20.2 - Rookie at the Top - NancyJ's Task: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

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20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Nancy J's Task: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

When I taught college, my favorite course was Change Management. Change is accelerating. We’ve all experienced it. We can’t avoid it, so we might as well learn how to adapt, change ourselves, and try to influence positive change where we can. My reading tastes and habits have changed along with all the other changes in my life, and reading has been a real solace. Six years ago I never even heard of reading challenges, and now here I am attempting the most challenging one I've seen yet!

Read one book, from one of the options below.
Required: State the option you used.

Option 1. CHANGE
My course focused on organization change, but the concepts apply to personal change, groups, communities, social change, and activism. I love when I discover the concepts in different genres, e.g. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, How High We Go in the Dark, Parable of the Sower, and Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe.

A. Read a book about change from the first 25 pages of this list: Change
Required: State the page.
OR
B. Read a book with the word “Change” in the title or subtitle. Variations of the word are acceptable if they retain the meaning. Changes, Changing, and Changed are fine, exchange and changeling do not work.

Option 2. CULTURAL
For many years in my life, I only had the time to read for work and school. Fiction was for summer vacations and long plane rides. Since I retired, my reading habits and interests seem to be changing and expanding every year, thanks in good part to Goodreads groups. I especially liked reading books about other countries, cultures, and subcultures, e.g. Small Things Like These, Afterlives, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, and The Round House.

Read a cultural book from the first 25 pages of this list: Cultural
Required: State the page.

Option 3. BEAUTIFUL PROSE
I love a good plot, but while reading books like Their Eyes Were Watching God, I started paying more attention to the beautiful writing. It felt like a small part of my brain was waking up, and I wanted more. Station Eleven, Circe, and What the Wind Knows had the same effect.

A. Read a book with beautiful prose from the first 25 pages of this list: Beautiful Prose
Required: State the page.
OR
B. Read a book with MPG Literary Fiction, no variations.

[NancyJ]

3B. Confirmed literary fiction mpg:
Alone With You in the Ether
The Collected Regrets of Clover
Small World
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
Frattura by Andrés Neuman
Good for You

[NancyJ]

Reserved

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This help thread is open.

[Marie (UK)]

Please can you lock in Alone With You in the Ether and The Collected Regrets of Cloveras Literary Fiction thank you

[NancyJ]

They’re confirmed. Enjoy.

[Robin P]

Please confirm Small World as Literary Fiction. (This happens to be my next book in our other group game, Nancy!)

[NancyJ]

Robin P wrote: "Please confirm Small World as Literary Fiction. (This happens to be my next book in our other group game, Nancy!)"

Got it. It sounds good!

[Sara]

Can I please get Frattura by Andrés Neuman approved for Literary Fiction on MPG? It appears after clicking on the 'more' button on main page. I doubt it will disappear but just in case.
Thank you!

[NancyJ]

Sara Ⓥ wrote: "Can I please get Frattura by Andrés Neuman approved for Literary Fiction on MPG? It appears after clicking on the 'more' button on main page. I doubt it will disapp..."

Got it. enjoy.

[Sara]

NancyJ wrote: "Got it. enjoy."

Thank you :)

[Dee]

can i please get Good for You approved for literary fiction - it shows in the more genres

thanks

[NancyJ]

Got it. That’s an author I want to try. Enjoy.