After having only a partially
successful year with Challenges
in 2013, I have decided to be a little more flexible in my approach this year
and set myself targets that I have a better chance of fulfilling. I am also
determined to try to include as many titles as possible from the list of female
authors that I have compiled from the
recommendations give during the Women in SF&F Month at Fantasy Cafe, which has run in April
for the last two years. I have added a page
to the blog, which lists these authors and my progress working through the
list.
Last year I took part in the Women of
Genre Fiction Reading Challenge over at Worlds Without End and this year they
are repeating that challenge and offering several more. At the moment I have
signed up to two that will allow me to cross more lady writers of my list,
although I have had to sneak George R. R. Martin into one of them to fulfill
the criteria of the challenge: that is my excuse and I am sticking to it!
2014 Women
of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge
For more information about this
Challenge, you can check out this page.
The rules are relatively
straightforward: read twelve female authors from their list that are new to
you. Write reviews for each of those twelve books.
The books I propose to read are:
Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb
Bold As Love by Gwyneth Jones
Miserere by Teresa Frohock
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer
Bradley
My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due
Of Blood and Honey by Stina Lecht
Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire
Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
Tinker by Wen Spencer
Transformation by Carol Berg
Warchild by Karin Lowachee
2014
Masterworks Reading Challenge
For more information about this
Challenge, you can check out this page.
Again, the rules are simple: read
twelve titles from three lists, including two from each (hence my need to
include dear George). Write reviews for six of the books.
The books I propose to read are:
Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
The Book of Atrix Wolfe by Patricia
A. McKillip
Cold Magic by Kate Elliott
Daughter of the Blood by Anne Bishop
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet
Marilier
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin
Grimspace by Ann Aguirre
In Conquest Born by C.S. Friedman
Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey
Slow River by Nicola Griffith
The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge
