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The 50 in 52 Project continues! (scroll down for more info)

I’ve just finished the 25^th book, There Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston…only 25 more books to go!

Next up is….The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)

For those keeping score: this is book #26, week #25

A little info on John Steinbeck and his work:
John Steinbeck was born in California in 1902. After some time at Stanford University (without earning a degree), he worked as a laborer and a journalist. His first novel was Cup of Gold (1929), but he didn’t achieve popular success until Tortilla Flat (1935). He often championed the downtrodden, the indigent, and the everyman. Injustice was a major theme in his work. He also, at times, obsessed with fate. His best known books include: Of Mice and Men (1937), The Grapes of Wrath (1939), Cannery Row (1945), The Pearl (1937), East of Eden (1952), the travelogue Travels with Charley: In Search of America, and the posthumously released The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976). In 1962, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Steinbeck passed away in 1968.

The 50 in 52 Project Reading Challenge is a fundraiser for RAINN.org (Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network). I challenged myself to read 50 books in 1 year (6/1/18 to 6/1/19). I’m asking folks to sponsor me by pledging a $ amount per book I read. Sponsors don’t have to pay anything until after the Challenge finishes (6/1/19).

To sponsor me, click HERE. For more info and a list of the 50 books, go to the posting pinned to the top of the official 50 in 52 Facebook page.

Click HERE for the 50 in 52 blog posts.

Thank you!

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A 50 in 52 Project Quote!

“Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.”

from: There Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (that’s her in the photo)

What is the 50 in 52 Project Reading Challenge?

I challenged myself to read 50 books in 1 year (6/1/18 to 6/1/19) to raise money for RAINN.org (Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network).

I’m asking folks to sponsor me by pledging a $ amount per book I read. You choose the amount. You don’t have to pay until after 6/1/19. To sponsor me & make a pledge, click HERE. Be the hero in someone else’s story!

For more info, see the post pinned to the top of the 50 in 52 Project Facebook page.

Click HERE for the 50 in 52 blog posts.

Thank you!

#50-in-52
#RAINN

Twitter: @50_in_52Project
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RAINN on Twitter: @RAINN

The 50 in 52 Project Reading Challenge continues! (scroll down for more details)

I’ve just finished the 24^th book, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner…only 26 more books to go! (For a cool quote from the book, go my blog.)

Next up is….Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)

For those keeping score: this is book #25, week #25

A little info on Zora Neale Hurston and her work:
Zora Neale Hurston was born in Alabama in 1891. During her time at Barnard College, she was involved in ethnographic research, which led to her earning a BA in anthropology. After college, she became friends with the poet Langston Hughes, among other writers, and soon become a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance, an explosion of African-American culture that began in the 1920s. The Harlem Renaissance brought national focus to intellectual and artistic achievements (across all mediums) by African-Americans. (Just some of the names that came out of this modernist movement: Duke Ellington, Josephine Baker, and Jean Toomer.) Hurston only published four novels during her lifetime (but over fifty short stories). Their Eyes Were Watching God is her most famous work. But for decades after her initial acclaim, her writing was largely marginalized, her achievements generally unrecognized by the literary world, but novelist Alice Walker (The Color Purple) changed all that with an article in Ms. Magazine: “In Search of Zora Neale Hurston” (1975). Hurston dealt with much racism during her various careers, but she was unflappable, writing, “Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can anyone deny themselves the pleasure of my company. It’s beyond me.” Zora Neale Hurston passed away in 1960.

The 50 in 52 Project Reading Challenge is a fundraiser for RAINN.org (Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network). I challenged myself to read 50 books in 1 year (6/1/18 to 6/1/19). I’m asking folks to sponsor me by pledging a $ amount per book I read. Sponsors don’t have to pay anything until after the Challenge finishes (6/1/19).

To sponsor me, click HERE. For more info and a list of the 50 books, go to the posting pinned to the top of the official 50 in 52 Facebook page.

Click HERE for the 50 in 52 Project blog posts.

Thank you!

Twitter: @50_in_52Project
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GoodReads: goodreads.com/michaelpatrickharrington

RAINN on Twitter: @RAINN

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A 50 in 52 Project Quote!

“I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.”

from: As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (that’s him in the photo)

What is the 50 in 52 Project Reading Challenge?

I challenged myself to read 50 books in 1 year (6/1/18 to 6/1/19) to raise money for RAINN.org (Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network).

I’m asking folks to sponsor me by pledging a $ amount per book I read. You choose the amount. You don’t have to pay until after 6/1/19. To sponsor me & make a pledge, click HERE. Be the hero in someone else’s story!

For more info, see the post pinned to the top of the 50 in 52 Project Facebook page.

Click HERE for the 50 in 52 Project blog posts.

Thank you!

#50-in-52
#RAINN

Twitter: @50_in_52Project
Instagram: 50_in_52_Project

RAINN on Twitter: @RAINN

The 50 in 52 Project Reading Challenge continues! (scroll down for more details)

I’ve just finished the 23^rd book, Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence…only 27 more books to go! (For a cool quote from the book, go my blog.)

Next up is….As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1930)

For those keeping score: this is book #24, week #24

A little info on William Faulkner and his work:
William Faulkner was born in 1897. He was raised in Oxford, Mississippi, where he would spend most of his life. Faulkner’s use of stream of consciousness narration, as well as his attention to diction and cadence made him a towering figure in literature. As opposed to Hemingway’s terse prose and Fitzgerald’s ironic narratives, Faulkner’s writing was nakedly emotional and often cerebral. His intricate prose was sometimes subtle and other times bordered on the gothic. His oeuvre includes The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Light in August (1932) and Absalom, Absalom! (1936). Faulkner won the Nobel Prize in 1950. He passed away in 1962.

The 50 in 52 Project Reading Challenge is a fundraiser for RAINN.org (Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network). I challenged myself to read 50 books in 1 year (6/1/18 to 6/1/19). I’m asking folks to sponsor me by pledging a $ amount per book I read. Sponsors don’t have to pay anything until after the Challenge finishes (6/1/19).

To sponsor me, click HERE. For more info and a list of the 50 books, go to the posting pinned to the top of the official 50 in 52 Facebook page.

Click HERE for 50 in 52 Project blog posts.

Thank you!

Twitter: @50_in_52Project
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GoodReads: goodreads.com/michaelpatrickharrington

RAINN on Twitter: @RAINN

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A 50 in 52 Project Quote!

“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.”

from: Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence (that’s him in the photo)

What is the 50 in 52 Project Reading Challenge?

I challenged myself to read 50 books in 1 year (6/1/18 to 6/1/19) to raise money for RAINN.org (Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network).

I’m asking folks to sponsor me by pledging a $ amount per book I read. You choose the amount. You don’t have to pay until after 6/1/19. To sponsor me & make a pledge, click HERE. Be the hero in someone else’s story!

For more info, see the post pinned to the top of the 50 in 52 Project Facebook page.

Click HERE for the 50 in 52 Project blog posts.

Thank you!

#50-in-52
#RAINN

Twitter: @50_in_52Project
Instagram: 50_in_52_Project
RAINN on Twitter: @RAINN

The 50 in 52 Project Reading Challenge continues! (scroll down for more info)

I’ve just finished the 22^nd book, The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway…only 28 more books to go! (For cool quotes from the book, go my blog.)

Next up is….Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence (1928)

For those keeping score: this is book #23, week #23

A little info on D. H. Lawrence and his work:

David Herbert Lawrence was born in 1885 in England. Lawrence is one of the most interesting authors of the modernist period. While at times embracing a seemingly radical right wing agenda, he wrote books that were concerned with what he saw as the dehumanizing consequences and moral bankruptcy that came with modernism. His early novels championed feminism, but some female critics would later call him a master of misogyny. But it was his frank sexual writing that led many to disparage him. Vilified, censored, and labeled a pornographer, he spent much of the later part of his life in voluntary exile. His best known works: Son and Lovers (1913), Women in Love (1920), St. Mawr (1925), and Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928), which was heavily censored when it was first released. Penguin published the unexpurgated text in 1960, and they were promptly sued by the government under the newly minted Obscene Publications Act. Many writers were called to testify (including E. M. Forster), and Penguin was found not guilty. Regardless, the book was banned in five other countries, including the US and Canada. Lawrence died in 1930 from tuberculosis.

The 50 in 52 Project Reading Challenge is a fundraiser for RAINN.org (Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network). I challenged myself to read 50 books in 1 year (6/1/18 to 6/1/19). I’m asking folks to sponsor me by pledging a $ amount per book I read. Sponsors don’t have to pay anything until after the Challenge finishes (6/1/19).

To sponsor me, click HERE. For more info and a list of the 50 books, go to the posting pinned to the top of the official 50 in 52 Facebook page.

Click HERE for the 50 in 52 blog posts.

Thank you!

Twitter: @50_in_52Project
Instagram: 50_in_52_Project
GoodReads: goodreads.com/michaelpatrickharrington

RAINN on Twitter: @RAINN

#50-in-52
#RAINN

50 in 52 Project Quotes!

Because it’s Hemingway, we have two quotes!

“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”

“Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs.”

from: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (that’s him in the photo)

What is the 50 in 52 Project Reading Challenge?

I challenged myself to read 50 books in 1 year (6/1/18 to 6/1/19) to raise money for www.RAINN.org (Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network).

I’m asking folks to sponsor me by pledging a $ amount per book I read. You choose the amount. You don’t have to pay until after 6/1/19. To sponsor me & make a pledge, click HERE. Be the hero in someone else’s story!

For more info, see the post pinned to the top of the 50 in 52 Project Facebook page.

Click HERE for the 50 on 52 blog posts.

Thank you!

#50-in-52
#RAINN

Twitter: @50_in_52Project
Instagram: 50_in_52_Project
RAINN on Twitter: @RAINN

The 50 in 52 Project continues! (scroll down for more info)

I’ve just finished the 21^st book, Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf…only 29 more books to go!

Next up is….The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926)

For those keeping score: this is book #22, week #2

A little info on Ernest Hemingway and his work:
Ernest Hemingway was born in 1889 in Illinois. Hemingway, along with friend, F. Scott Fitzgerald, formed the nucleus of what Gertrude Stein called “the lost generation” of American expatriates living in Paris. Hemingway’s influence on literature cannot be overstated. He developed his staccato style during his time working for the Kansas City Star, but the simplicity of his writing is deceptive—he wanted to capture emotions in snapshots that eliminated decorative wording and verbiage. Like Fitzgerald, much of the beauty of his work can be found in his short stories. His best known novels: The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952). Hemingway took his own life in 1961. (He father had done the same in 1928.)

The 50 in 52 Project Reading Challenge is a fundraiser for RAINN.org (Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network). I challenged myself to read 50 books in 1 year (6/1/18 to 6/1/19). I’m asking folks to sponsor me by pledging a $ amount per book I read. Sponsors don’t have to pay anything until after the Challenge finishes (6/1/19).

To sponsor me, click HERE. For more info and a list of the 50 books, go to the posting pinned to the top of the official 50 in 52 Facebook page.

Click HERE for the 50 in 52 Project blog posts.

Thank you!

Twitter: @50_in_52Project
Instagram: 50_in_52_Project
GoodReads: goodreads.com/michaelpatrickharrington
RAINN on Twitter: @RAINN

#50-in-52
#RAINN

A 50 in 52 Project Quote!

“He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.”

from: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (that’s her in the photo)

What is the 50 in 52 Project Reading Challenge?

I challenged myself to read 50 books in 1 year (6/1/18 to 6/1/19) to raise money for RAINN.org (Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network).

I’m asking folks to sponsor me by pledging a $ amount per book I read. You choose the amount. You don’t have to pay until after 6/1/19. To sponsor me & make a pledge, click HERE. Be the hero in someone else’s story!

For more info, see the post pinned to the top of the 50 in 52 Project Facebook page.

Click HERE for the 50 in 52 Project 2018-19 blog posts.

Thank you!

#50-in-52
#RAINN

Twitter: @50_in_52Project
Instagram: 50_in_52_Project
RAINN on Twitter: @RAINN