Challenge

Strength And Perserverance
I was forty-nine when my mother died. I say that because I know I was lucky to have had her as long as I did. She was the rock, the heart and soul of my family and my best friend.
By C. H. Richard2 years ago in BookClub
The Mental Game Changer
The Mental Game altered the course of my character development by the planting of a single idea: patience. " Patience is a virtue. " We've all heard someone say before, but what is patience? How does it apply to our daily life?
By OneWithPen2 years ago in BookClub
“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.” -Holden Caulfield
Throughout my life I have read many books that tear into my soul and truly leave a gripping and lasting impression on me. Animal Farm, 1984, Jane Eyre, Gathering Blue, The Giver and Ella Enchanted, to name a few. I feel each of those books gave me a refreshed and rejuvenated sense of my identity, how I tried to express my inner author voice and how I saw love, life and relationships.
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in BookClub
Young Adult Mature Book Influences
Tragically, born with a permanent injury meant spending four days a week in study hall, while the fifth, a very light physical education commitment needed addressing. As it did waiting for my first middle school period class, book reading took up the forty-five-minute period. Sports related titles including, the quirky Sparky Lyle baseball diary, “The Bronx Zoo”, “Two Minute Warning”, “Black Sunday” were interesting education experiences, while other exciting efforts like “Cathedral”, and “The Fifth Horseman” opened my eyes to international newsworthy thrilling ideas.
By Marc OBrien2 years ago in BookClub
Finding My Voice
The moment was sitting solo in the back of the classroom for independent time. I couldn't tell you the teacher's name—nor my classmates. I don't think I felt it was important at the time, considering it was a matter of time before I made my way to a new school. And I knew the statistics of kids like me. Still, I liked this solitary time—reading time. And this classroom had a small trove of books donated to the class library.
By Dan-O Vizzini2 years ago in BookClub
Look! the Book. Top Story - September 2023.
The majority of people do not remember the very first book they read, let alone the very first word they read. I do, very clearly. Thanks to some unfortunate circumstances.
By ThatWriterWoman2 years ago in BookClub
Midnight Transformations
Before reading The Midnight Library as part of Brandy Clark's book club, I spent quite a bit of time thinking about regret. Both the concept of regrets and the specific instances themselves plagued my mind regularly. Like I'm sure many of us do, as time travel is such a prevalent ideal in our culture, I sometimes think about the top moments or actions I would go back and change if given the chance. The funny thing people don't realize is that we are constantly time traveling, and maybe that's the problem. We're always rapidly moving forward, into the future, whether we like it or not, while simultaneously traveling to the past in our minds while visiting memories, sometimes we even become stuck there. Either direction one goes, too far in the future or the past, the outcome is essentially the same: time spent not being present in the current moment. In other words: time we'll never get back spent not living our lives.
By Hailey Marchand-Nazzaro2 years ago in BookClub
Silent Souls
They say that thieves are quiet. That the soles of their shoes are soundless, that they are soft as candle-smoke at midnight. You don't hear them, see them, know them – though perhaps their actions will be felt. Thieves are quiet, then?
By Jo Lavender2 years ago in BookClub
Ain't No Monologue Like A Vagina Monologue
The script became the play that became a book, or a playbook, or generations of unspoken thoughts and feelings that needed to 'scream-yell-and-tell' like there was no tomorrow because there wouldn’t be. Not without us and our vaginas. Yep, vaginas. But such awful things happened to them. And kept on happening to them. And a massive silent public didn’t seem too outwardly bothered enough.
By The Dani Writer2 years ago in BookClub
The Lorax
I am an environmentalist. I have been since I was a child. While others had stickers of cartoon characters on their notebooks., I had national park and endangered species stickers on mine. I read all I could about animals and worried about pollution. I also hugged trees.
By Traci E. Langston2 years ago in BookClub
Beginning for a Writer
I’m sure I’m not alone when I say I’ve read the Harry Potter series. It was the kinds of books I would read in a day. The kind I would read late into the night, and then early when I woke up.
By Lindsay Dewolfe2 years ago in BookClub
Dune is Not About Oil
The prompt for the Book Club challenge is funny because it was David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation that introduced me to Dune. Dune was one of my favorite movies as a kid. It was one of my top picks at the library, besides all the Star Trek and Universal monster movies I could get my hands on. My love for the Dune universe grew in the 90s, with the books from Brian Herbert. Despite this, I would not read the first novel until 2017. Why, I am unsure. Since then I have dove as deep into the Dune universe as I can. I still have not finished the original series, due to a combination of work and school. Well, also after acquiring a copy of the encyclopedia, I decided I wanted to have the time to sit and read the series with that as my companion. Because if Dune does nothing else, it raises a lot of questions for the reader. Both in and out of the universe.
By Atomic Historian2 years ago in BookClub