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Posted 2016-01-04 11:19 PM (#12289 - in reply to #12283)
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Sable Aradia - 2016-01-04 7:21 PM Hey there, thanks for creating this challenge! I got involved on the site too late to do this last year and I'm excited about 2016! Kudos to the people who assembled the resource list; that's great. I will be encouraging a few friends of mine to join the site just because I know they'd love this list. I have a couple of questions. The first is: do re-reads count? I have read Mercedes Lackey's wonderful series The Last Herald-Mage of Valdemar before, but I tend to do a biannual re-read and I'm about due. If not that's fine; I'm sure I can find enough to keep me busy anyway. Looking forward to Lois McMaster Bujold's new book . . . The second question: will this be an annual tradition? I see that a lot of the SF Masterworks books are also part of this collection but I'm not planning on reading them for a while; that challenge is reading them in order, one per month. (Of course there's no reason I can't read them ahead of time and then read them again, but it's been kind of fun to do them in order; it requires you to read things that might not otherwise appeal to you and then you learn things.) Thanks!

Glad to hear you like the LGBTQ challenge and thanks for spreading the word!  Spoltz did all the heavy lifting on the new list though he did have some help from our other Ubers.  It was a great job by all.

I'll let Steve weight in on the rules issue - he's the challenge host this year.

I think you can count on this being an annual tradition.  The popular challenges tend to repeat if there is enough interest.  If the original challenge host does not want to host again anyone else can jump in and host for the next year.  This is the 3rd year for the LGBT - we added the Q this year - and it's had 3 different hosts passing the torch.


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