I did the following challenge as my reading challenge for the year.
For this I read the following books.
In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (re-read)
I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron
Waterlily by Ella Cara Deloria
Nations of the Eastern Great Lakes by Bobbie Kalman
Dogger by Shirley Hughes
The Taliban Shuffle by Kim Barker
Buddha in the Attic by Otsuka
Ravensbuck by Sarah Helm
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
Emma Bean by Jean Van Leeuwen
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi
Asphodel by Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)
First Grave on the Right by Darynada Jones
An Underground Life Gad Beck
Starring Sally J Freedman by Judy Blume (re-read)
Untwine by Edwidge Danticat
The Last Man Mary Shelley
The BreakBeat Poets : New American Poetry in the Age Of Hip-Hop
RollerGirl by Victoria Jamieson
Beijing Coma by Ma Jian
For The Traveling Book Club I Read the following:
The Girls by Emma Cline
French Women Don’t Get Fat by Mirieille Guiliano
Up from Slavery by Booker T Washington
Angela’s Ashes by Frank Mc Court (re-read)
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Charm Bracelet By Viola Shipman
Gold Digger by Constance Roseblum
Miss Dreamsville by Amy Hill Hearth
For BOOKCON BookClub I read:
Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi
A Shadow Bright and Burning by Jessica Cluess
The Diabolic by S.J. Kincaid
***** NONE of these would I have read on my own, however I am grateful for the experience and have learned a lot by reading something I would never have read. Hopefully it will help me when I am recommending books for kids to read, another genre under my belt.
Bedtime Stories: We kept track of 150 of them here
https://www.pinterest.com/momjoy/bedtime-stories-2016/
We also did the 25 advent Christmas books
ON MY OWN
I read a ton more. I kept track of 68 of them here
https://www.pinterest.com/momjoy/2016-readsaka-the-books-i-read-additionally-to-my-/
As I joined Litsy I started to add my books to that app. This year I am going to actually WRITE them down in a journal. First time to do that.
This coming year my only challenge is to get through all the books sitting in my bookshelf and all my Advanced Readers Copies. Along with that, I will, of course still do my bookclubs and read something that looks interesting, but my first obligation is going to be to read what I have on hand.
Happy Reading 2017
Happy New Year
Book On
PEACE
