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Leyra'an
Posted 2016-12-15 4:59 PM (#14721 - in reply to #12239)
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Location: USA		Just finished reading Singularity Sky by Charles Stross, another new-to-me author, and one who has made a huge impression. The sequel to this book, Iron Sunrise, will be on next year's list!

Speaking of lists, this leaves me with two books and half a month left. Fortunately, one of them is very short. Still, this is gonna be close!
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dustydigger
Posted 2016-12-17 12:19 PM (#14732 - in reply to #14721)
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Location: UK		I'veadded Singularity Sky to my 2017 reading list! Better get cracking with your last two books. You have done very well as I remember you being a little uneasy as to whether you could manage 10 books in the year.Severian derailed you a little I think! lol.
Oh boy! I've just surfaced (very appropriate word!) from Michael Swannick's Nebula winning Stations of the Tide.An unnamed bureaucrat is sent to the planet Miranda to find a renegade scientist -cum-magician who may have possibly stolen some proscribed technology.Redolent with allusions to The Tempest,this book swings wildly from SF to fantasy and is hallucinogenic,surreal,bewildering and hypnotic. I didnt understand most of it,and even the ending was weird,but the book was enormous fun,exploding with ideas,fantastic worldbuilding and it certainly lived up to the famous quote in the Tempest
''Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.''
This whole book was rich and strange indeed - and only 260 pages long!
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Mervi2012
Posted 2016-12-18 2:44 AM (#14740 - in reply to #14721)
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Leyra'an - 2016-12-15 4:59 PM
Speaking of lists, this leaves me with two books and half a month left. Fortunately, one of them is very short. Still, this is gonna be close!


You can do it!

I've just completed my P&M challenge! "Long Hot Summoning" by Tanya Huff was my last P&M book. It's the third in the Keeper chronicles, light-hearted modern fantasy. It was a fun read and a good final book to the series. In this one, Keeper sisters Claire and Diana have to work together to end a threat from Otherside.
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Leyra'an
Posted 2016-12-18 8:09 AM (#14742 - in reply to #12239)
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Location: USA		Almost half way through David Brin's short fiction collection The Rivers of Time, so yes, there's a good chance I'll pull this off. It helps that Brin is one of my favorite authors, so I have little incentive to put the book down for any length of time. ;-)
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Guest
Posted 2016-12-18 12:09 PM (#14745 - in reply to #12239)
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Just reading Children of Time, an uplift story, and the author named a major research vehicle the Brin Habitat!
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Naomi_uk72
Posted 2016-12-22 9:10 AM (#14756 - in reply to #12239)
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Location: Sheffield, UK		I'm happy to announce that last night I finished my eightieth book for the Pick'n'Mix Challenge of 2016. Huzzah!
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Leyra'an
Posted 2016-12-22 9:54 AM (#14757 - in reply to #14756)
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Location: USA		Finished (and thoroughly enjoyed) the collection of short fiction by David Brin, The River of Time. On to the twentieth and last on the list, Star Born by Andre Norton.
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dustydigger
Posted 2016-12-24 6:03 AM (#14766 - in reply to #12239)
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Location: UK		Well done Thomas,the Norton book is pretty short so here's hoping you finish the challenge
Well done too to Mervi with your 40 books and Naomi with 80 books completed. Huzzah indeed
We've had a remarkable year,reached well over 1000 books read,triple last year.
Start checking out next year's reads,Pick N Mixers,as we start all over again in just over a week lol
Seasons greetings to everyone,hope you all get some intriguing new books!
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Mervi2012
Posted 2016-12-24 6:12 AM (#14767 - in reply to #12239)
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Thanks for hosting, dustydigger!

Seasons greeting to everyone from me too!
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Leyra'an
Posted 2016-12-26 6:40 PM (#14784 - in reply to #12239)
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Location: USA		And I've turned the last page of Andre Norton's novel Star Born. A quick, fun read. I read several novels by Andre Norton back in the late '60, but until this year hadn't given her work much thought. A conversation in the now defunct Shelfari prompted this round of rediscovery. It's been fun.

And now, contemplating next year. I feel a need to balance the reading of sci-fi/fantasy with more nonfiction, so I might not go for 20 this time. Also have some works in my sights that, being "indie" in nature, are likely to be beyond the scope of WWE. So we shall see...
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jontlaw
Posted 2017-01-01 12:10 PM (#14854 - in reply to #12239)
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Location: Alief, TX		Looks like I finished at 50 books, so caught between levels. Leading authors were Philip K. Dick, Cherie Priest, Andre Norton, C.J. Cherryh, Mark Hodder, R.A. Salvatore, and Philip Jose Farmer.
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majkia
Posted 2017-01-01 4:56 PM (#14857 - in reply to #12239)
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Location: Niceville, FL		Ok, be kind to me folks. Although I've been a member here for years, I haven't had anything to do with the forums or the challenges. This year I thought I'd change that. So I'm jumping into this challenge.
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dustydigger
Posted 2017-01-01 5:13 PM (#14860 - in reply to #12239)
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Location: UK		Hi Majkia,look forward to your reads, And love your Day the Earth Stood Still avi! Gort is looking suitably stoic!
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Leyra'an
Posted 2017-01-01 8:41 PM (#14862 - in reply to #14860)
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Location: USA		Are we going to stick with this thread, or start a new one for 2017?
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dustydigger
Posted 2017-01-01 10:42 PM (#14866 - in reply to #12239)
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Location: UK		I did say I wasnt going to bother,not enough response,but cant resist,I am going to set it up now !
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