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RAFO Challenges for May and June: what are your choices? Rebekah Send a noteboard - 01/05/2011 10:56:11 AM
Half-Dozen Challenge:

Read one Sci-fi, one Fantasy and one Spec Fic book (i.e. three separate books, and they can be books you've read before, if you like).

Extra challenge for May and June: review one of the three books and share your review on the board.


Genre Challenge

Quite simply, just read one book from each of the genres below before the year is out. Rereads are allowed; it's up to you whether you choose all new books or not. I probably won't.

- Historical Fiction/Alternative History
- Western
- Horror
- Mystery/Crime
- (Auto-) Biography
- History
- Family chronicle
- Allegory/parody/satire
- Surrealist novel
- Extra option for those who can: a novel in a foreign language


Are you on track for your 50 Book Challenge (or however many you chose)?

And have you managed to read the book you've been meaning to read for ages? If so, what was it, and will you review it for us?
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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
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RAFO Challenges for May and June: what are your choices? Rebekah - 01/05/2011 10:56:11 AM 938 Views
Right. I have decided. Rebekah - 03/05/2011 12:59:32 PM 723 Views
So. Finished the first of my three. Rebekah - 09/05/2011 07:49:32 PM 683 Views
Are we the only two left doing these challenges? Also: I finished my first as well Camilla - 09/05/2011 07:53:18 PM 674 Views
Maybe. Rebekah - 09/05/2011 07:55:46 PM 736 Views
Re: Maybe. Camilla - 09/05/2011 07:58:03 PM 706 Views
Not at all. But it'll probably be for June, for me, Vanity Fair is taking a while. *NM* Legolas - 10/05/2011 08:11:02 PM 292 Views
No, I'm just wildly behind. Stephen - 10/05/2011 10:07:37 PM 774 Views
And I've changed my mind. Rebekah - 18/05/2011 01:52:16 PM 738 Views
After careful deliberation... Camilla - 03/05/2011 01:44:08 PM 846 Views
I don't know what that means. nossy - 10/05/2011 05:02:15 PM 715 Views
I'm counting Summer Tree as spec fic nossy - 10/05/2011 07:16:15 PM 681 Views
I figure the idea is "spec fic" covers everything that's, well, spec fic, without being fantasy / SF Legolas - 10/05/2011 08:09:31 PM 653 Views
Huh Camilla - 10/05/2011 10:28:58 PM 752 Views
That was what I meant, maybe I phrased that badly... Legolas - 11/05/2011 08:53:14 PM 736 Views
Re: That was what I meant, maybe I phrased that badly... Camilla - 11/05/2011 08:54:52 PM 678 Views
I'd have to agree with Rebekah that e.g. The Time Traveller's Wife qualifies. Legolas - 11/05/2011 09:00:03 PM 663 Views
Gaiman's short stories? Camilla - 12/05/2011 10:54:59 AM 754 Views
Some of them would be, yes. Rebekah - 12/05/2011 11:12:05 AM 691 Views
Replay by Ken Grimwood. Rebekah - 11/05/2011 09:00:32 PM 721 Views
MIdnight's Children? jh - 11/05/2011 09:11:24 PM 761 Views
Thomas Ligotti. Michael Cisco. Algernon Blackwood. Larry - 11/05/2011 11:14:45 PM 815 Views
Indeed. Rebekah - 10/05/2011 10:37:51 PM 702 Views
I'm glad our fearless leaders are so sure. nossy - 11/05/2011 01:31:52 AM 814 Views
Speculative Fiction ranagrande - 11/05/2011 02:03:12 PM 729 Views
I entirely agree, evidently I phrased my opinion badly though... *NM* Legolas - 11/05/2011 08:55:00 PM 298 Views
Sure, I'll give it a shot. *NM* Legolas - 10/05/2011 08:10:04 PM 340 Views
Pure pimpage: In a few weeks, I'll have a story being published in an anthology that'd meet this Larry - 11/05/2011 11:18:17 PM 689 Views
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