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What Are Your Reading In February?
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Badseedgirl
Posted 2014-02-03 11:19 AM (#6329)
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Location: Middle TN, USA		Well the Roll Your Own Challenge is in full swing and if you are anything like me, you signed up for multiple challenges and are now worried you may have bitten off more than you can chew. I signed up for five, "grand masters", "read more of that author", "YA", "One World", and" the number shall be 3", and I'm ok with that (as the sweat begins to form on my brow). So my plan for this month is to work on YA and Read more. To that end I plan on reading the following:

Currently reading:
"Drood" - Dan Simmons (Grand Master)
The House of The Scorpion - Nancy Farmer (YA)
To Read:
"Ganymede" and "Fiddlehead" - Cherie Priest (Read More) I'm also reading "Clementine" which is not listed on this site
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents - Terry Pratchett (YA and One World)
Summerland - Michael Chabon (YA)
Feed - M.T. Anderson (YA)
Salome - J Valor and S Pryce (just because)


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Rhondak101
Posted 2014-02-03 2:09 PM (#6330 - in reply to #6329)
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Location: SC, USA		I've signed up for 6 or 7 RYO challenges and am keeping myself from signing up for that many more. RYO is an evil thing because I keep thinking about how I can make a book count for several challenges.(and, yes, I do have a spreadsheet). I've decided I can't sign up for any more until I've read at least 5 books that fit the challenge. That's almost halfway, right?
On the reading horizon are
Atwood, Handmaid's Tale (The 35, Guardian, 12 and 12 for Clarke, Pick and Mix, and End of the World )
Le Guin, The Telling (The 35, Pick and Mix, 12 and 12 for Locus SF and Socialists)
Spinrad, Bug Jack Barron (The 35, Pick and Mix, Socialists, Second Best for Hugo or Nebula and maybe The End of the World).
Lagagan, Black Juice (Short Fiction)
Anderson, Midsummer Tempest (the 35 and 12 and 12 for Mythopoeic)
Charnas, Walk to the End of the World (the 35, the End of the World and Pick and Mix)

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justifiedsinner
Posted 2014-02-03 7:17 PM (#6331 - in reply to #6329)
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Currently reading Moving Mars, which fits 2 or 3 of the challenges. It's good but a bit slow going. I'm also reading it to try and finished off the Nebula winners. Currently I have 9 left.
Outside of the genre reading I try to read a play a week, this week's selection Caryl Churchill's The Skriker.
I try to read a straight "lit" book in parallel to the genre stuff. Luckily my current novel is The Master and Margarita which is in the WWE db and counts for a few of the challenges. Unfortunately that will be the last 'lit' novel like that for a while.

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pauljames
Posted 2014-02-04 5:06 AM (#6337 - in reply to #6329)
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Location: scotland		I am doing one RYO challenge. Am currently reading Hyperion by Dan Simmons. I will finish this soon and post my review. After that I have a short James Herbert horror novel to read then a mainstream novel before I plunge back into some sci-fi with Babel 17.
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HRO
Posted 2014-02-04 5:57 AM (#6340 - in reply to #6329)
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Location: Neither here...nor there		I'm participating in 16 challenges. (Um, yeah. 16. Fortunately there's a lot of crossover so the numbers of books needed isn't too unmanageable. )

For this month, I've nearly finished Winterlong by Elizabeth Hand (which is totally blowing my freakin' mind with it's awesomeness). Next I plan to read A Taste of Blood Wine by Freda Warrington and The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway. I haven't 100% decided on the reading plan for the rest of February.
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DrNefario
Posted 2014-02-04 6:38 AM (#6343 - in reply to #6329)
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Location: UK		At the moment, I am mostly reading things I wanted to read anyway, which I hope to cram into at least one challenge somehow.

I just finished Snuff by Terry Pratchett, which I'd had unread for too long (and I picked up the subsequent Discworld novel in Jan). Now I'm reading The Drowned World by JG Ballard, which was picked mainly for its challenginess, but is mainly serving as an SF spacer before I start another fantasy book, Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch. I haven't planned anything further ahead than that, but I want to get back to the WoGF soon.

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Switters
Posted 2014-02-04 7:03 AM (#6344 - in reply to #6343)
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I'm still working on finishing the last couple of Locus SF winners. I have 5 left, and I should finish Passage by Willis this week.

I'm only doing three challenges and they have a lot of crossover, Grand Masters, 12 Awards, and Masterworks. Working my way through Helliconia Spring by Aldiss.

Outside of genre I'm reading You Don't Know Me but You Don't Like Me by Nathan Rabin.
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Posted 2014-02-04 8:14 AM (#6346 - in reply to #6344)
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I just finished Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell, book 11 of his Sharpe's Rifles series that I started at Christmas.  That's my third read through and I enjoyed every bit of it.  I want to move on to the other books in the series that came out years later that I haven't read but the RYO is calling me.

I just picked up Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress for the WoGF and The Number of the Counting Shall be Three challenges.

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francesashton
Posted 2014-02-09 10:10 AM (#6416 - in reply to #6329)
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Location: Cheshire, England		I've just finished Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow for the RYO. Now I'm on Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld. So hitting that YA list at the moment. I'm then deciding on either Flowers for Algernon or Dhalgren for the Masterworks challenge. Probably Flowers as it's shorter!
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dustydigger
Posted 2014-02-10 8:25 AM (#6429 - in reply to #6416)
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Location: UK		Some good stuff this month;
Roger Zelazny - This Immortal
Susan Cooper - Over Sea,Under Stone,
Hayao Mizayaki - Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds
H P Lovecraft - Call of Cthulu and other stories
William Gibson - Neuromancer
Anne McCaffrey - All the Weyrs of Pern.
Neil Gaiman - Doll's House
Neil Gaiman - Dream Country
Darynda Jones - Third Grave Dead Ahead
Stephen King - Dr.Sleep

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daxxh
Posted 2014-02-10 3:19 PM (#6433 - in reply to #6329)
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Location: Great Lakes, USA		I finished Remnant Population - Excellent book! I also read Where the Late Sweet Birds Sang - very good.

I am 1/4 of the way through Ash - that one will take a while. I am also 1/2 way through Death at SeaWorld which has nothing to do with sf/f/h.

I plan on reading The Falling Woman, Maelstrom, and/or www:Wake, unless I decide to plow through Ash or get any more library holds.

Digging out some of these books, I have discovered that I could do the WoGF Challenge twice. I didn't realize I had so many women authors that I have never read in my giant TBR pile. (More like TBR bookcases.)
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Rhondak101
Posted 2014-02-10 3:44 PM (#6434 - in reply to #6329)
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Location: SC, USA		I just looked at the list I offered a few days ago. I've read one that's on the list and two that I didn't even list. I'm not a very good planner in that regard. Anyway, after reading Robinson, Le Guin and Lowry, I felt I needed something less "smart and thought-provoking," so I'm reading some pulpy planetary romances by Leigh Brackett. She really is good at it. I recommend her.
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Scott Laz
Posted 2014-02-26 6:31 PM (#6596 - in reply to #6329)
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Location: Gunnison, Colorado		Now that February is almost over....

So far this month:

Zero History by William Gibson, who manages to make fashion marketing interesting/exciting.

Jurgen by James Branch Cabell, the notorious 1919 satirical fantasy (this one should be on the banned books list, as Cabell had to go to court to defend in against indecency charges)

Gardner Dozois' 4th Annual Year's Best collection (stories from 1986) -- not as good as the first three, but great stuff from Lucius Shepard, William Gibson, Tim Powers, Howard Waldrop, Neal Shiner...

Currently reading The Death of Grass by John Christopher and listening to Thuvia, Maid of Mars by ERB.

Next up: In my read-through of old issues of Galaxy magazine, I'm up to May 1953, with stories by Simak, Sheckley, and James Gunn (who just published his most recent novel a few months ago!)
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