Wednesday 4 January 2017

Fantastically Diverse Read-A-Thon

This challenge is being hosted by Uma who blogs over at Books. Bags. Burgers and you can sign up for it here
The diversity discussion is always ongoing. To sum it up: we've got a lack of diversity. I'm personally not bothered if an author has an all white, all straight cast. I'm more bothered by the fact that the publishing industry is still not publishing enough POC, LGBT and other folks. I hope that at some point in the future, we no longer have to discuss this topic, because literature will be diverse by default. 
This is Uma's first Read-A-Thon and I really hope I'll find the time to participate. I'm being optimistic at the moment and signing up. It'll run from 5th January 2017 to 1st March 2017.

I'll be attempting to read one book in each category.
I feel like maybe I'm pushing it by putting a Neil Gaiman book onto the list, but I've been meaning to read this one forever and it includes diverse mythology, so I'm giving it a try.

6 comments:

  1. Oh yay Olivia!! :) I'll be reading The Ghost Bride too <3 Love your TBR! Thanks for joining in!

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    1. I hope I'll manage to squeeze those books in. I'm currently reading too many again. It was 2017 and I just stumbled over 3 books and started reading all 3, instead of one after the other. I always do that! Then get confused haha!

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  2. Nice TBR Olivia! We'll be reading Six of Crows for this read-a-thon as well. :)
    ~ Pendragons 

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  3. Yay! Glad you've joined up too! Looks likea few of us will be reading Six of Crows. Have you read The Grisha trilogy yet? I haven't!! I'm not sure if I can dive straight into Six of Crows or not??

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    1. From what I've seen it doesn't matter which one you read first. The author says on Goodreads: Six of Crows was built for people who have never read the Grisha Trilogy.

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