2016 challenges

dutchgirl76 · January 2016

Between my Overdrive holds and my bookshelf at home I think I have enough to get me through June or later, but I'm curious if there are any 2016 reading challenges posted yet? Are there any that you could do any year? I believe someone mentioned a Presidential challenge and possibly some others, any advice on where to find them?

Also, does anyone have a goal to complete a challenge in 2016?

SusieBW · January 2016

I'm working through the Presidential challenge, but I'm not in any rush. I see it as a rest of my life kind of project, and I only read one or two biographies a year. I'm only up to James Monroe, but I want to read Alexander Hamilton before I get to him because I want to stay contemporary. Its amazing how reading these biographies has made me want to learn so much more about American history generally, and so far about the revolution specifically. It's all so much more interesting than how it was presented to me growing up. And I really liked American history in school, too!

pinkybooklover09 · January 2016

@SusieBW - Are you up on the fabulousness of Hamilton the Musical? I am going to buy Chernow's book which inspired the musical. It will be my first forefather-y type book. I also want to read bios about Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson.

SusieBW · January 2016

@pinkybooklover09
I've heard a little about Hamilton the musical, but I don't really know much about it at all. Is it really fabulous? I'm pretty sure I bought the Chernow book on Hamilton, but I bought it months ago, so I don't really remember. I want to read about Lafayette, too. And Benjamin Franklin.

I read 1776 by McCullough, and it was a great companion to Washington. For Jefferson, I read Jon Meacham's Jefferson: The Art of Power. It was very good, but it was heavily focused on his politics and not as much on his personal life. I learned a lot about Jefferson's personal life from McCullough's John Adam's book, though. That one was excellent.

dutchgirl76 · January 2016

I don't know if this counts, but my husband read the Bill O'Rielly Killing Lincoln book and he loved it. He said it was the same thing, so much deeper than they teach you in school about the scandals and back story of the assassination and motivation etc.

julie37619 · January 2016

I'm still working on reading my way through the Penguin Drop Caps editions. Book Riot does a yearly challenge that several readerly friends I know participate in.

kelliebeans · January 2016

julie37619 said:

Book Riot does a yearly challenge that several readerly friends I know participate in.

I think I'm going to try to do the BookRiot challenge. I tried for 2015 but I didn't know about it until half way through the year so I didn't finish. There's an article on BookRiot's website that gives suggestions for each of the tasks so if it's an unfamiliar genre you know where to start.

pinkybooklover09 · January 2016

@SusieBW I listen to the cast recording in its entirety pretty much every day. It's so amazingly well written and evokes so much emotion. I've always enjoyed history, but this gave me such newfound respect for the founding of our country.

Lauren620 · January 2016

I've completely stalled in the Presidential challenge. I will get back to it eventually, my current bio is pretty boring though.

JenniatONU · January 2016

I'm in a YA group on goodreads, and they do a bunch of monthly challenges.

I'm doing a Book Bachelor one, a group pool, and a copy cat challenge. They're super easy though. It's just more motivation for me to read books I normally wouldn't, but should.

SusieBW · January 2016

pinkybooklover09 said:

@SusieBW I listen to the cast recording in its entirety pretty much every day. It's so amazingly well written and evokes so much emotion. I've always enjoyed history, but this gave me such newfound respect for the founding of our country.

Do you know if it's available streaming anywhere?

packfan20 · January 2016

SusieBW said:

pinkybooklover09 said:

@SusieBW I listen to the cast recording in its entirety pretty much every day. It's so amazingly well written and evokes so much emotion. I've always enjoyed history, but this gave me such newfound respect for the founding of our country.

Do you know if it's available streaming anywhere?

It's on Hoopla if your library has that.

SusieBW · January 2016

Hoopla won't let me sign in. Maybe my library got rid of it.

But some of it is on Google Music. OMG, it's hip hop history. I had no idea. I love it.

"Have you read this sh***?"

ETA: Aaaaaand the whole thing is streaming on Amazon Music. Yay!

pinkybooklover09 · January 2016

@SusieBW - It's also on Spotify!

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