This book is amazing! There are so many reasons why and so what follows is a stream of consciousness of order and not necessarily in order of importance. One the cover is AMAZING!! It is so beautiful!! I just love looking at it!!! Second the history of this book is so incredible. It was a song and became this book and will hopefully continue to grow. The way I first learned about this book is via this Switched on Pop podcast episode. Third River Solomon writes such a heartbreaking story that while sad wasn't oppressive, which I was afraid of... It's truly beautiful from its origin story to its music to its characters to its writing to its cover to its potential! Read this book!! I didn't really tell you anything about it. It's basically a science fiction alternative world slave narrative-sort of. It's based on the utterly horrific, terrifying, devastating true practice of throwing pregnant abducted women overboard on the trip from Africa to the Americas because they were too much trouble. So what if those women gave birth to babies that could survive and thrive in the ocean? What would that society be? It's incredible!! But the way this story came into being is amazing! It's collaboration at its most beautiful- well, the narrative being told about its origin is beautiful!
12. My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time by Liz Jensen
A time travel book from a Danish prostitute in the 1800s perspective! It's really fascinating. It's fascinating learning about Denmark in the 1890s and reading her perspective on the world. It's pre-the-metoo-movement and it was written pre-the-metoo-movement as well and I couldn't stop thinking about that as I read it. A little HG Wells and a whole lot of fascinating!
13. Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
I was very excited to read this book, especially because there's been a spate of articles about horesback riding librarians. This book was good, but I did it as an audio and that's not my preferred method for reading. I might have to revisit this book at a later date.
14. Blind Date with a Book Boyfriend by Lucy Eden
This is a cute novella about love found in the bookstore. They have some trials and tribulations but in the end love conquers all!
15. The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Kahn
Holy crap!!!! This book is awesome!! Awesome!!! It starts out like a murder mystery novel. But it ends up being so much more, and if you like learning about history in your fiction, this is for you! The writing is so engaging, and I learned so much. You might not be of an age to remember the Bosnian genocide or maybe you are. I am and this book told me some things I forgot and some things I never knew, but all of it was fascinating. I was worried this would be too much for me, but it is so well-written, so engaging, so "I want to know what happens next" that I really just devoured this book!! I've been recommending it left and right and am really interested in reading book two in this series!!
I've read 15 books and 14 were by woman, 1 was by a man, and 1 was a translation. My year of reading lots of women and at least 12 translations is going well so far!
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