{"id":1459,"date":"2009-06-19T12:05:46","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T11:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2009-06-19T12:05:46","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T11:05:46","slug":"diversity-in-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1459","title":{"rendered":"Diversity in reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a couple of months, I&#8217;ve decided to pick up the challenge of my American cyber buddy Dana Huff, an English teacher, who blogged about a meme called &#8220;Diversity in reading&#8221; &#8211; see her posting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danahuff.net\/?p=994\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nSo to answer the questions about my recent reading:<br \/>\n<b>1.  Name the last book by a female author that you\u2019ve read.<\/b><br \/>\n&#8220;The Believers&#8221; by Zoe Heller [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#Believers\">here<\/a>]<br \/>\n<b>2. Name the last book by an African or African-American author that you\u2019ve read.<\/b><br \/>\n&#8220;Dreams From My Father&#8221;  [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/biographies.html#DFMF\">here<\/a>] and &#8220;The Audacity Of Hope&#8221;  [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/currentaffairs.html#TAOH\">here<\/a>] by Barack Obama<br \/>\n<b>3. Name one from a Latino\/a author.<\/b><br \/>\n&#8220;My Life&#8221; by Fidel Castro [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/biographies.html#ML\">here<\/a>] and \u201cLife Of Pi\u201d by Yann Martel  [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#Pi\">here<\/a>]<br \/>\n<b>4. How about one from an Asian country or Asian-American?<\/b><br \/>\n&#8220;The Kite Runner&#8221; [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#TKR\">here<\/a>] and &#8220;A Thousand Splendid Suns&#8221; [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#TSS\">here<\/a>] by Khaled Hosseini<br \/>\n<b>5. What about a GLBT writer?<\/b><br \/>\nSorry &#8211; nothing here<br \/>\n<b> 6. Why not name an Israeli\/Arab\/Turk\/Persian writer, if you\u2019re feeling lucky?<\/b><br \/>\n\u201cThe Almond\u201d [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#Almond\">here<\/a>] by Nedjma (Moroccan) and \u201dA Woman In Jerusalem\u201d [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#Woman\">here<\/a>] by A.B. Yehoshua (Israeli)<br \/>\n<b>7. Any other \u201cmarginalized\u201d authors you\u2019ve read lately?<\/b><br \/>\n&#8220;The Reader&#8221; [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#Reader\">here<\/a>] by Bernhard Schlink (German), \u201cSophie\u2019s World&#8221; [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#Sophie%27s%20World\">here<\/a>] by Jostein Gaarder (Norwegian),  \u201cOne Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich\u201d [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#OD\">here<\/a>] by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Russian),  \u201cLife &#038; Times Of Michael K\u201d [my review <a href=\"\u201cLife &#038; Times Of Michael K\u201d by J.M. Coetzee \">here<\/a>] by J.M. Coetzee  (South African), &#8220;Slumdog Millionaire&#8221; [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#SM\">here<\/a>] by Vikas Swarup (Indian), \u201cThe Sorrow Of War&#8221; [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#TSOW\">here<\/a>] by Bao Ninh (Vietnamese)<br \/>\nSo how about you? How diverse is your reading?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a couple of months, I&#8217;ve decided to pick up the challenge of my American cyber buddy Dana Huff, an English teacher, who blogged about a meme called &#8220;Diversity in reading&#8221; &#8211; see her posting here. So to answer the questions about my recent reading: 1. 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