Tag: reading challenge
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Anyone else absurdly motivated by arbitrary reading challenges other people have set? I started subscribing to Book of the Month when I bought a 6 month subscription for my friend for Christmas. It’s now her annual gift. We don’t coordinate our choices–sometimes we choose the…
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This series is being born out of a dangerous whim, which I can only attribute to the temporary giddiness of a new library card. Upon seeing the (truthfully rather average sized) poetry collection at the main branch, I was seized by an impulse to read from one end of the poetry section to the other.…
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A Friend’s Reading Challenge: 10 Books in a Week
A Good Neighborhood, A Room with a View, Abbi Waxman, Akwaeke Emezi, classics, E.M. Forster, fantasy, James McBride, John Connolly, memoir, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Naomi Novik, Ottessa Moshfegh, Paula Byrne, Reading, reading challenge, The Book of Lost Things, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill, The Death of Vivek Oji, The Good Lord Bird, The Real Jane Austen, Therese Anne FowlerOne of my best friends is an avid reader and often reads voraciously in a very short period. She took a few days off of work with the goal to read 10 books. This sounded like fun, so I thought I’d join her in trying to read 10 books before my classes started a few…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature brought to you by The Broke and the Bookish. The period between Thanksgiving and the end of the year is typically a good time to wind down, but if you’ve got a big reading challenge to finish up it doesn’t alway feel that way. My grandma and I…
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Title: Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air Author: Richard Holmes How it fulfills the challenge: Besides the normal strategic inserts of color photographs, the text of the book is studded with black and white pictures of hot air balloons, portraits of the balloonists who flew them, and various documents and drawings. Genre: Nonfiction Quick Description: A…
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Title: Ethan Frome Author: Edith Wharton How it fulfills the challenge: This is sort of self-explanatory, but it seems like this kind of title was far more common in days of olde. There are a ton of classics that are named after their protagonists, but there are far fewer that are published now, or at least that’s…
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Title: Sula Author: Toni Morrison How it fulfills the challenge: Toni Morrison is a person of color, and many of her books center on what it is like to be a black woman in America. Sula was nominated for the National Book Award, and her 1987 novel, Beloved, won the Pulitzer prize. Genre: Fiction Quick Description: Morrison’s book is a study…
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Title: Ragnarok Author: A.S. Byatt How it fulfills the challenge: This book is an adaptation of the Norse end of the world myth (Ragnarok) Genre: Fiction (maybe could be considered fantasy? Literary Fantasy…) Quick Description: A detailed and almost poetic interpretation of a Norse myth with amazing imagery and a complex look at good and evil, power and…
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Title: Victory of Eagles Author: Naomi Novik How it fulfills the challenge: This book takes place during the Napoleonic wars, though the battles that are depicted never actually happened. Genre: Fantasy Quick Description: In the 5th book of the Temeraire series, the dragon’s captain, Laurence, has been branded a traitor and Temeraire has been sent to the breeding grounds, no…
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Title: Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned” Author: Lena Dunham How it fulfills the challenge: This book doesn’t actually give all that much advice in the traditional sense, but the essays are written in such a way that you discover the career lessons for yourself. Namely, listening to your…
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