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bookgazing) wrote2009-05-05 02:20 pm
bookgazing) wrote2009-05-05 02:20 pm
Diversity Reading Meme
In which once again we are reminded that our heroine reads a lot of books by white chicks :)
Name the last book by a female author that you've read.
This is one is easy. The last novel I finished was 'Out of the Wild' by Sarah Beth Durst and the novel I'm reading now is 'Company of Liars' by Karen Maitland. It's hardly surprising that I read a lot of novels by women but I do feel incredibly lucky to be living in an age where so many novels are written by female authors (even if they don't always win the prizes - but that's a topic for another day closer to the Orange prize announcement).
Name the last book by an African or African-American author that you've read.
Again easy. I read 'Jazz' by Toni Morrisson in January 2009.
Name one from a Latino/a author.
This one was impossible, the best I could do was 'The Shadow of the Wind' by Carlos Ruiz Zafon in July 2006.
How about one from an Asian country or Asian-American?
For a moment I thought it was quite recent, as I finished Lian Hearn's 'The Harsh Cry of the Heron' in November 2008 but, duh that's actually a pen name. So it looks like the last one was 'The Welsh Girl' by Peter Ho Davies.
What about a GLBT writer?
Does 'Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist' count as one of the authors is gay? If not then I read 'Oranges are not the Only Fruit' by Jeanette Winterson in November 2008.
Why not name an Israeli/Arab/Turk/Persian writer, if you're feeling lucky?
I can't (eep) but would like to add that I read 'The Master Butcher's Singing Club' by Louise Erdich in February 2008 and she is a Native American author. Oh and I read 'The Relucantant Fundamentalist' by Mohsin Hamid but I'm not sure where he was born/which country he most identifies with.
So I'm still doing a ok with gender diversity (if anything my reading list is low on straight, male authors this year) but have not really worked in any of the big guns from latino authors.
I'm not really sure what the key books are by latino authors, on life in latin countries - can anyone suggest some (please not Gabriel Garcia Marquez, I am still recovering from 'Love in the Time of Cholera', read over five years ago now)? Any suggestions for some strong books you've read that fit he last category?
Name the last book by a female author that you've read.
This is one is easy. The last novel I finished was 'Out of the Wild' by Sarah Beth Durst and the novel I'm reading now is 'Company of Liars' by Karen Maitland. It's hardly surprising that I read a lot of novels by women but I do feel incredibly lucky to be living in an age where so many novels are written by female authors (even if they don't always win the prizes - but that's a topic for another day closer to the Orange prize announcement).
Name the last book by an African or African-American author that you've read.
Again easy. I read 'Jazz' by Toni Morrisson in January 2009.
Name one from a Latino/a author.
This one was impossible, the best I could do was 'The Shadow of the Wind' by Carlos Ruiz Zafon in July 2006.
How about one from an Asian country or Asian-American?
For a moment I thought it was quite recent, as I finished Lian Hearn's 'The Harsh Cry of the Heron' in November 2008 but, duh that's actually a pen name. So it looks like the last one was 'The Welsh Girl' by Peter Ho Davies.
What about a GLBT writer?
Does 'Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist' count as one of the authors is gay? If not then I read 'Oranges are not the Only Fruit' by Jeanette Winterson in November 2008.
Why not name an Israeli/Arab/Turk/Persian writer, if you're feeling lucky?
I can't (eep) but would like to add that I read 'The Master Butcher's Singing Club' by Louise Erdich in February 2008 and she is a Native American author. Oh and I read 'The Relucantant Fundamentalist' by Mohsin Hamid but I'm not sure where he was born/which country he most identifies with.
So I'm still doing a ok with gender diversity (if anything my reading list is low on straight, male authors this year) but have not really worked in any of the big guns from latino authors.
I'm not really sure what the key books are by latino authors, on life in latin countries - can anyone suggest some (please not Gabriel Garcia Marquez, I am still recovering from 'Love in the Time of Cholera', read over five years ago now)? Any suggestions for some strong books you've read that fit he last category?