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  • Rapid-Fire Thoughts: 2018 Read Harder Challenge Update

    The Book Riot Read Harder Challenge continues. Since my last reading challenge update, I’ve finished: #2: A book of true crime I came to this title cold (pun unintended but appreciated). The most I knew about the book was that (1) it dealt with a murder of some kind and (2) it’s indisputably Capote’s magnum…

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    A stack of books leaning to the right

  • Read Harder #4: Dead Balagtas Vol. 1: Mga Sayaw ng Dagat at Lupa

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    It’s easy to feel divorced from history. As a kid, I saw all my history lessons at a remove: upheavals, struggle, significance occupied a different plane of existence, and they had no place in my humdrum life, as I had no place in theirs. An ignorant belief to have harbored, for sure, and one that…

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    Kate
    Cover for Emiliana Kampilan's Dead Balagtas Vol 1: Mga Sayaw ng Dagat at Lupa

  • Notes from “The Guns of August”

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    Here’s my first book for this year’s Read Harder Challenge! I first started reading The Guns of August two years ago. “Started,” because work quickly caught up with me, leading to a slow abandonment of the book around the halfway point. That was a shame, since this is–despite the heft and subject matter–an eminently readable book. Barbara…

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    Kate

  • 2017 Read Harder Challenge

    I read around 30 books last year, many of them during the later months when work became less hectic. The final 2016 list is front-loaded with a lot of science fiction before turning into a pretty scattershot collection of titles. Since I am one of those corny cheeseballs who theme their new years, I intend…

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    Kate