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Valerie's 2022 Multi-Prompt Challenge
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Thank you for highlighting the Daughters of Africa Collection! I only know about 7 of the women included but plan to read as many as possible in the coming year.
Book 1 - Author is of African descentNathacha Appanah - Petit éloge des fantômes
My review (in French)
Book 3 - MENA - Author born in or resides in/story takes place predominately in a MENA countryHala Alyan - Salt Houses
I am a fan of family generational storylines, especially when they center around women. I thought Salt Houses offered an interesting portrayal of the different ways in which trauma and identity dislocation caused by displacement affects people.
Book 10 - Published between 1750 - 1900Jane Austen - Emma
A very entertaining and funny comedy of social manners.
Valerie wrote: "Book 8 - Author is of Asian descent, living anywhereMinae Mizumura - An I-Novel"
Valerie, you’ve read such a great variety of books for this challenge. Were you pleased with this one? I own it but somehow have never prioritized reading it.
Carol wrote: "Valerie wrote: "Book 8 - Author is of Asian descent, living anywhereMinae Mizumura - An I-Novel"
Valerie, you’ve read such a great variety of books for this challenge. Were you p..."
Thanks Carol, I am very much enjoying this reading channel. I have mixed feelings about An I-Novel: in the beginning I found it slow and a bit boring as there wasn't much of a story to it, but it grew on me as I went along. The book is a reflection on language and identity, so if that is a topic that appeals to you than I would recommend it. But if not, than it isn't the most exciting book to read. For me it was a 3.5 stars.
Great selection Valerie, I quite liked the Mizumura but agree about the pace, I'm slowly making my way through her version of 'Wuthering Heights' A True Novel also very slow to take off, a third of the way through and only just getting to the meat of the story
Alwynne wrote: "Great selection Valerie, I quite liked the Mizumura but agree about the pace, I'm slowly making my way through her version of 'Wuthering Heights' A True Novel also very slow to take..."Great that you are also reading a Mizumura at the moment; I haven't read A True Novel but it sounds interesting. Hope the book will also be a grower, like The I-Novel.
Book 15 - Speculative fictionJacqueline Harpman - Moi qui n'ai pas connu les hommes
I am not a big dystopian reader but I thought I would give it a go with this one because I really like Jacqueline Harpman as a writer. Unfortunately, I didn't really get the story - it was very slow and I felt it ended up going nowhere. I didn't mind that we never learn what led to the dystopian state of the world but would have liked the existential musings which drive most of the book to have a sense, a purpose. I feel like I missed something.
Book 16 - Memoir or BiographySimone de Beauvoir - Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Really enjoyed this memoir. Even though I came out of it not liking de Beauvoir very much - she comes across as quite arrogant - it was fascinating to get such a close up look at the social constraints imposed on bourgeois girls/women in the 1920s
Book 17 - Author born in or resides in a Nordic country Kati Hiekkapelto - The Hummingbird
This was a failure for me. I appreciate the attempt made by the author to include a social component in this crime fiction (attitudes towards refugees in Finish society). But the plot was uninspiring and the main female character was incredibly irritating and cliche. Not a series I will be continuing.
Book 18 - Author is a contributor to Margaret Busby Daughters of Africa collectionBessie Head - When Rain Clouds Gather & Maru
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√ 2. Author is of African descent, living anywhere
3. Fairy Tales and/or Retellings
√ 4. Speculative Fiction
√ 5. In translation
√ 6. LGBTQ+ Theme and/or Author
√ 7. Author over 50
√ 8. Published between 1900 - 1970
√ 9. Nature and/or the Environment
√ 10. Author is of indigenous descent
11. Neurodivergence - author, main character or subject matter
√ 12. Author is of Asian descent, living anywhere
√ 13. MENA - Author born in or resides in/story takes place predominately in a MENA country
√ 14. Feminism or feminist perspective
√ 15. Author born in or resides in a Nordic country (Scandinavia + Finland + Iceland + Greenland + the Faroe Islands + the Åland Islands)
√ 16. Immigration/displacement (F or NF)
√ 17. Author is a contributor to Margaret Busby Daughters of Africa collection (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughte...)
√ 18. Memoir or biography
√ 19. Monsters of any kind - Stalin, those living under the bed, fantastic, historical …
20. Ancient World – the subject can be a (real) heroine of the ancient world, or the novel takes place in ancient times, or the author is a woman writing about ancient history, culture etc. (ideas: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...)
Alternate/Substitute Prompts:
√ 1. Published by a small press
2. 1001 BBYD
(https://1001bookreviews.com/the-1001-...)
3. NYTimes Bestsellers (listed by year @
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_o...)
4. The Caribbean - author born in or resides in/story takes place predominately in
5. Book Riot’s 100 Classics by Authors of Color. (https://bookriot.com/100-must-read-cl...)