I so love Maria Davhana Headley and her book the Mere Wife, so I had to read this book. I decided to do it as an audiobook and holy shit JD Jackson is a fantastic narrator!! Fantastic!!
107. Bloody Acquisitions by Drew Hayes and read by Kirby Heyborne
I just love this series! :D
108. The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Taunton
So I loved The Seven and Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and even reread it this year! I had high hopes for this book in part because of that but also because it was set in the 1600s on a Dutch ship sailing from Indonesia to the Netherlands- something that I've no real experience with. It was all right.
109. The Colorado Kid by Stephen King
OMG!! I love the TV show Haven and rewatched it during the pandemic and decided I really needed to. And while it's so different I loved it!! I could totally hear Dave and Vince from the show as I read and it was delightful!!
110. Theme Music by T. Marie Vandelly and read by Sarah Mollo-Christensen
So this is such a scary-ass book and I could not stop listening to it!!! The narrator and main character is the sole survivor of an incredible family tragedy, but since she was an infant she doesn't remember it and has to rely on others to tell her about what happened. I don't want to say more but I was completely gripped by this story. There are things I saw coming but they were not "spoiled" for me because of all the elements that kept me guessing and on edge!
I've read 110 books and 80 were by woman, 25 were by men, 3 were anthologies by both women and men, 1 was by a nonbinary author, and 1 had no author listed. Additionally 10 1/2 were translations (although the book 3 American Indian Stories could be a translation as well). 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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