Muslim Woman in Amman

Last year I found out about Popsugar Challenge and the Around the Year in 52 Books(ATY) on GoodReads. I started my Challenge on December 2018 with plans to end by December 2019. I actually finished both challenges before that so I'm all good. But one thing that annoyed me about starting the challenges early is the my dedicated shelves say that I didn't complete the challenge. It really is bothering me so for 2020 I am not starting till January 1st despite winter break starting on December 20th. Also Half way through last year I learnt about tracking the challenges on spreadsheets which was awesome because you can see how many books you have completed and what percentage you've completed. For the ATY one of the mods ( Emily Bourque ) created a community spreadsheet so that everyone could fill it in with the books they've read and they can also see what others have read for the same prompt. I really liked how she had set it up so I made a very basic one ...

This year I have been working on reading more books. I feel that as a Librarian I need to be more of a reader. When I was a teenager I used to be a big reader then I went to college and was forced to read books that I didn't enjoy so it kind of turned me off of reading. Also fan fiction kinda became my go to reading therefore my book reading has been severely neglected. Now, that I'm a librarian I feel that I need to be better acquainted with a lot of books so that I can help recommend books to my students. When I walked into the school library I saw all these popular books that I didn't know a thing about and all the books I loved as a kid were no longer popular. So, I felt like I was kinda drifting. Which brings me to this years goal of being a more prolific reader. To motivate me I joined the Popsugar Reading Challenge and the Good Reads Around the Year in 52 books challenge. My original goal was to limit myself to only books found in my library but I ended up dev...