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| A slow month now vacations are over only six books read for the challenges. 5 challenges finished 11 more to go.
FINISHED:
12 Awards: 12/12
Fantasia: 12/12
End of the World 12/12
Have to Read More: 12/12
Trilogies: 9/9
ONGOING:
The 35: 34/35
Read the Sequel: 11/12
2nd Best: 11/12
WoGF: 10/12
Book of Ones: 9/12
Masterworks: 8/12
Mythopoeic 8/12
Short Fiction 4/12
Guardian List 4/7
In Translation: 2/12
Killer B's 1/3
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Posts: 370
Location: Beaverton, Oregon, USA | 7 Books read this month:
Altered Carbon - Richard K Morgan - 4 stars - 12 Awards/Book of 1s
Exquisite Corpse - Poppy Z Brite - 5 stars - LGBT/ 2nd Best
Feed - Mira Grant - 4 stars - Creature Feature
Leviathan Wakes - James SA Corey - 3 stars - 1s
New Amsterdam - Elizabeth Bear - 1 star - WoG/ENoun/Creature/1s
The Bone Clocks - David Mitchell - 5 stars - End of the World
The Immortals - James Gunn - 4 stars - GrandMaster
The Bone Clocks made me weep uncontrollably. Exquisite Corpse is the most terrifying book I've read in ages. And Feed was a lot more exciting than I'd though it'd be. And, ewwwww...New Amsterdam was terribly disappointing.
I'm now signed up for 15 challenges, but have a lot of overlap.
The tally so far:
I Just HAVE: 12/12 
GrandMaster: 12/12
LGBT: 11/12
MasterWorkds 12/12
WoGF: 12/12
2nd Best: 11/12
Fantasia: 12/12
Elizabeth Noun: 3/3
12 Awards: 9/12
The Number...3: 5/9
Read It Again, Sam: 0/6
End of the World: 11/12
Creature Feature: 6/6
Book of 1s: 10/12
Read the Sequel: 8/12
I'm now reading the gigantic "The Dark Defiles" by Richard K Morgan, which will take about 2 weeks I think. So Oct. will probably be less productive numbers-wise, though not page-count-wise. I think I only have 9 total books left to finish all my challenges, except for Read it Again, Sam, which goes to next year.
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Posts: 526
Location: UK | I read:
Soldier of Sidon - Gene Wolfe
12-in-12 (World Fantasy) - Completes challenge
Sequel
Read More
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
End of the World
Guardian - Completes challenge
Warbreaker - Brandon Sanderson
Fantasia - Completes challenge
Read More
Gemmell (Legend nominee)
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (or Frankingstein, as I insist on writing it)
Masterworks (SF/MW) - Completes challenge
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Second Best (Clarke)
Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
End of the World - Completes challenge
Sequel
The Farthest Shore - Ursula Le Guin
Sequel - Completes challenge
I also ended up using Frankenstein and Brave New World for the Banned Books mini-challenge.
Finished:
WoGF
Masterworks
Book of Ones
12 in 12
Sequel
EotW
Elizabeth Noun
Guardian
Fantasia
Pick'n'Mix
Ongoing 2014:
Second Best: 11/12
Read More: 10/12
Ongoing 2015:
Gemmell: 2/4
Reader's Choice: 0/5 |
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Posts: 770
Location: SC, USA | So. a much better month in September:
I read six books:
Rainbow's End- Vernor Vinge
Scarlet- Marissa Meyer
Drood-Dan Simmons
The Wandering Unicorn- Manuel Mujica Lainez
The Salt Roads- Nalo Hopkinson
Babel-17- Samuel Delany
Finished Challenges:
Pick and Mix
Short Fiction
Guardian
Fantasia
The Ones
Young Adult
LGBT
WoGF
Incomplete ending 2014:
Marxists 11/12
One More By 11/12
Bucket List 7/9
12 for 12 10/12
Authors of Color 7/12
The 35 33/35
Second Best 9/12
Translation 9/12
Banned 0/2 (I want to read two new ones for this challenge, but if I can't there's plenty I can enter from the other challenges)
Incomplete ending 2015
Detective 2/12
Gaslamp 3/15
I've read 64 books in total fulfilling 200 of 221 slots (for the 2014 challenges)
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Posts: 556
Location: Great Lakes, USA | Books read this month:
Foundation and Chaos - Sequel, 35, Killer Bs, Bucket
much better than Foundation's Edge. Should have read this one years ago.
Acceptance - Trilogy, 35, 2014
a good ending to an excellent trilogy!
Scale Bright - AoC, 2014
an ok novella
The Cardinal's Blades - Ones, Gemmell
like the Three Musketeers with Dragons!
Fight Club - Guardian, Bucket, Banned
overrated
Challenge Status:
Finished:
More of That Author 12/12
Short 12/12
Creature 6/6
Pick and Mix 12/12
Ones 12/12
2014 9/8
Nebula Nominees 8/8
RetroHugo 5/5
In Progress:
Masterworks 6/12
AoC 7/12
EotW 10/12
WoGF 11/12
Banned 1/2
Elizabeths 1/3
Sequel 11/12
35 24/35
Guardian 4/7
Killer Bs 1/3
Trilogy 6/9
Second 9/12
Bucket 8/9
Gemmell 1/4
Read Again 1/6
Reader's Choice 0/5
SubGenre 0/10
Favorite Book this Month: Acceptance
Favorite Book the Year: Annihilation (so far - Ancillary Sword is out in less than a week!)
I'm halfway through The Bees and 1/3 of the way through Trial By Fire which will finish the WoGF and Sequel Challenges, respectively. After those, I have 16 books left to finish this year's challenges. I hope to catch up in December when I have a lot more time to read.
Edited by daxxh 2014-10-02 2:52 PM
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Posts: 1031
Location: UK | I've hopes of finishing my challenges by the end of October September was quite an easy monthsome books read fitted multiple challenges.
12 awards - 10/12
Have to read more - 10/12
Masterworks - 12/12 - completed
YA - 12/12 (still one review t do)
Creature Feature - 6/6 - completed
Faerie Mythology - 12/12 - completed
Fantasia - 12/12 - completed
Pick and Mix - 11/12
Book of Ones - 12/12 - completed
Guardian list - 5/7
Killer Bs - 2/3
Second Best - 11/12
Bucket List - 12/12 - completed
total slots - 136
slots filled - 127
total books - 63
books read - 58 (90%)
challenge books read in September
Roger Zelazny - Trumps of Doom
Walter M Miller - A Canticle for Leibowitz
Garth Nix - Sabriel
Charles De Lint - Moonheart
Dean Koontz - Odd Thomas
John Scalzi - Old Man's War
Edited by dustydigger 2014-10-02 4:12 PM
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RYO Challenge update - September