A new month and a new challenge! July takes us out of the refinements of the past few months (sport, art, music) and into the wild with the theme of:Animals and Plants.
Now, you know the drill. With the 2019 Reading Challenge, you have to read as many books as you can that "fit" the month's theme in some way shape or form. Just exactly how your books fit the theme is completely up to you.
Perhaps there's an animal or plant in the title, or perhaps there's a flower or a cat on the cover (or would have been, if we hadn't taken the dust jacket off the book before we made it available for loan)?
Maybe the book features animals as a main character, or perhaps it has one of the best trees in literature? Or maybe you just picked something from some Buzzfeed listicle about books for animal lovers. Whatever works.
The Must-Haves
Remember, there are four boxes you have to tick along the way. If you're a mad book fiend and you love challenges to be extra challenging, you can make sure that every box is ticked by a different book. If you're time poor and a bit creative, you can tick all four boxes with only two books:
- A work of fiction
- A work of non-fiction
- A work by an Australian author
- A work by an author you haven't read before.
Bonus Challenge for July
If you're wanting a bit of a stretch and you'd like a bonus challenge for July, try this on for size:
Read a book about animals or plants that are native to the place where you were born.
And remember, we love publishing guest reviews on our blog, so if you've read a book and you'd like to review it, please send your review into library@jcu.edu.au (we like books that can be borrowed from libraries - if not ours, then one of the local libraries).
Happy reading!
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