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Reading Challenges Journal: Let's Do Some Reading Challenges! | J&c Publishing

I did the thing! No, I did ALL THE THINGS. With Her Body and Other Parties, I finished the #readingwomen2019 #readingwomen challenge. This joins #aussiesrule2019 and #readharder2019 #readharder on my completed challenges for 2019! And I'm on track to meet my Goodreads Challenge - currently 4 books ahead.

Crinoline_Laphroaig WOO HOO! 🎉🎉🎉 5y

MidnightBookGirl Congratulations!!! 🏆 5y

Jas16 🙌🏽 5y

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Scochrane26 That‘s a lot of challenges. I‘ve only done one a year & didn‘t really do any this year. 5y

BookmarkTavern Wow! That‘s amazing! 🎉🎉🎉 5y

Lauredhel @Scochrane26 I find them useful to keep my reading a bit more diverse 5y

SaturnDoo 🎉👏🎉 yay!!!! Nice BUJO ❤❤❤ 5y

Redwritinghood 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 5y

Bookzombie Congratulations!!! 5y

Reggie Woohoo!!! 5y

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Lauredhel

Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life | Stephanie Staal

Having finished #readharder2019 and #aussiesrule2019, I move on toward finishing #readingwomen2019. Here is my challenge so far. Any recs for books in Appalachia, Lambda winners,books from 2018 Reading Women shortlist? Prefer SF, YA, romance, maybe mystery /thriller.

Lindy You might enjoy this Lambda winner:

The Gilda Stories

Butterfinger Congratulations on your finished challenges. I should know some titles for the Appalachia prompt. I'm thinking Kingsolver wrote one that we had to read in college (History of Appalachia course), but it was 20 years ago. 5y

Lindy PS. Ignore the book description when you link to The Gilda Stories. They aren‘t personal essays. Well, maybe they are, if the person writing them is an African American vampire who has lived for centuries. 5y

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Scochrane26 For Appalachia, you could count The Animators- it‘s partly set in the area. Or kingsolver—animal, vegetable, miracle. George Ella Lyon writes poetry and shorter books, I like With a hammer for a heart. I might think of others in a few min. 5y

Scochrane26 I knew I was forgetting an important one—Kim Michele Richardson wrote The Book woman of Troublesome Creek. She has a few others, but I think this is her best one. And a nonfiction one I like is What we‘re getting wrong about Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte (?). (edited) 5y

Lauredhel @Lindy @Butterfinger @Scochrane26 thanks for the recs 5y

Butterfinger Denise Giardini was the other one we read for my Appalachia course. 5y

Laughterhp I‘m trying to read this one for Lambda winner

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Laughterhp I read this for the Shortlist

Terra Nullius: a novel

Lauredhel @Laughterhp oh yes I've read Terra Nullius long ago, it was amazing. Got a signed copy of The Old Lie at a Coleman author event last week! 5y

Jillylovesbooks I read this for the Lambda winner

Under the Udala Trees

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Lauredhel

The Australian Challenge. [With plates.] | John Arlott

I did it! My #aussiesrule2019 challenge is complete! @Sue Recced: many of them, but esp the Bouchani, Amelia Westlake, Maralinga, Blakwork, A Single Stone, You Must Be Layla. AoC count : I think ten?

Not for me: Utopian man, Australian Heist, All That I Am, Boy Swallows Universe. Only critique of the challenge : too many categories forcing a Literary read. Would prefer more open/imagination-encouraging prompts. But that's my genre bias!

RealBooks4ever Congratulations! 🎉💜 5y

Lizpixie Well done you!👏👏👏👏👏 5y

Sue Yay! Congratulations!!! 🏆 And with 3 months to spare! 5y

Lauredhel @Sue I was happy! I'm on track to finish all four of my challenges this year. 5y

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Lauredhel

White Lies | Witi Ihimaera

I got up to the Maori-author prompt in my #aussiesrule2019 challenge, but bounced off The Bone People. So on impulse I picked up White Lies, which is Ihimaera's rewriting of his earlier story Medicine Woman. It's a deeply striking story of a Maori healer. Multiple women are in the position of having to make terrible choices thanks to society's racism. Parts are awful, but there's a hopeful ending.

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Lauredhel

Australian Heist | James Phelps

#aussiesrule2019 challenge progress: 11/24. Not terrible.

Sue Looking good! 6y

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Lauredhel

Australian Heist | James Phelps

Reading this true crime for the #aussiesrule2019 challenge.

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Sue

Dyschronia | Jennifer Mills

Folks, I‘ve put some helpful lists up on the blog for #aussiesrule2019 - doddyaboutbooks.com 😊

Also this book is delightful and you should check it out.

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Sue

A Long Way from No Go | Tjanara Goreng Goreng

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#aussieapril
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Izai.Amorim That‘s really distressing. I didn‘t know about it. 6y

Sue @Izai.Amorim Very distressing! It‘s not something I‘ve seen widely discussed in the mainstream. Owning that fact and talking about it would make it impossible for the government to treat the Indigenous people the way that they do. Much easier to ignore the generations of systematic abuse and trauma and the effects. Both criminal and heart breaking. 6y

Izai.Amorim @Sue I found the fact they have similar symptoms as children of alcoholics very shocking. The suggestion of mixing Western psychotherapy and their own spiritual healing rituals very good. We can only hope that people in power will see the light someday... 6y

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Sue

The Wife Drought | Annabel Crabb