This year I fell down on the job in completing my Goodreads reading challenge. I started with an optimistic attempt to read 75 books. I started strong, but a brutal self-imposed writing schedule kept me hopping, and I realized in about August that I was nowhere near where I wanted to be for reading challenges. I dialed back my Goodreads challenge to 50 in October, accepting the inevitable, and made an attempt to cut back my Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenges to a more manageable level.
My Reading Challenges
Some Stats:
- SF Masterworks: 12 (The Drowned World, The Sirens of Titan, Emphyrio, A Scanner Darkly, Behold the Man, The Book of Skulls, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, Flowers for Algernon, Ubik, Timescape, More Than Human)
- Indie Books: 5 (Too Wyrd, Mirrors: The Curse of Lanval, Pleasing the Professor, A Brief History of Our Tomorrows, Fluffy Bunny)
- Non-SFF Fiction: 4 (Luke Jenson Bounty Hunter: Bloody Sunday, Pleasing the Professor, Chasing Fireflies: A Summer Romance Anthology, Honeymoon)
- Non-Fiction: 4 (Rocks from Space, Dragonwriter, Gold, No Plot? No Problem)
- Dark Tower Books: 6 (The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three, The Waste Lands, Wizard and Glass, The Wind Through the Keyhole, The Wolves of the Calla)
- Books I Wrote or Contributed To: 6 (Showdown, Vice & Virtue, Chasing Fireflies: A Summer Romance Anthology, The Vigil, Way of the Gun, The Reaping)
Favourites
- Too Wyrd & Fluffy Bunny by Sarah Buhrman: awesome urban fantasy with a Norse mythological element!
- Star Songs of an Old Primate by James Tiptree Jr.: just discovering her, and she’s a certified genius, just sayin’.
- Dark Tower series: an old favourite
- More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon: look for my review in the New Year.
I review every book I read here on my blog, so this was also 51 blog posts. Looking forward to 2018, when I intend to keep the Worlds Without End challenges mostly to the ones I invent (except where they cross over with others specifically) and hopefully read some more stuff from other genres this year!
While you might have “fallen down”, you did complete some wonderful books, some of my favourites are on that list.
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Oh yes, this was definitely a year of amazing books! Which ones are your favourites?
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