Bout of Books 33: Jan 3-9th 2022

Once again, I'm signing up for Bout of Books!

What is Bout of Books? From the creators:

 The Bout of Books readathon is organized by Amanda Shofner and Kelly Rubidoux Apple. It’s a weeklong readathon that begins 12:01am Monday, January 3rd and runs through Sunday, January 9th in YOUR time zone. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are reading sprints, Twitter chats, and exclusive Instagram challenges, but they’re all completely optional. For all Bout of Books 33 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team.

I've signed up for this challenge multiple times. Sometimes I read some books and blog about them, but it often falls during the very first week of classes for me, a time when I'm usually too busy to read - much less blog about reading. This time, it falls in the last week of my winter break, just before classes start. That means I'll probably have some time to read, though a lot of the reading will be work-related. I've been planning to read a book about how to do family history, since the main assignment in my one of my classes is a family history, and I feel like the students need more support and structure than what the textbook materials I've been using provide. I also want to read at least some of the book There Goes My Everything by Jason Sokal, though I see it was panned by James Goodman in the NYT when it first came out. Mostly, though, I'll be reading The Lincoln Highway which is the next book for my book club, which meets during the week of the readatahon, so I'll be reading as much as I can per day before then, in between bouts of syllabus revision.