Happy 2020, readers! I’m so happy you are still with us on this journey and I want you to know that AEC has a bunch of great things in store for 2020! Starting out in 2020, Lauren and I decided to do the 2020 Reading Women Challenge. Lauren is the queen of book challenges and I am continually awed by her reading list. That being said, this is my first book challenge, assuming that we do not count the summer library book challenges in elementary school. We probably shouldn’t count those, so I’m excited to be doing my first book challenge! Here are my starting three books!
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Reading is always a significant part of my personal resolutions. I (Lauren) usually set a goal in terms of number of books, try to read a certain number of scholarly articles per week, and—for the last several years—I’ve adopted a challenge that increases the diversity of my reading material. For a few years, I have used Book Riot’s Read Harder challenge and I have encountered so many authors and stories outside of what I might naturally choose. This year, Amy and I are sharing a reading challenge. The Reading Women Podcast established the #ReadingWomenChallenge, which includes 24 books in different categories all authored by women. Throughout the year, Amy and I will offer some updates and reviews. I’ll start by telling you what categories and titles are most exciting to me.
Read MoreLauren and Amy are traveling for the next week so there will not be a new blog post. Instead, they'll be brainstorming and planning for the year to come - and planning some new blog series and authors for you!
Read MoreThe AEC blog is on spring break this week so we (Amy and Lauren) are taking some time to plan and recruit for future posts. However, we wanted to offer a few ideas for things that you might want to try or read this week.
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