderful), and Fallen Land, a title I loved and included in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War.

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

    Anyway, here are the six books I most loved reading this past month: a heartbreaking, lovely, epistolary If you're interested in this book, you might also like the titles on my Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West and Six More Great Historical Fiction Stories Set You might also want to check out the short story collections listed in my Greedy Reading Lists Six Short Story Collections to Wow You and Six More Short Story Collections I Loved.

  • Review of Uncultured: A Memoir by Daniella Mestyanek Young

    For more more more memoirs that you might want to try, check out these Greedy Reading Lists: Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/14/22 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Kate Atkinson's newest book, historical fiction set in 1926 jazz-era Nellie Coker is shamelessly thrusting her six children into the forefront of the social scene in Soho Atkinson is also the author of Case Histories, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Life After Life, Human

  • Review of The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen

    For more cold-setting stories, check out my Greedy Reading List Six Books with Cold, Wintry Settings

  • 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 Hour of the Witch is a thoroughly researched historical thriller with fantastic details of the time that If you like stories about witches, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Wonderfully

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/21/24 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Taylor Brown's newest historical novel, Rednecks, which centers In Rednecks, Brown presents a historical novel centering around the events of the 1920 and 1921 West Wingwalkers, The Gods of Howl Mountain, Fallen Land, a title I loved and included in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War, and other novels.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/9/23 Edition

    college admission book, The Price You Pay for College by Ron Lieber; I'm reading Olivia Hawker's newest historical October in the Earth by Olivia Hawker I love Olivia Hawker's books (see links below), and her newest historical of Night, and One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow, which I mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West.

  • Review of Woke Up Like This by Amy Lea

    you're intrigued by time-travel stories, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore and Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories, Six More Time-Travel Stories to Dive Into, and Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore.

  • Review of We Must Not Think of Ourselves by Lauren Grodstein

    Stories of various characters are interwoven through the historical fiction novel and add depth to the Grodstein is also the author of Our Short History, The Explanation for Everything, and A Friend of the

  • Review of A Perilous Undertaking by Deanna Raybourn

    This second book in Raybourn's historical fiction mystery series, set in Victorian London, hooked me listening to A Curious Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's sassy Veronica Speedwell series of historical lepidopterist (she studies butterflies and moths) and adventurer Veronica Speedwell teams up with her natural-history

  • Review of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

    click here to find my review of Malibu Rising, and you can find my glowing review of Daisy Jones & the Six in the Greedy Reading List Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music.

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

    toward light fiction, but I've got a mystery, a great novel by Allison Larkin, and a wonderfully witchy historical Henry's Beach Read was one of my favorite books last year, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading List Six I mentioned Life After Life in the Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life For more summer reads, check out the Greedy Reading List Six Lighter Fiction Stories for Great Escapism like Chris Bohjalian's witch hunt-focused Hour of the Witch or the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six

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

    Here are my six favorite reads of the past month: a bitingly funny, poignant book of essays; a candid memoir of abuse and inner strength; two fascinating historical fiction stories; an unorthodox friendship my full review of I'm Glad My Mom Died. 03 Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese Hester is richly imagined historical Ore by Olivia Hawker Hawker offers irresistible details of daily life and historical elements that add The author's note explains the historical events at play and illuminates the ways in which Hawker's historical

  • Review of Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry

    For memoirs I've loved that you might want to try, check out these Greedy Reading Lists: Six Musicians ' Memoirs that Sing Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality

  • Review of The Gods of Howl Mountain by Taylor Brown

    is still on my to-read list), Fallen Land, a title I loved and included in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War, and the upcoming (to be published next week) historical

  • Review of Dimestore: A Writer's Life by Lee Smith

    I mentioned this book in my Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore. about the Appalachian South, including Fair and Tender Ladies, On Agate Hill, The Last Girls, and Oral History

  • Review of The Invisible Woman by Erika Robuck

    The Invisible Woman is historical fiction about the real-life World War II-era spy Virginia Hall. If you like reading about female spies, you might like some of the books on the Greedy Reading List Six

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

    Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month: a beautiful, poignant nonfiction book about fiction story about an inherited villain's career, heavily featuring savvy and communicative cats; a historical fiction novel featuring female doctors, set in 15th century China; a gothic, magical-realism Western; a historical dragons, dragon-related science, emotional and physical ties to dragons, and the cultural importance, historical Because the restrictive Anglish world--and its selective history of the destruction of the Indigenous

  • Review of Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile

    She weaves more than thirty songs into her stories and personal history, and the placement of the music If you like memoirs, you might try the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year, Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into, and Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself And if you like books about music, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Rockin' Stories

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

    This is a feminist historical fiction story in which women--long kept quiet and still, supervised to I loved the setting and detail of the historical fiction story, but I became fully hooked as the tale If this book sounds appealing to you, you might also be interested in my Bossy reviews of other historical In Lisa Barr's newest historical fiction, The Goddess of Warsaw , the author tells a story in two timelines Alice Winn's gorgeous, brutal, captivating historical fiction In Memoriam  is set during World War I.

  • Review of How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C. Pam Zhang

    And I love historical fiction set in the Western United States. (If you do too, take a look at my Greedy Reading List of Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in

  • Review of The Power by Naomi Alderman

    I included The Power in the Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels. You can find more books like this on the Greedy Reading List Six More Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/4/22 Edition

    I'm listening to The Personal Librarian, historical fiction with race and art at the heart of it, set Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray The Personal Librarian is Benedict and Murray's historical I recently listed some of my favorite romantic, light stories in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Light listed other heartbreaking and beautiful memoirs about facing death and loss in the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Review of The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man by Paul Newman

    Life of an Ordinary Man to be available through my library, I started watching The Last Movie Stars, a six-part If you love memoirs, you might like some of the books on my many Bossy lists of favorites: Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into, Six Illuminating Memoirs to Check Out, Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore, Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore, Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite, and Six Musicians' Memoirs

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

    Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month. 01 Rednecks by Taylor Brown In this mix of fictional and fascinating historical elements, Brown crafts In Rednecks , Taylor Brown presents a historical novel centering around the real-life events of the 1920 Her sister steps in to help with their dad at home, and Emma moves to Los Angeles for six weeks of inspiring We learn about Elizabeth and Jack's histories and motivations, their stunted emotional statuses and the

  • Review of Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese

    Hester is richly imagined historical fiction with connections to themes and characters from The Scarlet If you're interested in books about witches, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories and Six More Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You.

  • Review of Time's Mouth by Edan Lepucki

    you're intrigued by time-travel stories, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, and Six Second-Chance

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/10/23 Edition

    I mentioned Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone series in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse is made up of her Shadow and Bone trilogy, the Six of Crows duology, and If this book sounds intriguing, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading, Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading, and Six More Great Light Fiction Stories.

  • Review of The Measure by Nikki Erlick

    you're interested in books that explore mortality, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality and Six More Powerful Books about Facing Mortality.

  • Review of Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

    sacrificed everything to get her to the top, setting records that have cemented her place in tennis history I suspect that as with Daisy Jones and the Six and its page time spent on the music world, bandmate negotiations Reid is also the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Malibu Rising, and Daisy Jones and the Six , a book I included in the Greedy Reading List Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/13/22 Edition

    I'm Reading Now I'm reading Woman of Light, Kali Fajardo-Anstine's upcoming fantastical, indigenous historical fiction; The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid's dual-timeline historical fiction about can click here to find my review of Malibu Rising, and you can find my review of Daisy Jones & the Six in the Greedy Reading List Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music. 03 A Marvellous Light (The Last

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/19/22 Edition

    For more more more memoirs that you might want to try, check out these Greedy Reading Lists: Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality 02 The Frederick Sisters Are

  • Review of Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up by Selma Blair

    more more more memoirs I've loved that you might want to try, check out these Greedy Reading Lists: Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality

  • Review of Hello, Molly! by Molly Shannon

    For more more MORE memoirs I've loved that you might want to try, check out the Greedy Reading Lists Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore, Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into, Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year, Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In, Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite , and Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality.

  • Review of The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn

    In Kate Quinn's newest historical fiction, she shares the story of a real World War II figure, a Russian Based on a true story, The Diamond Eye is Kate Quinn's most recent historical fiction wonder. This time she tells the World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female In 1937, history student Ludmila Pavlichenko is a young lady balancing school, the care of her young Kate Quinn is a master of historical fiction and is the author of the fantastic titles The Huntress,

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