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Reading the seasons: a year-long meditative reading challenge (24'-25')
Hosted by cedence
7 participants, 6 books
Starts: Saturday, 21 December 2024
Ends: Saturday, 20 December 2025
In this year-long reading challenge, you are encouraged to read a book deeply inspired by the seasons we are in when they happen. This is to connect to and medidate on the seasons. Those we favor or those we may wish were shorter. Lessons and baeuty are within all of them. I hope this reading challenge may offer more ways to enjoy the entire year as it circles.
- The challenge begins December 21st, 2024 and lasts until December 20th, 2025. Starting at and ending by the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. If you live in the Southern Hemisphere, swap books accordingly to your seasons!
- Each book put up for this reading challenge is tied to a season or important astronomical event used in marking the passing of the seasons, the solstices. Equinoxes are also used as guidelines for starting points of some books, but does not have a work tied to them. If you desire to have additional books, you are free to add them to your personal challenge or as a "bonus book"! Please do not edit this one.
- Each book include stories and essays about the season it is linked to.
- You have approximately 2,5 months to complete each seasons read(s).
- If you want to discuss any of the books, you can do so in this book club: https://app.thestorygraph.com/book_clubs/7042505e-ec5a-4046-aa04-5aae3e63bd74
The reading order of the books are:
- Winter Solstice [Begins December 21st at the darkest day of the year]
- Winter [Begins Dec 22-]
- Spring [Vernal equinox @March 20th marks the beginning of spring]
- Summer Solstice [June, 25th, the longest day of the year]
- Summer [Begins June 26th-]
- Autumn [Autumnal equinox @September 22 marks the beginning of autumn]
Challenge Books
1
Winter Solstice: An Essay
Nina MacLaughlin
Winter begins with the shortest day of the year before nightfall. As in the companion volume, Summer Solstice, the author meditates on both the dark and the light and what this season means in our lives. “Winter tells us,” Nina MacLaughlin says, “more than petaled spring, or hot-grassed summer, or fall with its yellow leaves, that we are mortal. Godine.
Winter Solstice 2024 falls on December 21st, beginning this reading challenge!
Winter Solstice 2024 falls on December 21st, beginning this reading challenge!
2
Winter
Ali Smith
Reading schedule: December 22, 2024-March 19th, 2025.
3
Spring
Ali Smith
Reading schedule: March 20th, 2024 -June 24, 2025.
4
Summer Solstice
Nina MacLaughlin
Experience the most evocative tribute to the meaning of the season, a season whose magical feeling stays with us even in winter. Where does that feeling come from? What is summer made of? This essay brims with a searching honesty and insight about what this season has meant in our pasts and what it might mean in our lives ahead.
Reading schedule: June 25th, 2025
Reading schedule: June 25th, 2025
5
Summer
Ali Smith
Reading schedule: June 26th, 2025 - Steptember 21st, 2025.
6
Autumn
Ali Smith
Reading schedule: September 22nd, 2025 - December 20th, 2025. Ending the reading challenge.