Pam's 2017 Reading Self Challenge

[Pam]

Read book 3 of Patrick Ness' Chaos Walking trilogy, Monsters of Men, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1811505943.

[Pam]

Read book 1 in a Michael Moorcock trilogy, Count Brass and reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2083283951.

[Pam]

Read the short story which wraps up the Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick Ness - Snowscape - and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2041750620.


That's 77 books of my challenge read - "only" 12 behind now!

[Pam]

About to start the sequel to Count Brass by Michael Moorcock, namely The Champion of Garathorm.

[Pam]

Read book 2 in the Chronicles of Castle Brass trilogy, The Champion of Garathorm, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2083501935.

[Pam]

Now about to start book 3 in The Chronicles of Castle Brass trilogy, The Quest for Tanelorn.

[Pam]

Read volume 3, The Quest for Tanelorn in the Chronicles of Castle Brass trilogy by Michael Moorcock and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2084298667.

[Pam]

Currently reading The Hugo Winners 1963-1967. Actually part 1 of a book that was published in the USA as one volume.

[Pam]

Finished The Hugo Winners 1963-1967 and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2087465827.

[Pam]

Finished The Hugo Winners 1968-1970 and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2087465116.

[Pam]

Mini catchup:

Nightwings by Robert Silverberg - review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2094886576.

How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them—A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide - review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2098483122

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Fab, are you still behind?

[Pam]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Fab, are you still behind?"

Afraid so - read 83, still 12 behind (I caught up 2).

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

You'll just have to read quicker

[Pam]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "You'll just have to read quicker"

Ha ha!!

[Pam]

Read a SF short story collection by Robert Sheckley, The People Trap - and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2098516347.

[Pam]

Also read Bob Sheckley's novel, Immortality, Inc. and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2103407084.

[Pam]

Am now reading the final Robert Sheckley in the collection - The Robert Sheckley Omnibus.

[Pam]

Finished another short story collection by Robert Sheckley, which also includes his novel, Immortality Inc - Robert Sheckley omnibus and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2103413460.

[Pam]

Now reading Karen Joy Fowler's We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves.

[Pam]

Finished We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1837287820.

[Pam]

About to start Mary Rodger's Freaky Friday. Picked this as a nice short book as I'm currently 11 behind on my 150 book challenge, down from 14 behind.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Fab

[Pam]

Finished Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers and added a review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2106406012.

[Pam]

Forgot to say I was reading this paranormal romance science fiction cross over by Jayne Castle aka Jayne Ann Krentz - Amaryllis.

Sign of the times - posted the AZ link here and the current edition has a man with his shirt open and no vest on. The older edition I'm reading has a flower on the cover - the Amaryllis of the title!

[Pam]

Read Amaryllis by Jayne Castle and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2108837833.

[Pam]

Now reading book 2 of this series by Jayne Castle aka Jayne Ann Krentz - Zinnia. At least the modern version of this one features a hunk in a black vest - no obligatory bulging sixpack for a change! Still prefer my old edition with the chrysanthemums on the cover.

[Pam]

89 books down but still 11 behind on the challenge. Oh dear!

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Wow!

[Pam]

Read Zinnia by Jayne Castle aka Jayne Ann Krentz and posted a review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2108841765.

[Pam]

10 behind now but don't expect I can keep that up!

Started third in the St Helen's trilogy by Jayne Castle aka Jayne Ann Krentz: Orchid.

[Pam]

Read book 3 in Jayne Castle's St Helen's trilogy, Orchid and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2108841818.

[Pam]

Currently reading Child of the Hunt by Christopher Golden, a Buffy the Vampire Slayer novel.

[Pam]

Didn't think a lot of this Buffy the Vampire Slayer novel - Child of the Hunt - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2118262802.

[Pam]

Now reading Robert Bloch's - The Opener of the Way.

[Pam]

Read a collection of 1930s mostly supernatural stories and one SF story by Robert Bloch, The Opener Of The Way and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2119930883

[Pam]

Now reading a collection of Algernon Blackwood's work, including stories not collected before the date of this one (late 80s) - The Magic Mirror: Lost Supernatural and Mystery Stories.

Sadly, back to being 13 behind. Had a few days when very little reading was done :-(

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Sorry to hear you are still behind Pam, but hope you are enjoying what you are reading.

[Pam]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Sorry to hear you are still behind Pam, but hope you are enjoying what you are reading."

Even more behind now Desley - 19! - as I've been reading my own book, trying to do a last edit on it. I have managed at last to put up a review of the last thing I finished - Algernon Blackwood's The Magic Mirror: Lost Supernatural and Mystery Stories - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0486229777

[Pam]

I have started two other books though not got very far with one of them due to other things -
Jayne Castle's first in her Harmony series - Afterdark, and Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Ooh, that first Algernon Blackwood book sounds interesting. Hope you can catch up at some point.

[Pam]

Just finished Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2140404455. A mixed bag as I've said but on the whole enjoyable and was glad I didn't find 'The Wendigo' a disappointment as I first read that when I was about 10 and remembered certain things from it - it lived up to my memories luckily.

[Pam]

I think I'd better forget this year's reading challenge - I'm now 21 books behind....

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Wow, you are reading loads though! I generally find short story collections a mixed bag

[Pam]

As light relief, I read a couple of books by Jayne Anne Krentz under her Jayne Castle pseudonym:

After Dark - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2108842406
and
After Glow - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2108842525

[Pam]

Now reading Ghost Hunter by Jayne Castle, book 3 in the Ghost Hunter series, continuing on from After Dark and After Glow.

[Pam]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Wow, you are reading loads though! I generally find short story collections a mixed bag"

Yes, it was the same with these Desley. I'm now 25 behind - after adding the two reviews above. Goodreads certainly knows how to motivate you!

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Glad you are enjoying them, just ignore the tracker

[Pam]

Yes I have to now - I posted another review today but it had already said I was now 26 behind, so that hasn't made any difference, just made it 25 again. Bit ridiculous.

[Pam]

Read another Jayne Castle, 3rd in the Ghost Hunter series - Ghost Hunter - and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2108842606.