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?
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?
*MySmiley*
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
RAFO Challenges for May and June: what are your choices?
- 01/05/2011 10:56:11 AM
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Right. I have decided.
- 03/05/2011 12:59:32 PM
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So. Finished the first of my three.
- 09/05/2011 07:49:32 PM
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Are we the only two left doing these challenges? Also: I finished my first as well
- 09/05/2011 07:53:18 PM
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Not at all. But it'll probably be for June, for me, Vanity Fair is taking a while. *NM*
- 10/05/2011 08:11:02 PM
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I don't know what that means.
- 10/05/2011 05:02:15 PM
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I'm counting Summer Tree as spec fic
- 10/05/2011 07:16:15 PM
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I figure the idea is "spec fic" covers everything that's, well, spec fic, without being fantasy / SF
- 10/05/2011 08:09:31 PM
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Huh
- 10/05/2011 10:28:58 PM
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That was what I meant, maybe I phrased that badly...
- 11/05/2011 08:53:14 PM
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Re: That was what I meant, maybe I phrased that badly...
- 11/05/2011 08:54:52 PM
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I'd have to agree with Rebekah that e.g. The Time Traveller's Wife qualifies.
- 11/05/2011 09:00:03 PM
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Speculative Fiction
- 11/05/2011 02:03:12 PM
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I entirely agree, evidently I phrased my opinion badly though... *NM*
- 11/05/2011 08:55:00 PM
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Pure pimpage: In a few weeks, I'll have a story being published in an anthology that'd meet this
- 11/05/2011 11:18:17 PM
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- 11/05/2011 11:18:17 PM
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