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My Love-Hate Relationship with Literary Awards
I’ve enjoyed following along with literary awards and book prizes since I first ventured into young adult fiction and learned about the Printz Award. I’d read a few books that had either won or been honored, like LOOKING FOR ALASKA by John Green and ELEANOR & PARK by Rainbow Rowell, and I enjoyed those so […]
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Reading More Women Accidentally on Purpose
This year is almost halfway over, and yet I’ve only read one (!!!) book by a male writer: EXIT WEST by Mohsin Hamid. Of course, this doesn’t count the assigned reading for my British literature class this past semester, which represented the sexist literary canon of the nineteenth century. I did buy some books by […]
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