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Location: Dallas, Texas | Month 2 of the 2012 WWEnd Grand Master Reading Challenge is now complete and it's time to vote on the featured reivews. Here are the numbers after 2 months: 80 participants, 134 books read and 48 reviews. Compared to last month we're up 15 participants and 28 reviews while the total books read more than doubled! Take a look at the 9 featured reviews below and cast you vote for the February GMRC Review of the Month! 
Winner gets the following: - GMRC T-shirt - your choice of colors so long as it's black
- GMRC button - you can never have too much flair
- Set of WWEnd Hugo Award bookmarks - I'll be honest, we over-bought these for WorldCon so we need to unload some but they're still pretty cool and they will, in fact, hold your place in any paper book.
- Book of your choice from the WWEnd bookshelf - the winner will get a list of ~20 titles to pick from
- Everlasting Glory - So you'll have that goin' for ya. Which is nice.
Runners up will get a GMRC button and a set of bookmarks. |
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Location: Dallas,Tx. | the best two out of those books are:
darker than you think by jack williamson got that on my nook color
the big time by fritz leiber also got that on my nook color
the others I had to hit the library |
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Location: Dallas, Texas | Rhondak101 sent me these interesting stats to share with everybody: Authors with the most books read: Authors with the most different titles read: Authors without any books read yet: Books most frequently read: The most read authors list should come as no surprise. These folks are all giants of SF/F. That we're only shy 3 authors to be read after 2 months is pretty cool. It occured to me the other day that we should have made Damon Knight required reading for the challenge - the award bears his name after all. You'll note that all of the most frequently read books are SF Masterworks. It seems you guys are doubling up on your challenges! |
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Location: Florida | Awesome list of stats. Will Rhondak101 be maintaining them till the end of the challenge? |
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Location: SC, USA | Jeremy, I had not really considered it. The idea of 984 books at the end seems a little bit daunting. However, I think that I might have figured out a way to keep track without having to do much recounting. We'll see if it works.
Rhonda |
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Location: Grootfontein, Namibia | Very interesting, these stats. I hope you can sustain it, Rhonda. |
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Location: Gunnison, Colorado | Can we vote for more than one review? |
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Location: SC, USA | I have figured out how to do it with a spreadsheet. It will not take very much maintenance as long as I look in every couple of days and add new books. |
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Location: SC, USA | @Scott, I think we can vote for 3 reviews. |
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Location: Dallas, Texas | @Scott Laz: You can vote for up to 3 reviews. Technically the software will let you vote for all of them (it's off the shelf software) but we ask that you limit yourself to 3. |
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Location: Grootfontein, Namibia | Thanks Dave, I've received "Planesrunner" and the additional items. The badges are awesome! |
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Location: Dallas, Texas | Emil - 2012-04-13 7:16 AM Thanks Dave, I've received "Planesrunner" and the additional items. The badges are awesome! Glad you got your stuff! T-shirt should be coming soon too. When it does, send us a pic of you wearing it and I'll post it in the blog. |
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GMRC February Review Poll