Hello, everyone, your Fairy God-Librarian here, and today I’m going to briefly explain the reading challenge I’ve chosen to partake in to help restore normalcy after such a rough year.
There are plenty of interesting reading challenges out there. I’ve got one on a metallic bookmark that I carry around everywhere. Another is the Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge, from Gilmore Girls. I could have chosen these to work on and finish within the timespan of this year, but I decided to find something with a theme instead. Beginning of January, I was perusing through MuggleNet.com and learned that someone had created and posted to their site a reading challenge with a Harry Potter theme. It already includes two of my favorite things-books and most particularly, the Harry Potter series-but this challenge also makes sure that it connects these series with Black authors, female authors, classics, LGBTQIA+ authors, and environmentally conscious works. I also changed around with the entries for each month so that it fits my schedule and interest.
To complete this challenge, I intend to use my local libraries to assist. Since I chose all books that I thought would be very interesting, if I can’t find it at the library, I will not have any qualms over ordering it. Below, I’ve included my edited list. I hope to encourage others the importance of books and learning. Happy reading.
Love,
Lacie 🙂
Month Challenge My Choice for Book The Author
Janurary: Hermione’s idea of a bit of light reading—read a non-fiction book (The New Lifetime Reading Plan by Clifton Fadiman and John S. Major)
February: New year, new novels—read a book published in the last 2 years (The Ten Thousand Doors of January, published in Sept. 2019, by Alix E. Harrow)
March: Things you didn’t learn in History of Magic class—read a Muggle classic (Moby Dick by Herman Melville)
April: In the name of Herbology, read a book that deals with climate change/the environment (Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer)
May: Channel your inner Fleur Delacour and read a book in translation—originally written in a language you do not speak (Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Marquéz, Gregory Rabassa (translator)-Crónica de una muerte anunciada)
June: Read a book featuring a Trans protagonist (Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom)
July: Break out that Time-Turner and read a book set before you were born (Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe)
August: Some things just don’t belong in the Restricted Section—read a book off the “banned book” list (Catch-22 by Joseph Heller)
September: Read a book by a Black author (Indigo by Beverly Jenkins)
October: A play or poetry collection (Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson)
November: The book one of your favorite shows/movies is based on (Ross Poldark by Winston Graham)
December: It’s Debut December—read a new author’s very first book (The Lost Apothecary-Debut in March 2021-by Sarah Penner)