+ Did you finish the challenge in one of the categories? If so, which one? Yes. All three. + Did you finish the challenge with one from each? Yes, with two additional. + What books did you read? Coffee - Dan Breen and the IRA (Ambrose), Fordlandia (Grandin), Damascus Count Down (Rosenberg) Tea - The Tehran Initiative (Rosenberg), Unlikely Rebels: The Gifford Girls and the Fight for Irish Freedom (Clare), Ice Forged (Martin) Thee - Ethan of Athos (Bujold), Allegiance in Exile (George), Accidental Time Machine (Haldeman) + Where they any good? They were all very good. The only problem I had was with the Rosenberg books- it was a trilogy (the first being The Twelfth Imam) but it ruined the political thriller aspect with some preaching and attempts at conversion. Prior to picking up the first novel, I was unaware of the fact that Rosenberg is an evangelical author with an agenda. That being said, the trilogy was good and not as bad as the Left Behind series. + Where they the books you had planned to read, or did things shift mid-month? They were ones that I had planned to read. + What else did you read? The Twelfth Imam (Rosenberg), Cetaganda (Bujold), The Templar Cross (Christopher), Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (Millhauser), and Sons of Fortune (Archer) + What are you currently reading? The House Girl (Conklin), The Fort (Cornwell), The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Smith), Martian war (Anderson), Michael Collins, Himself (Osborne), Templar Throne (Christopher), House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East (Shadid), The Alyesford Skull (Blaylock). + Anything else to share? No, but I need more coffee :P
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+ Did you finish the challenge with one from each? Yes, with two additional.
+ What books did you read?
Coffee - Dan Breen and the IRA (Ambrose), Fordlandia (Grandin), Damascus Count Down (Rosenberg)
Tea - The Tehran Initiative (Rosenberg), Unlikely Rebels: The Gifford Girls and the Fight for Irish Freedom (Clare), Ice Forged (Martin)
Thee - Ethan of Athos (Bujold), Allegiance in Exile (George), Accidental Time Machine (Haldeman)
+ Where they any good? They were all very good. The only problem I had was with the Rosenberg books- it was a trilogy (the first being The Twelfth Imam) but it ruined the political thriller aspect with some preaching and attempts at conversion. Prior to picking up the first novel, I was unaware of the fact that Rosenberg is an evangelical author with an agenda. That being said, the trilogy was good and not as bad as the Left Behind series.
+ Where they the books you had planned to read, or did things shift mid-month? They were ones that I had planned to read.
+ What else did you read? The Twelfth Imam (Rosenberg), Cetaganda (Bujold), The Templar Cross (Christopher), Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (Millhauser), and Sons of Fortune (Archer)
+ What are you currently reading? The House Girl (Conklin), The Fort (Cornwell), The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Smith), Martian war (Anderson), Michael Collins, Himself (Osborne), Templar Throne (Christopher), House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East (Shadid), The Alyesford Skull (Blaylock).
+ Anything else to share? No, but I need more coffee :P