By now, anyone who spends a bit of time rooting around my blog (JLAS) will discover that I have a quirky ability to find new reading challenges at the drop of a hat! And, I always attempt to make good on my promise to complete them during their event’s time-frame but alas! My reading life has endeared a few unexpected obstacles these past months, and so, most of the challenges I have undertaken are “in-progress”. Therefore, what bliss to find one that is free-form and can be completed without a specific end-date! I am in the process of completing all my reading challenges that I thus far entered, but what made me become engaged with this one in particular is because I have a *stacked full* reading list to devour in November for SFN!! All the scheduled and proposed books will be listed! Let’s see where they take me on the Bingo card!?
This lovely card was created by Leanne @ Oh! the Books!
Let the Reading Challenge Commence!
B1: A book with alternate realities {The Skin Map by Stephen R. Lawhead}
B2: A sci-fi book mixed with horror
B3: A debut sci-fi novel
B4: A book with awesome technology
B5: A book set on another planet
I1: A book that’s a space western
I2: A book with robots/AI {The Dark Unwinding by Sharon Cameron}*automation
I3: A book with mind-based super powers
I4: A book with clones
I5: A book with aliens
N1: A book involving a war
N2: A book involving dreams {Becoming Beauty by Sarah E. Boucher}
N3: FREE!
N4: A book with mutations
N5: A book with time travel
G1: A book set underneath the earth
G2: A book set in the future
G3: A book with a dystopian setting
G4: A book with cyborgs
G5: A book set in an alternate past
O1: A book with a non-human MC
O2: A book with spaceships
O3: A book with laser weapons
O4: A book set in post-apocalypse
O5: A book with genetic engineering
SFN Reading List: [combination of scheduled & alternates]
- The Skin Map by Stephen R. Lawhead {5/6 Nov ’13}
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- Breaking the Time Barrier Jenny Randles
- WorldSoul by Liz Williams
- Time Travel in Einstein’s Universe by Richard J. Gott
- Time: A Traveler’s Guide by Clifford A. Pickover
- The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer
- The Little Book by Selden Edwards
- The Lost Prince by Selden Edwards
- The Map of Time by Felix J. Palma
- The Kingdom of Ohio by Matthew Fleming
- Expiration Date by Duane Swierczynski
- City at the End of Time by Greg Bear
- All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill
- The Archived by Victoria Schwab
- Across the Universe by Beth Revis
- Divergent by Veronica Roth
- The Postman by David Brin
- Prized by Caragh M. O’Brien
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
- Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
- The Search for WondLa by Tony DiTerlizzi
- Steamed: A Steampunk Romance by Kate MacAlister
- Not Less Than Gods by Kage Baker
- Steampunk: An Anthology by Ann Vandermeer
- The Dark Unwinding by Sharon Cameron {started ’13 | finished ’14}
- The Clockwork Universe by Edward Dolnick
- Mainspring by Jay Lake
- Airborn by Kenneth Opel
- Becoming Beauty by Sarah E. Boucher {9 Nov ’14}
It will be a wondrous mystery to me to see which elements of these books will enter into the formation of the Bingo card’s taken spaces! I am certain that if I can read the # of books I scheduled to read this month, it will be quite the feat in of itself! Therefore, if reading the alternates takes time into December and the Bingo card is not yet completed for a win – I shall continue!
Stay tuned!
I am tweaking my Book Showcase on Steampunk Literature
& will reveal my first Steampunk choice!
Rock on, dear hearts!
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{SOURCES: Leanne at Literary Excursion Oh! the Books made the SFN Bingo Card for SFN participants to take part in the joy of an undisciplined reading challenge! The Bingo card is used with permission. Sci-Fi November Badge provided by Rinn Reads for participants to advert the month long event and to encourage people to follow along with those of us who are contributing.}
Copyright © Jorie Loves A Story, 2013.
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