Another book category which is slowly growing on me is the Steampunk reading genre.
Steampunk is a genre similar to my Victorian/Gothic favorites but with an emphasis on machinery and steam driving technology. Popular at the turn of the century this literary device has developed into a whole sub-culture. There are people who have Steampunk meet up groups and there are all kinds of Steampunk fashion lines among many other things.
I personally am not all into the fashion part of it, but I love the books. I would love to be able to wear all the Victorian clothing and jewerly and do all that other fun stuff that these people do but I think I would have to quite my day job if that were the case–not to mention I think my husband would say I finally went totally crazy–but nevertheless I am a fan of the style and reading genre. So when I saw this reading challenge I knew I just had to join though I promised myself no more reading challenges this year, I just couldn’t resist. So here I am signing up for another reading challenge. This one I am going to take it easy on though and only pledge to do the lowest catagory so I don’t over extend myself. So here you have it, this is the 2011 Steampunk Reading Challenge info hosted by Bookish Ardour:
Here is the direct link to the challenge and the info on the challenge is listed below:
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