Read Harder Challenge Task 8: Read an independently published book by a BIPOC author.
I read 'Her Body and Other Parties: Stories' by Carmen Maria Machado.

[She]..blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism.

A collection of short stories, I found it
weird, provocative and interesting!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33375622-her-body-and-other-parties

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Read Harder challenge 2023 Task 17: Read a YA book by an Indigenous author

I read A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56036276-a-snake-falls-to-earth

Modern fantasy/Indigenous Futurism with themes of climate change, family, colonialism, and language and history loss. I thought this was a beautiful book, I give it 🎲5

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Read Harder 2023 Task 22: Read any book from the Ignyte awards shortlist/longlist/winner list.

Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse won the Best Adult Novel in 2021. "An epic adventure inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian Americas and woven into a tale of celestial prophecies, political intrigue and forbidden magic."

Fascinating worldbuilding, I really loved it! I read the next book right away.
🎲6
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50892360-black-sun
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Read Harder 2023 Task 8: Read a graphic novel/comic/manga if you haven’t before; or read one that is a different genre than you normally read.

I haven't read any manga before, so I chose My Brother's Husband by Gengoroh Tagame https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32337897-my-brother-s-husband-volume-1

This was just beautiful! 🎲6 "an unprecedented and heartbreaking look at the state of a largely still-closeted Japanese gay culture"
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Read Harder 2023 Task 4: Read a book that’s been challenged recently in your school district/library OR read one of the most-challenged/banned books of the year by a queer and/or BIPOC author

It's a long time since any books have been banned in Norway, so I went with one from USA: The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32075671-the-hate-u-give

I loved this book,even though it was heartbreaking, because it was so real and important.
🎲6

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Read Harder 2023 Task #16 Read a romance with bisexual representation.

I read I'll Be the One by Lyla Lee https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53098416-i-ll-be-the-one
"The world of K-Pop has never met a star like this". Really cute,with double bi rep and fat acceptance! 🎲4

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Read Harder 2023 Task #10: Read a book you know nothing about based solely on the cover.

Patricia wants to cuddle, Samantha Allen https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59093587-patricia-wants-to-cuddle

Intriguing cover,I just had to pick this. And that was a crazy read,one I enjoyed a lot! CW graphic violence. 🎲5

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I did finish the 2022 Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge, yay for me! In this thread I'm listing which books I chose for the 24 tasks, and what I thought of them. I will be doing the 2023 challenge, but that's a different thread!

Read Harder Task #6 Read a Nonfiction YA Comic:
I went for Maus by Art Spiegelman, it was on my TBR list and I think it can count as YA.
I agree that it is a must-read, it's also heartbreaking. 🎲5
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15195.The_Complete_Maus

I usually like to do multiple books for #ReadHarder challenges - in this case, I'm looking for a copy of Zenna Henderson's Pilgrimage - which might involve a trip to the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation & Fantasy in Toronto.

Apparently Octavia Butler loved this book so much, that she'd give it out as a gift.

Sort of interesting to me, that I'm not able to find Pilgrimage as an e-book, despite being published much ten years later than the Sturgeon book.

Stolen from Book Riot

Read a nonfiction book about intersectional feminism.

Read a book of poetry by a BIPOC or queer author.

Read a book of short stories.

Read any book from the Ignyte awards shortlist/longlist/winner list.

Read a social horror, mystery, or thriller novel.

Pick a challenge from any of the previous years’ challenges to repeat!

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#Introduction #introductions #NewHere (1/3)

I have just changed from the Mastodon.LOL server to bookstodon.com, so an introduction is in order.

I used to read 100-150 books a year, before the pandemic broke everything.

I may never read as voraciously as I did before, but I would like to read with intention.

I will be participating in the 2023 #Bookriot #ReadHarder challenge - https://bookriot.com/read-harder-2023/amp/ and will attempt to blog my adventures at https://purdy-johnson.com.

Read Harder Task #5 Read an anthology featuring diverse voices.

I've read Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity, by Micah Rajunov, Scott Duane et al.

I learned a lot, this was a really good, sad, funny and thoughtprovoking collection
🎲 5

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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42779012-nonbinary

Read Harder Task #4 Read a book in any genre by a POC that’s about joy and not trauma.
I read Children of blood and bone by Tomi Adeyemi. YA fantasy/mysticism/afrofuturism. I really enjoyed it,and just had to read the next one in the planned trilogy! 🎲 4
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They killed my mother.
They took our magic.
They tried to bury us.

Now we rise.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34728667-children-of-blood-and-bone

Read Harder Task #3 Read any book from the Women’s Prize shortlist/longlist/winner list.
I read My Sister,the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite. "..a blackly comic novel about how blood is thicker - and more difficult to get out of the carpet - than water..." Loved it! Dark and funny and serious, 🎲 6 #bookstodon #books #bookriot #readharder
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38819868-my-sister-the-serial-killer

Read Harder Task #2 Read a book set in a bookstore.
I read Mystery Man by Colin Bateman https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6437713-mystery-man

Very funny, dark and entertaining. 🎲5
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