Women’s History Month Reading Challenge is hosted by Margaret @ Weird Zeal. I am not participating in the actual reading challenge, but Margaret has also come up with a prompt for each Monday in March, and I will be doing those!
- 3/4/19 – Female Characters That Inspire Me
- 3/11/19 – Books with Women on the Cover
- 3/18/19 – Female Authors
- 3/25/18 – #ownvoices books about diverse women
I learned something new today!
#ownvoices is used to signify a book in which diverse characters are written by authors of that same identity. Author Corinne Duyvis created it in 2015 and it’s stuck.
Sadly, I have read very few books that fall into the #OwnVoices category, but the few I have read I loved!
Pride by Ibi Zoboi
Pride is an amazing retelling of Pride and Prejudice, set in modern day Brooklyn. The main character, Zuri is Afro-Latino, and while she has the same basic personality traits of Elizabeth, she is definitely her own person, and I loved it!
See my review here. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Heroine Complex by Sarah Kuhn
Heroine Complex is one of my favorite books! Its about Asian/American best friends Evie and Aveda. Aveda is a superheroine and Evie is her assistant, but Evie has her own secrets she is trying to protect, while still managing Aveda’s career. Its a great book!
See my review here. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue is about a bisexual male and Mackenzi Lee is a bisexual female, but I think it still counts for #OwnVoices (plus there are bisexual females in the sequel!) I loved TGGTVAV! Its about Monty and Percy’s guided tour through Europe and their struggles along the way as they learn about themselves and their relationship!
See my review here. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Such great books! I love Pride and, obviously, Gentleman’s Guide, and I’m really interested in reading Heroine Complex! Thanks so much for joining in with all these prompts this month! ❤
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Thanks for hosting the challenge! I really liked all the prompts you chose 🙂 And hope you enjoy Heroine Complex if you get to it!
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What a great idea.
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It was all Margret @ Weird Zeal! But it was a lot of fun 🙂
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I’m glad to see Pride on your list. I just started the audiobook for it on my way home from work this afternoon and am really loving it so far.
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I’m glad you are enjoying it so far! I liked it a lot 😀
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I’m looking forward to reading Heroine Complex. I don’t know if my favorites for this “officially” count as #ownvoices since they were written way before 2015, but among them is The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston.
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Oooh I hope you love Heroine Complex ❤ And I don't think date has anything to do with the classification! I think if its a diverse character written by a diverse author it counts!
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Thanks, I’m looking forward to it!
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I really enjoyed Pride, I love Ibi Zonboi’s writing, and Heroine Complex sounds like such a fun read!
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I’m glad you liked Pride too! And its amazing!! ❤
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TGGTVAV is on my list!!
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Haha that acronym is almost as ridiculous as the title itself 😂😂 I hope you love it!!
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Hahahahaha. Well thank goodness for copy and paste so I could ‘borrow’ the acronym 😉😄
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