Let's Get Literate! Ladies Being Rad Edition

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It was a slow week because I was sick several days (ugh, bodies) and also have entered every book blogger’s dreaded state: New Year Book Indecision. I am surrounded by so many great books and I can’t decide what to choose. I want to jam everything new in my eyes and also want to reread a bunch of things. Everyone’s so prolific. So I have kind of flopped around uselessly and fallen behind on my reading goal.

CHALLENGE: 100 Unique Women Writers

Week 4: almost complete! I’m finishing the last story in Ghost Summer: Stories by Tananarive Due today (current assessment: I still don’t like prose horror much as I am an Anxious Person and Worry Too Much About The Dark, Serial Killers, and Slime Monsters). For Week 5, my next title selected from The Jar and presented by Doreen, is Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh:



My free choice book last week was Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes. Not sure what my next free choice will be. Planetfall? Illuminae? Maybe I should give Barrayar another shot? I also have some nonfiction by a few new to me authors on my shelf...too many things!

Since January is over, I looked back to see what my month looked like for authors that were new to me. Per my rules, I did well! 9/100! :D

• Marguerite Bennett (A-Force Volume 0: Warzones)
• Rosemary Kirstein (The Steerswoman)
• Sarah Knight (The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a Fuck)
• Nnedi Okorafor (Binti)
• Carolyn Ives Gilman (Dark Orbit)
• Charlie Jane Anders (All the Birds in the Sky)
• bell hooks (Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood)
• Shonda Rhimes (Year of Yes)
• Tananarive Due (Ghost Summer: Stories) — counting here since I only have one story left

Onward to my reading for the week!

• Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes
• Ms. Marvel #3 by G. Willow Wilson, Takeshi Miyazawa, & Ian Herring
• Captain Marvel #1 by Michelle Fazekas, Tara Butters, Kris Anka, & Matthew Wilson
• Lumberjanes #18 by Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh, Carolyn Nowak, Maarta Laiho

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