I decided no new projects, but I actually started organizing this one a few years ago, so that doesn’t count, right? I swear having projects isn’t an addiction — I can quit any time I want.
I’d started organizing this one so long ago that I no longer remembered where I got the idea to do it, but a quick google search later I’m pretty sure it was here. I remember little else of the circumstances so I’m just going to make up a semi-plausible story. Ahem:
I read about this while still working at the paper, when life was dark both literally and figuratively*, and I was looking for projects to help me get by. I probably was laid off shortly after I started work on this and forgot all about it. Until I found it in my email yesterday. And realized I was in the first week of the new year. So I downloaded the first book to the Kindle app on my phone and off we go!
I’m taking a more structured approach than the original Book-a-Week blog. I’ve given each month a general topic, and tried to find different types of books in 4 broad categories on that topic. Some are really stretching it (sometimes it’s only a word in the title that fits), others are just perfect for the subject. I’m still filling in a few so let me know if you have recommendations. There are 52 books to be read in total — four for each month and 4 additional books with no particular theme or category for months that have 5 Sundays.
Categories are broad: Children’s (or Young Adult), Fiction, Non-fiction, and Miscellaneous — which I put in there because it allows me to read whatever kind of book I want for the fourth one.
I’m toying with also trying to write a short story or essay linked to the month’s theme too, but we’ll see …
I’m missing a good number of books from my plan yet — take a look and see if you have any suggestions!
*I worked nights (get it?) and found that combining that with other unfortunate circumstances resulted in me also feeling quite depressed. This project stemmed from an effort to alleviate that.






