The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

25.7 - Brooke TX's Task: Deja Vu All Over Again

Last spring, the library I work at shut down for over a month due to COVID, starting on March 13 and lasting through the entirety of April. This year, in a strange bit of symmetry, we're closing during April again - this time for renovations.

This is a two book task. Choose one of the options below and read a Book 1 and Book 2 from that option. One of your books may have the genre Comics/Graphic Novel/Sequential Art/Manga.

Option A: Year After Year
Book 1: Read a book first published in 2020.
Book 2: Read a book first published in 2021.

Option B: Before & After
Book 1: Read a new to you book by an author you first read before March 13, 2020.
REQUIRED: Include the title of the previous book by the author that you've read, the date finished, and that the book read for this task is not a re-read.

Book 2: Read a new to you book by an author you first read after May 4, 2020.
REQUIRED: Include the title of the previous book by the author that you've read, the date finished, and that the book you read for this task is not a re-read.

Option C: In Sequence
Book 1: Read a book that is a whole number in a series. Series info must be included in parenthesis in grayscale after title on the book's Goodreads page.
Book 2: Read a book that is the next number in a DIFFERENT series (e.g. if your Book 1 is #3, Book 2 will be #4). Series info must be included in parenthesis in grayscale after title on the book's Goodreads page.

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This thread is now open!

So for Option B:

I last read Tana French's The Trespasser on Oct 14, 2017. I would like to read her The Witch Elm. Would that work for Book 1 or are you looking for a book read in early 2020?

For option B, can you clarify what is meant by "Read a new book"? Do you mean new as in I haven't read it before? Or new as in recently published? If the latter, how new is new enough?

Bea wrote: "So for Option B:

I last read Tana French's The Trespasser on Oct 14, 2017. I would like to read her The Witch Elm. Would that work for Book 1 or are you looking for..."

Anything you read at any point before March 13, 2020 qualifies.

Bucket wrote: "For option B, can you clarify what is meant by "Read a new book"? Do you mean new as in I haven't read it before? Or new as in recently published? If the latter, how new is new enough?"

A new to you book, i.e. one you have not read before.

Brooke wrote: "Bucket wrote: "For option B, can you clarify what is meant by "Read a new book"? Do you mean new as in I haven't read it before? Or new as in recently published? If the latter, how new is new enoug..."

Great, thank you!

Hi,
I'm doing option C and given your task allows for one graphic novel, I read Clyde Fans by Seth. It combines volumes 1 and 2 of the series. Given that, for Book 2, I assume I'd read a different series, book #3? Thanks!

Amy wrote: "Hi,
I'm doing option C and given your task allows for one graphic novel, I read Clyde Fans by Seth. It combines volumes 1 and 2 of the series. Given that, for Book 2, ..."

Yes, that works!