For June, the challenge is to read as many books as you can which fit the theme "Music and Art".
Once again, you get to decide exactly how your books fit that theme - it can be as strong as reading a biography of Picasso, or as tenuous as a crime novel featuring a shoot-out in a record store.
Now, while we do have many books about music and art, we also have books that straight-up contain music and art. We actually have sheet music in our collection, and you can find it in One Search by looking for the composer (e.g. Mozart) or title (or a keyword or phrase) and choosing "Music Score" as your Content Type (you may have to click on "more" under Content Type to find it.
And we also have some exhibition catalogues in our collection - those are the books that artists produce when they have an exhibition, which shows what works are included, gives a bit of information about them and tells you how much you'll need to spend if you want to take any of them home (e.g. this book). You can search for them by putting SubjectTerms:"Exhibitions" in One Search and narrowing to "Visual Arts" under "Discipline". Many of these are located in the Shaw Collection, so you may need to pop into the Special Collections Reading Room to take a look.
Remember, during the course of the month you have to read:
- At least one work of fiction
- At least one work of non-fiction
- At least one book by an Australian author
- At least one book by an author you haven't read before
And, yes, you can double up on these, so one book might tick three boxes.
What's that? You want to know if there's a bonus challenge for June? Well, if you want the extra challenge, who are we to get in your way?
The Bonus Challenge for June is:
Read a book told entirely through the medium of art - no words at all.
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