{"id":1549,"date":"2009-08-16T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:31:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:31:25","slug":"color-me-brown-book-challenge-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1549","title":{"rendered":"Color Me Brown Book Challenge Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, we posted<\/a> a link to the Color Me Brown Book Challenge<\/a> at Color Online, and I’ve definitely had the challenge in my mind ever since. And finally, after getting to the end of a rather long book I’d borrowed from my mother-in-law and had to finish up (Ursula LeGuin’s Lavinia<\/i>–highly recommended), I started thinking about the challenge again.<\/p>\n

The first thought that crossed my mind was, Wow, the library hasn’t notified me yet about the two books I put on hold, Skunk Girl<\/i> and 1001 Cranes<\/i>. It’s been at least two weeks. I think this is actually a good thing, if it means more people are reading and demanding books by authors of color (in this case, Asian-American authors) in my area. But even though the books I’d requested weren’t in yet, I decided to go to the library anyway and see what I could find in terms of YA books by people of color. (And, yeah, yeah, I had books due!)<\/p>\n

\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370687475156968962\"<\/a>I’ve ended up with a list of one purchased book and five great library books that I’m looking forward very much to reading over the next couple of weeks, not that there’s ever a bad time to read fiction by POC here at Finding Wonderland, as you all know. The book I purchased is particularly special, since it happens to be Mare’s War<\/a> by Ms. Tanita S. Davis herself. I’m actually almost done with it already, and as with A La Carte<\/i>, I’m fascinated by the changes that took place between the draft manuscript when I last saw it and the final product. The other books on my TBR pile are:<\/p>\n