The last October Daye book? Really? Say it isn't so!!! That's my review!
82. The Idiot by Elif Batuman and read by Elif Batuman
This book is so fascinating to me. Our narrator is a freshman at Harvard and it's very much a first year in college (though some of her classes don't seem like freshman courses!!) which is interesting. But she studies linguistics and she teaches ESL in Boston and Hungary and man! I loved these parts!!
83. Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland and read by Inés del Castillo
I'm not sure how I stumbled upon this book but it's awesome!! It's a YA sci-fi set in Arizona and it's a fantastic read! It has ICE and aliens and love and high school and cacti! It's a fun read with lots of heart.
84. Bewitched by Darynda Jones
Book 2!! So happy! Darynda books make me happy! Darynda books set in Salem, Mass with ghosts, shapeshifters, magic, and a black cat named Ink! I'm there!! I'm thrilled for book three and sad for book three because that apparently will be the end of this series! Sigh!
85. Miss Meteor by Tehlor Kay Mejia & Anna-Marie McLemore and read by Kyla Garcia & Almarie Guerra
So first, I don't know how this happened but this is what happened. This is a fun YA sci-fi set in Arizona. It's got aliens, love, high school, cacti, and corn hole. So while it's a good book I had some whiplash listening to this book on the heels of listening to Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything, especially since I didn't mention that the protagonists in both books are Mexican American teens. So they're both great and might very well scratch your YA sci-fi itch! Or if you're like me, you can never get enough sci-fi, especially sci-fi with awesome female protagonists!
I've read 85 books and 61 were by woman, 15 were by men, 3 were anthologies by both women and men, 1 was by a nonbinary author, and 9 1/2 were translations. My year of reading lots of women and at least 12 translations is going well in that I've read mostly female authors, but the world is going through a pandemic and state sanctioned murders in the form of police brutality with a horrible man still at the helm and supported by horrible men in the Congress. In short this year has been really rough. What will this global health crisis leave us with? What changes will we make, not only in terms of the huge inequities of our health system where people of color and the poor (which let's face it- the system works really hard to ensure that people of color, especially black people, are poor) are more than extremely disadvantaged, but also all the other ways in which our society, our systems, actively damage people of color? Only time will tell. But I hope it is a greater sense of community, a need to care for one and another and support each other, not just people with the same colored skin as ourselves, not just people with the same sized wallet as ours. My naive? hope is all of this isolation leaves us wanting to lift each other up and not hold others down.
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