My plan has been enacted and I have now finished the final fill of the 2016 book challenge! Now, I admit, the book I read was 120 pages long and written for a young audience, so temporally and intellectually I was going easy on myself, but trust me, in its own way this was a "book that intimidates you":

"Worlds of Power #3: Ninja Gaiden"

( Thoughts, Etc. )

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 )

"To oppose something is to maintain it ( Read more... )

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 )

I let the 2016 Book Challenge slide for quite a while, but I'm back on the case with the "book that was banned at some point":

"Candide" by Voltaire

( 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 )

I took a couple months off from the book challenge, but I'm back on the job with the "book published this year":

"Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars (Even When They Lose Elections)" by Stephen Prothero

Kind of a clickbaity title, huh?

( 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... )

My next fill in the 2016 Book Challenge is the "book published before you were born":

"Kindred" by Octavia Butler

( 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 BrownY'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 ( Read more... )