{"id":917,"date":"2012-09-26T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T08:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=917"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:36:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:36:11","slug":"be-reading-more-diverse-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=917","title":{"rendered":"Be Reading: A More Diverse Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-JtLtznT_XOI\/UGC4QgTn0qI\/AAAAAAAAC08\/uEdfTQdKVnE\/s1600\/A%2BMore%2BDiverse%2BUniverse.jpg\" target=_blank title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/AMoreDiverseUniverse-2.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" \/><\/a>In case you missed it, we had a lovely read through THORN this week for our <a href=\"writingya.blogspot.com\/2012\/09\/a-more-diverse-universe-thorn-by.html\" target= _blank>Diverse Universe<\/a> reading tour post. Other notable bloggers have reviewed LUCRETIA AND THE KROOMS <a href=\"https:\/\/untitledunited.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/23\/a-more-diverse-universe\/\" target= _blank>by Victor LaValle<\/a>, SO LONG BEEN <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buriedinprint.com\/?p=8259\" target= _blank>DREAMING<\/a>, edited by Nalo Hopkinson, <a href=\"https:\/\/sonomalass.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/25\/a-more-diverse-universe-my-contribution\/\" target= _blank>THE STEAMPOWERED<\/a> GLOBE, edited by Rosemary Lim, which features Singaporean writers, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ragingbibliomania.net\/2012\/09\/a-more-diverse-universe-green-grass.html\" target= _blank>Thomas King&#8217;s GREEN<\/a> GRASS, RUNNING WATER. Our very own Charlotte from CHARLOTTE&#8217;S LIBRARY (who gave us the heads-up on this whole gig) is posting later today on Virginia Hamilton&#8217;s 1989 1978 <a href=\"http:\/\/charlotteslibrary.blogspot.com\/2012\/09\/justice-and-her-brothers-by-virginia.html\" target= _blank><i>JUSTICE AND HER BROTHERS<\/i><\/a>, which she believes just might be the very first spec fiction novel published in the US with an African American girl as the main character. (I&#8217;m a little chagrined that I&#8217;d never heard of this book before today!)<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s SO much to read and peruse in the list over at The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aartichapati.com\/2012\/09\/a-more-diverse-universe-schedule.html\" target= _blank>Booklust Blog.<\/a> Please don&#8217;t miss it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, we had a lovely read through THORN this week for our Diverse Universe reading tour post. Other notable bloggers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,18,27,17],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ethnicity-and-ya-literature","tag-happenings","tag-what-we-do","tag-who-we-are"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7258,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/7258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}