Thursday, March 8, 2018

#TheUnreadShelfProject2018: March Challenge

I'm doing this a bit out of order since I haven't even posted anything about joining The Unread Shelf Project 2018 yet... but oh well! I'll get to that at a later date, but the short version is basically to read books from your shelves. It's mainly an Instagram thing and is hosted by Whitney @theunreadshelf -- go check out her account and #theunreadshelfproject2018 if you're on Instagram :)

For the month of March, Whitney's challenge to participants is to choose a book to read by the end of the month. And if you don't read it, you have to get rid of it! Sell, donate, trade-in -- that's up to you, but out of the house it goes. The idea is that by giving yourself a deadline (sort of like a library book!) you will either be motivated to finally read a book you want to keep OR it will be the perfect excuse to admit it isn't for you and send it off to a new home.

So the point of this post... my chosen book for this challenge:

My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop edited by Ronald Rice & illustrated by Leif Parsons

This is the third and final book-about-books I bought over five years ago that's been sitting on my shelves ever since. I read the other two recently -- one was a DNF and the other was good though it didn't quite live up to expectations. So it's time to read this last one and see once and for all if it's a keeper or not. I'm reading a few essays at a time and am about 40 pages in so far. It's the perfect book to spread out over a couple of weeks and a perfect book for this challenge.

I have a feeling I could repeat this challenge for myself in the future -- but I'll have to see how I feel about it at the end of the month!

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Have you ever tried anything like this? I'd love to know!

6 comments:

  1. This sounds like a really fun challenge. It's funny that you're blogging about a book-about-book because I just did a blog post last night about 3 books-about-books that I recently read.

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    1. I'm really enjoying it so far! I love books about books -- I'll have to go find that post :)

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  2. Ooh, I like this idea! I will probably try this at some point in the future. I'm really curious to hear your thoughts on your chosen book because it's one I've been eyeing for a while. It looks really good!

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    1. It really is such a great idea! It's this challenge that really prompted me to more officially join the project rather than just follow along. So far, this is the best of the 3 books-about-books I've read recently! Some essays have been meh, but the good ones have been really good -- I'll have to see how it all evens out by the end!

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  3. This is clever. Thanks for sharing it Christine. I have gone through and started cleaning my Goodreads to read list.

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    1. My Goodreads to read is a mess -- good luck!

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I'd love to hear what you think :)