SBC Ideas!

fabk

It's that time of year again. Spring is in the air! Can you feel it? Or are you still under 6 ft of snow?!

Either way its time for SBC! So post your ideas, thoughts, questions, comments, etc.

I used up a lot of my database of ideas for WBC so even if you think its a silly idea or been used before please post it!

packfan20

I don't know what this "spring" is that you speak of.

fabk

I know right. I am pretty sure I will never see green grass and sunshine ever again.

mrsvedo

There's a couple of Buzzfeed lists with some good book recs. Maybe read a book from each of these lists (two separate categories)?

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ariellecalderon/books-to-read-before-they-hit-theaters-this-year

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ariannarebolini/books-to-read-based-on-your-childhood-favorites

beebe918

Sort your to-be-read list by date added and read the first (or one of the first if you want to open it up a bit) book you added but have yet to read.

Sort your to-be-read list by publication date and read the oldest (or one of the oldest books) on your list.

Read a book set at least 100 years in the past or 100 years in the future.  

Ali2b1g

Book with a name of a state in the title.

Book received from a give-away, won as a prize or given as a gift.

Book from an unfinished category of the previous challenge.

IHO of Easter: Book about a religion.

 

 

sonore32

Read a book with the proper name of an animal in the title (ie Shiloh, Old Yeller, Secretariat, etc...)

sonore32

Read a book whose movie version you have already seen

A book written by someone under 30

The first book by a favorite author

A book published the year you were born

This has been done before I still like it:

Stand in front a bookshelf (at home, store, library, etc...) close your eyes and pick a book at random

jjr1214

Read a book of short stories

IHO April showers, read a book with a water word in the title

True crime book or murder mystery

Read a book that intimidates you

Read a book it seems like everyone has read but you

GilliC

I'm taking the year off of challenges to catch up on my backlog, but here are a few spring ideas I came up with over the last year:

IHO of The Audies in late May, listen to an Audie award finalist audio book (from any year).

IHO of April Fool's day, read a book with a funny title or cover.

booknerd226

I like a lot of the suggestions so far. I tried to quote but it obviously didn't work.

-Read the next book you see a stranger reading in public.

-IHO of spring, read a book with a flower(s) on the cover. (Original, I know.)

-IHO spring break, read a book with a beach on the cover.

muzikgrrl

I'm loving these suggestions, I'm not sure if this has been suggested before:

IHO of Mothers Day read a book that your mother loved/recommended.

IHO of the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day Invasion read a book about World War Two.  It can also be a work of fiction where the story or character has something to do with WWII.

fabk

Awesome! There are some great ideas here!! Thanks for all the input!

Jliongrrrl

Nurses week and EMS week will be during SBC and there are lots of fiction and non fiction books that center around healthcare. Maybe read a book where the main character requires hospitalization at some point or a non fiction book about a healthcare topic.

beebe918

booknerd226 said:

-Read the next book you see a stranger reading in public.

LOVE this one!

booneybear

- Erotica

 

- Southern Fiction

- Time travel

- Memoir written by a man

- Memoir written by a woman

- Celebrity Bio

- A book about space or the universe

- Booker prize winner

- Pulitzer Prize winner

- Book which revolves around a medical theme (fic or non-fic)

packfan20

I didn't read all the other suggestions yet..

-Pick an NBCer and have her suggest a book for you to read

-Read a book about a president or politician

packfan20

Write 5 WIJFR posts about books you read for SBC.

pirogoeth

I'm afraid I don't have any suggestions, but here are the ones I like:

- http://www.buzzfeed.com/ariellecalderon/books-to-read-before-they-hit-theaters-this-year

- Book received from a give-away, won as a prize or given as a gift.

- Book from an unfinished category of the previous challenge.

- IHO of Easter: Book about a religion.

- Read a book whose movie version you have already seen

- The first book by a favorite author

- Memoir written by a man

- Memoir written by a woman

- Celebrity Bio

- A book about space or the universe