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At the start of 2017 I set a goal to read 40 books by the end of the year. In February I hit 20 so I increased my goal to 65 with hopes to reach 100 by the end of December. This a record of what I’m reading.

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September Reading Wrap-up! Books Read: 8 // Total books read in 2018 so far: 75 ✨ I reached my 2018 reading goal on the last day of September when I closed the cover on my 75th book of the year. ✨ My favorite read in September: An American Marriage by Tayari Jones The Thirst by Jo Nesbo ⭐️⭐️ Company of Liars by Karen Maitland ⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Scarred Woman by Jussi Adler-Olsen ⭐️ China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan ⭐️⭐️ An American Marriage by Tayari Jones ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 A Double Life by Flynn Berry ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

#currentlyreading "Interrupting the forces of racism is ongoing, lifelong work because the forces conditioning us into racist frameworks are always at play; our learning will never be finished. Yet our simplistic definition of racism -- as intentional acts of racial discrimination committed by immoral individuals -- engenders a confidence that we are not part of the problem and that our learning is thus complete. The claims we offer up as evidence are implausible. For example, perhaps you've heard someone say "I was taught to treat everyone the same" or "People just need to be taught to respect one another, and that begins in the home." These statements tend to end the discussion and the learning that could come from sustained engagement. Further, they are unconvincing to most people of color and only invalidate their experiences. Many white people simply do not understand the process of socialization, and this is our next challenge."

Tayari Jones’s newest novel, my 70th read of the year, is an elegant and heartbreaking portrait of a marriage. Set in Georgia and Louisiana, the story follows the newly married couple Celestial and Roy as they grapple at first with what it means to be married, and then when Roy is falsely accused of a crime and sent to prison, with how to be together while being torn apart by the system. The book takes a personal look at what it means to be a black male in the US today, how systems of oppression radiate inward causing distress in African American households and on black bodies. A beautifully-rendered, powerful, and necessary read. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 Have you read it?

August Reading Wrap-up!! Books Read: 7 // Total books read in 2018 so far: 67 My favorite read in August: Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room ✨ Also, Linnea Hartsuyker's The Sea Queen, the second in her Half-Drowned King trilogy, is an engaging and entertaining behemoth of a book. I totally enjoyed Crazy Rich Asians as it was the perfect page turner to dive into on a recent flight to Seattle. Another easy plane read was Under the Harrow which I finished in one sitting on a flight back from the East Coast. ✨ Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry ⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Fate of Tearling by Erika Johansen ⭐️⭐️ Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott ⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 The Sea Queen by Linnea Hartsuyker ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan ⭐️⭐️⭐️

I read Rachel Kushner's excellent novel The Mars Room in two sittings. It's my book club's pick for next month and I probably wouldn't have bought it based on the dust flap description alone. The plot, centered on Romy Hall, a woman serving two life sentences at a correctional facility in The Central Valley of California, spoke of hopeless incarceration, a bleak narrative. But it's an engaging, propulsive read from page one, with complex, interesting characters who grapple with identity, poverty, abuse, intimacy, sex, and parenthood. Kushner is a master of dialogue and setting, and paints a rare portrait of California. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I’m hoping one of these new books will get me out of the reading slump I’ve been in for the last few weeks...

I picked this off the @mcleanandeakin recommends shelf and am so glad I did. I sailed through The Half-Drowned King, Linnea Hartsuyker's riveting Viking saga about family, loyalty, power, and the beginning stages of the unification of Norway, while on vacation last week. It's a rich, engrossing escape, with plenty of adventure, romantic intrigue, and murder. And now I can't wait for The Sea Queen, the second book in The Golden Wolf Saga, to come out next month.

June Reading Wrap-up ✨ Books read in June: 9 // Total books read in 2018 so far: 54 ✨ Favorite books read in June: How To Write An Autobiographical Novel, Neverworld Wake, and The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August ✨ Night Heron by Adam Brookes (⭐⭐⭐) This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins (⭐⭐⭐) How To Write An Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl (⭐⭐⭐⭐) West by Carys Davies (⭐⭐⭐) The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North (⭐⭐⭐⭐) American Hippo by Sarah Gailey (⭐⭐⭐⭐) ✨ Not pictured: audiobooks The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy (⭐⭐⭐) There, There by Tommy Orange (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

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