2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Q4 - ANTHROPOLOGY OF A READER
Duration: October 1-December 31, 2020


Fairy tales, myths, and fables have been passed down us through generations of storytellers and writers. Our last quarterly of 2020 honors the methods and craft of storytellers, while also looking at different cultural activities which are often narrated by these same spinners of tales.

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Ready to jump into this challenge? Post to inform the challenge leader how many books you plan to read.
Plan your books carefully. For the Storytelling section, prompts may not be repeated. For the Culture section, you may repeat prompts but any additional book for the same prompt must be set in a different culture (e.g., for "Dress," read Book 1 on Indian fabrics and Book 2 on a seamstress in another part of the world).

Storytelling
1. I've Been Framed! Read a book with a "story within a story" which is framed by its main narrative.
2. Look Who's Talking. Read a book with multiple narrators.
3. Who Can You Trust? Read a book with an unreliable narrator.
4. Do You Have Time for a Story? Read a book featuring a storyteller as one of its main characters.
5. Craftastic. Read a non-fiction or fiction that highlights the craft of storytelling, writing, or historiography.
6. Where Does the Time Go? Read a book that leaps around to different time periods.
7. Schezerazade Sez... Read an orally-transmitted tale in the form of a book, retelling, or adaptation or a story that mentions that kind of tale.
8. Did You Hear About the Time When Gramps...? Read a book which includes a story, an account of an event, or family anecdote that is shared by two or more generations.
9. Here's What Happened. Read a fiction or non-fiction about a historical event.
10. Here's What Really Happened. Read a second book that describes the same event from a different perspective.

Culture
A society manifests its social behavior and norms through cultural activities. Read a book to match any of the categories below. (If you repeat a prompt, the book needs to be set in a different culture from the first.)
1. Food (cultivating, cooking, eating, cookbooks, etc.)
2. Shelter (Architecture, housing)
3. Dress (fashion; weaving, dyeing, and other apparel-related crafts)
4. Fine Arts
5. Applied Arts (such as pottery, glassware, interior/graphic design)
6. Language
7. Ritual
8. Spiritual faith or religion
9. Customs and traditions
10. Cultural diffusion (in which a culture spreads to another) or acculturation (where one culture's traits replaces those of another).

Library Queen will be leading this challenge. Thank you, Library Queen!

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale...

Hey everyone! I'm super excited to be leading this challenge. Storytelling has been such a big part of human history since the beginning, and it's gonna be fun leading this challenge celebrating that. Did you know that out of 3,000 known languages, only 78 have a written language? So many stories out there...

Let me know how many books you're reading! Also, if you decide to drop out, update and let me know.

Updating your progress:
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Storytelling Celebrators (Participants)

Alison 13/10
Carmen 34/30
Jennifer 0/20
Jess 0/?
Library 16/15
Lisa 0/2
Lynn 20/20
Margie 11/10
Melissa 13/10
Mie 10/10
Nicole 0/10
oshizu 20/20
Rebecca 20/20
Regina 8/8
Sarah 20/20
Stephanie 0/13
Suzanne 0/20
TerryJane 20/20

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Please sign me up for 16 books, Thank you, Library Queen!

Q4 - ANTHROPOLOGY OF A READER

Progress: 20/20 Challenge completed!

Storytelling (10 books)
📜1. I've Been Framed! Read a book with a "story within a story" which is framed by its main narrative. ✔️The Angel of Darkness
📜2. Look Who's Talking. Read a book with multiple narrators.
Outer space: ✔️Network Effect (3 narrators)
📜3. Who Can You Trust? Read a book with an unreliable narrator.
✔️The Likeness
📜4. Do You Have Time for a Story? Read a book featuring a storyteller as one of its main characters.
✔️The Storyteller's Secret
📜5. Craftastic. Read a non-fiction or fiction that highlights the craft of storytelling, writing, or historiography.
✔️Cloud Atlas
📜6. Where Does the Time Go? Read a book that leaps around to different time periods.
✔️England: Things in Jars
✔️US: The Peripheral
📜7. Schezerazade Sez... Read an orally-transmitted tale in the form of a book, retelling, or adaptation or a story that mentions that kind of tale. ✔️In the Night Garden
📜8. Did You Hear About the Time When Gramps...? Read a book which includes a story, an account of an event, or family anecdote that is shared by two or more generations. ✔️The Grace of Kings (the origins of Dazu Zyndu's sword)
📜9. Here's What Happened. Read a fiction or non-fiction about a historical event. ✔️The Mirror & the Light (life of Jane Seymour)
10. Here's What Really Happened. Read a second book that describes the same event from a different perspective. Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen

Culture (10 books)
A society manifests its social behavior and norms through cultural activities. Read a book to match any of the categories below. (If you repeat a prompt, the book needs to be set in a different culture from the first.)
📜1. Food (cultivating, cooking, eating, cookbooks, etc.):
✔️US: The Cereal Murders
*Malaysia: The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds
📜2. Shelter (Architecture, housing): ✔️The Door
📜3. Dress (fashion; weaving, dyeing, and other apparel-related crafts):
✔️Singapore (Haute couture): China Rich Girlfriend
📜4. Fine Arts:✔️ This Terrible Beauty (Photography)
📜5. Applied Arts.
✔️Netherlands: Midnight Blue (decorative ceramics)
📜6. Language:
✔️A Tale for the Time Being
📜7. Ritual: ✔️Blood Rites (ritual magic)
📜8. Spiritual faith or religion: ✔️Dead Man's Ransom (Benedictine monk)
📜9. Customs and traditions: ✔️Ship of Magic
📜10. Cultural diffusion or acculturation. ✔️The Defenceless (Serbian-born Finnish woman)

My planning post

Hi Library.
I would like to start with 10 books, please 📚

10/10 COMPLETE ✔️

Storytelling
📗 2. Look Who's Talking. Read a book with multiple narrators - Rebel
📗 4. Do You Have Time for a Story? Read a book featuring a storyteller as one of its main characters - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
📗 6. Where Does the Time Go? Read a book that leaps around to different time periods - Time and Time Again
📗 7. Schezerazade Sez... Read an orally-transmitted tale in the form of a book, retelling, or adaptation or a story that mentions that kind of tale - Royal Assassin
📗 9. Here's What Happened. Read a fiction or non-fiction about a historical event - Min rejse til rummet

Culture
📗1. Food - Night of Miracles
📗 3. Dress - Blodmåne
📗 7. Ritual - Summer Knight
📗 8. Spiritual faith or religion - Monk's Hood
📗 10. Cultural diffusion or acculturation - The Defenceless

I signed up for 10, currently, 13/10

Storytelling
📗1. I've Been Framed! Read a book with a "story within a story" which is framed by its main narrative. Small Spaces, completed October 18, 2020
2. Look Who's Talking. Read a book with multiple narrators.
📗3. Who Can You Trust? Read a book with an unreliable narrator. We Have Always Lived in the Castle, completed October 29, 2020
📗4. Do You Have Time for a Story? Read a book featuring a storyteller as one of its main characters. The Hazel Wood, completed October 27, 2020 (the story spinner and the grandmother writer are primary characters, the main character "rewrites" her own story)
--5. Craftastic. Read a non-fiction or fiction that highlights the craft of storytelling, writing, or historiography. The Horse and His Boy (Aravis tells stories and has been taught the art of storytelling like western kids are taught to write essays), in progress
📗 6. Where Does the Time Go? And Now She's Gone, completed October 24, 2020
7. Schezerazade Sez... Read an orally-transmitted tale in the form of a book, retelling, or adaptation or a story that mentions that kind of tale.
📗 8. Did You Hear About the Time When Gramps...? Read a book which includes a story, an account of an event, or family anecdote that is shared by two or more generations. Horrid, family secret finally shared with daughter, completed October 3, 2020
📗 9. Here's What Happened. Read a fiction or non-fiction about a historical event. Say Nothing (Irish Troubles 1960s-2010s)
📗10. Here's What Really Happened. Read a second book that describes the same event from a different perspective. The Pull of the Stars (touches on the Irish Troubles 1918)

Culture
A society manifests its social behavior and norms through cultural activities. Read a book to match any of the categories below. (If you repeat a prompt, the book needs to be set in a different culture from the first.)
📗1. Food (cultivating, cooking, eating, cookbooks, etc.) My Kitchen Year, completed
2. Shelter (Architecture, housing)
3. Dress (fashion; weaving, dyeing, and other apparel-related crafts) Mademoiselle Chanel?
📗 4. Fine Arts Felix Ever After (main character is a painter, working on his art portfolio), completed October 9, 2020
5. Applied Arts (such as pottery, glassware, interior/graphic design) Lives in Ruins (found pottery and other artifacts)? Chasing Aphrodite (museum statues and pottery)?
6. Language Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue, Word by Word, The Badass Librarians of Timbuktu,
📗 7. Ritual A Deadly Education, in progress (learning magic rituals/spells at school), completed October 15, 2020
📗 8. Spiritual faith or religion Fear Dat, partially about voodoo religion and practices, completed October 12, 2020
📗9. Customs and traditions A Man Called Ove (daily customs of man, and his traditions and where they came from due to his life experience), completed October 8, 2020
📗 10. Cultural diffusion (in which a culture spreads to another) or acculturation (where one culture's traits replaces those of another). Catfish and Mandala (Vietnamese immigrants acculturating to the US, comments re: some cultural diffusion of Coca-cola and other cultural diffusion of the US to Vietnam), completed October 1, 2020

I would like to join for 10 books for now! :D

13/10 books as of 11/25/2020...**Challenge Completed**

Storytelling
√ 1. I've Been Framed! Read a book with a "story within a story" which is framed by its main narrative - Malice...a novelist is murdered and the explanation of the crime is written out as a "story/history"
√ 2. Look Who's Talking. Read a book with multiple narrators - Strange Practice
√ 3. Who Can You Trust? Read a book with an unreliable narrator - We Have Always Lived in the Castle
4. Do You Have Time for a Story? Read a book featuring a storyteller as one of its main characters.
√ 5. Craftastic. Read a non-fiction or fiction that highlights the craft of storytelling, writing, or historiography - The Color Purple...told in a series of written letters (hope I am interpreting this prompt right??)
√ 6. Where Does the Time Go? Read a book that leaps around to different time periods - 11/22/63
7. Schezerazade Sez... Read an orally-transmitted tale in the form of a book, retelling, or adaptation or a story that mentions that kind of tale -
8. Did You Hear About the Time When Gramps...? Read a book which includes a story, an account of an event, or family anecdote that is shared by two or more generations -
√ 9. Here's What Happened. Read a fiction or non-fiction about a historical event - The Lost Queen...first book in a trilogy about Languoreth, twin sister of the man who inspired the legend of Merlin
10. Here's What Really Happened. Read a second book that describes the same event from a different perspective -

Culture
A society manifests its social behavior and norms through cultural activities. Read a book to match any of the categories below. (If you repeat a prompt, the book needs to be set in a different culture from the first.)
√ 1. Food (cultivating, cooking, eating, cookbooks, etc.) - Live and Let Chai
√ 2. Shelter (Architecture, housing) - The Likeness...the description of Whitethorn House
3. Dress (fashion; weaving, dyeing, and other apparel-related crafts)
√ 4. Fine Arts - A Perilous Undertaking...the main characters set out to solve a mystery and save a society art patron from the hangman's noose in Victorian England
5. Applied Arts (such as pottery, glassware, interior/graphic design)
6. Language -
√ 8. Spiritual faith or religion - Kindness and Wonder: Why Mister Rogers Matters Now More Than Ever
√ 9. Customs and traditions - Hallowe'en Party
√ 10. Cultural diffusion (in which a culture spreads to another) or acculturation (where one culture's traits replaces those of another) - A Court of Mist and Fury...humans are turned into Fae and have to learn to adapt to immortality and a new way of life

Sign me up for 20. I'll determine the books later.

Progress: 20/20 COMPLETE!

Storytelling
1. I've Been Framed! Read a book with a "story within a story" which is framed by its main narrative. Assassination Vacation
2. Look Who's Talking. Read a book with multiple narrators. Ties That Tether
3. Who Can You Trust? Read a book with an unreliable narrator. Haunted Histories: Creepy Castles, Dark Dungeons, and Powerful Palaces
4. Do You Have Time for a Story? Read a book featuring a storyteller as one of its main characters. Spoiler Alert
5. Craftastic. Read a non-fiction or fiction that highlights the craft of storytelling, writing, or historiography. Afterlife
6. Where Does the Time Go? Read a book that leaps around to different time periods. Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow
7. Schezerazade Sez... Read an orally-transmitted tale in the form of a book, retelling, or adaptation or a story that mentions that kind of tale. 2:46: Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake
8. Did You Hear About the Time When Gramps...? Read a book which includes a story, an account of an event, or family anecdote that is shared by two or more generations. Before the Ever After
9. Here's What Happened. Read a fiction or non-fiction about a historical event. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
10. Here's What Really Happened. Read a second book that describes the same event from a different perspective. Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope

Culture
A society manifests its social behavior and norms through cultural activities. Read a book to match any of the categories below. (If you repeat a prompt, the book needs to be set in a different culture from the first.)
1. Food (cultivating, cooking, eating, cookbooks, etc.) The Constant Rabbit
2. Shelter (Architecture, housing) The Body: A Guide for Occupants
3. Dress--500 Miles from You English/Scotch
4. Fine Arts What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era
5. Applied Arts (such as pottery, glassware, interior/graphic design) The Birchbark House (1800s Ojibwa)
6. Language Basics of Biblical Hebrew Workbook
7. Ritual Magic Lessons (magic/spells/curses)
8. Spiritual faith or religion Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism (American)
9. Customs and traditions Austenland (19th century England)
10. Cultural diffusion (in which a culture spreads to another) or acculturation (where one culture's traits replaces those of another). Winter Counts (Lakota)

Hola, Library!

Count me in, please 😉

PROGRESS: 34/30

Storytelling
❎1. I've Been Framed! Read a book with a "story within a story" which is framed by its main narrative. Un mar sin estrellas✔
❎2. Look Who's Talking. Read a book with multiple narrators.
The Testaments✔
❎3. Who Can You Trust? Read a book with an unreliable narrator.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle✔
❎4. Do You Have Time for a Story? Read a book featuring a storyteller as one of its main characters. El hablador✔
❎5. Craftastic. Read a non-fiction or fiction that highlights the craft of storytelling, writing, or historiography. The Audacious Raconteur: Sovereignty and Storytelling in Colonial India✔
❎6. Where Does the Time Go? Read a book that leaps around to different time periods.
Doomsday Book✔
❎7. Schezerazade Sez... Read an orally-transmitted tale in the form of a book, retelling, or adaptation or a story that mentions that kind of tale.
Apples of Immortality: Folktales of Armenia✔
❎8. Did You Hear About the Time When Gramps...? Read a book which includes a story, an account of an event, or family anecdote that is shared by two or more generations.
The Ghost Bride✔
❎9. Here's What Happened. Read a fiction or non-fiction about a historical event.
The Twisted Sword (Battle of Waterloo)✔
10. Here's What Really Happened. Read a second book that describes the same event from a different perspective.

Culture
A society manifests its social behavior and norms through cultural activities. Read a book to match any of the categories below. (If you repeat a prompt, the book needs to be set in a different culture from the first.)
❎1. Food (cultivating, cooking, eating, cookbooks, etc.):
✔Bakery in Georgia (USA): Bewitched, Bothered, and Biscotti
✔Singaporean cook: Aunty Lee's Delights
✔Agriculture (Botswana): When Rain Clouds Gather
❎2. Shelter (Architecture, housing):
✔Ancestral home: Pilgrim's Rest
❎3. Dress (fashion; weaving, dyeing, and other apparel-related crafts)
✔Fashion in the 1930's (England): The Fashion in Shrouds
✔Spinning, weaving and knitting (Colorado): Knit One, Kill Two
❎4. Fine Arts
✔Music and Singing: Bella Poldark
5. Applied Arts (such as pottery, glassware, interior/graphic design)
❎6. Language
✔Native American tales: Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back
✔Reading The Ceiling (Krio/Aku language - The Gambia)
✔The Story of My Life (Deaf Sign Language, Braille, despite being blind and deaf, Helen Keller was able to learn French, German, Latin and Greek.)
✔African Tales: Folklore of the Central African Republic (Translated into English from the Mandjia and Banda through the Sango language as told by village storytellers, preserving original expressions./Central African Republic)
✔From The Land Of Sheba: Yemeni Folk Tales (translated from the Arabic)
❎7. Ritual:
✔Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman (Ritual of Initiation in the Dagara Tribe - Burkina Faso)
I, Claudius (Rituals, superstitions, prophecies, etc in the Roman Empire)✔
❎8. Spiritual faith or religion:
✔Lajja (The Hindu and Buddhist communities have experienced religious violence from Islamic groups)
✔The Hanging Girl (Sun Cults)
✔Creole Religions of the Caribbean: An Introduction from Vodou and Santera to Obeah and Espiritismo
❎9. Customs and traditions
✔Sofía de los presagios (Ceremonies, Festivals, Rituals from Nicaragua)
✔Death in Malta (Culture, traditions, architecture and lifestyle in Malta)
✔Hallowe'en Party (Halloween in England)
✔On the Night of the Seventh Moon (Norse mythology)
✔Beyond the Rice Fields (Malagasy culture, religion, rituals, etc.)
❎10. Cultural diffusion (in which a culture spreads to another) or acculturation (where one culture's traits replaces those of another).
✔The Butcher's Wife and Other Stories by Li Ang (Westernization of Taiwan)
✔The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years (Chingiz Aitmatov blends cosmic speculation with the age-old legends of the Asiatic steppes)
✔Colour Scheme (Acculturation of Maori People in New Zealand)

Hello Library

Sign me up for all 20

20/20-COMPLETED

Storytelling
✅1. I've Been Framed! Read a book with a "story within a story" which is framed by its main narrative.- The Turn of the Screw(5/10/20)
✅2. Look Who's Talking. Read a book with multiple narrators.- My Lady Jane(6/10/20)
✅3. Who Can You Trust? Read a book with an unreliable narrator.- The Silent Patient(5/10/20)
✅4. Do You Have Time for a Story? Read a book featuring a storyteller as one of its main characters.- The Storyteller(8/10/20)
✅5. Craftastic. Read a non-fiction or fiction that highlights the craft of storytelling, writing, or historiography.- Writing a Novel: And Getting Published(5/10/20)
✅6. Where Does the Time Go? Read a book that leaps around to different time periods.- The Wedding Dress(10/10/20)
✅7. Schezerazade Sez.... Read an orally-transmitted tale in the form of a book, retelling, or adaptation or a story that mentions that kind of tale.- Sleeping Beauty(5/10/20)
✅8. Did You Hear About the Time When Gramps...? Read a book which includes a story, an account of an event, or family anecdote that is shared by two or more generations.- One Hundred Years of Solitude(2/10/20)
✅9. Here's What Happened. Read a fiction or non-fiction about a historical event.- Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment(12/10/20)
✅10. Here's What Really Happened. Read a second book that describes the same event from a different perspective.- The Diary of a Young Girl(4/10/20)

Culture
✅1. Food (cultivating, cooking, eating, cookbooks, etc.)- Eating India(10/10/20)
✅2. Shelter (Architecture, housing)- A History of Architecture in 100 Buildings(10/10/20)
✅3. Dress (fashion; weaving, dyeing, and other apparel-related crafts)- Edwardian Fashion(5/10/20)
✅4. Fine Arts- Elizabethan Poetry(6/10/20)
✅5. Applied Arts (such as pottery, glassware, interior/graphic design)- Manga Studio for Dummies(10/10/20)
✅6. Language- Starting Out in French(7/10/20)
✅7. Ritual- The Book of New Family Traditions (Revised and Updated): How to Create Great Rituals for Holidays and Every Day(7/10/20)
✅8. Spiritual faith or religion- Christianity and the New Social Order: A Manifesto for a Fairer Society(18/10/20)
✅9. Customs and traditions- Christmas on the Home Front 1939-1945(22/10/20)
✅10. Cultural diffusion (in which a culture spreads to another) or acculturation (where one culture's traits replaces those of another).- News of the World(9/10/20)

Welcome guys! Y'all's book choices are so different. :D

Not sure what the rules are for doing a challenge you're leading, but I'm doing it anyway. I'm gonna read at least 15 books. 16/15


1. I've Been Framed! Read a book with a "story within a story" which is framed by its main narrative. The Angel of Darkness
2. Look Who's Talking. Read a book with multiple narrators. A Gilded Lady
3. Who Can You Trust? Read a book with an unreliable narrator.
4. Do You Have Time for a Story? Read a book featuring a storyteller as one of its main characters. The Bear and the Nightingale
5. Craftastic. Read a non-fiction or fiction that highlights the craft of storytelling, writing, or historiography. The Glass Room: A Vera Stanhope Mystery
6. Where Does the Time Go? Read a book that leaps around to different time periods. Flight or Fright: 17 Turbulent Tales
7. Schezerazade Sez... Read an orally-transmitted tale in the form of a book, retelling, or adaptation or a story that mentions that kind of tale. Winter
8. Did You Hear About the Time When Gramps...? Read a book which includes a story, an account of an event, or family anecdote that is shared by two or more generations. Relative Silence
9. Here's What Happened. Read a fiction or non-fiction about a historical event. The Blossom and the Firefly
10. Here's What Really Happened. Read a second book that describes the same event from a different perspective. Fragments of Light

Culture
A society manifests its social behavior and norms through cultural activities. Read a book to match any of the categories below. (If you repeat a prompt, the book needs to be set in a different culture from the first.)
1. Food (cultivating, cooking, eating, cookbooks, etc.)
The Way You Make Me Feel
2. Shelter (Architecture, housing) Whose Waves These Are
3. Dress (fashion; weaving, dyeing, and other apparel-related crafts)
4. Fine Arts
5. Applied Arts (such as pottery, glassware, interior/graphic design)
6. Language
7. Ritual Dracula
8. Spiritual faith or religion A Cry from the Dust
9. Customs and traditions A Fatal Grace, A Mosaic of Wings
10. Cultural diffusion (in which a culture spreads to another) or acculturation (where one culture's traits replaces those of another). I'll Be the One

Library wrote: "Not sure what the rules are for doing a challenge you're leading, but I'm doing it anyway. I'm gonna read at least 15 books.."

@Library Queen
It's fine to sign yourself up for a challenge you're leading.
In many cases, the challenges we're interested in leading coincide with the challenges we'd like to join. :D

And you're so right. It's fascinating to see what everyone's reading for this challenge. Looking forward to seeing your book choices, too!

Well, that's a relief. :) I really wanted to do this one.

I really have no idea what I'm reading yet, but some of the prompts are things I never read about, so I'll be stretching myself with this challenge, which will be fun.

Q4 - ANTHROPOLOGY OF A READER
Duration: October 1-December 31, 2020

10/10 as of November 15
Technically done, but I'll keep adding to it!
15/15 as of December 4
I'll keep going to see if I can get to 20!
20/20 as of December 23

Storytelling
1. I've Been Framed! Read a book with a "story within a story" which is framed by its main narrative.
The Angel of Darkness (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler #2) by Caleb Carr
October 10--5/5 stars

2. Look Who's Talking. Read a book with multiple narrators.
The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (The Penderwicks #2) by Jeanne Birdsall
October 26--5/5 stars

3. Who Can You Trust? Read a book with an unreliable narrator.
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley #1) by Patricia Highsmith
December 13--5/5 stars

4. Do You Have Time for a Story? Read a book featuring a
storyteller as one of its main characters.
Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer #1) by Laini Taylor
November 28--5/5 stars

5. Craftastic. Read a non-fiction or fiction that highlights the craft of storytelling, writing, or historiography.
Strange the Dreamer

6. Where Does the Time Go? Read a book that leaps around to different time periods.
Amrita by Banana Yoshimoto
November 9--5/5 stars

7. Schezerazade Sez... Read an orally-transmitted tale in the form of a book, retelling, or adaptation or a story that mentions that kind of tale.
The Grace of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty #1) by Ken Liu
November 29--4/5 stars

8. Did You Hear About the Time When Gramps...? Read a book which includes a story, an account of an event, or family anecdote that is shared by two or more generations.
China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians #2) by Kevin Kwan
October 31--5/5 stars
The Giver (The Giver #1) by Lois Lowry
December 5--5/5 stars

9. Here's What Happened. Read a fiction or non-fiction book about a historical event.

10. Here's What Really Happened. Read a second book that describes the same event from a different perspective.

Culture
A society manifests its social behavior and norms through cultural activities. Read a book to match any of the categories below. (If you repeat a prompt, the book needs to be set in a different culture from the first.)

1. Food (cultivating, cooking, eating, cookbooks, etc.)
All Four Stars (All Four Stars #1) by Tara Dairman
November 11--5/5 stars
A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock #1) by Sherry Thomas
December 4--5/5 stars
The Red Rooster Cookbook: The Story of Food and Hustle in Harlem
December 23--5/5 stars

2. Shelter (Architecture, housing)
Fortune and Glory (Stephanie Plum #27) by Janet Evanovich
It always cracks me up how very different Ranger and Morelli's houses are...
November 15--5/5 stars
In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren
December 8--5/5 stars

3. Dress (fashion; weaving, dyeing, and other apparel-related crafts)
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
November 22--5/5 stars
Nine Women, One Dress
The Gown

4. Fine Arts
Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers

5. Applied Arts (such as pottery, glassware, interior/graphic design)

6. Language

7. Ritual
The Zodiac Killer (Zodiac Killers #1) by W.L. Knightly
October 20--3/5 stars

8. Spiritual faith or religion
Long Walk Out of the Woods: A Physician's Story of Addiction, Depression, Hope, and Recovery by Adam Hill
October 8--5/5 stars
Most people probably would not classify this as religion/spiritual, but for me it definitely is as he stresses the need for medical professionals (and really anyone else as well) to learn and practice just "being there" for patients, colleagues, and anyone else you care about. Whatever that entails. Making yourself vulnerable to provide safe space for others to be vulnerable with you. This is my spirituality. Very pragmatic and practical in a hands-on way for my interactions with others every single day. So his whole theory and underlying philosophy simply confirms and enacts my own spiritual beliefs. I ascribe to no deity or organized religion.

9. Customs and traditions
A Cat in the Manger (Alice Nestleton #1) by Lydia Adamson/pseudonym Franklin B. King
It was a tradition for Alice to cat-sit for the Starobins every Christmas.
October 25--2/5 stars
Charlotte Holmes and the Locked Box (Lady Sherlock #1.5) by Sherry Thomas
Charlotte must pretend she is only relaying Sherlock's deductions, due to traditional gender roles.
December 4--5/5 stars
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
In this retelling of Antigone, there is a ritual for traditional burial rites.
December 19--5/5 stars

10. Cultural diffusion (in which a culture spreads to another) or acculturation (where one culture's traits replaces those of another).
The Cleverness of Ladies (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #12.6) by Alexander McCall Smith
Music Helps is the longest story in this collection and demonstrates how war can enable cultural diffusion.
October 29--5/5 stars

2020 Reading Challenge
Q4 - Anthropology of a Reader
Duration: October 1-December 31, 2020

Progress: 10 out of 20

Fairy tales, myths, and fables have been passed down us through generations of storytellers and writers. Our last quarterly of 2020 honors the methods and craft of storytellers, while also looking at different cultural activities which are often narrated by these same spinners of tales.

Ready to jump into this challenge? Post to inform the challenge leader how many books you plan to read.
Plan your books carefully. For the Storytelling section, prompts may not be repeated. For the Culture section, you may repeat prompts but any additional book for the same prompt must be set in a different culture (e.g., for "Dress," read Book 1 on Indian fabrics and Book 2 on a seamstress in another part of the world).

Storytelling

1. I've Been Framed!
Read a book with a "story within a story" which is framed by its main narrative:
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern - ***** - 10/2/2020 - 498 Pages

2. Look Who's Talking
Read a book with multiple narrators:
The Language of Good-bye by Maribeth Fischer - **** - 10/9/2020 - 343 Pages

3. Who Can You Trust? Read a book with an unreliable narrator.
- Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

4. Do You Have Time for a Story? Read a book featuring a storyteller as one of its main characters.
- Possession by A.S. Byatt

5. Craftastic. Read a non-fiction or fiction that highlights the craft of storytelling, writing, or historiography.
- Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott

6. Where Does the Time Go?
Read a book that leaps around to different time periods:
The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman - ***** - 10/11/2020 - 369 Pages

7. Schezerazade Sez...
Read an orally-transmitted tale in the form of a book, retelling, or adaptation or a story that mentions that kind of tale:
Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan - ***** - 12/3/2020 - 336 Pages (retelling of A Room With A View)

8. Did You Hear About the Time When Gramps...? Read a book which includes a story, an account of an event, or family anecdote that is shared by two or more generations.
- China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan

9. Here's What Happened. Read a fiction or non-fiction about a historical event.

10. Here's What Really Happened. Read a second book that describes the same event from a different perspective.



Culture
A society manifests its social behavior and norms through cultural activities. Read a book to match any of the categories below. (If you repeat a prompt, the book needs to be set in a different culture from the first.)

1. Food (cultivating, cooking, eating, cookbooks, etc.)

2. Shelter (Architecture, housing)

3. Dress (fashion; weaving, dyeing, and other apparel-related crafts)

4. Fine Arts:
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel - ***** - 12/16/2020 - 333 Pages

5. Applied Arts (such as pottery, glassware, interior/graphic design):
Savannah Blues by Mary Kay Andrews - ***** - 12/9/2020 - 404 Pages - Book about antiques

6. Language:
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare - **** - 12/17/2020 - 288 Pages

7. Ritual

8. Spiritual faith or religion:
Cartwheels in a Sari: A Memoir of Growing Up Cult by Jayanti Tamm - ***** - 10/16/2020 - 288 Pages

9. Customs and Traditions
The Christmas Pact by Vi Keeland - ***** - 12/3/2020 - 3 Pages

10. Cultural diffusion (in which a culture spreads to another) or acculturation (where one culture's traits replaces those of another):
Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong - ***** - 10/13/2020 - 482 Pages - the clash of western culture with 1990's China

Welcome to the challenge!

ANTHROPOLOGY OF A READER - Q4 Quarterly Challenge
Duration: October 1 - December 31, 2020
Progress: 20/20 -- COMPLETE

Storytelling Prompts may not be repeated.

📚 1. I've Been Framed! Read a book with a "story within a story" which is framed by its main narrative.
The Starless Sea
📚 2. Look Who's Talking. Read a book with multiple narrators.
The Accidentals
📚 3. Who Can You Trust? Read a book with an unreliable narrator.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
📚 4. Do You Have Time for a Story? Read a book featuring a storyteller as one of its main characters.
Akata Warrior
📚 5. Craftastic. Read a non-fiction or fiction that highlights the craft of storytelling, writing, or historiography.
The Book of Longings
📚 6. Where Does the Time Go? Read a book that leaps around to different time periods.
A Dog's Promise
📚 7. Schezerazade Sez... Read an orally-transmitted tale in the form of a book, retelling, or adaptation or a story that mentions that kind of tale.
The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
📚 8. Did You Hear About the Time When Gramps...? Read a book which includes a story, an account of an event, or family anecdote that is shared by two or more generations.
Mexican Gothic
📚 9. Here's What Happened. Read a fiction or non-fiction about a historical event.
Dreams of Joy (Tells of Mao's disastrous "Great Leap Forward," which killed over 45 million people in the People's Republic of China from 1958-1962.)
📚 10. Here's What Really Happened. Read a second book that describes the same event from a different perspective.
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Culture Prompts may be repeated, but in different cultures.

📚 1. Food Cultivating, cooking, eating, cookbooks, etc.
Keto Diet: Your 30-Day Plan to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, Boost Brain Health, and Reverse Disease
📚 2. Shelter Architecture, housing
The Guests on South Battery
📚 3. Dress Fashion; weaving, dyeing, and other apparel-related crafts
Unraveled Sleeve
📚 4. Fine Arts
The Henna Artist
📚 5. Applied Arts Such as pottery, glassware, interior/graphic design
The Christmas Spirits on Tradd Street
📚 6. Language
The Mountains Sing
📚 7. Ritual
The Bookshop on the Shore (Samhain)
📚 8. Spiritual faith or religion
The Poisonwood Bible
📚 9. Customs and traditions
Hallowe'en Party
📚 10. Cultural diffusion or acculturation A culture spreads to another; or a culture's traits replace those of another.
Sarah's Way

Please sign me up for 10 books. Thanks for hosting Library Queen!

Progress: 11/10 Challenge Complete

Storytelling
✔︎1. I've Been Framed! Read a book with a "story within a story" which is framed by its main narrative. Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
✔︎2. Look Who's Talking. Read a book with multiple narrators. The Stranger Diaries
✔︎3. Who Can You Trust? Read a book with an unreliable narrator. Piranesi
4. Do You Have Time for a Story? Read a book featuring a storyteller as one of its main characters.
✔︎5. Craftastic. Read a non-fiction or fiction that highlights the craft of storytelling, writing, or historiography. Life Work
6. Where Does the Time Go? Read a book that leaps around to different time periods.
✔︎7. Schezerazade Sez... Read an orally-transmitted tale in the form of a book, retelling, or adaptation or a story that mentions that kind of tale. Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
✔︎8. Did You Hear About the Time When Gramps...? Read a book which includes a story, an account of an event, or family anecdote that is shared by two or more generations. Red Rock Stories: Three Generations of Writers Speak on Behalf of Utah's Public Lands
✔︎9. Here's What Happened. Read a fiction or non-fiction about a historical event. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
10. Here's What Really Happened. Read a second book that describes the same event from a different perspective.

Culture
A society manifests its social behavior and norms through cultural activities. Read a book to match any of the categories below. (If you repeat a prompt, the book needs to be set in a different culture from the first.)
✔︎1. Food (cultivating, cooking, eating, cookbooks, etc.) The Language of Baklava: A Memoir
2. Shelter (Architecture, housing)
✔︎3. Dress (fashion; weaving, dyeing, and other apparel-related crafts) The Pillow Book
✔︎4. Fine Arts: Fair Play
5. Applied Arts (such as pottery, glassware, interior/graphic design)
6. Language
7. Ritual
8. Spiritual faith or religion
✔︎9. Customs and traditions Island of Shattered Dreams
10. Cultural diffusion (in which a culture spreads to another) or acculturation (where one culture's traits replaces those of another).

I'm in for 10!

Storytelling
1. I've Been Framed! Read a book with a "story within a story" which is framed by its main narrative.= My Hero Academia, Vol. 25: Tomura Shigaraki: Origin
2. Look Who's Talking. Read a book with multiple narrators.= Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 17
3. Who Can You Trust? Read a book with an unreliable narrator.
4. Do You Have Time for a Story? Read a book featuring a storyteller as one of its main characters.= The Labors of Hercules
5. Craftastic. Read a non-fiction or fiction that highlights the craft of storytelling, writing, or historiography.
6. Where Does the Time Go? Read a book that leaps around to different time periods.= Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 19
7. Schezerazade Sez... Read an orally-transmitted tale in the form of a book, retelling, or adaptation or a story that mentions that kind of tale.
8. Did You Hear About the Time When Gramps...? Read a book which includes a story, an account of an event, or family anecdote that is shared by two or more generations.= Fruits Basket Collector's Edition, Vol. 3
9. Here's What Happened. Read a fiction or non-fiction about a historical event.= Indeh: A Story of the Apache Wars
10. Here's What Really Happened. Read a second book that describes the same event from a different perspective.

Culture
A society manifests its social behavior and norms through cultural activities. Read a book to match any of the categories below. (If you repeat a prompt, the book needs to be set in a different culture from the first.)
1. Food (cultivating, cooking, eating, cookbooks, etc.)= Japanese Cooking with Manga: The Gourmand Gohan Cookbook - 59 Easy Recipes Your Friends will Love!; JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Part 4--Diamond Is Unbreakable, Vol. 3 (Italian Food)
2. Shelter (Architecture, housing)
3. Dress (fashion; weaving, dyeing, and other apparel-related crafts)= Hana-Kimi: For You in Full Blossom, Vol. 9
4. Fine Arts= On the Come Up
5. Applied Arts (such as pottery, glassware, interior/graphic design)
6. Language= Finna: Poems
7. Ritual= Blue Exorcist, Vol. 17; Shadow of the Fox
8. Spiritual faith or religion= Escape from the Island of Aquarius; The Water Dragon's Bride, Vol. 1
9. Customs and traditions= Stranger Planet; Crazy Rich Asians
10. Cultural diffusion (in which a culture spreads to another) or acculturation (where one culture's traits replaces those of another).= The Way of the Househusband, Vol. 1

Total: 18/10

I'd like to sign up with 8 books, please.

9/8

Storytelling
✅1. I've Been Framed! Read a book with a "story within a story" which is framed by its main narrative. Heat and Dust
2. Look Who's Talking. Read a book with multiple narrators.
✅3. Who Can You Trust? Read a book with an unreliable narrator. Piranesi
✅4. Do You Have Time for a Story? Read a book featuring a storyteller as one of its main characters. Cakes and Ale
✅5. Craftastic. Read a non-fiction or fiction that highlights the craft of storytelling, writing, or historiography. Quichotte
✅6. Where Does the Time Go? Read a book that leaps around to different time periods. A Fatal Inversion
7. Schezerazade Sez... Read an orally-transmitted tale in the form of a book, retelling, or adaptation or a story that mentions that kind of tale.
8. Did You Hear About the Time When Gramps...? Read a book which includes a story, an account of an event, or family anecdote that is shared by two or more generations.
✅9. Here's What Happened. Read a fiction or non-fiction about a historical event. Jane Austen at Home
✅10. Here's What Really Happened. Read a second book that describes the same event from a different perspective. Miss Austen

Culture
A society manifests its social behavior and norms through cultural activities. Read a book to match any of the categories below. (If you repeat a prompt, the book needs to be set in a different culture from the first.)
1. Food (cultivating, cooking, eating, cookbooks, etc.)
2. Shelter (Architecture, housing)
3. Dress (fashion; weaving, dyeing, and other apparel-related crafts)
4. Fine Arts
5. Applied Arts (such as pottery, glassware, interior/graphic design)
✅6. Language: This Is How You Lose Her While written in English, the book includes Dominican slang and some Spanish, reflecting the language patterns of Dominican-American culture. The novel also explores themes related to language and cultural authenticity. For example, the narrator is challenged as to his being a "real" Dominican since he emigrated to the US as a child and speaks very little Spanish. I always appreciate how Diaz fuses language and identity in his fiction.
7. Ritual
✅8. Spiritual faith or religion Breakfast With The Nikolides--describes the food, rituals, and meaning of the Durga puja, an important Hindu festival celebrated in West Bengal.
9. Customs and traditions
10. Cultural diffusion (in which a culture spreads to another) or acculturation (where one culture's traits replaces those of another).

Update to message : #9

PROGRESS: 1/20 (I changed my goal from 10 to 20)

Cultural
8. Spiritual faith or religion:
✔ (The Hindu and Buddhist communities experience religious violence from Islamic groups in Bangladesh)

Welcome everyone! I hope everyone is super excited to be starting this challenge!

Update to message #8

Culture: Dress 500 Miles from You

Author really did a great job comparing Scottish and English customs, language and clothing. She also compares country and city living in a fun way in the UK.

Sign me up for this quarterly challenge

Here is my list so far:

1. The Starless Sea by Eric Morgenstern
2. Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know by Samira Ahmed
3. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth E. Wein
4. Map of Time by Felix Palma
5. The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
6. Kindred by Octavia E Butler
7. World War Z by Max Brooks
8. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
9. x
10. X

Culture
1. On the Come up by Angie Thomas
2. Hunting Season by Mirta Ojito
3. Spirit Run by Noe Alvarez

update to message #7

1/10 books read

5. Craftastic. Read a non-fiction or fiction that highlights the craft of storytelling, writing, or historiography - The Color Purple...this book is told in a series of written letters :)

Update to message : #9

PROGRESS: 2/20

Cultural
10. Cultural diffusion (in which a culture spreads to another) or acculturation (where one culture's traits replaces those of another). ✔The Butcher's Wife and Other Stories by Li Ang (Westernization of Taiwan)

Magnificient collection of 6 short stories including the one that gives tittle to the book.
The six stories conform an album of instant photos in different periods of the life in Taiwan along the XX century that can be resumed in this paragraph from the last of the stories "A love letter never sent":

Taiwan is a changing society, one that is making the transition from agriculture to industry; during this period, pronounced changes in society's values are evolving, particularly where relations between the sexes are concerned. The dual moral standards of men and women have become a matter of serious debate.

Updated to here. :) Some of you guys are so fast!

Update to message : #9

PROGRESS: 3/20

Storytelling
3. Who Can You Trust? Read a book with an unreliable narrator. ✔We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Bow your heads to our beloved Mary Katherine...or you will be dead.

Disturbingly poetic!

Storytelling
1. I've Been Framed! Read a book with a "story within a story" which is framed by its main narrative.
2. Look Who's Talking. Read a book with multiple narrators.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 21/10/20
3. Who Can You Trust? Read a book with an unreliable narrator.
4. Do You Have Time for a Story? Read a book featuring a storyteller as one of its main characters.
5. Craftastic. Read a non-fiction or fiction that highlights the craft of storytelling, writing, or historiography.
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 13/10/2020
6. Where Does the Time Go? Read a book that leaps around to different time periods.
The House Girl by Tara Conklin 17/10/20
7. Schezerazade Sez... Read an orally-transmitted tale in the form of a book, retelling, or adaptation or a story that mentions that kind of tale.
8. Did You Hear About the Time When Gramps...? Read a book which includes a story, an account of an event, or family anecdote that is shared by two or more generations.
9. Here's What Happened. Read a fiction or non-fiction about a historical event.
10. Here's What Really Happened. Read a second book that describes the same event from a different perspective.

Culture
A society manifests its social behavior and norms through cultural activities. Read a book to match any of the categories below. (If you repeat a prompt, the book needs to be set in a different culture from the first.)
1. Food (cultivating, cooking, eating, cookbooks, etc.)
2. Shelter (Architecture, housing)
3. Dress (fashion; weaving, dyeing, and other apparel-related crafts)
4. Fine Arts
5. Applied Arts (such as pottery, glassware, interior/graphic design)
6. Language
7. Ritual
8. Spiritual faith or religion
9. Customs and traditions
10. Cultural diffusion (in which a culture spreads to another) or acculturation (where one culture's traits replaces those of another).

Update Message #8: 2/20

Read Austenland for cultures and traditions prompt as it really details 19th century British customs

Update to msg #4

Storytelling
1. I've Been Framed! Read a book with a "story within a story."
The Angel of Darkness

3. Who Can You Trust? Read a book with an unreliable narrator. The Likeness

Culture
7. Ritual: Blood Rites (ritual magic)

Progress: 3/16

Update to message : #9

PROGRESS: 4/20

Cultural
9. Customs and traditions
✔Sofía de los presagios (Ceremonies, Festivals, Rituals from Nicaragua)

Update to message : #9

PROGRESS: 5/20

Storytelling
9. Here's What Happened. Read a fiction or non-fiction about a historical event.
✔The Twisted Sword (Battle of Waterloo)

Update Message #8: 4/20

Read Winter Counts for cultural diffusion. I think it really does a good job of showing the Lakota struggle to stay distinct in the face of the wealth and cultural influence of white America.

Read Before the Ever After for a story shared by two or more generations because it deals with a whole family adjusting to a father's chronic illness.

Update to message : #9

PROGRESS: 6/20

Culture
4. Fine Arts
Music and Singing: Bella Poldark✔

Update Message #8: 5/20

Spiritual faith or religion: Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism

Update to message : #9

PROGRESS: 7/20

Culture
8. Spiritual faith or religion:
✔The Hanging Girl (Sun Cults)

Update to message : #9

PROGRESS: 8/20

Storytelling
7. Schezerazade Sez... Read an orally-transmitted tale in the form of a book, retelling, or adaptation or a story that mentions that kind of tale.
Apples of Immortality: Folktales of Armenia✔
Collection of folktales from Armenia directly translated into English from the orally-transmitted Armenian versions.

Update to msg #4

Culture
Food (cultivating, cooking, eating, cookbooks, etc.):
US: The Cereal Murders - the protagonist is a self-employed caterer who solves a double-homicide while sharing her scrumptious recipes. Her cop boyfriend is also a gourmet chef. Haha.
I tell myself I've had enough of this silly series but then I keep coming back. :D

10. Cultural diffusion or acculturation. The Defenceless
Serbian-born, Finland-raised woman is gradually becoming more Finnish, losing touch with her native language and its customs.

Progress: 5/16

update to message #7

5/10 books read

Storytelling
√ 1. I've Been Framed! Read a book with a "story within a story" which is framed by its main narrative - Malice...a novelist is murdered and the explanation of the crime is written out as a "story/history"

Culture
√ 2. Shelter (Architecture, housing) - The Likeness...the description of Whitethorn House in the book
√ 4. Fine Arts - A Perilous Undertaking...the main characters set out to save a society art patron from the hangman's noose in Victorian England
√ 9. Customs and traditions - Hallowe'en Party

Update to Message #6: Currently, 7/10, 3 in progress

Update to message #19: 3/10

I'm enjoying how this challenge has made me notice the storytelling and cultural elements in my reads.

Storytelling:
3. Who Can You Trust? Read a book with an unreliable narrator. Piranesi I didn't expect another Jonathan Strange but I agree with Regina that this was disappointing.

4. Did You Hear About the Time When Gramps...? Read a book which includes a story, an account of an event, or family anecdote that is shared by two or more generations. Red Rock Stories: Three Generations of Writers Speak on Behalf of Utah's Public Lands I enjoyed some essays more than others but I love that this was an art-as-advocacy effort to create Bears Ears National Monument.

Culture:
9. Customs and traditions: Island of Shattered DreamsI loved this book which was the first written by an indigenous Tahitian author. It would work for many of the prompts in this challenge but I was especially impressed with how much the author conveyed about the customs and mindset of this community through storytelling in so few pages. Full disclosure - I have a high tolerance for slower books. This book is short and lovely but it is quite slow-paced.

WOW everyone is doing so good! Great job!

Update msg 5: 4/10 📚

Update to message : #9
PROGRESS: 9/20

Culture
7. Ritual:
✔Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman (Ritual of Initiation in the Dagara Tribe - Burkina Faso)

Update to message 21
3/8 completed

Update Message #8 6/20

Cheating and using one of my grad school reads for the Language portion with Basics of Biblical Hebrew Video Lectures: A Complete Course for the Beginner. I used the book and the video lectures, but for some reason only the videos are pulling up right now.

Rebecca wrote: "Update Message #8 6/20

Cheating and using one of my grad school reads for the Language portion with Basics of Biblical Hebrew Video Lectures: A Complete Course for the Beginner. I ..."

@Rebecca
I certainly would not consider that "cheating." More like "multi-tasking"?
Reading is reading, regardless of why one reads or to/with whom.😊

Rebecca wrote: "Update Message #8 6/20

Cheating and using one of my grad school reads for the Language portion with Basics of Biblical Hebrew Video Lectures: A Complete Course for the Beginner. I ..."

Uh, that actually sounds really interesting. Cheat away!