Libraries ACT Reading Challenge 2019

Libraries ACT Reading Challenge 2019

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Posted 2019-03-14 by Belladonnafollow

Tue 01 Jan 2019 - Tue 31 Dec 2019

Have you ever read a book that made you laugh? What about a book set in Africa? Or a book that featured time travel? Or a book that has a one-word title? Or what about a book that you want to read again and again and again?

If you haven't read some or any of these books yet, then this year is your chance to do so with the !

The is an in house reading challenge for everybody. It's not a competition-there are no prizes-but it's the perfect way to kickstart your discovery of new books.

Many of us tend to read the same kinds of books, the same kinds of stories, in the same genres, written by the same kinds of authors, and covering very similar topics and interests and time periods and cultures. There was a time when all I was interested in reading was Jane Austen. Then there was that other time when all I wanted to read was fantasy or anything that was Tolkien and had Dwarves and Elves in it. And then I had a young adult fiction phase and a Harry Potter phase. We all like to read what interests us otherwise we wouldn't be reading in the first place.

But reading the same kinds of books can also stop us from discovering and learning about other human experiences, genres, topics, histories, time periods, societies and cultures. This is why the encourages us to try books we've never tried before.



The challenges you to read the following books:
  • A genre you've never read before
  • Something that makes you laugh
  • Has a one-word title
  • Features time travel or slime slip
  • Written under a pseudonym
  • That celebrates diversity
  • Set in an imaginary or alternate world
  • Crime fiction
  • Features food
  • Something you can read in a day
  • Has a green cover
  • An eBook or eAudiobook
  • Set in Africa
  • A gothic story
  • Something you want to re-read
  • Something you regret not having read yet
  • Recommended by family or friend
  • From/about antiquity (before Middle Ages)
  • Epistolary (letter or diary format)
  • Recommended by library staff

  • Visit your local library or bookstore to find the books that will challenge you this year. For more information on the , go here.

    Happy reading, Canberra!



    %%"I was born with a reading list I will never finish"
    Maud Casey, author%%

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    !date 01/01/2019 -- 31/12/2019
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