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Soo (silverlyn) | 1007 comments SFFBC Reading Challenge Headquarters ~ Updated 12/14/2020

Challenge Links:

- 2121 SFFBC Amazin' Eights ~ My 1st Hand


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Soo (silverlyn) | 1007 comments The Seven Kingdoms vs. The Heptarchate Score Sheet

Individual Challenge:

Read up to three books for each house/faction, for a maximum of 21 books per side.

Book 1: Cover, title, series or character fits house/faction colors or sigil/emblem
Book 2: Fits the house/faction words/motto in some way
Book 3: Matches one of the listed themes or settings

Houses / Factions List

Books Read:


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Soo (silverlyn) | 1007 comments TBR Challenge

1. Oldest Book - Owned, Publish Date, Added on TBR
2. Art - Artsy Cover, About Art, A Favorite Book, Artistry in Story
3. Novella or Short Story Collection
4. Question in Title
5. Ugly Cover (Show & Tell)
6. Inspired Other Art - Made into Movie/Show, Statue, Drawing
7. My Initials in Title
8. Recommended Book
9. A book that intimidates you
10. Like a Song - Reminds me of a song in title/story.
11. Buddy Read
12. Luck Symbol - Cover, Plot Point
13. 6th book
14. Last Book in Series
15. One Hit Wonder
16. Hidden Gem
17. Someplace You Want To Go
18. Get On the Bandwagon
19. Words in Title in Alphabetical Order
20. Graphic or Illustrated novel

Nocturnes Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro
Recursion by Blake Crouch - New Release, Going to be a made into TV Show + Movie.
American Gods, Volume 1 Shadows (Graphic Novel) by Neil Gaiman
Bird Box by Josh Malerman - Made into Horror Movie
John Dies at the End could be Question in Title


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Soo (silverlyn) | 1007 comments 2019 Read All the Books: The Sixth Sense

Total SFFBC Books Read - Updated 1/25/19 ~ 97/275

Goal: 10 SFFBC Books
Bonus: 20 SFFBC Books
Supers: 30 SFFBC Books


- Potential Reads -

The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1) by Richard K. Morgan The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1) by Octavia E. Butler Kindred by Octavia E. Butler Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #1) by Mark Lawrence Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1) by Leigh Bardugo Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1) by Neil Gaiman Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke I, Robot (Robot, #0.1) by Isaac Asimov Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1) by William Gibson John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1) by David Wong Spin (Spin, #1) by Robert Charles Wilson I Am Legend by Richard Matheson Among Others by Jo Walton Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1) by Joe Abercrombie A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1) by V.E. Schwab The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library, #1) by Genevieve Cogman Red Sister (Book of the Ancestor #1) by Mark Lawrence Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty The Bear and the Nightingale (Winternight Trilogy, #1) by Katherine Arden Arcadia by Iain Pears The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) by N.K. Jemisin The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns, #1) by Django Wexler The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance, #1) by N.K. Jemisin Karen Memory (Karen Memory, #1) by Elizabeth Bear The Grace of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty, #1) by Ken Liu Children of Time (Children of Time #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins City of Bones by Martha Wells Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein The Goblin Emperor (The Goblin Emperor, #1) by Katherine Addison Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1) by Helene Wecker The Killing Moon (Dreamblood, #1) by N.K. Jemisin The Martian by Andy Weir The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin Red Country (First Law World, #6) by Joe Abercrombie The Dragon's Path (The Dagger and the Coin, #1) by Daniel Abraham Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1) by Octavia E. Butler Legend (The Drenai Saga, #1) by David Gemmell Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi Embassytown by China Miéville Night Watch (Watch #1) by Sergei Lukyanenko The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1) by Glen Cook Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun #1) by Gene Wolfe Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1) by Hugh Howey The Diamond Age Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami Island in the Sea of Time (Nantucket, #1) by S.M. Stirling Against the Tide of Years (Nantucket, #2) by S.M. Stirling On the Oceans of Eternity (Nantucket, #3) by S.M. Stirling Under Heaven (Under Heaven, #1) by Guy Gavriel Kay Deathless (Leningrad Diptych, #1) by Catherynne M. Valente Weaveworld by Clive Barker Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1) by Octavia E. Butler The Terror by Dan Simmons The Forever War (The Forever War, #1) by Joe Haldeman The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack (Burton & Swinburne, #1) by Mark Hodder Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori, #1) by Lian Hearn Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1) by Margaret Atwood Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1) by Kim Stanley Robinson Opening Atlantis (Atlantis, #1) by Harry Turtledove Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks Cold Magic (Spiritwalker, #1) by Kate Elliott Doctor Who The Coming of the Terraphiles by Michael Moorcock The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin Haze by L.E. Modesitt Jr. His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1) by Naomi Novik Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel, #2) by Connie Willis Blackout (All Clear, #1) by Connie Willis

~ Finished Books ~
Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1) by Steven Erikson The Gospel of Loki (Loki #1) by Joanne M. Harris Doomsday Book by Connie Willis


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Soo (silverlyn) | 1007 comments Time Agent Challenge

Rules:

- 10 points for the first book read written in a decade you've not read this year.

- 1 point for subsequent books read from that/those decade(s).

- 5 points if the author is a woman

- 5 points if the author is of color

- 5 points if the author is known or (posthumously) widely believed to be LGBTQIA

- 5 points if the book was written from a viewpoint not belonging to a colonial power

- 5 points if it's a book you owned before 2019

- 5 points for reading as part of a buddy or group read

Total Score: 0 Pts - Updated ???


Book Lists & Points


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Soo (silverlyn) | 1007 comments Classics

Alexandre Dumas
Jules Verne
H.G. Wells
Iliad & Odyssey

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous The Oresteia Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides by Aeschylus Lysistrata by Aristophanes The Iliad by Homer The Odyssey by Homer Metamorphoses by Ovid The Aeneid by Virgil


Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) by Philip K. Dick Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1) by William Gibson One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand The Flood (Blackwater, #1) by Michael McDowell Slan (Slan, #1) by A.E. van Vogt Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain


Iliad - Three translations: Alexander Pope, Richmond Lattimore and Caroline Alexander - Going to Listen/Read/Compare the three because I want to.

Alexander Pope - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9...
Richmond Lattimore - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Caroline Alexander - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...


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5 of Hearts - book translated to English by an author of color
3 of Diamonds - book with nonwhite characters by a woman or NB author
A of Clubs - book with LGBTQIA character(s) by a non US/UK author
9 of Hearts - book with southeast Asian mythology by an author of color
7 of Hearts - book with African or Caribbean mythology by an author of color
K of Hearts - book with characters who are neurodiverse by an author of color
A of Clubs - book with LGBTQIA character(s) by a non US/UK author
8 of Diamonds - WILD / MULLIGAN
J of Hearts - book with South American mythology by an author of color
4 of Spades - book with mental health as a focus by an ownvoices author
A of Spades - book with LGBTQIA character(s) by an ownvoices author
K of Spades - book with characters who are neurodiverse by an ownvoices author


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