Olduvai's Reading Challenges

Women Unbound Challenge

2009-11-02T11:24:00.000-08:00

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My pool:

Fiction

The Female Man by Joanna Russ

Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

The Scent of the Gods by Fiona Cheong

Then She Found Me by Elinor Lipman

Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin

Evelina by Frances Burney

The Painter from Shanghai by Jennifer Cody Epstein

Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min

Non-fiction

Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures by Kyoko Mori

Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture by Katy Peiss

Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body by Courtney E. Martin

The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf

Hungry: A Mother and Daughter Fight Anorexia by Sheila and Lisa Himmel

Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over by Geraldine Brooks (from Eva's list)

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places by Le Ly Hayslip (from Eva's list)

Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog (Vasilly's list)

Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelous (Eva's list)

Amended to add:
(4 Nov 2009)
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriguez
Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories by Betsy Lerner

Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man by Dale Petersen
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: A Memoir By Elizabeth McCracken

(The Challenge Page)

Sci-Fi Challenge

2009-09-18T09:27:00.000-07:00

1. The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (read 29 September 2009)
2. The Children of Men by P.D. James (read 10 October 2009)
3. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (read 5 November 2009)
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The Pool:
The Children of Men - P.D. James
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, Book 1)- Naomi Novik
Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
Passage - Connie Willis
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?- Philip K. Dick
Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
The Female Man - Joanna Russ
The Other End of Time - Frederik Pohl
The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury
The Telling - Ursula K Le Guin
Woman on the Edge of Time - Marge Piercy
Fledgling - Octavia Butler

(The Challenge Page)

RIP IV Challenge

2009-09-18T09:25:00.000-07:00

1. Affinity by Sarah Waters (completed 31 August 2009)
2. The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan (completed 8 September 2009)
3. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (completed 11 September 2009)
4. The Collector of Hearts by Joyce Carol Oates (completed 17 September 2009)
5. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (completed 28 September 2009).

The rest of the pool
The Stand by Stephen King
The Ghost in Love by Jonathan Carroll
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton

(RIP IV reviews page)