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Rhondak101

Posted 2013-01-17 1:48 PM (#4596)
Subject: Reading Goals 2013

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I know many of us have the WoGF as a reading goal this year. I'm interested in what goals/challenges other people have. Actually, I'm a little scared to hear Dusty's

Anyway, the WoGF is my only formal reading challenge this year; however, I have some informal ones.

1) 15 books from the Guardian List

2) 10 books from what I call The Neil Gaiman List--there's not a formal list produced by Gaiman--just a bunch of early fantasy and horror that Gaiman mentions in his blog and references in his work. I've been jotting down names and titles for years: folks like Lord Dunsany, Hope Mirrlees, James Branch Cabel, etc.

3) 5 books from the Shadow of WoGF list--that is, books from women authors that I've already read, so I can't count them for my WoGF. I'm limiting these to authors that I've only read one or two previous works from.

That's 42 books, which is especially doable since I plan to overlap some of these.

What are YOU reading?

DrNefario

Posted 2013-01-17 2:31 PM (#4597 - in reply to #4596)
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My main challenge this year I've already mentioned elsewhere: read more books than I buy. I'm already behind by 2.

The WoGF is my only formal challenge too. I did the fiftyfifty challenge last year, and ultimately read 55 books, but I was leaning towards shorter works and wanted to catch up on some of the longer books this year.

Apart from that, I have a few other targets:

1) Finish the Hugo winners. I have 9 left to read, although they keep adding new ones each year.

2) Move on to the BSFA winners after the Hugos. I've been buying towards this for a while. This is actually going to come free with the WoGF if I read The Sparrow.

3) I intend to get started on little crime fiction challenge I've set myself which I'm calling The ABC Murders - read a book featuring a detective whose name begins with each letter of the alphabet. I'm reading a Poirot at the moment to start it off (but not actually The ABC Murders). I'm aiming to read 8 of the 26 this year, which pretty much just means 8 random crime novels. I didn't start this one until I'd found something I could use for X. (Christopher Brookmyre's Angelique de Xavier.)

Other than that, there are quite a few specific books I want to read, but 12 WoGF + 10 Hugo + 8 crime is already 30 books. I can only hope this year's Hugo is won by a woman I've never read.

Rhondak101

Posted 2013-01-17 2:52 PM (#4598 - in reply to #4596)
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DrNefario,

I like the ABC Murders idea. I might steal that one for another time.

Switters

Posted 2013-01-18 7:29 AM (#4602 - in reply to #4598)
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I'm on a similair track as DrNefario.

1) WoGF, I'm getting through this pretty quickly. It will probably come down to Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell which I just can't seem to commit to.

2) Hugo winners. I have 16 left with 2 Foundation books to read before Foundation's Edge. I'll be moving onto the Locus SF list after I'm done with the Hugo's. There's a lot of overlap between these lists. I'll have 9 too read after finishing the Hugo's

3) Read every book nominated for the Hugo again this year and the winner's of the Nebula, Locus SF, BSFA, Campbell, Clarke and Phillip K. Dick awards. I plan to buy a non-attending membership ($60) to the World Science Fiction Convention so I can vote on the Hugo's this year. Last year they gave out copies of everything nominated except the movies with the membership and I'm hoping they do that again. I would pay $12 each for the novels so throwing in the novellas, short fiction and a vote is a no brainer for me.

4) read as many of the nominees in the Nebula, Locus SF, BSFA, Campbell, Clarke and Phillip K. Dick awards as possible.

This puts me at 39-45 books this year before getting to goal 4. That seems doable.

justifiedsinner

Posted 2013-01-18 9:47 AM (#4603 - in reply to #4596)
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As well as the WoGF challenge, in SF:

1) Finish off the Locus SF winners (I have 2 left)
2) Read 12 Nebula winners

with plays: Finish off the Tony Award winners (3 left), read the August Wilson Century Cycle (10 plays)
and read 12 Mann-Booker Award winners.

Plus, of course, read this years (and finish last years) award winners: Hugo, Nebula, Locus SF, BSFA, Campbell, Clarke, PKD, Tony, Pulitzer (Drama and Fiction), Evening Standard, Olivier, Booker, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award and the James Tait Black.

dustydigger

Posted 2013-01-24 5:40 PM (#4610 - in reply to #4596)
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Rhonda,dont tease! I had all my WWEnd books sorted long before December,thinking we were doing the Guardian list.Major change of plans.I am ashamed to say I had very few female authors on my original list,and even those were mostly author already read,so I had some adjusting to do.On shelfari I am doing a 12x12 challenge,12 books from 12 genres,but there should be quite a bit of overlap with my WWEnd Pyramid.Here we go;
 Onlie Begetter 
Edgar Allan Poe - Selected short stories

 Double Helping of Zelazny 
1. Roger Zelazny - To Die in Italbar
2. Roger Zelazny - Changeling

 Battles in Space - Military SF
1. John Scalzi - Old Man's War
2. Joe Haldeman - Forever Peace
3. Robert Heinlein - Starship Troopers(reread)

 Lurkers in the Dark 
1. Lord Dunsany - Selected tales
2. H P Lovecraft - Selected short stories
3. Algernon Blacwwood - Selected Tales
4. Arthur Machen & M R James - Selected Tales

 Gothic Chillers 
1. Horace Walpole - Castle of Otranto
2. Sheridan Lefanu - Uncle Silas
3. Henry James - Turn of the Screw
4. W H Hodgson - The House on the Borderlands
5. Sheridan Le Fanu - In a Glass Darkly

6. In a Galaxy Far Away
1. Ian M Banks - Consider phlebas
2. Ian M Banks - Player of Games
3. Dan Simmons - Hyperion
4. Alastair Reynolds - Revelation space
5. Stephen Baxter - The Time Ships
6. Poul Anderson - Tau Zero

Flights of Fantasy
1. Raymond Feist - Magician
2. Orson Scott Card - Seventh Son
3. William Goldman - The Princess Bride
4. Neil Gaiman - American Gods
5. Stephen King - The Gunslinger✔
6. Piers Anthony - A Spell for Chameleon
7. Julie Kagawa - The Iron King

8. Hooray for the Hugos! 
1. Alfred Bester - The Demolished Man✔
2. Arthur C Clarke - Foundation series
3. Philip K Dick - The Man in the High Castle
4. William Gibson - Neuromancer
5. Vernor Vinge - Fire on the Deep
6. David Brin - Startide Rising
7. Isaac Asimov - The Gods Themselves
8. Ursula Le Guin - The Dispossessed

9. Featured Author of the Year - Heinlein juveniles
1. Podkayne of Mars ✔
2. Red Planet ✔
3. Space Cadet
4. Starman Jones✔
5. Rocketship Galileo
6. Farmer in the Sky
7. Glory Road
8. Star Beast
9 Have Spacesuit,Will Travel

10. .Look to the Ladies -female science fiction authors new to me
1. Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Colors of Space✔
2. Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Herland
3.Jo Walton - Among Other
4. Suzanne Collins - The hunger Games
5. Joanne Russ - The Female Man
6. Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale
7. Gail Carriger - Soulless
8. Angela Carter - Nights at the Circus
9. Nancy Farmer - The House of the Scorpion
10.Sheri S Tepper - Beauty

Lots of other books,but this is the stuff for this genre- 55 items

Edited by dustydigger 2013-01-24 5:45 PM

justifiedsinner

Posted 2013-01-24 7:32 PM (#4612 - in reply to #4596)
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Impressive list. What do the tick marks signify?

dustydigger

Posted 2013-01-25 1:00 PM (#4615 - in reply to #4612)
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Books already read for this challenge.Unfortunately,cant go back and edit the list,alredy several more that \I have read.Copied the list from my shelfari group,where we can edit freely,and update easily.

dustydigger

Posted 2013-01-25 1:00 PM (#4616 - in reply to #4612)
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Rhondak101

Posted 2013-01-29 7:51 PM (#4647 - in reply to #4610)
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Dusty,

We are reading many similar authors, at least the early ones. I have Dunsany, Blackwood and Le Fanu on my list. Right now I'm reading three short story collections--Chamber's The King in Yellow, Chesterton's The Innocence of Father Brown, and a bunch of Lovecraft stories. Good Luck on your list!

Rhonda

dustydigger

Posted 2013-02-13 7:34 AM (#4702 - in reply to #4596)
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Thanks Rhonda! Dear old Father Brown,my poor old copy of Innocence is in tatters with age.The stories are so evocative,and they stand up to rereading,which I find rare in modern crime writing. I am not familiar at all with The King in Yellow,must check it out - you know,in case I dont have anything to read

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