By Golly, Ollie!
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I Am Going to Read Every Book in the YA Section of My Library.
In March, I had an absurd idea. I decided I should attempt to read every book available in the young adult section of my local library from A to Z. That is to say, I intend to read the books in the order they appear on the shelf from Sign Language by Amy Ackley to I Am the Messenger by Mark Zusak . The rules are simple:
- Read the books in the order they are shelved until I run out of books to read.
- To combat series fatigue, I can alternate between reading a book at the front of the stack and a book at the end of the stack. Essentially, I would be working my way to the middle of the YA section (I guess that’s not really Ackley to Zusak, is it?).
- This challenge will of course be punctuated by my usual cozy mysteries and the odds and ends I find in the”grown up” section such as Night Film by Marisha Pessl or Demi-Monde: Winter by Rod Rees (featured above) because I need variety in my bookish life.
- I am not required to read a novel I have already read.
- Abandoning awful books is permitted after making a real effort to read the novel. “Real effort” to be defined later. Probably once I hit Cassandra Clare or John Green novels. #unpopularopinion #sorrynotsorry
I have no idea if completing this is probable considering I’m such a slow and distracted reader. Also, I’ve never actually lived in the same place longer than three years…
But, this is it. This is me declaring that I am going to read every book in the YA section of my local library.
Godspeed!
Good luck! That’s quite a challenge. I’ll be tracking your progress! 🙂
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I love it! What a fun, ambitious project 🙂
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This is a fantastic goal! I haven’t even read all YA books in my personal library, so I’m going to cheer from the sidelines as I watch you tackle this. Good luck! 🙂
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I literally came up with that EXACT same idea. Like reading the A’s and Z’s till I got to the middle. I actually came up with this idea maybe a year ago. I unfortunately failed at doing it. I just couldn’t read some of the books. Afterwards, I just decided to read 25-50 pages of each book and stop when I didn’t like it. In this way I discovered books I liked that I otherwise wouldn’t have picked up. I never went through all the books though. Reading your post has made me want to try this again! I read some of sign language by Amy ackley and thought the writing was good but the story just didn’t pull me in. I’ll read your review to see what u thought.
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