The Five Book Challenge
There are many great book challenges out there such as the A-Z book challenge (where you read books by authors with surnames beginning with A right through to Z) or the 52 book for 52 weeks of the year challenge but sadly,…
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Five book challenge on steroids?
Professor Jim Flynn is a world recognised expert on intelligence. He has written The Torchlight List – two hundred books which he hopes people will begin to read (or re-read) to gain an understanding of the world. Reading these books …
Silence – Undertaking Five Book Challenge
As someone who thinks mall foodcourts are the third circle of Hell (why do they play loud canned music when the echo chambers they build are already full of noisy people?), reading a book about silence appealed. But it has been…
Five Book Challenge
Here in the Popular team at the library, we love books, and we love reading. Between us all, we probably cover just about every genre and type of book, from steampunk to short stories, from contemporary fiction to forensic crime. …
The five book (more of a) challenge (than I thought)
It seemed like such a good idea at the time. Read five books in an unfamiliar genre. Expand one’s horizons. Provide even better Reader Advisory service to customers who don’t share one’s reading tastes. Get on Bronwyn’s good side. Choosing a…
Reading Challenges, and the end-of-year rush to complete them
I love books. Which is just as well, since I work in a library, and am surrounded by them everyday. Paperbacks, hardbacks, audiobooks, eBooks, and magazines – a library is an endless supply of stories to read, listen to, and…
The HELL Pizza Reading Challenge
The New Zealand Book Awards Trust have teamed up again with HELL Pizza to encourage school-age children to read more. Their reading programme is now in its fourth year, and it runs through schools and libraries nationwide. Christchurch City Libraries…
My five poets challenge
It is well known that my high school English teachers almost killed poetry for me. However, I never quite gave up on it and I am always very happy when I stumble upon a new poem. These serendipitous discoveries usually…
Challenged by the challenges
Well, it’s nearly half way through the year and I’m in a terrible mess with my challenges. Reading seven books off the Guardian’s List of Best Books of 2013 went swimmingly until I reached number seven: The Kills. It’s 1002 pages long.…
The other ANZACs – New Zealand e-book month
By the end of The Great War, forty-five Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over two hundred had been decorated. These were women who left for war on an adventure, but were soon confronted with…
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