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Pam's 2022 Reading Challenge
Read two reference books about Star Trek: The Next Generation, by Mark A Altman and Edward Gross, both volumes marred by huge numbers of typos and some grammar errors:New Voyages: The Next Generation Guidebook - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4803747787
and
New Voyages II: The Next Generation 5th Season Guidebook - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4803761760
Finally at the halfway mark and still 3 books ahead so fingers crossed.
Glad you are halfway through and still ahead, I've just had a quick glance and I'm 8 ahead, so hopefully I'll be able to increase it again.
Re-read an account of the making of Blade Runner, Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner by Paul M Sammon - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2550670193 and The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1400868533
Read this in late June and forgot to review it - Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4806466747
Finished this horror/SF novel - not that keen - Stinger - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4852919842
Read Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam and reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4769435698and
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4863696909
Read Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4863753970
Wrote a couple of reviews today then realised I hadn't posted links for the previous two either:The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4881240857
Shouting at the Wolf: A Guide to Identifying and Warding Off Evil in Everyday Life by Anderson Reed - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4900637716
My Evil Mother by Margaret Atwood - reviewed- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4652840306
and
Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1400873236
Catchup on reviews:The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4890469146
Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4944504396
Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks by John Curran - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4944459470
Another small catchup:The Angel's Mark by S W Perry - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4944667024
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The Undead Day One by R R Haywood - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4954715777
Read a couple more:All the Lies They Did Not Tell by Pablo Trincia - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4954773725
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Cora and the Nurse Dragon by H L Burke - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1617880583
Read Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain by Alan Ropper and Brian David Burrell - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4961342032
Only just written this up for a book read in August because I was waiting for its entry to be sorted out on Goodreads.Read The Sixth Ghost Book, Book One edited by Rosemary Timperley - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4965284364
Read Dean Koontz's The Big Dark Sky - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4965596723and
Star Trek, Volume 1 by Mike Johnson - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4974581014
Amazing but after struggling earlier in the year am currently 8 ahead. Mustn't speak too soon of course!
A couple read a little while ago and reviewed but forgot to post the links:Hunger by Michael Grant - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4978476191
The Djinn by Graham Masterton - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4982389044
and a couple just read and reviewed -
Star Trek, Volume 2 by Mike Johnson - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4988299461
Blott on the Landscape by Tom Sharpe - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4988279991
Catch up again - did the reviews but didn't post the links:Books 1 and 2 of a series by Paul Anthony Jones - Extinction Point - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4996226161
and
Exodus - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4996261119
plus
Year One by Nora Roberts - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2606453298
and
The Serpent's Mark by S W Perry - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4974662130
Just read a couple more:Witches: James I and the English Witch Hunts by Tracy Borman - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5012848070
Rags of Time first in the Thomas Tallent series by Michael Ward - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5012816399
Read The Wrecking Storm, book 2 in the Thomas Tallant series by Michael Ward - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5012834126
Read a couple in the Gaby Darin police procedural series by Jenny O'Brien, Silent Cry - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5020347001 and Darkest Night - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5020394514plus a supernatural/police procedural The Night Whispers by Caroline Mitchell - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5020427536.
Can't believe I've already read 90 books out of my challenge. Will read a few more and then probably make a modest increase as November and December are always slow-down months for reading with NaNoWriMo and Christmas preps.
Wow, that's very impressive Pam
Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Wow, that's very impressive Pam"Thanks Desley! Probably reading too much though and not getting on with other things.
I know that feeling well, I might be able to read a large book in one week, but don't come and look at the house, as it's bound to have been neglected!
Read Where the Dead Walk by John Bowen - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1641794529and
The Saracen's Mark by S W Perry - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5014299406
92 read and 14 ahead - can't believe it as I took several days out to try to catch up on magazines.
That's fab, I'm just about to increase mine
Read Crow's Cottage by John Bowen - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5021693147plus a couple of historical novels:
A Famine of Horses by P F Chisholm - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2680660171
and
Death in Delft by Graham Brack - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5066506670
Read book 4 in the Jackdaw series by S W Perry, The Heretic's Mark, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5069635952
Read Daughters of the Dragon by William Andrews - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5076634569
Read Untrue till Death by Graham Brack and reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5081378541
Read All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2733212566
Well, having read 99 books in my challenge I've now modestly increased it to 105. I'm erring on the side of caution because November/December are always busy months and I did once bump up my target and then fail to meet it. So I'll see how I get on and may increase it again if I have sufficient time left.
Review catchup:read The October Country by Ray Bradbury - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5090952175
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The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5108125458
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A Murder of Crows by Sarah Yarwood-Lovett - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5108195077
That's 102 books and I have two more on the go at present so I will have to increase the target again. Just modestly though as wary of overcommitting with a busy six weeks ahead.
Increased my target to 108 but with this review catchup have read 106:The Gawain Quest: A Medieval Mystery by Jay Margrave - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5116464730
Echogenesis by Gary Gibson - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5108281954
A Cast of Falcons by Sarah Yarwood-Lovett - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5116402685
and finally
The Child In My House: A gripping and emotional page-turner with a breathtaking twist by Lucy Lawrie - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5116431502
And one I forgot - Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4890356509
Glad you've been able to increase your target, I am slightly regretting my increase at the moment!
Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Glad you've been able to increase your target, I am slightly regretting my increase at the moment!"Oh dear! I'm not sure whether to nudge mine up again very slightly - it's now 110 and have read 108 plus am halfway through my current book (the one I started after I finished Drood below - that one took ages due to the length and the slow going).
Just finished Drood by Dan Simmons but sadly found it disappointing - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5116645818
One book away from completing the challenge but might nudge the target up slightly as there's still a few weeks to end of year.
Ooh, that's exciting Pam, I think I've got 3 left, but feel optimistic.
Finished Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5170122916
Read The Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5170414488
Decided given the nearness to Christmas that I wouldn't extend the challenge any further though I expect I'll read a book or two by the end of the year. So my 112th book is:Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses by Helen Rappaport - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5175648150
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