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<h1>Vane reads one book by women every week of 2024</h1>
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<th>Week finished reading</th>
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<th>Book Title</th>
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<th>Author</th>
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<th>Comments / notes</th>
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<td>2024-W1</td>
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<td>The Raven Boys</td>
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<td>Maggie Stiefvater</td>
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<td>Despite the insufferability of the average rich kid psyche, this book was actually a quite enjoyable romp through the Virginia countryside. Four boys, one of which is dead and pretending otherwise, and a kinda-not-really psychic girl try to wake up a ley line in search of a dead king and end up getting their Latin teacher trampled to death. Good times.</td>
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<td>2024-W1</td>
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<td>City of the Dead</td>
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<td><small>James Patterson and</small> Mindy McGinnis</td>
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<td>It still counts if it was co-written by a woman, right?... This moid needs to retire. I feel bad for the trees that died to produce this pigslop. Beating the corpse of a series I loved when I was a teenager (that's over a decade ago) - this is <i>Star Wars</i>-tier series sprawl. As Filthy Frank would say, "it's time to stop."</td>
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<td>2024-W2</td>
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<td>The Dream Thieves</td>
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<td>Maggie Stiefvater</td>
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<td>One hundred white Mitsubishis in an empty field.</td>
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<td>2024-W3</td>
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<td>Strange the Dreamer <small>and its sequel</small> Muse of Nightmares</td>
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<td>Laini Taylor</td>
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<td>Not to go all Bigolas Dickolas on you, but you <em>need</em> to read this book. Don't look at any summaries or reviews or even the cover art for the paperback version (if that's what you get stuck with) - just jump in.</td>
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<td>2024-W3</td>
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<td>On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane</td>
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<td>Emily Guendelsberger</td>
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<td></td>
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<td>2024-W4</td>
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<td>Fourth Wing</td>
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<td>Rebecca Yarros</td>
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<td>An embarrassing amount of heterosexual sex.</td>
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<td>2024-W5</td>
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<td>Niksen: Embracing the Dutch Art of Doing Nothing</td>
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<td>Olga Mecking</td>
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<td><!-- I am intentionally leaving this note blank for comedic effect. --></td>
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<td>2024-W6</td>
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<td>The Marriage of Opposites</td>
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<td>Alice Hoffman</td>
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<td>A library nearby is holding a winter reading challenge. This month is to read a book that takes place on an island. This was one of the recommended books. It came with a cute little bookmark of a cup of limeade.</td>
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<td>2024-W7</td>
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<td>A History of Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry</td>
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<td>Jennifer Putzi and Alexandra Socarides</td>
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<td>This book was a real slog. But there is a good amount of information for the taking if you can excavate it from the obtuse academic writing style.</td>
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<td>2024-W8</td>
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<td>Heart</td>
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<td>Gail Godwin</td>
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<td></td>
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<td>2024-W9</td>
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<td>Big Magic</td>
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<td>Elizabeth Gilbert</td>
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<td></td>
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<td>2024-W10</td>
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<td>Song of the Dead</td>
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<td>Sarah Glenn Marsh</td>
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<td></td>
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<td>2024-W11</td>
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<td>Poems</td>
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<td>Rita Mae Brown</td>
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<td></td>
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<td>2024-W12</td>
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<td>The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control</td>
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<td>Katherine Morgan Schafler</td>
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<td>Mild genderism here and there, but otherwise an amazing book.</td>
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<td>2024-W13</td>
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<td>Creating Minnesota: A History From the Inside Out</td>
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<td>Annette Atkins</td>
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<td></td>
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<td>2024-W14</td>
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<td>Women of Minnesota: Selected Biographical Essays</td>
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<td>Barbara Stuhler and Gretchen V. Kreuter</td>
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<td>I had to skip large swathes of this book because, being written in the 1970s, many parts were outdated. It was good to finally know the woman behind the one <i>Betsy-Tacy</i> book my mother had given me as a child, though.</td>
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<td>2024-W15</td>
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<td>Code Girls</td>
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<td>Liza Mundy</td>
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<td>Technically I listened to the audiobook version.</td>
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<td>2024-W16</td>
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<td>Talking to My Angels</td>
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<td>Melissa Etheridge</td>
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<td>Audiobook version. I cried a few times.</td>
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<td>2024-W17</td>
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<td>Confident Women</td>
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<td>Tori Telfer</td>
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<td>Audiobook version. Most of them had it coming for them.</td>
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