Wednesday, May 17, 2006
May TBR Challenge
The TBR Challenge for May is to read a bestselling or award-winning book or one by a bestselling or award-winning author. This can be on the cover, or you can go to an award's site (Romantic Times or RWA, for example) and find a list of winners.
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Examples from my shelves:
But the point of the TBR Challenge is to move books out of the TBR pile, and Proven Guilty didn't even get close to the pile.
So my TBR Challenge read was Dreams Made Flesh by Anne Bishop. I'm not sure how long it was in my TBR pile, but it had been there since before February, when it came out in mass market size--my copy is trade-size. I'd been a bit hesitant to read it because, while I loved the trilogy it follows, the world was hard to get into, and I read it in a continual state of mild confusion. Yes, it sounds like I'm contradicting myself. It's a consequence of reading so much. Sometimes it's really nice to not have everything clear in a book--as long as it makes sense in the end, that is. Anyway. Point is, they were long and not easy reads, and I was expecting more of the same, and I usually need a nudge to pick up a book I think will take as much time as 2 or 3 other books.
Dreams Made Flesh wasn't what I'd expected. It was two short stories and two novellas. One short story explained how the world had come about; the other was about the patriarch; and the two novellas were the missing romances following the 2nd and 3rd books of the trilogy. Only the short stories had the same feel as the trilogy--intriguing but mildly confusing. The novellas weren't hard to read at all. I can't put my finger on what the difference was, but I did miss it, a bit.
Normally, I'm not a fan of books that add on to an already-finished story, but these stories were a joy to read. Maybe it's because I enjoyed these characters and this world so much, but I really couldn't put it down.
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Examples from my shelves:
- Dead and Loving It by MaryJanice Davidson: "New York Times Bestselling Author"
- Dead Beat by Jim Butcher: "USA Today Bestselling Author"
- George and the Virgin by Lisa Cach: "Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award Winner"
But the point of the TBR Challenge is to move books out of the TBR pile, and Proven Guilty didn't even get close to the pile.
So my TBR Challenge read was Dreams Made Flesh by Anne Bishop. I'm not sure how long it was in my TBR pile, but it had been there since before February, when it came out in mass market size--my copy is trade-size. I'd been a bit hesitant to read it because, while I loved the trilogy it follows, the world was hard to get into, and I read it in a continual state of mild confusion. Yes, it sounds like I'm contradicting myself. It's a consequence of reading so much. Sometimes it's really nice to not have everything clear in a book--as long as it makes sense in the end, that is. Anyway. Point is, they were long and not easy reads, and I was expecting more of the same, and I usually need a nudge to pick up a book I think will take as much time as 2 or 3 other books.
Dreams Made Flesh wasn't what I'd expected. It was two short stories and two novellas. One short story explained how the world had come about; the other was about the patriarch; and the two novellas were the missing romances following the 2nd and 3rd books of the trilogy. Only the short stories had the same feel as the trilogy--intriguing but mildly confusing. The novellas weren't hard to read at all. I can't put my finger on what the difference was, but I did miss it, a bit.
Normally, I'm not a fan of books that add on to an already-finished story, but these stories were a joy to read. Maybe it's because I enjoyed these characters and this world so much, but I really couldn't put it down.
Categories: TBRChallenge
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