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Sable Aradia
Posted 2017-10-08 5:39 PM (#16335 - in reply to #14870)
Subject: Re: Grand Mistresses of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge 2017		Quote Reply



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Hey guys, sorry I've been so quiet. I've been working really hard at writing in the later part of the year and thus have fallen behind on my reading challenges. I've had to pare quite a few back, as it turns out that my eyes were bigger than my stomach, but I'm intending to at least finish the challenges I started, and I think I should be able to.

That being said, I'm still well behind on my Grand Mistresses challenge, as I've been working to catch up on SF Masterworks. But I'm pretty much caught up now (actually reading the book intended for this month) so the Grand Mistresses were the next place I was going.

Pleased that you're liking Cherryh, @JohnBern! She was a recent discovery for me and a lot of the books I'm reading this year for the challenge are hers. But I'm not intending on the Morgaine Cycle this year, so I'm pleased to hear how you do! I'm going for the Fallen Sun trilogy because it doubles up for my Military Genre Fiction challenge, and Downbelow Station and related because I've been meaning to read them for years and they double up on the Space Opera challenge.

But don't worry, there's lots to read from these formidable ladies, so I think I'm going to make this an annual challenge for the foreseeable future; at least until I get tired of it. And I've got some Pern books to catch up on and a huge back catalogue of Andre Norton I've acquired, so I expect it will be some time before that happens!

@Weesam, I think your range there is in the best spirit of the challenge. Tepper is new to me, but she's on my list for next year. Tanith Lee is a personal favourite (adore her Flat Earth books) as is Anne McCaffrey. Ursula Le Guin is a rediscovery. I was not as taken with her as a child as I sure am as an adult! Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles were my favourite books as a teenager (so, needless to say, I found Twilight unimpressive) and I have read some Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, though she's not a favourite of mine. I've sampled a few of her St. Germaine books, but perhaps it was bad luck in that the ones I chose sounded like the same story to me, told in different historical periods. The historical periods were fascinating, but it did not make up for the repeat of the story in my opinion. I've read no Connie Willis or Patricia McKillip yet, but they're on my list too.

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