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What Are You Reading In June 2015
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Badseedgirl
Posted 2015-06-01 9:26 AM (#10676)
Subject: What Are You Reading In June 2015



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Location: Middle TN, USA		June means that 2015 is half way over, Are you at least half way through all your challenges? If not, do you have "A PLAN?"

This month I finish a challenge. "Read It Again, Sam" To this end I will be re-reading the following books:

On A Pale Horse - Piers Anthony
Lucifer's Hammer - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman

I also plan to finish:
Razorhurst - Justine Larbalestier (done but without review) - for Keep Calm and Read SF from Down Under
Player Piano - Vonnegut - for 50's challenge
Contagious - Scott Sigler - for Read the Sequel

In non-genre reads:
The Red Tent - Anita Diamant (Book Club)
Death of a Nag - M.C. Beaton

Plus whatever I pick up along the way. I am waiting for Exit Kingdom by Alden Bell from Amazon. I will read that in due time.
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Bormgans
Posted 2015-06-01 11:13 AM (#10677 - in reply to #10676)
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Location: Belgium		I'm planning to read:

Hunters of Dune (so far first 50 pages are quite okay actually, wasn't expecting a thing, I just wanted to read it to know how the story ends)
Range of Ghosts - Elizabeth Bear (it was on my plan for May, but it got bumped by Leviathan Wakes)
Seveneves - Neal Stephenson


if time permits one or more of the following:
Last and First Man - Stapledon
Inversion - Banks
Ancillary Sword - Leckie
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DrNefario
Posted 2015-06-01 12:52 PM (#10682 - in reply to #10676)
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Location: UK		I'm having another themed month, reading only women.

The plan so far is:
Heir of Night - Helen Lowe - Completes my Reader's Choice challenge (I'm already 2/3 of the way through this one)
The Time Traders - Andre Norton - 50s
The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison - 2014 books
Ancillary Sword - Ann Leckie - 2014 books, BSFA winner
The Lascar's Dagger - Glenda Larke - 2014 books, my random pick for the WoGF

Also probably some crime fiction, including maybe another Agatha Christie (I realised that if I read one a month, I still have five years' worth to get through).
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daxxh
Posted 2015-06-01 1:25 PM (#10683 - in reply to #10682)
Subject: Re: What Are You Reading In June 2015



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Location: Great Lakes, USA		I am almost done with The Martian Chronicles for the Read It Again and 50s Challenges.

Words of Radiance - Brandon Sanderson - 300 pages into this one. It's a long one!
Terms of Enlistment - Marko Kloos
Dark Intelligence - Neal Asher

The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
Moon of Three Rings - Andre Norton

I need to read those last two to finish up the Read It Again Sam Challenge before July.
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pizzakarin
Posted 2015-06-01 3:46 PM (#10685 - in reply to #10676)
Subject: Re: What Are You Reading In June 2015



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Location: Austin, Tx		I have the list of books that I'll be fullfilling challenges with, but not the order I'll be doing them in.

I'm in the middle of Seveneves and Player Piano, which is for the New in 2015 and the 1950s challenge respectively. I finished the New in 2014 challenge with Europe in Autumn this week, so I'm one more challenge down (only 9 to go). I think I may try to knock out a couple more for the Subgenre Challenge this month after I finish what I"m currently reading.
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Weesam
Posted 2015-06-01 4:50 PM (#10687 - in reply to #10685)
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Location: New Zealand		There are a few challenges I want to focus on this month: Sub-genre, LGBT, and Published this year. I would like to finish these by the end of the month, but still have some way to go.

8 books for Published 2015:
Cannonbridge
A Darker Shade of Magic
The Diabolical Miss Hyde
Flex
Gideon
The Just City - also for LGBT challenge
The Mechanical
Something Coming Through

6 books for Sub-genre
From Time to Time
In War Times
Just One Damned Thing After Another
No Enemy But Time
Time Traveller's Never Die
Timeline

3 books for LGBT
Death By Silver
The Last Green Tree
Smoke and Ashes


I want to kick off the 1960's challenge with:
Venus Plus X
Rogue Moon
The Stainless Steel Rat - also completes the Space Opera challenge

And I am currently reading Neverwhere which will finish off The Weirdness challenge, and Trigger Warning to finish off the Short Fiction challenge.

This will leave me with 6 challenges still on-going for July.

That will be 22 books to read in June. Should be do-able as long as I don't get sidetracked from The Plan. I read around 6 to 10 books a week.
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justifiedsinner
Posted 2015-06-02 9:28 AM (#10691 - in reply to #10676)
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Currently on "Ancillary Sword" and also the short story collection "The Bone Forest".
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dustydigger
Posted 2015-06-03 1:39 PM (#10705 - in reply to #10691)
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Location: UK		My TBR in June
Mark Clifton - Eight Keys to Eden ✔
Kate Griffin - A Madness of Angels
Melanie Rawn - Touchstone
G K Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday
Frederik Pohl - The Heechee Rendezvous
Deborah Harkness - The Book of Life
Lois Lowry - The Giver
Benedict Becka - Fated
Harry Harrison - Stainless Steel Rat ✔
Clifford D Simak - Time is the Simplest Thing

I am about 70% through the RYO challenges,with about 40 books left to read from my lists. My op was pushed forward to October,so that leaves me 4 months to read those books,so I had better get cracking! I am starting on the 1960s SF challenge with Mark Clifton's Eight Keys to Eden for 1960,and Harry Harrison's The Stainless Steel Rat for 1961. I am only doing the single challenge for the 60s,since so few books are available through the library. I will still have to buy 2 or 3 books so as to complete the challenge. Probably wont do the 70s challenge at all,since I would have to buy 8 books to complete that!
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