Here is my tracker for my Don’t Get Stuck in a Genre Rut . I joined @diversifyyourreading and her Diversify Your Reading Challenge 2021. I hope these choices below give you some great options you may want to check out that you normally wouldn’t choose from. Have fun and join us with #dyrc21 !
Literary Fiction
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Literary, Women’s Fiction, Dark Academia
Vanessa is a naive and lonely girl, attending her second year at boarding school. Her mother hopes she will finally makes some friends. That year instead of making friends, she finds herself the unwitting victim to an ugly predator, her 42 year old English professor. Groomed to believe that their “relationship” is a love affair, that they were destined to be together. When 20 years later he is accused of victimizing other girls, Vanessa remembers back to that year when she was 15, and how those actions have molded the rest of her life.
See full review here: Book Review – My Dark Vanessa
Memoir
Accidental Activist: Justice for the Groveland Four by Josh Venkataraman
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Non-Fiction, Memoir
Josh is a college student at the University of Florida, as part of his American History class they are assigned to read Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King, learning of the gross injustice done to the Groveland Four. A year later, as he was driving, he passed a sign for Groveland. That moment sparked a conviction to do everything he could to right this wrong.
Josh starts his mission, like everyone does, with an online petition. But he doesn’t call that good enough. He reaches out to the family members of the Groveland four and Gilbert King, working together to get media attention, and support of politicians and law makers. It took four long years of dedication and much hard work but together they managed to accomplish what Josh set up out do. Justice.
See full review here: Book Review – Accidental Activist
Historical Fiction
Duchess If You Dare by Anabelle Bryant
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Historical Fiction, Regency Romance
Scarlett is a member of the Maidens of Mayhem, a group of women who fight to protect other women in a society ruled by men. When her seamstress suddenly goes missing, she knows that foul play must be involved. While investigating, the clues bring her to an upscale brothel, aimed at the wealthier men of status. Inside Scarlett discovers that several of the girls have gone missing recently. Ambrose, Duke of Aylesford, is investigating the very same brothel. They discover that they’re both investigating the same disappearances and come to the conclusion that they need to work together in order to solve this mystery.
See full review here: Book Review – Duchess If You Dare
Classics
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Classic, Middle Grade, Science Fiction
Meg, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin are visited by three mysterious women, Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who and Mrs Which. They have come to help the children retrieve their father who went missing. A scientist who works on classified experiments for the government was on assignment when all communications with his family stopped.
“A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points” rather a tesseract, or creating a wrinkle in the fabric of space, is. The children must tesser to another planet in order to save their father, and the universe, from The Darkness.
See full review here: 38/100 Books to read in a Lifetime