SciFi and Fantasy Book Club discussion

The first challenge I'm joining in this group is the owned books challenge. I'm not sure if I'll do other challenges in this group.

2018 Owned Books Challenge
my count for my owned tbr books as of 2018 - 38 books:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

list of books
1. Alias Grace 1/11/2018 (nominated for several awards = 10 pts) + (owned less than a year = 0) + (genre: mystery/crime - a genre I usually avoid = 15) (turned into a movie or other media = 10) + (468 pgs = 15 pts for length), = 45 points
2. Chocolat (owned less than a year = 0) + (turned into a movie or other media = 10) + (read with a cup of tea = 5) + (306 pgs = 15 pts for length) +( author you've never read = 10) = 40 points
3. Heloise, Hints For A Healthy Planet
(less than 300 pgs = 0) + 30 (owned for 3 years, since 2015, even though I forgot to add it to my GoodReads TBR until last year) + 10 points (author you've never read before) = 40 pts
85 + 40 = 125 so far
4. Njal's Saga 2/1/2018 15 (300 pgs = 15 pts) + owned for 1 year = 10 points + 5 (read with a cup of tea or coffee) = 30
125 + 30 = 155
5. Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World (owned since March of last year, under 200 pages, so 0 points for time owned or pages - read with a cup of tea for 5 pts + read with a dog on your lap = 5 pts + a genre you usually avoid (literary criticism) 15 pts + an author you've never read = 10 points = 35 pts
155 + 35 = 190
6. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity 3/26/2018 0 points for time owned + under 300 pages = 0 + read with a cup of tea for 5 pts + read with a dog on your lap = 5 pts + "a genre you usually avoid" self-help 15 pts = + an author you've never read 10 points = 35 pts
7. Selections From Idylls of the King and Camelot
Length of ownership: 10 years = 150 points + length of book = 0 points (under 300 pages) + read with a cup of tea or coffee = 5 points = 155
points
8. The Years of Rice and Salt
length of ownership = 0 (less than a year) + length of book = 750 pgs = 150 pts + read with a cup of tea or coffee = 5 pts + read with a dog on your lap = 5 pts + Won/Nominated for any kind of award (Locus Award for Best Novel) = 10 pts + buddy read = 5 pts = 175 pts
9. The Man in the High Castle length of ownership (less than a year) = 0 points length of book = 0 points read with a cup of tea = 5 pts + read with a dog on your lap = 5 points + monthly selection for a group you're a member of = 25 points + turned into a movie or other media = 10 points
10. One Woman's War: Da (Mother) the Memoirs of Seyyedeh Zahra Hoseyni Paperback length of ownership 3 years = 50 pts + length 500+ pgs = 75 pts +An author you've never read = 10 pts + A genre/subgenre you usually avoid (nonfiction) = 15 pts + Read with a cup of tea or coffee = 5 pts + Read with a cat or dog on your lap = 5 pts = 160 pts
11. The Aeneid length of ownership 1 year = 10 pts + length 300+ pgs = 15 pts + A buddy read - 5 pts (in another group) + An author you've never read = 10 pts + Read with a cup of tea or coffee = 5 pts + Read with a cat or dog on your lap = 5 = 50 pts
12. Axis length of ownership = 0 + length = 300+ = 5 +Read with a cup of tea or coffee = 5 + Read with a cat or dog on your lap = 5 = 20 pts
13. Tao Te Ching length = 0 pts + length of ownership = less than 1 year = 0 pts + Read with a cup of tea or coffee = 5 pts + read with a dog on lap = 5 + genre you usually avoid (nonfiction) = 10 pts = 20 pts
14. The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone length of ownership = 2 years = 10 pts = 10 pts
15. The Iliad Fagles translation length of ownership = 1 year = 10 pts + length = 500 pgs = 75 pts + Read with a cup of tea or coffee = 5 pts + read with a dog on lap = 5 + Won/nominated for any kind of award = 10 pts (Academy of American Poets 1991 translation award) = 105 pts
(I'd read this before, but NOT the same translation as the one I own, so I am counting it)
16. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (free copy) length of ownership = 0 + length = 0 + read with a cup of tea or coffee = 5 pts + read with a dog on lap = 5 + Won/nominated for any kind of award = 10 pts = 20 pts
17. The Lindisfarne Gospels length of ownership = 1 yr + length = 0 + read with a cup of tea = 5 pts + read with a dog on lap = 5 + An author you've never read = 10 pts + a genre you usually avoid (nonfiction) = 15 = 35 pts
18. Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege 8/31/2018 length of ownership (2 years) = 10 pts + length of bk (300+) = 15 pts + read with a cup of tea = 5 pts + read with a dog on lap = 5 + An author you've never read = 10 pts + a genre you usually avoid (nonfiction) = 15 = 60 pts
19. The Accursed 9/28/2018 length of ownership = 0 pts + length of bk (500+) 75 pts + read with a cup of tea = 5 pts + read with a dog on lap = 5 pts = 85 pts
20. Love's Labor's Lost 10/15/2018 length of ownership = 0 pts + length of book = (107p) 0 pts + read with a cup of tea or coffee = 5 pts + read with a dog on lap = 5 pts + turned into a movie = 10 pts = 15 p
21. Quicksilver 11/11/2018 length of ownership = 1 year = 10 pts + length of book (750+) = 150 pts + first book in series = 5 pts + Read with a cup of tea or coffee = 5 points + Won/Nominated for an award = 10 points + read with a dog on lap = 5 pts = 185 pts
22. Orlando 11/17/2018 length of ownership = 0 + length of book (300+) = 15 pts + turned into a movie or other media = 10 + read with a cup of tea or coffee = 5 points + read with a dog on lap = 5 pts = 35 pts
23. The Illustrated Book of Sacred Scriptures 11/23/2018 length of ownership = 1 year = 10 pts + length of book = 0 + read with a cup of tea or coffee = 5 points + an author you've never read = 10 pts + a genre you usually avoid (nonfiction) = 15 pts = 30 pts
22. The Snow Leopard 12/6/2018 length of ownership = 1 year = 10 pts + length of book = 300 = 15 pts + read with a cup of tea or coffee = 5 points + read with a dog on lap = 5 pts + an author you've never read = 10 pts + a genre you usually avoid (nonfiction) = 15 pts + Won/nominated for any kind of award = 10 pts = 70 pts
22. Her Body and Other Parties length of ownership = 0 + length of book = 0 pts + read with a cup of tea or coffee = 5 points + an author you've never read = 10 pts+ won/nominated for any kind of award = 10 pts = 25 pts

points so far: 1025 (books 1-18)+ 285 (books 19-21) = 1310 + 35 = 1345 + 30 + 70 = 1445 + 25 pts = 1470

I've decided to join the Read All the Books Challenge for the suggested minimum of 12 books. I'll update this message with a list of the ones I read. (I have tagged a bunch of potential reads or rereads for this shelf.)

11/12 read

1. Too Like the Lightning 2/9/2018 review
2. The Stars Are Legion 3/2/2018 (audio) review
3. Seven Surrenders 3/7/2018 review
4. The Fifth Season 3/20/2018 4 stars
5. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch 3/24/2018 5 stars (I own this one, but I don't know if it counts for the owned books challenge, since I had already read it before I bought a copy)
6. The Warrior's Apprentice 3/29/2018 (audio) 2 stars, not quite what I was hoping for but an ok book. I will probably try Bujold again at some point.
7. The Man in the High Castle 4/22/2018 5 stars review
8. The Lathe of Heaven 4/29/2018 4 stars
9. Spin 5/5/2018 3 stars
10. The Obelisk Gate 7/24/2018
11. Little, Big 7/28/2018 4 stars
12. ?

Currently reading Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World for the owned books challenge.

I have just DNFed The Anubis Gates and Rendezvous with Rama, so I guess I won't be counting them for either of my challenges.

I still have on my shelves:
Little, Big
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (this will be a reread, but I haven't reread it since before I actually bought a copy)
The Eyre Affair
The Man in the High Castle

That's it for the Read All the Books Challenge (besides library books).

Other sf/f on my shelves (unread):
Orlando
Quicksilver
The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF (anthology)
Otherwise: Three Novels by John Crowley
Something About Eve
Galileo's Dream bought at library sale (2018)
The Boat of a Million Years, Remake, The Privilege of the Sword If on a Winter's Night a Traveler The Accursed, Her Body and Other Parties, [updated - added these 3 to my read list] [library giveaways, 2018)

That's it, unless I've overlooked something.

For the owned books challenge:

started and abandoned The Eyre Affair, another one I'll sell or give away

updated message #4 with free books I've acquired this year, not for the owned books challenge (they're not eligible) but just to keep track of)

Started the year with 38 books, I now have 30 unread books! So I will add 500 points.

1470 (see message 1) + 500 = 1970
books read: 22

number of points divided by number of books: 22 = 89

2019: Read All the Books Challenge
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Owned Books Challenge: January
I will update this post with whatever I read this month for the challenge

1. Subtleties of the Incredible Mullah Nasrudin
length of ownership: 1 year - 10 pts
length of book: 0 pts (less than 300)
Read with a cup of tea or coffee - 5 points/book (1/bk)
Read with a cat or dog on your lap - 5 points (1/bk)
points: 10 + 5 + 5 = 20

Owned Books Challenge: February

2. The Bacchae and Other Plays currently reading 2/12/2019
length of ownership: 1 year - 10 pts
length of book: 0 pts (less than 300)
Read with a cup of tea or coffee - 5 points/book (1/bk)
Read with a cat or dog on your lap - 5 points (1/bk)
points: 10 + 5 + 5 = 20

Owned Books Challenge: March
The Black Tides of Heaven 3/26/2019
length of ownership: 1 year: 10 pts
length of book: 0 pts (less than 300)
Read with a cup of tea or coffee: 5 points/book (1/bk)
Read with a cat or dog on your lap: 5 points (1/bk)
Won/nominated for any kind of award: 10 pts
New-to-you author: 10 pts
points: 10+5+5+10+10 = 40

CURRENT TOTAL: 80 pts

So, I sort of abandoned this challenge back in 2019. I'm reviving this thread to keep track of my Short Fiction Challenge this year, having completed the Double Sneezy level in 2021 (i think this is the only challenge I completed this year)

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

My goals this year are:
12 books for Read All the Books

Short Fiction Challenge: Happy - 12 novellas or collections + Double Bashful: 12 individual short stories or poems

12 novellas or collections
1. So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy 2/5/2022
2. Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake 3/27/2022
3. Grim Tales by E. Nesbit 4/30/2022
4. Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey 4/30/2022
5. Kingdoms of Elfin by Sylvia Townsend Warner 5/19/2022
6. Comfort Me with Apples by Catherynne M. Valente 5/27/2022 (novella)
7. Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy edited by Douglas A. Anderson


Double Bashful: 12 individual short stories or poems: level completed, next level: 24 stories
January:
1. The Rocking-Horse Winner (Pseudopod)
https://pseudopod.org/2022/01/07/pseu...
February:
2. And No Bird Sings (Pseudopod)
https://pseudopod.org/2022/01/14/pseu...
March:
3. The Garden of Proserpine by Algernon Charles Swinburne (reread)
4. The Book of Thel by William Blake (Norton Anthology of Poetry)
5. A School Story (Cast of Wonders)
https://www.castofwonders.org/2016/01... (found through the "for new listeners" page)
6. Pseudopod 350: The Bungalow House by Thomas Ligotti (reread)
https://pseudopod.org/2013/09/06/pseu... (found through the "for new listeners" page)
May:
7. Podcastle 345: Makeisha in Time by Rachael K. Jones
https://podcastle.org/2015/01/06/podc...
8. Podcastle 516A: "Without Faith, Without Law, Without Joy" https://podcastle.org/2018/04/02/podc... - This might be my favorite Podcastle episode so far! I've now listened to all 5 that were tagged "The Best of Podcastle." (Some of those I listened to last year or the year before). Except "In the Stacks" which just didn't work for me. It's really long for audio.
9, 10, 11: reread "The Dog Rose" "True Thomas" and "Godfather Death" from Black Swan, White Raven (revisiting my favorites)
September:
12. "When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be" John Keats
13. Pseudopod 823: Little Freedoms by Ephiny Gale (listened September 14)
14. Pseudopod 822: The Experiment of Erich Weigert (August 25, 2022) (published 1926) listened Sept 17
15. Pseudopod 825: Flowering Evil (August 5, 2022) (published 1926) listened Sept 18
16. Pseudopod 827: She Works in the Office Where They Died (published September 9) listened Sept 19
17. Pseudopod 820: Off the Road (published July 22, 2022) listened Sept 22
18. Pseudopod 807: The Bleak Communion of Abandoned Things (published April 22, 2022) listened Sept 24
19. Pseudopod 830: The Honey Witch by Kathryn McMahon, published September 30, 2022; listened October 1, 2022
20. Pseudopod 829: We’ve All Gone to the Magic Show by Todd Kiesling, published September 25, 2022; listened October 5, 2022
21. PseudoPod 832: Flash on the Borderlands LXIII: Respect Your Elders – three short stories by different authors; my favorite was “When I Was Young, I Did Not Need Magic by Kat Day. Published October 14, 2022; listened to October 15
22. Pseudopod 836: The Halloween Parade listened to October 31
23. Pseudopod 841: "Corporation" listened December 2, same day published
24. Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came - Robert Browning read December 31