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24in48 Readathon - July 2017

24in48 Readathon – July 2017

I’ll be nerding out with the rest of the bookish intewebs and participating in the 24in48 Readathon this weekend. Seems unlikely I’ll make it all 24 hours, but I’m gonna give it my best! I only have a few minutes during my lunch break to sketch out my reading plan, so there will be no pretty TBR pile picture, just a list o’ books. The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee (on audio) The Wangs vs.…

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5 Months. 40 Books.

As previously discussed, the last five months have rough. Turns out when things get rough, I bury my head in a book. I read. A lot. Let’s catch up, shall we? Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell. Because I love Sarah Vowell AND, on the audiobook, Nick Offerman plays George Washington. Unf*ck Your Habitat: You’re Better Than Your Mess by Rachel Hoffman. Because my apartment was…

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Yes, of course we were pretentious--what else is youth for?

Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

#quotes #Julian Barnes #the sense of an ending

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“Don’t misunderstand me; I don’t want to die alone, but spending quality time with myself 60 to 70 percent of the day is my idea of mecca.” – from The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, by Issa Rae, now in paperback from Atria!

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Knowing this exists makes my world such a better place.

#introvert heaven

"True, if the two women had gone alone, people would surely have considered this very bad behavior; while no one could object to Mlle Danglars going to the opera with her mother and her mother's lover. One must take the world as it is."

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

#quotes #alexandre dumas #count of monte cristo

Misfortune is needed to plumb certain mysterious depths in the understanding of men; pressure is needed to explode the charge.

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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January 2017 Wrap-up

I’ve been setting a stellar pace for my 100-books-in-a-year-I-really-mean-it-this-time goal with nine books and counting finished, but I’ve been an utter failure at writing about any of these books. I apparently can only have discipline in one area at a time. Le sigh. Anyway, here are some bookish odds and ends, including mini reviews for the books I read and the months bookish happenings. Mini…

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My book club's next pick, just in time for Black History Month (yep! Alexandre Dumas was the son of a badass French general whose father was a nobleman and mother was a slave. Fun fact: per Wikipedia, his dad is the highest ranking person of African descent to have EVER served in a European army).

#currently reading #count of monte cristo #alexandre dumas #authors of color #classics

Recent addition to the TBR. Feels particularly timely on the day in which we learned that Frederick Douglass “is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice.”

#TBR #diverse reads #the fire this time #jesmyn ward

100 Essential Novels

For Christmas, a friend gave me this awesome 100 Essential Novels scratch-off poster. Because this is essentially nothing more than another overly-ambitious reading challenge to set myself, I had to immediately start scratching off the books I've read. 46 out of 50! Though I have no idea who chose these books or on what basis they were selected, I feel the irresistable urge to start adding all the unread books to my TBR and setting myself yet another reading challenge. Look how pretty it is though!

#book lists #reading challenge #100 essential novels #TBR

My Feminism TBR

Definitely nothing at all to do with today's events: My Feminism TBR

There’s definitely no particular reason at all why today seems like the day to post my feminism TBR list. Nope. Definitely. No. Reason. At. All. Fight Like a Girl by Laura Barcella. Because I’m embarrassingly ignorant of the history of feminism in some ways. From the Goodreads blurb: “Fight Like a Girl introduces readers to the history of feminist activism in the U.S. in an effort to celebrate…

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#booklist #feminism

The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

Who (wrote it)?: Shirley Jackson (1916-1965). American author author of horror classic, The Haunting of Hill House, and “The Lottery,” a short story every single teenager read in high school except for me. What (is it)?: It’s “The Lottery.” And short stories. These are mostly realistic, slice-of-midcentury-American-life stories with a dark, disturbing edge. When (are we)?: The title story was…

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#book review #Shirley Jackson #short stories

Bout of Books 18 Wrap-Up

Well, that was fast. Bout of Books 18 almost done, and sadly, I did not read All the Books. I did read a fair amount though. My goal of reading 26 hours went straight out the window when I ended up getting sick and just couldn’t be bothered to keep track of things. I also did absolutely zero social-media-ing about the readathon, but so it goes. I definitely read more than I would have otherwise,…

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Bout of Books 18

New Year, new readathon! Bout of Books was my first readathon, and I loved how it was low-key but still managed to drive me to read a whole bunch more. What is Bout of Books? Take it away Bout of Books team… The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, January 2nd and runs…

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2017 Popsugar Challenge

So, I failed at the 2016 Book Riot Read Harder Challenge. Am I going to let that keep me from taking on an even bigger challenge, like the 52 total tasks on the Popsugar challenge? Nope! Half (ok, two thirds) of the fun is the scavenger hunt, finding books that fulfill the tasks, so, even though these are likely not the books I’ll read, here are my choices for the challenge. A book recommended by…

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#book lists #popsugar challenge #reading challenges

Reading Resolutions for 2017

My overarching goal for 2017 (in books and beyond) is to simplify, so, with that in mind, here are my three reading resolutions for the year. 1. Read 100 books. A repeat of my 2016 resolution. A resolution at which I failed miserably. I am fully aware I might not reach this goal, but having such an ambitious number to work towards helped me read more last year. 2. Complete the 2017 Popsugar…

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#reading challenges

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