Worlds Without End Blog

We posted 11 great reviews for October and it’s that time again to cast your votes for your 3 favorites. As always, there are 3 prizes awarded each month. We’ll keep the poll open until October 25 so you’ll have time to read all the reviews.

• The Giver by Lois Lowry – Badseedgirl
• Summer of Love by Lisa Mason – spoltz
• Arslan by M. J. Engh – valashain
• Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal – bazhsw
• Mindscape by Andrea Hairston – ParallelWorlds
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke – alixheintzman
• The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas – charlesdee
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson – thecynicalromantic
• Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin – mfennvt
• The Drowning Girl by Caitlín R. Kiernan – Allie
• Boneshaker by Cherie Priest – lynnsbooks

Thanks to all our reviewers last month. If you didn’t make the October list, don’t give up – there are still 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!

We’re getting down to the end of things with this year’s challenge and we’re still going strong. Amazingly, even at this late date, we continue to get new signups – 8 more since the last poll. I suspect these folks aren’t really intending to complete the challenge with so little time left but who knows? I’m sure it can be done and they may have read several women this year already. Kudos to them!

It was nice to see our “books read” fly past the 1,000 mark to land at an impressive 1,048. I often wonder how many of those books and authors were read just because of our challenge? I find myself hoping that it’s a lot because it would validate our goal to get more people reading books by women but at the same time I kinda hope it’s not really that many. We should be reading those books anyway, right?

As for reviews, they are obviously still rolling in! We went from 519 to 573 since we looked last month and the quality is still as high as ever. You guys and gals do not disappoint and we thank you all for your efforts. Can you feel that 600 reviews goal creeping up on us?

General Stats After 10 Months:

Time Remaining: 53 days
Participants: 382!
Books Read: 1,048
Books Reviewed: 573

Posted in Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge