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Come Drink the Kool-Aid. Join the Comedic Fantasy Authors Team!

5 November, 2014

An opportunity for comedic fantasy writers.

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First read of the new year! FEED BY M.T. ANDERSON I have a physical copy, but the audio book is pretty entertaining. This is the second time I have been mind-blown about the date a book was written. The first time was When You Reach Me, which nails the 70s (I mean, as far as I can tell) but was written in the 00s. And then this one, which feels like it was written for the 10s but was also written in the 00s. At times I feel like I'm in the 00s again, but mostly it feels current and futuristic. About halfway through. #yasciencefiction #whatireadin2019

Favorite Reads of 2018! Divided by age category (with graphic novels in their own). Books per image are arranged in no particular order. Nonfiction and Graphic Novels (photos 2 & 3) include a couple re-reads from earlier years. Then my favorite YA (4), Middle Grade (5), Chapter Book (6), and Picture Books (7) I read in 2018. See a couple posts ago to know how many books were in each pool. 📚📖 Need a recommendation based on age category or genre? Ask away! (Sorry for the awkward cropping.)

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I honestly can't believe I read this many books this year, but there they all are, recorded in my journal. Swipe to see the totals broken down by age category and medium. I was required to read 43 books this year for my schoolwork. Next year I will be required to read 86. More details: 📚 Half of the total were picture books and early readers (my kids are 8 & 5) Of the other 100: 🎧 COMMUTE BOOKS: I read 22 of the novels as audiobooks on my commute, including the classic. 📖 SHORT READS: 3 of the YAs and 2 of the MGs were in verse, and one of each were written in diary format. One YA was a book in dialogue. The shortest of these took an hour and the longest maybe 5 or 6. 🖌 32 were graphic novels, which take an hour or two to finish (unless I was writing a paper on one!) 🎉🎉Grand total: 200!!!!🎉🎉 I admit I tallied up the total yesterday and read an epistolary middle grade and a couple picture books to get the rounded 200. I still can't believe it. No wonder I was so exhausted in 2018 😂😂 (I am in the middle of three other novels, which I'll be bouncing back and forth between so I don't accidentally finish one today or tomorrow.) #socksunday #whatIreadin2018 #2018roundup

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