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Uber User Posts: 369 Location: Middle TN, USA | June means that 2015 is half way over, Are you at least half way through all your challenges? If not, do you have "A PLAN?" This month I finish a challenge. "Read It Again, Sam" To this end I will be re-reading the following books: On A Pale Horse - Piers Anthony Lucifer's Hammer - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman I also plan to finish: Razorhurst - Justine Larbalestier (done but without review) - for Keep Calm and Read SF from Down Under Player Piano - Vonnegut - for 50's challenge Contagious - Scott Sigler - for Read the Sequel In non-genre reads: The Red Tent - Anita Diamant (Book Club) Death of a Nag - M.C. Beaton Plus whatever I pick up along the way. I am waiting for Exit Kingdom by Alden Bell from Amazon. I will read that in due time. | ||
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Regular Posts: 99 Location: Belgium | I'm planning to read: Hunters of Dune (so far first 50 pages are quite okay actually, wasn't expecting a thing, I just wanted to read it to know how the story ends) Range of Ghosts - Elizabeth Bear (it was on my plan for May, but it got bumped by Leviathan Wakes) Seveneves - Neal Stephenson if time permits one or more of the following: Last and First Man - Stapledon Inversion - Banks Ancillary Sword - Leckie | ||
DrNefario |
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Uber User Posts: 526 Location: UK | I'm having another themed month, reading only women. The plan so far is: Heir of Night - Helen Lowe - Completes my Reader's Choice challenge (I'm already 2/3 of the way through this one) The Time Traders - Andre Norton - 50s The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison - 2014 books Ancillary Sword - Ann Leckie - 2014 books, BSFA winner The Lascar's Dagger - Glenda Larke - 2014 books, my random pick for the WoGF Also probably some crime fiction, including maybe another Agatha Christie (I realised that if I read one a month, I still have five years' worth to get through). | ||
daxxh |
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 536 Location: Great Lakes, USA | I am almost done with The Martian Chronicles for the Read It Again and 50s Challenges. Words of Radiance - Brandon Sanderson - 300 pages into this one. It's a long one! Terms of Enlistment - Marko Kloos Dark Intelligence - Neal Asher The Forever War - Joe Haldeman Moon of Three Rings - Andre Norton I need to read those last two to finish up the Read It Again Sam Challenge before July. | ||
pizzakarin |
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Veteran Posts: 111 Location: Austin, Tx | I have the list of books that I'll be fullfilling challenges with, but not the order I'll be doing them in. I'm in the middle of Seveneves and Player Piano, which is for the New in 2015 and the 1950s challenge respectively. I finished the New in 2014 challenge with Europe in Autumn this week, so I'm one more challenge down (only 9 to go). I think I may try to knock out a couple more for the Subgenre Challenge this month after I finish what I"m currently reading. | ||
Weesam |
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Uber User Posts: 595 Location: New Zealand | There are a few challenges I want to focus on this month: Sub-genre, LGBT, and Published this year. I would like to finish these by the end of the month, but still have some way to go. 8 books for Published 2015: Cannonbridge A Darker Shade of Magic The Diabolical Miss Hyde Flex Gideon The Just City - also for LGBT challenge The Mechanical Something Coming Through 6 books for Sub-genre From Time to Time In War Times Just One Damned Thing After Another No Enemy But Time Time Traveller's Never Die Timeline 3 books for LGBT Death By Silver The Last Green Tree Smoke and Ashes I want to kick off the 1960's challenge with: Venus Plus X Rogue Moon The Stainless Steel Rat - also completes the Space Opera challenge And I am currently reading Neverwhere which will finish off The Weirdness challenge, and Trigger Warning to finish off the Short Fiction challenge. This will leave me with 6 challenges still on-going for July. That will be 22 books to read in June. Should be do-able as long as I don't get sidetracked from The Plan. I read around 6 to 10 books a week. | ||
justifiedsinner |
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Uber User Posts: 794 | Currently on "Ancillary Sword" and also the short story collection "The Bone Forest". | ||
dustydigger |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1008 Location: UK | My TBR in June Mark Clifton - Eight Keys to Eden ✔ Kate Griffin - A Madness of Angels Melanie Rawn - Touchstone G K Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday Frederik Pohl - The Heechee Rendezvous Deborah Harkness - The Book of Life Lois Lowry - The Giver Benedict Becka - Fated Harry Harrison - Stainless Steel Rat ✔ Clifford D Simak - Time is the Simplest Thing I am about 70% through the RYO challenges,with about 40 books left to read from my lists. My op was pushed forward to October,so that leaves me 4 months to read those books,so I had better get cracking! I am starting on the 1960s SF challenge with Mark Clifton's Eight Keys to Eden for 1960,and Harry Harrison's The Stainless Steel Rat for 1961. I am only doing the single challenge for the 60s,since so few books are available through the library. I will still have to buy 2 or 3 books so as to complete the challenge. Probably wont do the 70s challenge at all,since I would have to buy 8 books to complete that! | ||
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