This book has been getting so much positive praise that I had planned on reading it. Then books came to me and this one receded. Then suddenly I put it on hold and got it. The day after I got it (but before I started it), a friend said, "I'm reading a young adult book titled the Hazelwood. I really like it and would recommend!" Clearly the time to read this book was now. And so I did! And I love it!!
47. Time Salvager by Wesley Chu
I'm not sure how I heard about this book, but I'm sure the fact that it is a time travel novel is what caught my eye. It's an interesting dystopian novel set far into the future, where time travelers mine the past for resources, making sure to protect the integrity of the timeline. A little violent in places for me and a little male for me in places but overall really enjoyable!
48. Invited by Jennifer McMahon
This is a ghost story set in Vermont. Nuff said!! Sign me up!! Then I stated reading it, and the book is broken up into sections like foundation, framing, insulation and drywall, floors and trim, and finish work (there are more but this is just a list of examples). Well, as I'm in the middle of garage conversion where everything was completely demo'd and then built from the pouring of the foundation up, I found this element of the book way more compelling than I could have ever foreseen. The book opens with Hattie and then she dies. I was completely bummed because I love Hattie, but it's a ghost story so someone has to die to have a ghost...
49. An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten and translated by Marlaine Delargy
I heard about this book on All the Backlist and just had to check it out! It is a super fast, fun read. It is a short collection of short stories about an elderly lady that has a penchant for murder!! I especially loved the first one, An Elderly Lady has Accommodations Problems, but I also liked the fact that two of the stories are totally related.
50. The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
I got this book for free from Tor.Com and I guarantee I would have not have picked this book up otherwise. I'm trying to read mostly women, horror is not my go-to-genre, and I'm really not enthralled with HP Lovecraft. But this book was great!! I really enjoyed it! I didn't feel it was horror until near the end and I was already hooked! I loved Victor LaValle's depiction of NY in the '20s, and I just felt the main character Tommy Tester was someone I would want to know.
I've read 50 books so far and 35 were by women, 12 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!!
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