Make America Read Again: Eight Reading Challenges that will Make Your Spring Perfect
So much better than yard work
Winter is almost in our rear-view mirror and good riddance to it. With spring nearly upon us, it’s time to start pondering which teams you’ll pick during March Madness (for my friends outside the U.S., this is the annual insanity that is the NCAA college basketball tournament), put off mowing the lawn as long as possible, and start a new reading challenge. Yes, I just mentioned basketball and reading in the same sentence. The two can go together, as the excellent Giant Steps: The Autobiography of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar proves.
Most readers don’t need either a new season or a specific prompt to motivate them to read, but even the most voracious readers enjoy the occasional reading challenge to spice things up (it also triggers our competitive side, which is great when not taken to extremes). There are a number of long-running challenges out there, most notably the Rory Gilmore Reading List (from Gilmore Girls) and the Lisa Simpson Reading List (from The Simpsons), and I thought I would once again share a few reading challenges that you might enjoy (I’ve been on this site long enough for this to become a regular seasonal article).
