Launch of ... i3's "READ A BOOK A WEEK Challenge 2012"

by Mags, 3 January 2012

iCUBED.us' "READ A BOOK A WEEK Challenge"
New year's resolutions are usually all about self-improvement, so this year to start off the year with a positive spin, I'd like to CHALLENGE anyone wanting to improve their English language competency, their general knowledge AND, increase their discipline and attention span without too much effort ... to join me in our iCUBED.us READ A BOOK A WEEK Challenge 2012...

You can follow in our footsteps and read what we are reading, OR, read books of your own choosing -- hopefully with the themes we have listed below:

Starting in February, we will announce the book titles and choices two weeks in advance to allow you to buy, download, find, or loan the books out from your local library.

Check back on January 10th ... to join our Facebook page, and back here where we shall present you with a few eBook choices... and, a fuller range of themes and titles:


.Tentative. MONTHLY THEMES and TITLES

January -- FREESTYLE
Choose four books you've been meaning to read, or four you'd like to read off any bestsellers list

February -- LOVE, FANTASY, and ROMANCE
The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiquro (buy from Amazon)
The Magician's Nephew, Narnia Series by C.S. Lewis (buy from Amazon)
Possession, by A.S. Byatt (counts as two books) (buy from Amazon)

March -- ADVENTURE, MONSTERS and MYSTERY
Interviews with a Vampire, by Anne Rice
Dracula, by Bram Stoker
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
Sindbad Journey, by Tim Severin

April -- HUMOR, RHYTHM, and POETRY
The Places You'll Go, by Dr. Seuss
W.H. Auden
Wrong about Japan, by Peter Carey
Poetry of the Everyday, by Matsuo Basho

May -- ARTS, POP CULTURE, and PSYCHOLOGY
The Tao of Piglet, by Benjamin Hoff
Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus, by John Gray
Crazy Sexy Cancer Survivor, by Kris Carr

June -- NATURE, GARDENS, SCIENCE and ANIMALS
The Rodale Book of Composting, by Grace Gershuny and Deborah L. Martin
Next of Kin: My Conversations with a Chimpanzee, by Roger Fouts and Stephen Tukel Mills
Godell Escher and Bach... (counts as two books) , by Douglas R. Hofstadter

July -- BIOGRAPHIES of FAMOUS and INFAMOUS PERSONS and PERSONALITIES, who were they really? SECRETS REVEALED...

The Inklings: Tolkein, Lewis and friends, Humphrey Carpenter
Ayn Rand
Churchill
Freud

August -- HISTORY, MILITARY, SPY, and SCI-FI

Citrus: A History, by Pierre Laszlo
The Things they Carry, by Tim O'Brien
Idoru, by William Gibson
Starship Troopers, by Robert Heinlein

September -- CLASSICS, PLAYS, and FILM SCRIPTS
Animal Farm,by George Orwell
Shrek, by William Steig

October -- REVIEWS ... and BOOKS ADAPTED FOR FILM
Shadowlands (screenplay), by William Nicholson
In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote

November -- BOOKS IN ENGLISH TRANSLATED FROM GOOD BOOKS IN OTHER LANGUAGES

1001 Arabian Nights, by Dan Wickline, Paolo Pantalena, Eric Basaldua and Keiran Oats
Tao Te Ching , Lao Tsu, translated by Gia-Fu Feng, Jane English
The Sorrows of Young Werther , by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Siddharta, by Herman Hesse

December -- FABLES, FICTION, and INDULGENCE ...

Catcher and the Rye, by J. D. Salinger
The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin








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