Author: Sejal Shah

My husband and I are visiting family in Rhode Island now, and I finished my fourth book of the challenge here. I read Given Up For You: A Memoir of Love, Belonging, and Belief, by Erin O. White. Erin is a friend and classmate from my MFA program. We were in our first workshop together in

I finally finished Kelly Sundberg’s memoir, Goodbye Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Abuse and Survival, this morning. I’d been wanting to delve in for a while now, and had started her book at least a couple of months ago, I think, but I read the bulk of it in the last week and a

My second book of the challenge (158 pages) is The Gangster We Are All Looking For, a novel by le thi diem thuy (she does not capitalize her name). She published this book in 2003, but I had known about her as a writer before that, because we lived in the same area—Western Massachusetts. Last

Hi Everyone, I was told about the reading challenge by my friend, Nadia, and have posted before, but didn’t get very far in page count. So, on to the Summer Challenge! My family hosted a nine-day religious event from 6/30-7/8—an enormous undertaking—and I was able to read not more than a page a night last