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Read Harder Challenge (3 of 24): DATURA
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— 4 Feb 2018 Tom Comment

Datura, or a Delusion We All See by Leena Krohn
(Read as part of the Book Riot Readharder challenge 2018. Category: A single-sitting book.)
An anonymous woman in an anonymous (though clearly Nordic) city receives a flower for her birthday. She begins[…]

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Read Harder Challenge (2 of 24): HORTUS VITAE
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— 31 Jan 2018 Tom Comment

Hortus Vitae: Essays On The Gardening Of Life by Vernon Lee
(Read as part of the 2018 Read Harder challenge. Category: A book of essays.)
Vernon Lee, pseudonym of Violet Paget, was an essayist, story writer, and aesthete active in the late 19th and e[…]

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Read Harder Challenge (1 of 24): SIX TO SIXTEEN
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— 15 Jan 2018 Tom Comment

Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls by Juliana Horatia Ewing
Read as part of the Book Riot Read Harder 2018 Challenge (Category: “A children’s classic published before 1980”)
She’s no relation, but I’ve always had a curios[…]

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