One of my BookCrossing friends is hosting her first reading challenge!
I already have a bunch of books picked out for other challenges through the end of the year, but I’m a sucker for challenges with bingo cards, so here I am! I think I will try for one bingo. That lands me smack dab in the middle of the Ursa Major challenge level. I’ve pored over the awards lists, and this is my tentative challenge list:
- The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Cathrynne M Valente
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K LeGuin
- A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar
- The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
- Dragonsdawn by Anne McCaffrey
I also just posted a giveaway in the BookCrossing Forums. This is for two copies of The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. Please note that you must be both a BookCrosser and a registered challenge participant to enter the drawing.
This challenge promises to be a great time, and I hope to see you there!
Exploding Steamboats 
Thank you so much for joining me, and being a guinea pig for my set up! That’s a great list, Anne McCaffrey is a fave!
I’ve borrowed that Anne McCaffrey book from two different libraries, and both times I had to return it before I finished. This time I have a copy on loan from my friend Tina for as long as I need it. 🙂
Oooh, thanks for pointing the way to this challenge! I’ve signed up too.
Yay!
Plot Twist!! I’m kicking this off by starting in on Millennium by John Varley. He’ll be at Mile Hi Con in Denver later this month, and I don’t think I’ve ever read a full-length novel by him.
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I ended up reading *nothing* on my original list. I finished Millennium, Sorcerer to the Crown, and Alif the Unseen. I also read the stage adaptation of Flowers for Algernon, but it doesn’t officially count.