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  • Genre Challenge X

    For The Genre Challange in the category of Historical Fiction I read Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth. This epic novel about the English slave-trade of the 18th century won the prestigious Mann Booker Prize in 1993. Unsw…

  • Genre Challenge XI

    For The Genre Challange in the category of Western Fiction I read The Kean Land and Other Stories. Jack Shaefer (1907 - 1991) was one of the best writers of westerns of all time. His most famous novel, Shane, though neve…

  • Genre Challenge IX

    For the Genre Challenge category of realistic fiction I read The Eternal Husband & Other Stories, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, who was a pretty real writer. This collection gathers five of Dostoevsky’s short masterpieces. T…

  • Genre Challenge VIII

    For The Genre Challenge Fantasy category I read Wicked by Geoffrey Maguire. I approached this novel with a condescending spirit. I don’t like situations being resolved by magic spells or mind tricks. Nor are spells used …

  • Jack & Stephen into the Fray Again

    For the action novel in The Genre Challenge I read the fifth novel in the acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series of historical novels about the Royal Navy fighting Bonaparte, Desolation Island (Patrick O’Brian, 1978). Action ap…

  • Genre Challenge VII

    Science-fiction writer Clifford Simak is best-known for his novels City and Way Station. Both are definitely worth reading as timeless examples of the SF genre that may well appeal to those who don’t consider themselves …

  • Genre Challenge VI

    Here's where I am in the Genre Challenge so far. Reading 7. science fiction: Mastadonia – Clifford Simak 8. action fiction: Desolation Island – Patrick O’Brian 9. fantasy fiction: Wicked: The Life and Times of the WWW …

  • Genre Challenge III

    The 4th book in the Genre challenge was to read romantic fiction. I could not rise to this challenge after reading too typical blurbs like this: The Windy City isn't quite ready for Phoebe Somerville -- the outrageous, …

  • Genre Challenge V

    The Genre Challenge stipulated that the crime novel get into the head of the crooks. Cotton Comes to Harlem (Chester Himes, 1965) delves into the minds of the crooks and the series heroes Coffin Ed and Grave Digger. The …

  • Genre Challenge IV

    In the Genre Challenge readers should read from at least 10 different genres from November 2008 to November 2009. The fourth category was horror fiction so I read Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories by Algernon Bla…

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