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Uber User Posts: 794 | 6 books read this month. I've increased the reading levels on several challenges since I still have 6 months and I've added a few more too. Close to finishing a couple but progress still seems slow. Making good progress on diminishing my stack of TBRs though. Clear the Shelves 15/15 ----------------------------------- Listomania 2/3 Short Fiction 2/3 Just Have to Read More 2/3 Fantasy mini-series 2/3 Solar System 3/6 Space Opera 4/6 Read Around the World 5/8 12 in 12 5/9 Second Best 6/12 The Unloved 6/12 Literary Prizes 2/12 Somewhere Out There 10/12 Read the Sequel 8/12 Books Read:2015 24/50 Un-stack 23/25 (private) | ||
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 555 Location: Great Lakes, USA | The Long Tomorrow - Leigh Brackett: Authors, 50s, P&M. Excellent. The Enchanted - Rene Denfeld: WoGF, Unloved, Literary, P&M. Well written, but not really genre. Coming Home - Jack McDevitt: Choice, Author, P&M, Out There, 2nd (Nebula). ok The Dark Between the Stars - Kevin J. Anderson: Space Opera, Author, P&M, 2nd (Hugo). Space Opera! The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson: WoGF, Listomania, P&M. ok. Not that scary. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury: Read Again, 50s. Excellent. And one non-genre book. Finished Challenges Killer Bs 3/3 Elizabeth Noun 3/3 Gemmell 4/4 Published 2014 20/20 World 5/5 Readers Choice 5/5 More of That Author 12/12 Ongoing Challenges Read it Again 3/6 SubGenre 2/5 Detective 9/12 Space Opera 1/15 Solar System 1/12 Clear the Shelves 4/15 Somewhere Out There 3/12 Literary 4/12 Read the Sequel 4/12 WoGF 8/12 Published 2015 0/18 1950s 6/15 Unloved 9/12 Pick & Mix 15/20 Fantasy Series 2/3 Second Best 6/6 12 in 12 3/6 Listomania 1/6 Short 4/12 Down Under 0/3 Books Read 2015 30 Favorite Book this month: The Long Tomorrow Favorite Book this year: The Bone Clocks I am holding off on saying Ive finished the Second Best Challenge, as I have counted The Three Body Problem as one of the books. It may win something, and I will have to replace it. I also may read 12 books for this challenge, since I have a lot of books on my challenge TBR list that will fit. Edited by daxxh 2015-05-31 11:06 AM | ||
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Uber User Posts: 613 Location: New Zealand | May was an excellent reading month. I've just had two weeks off work, and as winter decided to come early and it's been freezing outside, I have spent most of the two weeks indoors in the warmth with a book in my hands. Completed challenges Read more of author: 12/12 Authors of colour: 12/12 Unloved: 12/12 Clear the Shelves: 15/15 Published 2014: 20/20 Read It Again, Sam: 6/6 Books read 2015: 100/100 Challenges completed in May Detective SF: 12/12 12 in 12 Award winners: 12/12 Listomania: 12/12 Around the World: 10/10 Second Best: 12/12 Women of genre: 24/24 Young Adult: 12/12 Fantasy Mini: 3/3 In Translation: 12/12 Sequels: 12/12 Reader's Choice: 10/10 Somewhere Out There: 12/12 Definitive 1950's: 20/20 Solar System: 12/12 Ongoing challenges LGBT: 8/12 - two books read in May Short fiction: 11/12 - three books read in May Fantasy Choose A Decade: 4/12 - three books read in May Gaslamp: 8/18 - two books read in May Literary Prizes: 3/12 - one book read in May Published 2015: 9/18 - three books read in May Space Opera: 13/15 - five books read in May Sub-genre (time travel): 11/20 - four books read in May Pick & Mix: 39/40 - six books read in May New challenges joined in May (I know, I just couldn't help myself - they looked so sad sitting there) Omnibusters: 6/12 Down Under: 2/12 Weirdness: 9/12 | ||
DrNefario |
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Uber User Posts: 526 Location: UK | It never seems very easy for me to check my records when these threads come up, but I think I read: The Long Tomorrow - Leigh Brackett - 50s, WoGF - Great The Copper Promise - Jen Williams - WoGF, New 2014 - Fun light adventure The Death of Grass - John Christopher - 50s - Grimly readable catastrophe The Magicians - Lev Grossman - 2nd Best (Red Tentacle) - I loved this modern fantasy, but the main character puts a lot of people off The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham - 50s - Another good one. The Mammoth Book of Steampunk - Sean Wallace - Short - Variable, some great stories The Mammoth Book of Nebula Awards SF (aka Nebula Showcase 2011) - Kevin J Anderson - Short - Also a mixed bag I'm not very sure of my stats, but I'm mostly doing OK except on the two awards challenges (12 in 12, and Second Best). I'm hoping those will look after themselves a bit as the 2014 awards come in. | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1031 Location: UK | Detectives - 9/12 12 Awards - 9/12 Have to Read More - 9/12 Listomania - 10/12 The Unloved - 6/9 WOGF - 5/12 YA - 8/12 Clear the Shelves - 10/15 Read the Sequel - 8/12 Somewhere out there - 9/12 Space Opera - 8/12 Sub Genre - 7/10 1950s SF - 20/20 Solar System - 6/12 ************** total slots - 174 slots filled - 124 (71%) total different books read - 50 books reviewed - 25 ************** Books read this month Robert Holdstock - Mythago Wood Ann Leckie - Ancillary Justice Pohl+Kornbluth - Gladiator-at-law Terry Pratchett - Moving Pictures Doc Smith - Triplanetary James Blish - Case of Conscience Andy Weir - The Martian Eric Frank Russell - Wasp Doc Smith - First Lensman Kurt Vonnegut - Sirens of Titan Edited by dustydigger 2015-06-01 11:18 AM | ||
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Uber User Posts: 370 Location: Beaverton, Oregon, USA | May was a month of short books and juvenile fiction. I think this is the max number of books I ever completed in a month, although I read most of one book in April and finished it on May first, and I don't think any book was over 350 pages, the shortest being about 110 pages. I'm rereading the Harry Potter books because Goblet of Fire is the last book I need to read to complete my own challenge of reviewing all the Hugos ( I read it first before I was writing reviews), and I'm using it for the Read It Again, Sam challenge, and I figured I'd just reread the whole series. Books Read this Month -------------------------------- Authority - Jeff Vandermeer - Pick & Mix Bow, Snow, Bird - Helen Oyeyemi - Just Have To Read More, Clear The Shelves, Unloved Far-Out Worlds of AE Van Vogt - AE Van Vogt - P&M, CTS, Unloved The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison - P&M, and possibly 12 in 12 or 2nd Best, depending on its performance this year, and WoGF if I join it Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - JK Rowling - P&M, YA if I join it Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - ditto - ditto Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - ditto - ditto Herland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman - P&M, and possibly WoGF if I join it. Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mendal - P&M, and possibly WoGF if I join it. Time and Again - Clifford D Simak - Just, CTS, Unloved (replacing The Martian which I didn't think would be qualified per the exlusion from the Hugos, but got nominated for a Campbell) World of Trouble - Ben H. Winters - P&M I've been a little hesitant of joining new challenges because I obsess about completing them and don't want to overdo it. I'm trying to be more laid back about my reading picks this year, hence the progress on the Pick and Mix challenge. Challenge Status ------------------------ 12 Awards in 12 Months - 3/3 I Just Have to Read More of That Author - 6/12 LGBT Speculative - 0/3 Second Best - 1/3 The Unloved - 8/12 Clear the Shelves - 7/15 Read It Again, Sam - 5/6 Pick and Mix - 19/40 Solar System - 2/3 Tolkien - 7/12 Edited by spoltz 2015-06-02 12:19 PM | ||
Dlw28 |
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 306 | I feel like a slacker! But I will console myself by remembering I've read some large tomes recently: the Fifth Heart at 600+ pages and Seveneves at close to 900 pages. This month I also read : The Invisible Library Manifold Time The Great Zoo of China (don't bother) Uprooted A total of 38 so far for the year-so not quite my hoped for two books a week. But then again there are those tomes.... | ||
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