Pam's 2017 Reading Self Challenge

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Wow!

[Pam]

Thanks Desley. That's 28 read to date :-)

[Pam]

Started a Ramsey Campbell - The Hungry Moon.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Pam wrote: "Started a Ramsey Campbell - The Hungry Moon."

I like Ramsey Campbell. 14 books a month is amazing!

[Pam]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Pam wrote: "Started a Ramsey Campbell - The Hungry Moon."

I like Ramsey Campbell. 14 books a month is amazing!"

Cheers, Desley. I'm making up for the time when work-life balance meant I hardly read anything.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Pam wrote: "Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Pam wrote: "Started a Ramsey Campbell - The Hungry Moon."

I like Ramsey Campbell. 14 books a month is amazing!"

Cheers, Desley. I'm making up for the time when work-..."

Don't blame you - I haven't read 14 books this year!

[Pam]

Finished Ramsey Campbell's Hungry Moon and posted a review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1925761435.

[Pam]

Read Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Shattered Chain and posted a review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1932490280.


Also started the sequel, Thendara House.

[Pam]

Read the follow-up to The Shattered Chain, Thendara House, and posted a review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1934827050.

[Pam]

Read Thomas Burnett Swann's The Not-World and posted a review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1934898666.

[Pam]

A quick read - John Gordon's The Midwinter Watch - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1936857372.

[Pam]

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 - sorry Goodreads is refusing to add the book link - review here - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1946605761.

[Pam]

Another catch-up and another couple 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.

[Pam]

Started a re-read of a book I loved years ago - Ariel by Stephen Boyett.

Just found out he wrote a sequel also.

[Pam]

Had to push this book to the top of my 'stack' having worked out how to borrow ebooks from the library, as they only give 14 days to read each one!

Wool Omnibus
Review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1961942775.

[Pam]

A re-read of an old favourite first read as a teen - Witch World - by Andre Norton - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1367359966

[Pam]

Just seen that I'm up to date with my challenge - 40 books so far.

[Pam]

Actually I've finished one that I meant to start last October and finally got round to picking up the last couple of weeks and enjoyed; haven't yet done the review.

[Pam]

Started book 2 of the first/main Witch World series by Andre Norton - Web of the Witch World.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Pam wrote: "Just seen that I'm up to date with my challenge - 40 books so far."

Congratulations - I didn't even read that many last year! I'm 3 ahead so far, which is fantastic. Unfortunately I've been really bad at getting more books this year

[Pam]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Pam wrote: "Just seen that I'm up to date with my challenge - 40 books so far."

Congratulations - I didn't even read that many last year! I'm 3 ahead so far, which is fantastic..."

Thanks Desley. Never mind, if you are 3 ahead that's a real achievement.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Pam wrote: "Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Pam wrote: "Just seen that I'm up to date with my challenge - 40 books so far."

Congratulations - I didn't even read that many last year! I'm 3 ahead so far, which is..."

I'm pleased - hopefully I can continue

[Pam]

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.

[Pam]

Read The Spyglass File by Nathan Duncan Goodwin and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1765215455

[Pam]

Read A Cotswold Casebook by Rebecca Tope and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1967530739.

[Pam]

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.

[Pam]

Forgot to mention I'm reading a crime novel set in the Victorian era, part of a series by Anne Perry - Resurrection Row

[Alicia]

You are really reading a lot there, Pam. Impressive.

[Pam]

Alicia wrote: "You are really reading a lot there, Pam. Impressive."

Thanks Alicia. Mind you, some people in a FB group I just joined have read a lot more than me - puts my progress in the shade!

[Pam]

Finished the crime story by Anne Perry set in Victorian times; good evocation of setting, but ultimately the lack of conviction in the plot derails it - Resurrection Row - review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1840405217

[Pam]

Forgot to say I started book 3 in the Witch World series by Andre Norton, Three Against the Witch World.

[Pam]

Finished Three Against the Witch World and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1954248869

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Was just thinking it had been a while since an update :)

[Pam]

He he! Like it ;-)

[Pam]

Whoops! For the first time this year, GReads has just told me I'm a book behind on my challenge. Trying not to feel massive pressure ;-); I'm enjoying 'Warlock of the Witch World' by Andre Norton at the moment.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Wow! As long as you are enjoying what you are reading, that's the most important thing

[Pam]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Wow! As long as you are enjoying what you are reading, that's the most important thing"

Yes I know really, thanks Desley - that was a bit tongue in cheek! Have finished my current book so will review that shortly, which might put me back on target.

[Pam]

As a break from fantasy and the Witch World, I'm reading a police procedural by W J Burley, part of his Wycliffe series, Wycliffe and the Guilt-Edged Alibi.

[Pam]

Forgot to add, here is my review for book 4 of the Witch World series by Andre Norton - Warlock of the Witch World - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1954249088. Four and a half stars.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Pam wrote: "Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Wow! As long as you are enjoying what you are reading, that's the most important thing"

Yes I know really, thanks Desley - that was a bit tongue in cheek! Have finish..."

:)

[Pam]

Finished a police procedural Wycliffe and the Guilt Edged Alibi and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1946614275.

[Pam]

Now reading a more recent fantasy novel, by Peter Brett - The Painted Man.

[Pam]

Not too keen on The Painted Man by Peter Brett sadly - here's my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1987806516.

[Pam]

Better luck with Mixed Magics, a collection by Diana Wynne Jones. Reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1993431949.

[Pam]

How annoying is that - just added my latest book on GR and there are two massive spoilers in the description which my eyes happened to fall on. I've read about 100 pages and hadn't got to either of those big reveals yet!

Anyway, this is it - 1610: A Sundial in a Grave by Mary Gentle.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Oh no, that's annoying. Hope you enjoy the book anyway

[Pam]

Thanks Desley. I'm quite enjoying it apart from the occasional pages and pages of sexual proclivities which aren't such a problem now but were near the start of the book and came across as a) rather unbelievable, b) ridiculous c) annoying when you wanted the story to get on with it. But anyway it's quite a weird alternative history (her other huge tome Ash was similar in that respect) involving an assassination plot against James I/VI.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Sounds interesting

[Pam]

Well, I finally finished the very long alternative history novel 1610: A Sundial In A Grave by Mary Gentle and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1993500431. Had to give it 2 stars in view of the issues especially about the basic premise, and I wasn't a fan of the sadomasocism.

[Pam]

For light relief after that, read a novella by Nathan Dylan Goodwin, part of a series - The Missing Man: A Morton Farrier Novella and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2013458491

Not as good as the previous book in this series which I really enjoyed - this had a big believability problem, rather like the Mary Gentle tome, but as I enjoyed it as a read till near the end I gave it 3 stars.