Goings on and reading challenge update

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Lots going on here.  Not sure if you had heard about GeekGirlCon happening in Seattle in October, but it is going to be great, awesome even -- and I have been volunteering many, many hours as the staff copywriter and sometimes editor.  It has drastically cut into my reading time for both comics and novels. Funny, that I am still watching a ton of tv. I might have to re-evaluate my priorities though to keep on pace to read all these books on my challenge list.

I made some good progress on the book challenge:

1. Whisper - Phoebe Kitanidis
2. The Replacement - Brenna Yovanoff
3. Zombies vs. Unicorns - edited by J. Larbalestier and H. Black
4. Leviathan - Scott Westerfield
5. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
6. The Gate to Women's County - Sheri S. Tepper
7. Sandman Slim - Richard Kadrey
8. Shooting Kabul - NH Senzai
9. The City & The City - China Mieville
10. Dune - Frank Herbert
11. The Murder Room - Michael Capuzzo
12. Satan's Circus - Mike Dash
13. Sapphique - Catherine Fisher
14. Extras - Scott Westerfield
15. Blameless - Gail Carriger
16. Dreadnought - Cherie Priest
17. Clementine - Cherie Priest
18. The Likeness - Tana French
19. The Eternal Ones - Kirsten Miller
20. Beloved -  Toni Morrison
21. Looking for Jake - China Mieville
22. Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War - Clive Barker
23. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
24. Clockwork Angel - Cassandra Clare
25. How Soccer Explains the World - Franklin Foer
26. A Game of Thrones - George RR Martin
27. Rock, Paper, Scissors - Len Fisher
28. Every Hand Revealed - Gus Hansen
29. Water of Elephants - Sara Gruen
30. For the Win - Cory Doctorow
31. Land of Silver Apples - Nancy Farmer
32. 334- Thomas Disch
33. Don Quixote (illustrated) - Jenkins and Riddell
34. Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
35. The Bad Place - Dean Koontz
36. The Children of Men - PD James
37. Suspicions of Mr. Wincher: A Shocking Murder & the undoing of a Great Victorian Detective - Kate Summerscale
38. Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
39. The Fabulous Riverboat: Riverworld 2 - Philip Jose Farmer
40. Dark Design: Riverworld 3 - Philip Jose Farmer
41. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
42. Half-Made World - Felix Gilman
43. Snowcrash - Neal Stephenson
44. Eat Shoots and Leaves - Lynn Truss
45. Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog - Kitty Burns Florey
46. Makers - Cory Doctorow
47. Wind-Up Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi
48. Saturn's Children - Charles Stross
49. Glasshouses - Charles Stross
50. Finch - Jeff Vandermeer

And now for the comics challenge

1. Goon: Chinatown & the Mystery of Mr. Wicker - Powell
2. Goon: Nothing But Misery - Powell
3. Goon Noir - Powell
4. Rapunzel's Revenge - Hale, Hale & Hale
5. Elephantmen: Wounded Animals
6. Elephantmen: War Toys
7. Elephantmen: Fatal Diseases
8. The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist - Chabon
9. Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard - Petersen, et al.
10. Walking Dead 10 - Kirkman
11. Walking Dead 11 - Kirkman
12. Walking Dead 12 - Kirkman
13. Walking Dead 13 - Kirkman
14. Wormwood: Calamari Rising - Templesmith
15. DMZ: On the Ground - Wood
16. Luther Awkwright - Talbot
17. Y: The Last Man Vol 1 - Vaughn/Guerra
18. Blackheart Billy - Remender/Jaten/Dwyer
19. Dark Tower: Gunslinger Born
20. Dark Tower: Long Road Home
21. To the Heart of the Storm - Eisner
22. Hellblazer: Pandemonium - Delano
23. Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sere Vol 1. - Jacques Tardi
24. Une Vie Chinose - Li Kunimi
25. The Arctic Marauder - Jacques Tardi (not in hand, but already pre-ordered before 2011)

In full disclosure, I have been buying books. So another year and another broken promise. Seriously though, when Borders liquidates a store at your local mall and the sci-fi/fantasy/horror section still has great titles at cheap prices...really, what was I supposed to do? Walk away?

And then there was the Locus Awards/Neil Gaiman stalking weekend where I bought a bunch of signed books at Neil's event at Town Hall. THAT was totally impulse.

And then I  took my friend, Cinnamon, to the Comic Stop in Lynnwood, WA to introduce her to the wonderful world of comics and walked out of there with four comic trades. Also, totally impulse.

And then...well you get the picture.