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deezabee (iseethelight) wrote,
@ 2018-01-02 13:21:00

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!bingo, !books

2018: READING CHALLENGE
A SHORT STORY COLLECTION	A DEBUT AUTHOR	A GOODREADS WINNER	A BOOK THAT'S MORE THAN 100 YEARS OLD	A BOOK ABOUT A GLOBAL ISSUE YOU FIND IMPORTANT
A BOOK BY OR ABOUT A PERSON WITH MENTAL ILLNESS	A BOOK TRANSLATED TO ENGLISH	#OWNVOICES	A MEMOIR OR BIOGRAPHY	A BOOK WITH A QUEER MAIN CHARACTER
NON-FICTION BY A DIVERSE AUTHOR	SOMETHING FROM YOUR 'TO READ' SHELF ON GOODREADS	FREE SPACE	A BOOK WITH A ONE WORD TITLE	A GRAPHIC NOVEL
A BOOK WITH A POC MAIN CHARACTER	A BOOK YOU HEARD ABOUT ONLINE	A FANTASY NOVEL WRITTEN BY A WOC	A SCIENCE FICTION OR HORROR NOVEL	A BOOK FROM THIS LIST
A NOVELLA³	A BOOK GOODREADS REC'D TO YOU	A BOOK BY OR ABOUT AN INDIGENOUS PERSON OR CULTURE	A BOOK THAT'S MORE THAN 500 PAGES	A BOOK WITH A DISABLED MAIN CHARACTER

¹ There are a lot of lists of #ownvoices-books, but you could start here or here if you want.
² There are a ton of lists here too, where this one is a good starting point.
³ A novella is at most 40,000 words, which is 150-200 pages max.

01. A short story collection
02. Debut author
03. A GoodReads Choice Awards Winner (any category)
04. A book about a global issue you find important
05. A book that’s more than 100 years old
06. A book by or about a person with mental illness
07. A book translated to English
08. #ownvoices
09. A memoir or biography
10. A book with a queer main character
11. Non-fiction by a diverse author
12. Something from your ‘to read’ shelf on GoodReads
13. A book with a one word title
14. A graphic novel
15. A book with a POC main character
16. A book you heard about online
17. A fantasy novel written by a WOC
18. A science fiction or horror novel
19. A book from the The Best 16 Books of 2017 by Black Authors list.
20. A novella:
21. A book GoodReads recommended to you
22. A book by or about an indigenous person or culture
23. A book that’s more than 500 pages
24. A book with a disabled main character

I need ideas for non-fiction diverse author, a book by or about an indigenous person or culture, a book by and about a person with mental illness, and a book with a disabled main character. Any recommendations? Feel to recommend any books in general you think would fit here though, I'll take 'em all. Also short stories, as I don't read them. I could for sure have finished this last year, or done a lot of them.

Thanks to

karin for posting this so I could steal it! :)

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	cilantro 2018-01-02 06:44 pm UTC (link)
	Non-fiction diverse authors --- Ta-Nehisi Coates, Roxanne Gay, Jesmyn Ward have all written really, really good memoirs. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	iseethelight 2018-01-02 06:53 pm UTC (link)
	Yayyyy thank you. Added. I don't read a lot of non-fiction at all which is why I wasn't brave enough (yet) to put a non-fiction bingo up lol. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cilantro 2018-01-02 06:55 pm UTC (link)
	Haha, I too am a major noob when it comes to the World of Nonfic, so literally the only nonfiction I read is directly culled from very strong recommendations. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	iseethelight 2018-01-02 06:57 pm UTC (link)
	i've read some like ... comedian memoirs but I don't always find that to be non-fic in my head even if it is technically, I see it as more comedy. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	candystars 2018-01-02 07:46 pm UTC (link)
	I just wrote down a challenge today I'm going to try, so I'll be right here with ya reading :D (Reply to this) (Thread)

	iseethelight 2018-01-03 01:39 pm UTC (link)
	Yay readinggggg (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candystars 2018-01-03 01:39 pm UTC (link)
	First up is Phasma! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	iseethelight 2018-01-03 01:42 pm UTC (link)
	I really have to read a lot of the Star Wars books, I got behind. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candystars 2018-01-03 01:52 pm UTC (link)
	I did too but since I got this one for Christmas I'm starting it :D (Reply to this) (Parent)

karin
2018-01-02 09:55 pm UTC (link)

Seconding Roxane Gay! I'm planning to do her book Hunger for that square. I read Bad Feminist last year too, and it was really good as well. And if you want to read something suuuuper heavy I read Stamped From the Beginning this year too, which is basically a complete guide to racism in America, from the 15th century and on, which is written by Ibram Kendi, who is African American. But yeah, it took me about two months since it's so comprehensive and heavy.

For mental illness: Julie recommended The Rest of Us Just Live Here to me this year, which was so good. There's also Am I Normal Yet?, though it super triggered me because the main character descended far into OCD hell whereas the former is more dancing around it and the main character recognising it before it goes too far.

The easiest one for indigenous is Sherman Alexie, I think, though I'm planning to try and find something about the Sami, Swedish indigenous people this time.

Disabled main character is HARD. Last year I reread Feed by Mira Grant. I think Kaleidoscope (edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Julia Rios) would qualify too, it's an anthology with diverse YA as a theme, and that ranges from race to disability and sexuality, etc. Not all the stories have all the things in them, obviously, but it should still count.

I have no idea what to do for most of my squares tbh, I'm still thinking. But it's fun to see people using my card, so thanks for that.

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iseethelight
2018-01-02 10:00 pm UTC (link)

Yayyyy thank you, I added all of these to my want to reads, and I have them here for posterity if I forget what I'm supposed to read next. Also thank you for including author names because a lot of times books have similar titles. OMG I FORGOT TO CREDIT YOU ABOVE I WILL ADD ONCE I POST THIS COMMENT FFS DEE

And thank you for the OCD trigger warning because mine is tolerable on a good day.

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	karin 2018-01-02 10:36 pm UTC (link)
	I don't even have OCD, but I just ended up in a days long anxiety episode because of the anxiety this girl felt while OCDing, so yes, it's well done but possibly a little too much so. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	iseethelight 2018-01-03 06:03 pm UTC (link)
	I put together a Spreadsheet here of books I plan to read for each square. :D :D I am very excited and I have all of these so. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

karin
2018-01-04 06:11 pm UTC (link)

Ooh that's so neat! I have one of books I've read/vaguely want to read but it has like three years worth of books on it so I might need a different list of some kind. So far what I've got is this:

https://i.imgur.com/EQR5k8z.png
https://i.imgur.com/bwSYnyy.png

But I try not to plan out too much right now because if it's mapped out too specifically this early I just get bored.

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	iseethelight 2018-01-04 06:12 pm UTC (link)
	I'm the opposite my problem was that I have all these books and I was like um I have a stack and I don't know where to start or what would fit. So this gives me a specific focus. I'm all over the place when it comes to books, the problem with apparently having TOO MANY things to read. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	karin 2018-01-06 01:05 am UTC (link)
	It's so interesting how different people approach things like this. I'm gonna try to at least do a halfway point check-up because the last two year I went through November and December in a reading panic, which isn't fun either. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	iseethelight 2018-01-18 04:09 pm UTC (link)
	I read Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist! (She comes back times later lol) and it was AMAZING. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	karin 2018-01-19 04:37 pm UTC (link)
	Ahhh I'm glad you liked it! I really did, though I hadn't actually watched most of the movies etc that she talked about. But I rarely have so I didn't really mind that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	iseethelight 2018-01-19 04:40 pm UTC (link)
	I was super confused that she kept saying she was a bad feminist, lol, but by the end I'm like ohhhh I get it. Yeah I knew all of her movie references. I actually took a photo of every chapter title and put it on FB and everyone was like DAMNNNNNNN. She does not play around. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	karin 2018-01-20 08:42 pm UTC (link)
	She really doesn't and that's why I love her. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	iseethelight 2018-01-20 10:12 pm UTC (link)
	Some of those titles were savage and I'm like /loud obnoxious clapping. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	karin 2018-01-02 09:56 pm UTC (link)
	Also for short stories: There's a collection coming out this year called Mother of Invention that I'm looking forward to this year. It's about anything-but-cismen inventors and very AI focused, I think. But I'm not otherwise big on collections because I tend to wander off between each story, so they take me forever. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	iseethelight 2018-01-02 10:01 pm UTC (link)
	That's very helpful, I never read short stories. I intentionally forced myself to write them in college just so I'd get used to it, but I always hated it haha. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

karin
2018-01-02 10:38 pm UTC (link)

My brain just wants to build BIG, no matter how much I try with short stories, both writing and reading them. I love nuanced and complicated scenarios and while those are possible to put in shorter works if you're talented enough it's still hard to take it all in. So I struggle with these but feel like I need to read some every now and then because I like supporting small press publishers and they generally do a lot of shorts.

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	iseethelight 2018-01-03 01:39 pm UTC (link)
	When I find short stories I really like I just go WRITE A FULL BOOK PLZ. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	karin 2018-01-06 01:05 am UTC (link)
	ME TOO. Or at least a novella. (Reply to this) (Parent)

oh_emily
2018-01-03 01:29 am UTC (link)

Oooh, I also recommend Ta-Nehisi Coates, but some other non-fiction diverse authors that stand out from my history major days is Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi. It's about her childhood/adolescence in MI as a young black girl through her involvement with CORE and SNCC in her 20s. This is actually one of my all-time favorite books, I just found it to be a very gripping and engaging memoir will really vivid description and narration. Mae M. Ngai's book on illegal immigration and how certain types of immigration even became illegal in the first place is really interesting and timely, but admittedly it's a pretty dense, stats-filled history book. It kept my attention though, and definitely left me feeling like everyone should read it since it addresses so many misconceptions about the immigration and citizenship process and how racism was always embedded in it. I also really liked the book Hidden Figures was based on, which is definitely a lighter history book, but still super fascinating.

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	iseethelight 2018-01-03 01:41 pm UTC (link)
	yay awesome I added Anne Moody! Ill add Ngai's book on my list, I'm requiring myself to read less this year sO I can settle and read longer thins anyway! I have Hidden Figures on my list, I really want to read it, I very much enjoyed the flick but there was a lot left out I could tell. (Reply to this) (Parent)

zeromus
2018-01-03 11:29 am UTC (link)

I see Roxanne Gay being recommended a couple times and wanted to give a heads up: I'm reading Hunger now and it is not an easy book for several reasons. It's good, but it's uncomfortable for a lot of it hitting close or close enough to home, if that makes sense. Also she does talk about her sexual assault in blunt detail, so trigger warning for that.

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates is a great one to read. It's not very long but is something I think everyone should read at some point in their lives.

I actually read a handful of novellas this year, but they were in the Dorothy Must Die series. That was an interesting series, and I enjoyed it, but I don't know that I...recommend it. It's not great? But they're fun in that the author is very creative.

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	karin 2018-01-03 01:23 pm UTC (link)
	Jumping in to say that I've been putting off reading Hunger for this exact reason, but I'm going to do it this year. I want to read it, it just seems like it'll be a painful read. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	iseethelight 2018-01-03 01:43 pm UTC (link)
	It's good to go into these books wth awareness. It's a random thing but Jodi Picoult's new book I was like NOPE NOPE NOPE because while it was well written, it was too real, because it's about white supremacy and racism and I do NOT want to get in the head of a modern Nazi right now. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	zeromus 2018-01-04 11:56 am UTC (link)
	I don't want to say too much so as not to spoil, but there are quite a few things in there that she tackles pretty straight forwardly that are uncomfortable, but it's NEEDED to talk and to read about them, if that makes sense? I enjoyed it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	karin 2018-01-06 01:08 am UTC (link)
	It does, yeah. Parts of Bad Feminist were super uncomfortable to so I think I know roughly what I'm in for, but it's good to know from other people too. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	iseethelight 2018-01-03 01:44 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you for the trigger warning! It's good to go into things with that in mind. I've heard abut Dorothy Must Die! LOL From someone who said something similar, that they're fun but not terribly good at the same time. I might try one out anyway! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	zeromus 2018-01-04 11:57 am UTC (link)
	LOL. Yeah. They are fast reads, at least. I'd be interested in how you feel about them! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	aufwiedersehen 2018-01-06 03:54 am UTC (link)
	For book with a disabled main character, I recommend All the Light We Cannot See. One main character is a young girl who has gradually lost her sight, and a scale model of her town—built for her by her father—is an important plot feature. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	iseethelight 2018-01-06 04:31 am UTC (link)
	I keep meaning to read that as I've met the author, he's very nice! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	blazingstars 2018-02-08 05:46 pm UTC (link)
	I thought I wasn't going to do this one but I may end up adding it later this year. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	iseethelight 2018-02-08 06:09 pm UTC (link)
	I don't think it will take very long if it's planned out. I planned it out in a spreadsheet and it made it easy! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	blazingstars 2018-02-08 06:16 pm UTC (link)
	That's more organized than I am right now! But I could get there. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	doingthemost 2018-04-08 03:02 am UTC (link)
	Do you have the code for this without your links etc. in it so I can do this as well? If not, I'll just grab from your entry if that's cool, and erase them myself :) just thought I'd ask! I wasn't originally going to do a reading bingo but I was just looking over this now and realized I already have a few things ticked off. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	iseethelight 2018-04-08 03:37 am UTC (link)
	This is the code! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	iseethelight 2018-04-08 03:38 am UTC (link)
	I found it was ENORMOUSLY HELPFUL for me to make a Google Spreadsheet though and put all the squares and then suggestions next to it of what I should read for each. It's what made it very easy for me to organize what I wanted to read next and give myself a few options that would count. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	doingthemost 2018-04-08 02:31 pm UTC (link)
	awesome, thank you! yeah, i was planning on writing the suggestions down somewhere, if not a google sheet then in my text app. My bingo is here :) (Reply to this) (Parent)