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#readingchallenge2016 completed! I had a solid reading year. I read more fantasy, westerns, and graphic novels than usual. Also a significant percentage of #homeschooling books. Neurotribes was the standout this year. #100books I'm ready for more!!

I have officially lapped myself in my challenge and am 3 books away from averaging 2 books per week on the year 😮🙃📚📚📚
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The whole book is perfect. It's funny. It's heart wrenching. It's full of reminders of why being human is tough and terrible and totally worth it. (Also, I don't have a taxidermied raccoon but I do have a stuffed bush baby. If you read the book, you'll get it.) #readingchallenge2016 #READTHISBOOK

Day 12: a book you've read at least once. I've read Dracula twice. It's a gorgeous, atmospheric, unsettling book that will surprise you if all you have in your head are vampire movies as references. Give it a try. #readingchallenge2016

Day 11: a book that intimidates you. Isn't everyone intimidated by Ulysses? Have any of my friends here read it?? #readingchallenge2016

Day 10: a book you haven't read. I just ran across this book at my fave bookstore a while back and it just sounded fun and amazing. No hapless damsels in distress from a bunch of different authors (including George R.R. Martin 🎉), and puts together stories from all genres too. Will let you know when I get around to it 🙈 #readingchallenge2016

Day 9: a book you previously abandoned. Amelie Kuhrt did a fantastic job in this two-tome history of the ancient Near East. What I liked the most is she intertwines chapters of the different civilizations and what was happening with all of the time at a certain period of time. But it's long! So I'm sorry but I dropped it 😬 for more entertaining, lighter reading 😬. Will get back to it at some time though. Promise! #readingchallenge2016

Day 8: a book that has been banned. The first short story that blew my mind. I was in summer school, probably 14, and what an amazing tale. I just never forgot it. Surprising, cruel, but so representative of human nature. I think that was probably why it was banned...nothing freaks us out like someone or something holding a mirror up to us. #readingchallenge2016 The haunting of hill house is seriousy high on my TBR

Day 7: a book published before you were born. I first read this book when I was about 10 years old and I was transported by the romantic tales in it to the amazingly beautiful Moorish citadel in the hills of Granada in Andalucia, Spain. It was one of my dream travel destinations until last year when I finally got to visit La Alhambra and of course re-read the book for the occasion. It was worth the wait ❤️. #readingchallenge2016