Thoughts on My Third 'Read Harder' Challenge
Escaped into any good books lately? Has reading helped you survive 2020? With two months to spare, I finished the Book Riot 2020 Read Harder Challenge . Completing all 24 challenges for the third year in a row. I'm already stalking the Book Riot website waiting for the 2021 challenge to be posted. It usually goes up in early December. I enjoy looking over the new challenge. Identifying books I might read for each category. My process remains unchanged. I look first at the books I own. Then I review my "Wish List" of books I want to read and then ultimately do internet searches. This year I had to do a fair amount of online research. My searches included: Read a play by an author of color and/or queer author. Read a debut novel by a queer author. Read a food book about a cuisine you've never tried before. Read a book about climate change. Read a sci-fi/fantasy novella (under 120 pages). Read a picture book with a human main character from a marginalized