I’ve chosen the purist (speculative fiction) genre challenge, and the Miles challenge level (i.e. read 6 books, review 3). In the back of my mind, I’m hoping I might get closer to the Franklin-fantastic challenge level, but I am aware that my day job and life generally can often get in the way of me reading as much as I’d like.<\/p>\n
I’m not sure of exactly what my six books will be, but they will likely include:<\/p>\n
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- Whichever books from the Twelve Planets series <\/a>come my way in 2012, starting with Bad Power<\/em> by Deborah Biancotti<\/a>. I believe I should get at least 4 books through the Twelve Planets series.<\/li>\n
- I’ve heard a lot of good things about The Courier’s New Bicycle<\/em> by Kim Westwood<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Power and Majesty<\/em> by Tansy Rayner Roberts <\/a>(I really enjoyed <\/a>Love and Romanpunk<\/em>\u00a0by the same author, so looking forward to reading some more of her work). If I like it, then I’ll probably read the second book in the series The Shattered City.<\/em><\/li>\n
- I’m not sure if this counts, but I’ll be reading the\u00a0Above\/Below<\/em> double novella.\u00a0Above<\/em> is by Stephanie Campisi<\/a>, which in my mind qualifies it.\u00a0Below<\/em> is by Ben Peek<\/a>. Maybe that disqualifies it. We’ll see.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
You can find all my reviews for the challenge here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Some information from the challenge website follows.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\nObjective: <\/strong>This challenge hopes to help counteract the gender bias in reviewing and social media newsfeeds that has continued throughout 2011 by actively promoting the reading and reviewing of a wide range of contemporary Australian women’s writing.<\/p>\n
Challenge\u00a0period:<\/strong> \u00a01 January 2012 –\u00a0 31 December 2012<\/p>\n
Goal: <\/strong>Read and review books written by Australian women writers \u2013 hard copies, ebooks and audiobooks, new, borrowed or stumbled upon by book-crossing.<\/p>\n
Genre challenges:\u00a0<\/strong>
\nPurist: one genre only
\nDabbler: more than one genre
\nDevoted eclectic: as many genres as you can find
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\nChallenge levels:<\/strong>
\nStella (read 3 and review at least 2 books)
\nMiles (read 6 and review at least 3* )
\nFranklin-fantastic (read 10 and review at least 4 books)*
\n* The higher levels should include at least one substantial length review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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- I’ve heard a lot of good things about The Courier’s New Bicycle<\/em> by Kim Westwood<\/a>.<\/li>\n