Friday, February 21, 2020

Winter Reading Challenge

My local library is running a winter reading challenge. The challenge is to read five books that meet the following criteria between January 2 to February 29, 2020.

  1. Listen to a Book
  2. The Like Switch by Jack Schafer, Ph.D.

  3. Teaches You Something New
  4. Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs,  and Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers

  5. Graphic Novel or Comic Book
  6. Catabunga!: A Get Fuzzy Collection by Darby Conley

    Why Grizzly Bears Should Wear Underpants by Matthew Inman, The Oatmeal

  7. First in a Series
  8. Menagerie by Rachel Vincent

  9. In Another Time or Place
  10. Barrel-Aged Stout and Selling Out: Goose Island, Anheuser-Busch, and How Craft Beer Became Big Business by Josh Noel

  11. Book Club Recommendations (need to finish)
  12. The Art of Connecting: How to Overcome Differences, Build Rapport, and Communicate Effectively with Anyone by Claire Raines, Lara Ewing

  13. Author New To You
  14. The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism by Olivia Fox Cabane

  15. Outside Your Comfort Zone

  16. Under 200 Pages (currently reading)
  17. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson

  18. Made Into a Movie (want to read)
  19. The City of Ember (Book of Ember #1) by Jeanne DuPrau

  20. Always Meant to Read

  21. Retelling of a Story
  22. Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy by Tim Harford

    The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson

  23. Set in an Imaginary World
  24. Tehanu (Earthsea Cycle #4) by Ursula K. Le Guin

  25. Author of Color
  26. Zen Pencils: Dream the Impossible Dream - Volume One by Gavin Aung Than

    Zen Pencils: Dream the Impossible Dream - Volume Two by Gavin Aung Than

  27. Winter Setting