I read gobs and gobs of Nancy Drews as a child, but I never revisited them. And I never would have quiet frankly if it were my book club's pick for this month. It's short and easy to read. She is a great empowered teen (18! I didn't remember her age at all), and that's fantastic. But I see Phryne Fisher as the grown-up version and much prefer that. Still, I think it was great I had Nancy all those years ago as young girl.
77. Her Halloween Treat by Tiffany Reisz
I heard about this book on Get Booked and just had to get it! And my ever-so beautiful library had it and I devoured this book!! So if you like very subtle romance novels, walk away- this one isn't for you! If you like steamy consensual sex with lots of uses of the f-word then this book is for you! I mean one sex scene crossed chapters! But what I really liked about this one was the resolution of the problems, her humor, and her strength.
78. Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith
I heard about this book on Get Booked and was super interested! This is a YA book (not my usually thing) set in Kansas where the narrator is navigating high school. She's got a great, loving family, but she's still the new kid, and she's native in a fairly white school district. So while she's got a pretty wonderful life in many ways, she's still got to handle dating and finding the people she wants to be with. I loved all the Wizard of Oz stuff in this book, and like the characters in this book, I have a pretty complicated relationship with Oz and Baum, so I appreciated the discussion in this book about that.
79. Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water by Vylar Kaftan
When I started this novella, I had flashbacks to The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling because this story begins with a woman cave climbing. It quickly becomes clear it's not like that story, but it has a mystery at its heart too. And unraveling that mystery with the narrator is awesome! I definitely enjoyed this book for reasons that I feel will give too much away to state here... but there is a question of identity and trust in here that were fascinating to me.
80. Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson
I've been on a Tor.com novella kick, and it's a time-travel, so I had to read this one! It took me a bit to get into this one, which I can't explain why. I certainly enjoyed the contrast between the distant future and the distant past. My favorite part was the ethics of time travel part.
I've read 80 books so far and 57 were by woman, 20 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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