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The Relentless Moon, Mary Robinette Kowal
The Lady Astronaut series is one of my favorites. It has all the things I love in it – alternate history, outer space, strong women characters, and science fiction.
In this book, the third in the series, we follow Nicole Wargin, a fellow lady astronaut, while Elma York is off on Mars. She’s married to a politician and leaves him (along with a lot of complications) behind to go to the Moon. There was the same intrigue and excitement in this book, along with some twists and turns and a wonderful surprise at the end that made me smile so so much. Highly recommend this series.
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The Address Book, Deirdre Mask
I don’t read a lot of non-fiction usually, but this one grabbed my attention via the Goodreads Best Books of 2020 voting. As a person who loves writing letters, sending postcards, and checking my mailbox, the idea of addresses is a familiar one. The history of addresses isn’t something I’ve given much thought to, but Mask uncovers so much in this book. As a privileged person, I admit I’ve never considered what someone without an address might be lacking or how street names might affect how someone thinks of that neighborhood. This book contains a wealth of information that I still want to know even more about.
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The Downstairs Girl, Stacey Lee
I love historical fiction, and Stacey Lee doesn’t disappoint with her YA novels. What I liked about this one in particular is that Jo is a writer. She has to write anonymously, not only because she’s a woman but also because she’s Asian. It’s set in the South, and there’s some romance, some intrigue, and a lot of great historical fiction world development.
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Untamed, Glennon Doyle
I needed to read this book this year, and I’m so glad that I did. I regret mostly that I read a library ebook and didn’t have my own copy to mark up and highlight. Then again, it’s possible that I would have simply underlined the entire memoir.
I really appreciated how much Glennon’s story spoke to me this year, and I’m so glad she was brave and strong and wrote it all out for us.
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If We Were Villains, M.L. Rio
I feel like this is outside of my normal type of reading. It came recommended to me by way of the Plant-Based Bride YouTube channel. I like theater, Shakespeare, literature, and all things literary. I don’t so much like mystery novels, so I wasn’t sure how this was going to fall, but I ended up really liking it. There’s a lot of danger and revelations throughout, and I most appreciated the narrator and trying to decide just how unreliable the narration was with every page turn.
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You Had Me at Hola, Alexis Daria
This was a very fun romance to escape into in 2020. What I really liked about this was that it was set in the film and TV industry and discussed the use of an intimacy coordinator. Of course, I recognized that a lot of love scenes on screen were likely done more as choreography than anything else, but this was a great angle for the book to take. And of course, our main characters had their own off-set intimacy to, er, coordinate.