Writing about books is always a welcome thing to do. Mliae, a genial and lively personality, who has myriads of stories to share, is a traveller, reader and a friendly blogger. She started this interesting concept of “Recycled Book Reading Challenge”(She announced about it at the beginning of the year during Jan itself, although I found out about it only recently!) She describes the essence of this initiative on her introductory post–
Book clubs and running out to purchase the newest hot item on the shelf has a tendency to get expensive after awhile, so I would like to focus on used or ‘recycled’ books. Remember that library book you bought for 10 cents? Or the second hand store find for 25 cents? Those are the ones about which I’m speaking. We all have them…some, like me, have a closet full just waiting to be read.
Today, I rummaged though my bookshelf and chose 12 recycled books that I will write about for this challenge.
I had read certain pages of some these books initially, but once there came a break , I never got chance to get back to them. Now I am hopeful I will complete them through this challenge.
These books are-
Chariots of Gods – Erich Von Daniken
The Winged Word – David Greene
The Greatest Show on Earth – Richard Dawkins
Do Butlers Burgle Banks? – P G Wodehouse
The Greatest Stories Never Told – Rick Beyer
A New Earth – Eckhart Tolle
The Prophet- Khalil Gibran
The Age of Innocence- Edith Wharton
Congo – Michael Chrichton
Galileo’s Daughter – Dava Sobel
Three Men In a Boat- Jerome K Jerome
The Man Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag- Jim Corbett
If you would like to be a part of it you can see the guidelines here- Recycled Book Reading Challenge
Thank you!
Have a Happy Weekend!
What a great idea! Thanks for sharing 😀
*runs off to read the rules*
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Most Welcome Jam!! ^_^
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Love it! The only one I’ve heard of is A New Earth – Eckhart Tolle …. I’ve got a a dozen I could add…..it’s this a challenge you’re tagging?
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Oh great! 🙂 I will be glad if you take up this challenge! Spring is coming and its the best time to get lost in books! You wont require to tag, just declare you have taken up this challenge! And share the pic of books you will be telling about! 🙂 Link your post with Mliae’s Introductory post! That’s it! i will be excited to see your list!
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I plan on doing so this week – thank you for sharing 🙂
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Yeps! I noticed you wrote one really good review for a book on goodreads. It will be great to have you taking this! 🙂
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Thanks 🙂 I haven’t taken the time to write more reviews, but it’s something I’d like to do. It was easy for the book I did — a quick read, I could easily read it twice to draw out details. Thank you for your kind words!
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Great idea. I’ve heard of a couple of these and have read Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth. Enjoy the reading and reviewing.
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Thank you Miriam! Making an open commitment really helps! I am feeling much confident now that I will finish them! Thank you for the encouragement! 🙂
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My pleasure
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So I’m dying to know: Did you finish? 🙂
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Hi! Glad you are joining 🙂 Your list looks great…I’m looking forward to hearing about ‘The Greatest Stories Never Told’ – it looks like one I’d snap up!
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Thanks to you, for introducing me to this challenge! 🙂
You know, that book- “The Greatest Stories Never Told”- I am really proud to possess that. It has so many vintage photographs from history, at times, I love just flipping through it!
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This is a worthwhile challenge. I love picking up cheap second hand books that are a fabulous read. Most of the books on our bookcase are pre-read.
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That’s great! Old books sometimes carry stories about themselves! I had purchased an old book, in the first page of which was written a birthday wish for someone, possibly an army man,for the salutation used before the name implied that.It was dated 1981. This gave a whole different perception about the book.It appeared to have had been held by strong,rugged hands decades ago before reaching my comparatively tender ones 😉
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That’s great.
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How did you make out on your Challenge? I’m already preparing for the 2017 Challenge!! 🙂
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Hi!! I am so pleased that you visited this post, it made me remember the time when I had posted this! 😀 I completed 7 of the books in this list. I had been posting about each one of them on the first of every month. There were few new recycled books I added to this list and wrote about them instead of some in this list! It was a nice journey. It encouraged me to read every month!
I just noticed you have posted your reviews for all the books in your list today! That’s so lovely! 🙂 I thought you didn’t get time to read the books you had declared to read for this challenge, but it came like a surprise when I saw your pingback and found you have written about the books you have read 🙂 I am so eager to read your post calmly after finishing my office hours! 🙂
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You are so kind!! I didn’t make it a priority to write about the books as I read them, but I may do that in the coming year and post to Good Reads as well 😉 Thank you for your kind encouragement and support!
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You are most welcome! Posting in Goodreads will be really cool! The support is mutual, I have imbued so much of insights from your grace and space posts! 🙂
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You are so kind! Thank you 🙂
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