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DrNefario
Posted 2014-02-28 7:37 AM (#6613 - in reply to #6609)
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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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