Fran: 2016 New Challenge Throwdown!

It's a new year and I won the alphabet challenge (not that there's a winner, or a prize, or anyone who doesn't win  because, hey! reading) so I'm throwing down a new challenge.

Twenty seconds of research determines that there are LOTS of reading challenges out there.  This page lists 9 of them.  Lots of folks are doing this one, which is a good way to start a reading challenge as it is short and has lots of leeway.


I think I might do this one as it allows for some leeway and has some suggestions for places to start (and by the way, I'd really welcome suggestions!):

• A book by a woman under 25
• A book on non-Western history
• A book of essays
• A book on indigenous people (broadly defined, culture of your choice, fiction or non-fiction)
• A book before you see the movie
• A YA (young adult) book by a person of color
• A book set in the Middle East
• A book about women in war (again, broadly defined)
• A graphic novel written by a woman
• A book about an immigrant or refugee to the United States
• A children's book aloud (I'm going to expand this to any book to my children)
• A favorite children's book revisited
• A memoir from someone who identifies as LBGTQIA
• A book of Post-Apocalyptic fiction by a woman
• A book of feminist sci-fi
• The first book in a series I've never read before
• A book set in Africa by an African author
• A book in translation
• A book of contemporary poetry
• A book by a modernist female author (20th c. greats like HD, or Hurston, Barnes, Radclyffe Hall, etc.)

Do this one.  Do a different one.  Finish the one you started, slackers. 

Keep reading, peeps!