Book Challenges on the porch...

Our Ten

Left to right: my mom's father, Michael, holding Margie,  Uncle Frankie, my mom's mother, Veronica, Marci, and my mother, Stephanie circa1945 (this pic made me cry)

Read Harder Challenge 2015 finished! I have to finish Wild by Strayed and Meet Me in Venice by midnight. 

READ HARDER 2015

A book written by someone under 25 ✔️St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell

Written by someone over 65 ✔️ Still Foolin' Em by Billy Crystal

Collection of short stories ✔️ Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

Published by an Indie Press ✔️ Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

By or about someone that identifies LGBTQ ✔️ Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

By a person whose gender is different from your own ✔️ The Good Luck of Right Now by Matthew Quick

Takes place in Asia ✔️ The Kite Runner 

By an author from Africa ✔️ Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche

By or about someone from an indigenous culture ✔️ The Absolutely True Story of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexi

A micro history ✔️ The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

A YA novel✔️ Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

A sci-fi novel✔️ The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

A romance novel✔️ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitsgerald

A book prize winner from the last decade✔️ All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Retelling of a classic story✔️ The Golem and the Jinni

An audiobook✔️ The Supremes at Earl's All You Can Eat

A collection of poetry✔️ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Colleridge

Someone else recommended to you✔️ Meet Me in Venice

Originally published in another language✔️ A Man Called Ove

A graphic novel of any kind✔️ The Wormworld Saga by David

A guilty pleasure✔️ Shadows by J.R. Ward

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen

Wild by Cheryl Srayed