I'll admit, "a book written by a journalist" was a rather easy category for me. People like Susan Sontag, Stieg Larsson and Ernest Hemingway immediately came to mind. But a quick internet search reveals that there are so many more great options! I had difficulty narrowing it down to one choice for this post. Let […]
One of my pet peeves is when I can't categorize something easily. It's the reason I love, love, LOVE this category. No need to hem and haw, trying to determine which category the book you just read fits into. It is the core of my love of reading: a book that I read just because. […]
I love the many different ways to interpret this category. My first thought for the category was: ok, I guess I’ll read a book about time travel. Before The Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi is about a café where one seat allows the person to travel in time. Except there are a lot of […]
I’ve never been great at the sciences, but that never stopped me from reading about STEM (science, technology, math and engineering). Especially since there are so many great non-fiction books about STEM that are written in an accessible narrative style. One of my favourite books so far this year was Galaxy Girls: 50 Amazing Stories […]
How can you sum up an entire book, with the years of work that went into it, in just one word? Accurately conveying the content and essence of a book via a succinct title is not a job I envy unless I get to use a long subtitle (which in my case would probably turn […]
I love to curl up under a blanket with a warm cup of tea and spend hours reading, getting lost in the pages of a non-fiction book. It might seem odd that I find comfort in non-fiction books, but I hate the idea of not knowing. Learning about the world gives me a sense of […]
It's one thing to get lost in a book, swept up in the plot and totally unaware of the world around you. It's another to start daydreaming about living in it. Have you ever settled down with a good book and found yourself periodically imagining living there? Maybe you search for images of the setting […]
Sure it’s indulgent, but I’m not going to lie, "a book that celebrates books, reading or libraries," is one of my all-time favourite Reading Challenge categories (if I could include an animated applause here I would). There's something kind of special when you are reading and you suddenly realize: “Hey! this book is about me!” […]
In keeping with the theme of encouraging readership, the TPL Reading Challenge 2020 includes a category that really took me out of my reading comfort zone: "A book originally written in a language that is not your first language." It's a bit of a mouthful but it's quite a fun category, it could either refer […]