Update on the My Jamaican Vignettes 2024 Reading Challenge
Welcome back to My Jamaican Vignettes. I missed last week but this week is all about an update on my progress doing the My Jamaican 2024 Vignettes Reading Challenge on the Storygraph app.
The challenge was first shared on the blog in December 2023 and we launched on 1 January 2024. So how far along are we? Well, according to Storygraph, I have completed only 42% of the challenge by reading five out of 12 books.
The My Jamaican Vignettes 2024 Reading Challenge
So what I have read so far?
Let’s do a quick recap:
Read a 2024 debut – I read The Mayor Maxwell Street by Avery Cunningham. It was an ambitious debut but the central relationship was just too toxic for the book to be truly enjoyable for me.
Read a book that the author self-published – I read my first Callie Browning book and loved it. The Vanishing Girls is set in Barbados in the 1980s and is a murder mystery. Callie Browning gained a fan, I have copies of her other books, The Girl With the Hazel Eyes and The Secrets of Catspraddle Village on my Kindle.
Read a book set in country you’d like to visit – I read Chanel Cleeton’s novella A Night At The Tropicana which is partially set in Havana, Cuba.
Read a book by an author you’ve met – I read Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn. I met Nicole, briefly at an author event a Bookophilia when her debut was being promoted, she signed my copy of Here Comes The Sun.
Read a book that based on title or summary should be adapted for TV or film – Maybe I cheated with this one because while the title didn’t jump out at me, the premise is interesting. I made up my mind about this one after I completed the book. But the Otherside Heat series by Whitney White could be made into a series.
What’s Next in the My Jamaican Vignettes 2024 Challenge?
So I need to read seven more books by the end of the year and I think I can accomplish this. But here is what I will promise. I will do an end of the year recap post or a follow up post to this one to share where I end up in December 2024.
It feels like it is too late to invite you to join the challenge so I will ask this: did you set any reading challenges at the start of 2024? Have you met them?
Until next Sunday, happy reading!
Chantel DaCosta
Chantel DaCosta is a storyteller, editor and lifestyle blogger. She is passionate about mental health awareness and Jamaican women's own-voices stories.
