KristenR’s Comments (group member since Aug 18, 2010)

KristenR’s comments from the The Well-Rounded Reader group.

Political -

No Apology - Mitt Romney

Done with my genre challenge!!! :)

I, City - Pavel Brycz (153 pages - 3 stars)

October - December

82. The Landlady - Roald Dahl

-Asimov's Science Fiction, Dec 2010:
-83. Libertarian Russia - Michael Stanwick
-84. Plus or Minus - James Patrick Kelly
-85. Sins of the Father - Sara Genge
-86. Variations - Ian Werkheiser
-87. Freia in the Sunlight - Gregory Norman Bossert
-88. Prize Beyond Gold - Ian Creasey

89. Small Offerings - Paolo Bacigalup+
90. The Rocking Horse Winner - D.H. Lawrence&
91. Fare Thee Well - Cathy Clamp+
92. Speed of Time - Jay Lake+
93. The Monster's Million Faces - Rachel Swirsky+
94. A Stroke of Dumb Luck - Shiloh Walke
95. A Telephone Call - Dorothy Parker
96. What Doctor Gottlieb Saw - Ian Tregillis+
97. Yorkshire Dick - Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch$
98. The Magnanimous Girl - P‘u Sung-ling$
99. The Kiss - Guy De Maupassant$
100. As the Crow Flies - J. D. Beresford$
101. The Secret - Algernon Blackwood$
102. The Succubus - E. Lynn Linton$

-Asimov's Science Fiction Oct, 2010
-103. Names for Water - Kij Johnson
-104. No Distance too Great - Don D'Ammassa
-105. Dummy Tricks - R. Neube
-106. Changing the World - Kate Wilhelm

107. Olga - C.T. Adams+
108. Bogieman - Carole Nelson Douglas+
109. Eve of Sin City - S.J. Day+

-Asimov's Science Fiction Jan, 2011
-110. Dolly - Elizabeth Bear

111. What Makes a River - Deborah Coate+
112. The Ghost of Leadville - Jeanne C Stein
113. The Cage - A.M. Dellamonica+

Under the Amoral Bridge - Gary A Ballard (170 pages - 4 stars)

YAY! I finished the decade challenge!

I thought I'd post some ways I find books for each decade.

In "my books" I put my to-read shelf into list view and sort it by year published. (sometimes I'll do this with my friends' bookshelves too to see what they liked)

I'll look through these wikipedia pages to find titles I wouldn't know to look for:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category...

And in Listopia here at Goodreads, there are "Best of" lists for each decade.

hehe...no, not a job - but so many books, so little time :)

I have a bookcase full of books, a Kindle full of books, and a "want-to-get" list a mile long. That doesn't seem to make it any easier for me to decide what to read next.

At the beginning of the year I think about what challenges I want to do and go through my to-read list and see what fits. I find it gives me that incentive to go to books that have been sitting a while. I really love it through the year when book club reads fit in with the challenges :)

Do you actively use challenges to decide what to read? What's your strategy?

Thanks Kathy...that looks great. As soon as I get through the book I'm reading now I'm going to dive into that site :)

I don't know if this is really a family saga, but it was certainly a family drama that seemed to drag on forever - so I'm counting it :)

A Spot of Bother

Thanks Brad, it's been a while since I've read any ancient Greek literature.

Fable/fairy tale/folklore - The Akhenaten Adventure (Children of the Lamp #1)

Almost there! I just need a political book (fiction or nonfiction) and a saga/family saga

I was just told about Hub Magazine

http://www.hubfiction.com/

SF/fantasy/horror

Oh, and if you're interested, someone just started a goodreads group for dicussion about SF/fantasy magazines: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/3...

http://storyoftheweek.loa.org/

http://www.fishpublishing.com/short-s...

http://www.classicshorts.com

oohh..I like this challenge. I love King's work, but I read most of it so long ago that I get very mixed up as to what I have and haven't read by him. Earlier this year I was a quarter of the way through Needful Things when I realized I had read it before :)

September

73. The Celebrated Frog of Calaveras County - Mark Twain*
74. Gifts to the Dark Gods - Mary McCluskey*
75. Bitter Grounds - Neil Gaiman+
76. The Cockroach Hat - Terry Bisson+
77. A Child's Christmas in Wales - Dylan Thomas&
78. The Traveller - Steven Ellis!
79. The Nightmare of You and Death in the Room - Adam Christopher!
80. Murdress Lane - Louise Morgan!
81. Inside Closed Eyes - Kailleaugh Andersson$ (ugh...it's though...not tho!!!!)

August

71. The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model - Charlie Jane Anders+
72. Puppy - George Saunders*

July

62. Overtime - Charles Stross+
63. The Next Invasion - Robert Reed+
64. Haunted by the Past - Riley Ashford
65. The President's Brain is Missing - John Scalzi+
66. Vilcabamba - Harry Turtledove+
67. Found Objects - Jennifer Egan*
68. Natalie - Anne Enright*
69. Baiting the Umpire - George Jean Nathan#
70. Nightfall - Isaac Asimov

June

57. From the Bering Strait - Gina Ochsner~
58. 2BR02B - Kurt Vonnegut
59. Message for Minerva - Jean Hart Stewart
60. Sin Eater - Evangeline Anderson
61. Waiting at Eros - Rosemary Laurey

May

43. Business Deal - Nathanael West#
44. When Man Falls, a Crowd Gathers - Stephen Crane#
45. The Final Now - Gregory Benford+
46. The Starship Mechanic - Jay Lake and Ken Scholes+
47. Bridesicle - Will McIntosh
48. Farewell Performance - Nick Mamatas+
49. The Drop Outs - Aine Greaney~
50. The Courtship of the Queen - Bruce McAllister+
51. The Four Horsemen, at Their Leisure - Richard Parks+
52. Looking for Truth in a Wild Blue Yonder - Ken Scholes and Jay Lake+
53. The Yellow Sign - Robert W Chambers*
54. Old Timer - Mike Krath*
55. Sacrifice - Jamie Cameron*
56. The Strange Case of Salad Monday - G.D. Falksen+