Shut Up & Read discussion

Many of us seem to pick a certain genre and stick to it. Our challenge this month is to go outside of our 'comfort zone' and try something new.

Below is a list of popular genres. Your goal for July is to pick a book from each of them, even if it is not something you normally read.

Because some read faster than others, I'm adding challenge levels this month.
1. Easy – read 3-5 books, each from different genres
2. Medium – read 6-8 books, no more than 2 from each genre
3. Hard – read 9+ books, no more than 3 from each genre

Genres:
Urban Fantasy
Paranormal Romance
Dystopian/Apocalyptic
Steampunk
Mystery/Thriller
Horror
Chick-lit
Science Fiction

Let us know when you post your books which level you are aiming for. Remember, this is just for fun so if you don't make it that's ok!

If you're not sure which category your book falls in, go to the book's page and look on the right-hand side under "Genre." Many books fall into multiple categories, so pick the one you think is best.

For this challenge we are not specifying between Young Adult and Adult books, so those categories don't matter.

You can post your books now or as you go, but don't start reading until July 1!!

Completed:
Easy-
Leigh

Medium-

Hard-
Amanda
Sheri
Angela

Genre Definitions


Urban Fantasy:
Urban fantasy is a sub-genre of fantasy defined by place; the fantastic narrative has an urban setting. Many urban fantasies are set in contemporary times and contain supernatural elements. However, the stories can take place in historical, modern, or futuristic periods. The prerequisite is that they must be primarily set in a city.

Paranormal Romance:
Paranormal romance is a sub-genre of the romance novel. A type of speculative fiction, paranormal romance focuses on romance and includes elements beyond the range of scientific explanation, blending together themes from the genres of traditional fantasy, science fiction, or horror.

Dystopian/Apocalyptic:
1. A dystopia is the idea of a society in a repressive and controlled state, often under the guise of being utopian.
2. An imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one; Resembling the end of the world; momentous or catastrophic.

Steampunk:
Steampunk is a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where STEAM POWER is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date.

Mystery/Thriller:
1. Mystery is a genre of fiction in which a detective, either an amateur or a professional, solves a crime or a series of crimes.
2. Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, and television programming that uses suspense, tension and excitement as the main elements.

Horror:
Horror fiction is a genre of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror.

Chick-lit:
Slang for a genre of literature geared towards female readers , which deal with modern issues in women's lives.

Science Fiction:
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible (or at least non-supernatural) content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities.

Of course I'm in!:))) I'll pick "Hard"-9+ books-and I won't begin until July 1.
Here's my shelf-think I'll ask to have that used for the Pick4me also.
http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/...

CHALLENGE COMPLETED JULY 12:
BOOKS COMPLETED:

Science Fiction: A Night in the Lonesome October



Dystopian : Zed
AiZ: Alice in Zombieland

Paranormal Romance: Texas Gothic
Spider's Bite
Under Witch Aura - CATEGORY COMPLETED

Mystery: Category Completed
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14...
and The Skin Map
In The Woods


Urban Fantasy: Embrace

Horror:

I'll try at medium level,I'll post my books later...

Urban Fantasy:
Paranormal Romance:
Dystopian/Apocalyptic: Finished
finished
Steampunk: Finished
Mystery/Thriller: finished
Horror: finished
Chick-lit: finished
Scifi: finished

I"m trying for easy 3 from each. Will add as I go.

Fantasy:
Dystopian:
Science Fiction:
Urban Fantasy: (06-06-2012)
Steampunk:
mystery:


I"ve been so bad about updating this!

Oooooo! Sounds fun! I'm going to shoot for the medium level. Will post as I go (or when I actually sit and sort through my tbr list).

9/8 read

Urban Fantasy:

Paranormal Romance: **7/13/12**

Dystopian/Apocalyptic: **7/9/12** **7/20/12**

Steampunk: **7/2/12**

Mystery/Thriller: **7/15/12** **7/27/12**

Horror:

Chick-lit: **7/6/12**

Science Fiction: **7/10/12** **7/12/12**

I'm finished hard...9/9 complete!!


Urban Fantasy

Finished:
✔Lover Reborn 7/7****4 stars
✔Kiss of Midnight 7/12*** 3 stars
✔Once Burned 7/26 ***3 stars

Paranormal Romance

Finished:
✔Seduced by the Vampire King 7/6**2.5 stars
✔Fae Not 7/13 ****3.5 stars
✔Die for Me 7/19 ****3.5 stars

Chick-lit

Finished:
✔Avoiding Commitment 7/2****4 stars
✔Avoiding Responsibility 7/5****3.5 stars
✔The Future of Our Past 7/9***3 stars

Challenge complete: 7/14
Oh Sheri, I love you! You made a challenge within a challenge!

Chick Lit (2) 3-3


Paranormal Romance (4 - 1 over) 4-4-3-3


Urban Fantasy (4-1 over) 3-3-3-5


Dystopia (Sci-Fi too?) (1) - 3

Alyssia wrote: "Oh Sheri, I love you! You made a challenge within a challenge!
Of course I will try for hard. I'll post as I plan. Thanks!..."

Lol! Thanks!

Okay, I don't know exactly how many I will get accomplished, but I want to try at least one from each genre posted:

Urban Fantasy
-Pretty good :)

PNR
-It was decent

Dystopian/Apocolyptic
3.5 stars

Steampunk


Mystery/Thriller
- 5 STARS, this was Awesome!!

Horror


Chick Lit


Science Fiction

I'm in. Easy

5/5 Completed

URBAN FANTASY
7/3 4stars



PARANORMAL ROMANCE
7/6 4stars


DYSTOPIAN
7/2 4stars



STEAMPUNK
6/12 4stars


MYSTERY/THRILLER
7/6 3stars

Review:http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I'm in : hard 9+
Will add as i go
URBAN FANTASY
-completed



DYSTOPIAN
-completed


PARANORMAL ROMANCE
-completed
-completed


CHICK LIT


-Completed

I'm in for Easy 3-5 books
1 of 5 completed

Genres:
Dystopian:The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins 07-01-12

This sounds fun. I'm going for the hard challenge.

Steampunk: masque of the red death

Mystery/thriller: the postcard killers (read 7/8/2012),

Urban fiction: city of bones (read 7/10/012), city of ashes

Horror: Red Dragon (7/12/12), The Bride Collector (7/16/12)

Chick lit: Under the tuscan sun, the jane austen book club

Paranormal romance: the night circus

Robii wrote: "So, I just finished , and I still have : , ( I think I can't to do this one :( ), and ..."

Hey Robii, don't know if you have a Kindle or not, but matched is 2.99 today only.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html...

Robii wrote: "Alyssia wrote: "Robii wrote: "So, I just finished , and I still have : , ( I think I can't to do this one ..."
Oh. Sorry. :/

I changed my chick-lit to
The life and death of charlie st. cloud (7/17/12)

And

The treasure.

It wouldn't let me edit my last post :/

Okay, finally getting around to posting mine :) I'm going for hard


Urban Fantasy


Paranormal Romance


Dystopian/Apocalyptic


Mystery/Thriller


Chick-lit

Woo! Nine read, and I'm calling it complete. I was hoping to hit each category, but I couldn't decide on a Stephen King novel fast enough and Urban Fantasy is harder to find than I thought. Loved this challenge!

Just post the books you've read this month for each genre :)

Let me know if you've finished your challeng for the month!

I've only read 3 of the 9 books I had wanted to get to! This is a crazy month for me, but I'll do better on the next challenge

I finished 9/9. Link to original post here

finished 7/7 (barely) :)