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Another year of reading hard

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Saturday I finished the 2024 Read Harder Challenge with nearly two months to spare. It's the seventh year in a row that I've completed the challenge. Typically I try to read as many of my own books for the different challenges but this year I was only able to complete five with books I already own. I completed the rest thanks to my local libraries.  Here are the covers for all the books I read and the list of challenges is below.     2024 Read Harder Challenge Read a cozy fantasy book - A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers.     Read a YA book by a trans author - Being Jazz by Jazz Jennings.   Read a middle grade horror novel - The Girl and the Ghost by Hanna Alkaf. Read a history book by a BIPOC author - Homecoming: The Story of African-American Farmers by Charlene Gilbert and Quinn Eli. .  Read a sci-fi novella - Very Far Away from Anywhere by Ursula Le Guin. While a novella and a book by Ursula Le Guin, who typically writes sci-fi, this book is NOT sci-fi. As