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angelicmobster8 ([personal profile] angelicmobster8) wrote2016-04-26 01:52 pm

Read Harder Challenge Progress

Book under 100 pages: Grumpy Cat Book
Read Aloud: The Catkins Diet (read to my cats)
Middle Grade: Blubber by Judy Blume
Mental Illness: The Crooked Heart of Mercy by Billie Livingston (First Reads win)
Book over 500 pages: The Passage by Justin Cronin
Horror: Book of the Damned by Tanith Lee
Read Book/Watch Movie: Under the Skin by Michael Faber (book was really good, movie was okay)
Audiobook: O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (the category is supposed to be audiobooks that won an award, but I can't download certain books yet)
Book set before 1900s: Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund (a fave)
Non-superhero comic published recently: Rat Queens
Post-Apocalyptic and/or Dystopia: Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Essays: Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

Notable Mentions of non-challenge books:

  1. Friends with Boys by Faith Erin Hicks

  2. Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel

  3. Emiko Superstar by Mariko Tamaki

  4. The Plain Janes by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg

  5. Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi

  6. Through the Woods by Emily Carroll

  7. The Dublin Murder Squad series

  8. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

  9. Black London: Life Before Emancipation by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina