Angie's 2017 YoRWoC Reading List

[Angie]

I'd like to give this a try. I might tweak this list, but right now, I want to read the following.

3/10

Beloved by Toni Morrison
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Ceremony: by Leslie Marmon Silko
Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (09/13/2017) ****
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
Revolutionary Petunias by Alice Walker
The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich
The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: Poems by Joy Harjo (06/18/2017) ****
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (07/15/2017) *****
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde

I'm shooting for at least 10 of the above.

[Luke]

Welcome to the 2017 YoRWoC, Angie! I'm especially looking forward to your thoughts on 'Beloved', 'Their Eyes Were Watching God', and 'Persepolis'.

[Brina]

Welcome, Angie :). I have read about half of your list including Julia Alvarez one of my favorite authors. So glad you joined here.

[Kathleen]

These are some of my favorite authors, Angie! Hurston, Morrison and Lahiri especially. I wanted to put Ceremony on my list too, but my libraries didn't have it. I'll still be looking for it, and interested to hear your thoughts. Have fun!

[Angie]

Getting a late start at making a dent in my list, but I've finished The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: Poems. On to Kindred soon.

[Carol]

Angie wrote: "Getting a late start at making a dent in my list, but I've finished The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: Poems. On to Kindred soon."

It's never too late. I hope you enjoy Kindred when you get to it. (Perhaps enjoy isn't the best term, given the subject matter, but you know what I mean.)

[Angie]

Carol wrote: "

It's never too late. I hope..."

Thanks! I've heard such wonderful things about Kindred. I can't wait to read it.

[Brina]

I loved Woman Who Fell From the Sky so I hope you enjoy it. It's never too late, and you may find that you'll read a book by a WoC without even realizing it.

[Angie]

I have finished another selection. I'm holding off on Kindred for a bit, because I think I'm using it as my pick for my face-to-face book club. For now, I've just read We Should All Be Feminists. It was a wonderful discussion of gender and the need to alter our perspectives to allow for equality between the sexes. Five stars.

I might do Binti soon.