New Year’s Resolution Reading Challenge Update #NewYearBooks

What do you want to accomplish in the New Year? Will reading a book help you reach your goal, keep your resolution, or complete your project? Start the year off right by reading books that support your goals, resolutions, and projects — join the New Year’s Resolution Reading Challenge!

Have you selected goals, resolutions, or projects for 2017 yet? What books have you started to help you reach your goals? Record your progress on your blog and use the link list below. Or, report your progress in the comments on this post so that we can all cheer you along.

I haven’t made a lot of progress this week — but I just scheduled how I would get my four books read by February 2nd, the day of our last check-in for the New Year’s Resolution Reading Challenge. So, here’s my plan:

Resolution 1: Understand what’s going on in my country. I plan to read The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, by George Packer with others at The Hibernator’s Library. I’m not sure what kind of direction or structure that I’ll get from The Hibernator’s Library, but if that doesn’t change my approach, I’ll read this book last after my real-life book club meets in January.

Resolution 2: End the disproportionate suspensions of black and brown youth from schools. Along with my in-person book club, I’ll be reading Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris. I sometimes read books too early and forget too much before the book club meeting. I think I can read this in seven days, so I’ll start on the 12th and make sure that I’m finished before our meeting on the 19th.

Resolution 3: Figure out how non-patriarchal, non-hierarchical groups work. I’m reading an e-copy of The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups by Starhawk for this one. I’m on page 134 of 306 — I mapped out a plan to finish reading this on the 1st of January.

Resolution 4: Use pictures to deepen my experiences and improve my communication. I will focus on Blah, Blah, Blah: What to do When Words Don’t Work by Dan Roam from January 1 to January 12.

That’s my plan! What’s yours?

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New Year’s Resolution Reading Challenge Update #NewYearBooks — 2 Comments

Vasilly on December 29, 2016 at 8:29 pm said:

I love your goals. I’m still unsure as whether I should start blogging again or not, so I’ll post my goals here.

1. Eat Healthier. So I’m reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan and Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss.

2. Conquer Math. Algebra Demystified.

3. Know myself better. Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett.

4. Learn how to resist. Hope in the Dark, Freedom is a Constant Struggle, and Bonhoeffer.

There’s no way I’m going to be able to finish my stack by the challenge’s end, so this will probably be a year-long event for me.

Thanks for hosting this again, Joy.

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Joy Weese Moll on December 29, 2016 at 9:07 pm said:

Great choices. Pollan and Moss both helped me eat better — largely by making me mad at the food industry so I stick it to them by cooking from scratch as much as possible.

Someone just gave me Hope in the Dark. I’m really looking forward to it. The Empowerment Manual is helping with that, too.

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