Interesting! I will have to give Perez’s book a look!

Honestly, if I reread a lot of the productivity books that I love, I probably would find them all to be heavily gender biased. Deep Work kind of got the raw deal because I read it right after reading Caroline Criado Perez’s Invisible Women, and now I notice gender-bias everywhere I look.

Very excited to read The Pull of the Stars. I loved this author’s previous novels, Room and The Wonder, tho Akin was a DNF for me. High hopes for this new one from her.

Also excited to hear that you loved Mexican Gothic!!!! I cannot wait to read this one. I’m hoping it comes in from the library very soon!

I actually loved The Book of Longings for the reasons you didn’t like it: I love that it focused on the human side of Jesus, and I thought having Ana miss the “miracles” was a clever way of avoiding validating Jesus’s divinity one way or the other. I also think that, as general historical fiction, it was richly detailed and immersive. It did take me a few chapters to get into it, though. I’m glad I kept with it!! My book review for this one will go live in October.

I adored The Gown. This was a book that got me out of a reading slump during quarantine this winter. I’ve been doubling down on historical fiction this year, it seems. Maybe because I’ve finally found a slew of books that aren’t WW2 centered. Tho the The Gown touches on it a little bit, I could take it.