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Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge: July Review Poll is Open
For July we had 15 WoGF reviews posted in the blog so you have your work cut out for you to read all these reviews and pick your top 3. As always, there are 3 prizes awarded each month. We’ll keep the poll open until August 25 so you have plenty of time to read all the reviews.
- The Etched City by K. J. Bishop – Stephanie (Rhetori_Cat)
- The Whitefire Crossing by Courtney Schafer – Sue Bricknell (SueCCCP)
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood – Rob Weber (valashain)
- The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon – Rae (ParallelWorlds)
- Seraphina by Rachel Hartman – Steff (MMOGC )
- Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer – Beth Besse (Badseedgirl)
- The Whitefire Crossing by Courtney Schafer – Brett Ellis (Brett72)
- The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater – Wendy (nightxade)
- Outlander by Diana Gabaldon – Alex Hammel (ahammel)
- Fools by Pat Cadigan – Allie McCarn (Allie)
- The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett – Scott Lazerus (Scott Laz)
- Mayhem by Sarah Pinborough – Pat Doherty (Patremagne)
- Sword of Fire and Sea by Erin Hoffman – Emily Sandoval (ersandoval)
- Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear – Lynn Williams (lynnsbooks)
- Half World by Hiromi Goto – Tanya (metalorchid)
Thanks to all our reviewers last month. If you didn’t make the July list, don’t give up. You have plenty more chances! Please help us spread the word about the review poll and encourage your friends to come over and vote. A lot of effort goes into these great reviews each month so show some love for our reviewers and vote!
As you can see, the WoGF just keeps on going and going. We had 336 readers last month and now we’re up to 353! Way more than we ever expected and we’re especially pleased that folks are still joining in even though the challenge is more than half over. Brave souls, all. We also jumped from 377 reviews to whopping 418 out of 781 books read. Well done, my friends, well done!
General Stats After 7 Months:
- Time Remaining: 147 days
- Participants: 353!
- Books Read: 781
- Books Reviewed: 418
One of the great things about this challenge is the lasting legacy of these book reviews. When you read and review a book you’re telling everyone that visits that novel page after you, whether that’s today or next week or next year or 10 years from now, that this book is worth a second look. People pay more attention to books that have reviews and member ratings. If they don’t see them they often skip right by thinking no one was interested — why waste my time? Just the fact that your review is there gives them pause to consider investigating further and, if they like what they read, that book is far more likely to end up on their reading list. How many books have made it to your reading pile because of a review?
Your reviews for this challenge help encourage people to read more books by women and not just for the challenge. There are now hundreds of novel pages on this site that have come alive because of the work you’ve done. That is a very positive step in the right direction and we can’t thank you enough. This is all your doing and we are thrilled and humbled by your response to our challenge. On behalf of the whole WWEnd team, thank you.
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I haven’t added to my pile because of a review; I’ve subtracted from it, though. Thank you, reviewers, for helping me spend my time with better books!
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