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| A companion to the "Second Best" challenge, read 12 award winning novels of 12 different awards in the year of 2014, and review 6! |
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| As of end of February I have completed 2/12, which puts me on schedule if I keep up the pace:
Nebula: Greg Bear - Moving Mars
Locus YA: Neil Gaiman - Coraline
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| Cool! I've seen the Coraline movie, but I haven't gotten around to reading the book yet. I'm a bit behind, but I'm hoping to catch up in March. I finished my Nebula (The Quantum Rose by Catherine Asaro) just recently, and am almost finished reading Christopher Priest's The Islanders. |
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| Coraline is good. Very Neil Gaiman. I'm working my way towards 'The Quantum Rose', just finished 'The Radiant Seas' so two more to go. |
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| I've got three of my twelve complete at this point:
Locus YA: Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi. (I keep trying to get my kids to ask for his Zombie Baseball Beatdown. May just have to buck up and buy it for myself.)
Mythopoeic: Little, Big by John Crowley.
Locus SF: Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm.
I've got Baxter's The Time Ships (PKD Winner) up on the block next, but I may take a break for a couple weeks and read another genre. The Phryne Fisher mysteries have been calling me.
Edited by EricLandes 2014-03-01 6:13 PM
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Location: UK | I almost started The Time Ships myself a week or so back. It just didn't seem quite right for my mood, and it's one of the longer books on my list, so I put it off. I'm planning to count it for the PKD too. |
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| I quite liked The Time Ships, though I read it too early for this challenge. I'm on schedule with 11/12 right now. My last one is going to be Locus YA: The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two, by Catherynne M. Valente.
It looks like a lot of people have completed the challenge: DrNefario, dustydigger, justifiedsinner, Rhondak101, and spoltz. There's also a lot of people who are close (like me!). Good luck to us all in finishing up before the end of December! |
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Location: CA | Challenges are great but this one made me read The Doomsday Book which I didn't enjoy having to endure. |
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| I'm sorry  . I hope you also read some books you enjoyed! |
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Location: UK | Will you be repeating the challenge? I found it fascinating,as mostly it fit my agenda of reading award winning SF,but at the same time made me stretch out to some of the smaller awards and more fantasy and horrornot normally my sort of thing. |
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| Congratulations to everyone who finished! It looks like justifiedsinner is hosting this challenge for 2015, so it will be continuing  . |
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| I didn't mean to pre-empt you. I didn't know if you wanted to continue it this year. Sorry. |
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| No worries, I don't mind! |
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| Thanks for posting a new version of this challenge! I pretty much finished all my other challenges in 2014, but didn't really get started on this one. |
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12 Awards in 12 Months