Token Female Gamer

November completed with flying colors (okay I actually finished the last page on the last the thirtieth, but I still finished!), its time for a brand new reading challenge in the wonderfully cold month of December! Should be interesting to see how much I actually get to reading with all the holidays and events this month is filled with.

So here are the rules for Dec ’09:

December’s challenge is called To Be Read (TBR) Clean-up Challenge.
DURATION: Dec. 1, 2009 – Dec. 31, 2009

Here are the rules:
1. Pick 9 books from your current physical TBR pile (preferably books that have been there for quite some time). Also pick 6 more books as ‘alternate’ reads just in case.

Unlike previous challenges, once you put up this list, you CANNOT CHANGE it. However, you can drop down to an alternate book, if you really cannot finish a book that you have selected in your original list. Fair enough?

Excellent Challenge as my bookshelf is starting to overflow. Here are my picks (only the most cultured literary list to be found anywhere ~snort~):

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Geeky Teen Girl Romance!

As a general rule I tend to pick up anything that involves the words ‘gamer’ and ‘girl’ (or various forms thereof). Those two words have been tough to find in the same paragraph, much less in the same sentence. Clearly the machines that drive capitalism have scented a new market as these words have been showing up together far more often.

Gamer Girl completely capitalizes on the newest trend in geekyness; girls play computer games too! The thing that rankles most about the whole ‘targeted market’ is that the book is merely a standard teen romance novel coated with a layer of geek.

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Its time for the November Challenge!

November’s Challenge is a hybrid version of the popular A-Z challenge format. This month’s challenge is called Characters Alphabet Parade Challenge.
I have divided the alphabet into 9 groups and your goal is to match characters from your chosen books whose first or last names start with one of the given letters.

1. A/B 2. C/D/E 3. F/G/H 4. I/J/K 5. L/M/N 6. O/P/Q 7. R/S/T 8. U/V/W 9. X/Y/Z

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Definitely harder to find character names out of books I haven’t read, but after some juggling I managed an acceptable list to match. Looking forward to reading them all.
Now that I’m four months into this, I’m finding it easier and easier to finish the books on time. I finished the October list with two days to spare! =)

<3 TFG

Even though it might like to disguise this fact, Goodreads.com is still very much a social networking site. Oh it might hide its overall intention with books, but without a community to rate and discuss the books, it would be one very dry site indeed.

I recently joined a group – a far more actively social section of the site. Groups are essentially forums that link into the Goodreads database allowing for easy book linking and displaying. They provide a place to discuss and share about the group topic.

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It’s been two weeks and I can’t seem to get anything done for the site. I sit and sit and stare at the computer and play WoW. (Of course I’m still playing World of Warcraft!)

But really I can’t blame WoW for my lack of posting, because I was in full throttle WoW mode long before my writer’s block showed up. (In fact it’s taken me five days just to write this little blurb.)

I blame Sookie and Elf Porn.

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Like most things ‘online social’, I found out about this via email invitation. This sneaky invitational spam, propagated by well meaning friends and email contacts, is usually the first thing to be deleted; yet the avid reader in me just couldn’t ignore this. (That’s how they getcha!)

At first glance I though ‘oh no not another social obligation site’, but with not much digging it became apparent that Goodreads is indeed about books and not just a clever front for social networking. Oh sure people review books and everyone gets their two cents, people friend each other and even authors get a chance to promote their own books, but in the end the books stand for themselves.

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Author: Shelly Mazzanoble
Release: September 2007

Book Website: Confessions of a Part-time Sorceress

Review

‘OMG! So, like should I like totally heal someone or something?’

That is where this book is taking D&D – into the depths of the florescent malls, the spawning pool of the brand-name crazy Valley Girl.

It inspires visions of D&D, one of the last bastions of Geekdom, being besieged by a vast horde of vapid Valley Girls – all stepping to the beat of the N’Sync drums, in their name brand shoes, brandishing their name brand bags.

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Polly and the Pirates (Graphic Novel)
Story & Art by Ted Naifeh
Graphic Novel trade paper back
Published: Oni Press

This book is wonderful. A whimsical pirate story about a young girl coming into her own. Innocence awakening into cunning and strength, yet still retaining that core of good and deep moral code that makes for a modern day pirate hero.
The art is a perfect match for the sweet and sassy story with its doll like depictions of characters.
I have to say I am a big fan of female heroes and Polly is a wonderful example. She embodies all the best qualities that I look for in heroes yet still gets to be a pirate. Talk about sugar and spice.

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