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Read Harder Challenge Plans: 2016
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Task #24: An assigned book you hated (or never finished)
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#8: Read a classic written by a POC.
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Task #2: Read one of your favorite author’s favorite books.
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I think this is my third or forth reread and I feel like it handed my ass to me yet again. This time I read it in conversation with other books I read this month (The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter, Ballad of Black Tom, Long Division). I definitely did not understand the stuff about white topped social justice organizing on previous reads in the way I did this time through. I also thought really differently about the ways black and white women are treated, the desire to possess or destroy them,
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