About Amy Hello, I'm Amy, an aspiring motorsports writer and former blogger. If you dig deeper enough, you find some very old blog posts, as this started as a book blog, but that's really where I got my start in writing: book reviews, hot book topics and as well as the odd personal essay. After leaving university, I left the book blog behind, but continued writing and going in the world of social media, writing film reviews and promoting queer cinema, but after a tragic event in my personal life, I quickly discovered Motorsports. What started as a love for Formula 1, while finally watching the Formula 1 film, Rush, and discovering Formula 1 TikTok, this love soon expanded to everything Formula E, IndyCar, Formula 2, Formula 3, as well as F1 Academy. I soon found the itch to write come back, with the fast-moving news of motorsport, to the drama, the competition, and the journey of drivers trying to find a race seat. I found that it was the people and storie...
To continue with my aim of reading diversely, I decided at the beginning of the year that I was going to do the Diversity Bingo Challenge. The idea of this being to read 36 books and complete the bingo-like sheet with the aim being to read as much diverse fiction as possible. Like a lot of people in the bookish community, I wanted to continue reading more diverse books and thought this would be the way to do it. This post is to update myself and others on my progress in this challenge so if you are looking for recommendations in what to read please look here, here, here and here. So let's get started...
Romance with a trans MC:
Non-binary MC (own voices):
SFF w/disabled MC:
Jewish MC: The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli
Indian MC (own voices):
Displaced MC: The Jungle by Pooja Puri
MC with an under-represented body: Panther by David Owen
Neuro-diverse MC (own voices): The State of Grace by Rachael Lucas
Re-telling with MC belonging to LGBTQIA+:Bisexual MC (own voices): Our Own Private Universe by Robin Talley (maybe not own voices)
MC with an invisible disability: The Unlikely Hero of 13B by Teresa Toten
MC with an anaphylactic allergy:
MC of color in SFF: Welcome Back Volume 1 by Christopher Sebela
Latinx MC (Own voices): Aristotle and Dante Discover The Secrets of The Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenez
Free choice: Giant Days Volume 1 by John Allison
Non-Western (real world) setting: A City of Saint and Thieves by Natalie C. Anderson
Own voices: Release by Patrick Ness
MC with chronic pain: West Asian Setting:
Arab MC (own voices):
MC w/ wheelchair:
Book by author of colour: We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Biracial MC (own voices): A Change Is Gonna Come by Various Authors: Hackey Moon by Tanya Byrne
Pansexual MC (own voices):
Black MC (own voices): Coming Of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody MC on the ace spectrum (own voices):
LGBTQIA+ MC of colour: America #1 by Gabby Rivera
Visually impaired MC:
Book set in Central America:
Contemporary world arranged marriage:
Indigenous MC (own voices):
Diverse non-fiction: I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition) by Malala Yousafzai
POC on the cover: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
D/deaf/hard of hearing MC: A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara Barnard
Immigrant or refugee MC: We Come Apart by Sarah Crossan and Brain Conaghan
Hijabi MC (own voices):
Are you taking part in Diversity Bingo? If so, what are you reading?
See you soon,
Amy
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