Jamie at Perpetual Page-Turner has a year end survey. It is extensive so I’m only going to answer a few questions. There are other ones that I’ll be covering next week in my end of year wrap-up.
Most surprising (in a good way or bad way) book you read?
Thank God He Pulled It Off
The Aeronaut’s Windlass by Jim Butcher
On paper this isn’t a book that I should be interested in. I don’t care about steampunk airship captains. But, this is Jim Butcher and I will read anything he writes, so I trusted him and downloaded the audiobook.
I Don’t Like Mysteries
Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This book turned out to be much more than a mystery. This is the story of a Palestinian man living in Saudi Arabia and having to confront his attitudes about women while helping a family investigate a murder.
I Don’t Like Contemporary YA Either
Five Flavors of Dumb by Antony John
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
A deaf girl takes on the challenge of marketing a rock band.
Feminist friendly Regency Romance and Self Published
The Suffragette Scandal by Courtney Milan
I ended up reading three more of her books this year.
Book You “Pushed†The Most People To Read?
The Book I Pushed On Everyone
The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Every time there was a discussion about “I don’t know where to start reading authors who aren’t white” I would recommend this book.
I love Courtney Milan! She’s definitely in my top 5 romance authors (which is now actually pooled from a lot of authors instead of say….literally 5 authors. Yay for reading loads of romance this year!) And I keep meaning to read The Summer Prince, damn it! I think you’ve actually recommended it to me before – it’s literally everything I keep saying I want to see in my sci-fi/fantasy. The good news is that my library has it, so maybe I’ll read it this year!
Courtney Milan is amazing. I’m so impressed that she self-publishes too. Yes, get The Summer Prince. I like Alaya Dawn Johnson’s Zephyr Hollis series too about vampires and jinn in 1920s New York City. Have you read Nnedi Okorafor? Her sci/fantasy has the same kind of themes.
Love that you’re taking your time with this survey. It was quite extensive. Mine shall be posted tomorrow 🙂 Also why haven’t I heard of Five Flavors of Dumb before now? As an ASL Interpreting student I would love to read that. Plus you gave it 4 stars – sounds promising.