Laurie's 2022 Multi-Prompt Challenge

[Laurie]

19/20 read

1. Published between 1750 - 1900 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs 5/26/22
2. Author is of African descent, living anywhere Aya: Life in Yop City by Marguerite Abouet 4/7/22
3. Fairy Tales and/or Retellings Bird Girl & the Man Who Followed the Sun: An Athabaskan Indian Legend from Alaska by Velma Wallis 10/18/22
4. Speculative Fiction Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 4/29/22
5. In translation Gerta by Kateřina Tučková 2/27/22
6. LGBTQ+ Theme and/or Author Despised And Rejected by Rose Allatini 1/12/22
7. Author over 50 The Sentence by Louise Erdrich 1/17/22
8. Published between 1900 - 1970 The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather 2/4/22
9. Nature and/or the Environment Under the Sea Wind by Rachel Carson 1/7/22
10. Author is of indigenous descent Fatty Legs: A True Story by Margaret Pokiak-Fenton and Christy Jordan-Fenton 3/24/22
11. Neurodivergence - author, main character or subject matter
12. Author is of Asian descent, living anywhere Small Bodies of Water by Nina Mingya Powles 5/7/22
13. MENA - Author born in or resides in/story takes place predominately in a MENA country Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories by Alifa Rifaat 4/14/22
14. Feminism or feminist perspective Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard 3/16/22
15. Author born in or resides in a Nordic country (Scandinavia + Finland + Iceland + Greenland + the Faroe Islands + the Åland Islands) Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset 6/11/22
16. Immigration/displacement (F or NF) We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib 6/3/22
17. Author is a contributor to Margaret Busby Daughters of Africa collection (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughte...) Changes: A Love Story by Ama Ata Aidoo 2/21/22
18. Memoir or biography Small Bodies of Water by Nina Mingya Powles 5/9/22
19. Monsters of any kind - Stalin, those living under the bed, fantastic, historical … Monstress, Vol. 6: The Vow by Marjorie M. Liu 5/27/22
20. Ancient World – the subject can be a (real) heroine of the ancient world, or the novel takes place in ancient times, or the author is a woman writing about ancient history, culture etc. (ideas: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...) The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 12/25/22

Alternate/Substitute Prompts:
5/5 read
1. Published by a small press Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo 5/10/22 (Catapult Press)
2. 1001 BBYD The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector 1/2/22
(https://1001bookreviews.com/the-1001-...)
3. NYTimes Bestsellers (listed by year @
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_o...) All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny (on NYT list 9/20/20) 3/30/22
4. The Caribbean - author born in or resides in/story takes place predominately in Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud 5/24/22
5. Book Riot’s 100 Classics by Authors of Color. (https://bookriot.com/100-must-read-cl...) The Street by Ann Petry 5/15/22

[Laurie]

I'm doing well on this challenge but there are a couple of prompts I may struggle with.

[Carol]

Laurie wrote: "I'm doing well on this challenge but there are a couple of prompts I may struggle with."

You are doing great! If you want to solicit suggestions, have at it. I will need to, at a later point in the year, I suspect. I’m happy to be on the journey, to be honest :)

[Laurie]

Carol wrote: "Laurie wrote: "I'm doing well on this challenge but there are a couple of prompts I may struggle with."

You are doing great! If you want to solicit suggestions, have at it. I will need to, at a la..."

Thanks, Carol. My struggle will be that I'm not really into fairy tales. That's the only one that genre is an issue.

I will ask for suggestions on a good book for neurodivergence. I've read some nonfiction before so I want something different. Here is my criteria:
--Fiction
--Female neurodivergent main character
--Not a romance

[Laurie]

I completed this challenge. I read only 19 of the 20 prompts but I read all 5 of the alternates.