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Pam's 2018 Reading Self Challenge
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Jul 17, 2018 08:08AM
Finished Karen Maitland's The Owl Killers and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2353302273.
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Read book 5 of Louise Cooper's Indigo series, Troika and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2460147532.
Finished Fireflood and Other Stories, a collection of short stories by Vonda McIntyre and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2461827056.
Finished Blue World by Robert R McCammon and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2464274800.
Read Christa Wolf's Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2427107009.
Just read the first two books in Lyndon Hardy's series: Master of the Five Magics - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1420513467 and Secret of the Sixth Magic (Magics, #2) - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2473275963.
Woo - just realised I've read 77 books and am 20 ahead of schedule in my challenge!
Pam wrote: "Woo - just realised I've read 77 books and am 20 ahead of schedule in my challenge!"Amazing! I'm reading less this week as i'm taping too much so trying to use some of my reading time to watch things on the tablet
I'm missing TV - got so much recorded already!
Read this 30 second short story Two-Minute Apocalypse before embarking on the third in Lyndon Hardy's series - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2473358606.
Just read book 3 of the magic trilogy by Lyndon Hardy, Riddle of the Seven Realms and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2473327558.
Read a fantasy series by R A MacAvoy which I really enjoyed:Lens of the World - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2478479405.
King of the Dead - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1649453745
Winter of the Wolf - known in the USA as Belly of the Wolf - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1649453745.
Then started reading some Mercedes Lackey - By the Sword - reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1423356426.
and an earlier book set in the same country/set up with two of the characters in their much younger days - The Oathbound - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2489520199
Read the second in the Vows and Honor series by Mercedes Lackey Oathbreakers - and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2489520299.
Read Werehunter a collection of short stories by Mercedes Lackey and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2498547334.
Read Robert O'Brien's The Silver Crown and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2507174991.
A re-read of the tense post apocalypse novel by Robert O'Brien, Z For Zachariah - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1391795001.
As I've managed to get a nice distance ahead with my challenge, I thought I would try one or two longer novels on my TBR. Read book 1 of Robin Hobb's Soldier Son trilogy, Shaman's Crossing and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1405973336.
Forgot to mention this collection, read between Z for Zachariah and Shaman's Crossing, by Charles Beaumont - Best of Beaumont - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2514502770.
Read volume 2 of Robin Hobb's Soldier Son trilogy, Forest Mage, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1405972881.
As a bit of light relief from the doom and gloom of the Robin Hobb trilogy, I indulged in a very quick read today - Dianne Wynne Jones' The Game and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2521969348.
Completed Robin Hobb's Soldier's Son trilogy, - will give myself a long break before going back to the Farseer series!Renegade's Magic - reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1405972939.
Read a cosy crime by Simon Brett, but wasn't keen - Bones Under the Beach Hut - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2525692907.
That is 94 books completed. Just another 6 to complete the challenge. Very different picture than last year!
Read Foundation book 1 of Mercedes Lackey's Collegium series and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2527138898
Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "94, wow!!"Cheers! I'm pleased to be so far ahead after whatever went wrong last year.
Finished The Enchanted by Roberta Murphy and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1773841929.
Finished Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2534211918.
Just realised I've missed out a book somehow ... I read it a few weeks ago so am now faced with capturing my fading perceptions. Secret of NIMH by Robert O'Brien.
Here is a belated review of Secret of NIMH as my edition has it - a film tie-in - usually known as Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1367357351.
Just finished Joyce Carol Oates' Expensive People and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2536952581.
Just finished Tanya Huff's Blood Price and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2539524209.
Woo - just discovered I have "completed" my 100 books challenge! I have to put that in quotes as I'm certainly not going to give up reading for the rest of the year.
Fantastic! Hoping I'm still ahead
100 books! I've read 28!I remember the happy days when I would read over 100 books in a year
Read book 2 in Tanya Huff's vampire series, Blood Trail and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2539762383.
Catching up on reviews - read Tanya Huff's Blood Lines, 3rd in her Vicki Nelson series, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2553418277.
Now reviewed the fourth volume of the Tanya Huff series - Blood Pact - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2568234166.
Read and reviewed volume five of Tanya Huff's Vicki Nelson series - that's the lot, won't bother to get number 6. Blood Debt - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2568266909.
Read a Witch World novel by Andre Norton, Year of the Unicorn and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1716690839.
Forgot to post this review done a couple of weeks back for Ramsey Campbell's Nameless, The - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2577164207.
Read Obsession by Ramsey Campbell and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2577177885.
Read The Face That Must Die by Ramsey Campbell and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2585625271.
Read book 2 of the Harry Dresden series by Jim Butcher, Fool Moon, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2585728458.
Read Alan Nourse's short story collection, The Counterfeit Man and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1391800084.
Finished Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2590832124. Sadly, didn't love it as much as I usually enjoy her books.
Read Diana Wynne Jones' Conrad's Fate and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1914572834.
Read Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2595339121.
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