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Want to read more and fulfill your reading resolutions this year? Want to work on your reading stamina? Or you just don't know what to read next?
Then this challenge is for you!
Join us in our monthly reading challenge and encourage yourself to read more, find more diverse authors and genres and get the satisfaction of achieving a new personal goal.
Each month we have a new challenge and a list of tittle suggestions for you.
MARCH:
This month's challenge is: read a book published the year you were born.
So get to the library now and say CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!
But most importantly, have fun! Happy reading!
April:
This month we challenge you to... read a Science Fiction novel!
Author Yuval Noah Harari ("Sapiens" and "Homo Deus") believes that Science Fiction is the most important artistic genre of our time:
💡"It shapes the understanding of the public on things like artificial intelligence and biotechnology, which are likely to change our lives and society more than anything else in the coming decades."💡
As a matter of fact, Science Fiction does not only deal with technology, futuristic gadgets, tentacular Martian overlords and time traveling 👽 It also deals with a number of things like: human nature, values, politics, gender, power, transformation and, overall, possibilities.
Science Fiction encourages to see what "could be" and not just "what is", giving us insight on how to transform reality.
So this month we challenge you to read a Science Fiction novel or short story. Remember: if you want recommendations, ask away!
Read on! 🤖
MAY:
May's Reading Challenge is here!!
📚This month's challenge is: read a book with a color in the title! 📚
Join us in our monthly reading challenge and encourage yourself to read more, find more diverse authors and genres and get the satisfaction of achieving a new personal goal.
Say CHALLENGE ACCEPTED! But most importantly, have fun!
Happy reading!
JUNE:
📚This month's challenge is: read a book that you own but haven't read yet 📚
Join us in our monthly reading challenge and encourage yourself to read more, find more diverse authors and genres and get the satisfaction of achieving a new personal goal.
Say CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!
But most importantly, have fun!
JULY:
July's Reading Challenge is here!🤓
📚This month's challenge is: Read a book that retells a myth! 📚
It can be a Greek myth, or Roman, or Norse, or Mayan, Egyptian, Indigenous and first people's myths... However you choose!
august:
📚This month's challenge is: Read a book that was or has been formerly banned! 📚
There are many reasons why books have been censored, challenged or banned by institutions and the general public through time, some of them are:
Racial Issues, encouragement of "damaging" lifestyles, blasphemous dialog, sexual situations or dialog, violence or negativity, presence of witchcraft, religious affiliations, political bias, age inappropriateness... Etc.
We need to remember that book censorship has a lot to do with the values of the time, the place and the different social/political/religious contexts in which these books have been written, published, read and judged, so many books have been banned or censored in one or more of these categories due to a misjudgment or misunderstanding about the books contents and message.
Although a book may have been banned or labeled a certain way, it is important that the reader makes their own judgements on the book. Reading banned books offers us a chance to celebrate reading and promotes open access to sharing different perspectives and points of view, critical thinking, reviewing controversial ideas and the exercising of empathy, all of which are key to becoming a lifelong learner...
This aligns with the IB mission, which seeks for children to "become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right."
november:
📚This month's challenge is: Read a book that has won the Nobel Prize!📚
The Nobel Prize is a collection of prizes awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind".
This month's challenge invites you to read the work of a laureate (that's how the recipient of the prize is called), ideally one that's been awarded in this year, but it can be of ANY YEAR!
And it doesn't necessarily have to be Literature! 😊 You can venture to read an essay, scientific paper or publication in Chemistry, Physics medicine or any subject/field that interests you 🤓
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