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Engelbrecht
Posted 2014-05-31 11:30 PM (#7866 - in reply to #7862)
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I've had a pretty good month with 12 books read.

Overall I've read 44 challenge book YTD (and 48 total), with 3 books still missing from the db (I need to get busy!).  98 of 222 challenge slots have been filled, representing 5.3 months worth, so things are looking good.

Challenge Status:
  • 12 Awards 4/12
  • Masterworks 4/12
  • Short Fiction 12/12
  • Authors of Color 2/12
  • Women of Genre 12/12
  • Pick and Mix (lists) 7/12
  • Read the Sequel 6/12
  • Young Adult 0/12
  • Creature Feature 6/6
  • End of the World 4/12
  • Fantasia 7/12
  • In Translation 6/12
  • Mythopoeic 1/12
  • The 35 11/35
  • Guardian 1/7
  • Trilogies 6/9
  • Second Best 5/12
  • Bucket List 4/9
May Challenge books:
  • Range of Ghosts / Shattered Pillars / Steles of the Sky by Elizabeth Bear (2012/3/4) (8/10)  Well done epic fantasy trilogy.  The ending was a bit chaotic & untidy, but still satisfying.
  • That Book Your Mad Ancestor Wrote by J. K. Bishop (2013) (8/10)  A collection that's a mixed bag, but the good pieces compare favorably to her wonderful The Etched City.
  • Kindred by Octavia E.Butler (1979) (8/10)  Powerful and unsettling.
  • The Nightingale by Kara Dalkey (1988) (7/10)  Underwhelming.  Could have been better.
  • Tyrannia and other Renditions (2013) (8/10)  Strong collection by a guy who takes his fictive weirdness seriously!
  • Questionable Practices by Eileen Gunn (2013) (8/10)  Another strong collection - some excellent stories, and some so-so ones.
  • Impossible Monsters edited by Kasey Lansdale (2013) (6/10)  It really felt like she was riding her dad's coattails on this one.  Most of the stories were weak to so-so.
  • The Mummy!  A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century by Jane Webb Loudon (1827) (4/10)  I badly wanted to like this one - it could have been one of the greats in the history of SF, being the ur-mummy book combined with SF speculation, written on the heels of Shelley's Frankenstein, but it was SO badly written.
  • How the World Became Quiet by Rachel Swirsky (2013) (7/10)  An OK collection that started off well, but the lack of subsequent tentpole stories was keenly felt.
Also read in May:
  • The Year of the Ladybird by Graham Joyce (2013) (9/10)  A typical Joyce - fantastic characters and sense of place, but the fantastical elements don't quite hold up their end.

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