Book Gap Challenge

Today, Donalyn Miller introduced the Book Gap Challenge over at the Nerdy Book Club blog.  She challenges us, as readers, to think about what do we need to work on as a reader.  Funny, I ask this question to my students all the time and I ask them to make a commitment to what they think they need to work on.  Reflecting on this, I know what I need to work on as a reader, but I will admit, I have not been very good at keeping those commitments.  So inspired and motivated by Donalyn's post, I have now sat and pondered about my book gaps and here they are (in no particular order):

1) Professional Literature: I think I've started about five or six different professional literature titles in the past year or two and have not finished a single one.  And not that they aren't any good, I guess I just became distracted.  Maybe I started too many.  Whatever the case, this is a reading gap I have, so I will commit to finishing the few that I started and reading the following recently purchased. 

 

2) Non-Fiction: When the 2012 Nerdy Book Club nominees were announced I went, "Yikes!" I read very few of the non-fiction books nominated.  Another major book gap of mine.

3) Poetry: Another genre I read little of when I read the titles of the Nerdy Book Club nominees.

4) Adult fiction: There are so many titles I have been eyeing for a long time now, others purchased that are collecting dust on my shelf.  I often feel guilty when I pick up an adult title because I feel a commitment to my students to keep up with new releases and to be able to suggest titles to them.  I am a part of a book club where I thought I would read at least one adult title per month, but our group is now picking Young Adult selections more often, which I don't mind of course. Now it just seems I may have to work on reading adult fiction more on my own now. :) 

So those are (a few) of my book gaps.  Good luck to everyone participating in the Book Gap Challenge.  Happy Reading!