This is a book my horror bookclub picked and so while I've read Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero, I probably wouldn't have picked this book up. But I would have been missing out!! This book reminded me of House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (but I liked this more) with hints of Umberto Eco a la Foucault's Pendulum.
37. Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson
I love Easter Island! Love it!! I love Hawai'i! Love it! And have heard that Polynesians are the most amazing navigators in the world but not how they were/are able to navigate in a way that the rest of the world isn't- until now! This book delved into so much more than I expected but it was fascinating!!
38. Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
This book is getting rave reviews!It is a very nostalgic mockumentary in book form. It took me a little bit to get into it, but I'm glad I read the whole thing. I enjoyed reading the different perspectives on the same events and hearing the voices of people who in some other story wouldn't get any say because the two main characters take up all the oxygen in the room!
39. Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear
I love this book. My husband and I having been talking about what makes this book so good, and it's hard to convey what we love about it. It is really engaging without being a pulse-pounding action thriller. It's got big ideas and discussion of society without being preachy. It's got fascinating, well-developed characters without being a character study. It's got alien species without being all world-building all the time. It's an amazing balance of a million awesome components. I don't know if that makes it sound exciting, but I loved reading it and am excited to read book two when it comes out!!
40. Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
This is a super engaging story that people keep calling a modern fairy tale, which I see but it isn't how it struck me. It really reminds me of Alice Hoffman's writing. Three generations of women navigating a dangerous world where gingerbread is central to their lives.
I've read 40 books so far and 28 were by women, 9 by men, and 3 anthologies with both female and male authors two of which were mostly female authors. My year of reading lots of women is still going strong!!
