Celebrate October’s Global Diversity Awareness Month by accepting the “Read/Watch Around The World Challenge”

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Perhaps you’ve settled into reading a certain type of book or mostly books by certain authors. Maybe you or your children are only watching certain kinds of DVDs. This gives you a chance to break out of that comfortable reading or watching rut and venture into new horizons. You may have your child learn more about their ancestry by checking out a book or DVD about the country or countries of their lineage. You might try that for yourself as well.

One challenge is to read a book by an author from each of the different continents in the world. If you’re really ambitious, you may want to try to read a book from each of the countries in the world. Although even for a speed reader, that challenge will take more than a month to complete.

On https://readaroundtheworldchallenge.com/ you can keep track of your progress and there are lots of suggested books and authors given. They also list different genres you may not have sought out. Try a book of short stories or a dystopian novel. Have you looked at a Graphic Novel lately, read a biography or watched a non-fiction DVD or foreign film?

Do you have a bucket list destination you’ve always wanted to visit? Why not read a book written by a resident author or check out a travel DVD for it? There are so many ways to break out of a reading or watching rut. You can learn something new and grow in your appreciation and understanding of places with which you are unfamiliar. Gain a new perspective by exploring Jasper County Public Library’s extensive catalog and step into a world awaiting discovery.