Diversity Rocks Reading Challenge

***Yeah! I made it!***

Dates: January 1st through February 28th of 2009 (?)

Host: Ali

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The challenge (put simply): There are several options. I'm choosing The Non-Joiner level, reading one book by a non-white author.

My list of possibles:

*In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom by Qanta A. Ahmed, MD

*Fledgling by Octavia Butler

*Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers edited by Shyam Selvadurai

*The Jaguar Smile by Salman Rushdie

*Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino

*The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

Sci-Fi Experience '09

Dates: January 1st through February 28th of 2009

Host: Carl

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The Challenge (put simply): It's NOT a challenge! Just read as much or as little Sci-Fi as you'd like.

My list of possible reads (hoping to read at least three of them):

*The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge by Harry Harrison

*The Chrysalids by John Wyndham

*Larklight by Philip Reeve

*The Digital Plague by Jeff Somers

*Heads by Greg Bear

*Germ by Robert Liparulo

*Jennifer Government by Max Barry

*Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card

*The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Short Stories:

*"The Father Thing" by Philip K. Dick

*"Orange" by Neil Gaiman (from The Starry Rift edited by Jonathan Strahan)

*"Ass-Hat Magic Spider" by Scott Westerfeld (from The Starry Rift edited by Jonathan Strahan)

*"The Menace From Earth" by Robert Heinlein

*"The Home Team" by Greg Wickenhofer

*"Summer All in a Day" by Ray Bradbury

*"Cheats" by Ann Halam (from The Starry Rift edited by Jonathan Strahan)

*"The Fluted Girl" by Paolo Bacigulupi

*"The Surfer" by Kelly Link (from The Starry Rift edited by Jonathan Strahan)--read, but didn't review