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I would love to read some of the books that have been sitting on my tbr and my shelves for awhile.

Poetry
1. The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers, by Alice Walker, finished 3/29/22, 4*
2. Envelope Poems by Emily Dickinson, finished on 5/6/2022, 4*
3. Essential Dickinson by Emily Dickinson, finished on 5/12/2022, 4*
4. A Night Without Armor by Jewel, finished on 9/9/22, 4*

Plays
1. Fences by August Wilson, finished on June 19, 2022, 5*
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Epistolary Books
1. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, finished on June 26, 2022, 5*
2. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, finished on July 9, 2022, 5* (re-read from a billion years ago)
3. We Are the Light by Matthew Quick, finished on 12/31/22, 4*

Essays
1. Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000–2016, with A Journal of a Writer's Week, by Ursula Le Guin, finished 1/22/22, 4*
2. Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar, by Cheryl Strayed, finished 2/6/2022, 4*
3. The Anthropocene Reviewed, by John Green, finished 4/2/2022, 4*
4. Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food, by Ann Hood, finished 5/1/2022, 5*
5. Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit, finished 5/8/2022, 4*s
6. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace, finished 5/29/22, 4*s
7. Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris, finished 7/14/22, 4*s
8. Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion, finished 8/14/22, 4*s
9. "Man at the Window", essay published at the end of The Silence, by Don DeLillo, finished on 8/28/2022, 4*
10. The Outer Beach: A Thousand-Mile Walk on Cape Cod's Atlantic Shore by Robert Finch, finished 9/6/22, 4*s
11. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. by Samantha Irby, finished 10/9/22, 4 stars
12. What Are People For?: Essays, by Wendell Berry

Short Stories
1. The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation by Elizabeth Berg, finished 2/14/2022, 4*
2. Bluebeard's Egg, by Margaret Atwood, finished 2/21/2022, 4*
3. The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick, finished 7/12/22. 5*
4. My Evil Mother: A Short Story, finished 7/15/2022, 4*s
5. Good Bones and Simple Murders, finished 8/17/22. 4*s
6. Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories by Hilma Wolitz, finished 11/24/22, 4*s

Good luck on this challenge, Karen! 🐾

Thanks, Emily. I wasn't going to do any challenges in 2022, but this one is pretty low key. I hope it will be a good reading year for everyone!!

Good luck with this challenge, Karen.

Thanks, Bill! Happy reading!

It's funny. I was hoping to start knocking off some of the books on my own shelf, but each of the books I have read for this challenge has been a library book. Hmmm...

I have a version of the same problem. I keep finding myself knocking off my Audible Plus choices before they expire, and stuff I actually own languishes unattended...

You're doing very well. I love LeGuin. Will have to check out Words are My Matter. I also like Atwood but haven't read Bluebeard's Egg...

Jennifer wrote: "I have a version of the same problem. I keep finding myself knocking off my Audible Plus choices before they expire, and stuff I actually own languishes unattended..."

Jennifer, It is nice to know that I am not alone. I really, really want to read the books on my shelf. I try to stick to plan, but one trip to the library or the book store or Kindle and all my plans go out the window...

Bill wrote: "You're doing very well. I love LeGuin. Will have to check out Words are My Matter. I also like Atwood but haven't read Bluebeard's Egg..."

Thanks, Bill. I really enjoyed LeGuin's essays. If you are a fan, you should add that book to your TBR. And I think you would like Bluebeard's Egg. I think the stories hold up. I try to read at least one Atwood book a year.

Karen wrote: "Bill wrote: "You're doing very well. I love LeGuin. Will have to check out Words are My Matter. I also like Atwood but haven't read Bluebeard's Egg..."

Thanks, Bill. I really enjoyed LeGuin's essa..."

I'll check them out, Karen. Thanks

I finished another book of essays, The Anthropocene Reviewed. I really enjoyed it!

I now have one book of every category finished.

Karen wrote: "I now have one book of every category finished."

Congratulations, Karen. That's excellent. Are you going to continue to add to the challenge?

Yes, I will keep at it. It's been fun!

🎉Congratulations Karen🎉

Thanks!

I finished my second epistolary novel today. This category has surprised me, maybe because the books I have read so far were so great.

Looking back at what I have read so far, I have to say that I need to read more plays and I like reading essays. Some of the essay collections on my list have been my favorites reads for the entire year.

I need to read more Ursula Le Guin, Rebecca Solnit and Joan Didion, And I need to read Dorothy Parker.

Karen wrote: "Looking back at what I have read so far, I have to say that I need to read more plays and I like reading essays. Some of the essay collections on my list have been my favorites reads for the entire..."

This challenge has shown me that plays are not my thing. I will eventually try a few more but I have found some great short stories, essays and poetry.

I agree. Plays are not my thing either. I definitely branched out this year and enjoyed the challenge.