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Uber User Posts: 265 Location: Neither here...nor there | And the second month of the RYO Challenge draws to a close. With 27 different challenges to choose from, there is something for everyone! The forums have been quite quiet this month. Hopefully that means everyone is off somewhere with a pile of WWEnd books. Feel free to share here your reading recap for February. | ||
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Uber User Posts: 265 Location: Neither here...nor there | HROs Update for February 1. The Genocides by Thomas M. Disch - 3 Stars Bucket List 2. The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway - 4 Stars End of the World Second Best (BSFA 2008) 3. The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe - 2 Stars Book of Ones Faerie Mythology 4. Report to the Mens Club and Other Stories by Carol Emshwiller - 3 Stars Short Fiction 5. A Taste of Blood Wine by Freda Warrington - 4 Stars Book of Ones Creature Feature Fantasia 6. Was by Geoff Ryman - 2 Stars LGBT Masterworks (Fantasy Masterworks) 7. Winterlong by Elizabeth Hand - 4 Stars Book of Ones Elizabeth Noun End of the World Masterworks (SF Mistressworks) WoGF Challenge completion 12 in 12 = 0 of 12 Book of Ones = 4 of 12 Bucket List = 2 of 9 Creature Feature = 1 of 6 Elizabeth Noun = 1 of 3 End of the World = 3 of 12 Faerie Mythology = 1 of 12 Fantasia = 2 of 12 I Just Have to Read More of That Author = 1 of 12 LGBT = 1 of 12 Masterworks = 3 of 12 Mythopoeic Award = 1 of 12 The Number of the Counting Shall Be Three = 0 of 9 Second Best = 2 of 12 Short Fiction = 2 of 12 WoGF = 4 of 12 Books read for challenges (total to date) 13 of 80 Favorite books in February A Taste of Blood Wine by Freda Warrington Winterlong by Elizabeth Hand The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway | ||
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Uber User Posts: 526 Location: UK | Well, after a month of research and book selection, I now have to settle in for 10 months of reading, then a final month of panic trying to finish everything. In February, I read: Snuff by Terry Pratchett Read the Sequel Second Best (Locus Fantasy) So You Want to Be a Wizard? by Diane Duane Book of Ones WoGF The Drowned World by JG Ballard Masterworks (SF) End of the World Guardian The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula Le Guin Read the Sequel Second Best (Mythopoeic) Read More of that Author The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch Read the Sequel (This is a 2013 book, so could still get nominations/awards) Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand 12 in 12 (Shirley Jackson) Book of Ones WoGF Elizabeth Noun I also read Wool 3, the third of the five shorter works collected in Wool. A mixture of books I just wanted to read, which happened to fit a challenge or two, and books that were specifically picked for the challenges. The Elizabeth Hand also manages to fit my alphabetical detective crime fiction challenge, which is a nice bonus. I joined one extra challenge this month - I Just Have to Read More of that Author - and that's the only one I'm behind schedule on, on the basis that we should have read 2 of 12 by now: WoGF: 3/12 Book Ones: 3/12 Masterworks: 2/12 (SF:2,F:0,MW:0) 12 in 12: 2/12 Second Best: 2/12 Read the Sequel: 3/12 End of the World: 3/12 Elizabeth Noun: 1/3 Guardian: 2/7 Read More: 1/12 Favourite book of the month, I think, was The Tombs of Atuan, which was also the shortest by quite a long way. I read it in a single afternoon, while I was in bed, ill, and needed a break from Republic of Thieves. I have now read 9 books from a theoretical maximum of 58, based on my current selections of 43 books with 15 spaces to fill (on my spreadsheet - I haven't kept the site lists in step). That's behind schedule, but I have also read a few books which don't count for any challenges, so I'm not panicking yet. I'm intending to focus on the WoGF for now, although my current favourite challenge is The End of the World, which is just a theme that appeals to me and which I enjoy researching. Edited by DrNefario 2014-02-28 7:37 AM | ||
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Uber User Posts: 794 | Since I'm not going to finish my current book today where I'm at is where it's going to be: 12 Awards: 2/12 Have to Read More: 2/12 Masterworks: 2/12 WoGF: 1/12 YA: 1/12 Fantasia: 4/12 In Translation: 2/12 Read the Sequel: 3/12 The 35: 10/35 Book of Ones: 2/12 Trilogies: 1/9 2nd Best: 3/12 Short Fiction 1/12 End of the World 1/12 Guardian List 1/7 Mythopoetic 0/12 Killer B's 1/3 Of the 17 challenges I haven't started the Mythopoetic but that should be satisfied by the one I'm reading now (Little, Big). I've completed 11 real and 37 virtual (i.e. challenge) books. I've changed a few of the selections so that I don't need to buy as many books. This gives me several more open slots but I figure with 10 months to run what should fill them will become clearer as I'm going along. | ||
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Uber User Posts: 770 Location: SC, USA | My reading challenges were helped significantly by the fact I was "snowed in" twice in Feb, missing 7 full work days. I live in South Carolina, so it does not take much for a day to be declared a snow day. My two favorite books of the month hit both ends of the spectrum: the highly intellectual The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov and the extremely pulpy Sea Kings of Mars by Leigh Bracket. FEBRUARY Pick and Mix This Month: 7/12; Total: 9/12 Red Mars Kim Stanley Robinson (Lots) The Telling Le Guin (Books by Women) The Giver Lois Lowry (Banned; Most Read) The Swords of Rhiannon Leigh Brackett (SF Mistressworks) The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov (Banned; Guardian) Vathek William Beckford (Guardian) The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury (Classics; NPR) 12 Awards/12 Months This Month: 3/12; Total: 3/12 Red Mars Kim Stanley Robinson (BFSA) The Telling Le Guin (Locus F) A Midsummer Tempest Poul Anderson (Mythopoeic) Short Fiction This Month: 3/12; Total: 5/12 Sea Kings of Mars Leigh Brackett (collection) The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (novella) The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury (short stories) Authors of Color 0/12 The End of the World This Month: 1/12; Total: 2/12 The Giver Lois Lowry Marxists, etc This Month: 3/12; Total: 4/12 Red Mars Kim Stanley Robinson The Telling Le Guin The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury The 35 This Month: 7/35; Total: 10/35 Red Mars Kim Stanley Robinson The Telling Le Guin The Giver Lois Lowry A Midsummer Tempest Poul Anderson The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov Vathek William Beckford Guardian This Month: 3/7; Total: 3/7 The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov Vathek William Beckford The Second Best This Month: 0/12; Total: 1/12 NEWLY JOINED (in February) LGBT This Month: 1/12; Total: 1/12 The Telling Le Guin (Lesbian Protagonist) Fantasia This Month: 4/12; Total: 4/12 The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov A Midsummer Tempest Poul Anderson Vathek William Beckford
10 books read in February 42 of 150 total slots completed | ||
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 557 Location: Great Lakes, USA | February RYO Challenges Remnant Population - Authors, Masterworks (Mistresswork), Elizabeth, 2nd The Falling Woman - WoGF, Masterworks (F), 35, Bucket Where the Late Sweet Birds Sang - WoGF, Masterworks (Master/Mistresswork), 35 www:Wake - Authors, 35, Ones, 3s, 2nd Totals Author 4/12 Masterworks 4/12 WoGF 2/12 Sequel 2/12 Elizabeth 1/3 35 6/12 Ones 1/12 Guardian 0/7 Killer Bs 0/3 3s 1/9 2nd 3/12 Bucket 2/9 Total 7 out of 43 I'm currently (still) reading Ash and have read a couple of nonfiction books this month. I am planning on concentrating on WoGF and Read the Sequel in March, but with Award Nominee lists coming out, I may not stick to that plan and may end up reading more than 43 books for the challenges. My favorite book for February (and for the year so far) is Remnant Population. That was an excellent book. | ||
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Regular Posts: 54 | I only read two books that could be applied towards my challenges this month. Ah, well, February's short (and exhausting; I've been shoveling so much snow), and there's plenty of time still to catch up. The Winter Prince by Elizabeth Wein LGBT WoGF Young Adult Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm WoGF Current challenge totals: Authors of Color: 2/12 Elizabeth Noun: 0/3 Guardian: 0/7 LGBT: 2/12 Read the Sequel: 1/12 Short Fiction: 1/12 WoGF: 6/12 Young Adult: 1/12 Favorite book read in February: The Winter Prince. I'm not always the biggest fan of Arthurian mythologies: they're just so bleak. And this book was definitely painful in parts, but in a way that really worked for me and that made me eager to find out what would happen next. | ||
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Uber User Posts: 265 Location: Neither here...nor there | Everyone is making such great progress! Well done! I love seeing the diversity of books. There are so many different ways to approach each of the challenges. | ||
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Admin Posts: 4008 Location: Dallas, Texas | Well, I managed to read The Darwin Elevator for The Number of the Counting and got halfway through Beggars in Spain for the same challenge and the WoGF for February. Not a very good showing I'm afraid but between all the overtime I've been working and regular WWEnd stuff I'm rather pleased. Still, I'm hoping March will be better. Great results from everyone involved overall. The RYO is really cookin'. | ||
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