Up Your Reading Game With This Spring Bookish Bucket List
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For a lot of you, the sun is now shining and you’re no longer being slapped in the face by a pop up Blizzard. Spring is here! Well, if you’re in the south, you know it’s Spring because your A/C is on nonstop to keep your home below 80. It’s time to douse yourself in eight layers of sunscreen and bug spray, go outside and experience…nature.
Even for the absolutely indoor-prone bookworms among us there are bookish activities you can do to really get a feel for the season. Warning: some may require outdoor time. Here’s your Spring Bookish Bucket List!
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Earth day is April 22nd, and what better way to celebrate than to have a good look at our absolute degradation of our planet! Why not start with one of the first books to spur the environmental movement, something like Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring? But don’t despair! It’s about becoming aware so you can do something about it, and help ensure that generations after us have green spaces. Sometimes that starts with a book and difficult conversation with your friends and family about their recycling habits and carbon footprint.
Alright, this is a bit weird I’ll admit, but part of meditating on nature is practicing empathy with the living things around us. We can better understand our place in the world by looking through the vision of others. While animal allegories tend to be more reflective of our own world, it can still provide an intriguing imaginative challenge. If you would prefer lighter fare in this category, I can suggest Erin Hunter’s Warrior series, because it’s about cats!
1. Read a book outside.
Simple right? It may be time to head to a local park if you’re able. Maybe plan picnic with friends or that special someone to snuggle on a large blanket and read your heart out in the sunshine? You can even just sit out on a patio and enjoy a chapter of that novel you’ve been reading. Take this as an opportunity to finally dig in to N.K. Jemison’s Broken Earth series (It has Earth in the title, it’s thematically appropriate). You can even do this with one of our Read Harder Challenge Books! Either way, get out of bed, off the couch and into the great Spring of things!(1)2. Read a NonFiction Book About the Environment
Earth day is April 22nd, and what better way to celebrate than to have a good look at our absolute degradation of our planet! Why not start with one of the first books to spur the environmental movement, something like Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring? But don’t despair! It’s about becoming aware so you can do something about it, and help ensure that generations after us have green spaces. Sometimes that starts with a book and difficult conversation with your friends and family about their recycling habits and carbon footprint.
3. Read a NonFiction Book about an Outdoor Activity
I’ve recently become rather, shall we say—obsessed, with gardening. But you don’t have to spend your time like me, researching the best compost makeup for tubers, when there are tons of things to do outside and tons of books about it! There’s hiking, fishing, bee conservation, bird watching, mushroom collection and so on. Even though moss gardening didn’t turn out to be my cup of tea, I will still highly recommend Megumi Oshima and Hideshi Kimura’s Miniature Moss Gardens for the adorable illustrations alone.4. Read a Book from the Point of View of an Animal
Alright, this is a bit weird I’ll admit, but part of meditating on nature is practicing empathy with the living things around us. We can better understand our place in the world by looking through the vision of others. While animal allegories tend to be more reflective of our own world, it can still provide an intriguing imaginative challenge. If you would prefer lighter fare in this category, I can suggest Erin Hunter’s Warrior series, because it’s about cats!
