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2019 Read Harder Challenge Plans
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Task #3: A book by a woman and/or AOC (Author of Color) that won a literary award in 2018
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Task #2: Read a retelling of a classic of the canon, fairytale, or myth by an author of color
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#3: Read any book from the Women’s Prize shortlist/longlist/winner list.
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Watch me discuss this book in my February wrap up: https://youtu.be/64B3hHASPk8
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This is the first Shamsie book I've managed to finish, which is a shame because I love her actual sentences but she's always lost me when she jumps settings/characters from one time point to another. This novel is much more intimate, more compressed so I didn't feel like I was starting over with each section. It is a heart-breaking story about fanaticism on both sides of the terrorism divide, the hard-liners that create policies that condemn those who step out of line. The last 20 pages or so ar
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Winner, 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction
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