Wow, it’s November, and I’m onto my second last square for this year’s book bingo with Theresa and Amanda, my book bingo buddies! My second last square is about the environment – and I wrote this post back in May when I read the book, in my attempt to keep on top of everything as early in the year as possible, and filling in every challenge category I can as I go – leaving some specific ones until later in the year, and focusing on the general ones, which has meant some categories were filled faster than others, and sometimes, had multiple books and options.
Most of the books I have read for this challenge up until now have been novels, and for the first few months, finding a book about the environment that I knew I wanted to read or at least, one that I could find and access – with so many choices, it was hard to narrow it down. Serendipitously, I was sent The Giant and the Sea by Hachette for review back in May, and it fitted into this category perfectly. It is the first picture book I have used for this challenge.
It tells a quiet, gentle story of how climate change can and will affect the world in a cyclical way that can be read to kids or studied at school in a variety of ways across various age groups. It is one of those books that can trigger questions and ideas for all readers.
Book Bingo
Themes of culture – The Republic of Birds by Jessica Miller
Themes of inequality – The Nine Hundred: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz by Heather Dune McAdam
Themes of Crime and Justice – A Testament of Character (Rowland Sinclair #10) by Sulari Gentill
Themes of politics and power – The Vanishing Deep by Astrid Scholte
About the environment – The Giant and the Sea by Trent Jamieson and Rovina Cai
Prize winning book – Any Ordinary Day by Leigh Sales – Walkley Book Award
Friendship, family and love – Pippa’s Island: Puppy Pandemonium by Belinda Murrell
Coming of age – Ella at Eden: New Girl by Laura Sieveking
Set in a time of war – The Paris Secret by Natasha Lester
Set in a place you dream of visiting – The Good Turn by Dervla McTiernan (Ireland)
Set in an era you’d love to travel back in time to – Dragonfly Song by Wendy Orr (Minoan Times)
A classic you’ve never read before –
Come back in December for my final square, a classic I’ve never read before!
The Book Muse 
Good choice for this category!
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Thank you! This was one category I wasn’t sure I’d fill at first.
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I tend to read a lot that could fit in this category but not so with some of the others.
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I’m a bit hit and miss – it is often the specific ones that trip me up, like a specific award or prize, cause sometimes they’re not all easily accessible.
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No, very true. They can pose a challenge.
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Some people like that they’re specific, but I think the super specific ones are too stressful.
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I hate reading to specific challenges. I am going challenge free next year. I’ll still link my AWW titles in the database on the website, but I won’t be tracking them at all.
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I think I might do that too, but will still track my AWW books, and books in general. I’ll poke around and see if there are any general, not too specific challenges going next year. I think a lot of them are very unfair and overly focused on America, so I might look for Australian challenges – they’re sometimes less prescriptive.
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I just need a break from structured reading, just a breather and a chance to read whatever I feel like. I even tend to get behind on my review books because they haven’t fit a challenge and I’ve been reading to fill categories and check boxes. I’m a bit sick of that.
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Agreed!! I think sticking to
AWW is good cause we get so many that can fit it!
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It is and I honestly don’t have to try with it. I read books by Australian women all the time. I just don’t want to worry so much about the tracking and counting next year, but it’s certainly easy enough to simply link the review on the day the review goes live. So it will look, for all intents and purposes, that I am doing the challenge, I just won’t post the monthly update posts or provide a list at the end of the year on what I’ve read for it.
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I’m yet to work out that part I think, but if I do it, then it is easier than doing prescriptive challenges I think. Easier to put the post together.
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