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I’ve been watching a lot of “Booktube” lately while I fold laundry or wash dishes because it’s a happy escape and most importantly, non-stressful and non-political! There are so many interesting people out there with such a wide range of favorite genres. Not only do these channels gush about books, but they also share lots of unique ways to read books. For February, I’m joining in on the fun!
Historathon
Historathon is a month-long readathon featuring historical fiction. The hosts created a Bingo board with nine different prompts and I was able to find five that fit out of the books I already own. (I did splurge and buy the group read book.) Here’s what I’ve got:
- Book About a War That is Not WWII – The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes
- Group Read: The Yellow Bird Sings – I found a copy of this on Book Outlet!
- A Historical Fiction Sub-Genre – The Woman in the Trees by Theoni Bell (I consider this a religious/historical fiction mix.)
- A Book With No People on the Cover – Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan
- A Book Set During Winter – The Winter Station by Jody Shields
- A Book With a Person’s Name in the Title – The Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber
The Booktube Spin
Another fun one that I couldn’t resist! With this challenge, you pick 20 books from your TBR and list them by number. I tried to pick my list with books that have been on my shelves for awhile:
- Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology by Eric Brende
- The Barefoot Bandit by Bob Friel
- My Italian Bulldozer by Alexander McCall Smith
- Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
- He Leadeth Me by Walter J. Ciszek
- Welcome to Lagos by Chibundu Onuzo
- Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
- Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
- The Privilege of Being a Woman by Alice von Hildebrand
- The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
- The Girl in the Green Raincoat by Laura Lippman
- Fatherless by Brian J. Gail
- What She Knew by Gilly MacMillan
- Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins
- My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
- This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
- Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery
- Moloka’i by Alan Brennert
- An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace by Tamar Adler
The creator of the challenge spun a wheel and the arrow landed on…number 15! The challenge is to read this one book by March 31.
Buzzword Reading Challenge
The prompt for February in the Buzzword Reading Challenge is “a color” and I’m planning to use Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan (mentioned above) for this. Win/win!
24in48 Readathon
So the question remains: how can I make the time to get to all of these great novels? The 24in48 Readathon may be helpful! This is a two-day reading “sprint” where you aim to read 24 out of 48 hours. There is no way I’ll be able to read anywhere near that number, but I do think it would be fun to put the screens away for the weekend and dig into a pile of books.
Linking up again with Rosie!
So many fun challenges!
Good luck!
Thanks Joy! Do you have any historical fiction favorites?
SO FUN!! Great shares and great choices on the challenges you are joining. I’m inspired! I’m going to share with some of my student book lovers!
There seems to be a readathon for every kind of reader! Your students may be interested in this calendar I found that lays them all out by month: http://www.littlebookowl.com/p/read-thon-calendar.html
I have not been doing a good job of actually trying to READ the books on my TBR list! I should go look at it and see what I can find!
Same! My goal for 2021 is to read a lot of the books I own and if I purchase anything new, it should be on my TBR list from Goodreads. No guarantees that I can stick to that, ha!, but that’s the plan.
Well, you know I’m all about a post dedicated solely to books and reading!!!
I’ll be super curious to hear your thoughts on the Ferrante novel. I read the first two in the series and just couldn’t keep going, though I’m definitely in the minority on that, as most people really love them. However, #17 and #20 are definite favorites of mine, so I hope you make time to read those sooner than later! If you’re trying to get motivated for all the gardening you’re planning this year, Animal Vegetable Miracle would be a great spring pick 🙂
I’ve heard high praise for My Brilliant Friend, but my copy actually comes from my mom who just couldn’t get into it! I’m anxious to see where I fall on the spectrum.
And I’ll have to pick up Animal Vegetable Miracle soon! Writing out that list actually reignited a lot of interest in some books I had totally forgotten about.
These are great challenges! What is Booktube?
Apparently, it’s what the book reading creators on Youtube call themselves!