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, at the beginning of the year that I was going to do the Diversity Bingo Challenge. The idea was to read 36 books and complete the bingo-like sheet of diverse books. Here are the books that I read to complete the challenge. 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):
19/36 completed
I did want to read more than this and to read from more list but this didn't happen but I did read more than one book from these categories.
Are you taking part in Diversity Bingo? If so, what are you reading?
See you soon,
Amy
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