Welcome to Litsy!

I started reading this for the 2016 #readharder challenge but it'll work for the 2017 list too. Forbidden love and what one party does to try to save it. #2016ReadHarderChallenge #2017ReadHarderChallenge

This was REALLY good. I read it for a book set in the Middle East for the @bookriot #2016ReadHarderChallenge and I wasn't sure at first that it would catch me, but it did. It's about a computer genius on the run from state censors. He's given a mysterious and ancient book, seeks help from jinn, and tries to unlock the book's dangerous secrets. It's really a metaphysical thriller, which I'm not sure I've ever read before. Highly recommend!

Going down the home stretch with two books left to finish the #2016ReadHarderChallenge. Can it be done??

I chose this to fulfill the biography requirement for the #2016ReadHarderChallenge. I actually didn't know much about the Kennedy family, and certainly nothing about Rosemary, so I was intrigued.

Lots of interesting information in this one... unfortunately, it was very dry. Considering the subject matter, I would have thought it could have elicited a stronger emotional connection, but it fell short.

And with that, I have completed the #2016ReadHarderChallenge !! Ahh! Thanks @bookriot for a fun and interesting challenge. Looking forward to the 2017 one.

As for Lamb, it is a humorous and sweet book. A little too long at times. It's peppered throughout with biblical, historical and even some modern references. Biff is a personable narrator writing the Gospel where we find out what Joshua (Jesus) was doing from birth to 30.

Recommendations please! I have one book left to finish up Book Riot's #2016ReadHarderChallenge and it's the category I have put off all year - a biography (not a memoir or autobiography). I don't know why I'm struggling with this one, but I would love some recommendations for great biographies!

IT'S BAAA-AAAACK! We've just released the 2017 #ReadHarder challenge. Details here: https://bookriot.com/2016/12/15/book-riots-2017-read-harder-challenge

And for those of you doing the #2016ReadHarderChallenge, you still have 16 more days - keep up the good work! 🎉📚🤘🏻

#2017ReadHarderChallenge

This story is magical realism taken to an extreme. I loved that it seemed of our world at times and a completely made up and less technological one at others. Not a beach read, this will require some investment on your part. But the rewards are paid with interest. So happy I discovered this looking for an author from SE Asia for the Book Riot #2016ReadHarderChallenge

Doing the #2016ReadHarderChallenge? Here's a great recommendation for "Read a biography (not memoir)." Milford's astoundingly well-researched, in-depth look at one of America's most fascinating writers - Edna St. Vincent Millay - is a stunner. Such complex brilliance and fragility in one person. Here's the rest of challenge: http://bookriot.com/2015/12/15/2016-book-riot-read-harder-challenge

Wow.. Susan Faludi is a masterful writer and her father is a fascinating and elusive subject. Susan combines a journalist's objectivity and rigorous inquiry with a daughter's frustration and compassion. This is also a timely read since she investigates how xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and the far right took over Hungary in 1941 and are rising again. (Picture of Susan & Stefanie Faludi after Stefi's transition. Father is Stefi's preferred term.)