Apologies for the slightly late post, but it’s July, which means it’s time for our second quarterly check-in! After receiving quite a few comments and suggestions about what to do with the “X” author name, I’ve decided to allow the letter “X” in any part of a writer’s surname. If you’d still like to pick someone whose surname begins with “X”, then please go ahead–but if you’re struggling to find something you’d like to read for “X”, then hopefully this will makes things a little easier!
Anyway, how has everyone been doing so far? Has the challenge helped you discover any new writers? Have you come across any particularly awesome or awful books/writers? Are you taking it slowly with the challenge, or are you almost finished? I’d love to know about your progress!
So far, I’ve finished exactly half of the challenge, at 13 different writers, and I gotta say I’m very glad to have come across some of them (such as Daphne du Maurier and Ruth Ozeki)!
It’s sent me on some author hunts for completing various letters, so I’m happy to be 3 away from a full alphabet completion. And , yes, X is one of those 3 :) but have a non-fic book with an X author, so will get to it when in the mood for non-fic!
Thanks for the Fun challenge , samantha-lin
So… don’t know how I missed this?!
I know I’m two months late to the party… but, as at September I’m at 10 Authors and doing slightly better at the Titles challenge at 15 (shhh, we won’t mention the fact that 10/15 of the titles are also in my Author challenge, though I do believe that is allowed hehe)
It is also not helping that I keep starting a new series… and of course I want to keep reading the series even though it doesn’t add to my count! XD
Things are going well so far after a refocus to actually hunt down books with specific letters. I read a second mystery by Qiu Xiaolong for X and highly recommend his work.