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Emily has a PhD in English from the University of Southern Mississippi, MS, and she has an MFA in Creative Writing from GCSU in Milledgeville, GA, home of Flannery O’Connor. She invests her leisure time reading, viewing scary motion pictures and musicals, snuggling felines, Instagramming photos of felines, and blogging/podcasting about books with the women over at #BookSquadGoals (www.booksquadgoals.com). She can be reached at emily.ecm@gmail.com.
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Ah, 2015. Can you think it was 10 years back? I’m definitely flabbergasted, and I’m likewise feeling extremely old. How suitable that this year’s Read Harder Challenge consists of a difficulty to finish one of the reading obstacles from Read Harder 2015? We’ve got an entire brand-new year to anticipate with great deals of brand-new book releases, so let’s make this a full-circle minute. Here are a couple of truly amazing books coming out in 2025 that you might utilize to finish 2015’s obstacles.
A Short Story Collection:
A Terrifying Brush with Optimism by Brian Leung (Sarabande Books, January 21)
Coming out this month is a brand-new collection of works from Lambda Literary Award and Asian American Literary Award winner Brian Leung. A Terrifying Brush of Optimism consists of narratives, an essay, and an unique exploring what it suggests to keep one’s self-respect in a modern world that appears so bent on removing that far from us.
A Romance Novel:
Flirting with Disaster by Naina Kumar (Dell, January 14)
Another brand-new January release worth contributing to your TBR and possibly your Read Harder obstacle: this brand-new reimagining of the rom-com timeless Sugary Food Home Alabama. Meena hasn’t seen her hubby Nikhil in years. Now Meena is a legal representative on Capitol Hill and she’s intending to carry on, so she goes back to her home town in Texas to lastly get a divorce. A fast journey turns a lot more made complex when a typhoon strikes the gulf. All of a sudden, she’s required to hunch down with her future ex, and now she keeps in mind all the important things she actually liked about him.
A LGBTQ Book:
We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin (Atria Books, January 28)
This timely asks readers to select a book from an LGBTQ author or including an LGBTQ character, so why not get the most recent from Emily Austin? We Could Be Rats follows the story of 2 siblings. Sigrid is constantly stuck in youth. She didn’t graduate high school, and she’s stuck at a dead-end task at Dollar Pal. Her older sis Margit does not comprehend Sigrid’s resistance to mature and comply with society’s expectations. As she works towards comprehending her sis’s point of view, Margit reconnects to her own youth creativity.
A Sci-Fi Novel:
Spotless Conception by Ling Huang (Dutton, ยป …
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