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Pam's 2018 Reading Self Challenge
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Apr 16, 2018 04:15PM
Second in my catchup - Rider at the Gate by C J Cherryh and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2228498910.
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29 books completed and 1 book ahead now! Not sure how long that will last ....
Catchup: read the sequel to Rider at the Gate by C J Cherry - Cloud's Rider and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2228499001.Also read: Fox's Earth by Anne Rivers Siddons, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2370498624.
Read Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2369821906.
Read a couple more:The House on Nazareth Hill by Ramsey Campbell, reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2376656367
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Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard, reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2376683257
Read Eclipse by Margaret Tabor - nothing about an eclipse, but more an alternative universe tale - and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2378838777.
Catching up on some May reads - Twilight Robbery by Frances Hardinge - reviewed here - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2379070372.
Read A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2389312087.
Read The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K Dick and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2389312252.
38 books read and 3 ahead on my scheduled target .... wonder how long that will last!
Read Louise Cooper's The King's Demon and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show....I normally love this writer's work but not in this case sadly and the denoument really put the nail in the coffin - (view spoiler)
Read Joan Aiken's The Wolves of Willoughby Chase and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1389233539.
Read Our Lady of the Snow by Louise Cooper and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2394394064.
Read Waking Nightmares by Ramsey Campbell and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2394463640.
Hmm ... 39 completed but now only 2 ahead of schedule. How did that happen? Especially since I've added three reviews since I had 38 and was 3 ahead!
Goodreads glitch - it is saying on the home page I have read 39 and am 2 ahead, despite adding 3 reviews since it said I had read 38 and was 3 ahead - but when I clicked on the challenge, it shows 42 books and 5 ahead......
Just read The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2394487674.
Read Andre Norton's Moon of Three Rings and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2397523288. Bit disappointing after the Witch World books of hers I've enjoyed.
Read The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon - started off really interesting but went down the tubes suddenly in the last third or so - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2397522524.
Read Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis by Ian Kershaw and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2409078286.
Read Mary, Queen of Scots: A Study in Failure by Jenny Wormald and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2413420051.Then back to fiction with Grave Concerns, book 2 in the Drew Slocombe cosy crime series by Rebecca Tope, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2409077080.
Reading a fantasy trilogy by R A MacAvoy. So far read books 1 and 2: Damiano - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1381969927 and Damiano's Lute - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1381970298.
Completed the R A MacAvoy trilogy with Raphael and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1381970361.
51 books completed, and 6 ahead of the schedule! Yipee.
Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Fantastic Pam!"Thanks Desley!
Re-read book 1 of Mary Renault's two book series based on the myth of Theseus - The King Must Die: A Novel - and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2423816387.
Read book 2 of Mary Renault's Theseus series - The Bull from the Sea - and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2431484129.
Read book 1 of Tanith Lee's Secret Books of Paradys - The Book of the Damned and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2432456016.
Read book 2 of Tanith Lee's 'The Secret Books of Paradys' - The Book of the Beast- and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2432456637.I only have books 1 and 2 on my shelves and although the second was much more of a workmanlike read, I won't be bothering to get the other two on this showing.
Read two very different books:Memory by Margaret Mahy, review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2437971448
The Exile Waiting by Vonda McIntyre, review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2437987231.
Read a short story collection - Mango Shake edited by Debjani Chatterjee and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2439123382.Then did a retrospective review of volume 1 of a Louise Cooper YA trilogy, as I've just read volume 2 - Daughter Of Storms and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2441623871.
Read volume 2 of the Louise Cooper YA trilogy - The Dark Caller and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2441623301.
Read volume 3 of the Louise Cooper YA trilogy - Keepers Of Light and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2441657359.
Finished Traveling with the Dead by Barbara Hambly and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1406034683.
Read Frances Hardinge's The Lie Tree and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1725519485.
Amazingly I am 12 books ahead and have read 62 - especially as last year I got further and further behind and didn't complete the challenge ... ironically cut it back to 100 books this year in light of that.
Read volume 7 in the Flavia de Luce series As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1638817076.
Glad you are ahead, you should be able to maintain that
Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Glad you are ahead, you should be able to maintain that"Yes thanks. Ironic as last year I only managed 115 of 150 challenge so cut down this year's to 100.
Read volume 8 in the Flavia de Luce series Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1638817023.
Also read Nemesis, book 1 in a series by Louise Cooper, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2448679413.
I've got behind with my reviews - firstly, volume 2 of the Louise Cooper series, Inferno, and my review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2449661955.
Read volume 3 of the Indigo series by Louise Cooper - Infanta - and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2456839594.
Read volume 4 Nocturne which was a lot better than the others to date - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2456857195.
Had a break from the Indigo series to read Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2449554413.
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