I know I have yet to update my other ongoing “101 Books in 1001 Days” reading challenge, but I’ve knocked my first book off of my 2015 Reading Challenge list, and I wanted to note that here. 🙂 In the “Non-Fiction” Category, I knocked off Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation by Blake Harris.
It was a fun book, one clearly more “based on a true story” than literally non-fiction – it was told in a narrative style, complete with private conversations and all that the author acknowledged in his prologue might be paraphrased, mashed together, placed in a different place temporally, without being meant to interfere with the “spirit of the story”. So if you’re looking to write an academic paper on this particular time in video game history, this is probably not your most reliable source in that sense. However, for a humanizing and fascinating look behind the scenes in a key time in North American pop culture – think what “The Social Network” was to social media, or “Moneyball” was to baseball – this is a worthy read for all that. Definitely glad I read this.
Do you want to join me on the 2015 reading challenge? The list of categories is provided below. I will scratch out each category, providing the book title, for each one that I complete.
2015 READING CHALLENGE
Anyone want to join me? It’s simple. Read one book that matches each of the below descriptions. (Hey! I said it was SIMPLE, I didn’t say EASY!)
A book with more than 500 pages
A classic romance
A book that became a movie
A book published this year
A book with a number in the title
A book written by someone under 30
A book with nonhuman characters
A funny book
A book by a female author
A mystery or a thriller
A book with a one-word title
A book of short stories
A book set in a different country
A nonfiction book – Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation (Blake Harris)
A popular author’s first book
A book from an author you love that you haven’t read yet
A book a friend recommended
A Pulitzer Prize-winning book
A book based on a true story
A book at the bottom of your to-read list
A book your mom loves
A book that scares you
A book more than 100 years old
A book based entirely on its cover
A book you were supposed to read in school but didn’t
A memoir
A book you can read in a day
A book with antonyms in the title
A book set somewhere you’ve always wanted to visit
A book that came out the year you were born
A book with bad reviews
A trilogy
A book from your childhood
A book with a love triangle
A book set in the future
A book set in high school
A book with a colour in the title
A book that made you cry
A book with magic
A graphic novel
A book by an author you’ve never read before
A book you own but you’ve never read
A book that takes place in your hometown
A book that was originally written in another language
A book set during Christmas
A book written by an author with your same initials
A play
A banned book
A book based on or turned into a TV show
A book you started but never finished
SARcasm 