One thing I have always loved was a good book.
I always had my nose in a book, sometimes pouring over three a week. If I had five minutes to myself, I was reading. Books were two deep in the bookcase, and then books layered in any free space. Stacks of books. It completely undid the use of the bookcase, as in, being able to glance at the spines of your books to see what you had. If you were looking for a book, you had to dig through the books to find it.
Oh and book stores! Barnes & Nobel, Books A Million, Borders, Waldens Books, the local used book store we had in the area , and I won't even mention the local library sale each year. It was a pay day treat to go to the book stores. At B&N we would get a coffee and wander in the books. I always cruised the sci fi/fantasy and reference books, and then to my favorite the clearance section. It was nothing to drop $100 on books. I couldn't wait to come home, curl up on the couch and crack the spine of that book. What a glorious sound! Oh and the smell of a new book!!!!
Then I stopped reading.....
Last year I posted
this reading challenge to find my love of reading again, and it worked!!
So I am doing it again this year!!
Just like last year I started searching the internet for a good reading challenge that will allow me to use my books, books I have read, and books that I still need to read. I approach the idea of books differently now. I won't buy new books anymore, I don't want to add to anymore production or manufacturing on the planet. I use the local library, or the
OverDrive App and download them to my nook or computer. It is more like fostering. I get to keep them for a while, and then let them go on to someone else who needs them :)
I have used portions of a list I found at
Linz the Bookworm and
Mommy Mannegren to create this years list of 52 books.
Read them in order or skip around, but please
1. A book with the letter “W” in the
title
2. A hardcover
3. Translated into English
4. Set in winter
5. A character who is a senior
6. Written in the 1970's
7. An author local to you
8. Orange on the cover
9. Set in space
10. A bestseller
11. A book that leaves you thinking
12. A “guilty pleasure”
13. Written by a female author
14. Book in a series
15. Free space!!! You pick and share with us!
16. Borrowed from a friend
17. Written by more than one author
18. Published in 2020
19. A Stephen King novel
20. An author whose last name starts
with the same initial as yours
21. Written by a blogger or journalist
22. A character that frustrates you
23. A strong friendship theme
24. A comic book
25. Literary Fiction
26. An award-winning novel
27. A book with recipes inside
28. A book featuring royalty
29. A spy novel
30. A book containing poetry
31. A book with illustrations
32. An author's debut book
33. Written in first person
34. A book featuring the medical
profession
35. Set in the future
36. A book used in a celebrity book
club
37. A book on the Mensa reading list
for grade 9-12
38. Published when you were 20
39. Reuse a prompt from 2019
40. Set in a country you've never
visited before
41. “Recommended” to you by Amazon
42. A book that cost you less than $3
43. Story that takes place on a form
of transportation
44. Character who wears glasses
45. About a World Leader
46. An author you previously disliked
48. Book you've had on your to
be read shelf for more than a year
49. A retelling of a classic fairy
tale
50. Book you got for free
51. A novel by an author using a
pseudonym
52. A book with exactly 4 words
in the title
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Have fun!!
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