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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 1040 Views
Right. I have decided. Rebekah - 03/05/2011 12:59:32 PM 816 Views
So. Finished the first of my three. Rebekah - 09/05/2011 07:49:32 PM 784 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 768 Views
Maybe. Rebekah - 09/05/2011 07:55:46 PM 829 Views
Re: Maybe. Camilla - 09/05/2011 07:58:03 PM 800 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 355 Views
No, I'm just wildly behind. Stephen - 10/05/2011 10:07:37 PM 865 Views
And I've changed my mind. Rebekah - 18/05/2011 01:52:16 PM 837 Views
After careful deliberation... Camilla - 03/05/2011 01:44:08 PM 949 Views
I don't know what that means. nossy - 10/05/2011 05:02:15 PM 811 Views
I'm counting Summer Tree as spec fic nossy - 10/05/2011 07:16:15 PM 777 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 747 Views
Huh Camilla - 10/05/2011 10:28:58 PM 847 Views
That was what I meant, maybe I phrased that badly... Legolas - 11/05/2011 08:53:14 PM 835 Views
Re: That was what I meant, maybe I phrased that badly... Camilla - 11/05/2011 08:54:52 PM 772 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 757 Views
Gaiman's short stories? Camilla - 12/05/2011 10:54:59 AM 847 Views
Some of them would be, yes. Rebekah - 12/05/2011 11:12:05 AM 787 Views
Replay by Ken Grimwood. Rebekah - 11/05/2011 09:00:32 PM 809 Views
MIdnight's Children? jh - 11/05/2011 09:11:24 PM 857 Views
Thomas Ligotti. Michael Cisco. Algernon Blackwood. Larry - 11/05/2011 11:14:45 PM 921 Views
Indeed. Rebekah - 10/05/2011 10:37:51 PM 805 Views
I'm glad our fearless leaders are so sure. nossy - 11/05/2011 01:31:52 AM 905 Views
Speculative Fiction ranagrande - 11/05/2011 02:03:12 PM 827 Views
I entirely agree, evidently I phrased my opinion badly though... *NM* Legolas - 11/05/2011 08:55:00 PM 340 Views
Sure, I'll give it a shot. *NM* Legolas - 10/05/2011 08:10:04 PM 384 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 787 Views
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