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To all my #ReadingUSA2019 friends - would it be considered cheating to just read this book for the challenge?! 🤣

At the moment this is a bail. I‘m not sure what I was expecting (maybe some quirky stories?) but I read the first few and they were more political essays. I hope to pick it up again this year for one of the challenges, as a book I started but didn‘t finish.

Today I am ready to #celebrate the good people of Alabama that turned out to vote for Doug Jones. A lovely end to the 1st night of Chanukah. Feeling a bit hopeful and #ready for the mid-terms. Sorry to be political this holiday season, but that win made my night. #decdays #seasonsreadings2017

Just about to start on this book - not even sure if they're fictional stories or essays - or maybe a mixture of both. Some interesting authors in there so I'm interested to see who writes on which state.

I wonder which will be my favourite state / story?!

As American as apple pie. #litsycooks

I read from east to west. Thankfully I only found 9 essays as off-putting as the editors' preface and intro. Sadly, I only found 4 that I would revisit or recommend. In between I found themes that personally resonated (gentrification) pretty evenly mixed with those that did not (hipster irony).

I'm 6 essays in and at a solid 50/50 between like and loathe. I really wasn't prepared to enjoy John Hodgman's take on Massachusetts but damn if his views on Bostonian sportism aren't winning me over.

The introduction to this book just brings to mind the saying "Lord give me the confidence of a mediocre white man." As this intro is written by one of the co-editors, I am not hopeful that they will deliver on their promise to provide fresh voices to illustrate the American landscape.