The 52 Book Club

Soon, a new year is coming. This is the time of year when you look back to what you have read during the year, and looking forward to deciding what to read in the coming year. I tend to make lists, big or small, of books I want to read. When the time comes I usually choose something else. Well, that is life, or is it just bad discipline?

One challenge I will follow this year is the 52 Book Club. The aim is to read 52 books in 52 weeks. To guide you along the way, they provide you with a list of prompts to follow. From the prompts you choose the book you see fit. You can be flexible with your interpretation of the prompts.

Please let me know if you are interested in participating. It would be nice to exchange views and tips. If you don’t read 52 books, it is still ok to join. The aim is to read more books. I personally like, in general, to choose a book from prompts, which makes it more interesting. This also tend to lead you to finding books in a genre you might not read much. There is also a Facebook group where you can share your reading experience, and get ideas which books to read.

As far as I can, I will choose books from my TBR (To Be Read) shelves. Going through my list of TBRs, I find these books that could be suitable:

• Set in an ancient civilization - The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso

• Has a dust jacket - Columbus, The Four Voyages by Laurence Berggren

• Title starts with the letter “O” - Ofredsår by Peter Englund

• Title starts with the letter “P” - Påven Johanna (Pope Joan) by Donna Woolfolk Cross

• A three-syllable word in the title - Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Race, Slavery and the quest for Human Origins by Adrian Desmond and James Moore

• Spans a decade or more - Inheritance: The Story of Knole and the Sackvilles by Robert Sackville West

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