I’m bored.
Again.
Yep.
So this time I decided to try my hand at an m/m ‘get me the fuck out of this rut’ challenge.
I know. Just when you thought I couldn’t get any more awesome, right. *beams*
How it works:
1. Pick a book from an m/m sub-genre or in a style (eg 1st POV) or form (eg graphic) that you usually avoid like the plague.
2. Read it all. No DNFs allowed.
3. Write a review – long or short – and do the linky thing back here.
4. Once the month is at an end – let’s make it a St Pat’s Day finish date – all the peeps who participated will be put in the running for a $20 ARe voucher.
5. Heck, just for the hell of it, I’ll even put up another $20 for the person who reads the most books out of their comfort zone.
Me, I’m choosing an historical to read. *makes wards-off-evil sign*
What about you? You in?
PS – This is also open to those readers who want to pop their m/m romance cherry. That definitely counts as breaking out from the norm. 😉
ETA: Author Aleksandr Voinov has kindly offered a free copy his novel Test of Faith to a reader interested in testing the m/m historical waters. The copy will go to whoever contacts me first. You snooze and Kris will take it herself. *g*
Kris + Books = Good. *Sometimes*. 
Kris,
Dark future cowboy space opera…Oh! Firefly.
Would you settle for spacefaring dark elves who eat other cultures' brains to advance their own knowledge but run afoul of Commander Cliff Cody and The Space Exploration Rangers?
(I'm outlining it and Jason at Apex is all “Do Want!”)
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Hi. Okay. I read Vintage. I posted a little review on my blog. I put the m/m rut button in a sidebar to link back here. Have I met all the qualifications? Am I free to go back to my regularly scheduled program? I think I'm supposed to be writing something. I forget.
Aleksandr: I'm all about making sure everyone suffers from my boredom. *g*
I can't speak for others, but my dislike of historicals comes from working in the history field and having too much knowledge for my own good; ie, constantly getting poed because of inaccuracies and inappropriate modern and cultural language and idioms. /rant
Thanks heaps for your kind offer of a book. That's terrific of you! I'll edit the post to let people know it's available 🙂
Kassa: Goodo! 🙂
KZ: I've only read Rick's reinterp of Dorian Gray. That was a bloody terrific book.
Angelia: Busted! LOL. It later occurred to me that I must be in need of Firefly-to-Serenity rerun.
“Would you settle for spacefaring dark elves who eat other cultures' brains to advance their own knowledge but run afoul of Commander Cliff Cody and The Space Exploration Rangers?”
Oh, hell yes! Sounds like a blast. *g*
Wren: What? Already?! Wow, someone must be really worried about a certain Valentine's Day story. *hehehe*
Also outside of my comfort zone: scifi, menage, and horror. I have a bunch of Rick R. Reed that I'm busily not reading because although I love his writing… it's horror.
I think Rick is an amazing story teller too, but he scares the crap out of me. I don't need that imagery in my head. I have way too many things going on in there as it is.
You don't like menage or you just don't like girly cooties? 🙂
You should read that new Belinda McBride book, An Uncommon Whore. That's a good sci fi.
Chris, shocking as it may be, I agree with Kris. Read Uncommon Whore.
I'm thinking that this thing people keep talking about, something about captain at a fair, might be a good scifi. 😉
Girl cooties! Eeek! Eeeek!
Did you read Rick's Through the Closet Door? That one was really powerful and not scary.
Ooh, I take back what I said. What does Kris know? Read My Fair Captain. Yes. Nate Hawkins. Ungh!
Wren, I would say that you can be so fucking rude to me sometimes, but OMFG Nate. *drool*
An “Ungh!” Could there possibly be higher praise?!
Kris: I knew you would feel that way. *beams*
Chris: High praise, indeed. Geez, I might have to go re-read that one…
Har. Har. Har. So friggin' funny.
Anyways, just had an awesome idea, even if I do say so myself. We should start an 'Ungh' award for best hero or maybe an 'ungh' hero rating for the books we read.
Great Idea, Kris!
Nate could be the paradigm for the ungh hero.
It would be fun and easy to include that in any review/rating.
Not sure how the award would work – would you have a list that commenters would vote on once a week, once a month, or some such?
Told you so. *beams*
We could start with a one off 'ungh' hero contest. Get people to nominate their faves and then I'd post a voting thingy (translation = get Tam to do it) and yadda, yadda, yadda.
From then on, we could do it every couple of months based of what people have read and/or recent releases. This could be serious fun!
You ARE really dangerous when you're bored, aren't you, Kris? 😉
Quite possibly. *beams*
You've got the right idea, I think. And yeah, get Tam involved.
I nominate Nate. *skips, beams, claps hands*
On it! *GRIN*
Wow, thank you for all the recommendations to read Vintage. I am majorly utterly hopelessly flattered.
Whoo-hoo!
Steve, thanks for dropping by. And, yep, I guess it was pretty obvious that we love Vintage here. Definitely one of my favourite reads for 2009. 🙂
Okay, I'm 1/3 of the way through my historical. Ugh. NOT ungh. It's three shorts. Guess which book?
I wanted to slap the guy so many times. Jesus Christ, suck it up and stop being such a damned whiney ass. You ARE a Nancy boy! I'll soldier on, maybe I won't want to kill anyone in the next story. This is HARD.
Be strong, Tam! I figure Out of the Blue will be my historical… or that holiday historical from KAM…
I quite enjoyed Out of the Blue Chris. It doesn't have any of the issues that usually make me squirrely about historicals (which I'm finding in this one in spades so far) and I think being set in war-time at the front (or near there) makes the difference. Plus it's short. LOL I'm looking 234 pages of history in the face here.
*rummages around for some virtual alcohol for Tam*
Jesus Christ, suck it up and stop being such a damned whiney ass.
I've read my book and done my review which you can find here: HERE
I've read and posted my thoughts on Without Sin by J. Tomas. This is a YA story and was my out of comfort read. The post is HERE.