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[QUOTE]Engelbrecht - 2014-05-31  11:30 PM

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: <ul><li>12 Awards 4/12</li><li>Masterworks 4/12</li><li>Short Fiction 12/12</li><li>Authors of Color 2/12</li><li>Women of Genre 12/12</li><li>Pick and Mix (lists) 7/12</li><li>Read the Sequel 6/12</li><li>Young Adult 0/12</li><li>Creature Feature 6/6</li><li>End of the World 4/12</li><li>Fantasia 7/12</li><li>In Translation 6/12</li><li>Mythopoeic 1/12</li><li>The 35 11/35</li><li>Guardian 1/7</li><li>Trilogies 6/9</li><li>Second Best 5/12</li><li>Bucket List 4/9</li></ul>May Challenge books: <ul><li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li>Kindred by Octavia E.Butler (1979) (8/10)  Powerful and unsettling.</li><li>The Nightingale by Kara Dalkey (1988) (7/10)  Underwhelming.  Could have been better.</li><li>Tyrannia and other Renditions (2013) (8/10)  Strong collection by a guy who takes his fictive weirdness seriously!</li><li>Questionable Practices by Eileen Gunn (2013) (8/10)  Another strong collection - some excellent stories, and some so-so ones.</li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li></ul>Also read in May: <ul><li>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.</li></ul>[/QUOTE]

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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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