Yu-Xuan's first ever challenge 2022

[Yu-Xuan]

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2. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
3. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
4. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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8. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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11. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
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14. Dear Nobody by Berlie Doherty
15. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
16. The Overstory by Richard Powers
17. We Are Bridges: A Memoir by Cassandra Lane

18. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
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20. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
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23. Seriously...I'm Kidding by Ellen DeGeneres
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25. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
26. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

27. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
28. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee ✔
29. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
30. The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue ✔

31. The Knife That Killed Me by Anthony McGowan
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33. Finders Keepers by Stephen King
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37. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
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40. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
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50. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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52. The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom

2022.04.02 first edited: 24 / finished: 1

[Yu-Xuan]

【To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee】finished date: 2022.02.04

This was the second time I read this book. When I got the book I was about 17. My language school teacher bought the book and we read it in class two days a week. At that time I hardly knew any American history and the racial problems in the world, and I was always so tired after school, so I had no interest in it and often fell asleep when we were reading in the language school.

It was after I took some classes of American Literature and African American Literature in college that I gradually understand and felt like rereading this book. I am so glad that I didn't just throw it away but kept it until now. It's fun to reread something I couldn't understand before, and I believe I'll read it again (and again) someday.

[Yu-Xuan]

【The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue】finished date: 2022.04.03

I love this book with my whole heart. I don't remember how many times I've reread this book, but I went back to it every few years. The first time I read it I was just 10, and I didn't know that it was not a book for children. I knew deeper about this book every time I reread it and fell in love with it repeatedly. This book has every element that I love.

A 100-year-old fairy kidnapped a 7-year-old boy and they changed identities from then on. Both of them tried hard to fit in with their new life and found their place in this world. As they grew older, they were eager to know who they really are. The struggle and the conflict of their own identity caught my eye, and the contradictory feelings of love and guilt melt my heart.

I'm still waiting for the movie.