Laurie's Magic Squares challenge

[Laurie]

I will add my books as I go.

1st Row
Mystery A Bitter Feast by Deborah Crombie *****
Over 500 Pages The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë *****
Translated from French After the Spring: A Story of Tunisian Youth by Hélène Aldeguer **½
Set in Asia Ms Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami ***½
Immigrant experience Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue ****

2nd Row
Translated from Spanish La Bastarda: A Novel by Trifonia Melibea Obono ****
Set in Africa Efuru by Flora Nwapa ****
Historical Fiction Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel ****
Award Winning The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai *** (Booker Prize)
Woman Author Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson ****

3rd Row
Set in South America Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez **
Sci Fi/Fantasy The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin ***
Wild Card Sula by Toni Morrison ***½
Translated from Chinese Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang ***
Classic (+50 years old) Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell ***½

4th Row
Memoir Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob *****
Set During a War The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya ****½
Set in Oceania My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin *****
YA or Children's Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers ****
Translated from Japanese The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino ***

5th Row
Caribbean Author Beka Lamb by Zee Edgell ***½
Graphic Novel Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast ****
Translated from Portuguese The Alienist by Machado de Assis ****
Set on an Island Surviving Paradise: One Year on a Disappearing Island by Peter Rudiak-Gould****
Set in a MENA country Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi ***

25/25 complete

[Laurie]

I've read my first book of this challenge and it was so compelling. The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya

My review

[Laurie]

I have added the book over 500 pages with The Tenant of Wildfell Hall which I absolutely loved and gave 5 stars.

[Laurie]

I completed the book set in Oceania with My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin which is set in Australia and is a classic by the author that the Miles Franklin Award, one of the most prestigious literary awards in Australia is named for. This was her first novel and I gave it 5 stars.

[Rosemarie]

I really enjoyed The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and My Brilliant Career as well.

[Laurie]

Completed the Woman author square with Efuru by Flora Nwapa which I gave 4 stars.

[Laurie]

I have completed the Immigrant Experience square with Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue. I gave it 4 stars and here is my review

[Laurie]

I completed the Award Winning square with The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai which won the 2006 Booker Prize.

[Laurie]

I added my book for the Graphic Novel square with Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast. It is not a pleasant topic to read about but it is important because it's something many of us could face with our parents or ourselves.

[Laurie]

I've added two more squares, but I shifted one previous book to a different square.

Moved:
Efuru from Woman Author to Set in Africa

Added:
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson to Woman Author
Sula by Toni Morrison to Wildcard

[Laurie]

I've added one more square: Translated from French - After the Spring: A Story of Tunisian Youth by Hélène Aldeguer which I gave 2 1/2 stars. Here is my review.

[Laurie]

I've finished the Classic square with Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell. Although I've really enjoyed the other Gaskell novels I've read, this one was only a 3.5 star read for me.

[Laurie]

I've completed two more squares:

YA or Children's: Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
Set on an Island: Surviving Paradise: One Year on a Disappearing Island by Peter Rudiak-Gould

[Laurie]

One more square complete- Set in a MENA country Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi which is set in Oman.

[Laurie]

Another square complete. Memoir - Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob a graphic novel which I gave 5 stars.

[Laurie]

I've completed the Translated from Japanese square: The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino which I gave 3 stars.

[Laurie]

I've completed the Caribbean author square with Beka Lamb by Zee Edgell which I gave 3.5 stars

[Laurie]

Translated from Portuguese - The Alienist by Machado de Assis. 4 stars

[Laurie]

Translated from Chinese: Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang 3 stars

[Laurie]

I have completed this challenge. My final book was the Translated from Spanish square with La Bastarda: A Novel by Trifonia Melibea Obono which I gave 4 stars. Here is my review.