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Into the home stretch of the 2016 Book Challenge! My next to last fill is the "book you previously abandoned":

"The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. LeGuin

( Thoughts and Challenge Progress )

Now, this does leave me with only three days for the final fill, the "book that intimidates you," but I have a plan and I think I can do it.

Cover me, I'm going in (soon).

My latest fill in the 2016 Book Challenge is the "book you should have read in school." As things turned out I interpreted it less as "book that should have been assigned reading" than as "book I wish to goddesses I'd had when I was that age," but here it is:

"Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls" by Jes Baker (aka The Militant Baker)

( Thoughts and Challenge Progress )

My latest fill in the 2016 Book Challenge is the "book you own but have never read." OMG SO MANY OF THESE YOU GUYS. But the one I went with:

"A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael" by Ellis Peters

( Thoughts and Challenge Progress )

First, random note, Natsume Yuujinchou is getting another season! OMG I'm so happy!!

But anyway, book challenge.

I'm late logging this one, but my latest fill was the "book you've already read at least once":

"A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" by Mary Wollstonecraft

( Thoughts and challenge progress... )

After noted delays and other assorted slowdowns, my fourth fill in the 2016 Reading Challenge is at long last the "book you've been meaning to read":

"Rising Strong" by Brene Brown

Y'all probably know I'm a fan, and this book was her unknowing birthday gift to me last year; the release date lined up quite closely, so as one of my presents I dragged the parents to a B&N and had them buy it for me, and only now did I get around to reading it.

Her previous books were about showing up bravely in your life, but as she openly says, if you're brave enough often enough, you're going to get your ass kicked.

This is the book about what you do then.

It's as awesome and brain-rearranging as the others, and I find it perhaps her most practical book so far.

Beyond that, I'll let the author speak for herself:


( Challenge progress and what's next )

My latest fill in the 2016 Book Reading Challenge is the "book chosen for you by a loved one" (which as mentioned last time is broadening the stated parameter a bit, but I think acceptably). My Mom and I traded small stacks of books that the other could read any or all of*, and in my case I picked just one:

The book: "Amaryllis" by Jayne Castle (aka Jayne Ann Krentz)

( Thoughts under the cut... )

*In case anyone's curious about the stack I gave Mom, it contained: "The Gifts of Imperfection" and "Daring Greatly" by Brene Brown (looks like Mom's working on Gifts now), "Guards! Guards!" by Terry Pratchett (the binge-read was in part pre-screening it for her), and "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau (if you've ever wanted a post-apocalyptic story that was, like, cozy and hopeful...).

Yesterday I scratched off my first entry in the 2016 Book-Reading Challenge: the "book you can finish in a day." I appreciate the flexibility that it says a book you "can" finish in a day not necessarily a book that you "do" finish in a day, but, just for fun, I took it as a challenge to binge-read a book in one day and to make it something of an undertaking. So I decided yesterday was my day, and I ended up staying up mildly late finishing, but I did it.

The book: "Guards! Guards!" by Terry Pratchett.

( Thoughts under the cut... )