This or That Reading Challenge discussion

This: A book that has won an award
Or
That: A book with a protagonist who has a physical disability.

I chose THIS and read The Last Battle (The Chronicles of Narnia, #7). This audiobook, narrated by Patrick Stewart, won the 2005 Audie Award for Faith-Based Fiction and Nonfiction.

For this month I did This AND That. :)
For This: A book that has won an award I read Now in November by Josephine Johnson, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1935 (Johnson is the youngest ever to have won the award at age 24). It takes place during the Dust Bowl, focused on a farming family struggling when nothing goes their way with the weather. While much of this story has been retold numerous times now, at the time it was written it was unique, and there were a number of themes including mental health and gender roles that still strike true to this day. I give it a 3 3/4 stars.

For That: A book with a protagonist who has a physical disability, I read Blindness by José Saramago. In a not-too-distant future an epidemic of blindness hits the world, with people getting rapidly infected. What made this book so compelling for me was the descriptions of the experience of being blind - how challenging it is in general - but more impactful was how the government and society treated their fellow citizens who were struck blind: as worse than animals. It showed a discrimination hiding just below the surface. I gave it 4 1/2 stars.

Beth wrote: "I chose THIS and read The Last Battle (The Chronicles of Narnia, #7). This audiobook, narrated by Patrick Stewart, won the 2005 Audie Award for Faith-Based Fiction and Nonfiction.

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Oh that would be an awesome audiobook! I find Patrick Stewart's voice so soothing.

I have been working on many challenges and just entering them into my Journal. I worked my way through either this or that for every month, I then found myself working through this AND that for every month.

August: This: Echo (an awesome audiobook, a must read!)
That: Out of my Heart

Karen wrote: "I have been working on many challenges and just entering them into my Journal. I worked my way through either this or that for every month, I then found myself working through this AND that for eve..."

Who is the author of Echo? I'm not familiar with it.

Pam Muñoz, it is a YA novel won the Newberry honor. A harmonica weaves three children's stories together description on Amazon "Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania and Ivy in California each, in turn, become interwoven when the very same harmonica lands in their lives." I really enjoyed it.