This book wasn't even on my radar until a "pen pal" of mine mentioned she had just finished reading it, and it was amazing! Well, I just finished it, and it is amazing! It's haunting and gripping and devastating. It is a fairy tale. It's about fairy tales. It's an examination of fairy tales. It's beautiful and gruesome just like a fairy tale. It's about monsters and glamours. It's about parenthood. It's about marriage. It's about being a black man in America. It's about New York. It hurt to read this. It was beautiful.
87. Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
Listen, I've been a long-time fan of Pop Culture Happy Hour and so of course had to read this!! And it was awesome!! I laughed! I cried!! I love this story!! But I will confess... Every time Andy spoke I heard Stephen Thompson's voice. Sorry! I read the acknowledgements- I know it's not based on your friendship.... and yet!!
88. Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
This is my third book by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Signal to Noise & Certain Dark Things). I loved the premises of all of these books, but perhaps my expectations were too high fort he first two. I liked them but wanted to love them. This book is by far my favorite of hers. My friend was stationed in Merida, Mexico for a time, and I visited her twice while she was there. Since this book takes place in part there, I was pretty jazzed. The fact that it draws on Mayan mythology thrilled me.
89. Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton
I heard about this book on the podcast All the Books and knew it was one I had to check out. I love, love, love reading stories with non-human narrators!!!!! But man, is it way more awesome than I thought! I looooooooooooooooooooove this book!! It's sooooooo good!! I had a terrible time choosing which quote to pick. I settled on this one because I think it ties in nicely to the idea of having a non-human narrator. It's sooooooooooooo goood!! Read this book! Not to be bossy but omg!! So goood!!!!
90. The Archive of Alternate Endings by Lindsay Drager
I love novellas and I think that's why I got this book. It's an oddly nice companion piece to Hollow Kingdom. While I don't want to give anything away, I will say there's a little through line that dovetails nicely. At first blush it seems like it's going to be a collection of alternate endings to the folktales collected by the brothers Grimm. But well, it's a novella, and you'll just have to see for yourself!
I've read 90 books so far and 65 were by woman, 22 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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