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  1. KevM

    Reading Challenge/Goals for 2024

    My February books: 23) The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde – Memoir/Feminism. 5/5 24) Rufus Estes' Good Things to Eat: The First Cookbook by an African-American Chef – Food. 3.5/5 25) Mirror to America by John Hope Franklin – Autobiography. 4.25/5 26) Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson...
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    Reading Challenge/Goals for 2024

    January reads: 1) Hagar Poems by Mohja Kahf – Poetry. 4.5/5 2) Artificial Condition by Martha Wells – Sci-Fi. 5/5 3) The Yellow Rose by Nobuko Yoshiya, Sarah Frederick (translator) – Short Story/Shojo Shosetsu. 3.5/5 4) The Book of (More) Delights: Essays by Ross Gay – Essays. 5/5 5)...
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    Reading Challenge/Goals for 2024

    I recently started this series. I’m two books in and have found both books to be excellen.
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    The Running Thread--2024

    ATTQOTD New Year’s Resolution: My running has been extremely inconsistent the last 2-21/2 years. So my only real running goal this year is to get and maintain a consistent running habit. My other main health goal is getting my cholesterol down without medication. When I went for my physical a...
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    Reading Challenge/Goals for 2024

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    Reading Challenge/Goals for 2024

    Thanks for doing this again. I’ll start with a goal of 104.
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    Reading Challenge/Goals for 2023--2024 link added

    End of the month wrap up: 270) Rifqa by Mohammed el-Kurd – Poetry. 4.5/5 271) Love Is an Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar – Memoir. 4/5 272) Water & Salt: Poems by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha – Poetry. 5/5 273) Palestinian Walks: Farays Into a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh – Memoir/Travel/Politics...
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    Reading Challenge/Goals for 2023--2024 link added

    End of the month wrap up. 241) Cherokee America by Margaret Verble – Historical Fiction. 3.25/5 242) Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty Krawec – History/Social Justice. 5/5 243) The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of...
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    Reading Challenge/Goals for 2023--2024 link added

    October reads: 199) The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde – Short Story/Classic/Fantasy. 4.5/5 200) Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey – History/Horror. 3.5/5 201) Sparrow Hill Road by Seanan McGuire – Fantasy. 4.25/5 202) Rust in the Root by Justina Ireland – YA...
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    Reading Challenge/Goals for 2023--2024 link added

    End of the months = my monthly wrap up. 168) One Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay in America by Saru Jayaraman – Labor/Social Justice. 4.5/5 169) Half of the World in Light by Juan Felipe Herrera – Poetry. 4/5 170) The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age by Jake S...
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    Reading Challenge/Goals for 2023--2024 link added

    My end of the month wrap up: 140) Book of the Edge by Ece Temelkuran, Deniz Perin (translator) – Poetry. 4/5 141) Girl in the Woods: A Memoir by Aspen Matis – Memoir. 3.25/5 142) The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer – Contemporary. 3/5 143) Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence –...
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    The Running Thread—2023

    Not going to get a run in tomorrow so my July totals: 55 miles 10h 50m 11:49 ave mile/hr My highest total since January. I have signed u for a couple races, including the Philly marathon so I should be getting back into a routine
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    Reading Challenge/Goals for 2023--2024 link added

    I am not going to finish another book between tonight and tomorrow, so here are my July reads: 114) Xingu: And Other Stories by Edith Wharton – Short Stories/Classic/Humor. 3.5/5 115) The Cape May Garden by Claudia Vance – Contemporary/Romance. 3.5/5 116) Bodymap: Poems by Leah Lakshmi...
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    Reading Challenge/Goals for 2023--2024 link added

    My June reads: 92) Gender Queer: a Memoir by Maia Kobabe Memoir/Graphic Novel. 4.75/5 93) The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta – YA Contemporary. 4.5/5 94) De Profundis by Oscar Wilde – Classic/Letter/Memoir. 4/5 95) We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film by Tre’vell...
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    Reading Challenge/Goals for 2023--2024 link added

    Ok, not going to get another book done by tomorrow, so this month' reads: 77) I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are by Rachel Bloom – Memoir/Essays/Mental Health. 4.25 78) Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi – Contemporary. 4.5/5 79) What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an...
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    Reading Challenge/Goals for 2023--2024 link added

    My April reads: 59) Flush by Virginia Woolf – Classic. 4/5 60) Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald – Classic/Short Stories. 3/5 61) The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader by Voltairine de Cleyre – Feminism/Philosophy/Politics. 4.5/5 62) Egg: A Dozen Ovatures by Lizzie Stark –...
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    Reading Challenge/Goals for 2023--2024 link added

    March: 45) Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail by Ben Montgomery – History/Biography. 4/5 46) The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant – Historical Fiction. 4/5 47) Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson – Speculative Fiction/Historical Fiction...
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    Reading Challenge/Goals for 2023--2024 link added

    Ok, not going to get another book finished between now and tomorrow, so my February reads were: 22) With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism by Laura L. Lovett – Biography/Feminism/Race. 4/5 23) Dorothy Porter Wesley at Howard...
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    Reading Challenge/Goals for 2023--2024 link added

    I read a fair amount of non-fiction. I read I’m Glad My Mom Died last year and thought it was very good for such a tough subject(s).
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