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Dec 24, 2015 04:06AM
24/24 The fir tree by Tove Jansson
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Merry merriness, everyone! I'll update everyone's recent progress tomorrow - for now, I'm busy with Disney cartoons on TV and reading my special treat novella for the day. :)
Congrats to everyone whose challenge is completed today! And cheers for everyone who'll keep reading until new year's eve!
24/24 CHALLENGE COMPLETE!! Thank you for doing this, it was so much fun :)
24/24 done done done!!! I'm so thrilled to have finally finished a book I started and stopped too many times. A Feast for Crows is finally done and now I can move on to the dragons. I really liked the idea of breaking the book into sections each day. I will do so for the next one.Merry xmas to all who celebrate. Happy reading!
24/24 I loved my book i have 7 more short stories I cant wait24/31
Msg. 69 updated. 1 day to go, but guess what, i'm not stopping.:)
24/24 complete!I'm not finished with the second book and there are more than 7 stories left so I'm not going to extend the challenge. I do hope to finish the book by the end of the year though.
24/24 Complete! This was fun! I read two more very short stories from "Stories on the Go: 101 Very Short Stories by 101 Authors"
I'm updating from my phone so I can't link it.
Lovely! Congrats again to everyone who reached goal. :) Everyone updated to here.
Stefani~SpelingExpirt: Did you want to extend your challenge for the rest of the month?
Ok so My progress so far:I reach my goal for this month in the short stories. I read the 24 stories include in Tales of the Unexpected. I really like them. About the book.... I did not manage for the 24... Can you please extend that for the 31, please?
*Update for Nicole W.*I'm a bit behind, but I'm extending my goal 'til the end of the month.
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!
24/24 completedI enjoyed reading a range of short stories. I haven't read all the short stories in the collections I used - hoping to finish The Mistletoe Bride & Other Haunting Tales before the year ends and think I'll try and read a short story a day in all the school holidays as well. Hope this is an option for December 2016 as still have enough Christmassy stories for next year!
I haven't been updating, but I have been reading! I finished Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories, which I enjoyed although it's probably the weirdest thing I've read in a while. December 23
The Buzzard's Egg - China Miéville
Säcken - China Miéville
Syllabus - China Miéville
December 24
Dreaded Outcome - China Miéville
After the Festival - China Miéville
The Dusty Hat - China Miéville
Escapee - China Miéville
The Bastard Prompt - China Miéville
December 25
Rules - China Miéville
Estate - China Miéville
Keep - China Miéville
A Second Slice Manifesto - China Miéville
Covehithe - China Miéville
The Junket - China Miéville
Four Final Orpheuses - China Miéville
The Rabbet - China Miéville
Listen the Birds - China Miéville
A Mount - China Miéville
The Design - China Miéville
December 26
Alphinland - Margaret Atwood
26/31
Updated to here! I was a bit busy with travel between places in the recent couple of days, so I apologise if anyone felt their updates went terribly neglected.By the way - I've enjoyed so much of what I've read for this. Would love to do more short story-focused challenges!
No worries, Karina! It's a busy time. Thank you for leading this wonderful challenge. I've really enjoyed it too.December 27
Revenant - Margaret Atwood
27/31
I updated Post #55 hereThis update is a bit late, because we had 7 people at the house for Christmas week, and i'm just getting caught up with real life...
11/28 update: the poems got too depressing, so i finished the rest of them in about a day, before my family showed up for christmas visits. For the last four days of the challenge, i read short SF stories from The 1986 Annual World's Best SF, which was a lot more fun!
21. Earthgate - J. Brian Clark
22. On the Dream Channel Panel - Ian Watson
23. The Gods of Mars - Gardner Dozois, Jack Dann, Miachel Swanwick
24. The Jaguar Hunter - Lucius Shepard
Challenge Completed!
December 28Dark Lady - Margaret Atwood
28/31
updated message 10 - 30/31only one story left to read!
December 29Lusus Naturae - Margaret Atwood
29/31
Just after midnight on the 31st here! I got bored at work so read a couple extra stories.Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft
1. Hello, Hello by Seanan McGuire
2. The Machine Starts by Greg Bear
3. Skin in the Game by Elizabeth Bear
4. Machine Learning by Nancy Kress
5. Riding With the Duke by Jack McDevitt
6. A Cop's Eye by Blue Delliquanti and Michele Rosenthal
7. Looking for Gordo by Robert J Shaw
8. The Tell by David Brin
9. Another Word for World by Ann Leckie
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 1: The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford
10. Stability by Philip K Dick
11. Roog by Philip K Dick
12. The Little Movement by Philip K Dick
13. Beyond Lies the Wub by Philip K Dick
14. The Gun by Philip K Dick
15. The Skull by Philip K Dick
16. The Defenders by Philip K Dick
17. Mr Spaceship by Philip K Dick
18. Piper in the Woods by Philip K Dick
19. The Infinites by Philip K Dick
20. The Preserving Machine by Philip K Dick
21. Expendable
22. The Indefatigable Frog by Philip K Dick
23. The Crystal Crypt by Philip K Dick
24. The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford by Philip K Dick
25. The Builder by Philip K Dick
26. Meddler by Philip K Dick
27. The Great C by Philip K Dick
28. Out in the Garden by Philip K Dick
29. The King of the Elves by Philip K Dick
30. Colony by Philip K Dick
31. Prize Ship by Philip K Dick
32. Nanny by Philip K Dick
33. Paycheck by Philip K Dick
34. Variable Man by Philip K Dick
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updated message 10 - 31/31!there are still a few stories left in the second book i used, so i think i will try to keep reading one a day until i'm finished :)
December 30The Freeze-Dried Groom - Margaret Atwood
30/31
*Update for Nicole W. (msg. 57)*31/31
Happy New Year, Everyone! <3
That's all for December! Cheers for everyone. :)
Thank you for leading this, Karina! This was one of my favorite challenges all year.December 31
I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth - Margaret Atwood
31/31
Man, this is the only challenge I failed this year, I think. Ah, well. It was also one of my favorites. I think I will do it again next year, but pick out the stories in advance and get them all loaded to my Kindle or printed for travel. Lack of such preparations were my undoing, I think. Anyway, here is my final list, 23/31 on both.Option A, stories and poems, Dec 1 through 31.
Stories:
Dec 1: "In Skeleton Leaves" by Seanan McGuire, published in Operation Arcana
Dec 2: "Reading List" by McGuire in Temporally Out of Order
Dec 3: Some Gods of El Paso: A Tor.Com Original by Maria Dahvana Headley
Dec 4: Variations on an Apple: A Tor.Com Original by Yoon Ha Lee
Dec 5: "The Outsider" by H.P. Lovecraft from The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
Dec 6: "The Music of Erich Zann" by Lovecraft
Dec 7: Oral Argument: A Tor.Com Original by Kim Stanley Robinson
Dec 8: "The Outsider" by Lovecraft
Dec 9: "Herbert West: Reanimator" by Lovecraft
Dec 10: The Tallest Doll in New York City by Maria Dahvana Headley
Dec 11: The Log Goblin: A Tor.Com Original by Brian Staveley
Dec 12: "Hypnos" by Lovecraft
Dec 13: "The Lurking Fear" by Lovecraft
Dec 14: Errata by Jeff VanderMeer
Dec 15: That Seriously Obnoxious Time I Was Stuck at Witch Rimelda's One Hundredth Birthday Party: A Tor.Com Original by Tina Connolly
Dec 16: Adult Children of Alien Beings by Dennis Danvers
Dec 17: Please Undo This Hurt by Seth Dickinson
Dec 18: All the Snake Handlers I Know Are Dead by Dennis Danvers
Dec 19: Thanatos Beach by James K. Morrow
Dec 20: Dormanna by Gene Wolfe
Dec 21: The Woman Who Shook the World-Tree by Michael Swanwick
Dec 22: The Sigma Structure Symphony by Gregory Benford
Dec 23: The Lady Astronaut of Mars by Mary Robinette Kowal
Poems:
Dec 1: Living by Denise Levertov
Dec 2: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
Dec 3: anyone lived in a pretty how town by e.e. cummings
Dec 4: One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
Dec 5: Spring and Fall by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Dec 6: Pied Beauty by Hopkins
Dec 7: And the Sea by Patrick Ryan Frank
Dec 8: To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
Dec 9: To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick
Dec 10: So We'll Go No More a Roving by Lord Byron
Dec 11: Funeral Blues by WH Auden
Dec 12: I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman
Dec 13: Crossing the Bar by Lord Tennyson
Dec 14: If— by Rudyard Kipling
Dec 15: Remember by Christina Rossetti
Dec 16: Invictus by William Ernest Henley
Dec 17: A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
Dec 18: Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Dec 19: The Tyger by William Blake
Dec 20: Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
Dec 21: Into my heart an air by A.E. Housman
Dec 22: White in the moon the long road lies by Housman
Dec 23: This Is Just To Say by William Carlos Williams
I just wanted to say thank you for hosting this I did finish it just forgot to post my last 2 days, I loved this one and hope to see it again.
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The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft (other topics)The Lady Astronaut of Mars (other topics)
Some Gods of El Paso (other topics)
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