As I read this book, I kept getting flashes of The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. LeGuin. They are not the same but The Lathe of Heaven is set in Oregon as is If, Then. A mountain (Mount Hood) is omnipresent in The Lathe of Heaven, as there is (Broken Mountain) in If, Then. There are these weird fractured realities in both The Lathe of Heaven and If, Then. With that said, the similarities fall away, but I gotta say I think that deepened my appreciation of this book!
42. The Future is Female! edited by Lisa Yaszek
When I heard about this book on Geek's Guide to the Galaxy, I knew I had to read it. I wondered if the stories would appeal or not, but I needed to read them. Quite a few really were amazing to me. A couple left me scratching my head, and only one was a story I had read before- Ursula K. Le Guin's Nine Lives of course!!
43. The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress by Ariel Lawhon
Funny story... I first learned of the infamous Judge Crater disappearance from an ESL grammar book! When I learned about this fictionalized account, I knew I had to read it! I loved it!
44. The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager
I'm in a horror bookclub and this month's book was The Last Time I Lied. I like this book. It isn't scary to me and not particularly deep, but I definitely enjoyed it and didn't see where it was going!
45. Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse
OMG!! I loved this book! I loved the first one, and I loved this one!!! So good! Now I will admit I had forgotten some details between reading Trail of Lightning and reading this one, but in my defense I read 97 books (and I'm not even sure how many I started but I know I read over 40% of at least 2 books) in between the two! I would say I would like to hear the audiobook since I don't know how to pronounce the Navajo words used in the story.
I've read 45 books so far and 32 were by women, 10 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!!
