The Challenge Factory discussion

Completed on post 46 - thanks for the challenge, I enjoyed it!

DIVERSITY CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 - June 30, 2017
Minimum pages: 100
*Audiobooks welcome.
*Re-reads allowed.
Level: Dipping My Toe in the Water: Read 1-2 books from the first set, 2-3 books from the second set and 3-4 books from the third set
8/8 books FINISHED

Set 1
Point of Departure: a book that is really you – that embodies something about you or focuses on one or more interests you have
Starters: a book from a genre you don't usually read, or a book about people who are different from you in some significant way
1. Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid, read 2/12/17, 4 stars (point of departure)
2. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo, read 3/11/17, 4 stars (a genre I don't usually read)


Set 2
Getting Personal: a book about a different kind of spirituality than you practice (or don't practice) or that has a MC who is going through some kind of spiritual transformation
Roadblocks: a book about any kind of disability or illness that separates people from the mainstream culture (be it physical, mental, emotional or even a socially imposed “disability”), or that has MC with such a disability or illness
1. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, read 1/08/17, 5 stars (MC who is going through some kind of spiritual transformation)
2. By Your Side by Kasie West, read 2/12/17, 3 stars (mental illness and social issue)
3. Hard Wired by Megan Erickson, read 02/26/17, 4 stars ( socially imposed “disability”)


Set 3
Going Abroad: a book about a culture you know little about or with a MC who is immersed in a new (foreign) culture, or a book about immigration or with a MC who has recently emigrated or plans to emigrate, or a book that is written in a language that is not your native language
Really Out There: a book that takes place on another planet, or that takes place in time many hundreds of years into the future or the past, or a book that has a MC who acts wholly outside social norms expected of him or her
Danger Zone: a book about human bondage, or about one culture dominating and/or trying to eliminate another (ie, total lack of acceptance and diversity), whether it be genocide (like Hitler) or a social issue (like the whole LGBT rights issue), or any book about violence in race relations
1. The Boyfriend Makeover by River Jaymes, read 1/08/17, 4 stars (social issue)
2. Rapture in Death by J.D. Robb, read 3/22/17, 3 stars (set in the future and on another planet)
3. Widdershins by Jordan L. Hawk, read 5/08/17, 5 stars (set in the past and MM historical romance)

Done on post #11. Good job to everyone else who's finished!!

Finished!

2017 DIVERSITY CHALLENGE
Start: 1/1/17
End: 12/31/17

Cannonball into the Deep End: Read 3-4 books from the first set, 4-5 books from the second set and 5-6 books from the third set


*****
Set 1: 4/4
Point of Departure: a book that is really you – that embodies something about you or focuses on one or more interests you have

The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch - 1/17/16 (academics)

Starters: a book from a genre you don't usually read, or a book about people who are different from you in some significant way

Scanty Particulars: The Scandalous Life and Astonishing Secret of James Barry, Queen Victoria's Most Eminent Military Doctor by Rachel Holmes - 1/22/17 (different profession from me)
South Africa: the art of a nation by John Giblin - 2/15/17 (don't read a lot of art historical nonfiction)
*****
Set 2 4/5
Getting Personal: a book about a different kind of spirituality than you practice (or don't practice) or that has a MC who is going through some kind of spiritual transformation

The Sea-Wolf by Jack London - 4/8/17 (main character's transformation)
In the Moors by Nina Milton - 6/13/17 (MC is a shaman)
Unraveled Visions by Nina Milton - 9/4/17 (MC is a shaman)

Roadblocks: a book about any kind of disability or illness that separates people from the mainstream culture (be it physical, mental, emotional or even a socially imposed “disability”), or that has MC with such a disability or illness.

Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov - 5/8/17 (socially imposed disability/discrimination)

*****
Set 3 6/6
Going Abroad: a book about a culture you know little about or with a MC who is immersed in a new (foreign) culture, or a book about immigration or with a MC who has recently emigrated or plans to emigrate, or a book that is written in a language that is not your native language

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami - 4/16/17 (originally in Japanese)
Kokoro by Sōseki Natsume - 6/20/17 (originally in Japanese)
Euphoria by Lily King - 7/5/17 (MCs are immersed in New Guinean cultures)


Really Out There: a book that takes place on another planet, or that takes place in time many hundreds of years into the future or the past, or a book that has a MC who acts wholly outside social norms expected of him or her

The Courier by Gerald Brandt - 7/31/17 (takes place in distant future)

Danger Zone: a book about human bondage, or about one culture dominating and/or trying to eliminate another (ie, total lack of acceptance and diversity), whether it be genocide (like Hitler) or a social issue (like the whole LGBT rights issue), or any book about violence in race relations

The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey - 2/15/17 (aliens repressing and killing Earthlings)
Humor and Violence: Seeing Europeans in Central African Art by Zoe S. Strother - 4/26/17 (colonial oppression of Africans)

Awesome job Marty!!