Since I'm not on booktube (too shy for the time being), I'm posting my July's Authorathon here.

This will be a dual challenge:

1st challenge will be 4 books written by Cypriot authors
2nd challenge will be the actual authorathon containing 2 of the 4 Cypriot books.

2 books will belong to both challenges
2 books will belong to the first challenge only, and the rest
4 books will belong to the second challenge only

Cypriot Authors Challenge x)
1) Στραβοτιμονιές (Life's Swerves) A collection of seven short stories about families, children, food and life in general.

2) Δέκα Ορφανά Παραμύθια (Ten Orphaned Fairy Tales) A collection of 10 fairy tales that are interconnected with each other (that's what I think)

July's Authorathon x]

3) and 1] Read a debut author (2015 or 2016):
Η Αϊσέ πάει διακοπές (Ayşe goes on holidays) A book published in 2015 by debut author Constantia Sotiriou. It is about the saturated theme of Turkey's invasion in Cyprus in 1974. Hope this book takes a different / original approach.

4) and 2] Read a new-to-you author:
Ανάμεσα σε δυο ποτάμια: (Between Two Rivers) a book about the hardships of mountainous people in Cyprus in the 1930's. The interesting thing is that the dialogues are in Cypriot Greek, a pretty rare thing to find in novels, even by Cypriot writers.

3] Read a book by a favourite author:
The Dark Half What a surprise! My 20th Stephen King book.

4] Give an author a second chance:
Pride and Prejudice
Can't stand Jane Austen, honestly, especially romance in general. That's the second and last change I'm giving her! I studied this book at university, but never actually read it from cover to cover.

5] Read a book written by more than one author:
Grimm's Fairy Tales Collected by 2 brothers. Tales created from lots of people over the centuries = that means more than 2 authors. Not a fan of fairy tales but. . .

6] Read a book from an author who is from a different continent than you are:
Since I'm from Cyprus, a country that geographically belongs to Asia, and politically and culturally belongs to Europe, I can't choose books from either Europe or Asia, so it's South America for me and Gabriel García Marqués' Greek edition of the Love in the Time of Cholera Ο έρωτας στα χρόνια της χολέρας. Read his other book (One Hundred Years of Solitude), really liked it and it's part of my top 20 books.

So, that's it. I'm beginning this challenge on the 1st of July and everybody's welcome to do it.