2017: JMC400m's Category Challenge

BOOKS COMPLETED IN 2017
1. Tools of the Titans ****
2. Seeking Serenity by Amanda Enayati
3. The Red Rooster Cookbook by Marcus Samuelsson
4. Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett
5. A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman
6. Best Investment Writing by Meb Faber
7. Negroland by Margo Jefferson
8. The Trespasser by Tana French
9. Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett

I am excited to pick categories for 2017.

I am going to try to read to a theme this year: The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Current Exhibitions



Here are the ideas inspired by current exhibitions:

1. The Aesthetic Movement in America: , period 1870-1880's, ideas: Henry James "The Golden Bowl", Effie: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, John Ruskin..., In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement
2. Velazquez Portraits: Truth in Painting: Don Quixote, The Disenchantments of Love, The Vanishing Velazquez, Rivers of Gold (see http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/Spain), Isabella: The Warrior
3. Collecting the Arts of Mexico: Under the Volcano, Faces in the Crowd,Signs Preceding the End of the World
4. Kerry James Marshall: African American Art: Negroland, Invisible Man (inspired one of his paintings), Harlem Renaissance: The Art of Black America, Push by Sapphire, Jazz Toni Morrison
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RandomCAT
CultureCAT
CATWoman
AwardsCAT
BingoDOG/BingoPUP
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Books for Work
Random Books

Metropolitan Museum Exhibitions: The Aesthetic Movement

Metropolitan Museum Exhibitions: Velzaquez Portraits

Metropolitan Museum Exhibitions: Collecting the Arts of Mexico

Metropolitan Museum Exhibitions: Kerry James Marshall

Random CAT
1. Search and Rescue: The Art Detective

Culture CAT

CAT Woman
1. Classics by Women: Wuthering Heights

Awards CAT
January -- Year's Best lists and Costa Book Award

BIngo DOG & Bingo PUP

Books for Work

1. Adaptive Markets by Andrew Lo - currently reading
2. The Institutional ETF Toolbox - currently reading
3. Finding Alphas
4.

RANDOM Books

1. Tools of Titans by Tim Ferris - completed July 2017
2. Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett

Beautiful artwork!

Putting those paintings together makes an interesting contrast of styles!

What a beautiful thread. I was just at The Met a couple of months ago and it was spectacular!

Beautiful thread! Looking forward to seeing the books you choose.

Love your theme choice and the images are amazing!

Very nice!

It's always a pleasure when those with an artistic bent share their love with the rest of us. I look forward to more beautiful art additions along with the books you find to fill the categories. Have a wonderful year in 2017!

Great theme! I will be interested to hear what you think of Signs Preceding the End of the World, if you get to it; I know someone who rated it highly.

Beautiful!

An art challenge! I love it! Happy New Year!

Beautiful challenge!

Going to revive this Reading Challenges - migrating to 2018!