library summer reading challenge help! (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago by clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works to c/books@lemmy.ml

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Hiya,

My local library summer reading challenge has a few items with which I could use y'all's help.

Read a book with a musical theme.

Read a book outside your comfort zone (I read mostly novels, and mostly sci-fi).

Read a book by an author from a different cultural background. (I'm a white American and I've already read Three Body Problem)

Read a book suggested to you.

I would appreciate any suggestions!

-Pidgin

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[-] Beardedleftist@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

You could read Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste by Carl Wilson. It's an essay(ish) book about taste in music, funny to read and not too long (~200pg I'd say).

About the comfort zone, you could try and read something about contemporary problems and predicaments. A poison like no other talks about plastics in our everyday life (not fun), or something really old like Seneca's On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (~100pg)

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

Thank you for these, friend.

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