Last week's RF winner was Black Ships by Jo Graham! I am legitimately excited to read this one, although the F pile is getting really high. :/ I have been writing this month for November/Yuletide and that always makes me less likely to pick up a fiction book.

The K winner was Old Man's War, but that was also 3rd place for F with a majority of F votes, so I'm reprieving it. 2nd place was a four-way tie between Illuminatus!, Homeland, The Thirteenth Child, and the Lovecraft anthology. I guess the internet had opinions on Books The Internet Has Opinions On! The Lovecraft had by far the fewest non-K votes, so it gets to go.

How FMK works, short version: I am trying to clear out my unreads. So there is a poll, in which you get to pick F, M, or K. F means I should spend a night of wild passion with the book ASAP, and then decide whether to keep it or not. M means I should continue to commit to a long-term relationship of sharing my bedroom with it. K means it should go away immediately. Anyone can vote, you don't have to actually know anything about the books.

I pick a winner on Friday night (although won't actually close the poll, people can still vote,) and report results/ post the new poll on the following Tuesday, and write a response to the F winner sometime in the next week.

Link to long version of explanation (on first poll)

This week's theme: Culturally Diverse Authors, non-SF edition.


( Poll: Abe, Abraham, Aidoo, Aleichem, Alexie, Ba, Dangarembga, Emecheta, Gordimer, Larsen, Murasaki, Thiong'o, Park, Ryan, Wallis, anthologies )