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Can I attempt the 'Read What You Own' Challenge without setting a numerical goal?
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Can I attempt the 'Read What You Own' Challenge without setting a numerical goal?

Here are all the books I have bought in the last 3 months and my thoughts on buying vs reading books plus my version of the #readwhatyouownchallenge in which I am trying to read what I own without setting a numerical goal. Can I do it? 0:00 Why am I doing this? 5:27 All the books I bought in the last 3 months 21:37 Barriers and potential challenges to reading what I own 28:53 My Rules for the challenge 📺 MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO: Olly @CriminOllyBlog and his video on the Read What You Own Challenge https://youtu.be/j9sM-yQsBSs?si=bjsX6wam5zHZGFpm Charlie @CharlesHeathcote Pat @BookChatWithPat8668 Reading the Globe YA Aanouncemnt video https://youtu.be/jn1eS6RUiXQ?si=mN2XE-TGdjBTMgCM My co-host @PageTurnersWithKatja The FOMO Book Club announcement https://youtu.be/pEfDuPJQnS8 and playlist https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsDbySfTdpmgPpi3bo2-MZzEssUE-gVcz&si=Kz8vhe6sugvAnZTq My FOMO Cohost is @GemofBooks 🛒GET THE BOOKS*: £££ ONLINE DISCOUNT CODE£££ Use my ‘Books Please’ affiliate code SPREADBOOKJOY at checkout for 5% off your order: https//booksplea.se/ Books featured: The Whisperwicks by Jordan Lees Evenfall by Alexander Armstrong The Trouble with Mrs Montgomery Hurst by @katiejlumsden Amari and the Despicable Wonders by BB Alston The Tree and the River by Aaron Becker The Last Zookeeper by Aaron Becker A Quiet Year by Derek Tangye A Cornish Summer by Derek Tangye The Loving Spirit by Daphne Du Maurier The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde An Unsuitable Attachment by Barbara Pym Don’t Tell Alfred by Nancy Mitford Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell The Warden by Anthony Trollope The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle What by John Coopet Clarke Guitar by Earl Slick Gull on the Roof by Derek Tangye Sun on the Lintel by Derek Tangye Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson Standing in the Shadows by Oeter Robinson The Dark Portal by Robin Jarvis Keeper of the Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card Sarum by Edward Rutherford The Borrowers by Mary Norton Kiki’s Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono Murder by Narwhal by Alex T Smith Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld by Paul Kidby 🤍 Picture Book Reviews: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsDbySfTdpmgO1TA62MOuiMK09Q6WGd63&si=KakyeQwYajEfG7QB 🤍 Middle Grade Reviews: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsDbySfTdpmiG2l9EqiQaE3ixFF5R0J28&si=ZO7saocTd78DI2oR 🤍 Teen and YA Reviews: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsDbySfTdpmjx6wwIdJtMbJsnCFMI01Yx&si=DjnE1rsHftRb51wP ❤💌🗨 WEBSITES / EMAIL/SOCIAL MEDIA: All the links you need can be found in my bio and channel banner, including links to both the Discord Server and Goodreads Group for the FOMO Book Club 💌WANT FREE LESSON PLANS, TEACHING RESOURCES AND CHILDREN'S BOOK NEWS? Join my mailing list! ☕If you feel so inclined, you can now buy me a Kofi - all donations go towards the running of Spread Book Joy where my mission is to promote great books to get kids reading, so any donation is gratefully received! I also have an Amazon wish list if you ever feel like sending me a book! Link in bio!🤍 *DISCLAIMER: I sometimes use Bookshop.org affiliate links and codes. Should you purchase anything from these, I get a small percentage at no extra cost to you! This just supports me to make free videos and resources. If you use my affiliate code for Books Please, you will also get a 5% discount. The links to books on Bookshop.org do not give you a discount, however, Bookshop.org supports local bookshops who are also given a percentage of the profits at no cost to you. Thanks in advance ❤
Keedie by Elle McNicoll | Fantastic Middle Grade Contemporary Fiction for Ages 9+
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Keedie by Elle McNicoll | Fantastic Middle Grade Contemporary Fiction for Ages 9+

‘Keedie’ is the prequel to Elle McNicoll’s amazing 2020 debut book, ‘A Kind of Spark’, which is one of my favourite middle grade books of all time. Keedie is an autistic teenager living in a small Scottish village who takes on the local bullies in this brilliant book. #middlegrade #diversecharacters #neurodiversity 🛒GET THE BOOK*: £££ ONLINE DISCOUNT CODE£££ Use my ‘Books Please’ affiliate code SPREADBOOKJOY at checkout for 5% off your order: https//booksplea.se/ 🤍 Picture Book Reviews: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsDbySfTdpmgO1TA62MOuiMK09Q6WGd63&si=KakyeQwYajEfG7QB 🤍 Middle Grade Reviews: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsDbySfTdpmiG2l9EqiQaE3ixFF5R0J28&si=ZO7saocTd78DI2oR 🤍 Teen and YA Reviews: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsDbySfTdpmjx6wwIdJtMbJsnCFMI01Yx&si=DjnE1rsHftRb51wP ❤💌🗨 WEBSITES / EMAIL/SOCIAL MEDIA: All the links you need can be found in my bio and channel banner, including links to both the Discord Server and Goodreads Group for the FOMO Book Club 💌WANT FREE LESSON PLANS, TEACHING RESOURCES AND CHILDREN'S BOOK NEWS? Join my mailing list! ☕If you feel so inclined, you can now buy me a Kofi - all donations go towards the running of Spread Book Joy where my mission is to promote great books to get kids reading, so any donation is gratefully received! I also have an Amazon wish list if you ever feel like sending me a book! Link in bio!🤍 *DISCLAIMER: I sometimes use Bookshop.org affiliate links and codes. Should you purchase anything from these, I get a small percentage at no extra cost to you! This just supports me to make free videos and resources. If you use my affiliate code for Books Please, you will also get a 5% discount. The links to books on Bookshop.org do not give you a discount, however, Bookshop.org supports local bookshops who are also given a percentage of the profits at no cost to you. Thanks in advance ❤
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On Instagram, I share updates on what I am reading and mini-reviews, as well as book quotes with quick questions that you can use to spark amazing discussions with children. If you are not on Instagram, you can still view all of my activity here on my website! Just click any of the images below to see the accompanying commentary. Enjoy!

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Michael Morpurgo, The Book Trust Annual Lecture, 2016.

"Let there be half an hour of Storytime at the end of school in Primary schools up and down the country... make this the half hour they all long for, that they don’t want to be over...  Let the children go home dreaming of the story, reliving it, wondering."

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