January 1 - December 31, 2011
Bethy at Cataloging My Life is hosting her first reading challenge - and it looks like a lot of fun. The School of Life Reading Challenge is designed to encourage readers to read books from college courses. Bethy writes:
Do you miss being a student? Did you major in English but you haven't read a classic in years? In this reading challenge you can pick and choose books that are assigned in classes related to your old major.How To Participate
- Decide which major or subject you would like to study
- Visit your alma mater's website and see if they have class syllabi online. If they don't, check one of the hundreds of free online classes at Yale, MIT, or any other college
- Pick a few classes in your major
- Choose one or more books required in each class syllabus
- You do not have to write reviews
- You may keep in touch and leave links to your reviews (on Bethy's blog), if you choose to write them
- You do not have to have a blog
- The books you choose can be overlaps from other reading challenges
- cum laude: 6 books
- magna cum laude: 8 books
- summa cum laude: 12 books
