The Bossy Bookworm

It's time for the foooood books! I love a memoir, I love reading about people doing what they love, I love good food, and I love reading the stories of people who are obsessed with food. The books listed here are some of my favorites in this category. I included two books by Ruth Reichl here. (Frankly I could have included a third, making this a 50 Percent Ruth Reichl List, but ...

In book two of Gillig's great gothic fantasy series, main characters go through satisfying arcs and development, a great love story persists, gargoyle Bartholomew yet again steals the show, and a struggle between political power and faith continues. In The Knight and the Moth, the first title in Gillig's Stonewater Kingdom series, a shadowy, eerie tone gave way to heartwarming, ...

The first mystery in King's 19-book series builds an irresistibly layered professional partnership and personal, friends-like-family bond between Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes. The story's detail, pacing, plot, and character development are all fantastic. I look forward to reading more titles in this series. It's 1915 and Sherlock Holmes is bored out of his mind and languishi...

In this dual-timeline historical fiction-fantasy-magical realism-witchy story, Martin explores the Suffolk witch trials of 1645 and builds a link between one of the accused and a modern-day woman coming into her own mysterious powers--who just might be able to save both women, within their own times. "All women have magic in them." In Madeline Martin's dual-timeline novel A Time...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to the second in Rachel Gillig's Stonewater Kingdom series, The Knave and the Moon; I'm reading Chloe Benjamin's captivating novel Under Story; and I'm listening to Madeline Martin's newest novel, A Time of Witches. What are you reading, bookworms? 01 The Knave and the Moon (Stonewater Kingdom #2) by Rachel Gillig In The Knight and the Mot...