Reading Challenge!
Posted by Deborah - 26/12/09 at 11:12 pm
So reading challenges are new for me but I found this site while surfing the web for books to add to my vacation reading list and I could not resist joining the African Diaspora Reading Challenge. In the last three days I have caught up with all of my magazine reading (American Craft, FibreArts, Studios and Where Women Create). Now I am ready for my BOOK stack. I haven’t fully formed my reading list for this challenge. I think I want to leave some room for what I might discover during the year. I am committing to reading 12 books for the challenge. In addition to novels I would like to read books on African diasporic cultural and political history as well as biographies about artists. Can’t wait to READ MORE!
My book list so far:
1. Helen Oyeyemi, The Opposite House
2. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun
3. Samuel Salvon, The Lonely Londoners
4. Marie-Elena John, Unburnable Yvonne Vera, Butterfly Burning
5. Nalo Hopkinson, The New Moon’s Arms
What I have already read:
Marlon James, The Book of Night Women
Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus
Helen Oyeyemi, The Icarus Girl
Dr. Marta Moreno Vega, When The Spirits Dance Mambo: Growing up Nuyorican in El Barrio
Dr. Marta Moreno Vega, The Altar of My Soul: Living the Traditions of Santeria
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