BrownGirl's 75 book challenge 2010

I'm giving it a go again and maybe I'll actually make my goal this time. It's always fun trying.

I'm hosting a reading challenge at my book blog this year- African Diaspora Reading Challenge. Non-bloggers are welcome to participate. You can link your LT reviews in the link widget on my blog.

Other blog hosted challenges I'm participating in:
Women Unbound
Black Classics Challenge
GLBT Reading Challenge
South Asian Author Challenge
Social Justice Challenge
POC Reading Challenge

Glad to see you back for another year!

Hi browngirl! I'm glad to see you back with us in 2010, too. I'll definitely participate in the African Diaspora Reading Challenge, and I'll almost certainly join the South Asian Author Challenge. I'll post info on both blogs shortly. Thanks for sharing that information!

You're welcome. I hope you enjoy the challenges.

Hi browngirl--I will definitely be following the African Diaspora Reading Challenge--I want to read more African/South American/Caribbean books this year. Thank you for the list of suggestions on your blog.

Welcome back!

1. Monkfish Moon by Romesh Gunesekera


My review is here.

#7: Looks intriguing. Nice review as usual. Thanks for the recommendation.

That one does sound interesting. Have you read any of Roma Tearne's books, browngirl? I read Brixton Beach last year, which was also set in Sri Lanka and London, and I'll probably read Mosquito and/or Bone China this year.

Thanks alcottacre!

Kidzdoc, I have not read her books, but I just added all three to my tbr. Brixton Beach isn't published in the U.S. so I guess I'll have to get it from The Book Depository or hope it's released domestically. All three sound great and I want to read more about the Sinhalese and Tamil civil war.

2. Meet Me Under the Ceiba by Silvio Sirias


My review is here.

> book #2 looks very intriguing! i will be following your reading challenges along the year -- your list is a promising source of new authors to watch and themes to explore!

Nice review again, browngirl. I am with deebee - I will be looking at your list again this year for new authors to watch.

Nice review...and this looks like an interesting book! I'll add this to my wish list.

3. Sugar by Bernice L. McFadden


My review is here.

#15: That one looks like a very powerful book. My local library has both Sugar and its follow up This Bitter Earth so I will be looking for them both. Thanks for the review!

Thanks for stopping everyone. I think you'll all enjoy the 3 books I've read so far immensely. I've gotten lucky starting with some fantastic reads for 2010. Some upcoming reads are Wench: A Novel, The Calligrapher's Daughter, and Searching For Whitopia. Oh, and Daughters of the Stone for a reading group discussion in February.

Great review of Sugar--it looks like a compelling read.

4. Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington

My review is here.

#19: I need to read that one. Thanks for the recommendation.

5. Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez


My review is here.

Wench sounds fascinating. From your review, it appears that Tatawa (not sure if I've carried that over correctly from your review) was a real place. Is that true?

#21: I have already checked, and Wench is not available at my local library yet. I cannot wait until they get that one.

#22 ABW, yes, Tawawa House was a real resort that was eventually sold to the AME church and became part of Wilberforce University- the oldest, private HBCU. How ironic!

#23 alcottacre, I hope they get it in soon. I think you'll enjoy it.

6. Black No More by George S. Schuyler



My review is here.

#25: I have got to read that one. Great review browngirl!

That's definitely going on the wish list. Thanks, browngirl!

Thank you, thank you! It's really good. I hate I waited so long to read Black No More.

7. Page From a Tennessee Journal by Francine Thomas Howard


My review is here.

#29: Another very nice review! I am adding yet another book from your thread to the BlackHole.

Yay! Glad I could help. ;)

8. There Is Confusion by Jessie Redmon Fauset
Review

9. The Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes

10. The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta
Review

11. Me Dying Trial by Patricia Powell
Review

#32: Nice reviews once again, browngirl. I am adding There is Confusion and Me Dying Trial to the BlackHole. Thanks for the recommendations.

Thanks for stopping by alcottacre!

#34: Have you read anything else by Emecheta? If so, what would you recommend? I read The Joys of Motherhood a couple of years ago.

12. Shine, Coconut Moon by Neesha Meminger



REVIEW

@alcottacre, I haven't read anymore by Emecheta. I do have The Slave Girl and have heard Second-Class Citizen is good as well.

#37: OK, thanks!

Emecheta herself has had a very interesting and inspiring life.

13. Ar'n't I a Woman? by Deborah Gray White


REVIEW

14. A Wish After Midnight by Zetta Elliott


REVIEW

#40: I am especially interested in the Deborah Gray White book. I also note that she wrote another book along the same lines, Too heavy a load: Black women in defense of themselves, 1894-1994. Do you know anything about that one?

Nice reviews as usual, BrownGirl!

Oh. my. Another book blog to read! The 75 book challenge is really expanding the length of my TBR list. (It's not a pile, it wouldn't fit in the house.) Thanks for posting here BrownGirl.

#41: That title sounds vaguely familiar so I'll have to look into that one. And thank you.

#42: Thank you and yes, I have a tbr "abyss". :P

15. The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi Durrow
My review is here. Loved it!

16. Searching For Tina Turner by Jacqueline E. Luckett
My review is here. It was meh.

#44: The Girl Who Fell from the Sky looks very good and I am adding it to the BlackHole. Too bad about the other book.

Sorry LT chums for disappearing for so long. I'm a student again and I've been in it! I have been pleasure reading though, so here it is...

17. Beyond the Gardens by Sandra C. Lopez
18. Girl In Translation by Jean Kwok
19. Moonshine:A Novel by Alaya Dawn Johnson
20. When We Were One by Zaji
21. Corruption by Tahar Ben Jelloun
22. Glorious by Bernice L. McFadden
23. Bernardo and the Virgin by Silvio Sirias
24. Overcoming Speechlessness by Alice Walker
25. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
26. Bird by Angela Johnson

Of course you can find reviews to most of these on my book blog.

Also, I'm having a mini read-a-thon on Saturday, July 10 for those participating in my African Diaspora Reading challenge.

#46: I was wondering the other day where you were. Glad to see you back!

Good to see you back, browngirl! I'll have to check out these reviews.

Liked your review of The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, I will have to check it out!

Thanks everyone! I feel like a naughty thingamabrarian for being so absent lately. I gotta get more organized.

Here's what I've been reading...

27. The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wiives by Lola Shoneyin

28. No Sweetness Here by Ama Ata Aidoo

29. His Own Where by June Jordan

30. Color Blind:A Memoir by Precious Williams

31. Tattoos on the Heart by Gregory Boyle

My one year book blogoversary is next week, so come by Monday, July 26 to see what kinda goodies I might have for grabs. ;)

Congratulations on the blogoversary!