Reviews

Since I was awful at the monthly review round-up posts, I’ve decided to go ahead and just do one! Add any reviews of World Citizen Challenge books here. (Also, if you left a link in the earlier Mr. Linkys or in the comments during the months I ignored the blog, I’ve added it here!)

As you can see, I decided to go for a uniform posting style:
Category-Title of Book (Your Name)

And It’s Back

I’m sorry I’ve neglected the World Citizen blog for so long guys! I put it as private so I could edit it, make some changes and updates, but now it’s back.

Obviously, the mini-challenges fell by the wayside. And I’ve learned that while I love participating in challenges, I’m a pretty awful challenge host! I apologise. That being said, I still hope you guys enjoyed the books you’ve been reading. As you can see, I’ve added a new post for all challenge reviews, rather than making it monthly. I’ll be updating the review directory next.

Big thanks to everyone who kept reading despite my neglect. We’re down to the last couple of months-let’s enjoy them!

Review Directory Up and Running! (and an update Feb’s Mini-Challenge)

Whew-I added all of our reviews so far to the directory. We already have seventeen reviews guys! By far, the most popular categories right now are Worldwide Issues and History. The only category with no reviews is Economics, but I’ve read an economics selection, so I’ll try to get the review up soon. Right now, I have the directory organised by category, and then each review is kind of haphazardly listed. Do you think I should sort reviews within the categories? I was thinking either by title alphabetically or chronologically by when the review was published.

It’s getting towards the end of the month, and no one’s participated in this month’s mini-challenge. I’ve decided on the prize-I’ll mail you three current-edition periodicals of your choice. Since no one’s done it so far, you have a good chance of winning if you enter! Here are the rules, in case it’s slipped your mind.

Re: Thomas Friedman

Those of you who read my book blog probably realise that I loathe Friedman. To find out why, here’s a great post on Citizen Reader that discusses this awesome critique of his new book. (The critique contains swearing, fyi. Still awesome, though!)

Feburary Mini-Challenge: Periodicals

It’s time for the second mini-challenge of the year! This month, if you choose to participate, read an article from a newspaper, magazine, or journal and discuss it on your blog. The article should be something to do with ‘world citizenship,’ so just make sure it’s somethign international. If you don’t subscribe to any periodicals, many have free online viewing. And feel free to read in a foreign language if you can! I’ve included some magazine links, but it’s very America-centric, so feel free to suggest more in the comments and I’ll add them here.

Newsweek International
The Economist (my favourite!!)
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Policy
Time
U.S. News & World Report

Recommended by Dark Orpheus:
The Utne Reader
Mother Jones
Monocle

At the end of the month, I’ll do a drawing of all participants. I’m not sure what the prize will be yet, but I’ll let you know soon!

Draw for the January Challenge

Unfortunately, Amazon failed me and didn’t get the inflatable globe here. So instead this month’s winner will get two books from my giveaway pile and The Economist‘s Facts and Figures 2008 (it’s a cute little mini world atlas).

And the winner (I totaled up everyone’s participation, then got a random number generated between 1 and 95) is Becca (lupingirl)! She played more than double as much as anyone else, so the odds were definitely in her favour.

Thanks to everyone who participated.

January Reviews

I know it’s still pretty early in the month, but if you’ve reviewed a book for the challenge during January, use this Mr. Linky to share it!

Over Fifty Participants!

I’m so excited guys. It seems like people are enjoying the first mini-challenge as well (although, that of course, is optional). Has anyone started their first book? I’ve put China: Fragile Superpower on hold, still waiting for it to arrive at my library branch though! If anyone has started a book, have you learned anything new or interesting or cool?

January Mini-Challenge: Geography!

Because it’s difficult to be world citizen without knowing the physical layout world.

This month’s mini-challenge is to play some of these world geography games. Then come back and tell me which ones you played and which level you got to. Don’t forget to take screen shots of your best scores and highest levels for bragging rights (on a PC, hit the button on your keyboard that says ‘PrtSc,’ then open Paint and click ‘Edit’ then ‘Paste’)! Each topic you play, and each level you get to, will give you one entry in the giveaway at the end of the month (so doing the first level of six regions gets you the same number of entries as getting to the sixth level of one region). The giveaway will be two books of your choice from my giveaway shelf (link to that coming soon-it’s a ton of books, so I promise there’ll be a big variety) and a cute 12″ blow-up globe.

It’s Always Something…

The suggested reading links should work now! So sorry about that everyone. I’ll send out invites soon.