The Book of Etta | 
so-soThis took me a month to finish. I just didn't find it as interesting as The Book Of The Unnamed Midwife. Maybe Book 3 will be better? All I really know is I won't start Book 3 for a while. I need a pallete cleanser before trying again. 😕 #MarvelousMarch
It is that time of year again. As a homemaker I don't have much to offer other than my signature. My husband and our accountant are working out a whole crypto situation and I sit here reading, so happy to have the Kindle app because I left my paperwhite sitting on the table next to "my" chair.
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What I Loved: Etta‘s struggle with who she really is.
How I Felt: This book wasn‘t as gritty and great as the first, but it is still a great read.
Read or Not Read: Book 2 in a series, so go to Book 1 first!
Small tribes of people survive after an epidemic. Birth rates are poor. Men outnumber women. Etta is a scavenger and encounters The Lion, stealing women and makes a choice to stop the Lion at all costs.
so-soThese are the 2nd and 3rd books in 'The road to nowhere' series. I liked them but not as much as the 1st book, 'The book of the unnamed midwife'.
They brought up a lot of different ideas about gender in a world surviving and evolving after being wiped out by a deadly plague. The story and characters needed work they felt under developed.
pickThis entire series is incredible. I usually plan my library days every two weeks, but for this I actually put it on hold and made a special trip. I'm not transgender, but I feel very much that I relate to Etta. He feels forced to be not himself when he's around his community, and I think that's a difficult feeling. Highly recommend all three books.
pickSoo sooo sooo good! I have been flying thru this series. Two books in 6 days is fast for me and a sign that these books are FABULOUS! Etta/Eddy is a strong character and I was routing for her the entire book! In a world where things are hard and cruel she goes above and beyond to do what‘s right. This book shows differences in all kinds of people that leaves you with an open mind. I‘m headed to get the third before I go away this weekend!
pickGreat follow up to The Book of the Unnamed Midwife. A tough read because of so many trigger warnings but definitely worth the read. I couldn‘t put it down. I‘m happy that the third installment is out now!
This came in sooner than I thought it would and I‘m so stoked! I flew thru the first book in 3 days and can‘t wait to see what journey this book is going to lead me on! Unlike the first book where the main character was a midwife, Etta is a scavenger who tries to save the lives of women and children who have been taken by brutal slave traders after the great plague that wiped away the world of almost all women and children! Can‘t wait! #SeriesRead
pickThe sequel to The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, this book begins 100+ years after the first book. Elison has had to do post-apocalyptic world building for this, which I love. Etta lives in Nowhere, a town founded by the Unnamed Midwife, who is revered. Etta is a raider/scavenger—she must disguise herself as a man, since there is continued problems with pregnancy and birth, and surviving girls are unusual. A good read.
Lovedddd it! I feel like this a great book club read and has a lot of discussion points.
#apocalypse
@FantasyChick Here is some comfort and understanding from my Etta May and myself 💚
#NuYear This is book two from The Book of the Unnamed MidWife series...it‘s set in the near future where women are a scarce “commodity.” Etta is a #warrior she roams the desolate land searching & rescuing relics of the past and braving the threat of brutal slave traders, who are capturing women and girls to sell and subjugate. This could be read as a stand alone, but I enjoyed book one more. Book three is in the works 🧝🏼♀️🧝🏼♀️🧝🏼♀️
Reposting this interview from the @LitsyFeministBookClub page! We are reading BOOK OF THE UNNAMED MIDWIFE this month and Ellison agreed to answer a few questions for us on dystopia, feminism, and preparing for a disaster:
https://booksthatshookus.com/2017/12/19/elison-interview/
bailed🎧 I started this one 2 weeks ago and I‘ve been ghosting it since. Listening to it feels like a chore through no fault of the narrator. I just find the pace sluggish and the writing a bit turgid. It‘s time to move on to something more promising. Why did I get it in the first place when I thought ‘The Book of the Unnamed Midwife‘ was just “So-So?” #Blameitonaudiblesales
🎧 Next up: Sequel to ‘The Book of the Unnamed Midwife‘, IIRC this story is set in a post-apocalyptic world devastated by “the Women‘s disease” which kills child-bearing women and their newborns. This is from the POV of a character readers meet in the first “Road to Nowhere” book and the audiobook is narrated by Adenrele Ojo.
pickThis book takes place 100 years after the first in a city called Nowhere which treats the diary of the midwife as their bible. Etta dresses like a man (Eddy) when she goes outside the city to raid as it is still dangerous to be a woman on the road with the threat of slavers. She meets people very different from herself, changing her perception of the way of life created since the collapse of the "old world".
I think it's time to read this sequel before I get pulled in to all my Halloween reads 👻
pickThough I enjoyed the first book more, this was good, and I'm definitely looking forward to the last installment...curious how this is going to wrap up!
Review soon to come.
#thebookofetta #thebookoftheunnamedmidwife #audiobook
pickThought provoking in some interesting ways. Different than the first book, but compelling and well written.
pickAs book number two of a trilogy it's a pick ~ as a stand alone, it's a so-so. I found this story less captivating than book one, and the writing was not on par. Etta's story was bleak and the story had some underlying messages, which felt forced. I'm curious if book three will wrap things up. Overall a pick and I'm looking forward to the final installment.
#RockinMay Day 30?My latest read is definitely a #WildWorld woman are rare, a valuable commodity...Men hunt and enslave them, keeping them as future "breeders". In Book two, our heroine is a slave raider...freeing woman and girls & slaying their captors. So far this book is dark and bleak. I'm riveted but not fully smitten like I was with book one ~ Book of the Unnamed Midwife. ?"But just remember there's a lot of bad and beware" ?
Enjoying the beautiful weather and my new read! Book two of The Unnamed Midwife is off to a promising start.
#FridayFlowers + #BookMail = JOY 😇Wishing Ya'll a wonderful weekend
Just finished this, a great follow up and I'm looking forward to seeing how the trilogy ends.
Very deep themes in this one about gender roles, feminism etc.
pick"Maybe you just show up one day and everyone thinks you're part of a story that's already happening and what you really think doesn't matter." • Incredibly powerful and a worthy sequel to The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, dark and gripping. I won't say more for fear of spoilers, but if you like #dystopian fiction & don't mind it dark, you should absolutely check out this series. • ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
Current situation. 👌🏻 • Finally got down to the swing for some creekside reading. No sign of the duck duo, but I did watch a blue jay take a bath in the creek. It's so peaceful here, I wish I could take it with me. • #areadwithaview #springbreakreads #roadtripreads
Switching books... and tech. • #areadwithaview #litsypartyofone #roadtripreads #kindle #becausesometimesitsjusteasiertoeread
pickI wish we had gotten to see more of Etta's society and I am not sure I liked it as much as the first but overall still a great read.
pickI stayed up way too late in order to finish this. It was so unbelievably dark that I'm surprised I was able to read it. If you can stand the dark subject matter then I highly recommend it. Now I have to wait for the third one! #LitsyAtoZ @BookishMarginalia
"...I bet every little city has a man like the Lion, someone who climbed to the top using women as the stairs." I am having trouble articulating why I loved the first book in this series so much and how engrossed I am in the second now, but this quote may help a little.
pickThis was, if possible, even darker than Book of the Unnamed Midwife, but just as excellent. I all but inhaled it, and it seems there's going to be a third book. One of the best dystopian series I've read.
pickHow good was this!! Exciting, insightful, and stark. Gender issues also feature strongly in this, in different ways - not just the precarious existence of the women where they are by and large seen as commodities or brood mares. Not a book for the faint hearted as there is some quite unpleasant stuff in here, but even so, I thoroughly enjoyed it! Bring on the Book of Flora!!
This interview with Meg Elison was quite interesting (and there will be a third and final book in the series!): http://www.unboundworlds.com/2017/02/meg-elison-reveals-book-etta-came/?cdi=3060...
They arrived the same day, the much anticipated first grandchild and The Book of Etta! We will be sure to cultivate an early and deep love of reading in this little darling!
Needless to say, I haven't gotten to actually start reading it yet though!!
It's not such a bad life when all you have to worry about is the fact that you're trying to squeeze in reading two novels and a graphic novel at the same time (eldest son had a good appointment with his orthopaedic Consultant yesterday, so we're all a bit giddy 😆)....
Anyone else think that books are like buses? You wait for ages for one, then they all seem to come along at the same time... it's a good job that it's the school holidays! Oh, wait a minute, I have children to entertain 😫
It's out! 🎉🎉🎉
It's midnight somewhere, so look what arrived in my kindle app! Must. Not. Start. Reading. Tonight. I'm so exhausted from housework and work-work, but eeeeeeee! SO excited.
