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osprey_archer) wrote2016-12-19 02:24 pm
osprey_archer) wrote2016-12-19 02:24 pm
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Reading challenges
It's bitterly cold outside, so after popping over to the post office to mail one last package, I decided it might be best to stay inside for the rest of the day.
Thus, I have spent the morning in contemplating the plethora of 2017 Reading Challenges (the link goes to a master list of reading challenges), although in the end I didn't find anything I like as much as the Modern Mrs. Darcy challenges.
(Although I was tempted by the Share-a-Tea Reading Challenge and the Old School KidLit Reading Challenge, I'm not sure either would actually count as a challenge for me, given that they practically describe my reading habits already.)
But! Uh oh! There are two lists to choose from. I have studied them both with some attention, but probably inevitably settled on the Reading For Growth list.
1. A Newbery Award Winner or Honor book. This will be filled by the 2017 winner.
2. A book in translation. LOTS of choices for this one! Should I jump straight from The Count of Monte Cristo to The Three Musketeers? Should I finally read some Dostoevsky? Perhaps I should read another Zola or give Balzac a try. Choices, choices!
3. A book that's more than 600 pages. Perhaps I'll finally read Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell! And then I could watch the miniseries, too.
4. A book of poetry, a play, or an essay collection. Not sure about this one. Possibly an opportunity to read a Shakespeare play I haven't gotten around to yet?
5. A book of any genre that addresses current events. ...Do I have to?
6. An immigrant story.
7. A book published before you were born. Otherwise known as Half the Books on My TBR List.
8. Three books by the same author. Two possibilities for this one! Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet, or Dorothy Sayers' Harriet Vane/Peter Wimsey novels. Actually I plan to read both of these sets in 2017; it's kind of a toss-up which one will go for the challenge.
9. A book by an #ownvoices or #diversebooks author. I have poked around a bit and finally concluded that any author who is marginalized in any way probably counts.
10. A book with an unreliable narrator or ambiguous ending. Does anyone have a book with an unreliable narrator or an ambiguous ending they'd like to recommend? It seems a bit hard to know that sort of thing before you read the book. In another post, the blog writer mentions Atonement, which I have meant vaguely to read, so I suppose I might go with that.
11. A book nominated for an award in 2017.
12. A Pulitzer Prize or National Book Award winner.
Thus, I have spent the morning in contemplating the plethora of 2017 Reading Challenges (the link goes to a master list of reading challenges), although in the end I didn't find anything I like as much as the Modern Mrs. Darcy challenges.
(Although I was tempted by the Share-a-Tea Reading Challenge and the Old School KidLit Reading Challenge, I'm not sure either would actually count as a challenge for me, given that they practically describe my reading habits already.)
But! Uh oh! There are two lists to choose from. I have studied them both with some attention, but probably inevitably settled on the Reading For Growth list.
1. A Newbery Award Winner or Honor book. This will be filled by the 2017 winner.
2. A book in translation. LOTS of choices for this one! Should I jump straight from The Count of Monte Cristo to The Three Musketeers? Should I finally read some Dostoevsky? Perhaps I should read another Zola or give Balzac a try. Choices, choices!
3. A book that's more than 600 pages. Perhaps I'll finally read Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell! And then I could watch the miniseries, too.
4. A book of poetry, a play, or an essay collection. Not sure about this one. Possibly an opportunity to read a Shakespeare play I haven't gotten around to yet?
5. A book of any genre that addresses current events. ...Do I have to?
6. An immigrant story.
7. A book published before you were born. Otherwise known as Half the Books on My TBR List.
8. Three books by the same author. Two possibilities for this one! Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet, or Dorothy Sayers' Harriet Vane/Peter Wimsey novels. Actually I plan to read both of these sets in 2017; it's kind of a toss-up which one will go for the challenge.
9. A book by an #ownvoices or #diversebooks author. I have poked around a bit and finally concluded that any author who is marginalized in any way probably counts.
10. A book with an unreliable narrator or ambiguous ending. Does anyone have a book with an unreliable narrator or an ambiguous ending they'd like to recommend? It seems a bit hard to know that sort of thing before you read the book. In another post, the blog writer mentions Atonement, which I have meant vaguely to read, so I suppose I might go with that.
11. A book nominated for an award in 2017.
12. A Pulitzer Prize or National Book Award winner.