SF/F/H: Reading More Diverse Books Challenge Group discussion
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This is very cool! Thank you for starting the group :) I started the translations challenge. I think most of the books I'll be reading for it will be Russian SF translated into Hungarian, to be honest, so I don't know how useful my picks will be to other people...
I have two challenge ideas in mind that I'd personally like to do:
1. #ownvoices challenge (minority people writing about their own minority)
2. Trans/NB/GQ/etc non-cis-people authors challenge :) (I just got three more books for this! Yay)
Thank you! I joined them. \O/ I set myself quite optimistic goals but I think I will have books that qualify for multiple challenges.
Hi, thanks for creating this group!A quick question! Can we share GR/external lists with books related to the different challenges?
Serena wrote: "Hi, thanks for creating this group!A quick question! Can we share GR/external lists with books related to the different challenges?"
I'm interested in this too - I wrote about a week ago about my plans for 2016, including books by PoC, people with disabilities, and people with LGBTQIA identities.
Oh, and graphic novels, too! I want to read graphic novels by diverse authors too.
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Well, here's my list of diverse books I hope to read in 2016 (or at least, the *types* of books I want to read): http://booksandtea.ca/2015/12/reading... Also, here's a reading challenge from the Festival of Literary Diversity, a Canadian event:
https://twitter.com/TheFOLD_/status/6...
The festival itself is at www.thefoldcanada.org
Wow, I really like this idea of reading one each from a very long list of different categories. Thank you Christina! Now I feel tempted to make my own similar list...
Bogi wrote: "Wow, I really like this idea of reading one each from a very long list of different categories. Thank you Christina! Now I feel tempted to make my own similar list..."There are some books I plan to read that will fill multiple categories. Part of me thinks that's cheating, though.
The year has started, and I'll be adding some more challenges as we go. If you think of a challenge that you wish we had, please let me know and I'll add it.
-Keffy