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daxxh
Posted 2014-01-16 12:30 PM (#6120 - in reply to #6104)
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Location: Great Lakes, USA		I am only signed up for two challenges, but am very tempted to sign up for the Masterworks Challenge and the Number of the Counting Shall Be Three Challenge. If I choose my WoGF books right, I will only have to read five more for the Masterworks Challenge. Three of the Counting Challenge will count towards the Read the Sequel Challenge. But, with all the nonfiction I read and the technical stuff I have to read for work and the library holds that will appear in a month or so, I am not sure that I can do four challenges. I have books on my TBR bookcases that would fit the Second Best, the 12 Awards in 12 Months, and Read More of That Author Challenges as well. Too many fun challenges...



DrNefario - 2014-01-16 7:39 AM

I've got The Drowning Girl on my wishlist. There's a fair chance I'll pick it up before the end of the year. i guess there's no great rush to fill in the spaces, given that we're barely half way through January. I will admit I've started a spreadsheet to try to keep track of which books are good for which challenges, and which awards I have covered.





I read The Drowning Girl for the 2013 WoGF Challenge and I didn't like it at all. Not saying that you won't, since a lot of people did like it and it won the Bram Stoker Award. I didn't think it fit any of the genres. To me it was just a general fiction novel and although the prose was eloquent in places, the characters weren't that likable and it rambled on and on. Had it not been nominated for a Nebula Award, I never would have picked it up to read. And had I not been stuck on a plane with it, I probably wouldn't have finished it.


Edited by daxxh 2014-01-16 12:33 PM

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