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Pam B's 2017 TBR and Challenge
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Nov 30, 2016 04:24PM
As with the last 2 years, I'll be doing an 'official' Goodreads challenge for an arbitrary number of reads ... and will, if I reach that target, just carry on as I am trying to read and get rid of (to charity shop) a lot of physical books to generally declutter.
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I'm doing the same - decluttering and donating books after I read them! Good luck Pam!
I just took a liquor box of books to half price books the other day.Unfortunately that seems to have had no effect on our shelves. This year I have at least 5 books on my planned reading list from the physical shelf. Hopefully I'll be able to get more than those 5 done. (Ideally 20 to keep up with library book sales, but that's wishful thinking.)
I know the feeling Myst. I have taken a l-o-t-t-t of books to the charity shop and it scarcely makes a difference. I'm waiting for the tipping point!
I've renamed the thread slightly as I realise there is another Pam reading science fiction, one of my main reads, which might be confusing otherwise.
Pam wrote: "I've renamed the thread slightly as I realise there is another Pam reading science fiction, one of my main reads, which might be confusing aterwards."Good thinking! I often get confused by those sort of coincidences though once I open the thread, the icons help orient me.
OK, first read of the 2017 challenge (to read 150 books, most from physical TBRs):The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood - reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1853974891.
Second one, also Margaret Atwood - Good Bones - reviewed here - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1867145413
Read a slightly spooky tale by John Gordon - The Ghost On The Hill and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1844809694.
Finished a darkly humourous horror tale The M.D. which unfortunately fell apart in the last third as I've explained - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1877788731
Finished Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin and posted a review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1693679832
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Read the January challenge book - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1877789809
I read Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks. Had been looking forward to it but found it an enormous disappointment as I explained here - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1883937254
Read a writing advice book - The Complete Guide to Writing Fiction - and reviewed it https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1887501143
Pam wrote: "I read Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks. Had been looking forward to it but found it an enormous disappointment as I explained here - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."Good review Pam! The only Brooks I have read was March which I thought also contained some historically inaccurate incidents (view spoiler). Between that & your review, I don't think I will try her again!
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Another DWJ, a sort of follow-up to the first - The Merlin Conspiracy- plus review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1893763482.
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Before that read and reviewed two books of TV and social criticism from the late 60s/early 70s by Harlan Ellison - The Glass Teat and The Other Glass Teat.
Read a rather grim dystopian SF novel - Inish Carraig - by Jo Zebedee, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1638858471
Finished a book that initially looked very promising, but sadly didn't deliver - Dragon's Winter by Elizabeth Lynn - and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1638824780
Finished Broken by Kelley Armstrong, a bit disappointing. Reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1901548933
Read the first in Suzy McKee Charnas' grim dystopian series Walk to the End of the World and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1908983536.
Finished Suzy McKee Charnas' book, which is much better than the first: Motherlines and reviewed it https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1909068219Then finished The Pigman by Paul Zindel and reviewed it https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1883148433.
Read The Furies, book 3 of the Holdfast series by Suzy McKee Charnas, and posted a review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1914468705. Best of the bunch though I don't know if I'm going to bother getting a copy of number four - I already had the first three.
Read a second Paul Zindel teen/YA book, The Undertaker's Gone Bananas and posted a review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1914537787
Read book 1 of Tanith Lee's trilogy The Birthgrave and posted a review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1915121441. In some respects a tour de force of writing but also quite a slog - the character's disinterested alienation from her environment and passivity, although explained at the end in a rather strange infodump means that you don't feel involved with her especially as she is meant to be a superwoman literally.
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Finished John Gordon's spooky tale, The House On The Brink, and posted a review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1920818306.
Finished Ramsey Campbell's Hungry Moon and posted a review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1925761435.
Read Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Shattered Chain and posted a review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1932490280.
Read the follow-up to The Shattered Chain, Thendara House, and posted a review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1934827050.
Read The Not-World by Thomas Burnett Swann and posted a review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1934898666
A quick read - John Gordon's The Midwinter Watch - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1936857372.
Bit behind posting my reviews. Here's a couple of Marion Zimmer Bradley collections: The Other Side of the Mirror which I reviewed here - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1946598558 and Renunciates of Darkover - review here - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1946605761.
And a couple more of MZB, novels this time: The Spell Sword - review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1954206844 and The Forbidden Tower - review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1954215831.
OK, the final MZB, 3rd in the Renunciates trilogy, City of Sorcery and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1954244126.
Complete change and a library book as I just discovered how to borrow ebooks, and had to read it in 14 days .... better not do much of that with my physical TBR!Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey.
Review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1961942775.
A re-read of a teen favourite - Witch World by Andre Norton - reviewed: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1367359966
Finished book 2 of the Witch World series by Andre Norton - Web of the Witch World - and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1954248792.
Read The Spyglass File by Nathan Duncan Goodwin and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1765215455
Read A Cotswold Casebook by Rebecca Tope and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1967530739.
Just finished a re-read of Ariel by Steven Boyett which this time around was rather a disappointment - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1954253265.
Seemed to have overlooked this one - Resurrection Row by Anne Perry, part of a crime series set in Victorian London - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1840405217. Good scene setting but the plot was ultimately unconvincing.
Read Three Against the Witch World by Andre Norton and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1954248869.
Read book 4 of the Witch World series by Andre Norton - Warlock of the Witch World - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1954249088. Enjoyable weird read.
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