My Goodreads Writing Challenge

Goodreads Challenge Book #23: “Bad Rock Beat Down” By Michael Prelee

Five Stars: Michael Continues to Grow as an Author

Michael continues to grow as an author, and this, the second book in the Milky Way Repo series is a fast paced and engaging read.

Goodreads Challenge Book #22: “Words are My Matter” By Ursula K. Le Guin

Five Stars: Another Great book for Writers

Got this after reading “Steering the Craft”, and found Le Guin to be a fascinating advocate for books and reading.

Goodreads Challenge Book #21: “Borne” By Jeff Vandermeer

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Three Stars: Did not Grab me

This is the first book I’ve read since a death in the family that knocked us for a loop for most of June.

Goodreads Challenge Book #20: “American Demonhunters: Sacrifice” By J. Thorn, Lindsay Buroker, Jack Bohannon and J.F. Penn

Five Stars: Lots of Gory Fun

Goodreads Challenge Book #19: “Real Artists Don’t Starve” By Jeff Goins

Five Stars: Easy reading, with some real insights

Jeff Goins writes with an easy conversational tone that makes the anecdotes go down like butter. The stories he uses to illustrate…

Goodreads Challenge Update: Short Takes

Falling a little behind this month: Busy, Seasonal Allergies, RA Flare-ups- Lots of excuses.

Then to top it all off, got a couple books read that I really didn’t like or can’t go into depth on:

Goodreads Reading Challenge #15: “Steering the Craft” by Ursula K. Le Guin

Goodreads Challenge Book # 14: “Gemina” by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

Three Stars

I love books that use typographic tricks: From Book by Robert Grudin, to House of Leaves, to the Griffin and Sabine series.

Goodreads Reading Challenge Book #13: “The Collapsing Empire” by John Scalzi

Five Stars. Get it now.

I liked Scalzi’s “Old Man’s War” series and thought “Redshirts” was an interesting take on Star Trek, so I was really looking forward to this new…