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Engelbrecht
Posted 2014-05-01 11:47 PM (#7476 - in reply to #7452)
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Thought I'd get caught up here and join the fun! 

Looks like I've read 33 challenge books YTD (and 36 total), 10 of which aren't in the DB yet.  76 of 222 challenge slots have been filled, representing 4.11 months worth, so, so far, so good.

Challenge Status:

  • 12 Awards 3/12
  • Masterworks 3/12
  • Short Fiction 8/12
  • Authors of Color 1/12
  • Women of Genre 9/12
  • Pick and Mix (lists) 7/12
  • Read the Sequel 5/12
  • Young Adult 0/12
  • Creature Feature 4/6
  • End of the World 4/12
  • Fantasia 6/12
  • In Translation 6/12
  • Mythopoeic 0/12
  • The 35 9/35
  • Guardian 0/7
  • Trilogies 3/9
  • Second Best 4/12
  • Bucket List 4/9

April Challenge books:

  • Fools by Pat Cadigan (1992) (7/10)  Muddled & confusing, but has worth
  • Duplex by Kathryn Davis (2013) (9/10)  Surreal & wonderful!  Has kind of a Ben Marcus thing going on.
  • The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf (Albert Bitzius) (Swiss) (1842) (7/10)  Stiffly written, but interesting for it's time.
  • Datura by Leena Krohn (Finnish) (2013) (7/10) Fell short of expectations.  Philosophical, but only mildly so.
  • The Iron Heel by Jack London (1908) (7/10)  95% didactics, 5% plot & characters.  Amazingly (and depressingly)  prescient.
  • Doomed by Chuck Palahniuk (2013) (6/10)  Typical Palahniuk, but thinner and subpar.
  • The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis (1963)  Beautifully elegiac, but not as good as his Mockingbird.
  • The Bread We Eat in Dreams by Catherynne M. Valente (includes Silently and Very Fast) (2013) (8/10)  Some outstanding pieces mixed with works of lesser quality.

Other April books:

  • Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan (2012) (6/10)  Cardboard plot & characters, seemingly written to show off an "inside" view of Google.
  • What Makes This Book So Great  by Jo Walton (2014) (9/10)  A deserved frontrunner for the 2014 Hugo Best Related Work.

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