Bout of Books 2021

I'm participating in the Bout of Books Readathon this year. It runs January 4-10, 2021. It doesn't have questions, just a goal of 30 minutes per day (minimum) of reading in place. 

Here's the info about Bout of Books:

The Bout of Books readathon is organized by Amanda Shofner and Kelly Rubidoux Apple. It’s a weeklong readathon that begins 12:01am Monday, January 4th and runs through Sunday, January 10th in YOUR time zone. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are reading sprints, Twitter chats, and exclusive Instagram challenges, but they’re all completely optional. For all Bout of Books 30 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

 

 

 

We'll see how far I get with whichever books come to hand. Look for more posts on this site and my Facebook feed https://www.facebook.com/miriam.kahn.10

More soon. 

Reading Challenges

 Reading challenges are both internal and external nudges that push us toward goals, toward the need and desire to complete something, in this case reading.

The Library of Congress Reading Challenge https://blogs.loc.gov/national-book-festival/2020/08/take-on-our-challenge-read-across-the-library/ is designed for children, for those being schooled at home, home schooled, and those in the classroom. Of course, adults can take advantage of the challenge and read by themselves or with a little one (or not so little one) by their side.

Just recently, I decided to challenge myself to participate in a read-along. In this instance, it is the biography of Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395848.Alexander_Hamilton. 

It's a huge book, a door stopper of a biography with tons of history thrown in. The goal of the read-along was thirteen pages a day. That's a small bite of book, of reading each day. And now, with three days to go, I'm right on time, on the mark to finish and to have learned more than I ever wanted to know about one of our most influential founding fathers.

 Reading challenges serve as a means to an end. They challenge us to try new books, to read on a new topic, to learn about the world around us. 

 Try the Library of Congress reading challenge. See where the books take you this fall.