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  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/16/23 Edition

    Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir by Paul Newman I recently started watching "The Last Movie Stars," a six-part the Newman's Own brand. 03 The Night Ship by Jess Kidd Jess Kidd is the author of Things in Jars, a mystery I gave four Bossy stars--and listed in two Greedy Reading Lists, Six Spooky, Gothic Tales and Six Historical Fiction Mysteries Sure to Intrigue You.

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

    book that Michelle's inner workings will not be revealed to Helen or to the reader, and they remain a mystery 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 Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up by Selma Blair

    She shares that because of the gloomy mystery of years of suffering, her multiple sclerosis diagnosis lays bare her experiences with depression and her attempted suicides after heartbreaks; her long-term, mysterious 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, 8/28/23 Edition

    narrative nonfiction set in the late nineteenth century West; I'm reading Kate Morton's dual-timeline mystery You might also be interested in the novels on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West and Six More Great Historical Fiction Books Set in the American West. 02 Homecoming Morton's story explores secrets, loyalties, mysteries, and the complicated matter of coming home.

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

    of romantic, funny, steamy light fiction; the next wonderful installments in two historical fiction mystery Asuka must find the real culprit before accusations surrounding the mystery destroy her. Yume Kitasei offers plot and mystery, but this is primarily a wonderfully character-driven story--with A Study in Scarlet Women is the first book in Sherry Thomas's gender-flipped Sherlock Holmes mystery The mystery was interesting, with salacious elements, and everyone was a potential suspect.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/11/23 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to The Running Grave, the newest in the mystery series by Robert Grave (Cormoran Strike #7) by Robert Galbraith I'm listening to The Running Grave, the newest in the mystery If you're interested in books about 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 The Future by Naomi Alderman

    A mysterious app on her phone seems to have all of the answers she needs--but Lai isn't sure what the I mentioned Naomi Alderman's novel The Power in the Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Dystopian and You might also want to check out the books on the Greedy Reading List Six More Fascinating Dystopian

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

    realism, science fiction, a character-driven mystery, and yet another of Deanna Raybourn's Veronica Speedwell Victorian mysteries. American Girl by Wendy Walker This is another whodunit winner from Wendy Walker: a character-driven mystery She's been cobbling together enough to get by, but when a mysterious draw to the spooky Starling House In A Murderous Relation, Veronica and Stoker become involved in a mystery involving a house of debauchery

  • Review of Lone Women by Victor LaValle

    In LaValle's magical, dark Western, people tend to disappear whenever Adelaide's mysterious trunk opens 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

    I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby , an art-focused historical fiction mystery in two timelines; I'm reading The Tainted Cup , a fascinating fantasy-science-fiction mystery by Robert The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby , Ellery Lloyd offers a gorgeously wrought historical fiction mystery You might also like the novels on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Lighter Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer

  • Review of Ninth House (Alex Stern #1) by Leigh Bardugo

    ICYMI: When tough, stubborn Alex Stern is offered a new start after surviving a mysterious multiple homicide I mentioned Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone series in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Leigh Bardugo's interconnected Grishaverse is made up of her Shadow and Bone trilogy, the Six of Crows

  • Review of The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren

    You might also be interested in the books on these 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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/26/24 Edition

    If you're interested in books about 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. In Nikki Erlick's debut novel, one morning, each adult around the world receives a mysterious box with

  • Review of The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

    making a difference, but I admit that I was curious about how even a historical fiction storytelling master s The Huntress (and five other historical fiction books I loved), check out the Greedy Reading List Six Or check out the books I listed on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Books about Brave Female Spies, Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II, and Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You.

  • Review of The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin

    Ava's inexperience is essential to her storyline, and her limited perspective creates a mystery regarding You might also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II, Six Great Books about Brave Female Spies, and Six More Great Books about Brave Female Spies.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/10/22 Edition

    , Adam Hamdy's twisty mystery about interconnected characters. Hawker is also the author of The Ragged Edge of Night, which I mentioned in Six Historical Fiction Books Hawker also wrote One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow, which I listed in the Greedy Reading List Six respectable citizen, and a disgraced police officer are intertwined through connections to a series of mysterious

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

    Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month. Their cultures are sometimes mysteries to each other, and at times conflict greatly with others' traditions The mystery of the book centers around a post-war haven for soldiers mentally and physically harmed by But the mystery takes a back seat in the book to Maisie's explorations of human motivations, her interest Check out this Greedy Reading List for Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/6/23 Edition

    Then a mysterious power begins calling to her. If you like stories about witches, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories and Six More Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You. 02 Looking for Jane by Heather Looking for Jane is a story of three timelines linked through decades by a mysterious letter and enormously

  • Review of The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

    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, 11/6/23 Edition

    A mysterious app on her phone seems to have all of the answers she needs--but Lai isn't sure what the I mentioned Naomi Alderman's novel The Power in the Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Dystopian and read this final installment in Freya Marske's Last Binding trilogy, a queer historical fiction fantasy-mystery through unexpected attractions and the uncovering of weighty secrets, the group works to unravel the mysterious

  • Review of Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister

    Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery Wrong Place Wrong Time plays with time, and I love books that play My Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore and Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life

  • Review of One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

    But August's adorably quirky roommates and a mystery woman she keeps running into on the Q train might I recently listed some of my favorite romantic, light stories in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Light you might like to check the site for other books in this vein, or check out the Greedy Reading Lists Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories or Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/25/23 Edition

    listening to the fifth installment in Deanna Raybourn's irresistible Veronica Speedwell Victorian-era mystery included the wonderful Ron Rash short story collection Nothing Gold Can Stay in my Greedy Reading List Six Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries characters, and dialogue that makes me laugh out loud--all set against the backdrop of a Victorian-age mystery In this fifth book of the series, Veronica and Stoker become involved in a mystery involving a house

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

    Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month: time travel, historical fiction, a mother's newest gorgeousness, a dystopian gem, and yet another of Deanna Raybourn's Veronica Speedwell Victorian mystery Fascinating Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels, Six More Fascinating Dystopian and Postapocalyptic past, and Raybourn offers a number of explanations for some of the previous book's alluded-to personal mysteries You might also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Satisfying Novels about Revenge and Six

  • Review of Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

    In this science fiction novel, Mandel plays with time and time travel as well as mysteries surrounding developed, but they're important to the structure and the odd interconnectedness at the heart of the mysterious identical personal experience; and detective Gaspary from the future's Night City investigates their mysterious You might like the books I list on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories or Six Riveting Time-Travel Escapes or these Bossy reviews of books that play with time.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/28/22 Edition

    lives in two eras and forced to choose; and I'm reading The Box in the Woods, a stand-alone young adult mystery If you like books that play with time, 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--or you time travel. 03 The Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson The Box in the Woods is another young adult mystery Johnson's Truly Devious series offers dark scenes, wicked mystery, blossoming attraction, loyal friendships

  • Review of They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies that Raised Us by Prachi Gupta

    read memoirs, you might be interested in the titles on my various memoir-focused Greedy Reading Lists: 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

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

    that breaks and finds its way back together again; I Have Some Questions for You, a boarding-school mystery Jess Kidd is the author of Things in Jars, a mystery I gave four Bossy stars--and listed in two Greedy Reading Lists, Six Spooky, Gothic Tales and Six Historical Fiction Mysteries Sure to Intrigue You. Summer is ending, and there's a mysterious, unspoken, dark undercurrent at the Kinsellas'. It's about our societal obsession with tragedies and mysterious murders, and the tendency of bystanders

  • My Bossy Favorite Reads of the Summer

    I had a great reading summer, so I had a tough time deciding on the six books I most loved reading during You might also want to check out the books on my spring Greedy Reading List Six of My Favorite Reads Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading, Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading, and Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery begins with a mother awaiting her teenage son's return home late Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, and Six Second-Chance

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

    Here are my six favorite reads of the past month. Eason In Eason's science fiction mystery, an unlikely pair who get on each other's nerves work together Eason's science fiction mystery Nightwatch on the Hinterlands, a templar, Iari, and a spy, Gaer, have And I was wholly charmed by the rievs (former battle robots) who mysteriously show sentience and surprising Memoirs to Lose Yourself In, Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite, and Six Powerful Memoirs about

  • Review of The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston

    In town, she'll always be known as The Girl Who Solved a Murder Mystery by Talking to Ghosts, with all If you like light fiction, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Great Light Fiction Stories and Six More Great Light Fiction Stories.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/13/24 Edition

    witty time-travel story The Ministry of Time; I'm listening to Only If You're Lucky, Stacy Willingham's mystery Kaliane Bradley In a world of the near future, a young woman is one of many civil servants offered a mysterious Lucy is wild, mischievous, mysterious--and she has an extra room in her rambunctious house for the summer I mentioned Rene Denfeld's book The Child Finder in the Greedy Reading List Six Chilly Books to Read

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

    Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month: a wonderful story about a grumpy female Gothic-feeling multi-timeline work of literary fiction; magical realism and time travel; and a captivating mystery Then a mysterious, wealthy matriarch preys upon Amina's need for funds--and her desire for one final, review, check out Some Desperate Glory. 06 Happiness Falls by Angie Kim Angie Kim's sophomore novel is a mystery Kim's missing-person novel is a mystery and is structured around the discovery and exploration of what

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

    In LaValle's magical, dark Western, people tend to disappear whenever Adelaide decides to open her mysterious 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, 8/26/24 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.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/20/23 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Jane Harper's newest Australian-set Aaron Falk mystery, Exiles; adapt her surprise feminist bestseller into a movie--without losing her integrity or being derailed by mysterious But the year-old mysterious disappearance of Kim Gillespie, a young woman from the area, hooks Falk and far. 02 The Dream Builders by Oindrila Mukherjee Maneka Roy has temporarily returned to India after six Then mysterious threats begin appearing within the script, aimed at the writers who are picking apart

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

    ) by Freya Marske The first book in Marske's duology is full of Edwardian England detail, gay love, mystery Robin and Edwin's love is romantic and sweet and heartbreaking and sexy; the mystery at the heart of camp; and winds it all through our middle-aged heroines' satisfying solving of a disturbing set of mysteries Nessa, Jo, and Harriet work together and use their newfound abilities to try to solve the mystery of But August's adorably quirky roommates and a mystery woman she keeps running into on the Q train might

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

    Their cultures are sometimes mysteries to each other, and at times conflict greatly with others' traditions For more cold-setting stories, check out my Greedy Reading List Six Books with Cold, Wintry Settings

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/5/22 Edition

    Fortune's debut, Every Summer After, a story about mistakes, lost love, and new beginnings, told over six summers and a weekend; and I'm listening to And Then She Disappeared, a mystery about a decades-past If you like short stories, you might also want to check out the stories on the Greedy Reading List Six Every Summer After is a love story told over the course of six summers and a weekend. 03 And Then She

  • Review of Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott

    In Thistlefoot, estranged siblings Bellatine, a woodworker with mysterious powers, and Isaac, a con artist and street performer with his own magic, are reunited to claim a mysterious, bizarre inheritance: a and Isaac find their way back to each other, bonded by trying to untangle the dangerous, sentimental, mysterious If you like magical realism and folklore, you might also like the books on my Greedy Reading List Six

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/14/21 Edition

    Robert Galbraith's 944-page fifth installment in the Cormoran Strike series, Troubled Blood, and reading Six Moscow and Rules of Civility. 02 Troubled Blood by Robert Galbratih In the fifth installment of the mystery A woman recognizes him and impulsively spills the story of her mother Margot Bamborough's mysterious So far it feels nicely paced, and I like having time to dig into the characters' evolution and the mystery's twists and turns. 03 Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim In this young adult novel, the first in a duology

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/27/22 Edition

    But her adorably quirky roommates and a mystery woman she keeps running into on the Q train might just I recently listed some of my favorite romantic, light stories in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Light you might like to search the site for other books in this vein, or check out the Greedy Reading Lists Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories or Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore. 03 Bomb

  • Review of Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

    boast forces Miryem into a position of meeting the tsar's impossible challenge, she finds that the mysterious I mentioned Spinning Silver in the Greedy Reading List Six Magical Fairy Tales Grown-Ups Will Love.

  • My Twelve Favorite 2020 Books

    Fiction Books I Loved This Year Six of the Best Nonfiction Books I've Read This Year Six Lighter Fiction Stories for Great Escapism Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads Six More For my full review, see Utopia Avenue. 04 Long Bright River by Liz Moore Long Bright River is a mystery disappears and a string of murders rock the community, everyone is suspect and Mickey's desire to solve the mystery

  • Review of You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie Smith

    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 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

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

    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 This is a character-driven mystery with a twist. This is a character-driven mystery with an interesting twist. That is, until the mysterious Maddalena arrives.

  • Review of Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese

    lifesaving Black neighbors--who share resources, offer advice, and otherwise keep to themselves--and their mysterious 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 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.

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