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Dec 02, 2019 08:18AM
The questions might get posted any time today! Sometimes the question writer will post just to say if they are running late (e.g., "I will post DQ when I get home from work tonight!") but the best thing is just to keep refreshing the page and/or turn on notifications for it :D
Ozana wrote: "Alysa wrote: "Ozana wrote: "I can answer DQ for Ninth House and I have Two Can Keep a Secret so I'll start reading.I loved Ninth House, she is good ..."
Yeah, we had to do it by the deadline yesterday.
But if you have some "wrath" for the books you're reading this week, let us know :D
Sounds good Kerri!And I am looking forward to your DQs 🙂
Alysa wrote: "Hah, see, I knew I should have put “@M” in there when I posted about this here a few hours ago. ;DWe can probably use the Mini for all 3 vols though, was the sense I was getting implicitly. At 7 ..."
Confirmed that all 3 vols can be read for the Vanity mini... and in fact Cat seems to be saying that all 3 vols HAVE to be read to get the mini. Because the recc was for the trilogy, not just one of the volumes in the trilogy. Or something. IDK. I guess it’s probably still better not to read it at this point. ;)
Hey all, I don't think I'm going to be able to finish New Cthulhu before the deadline. I still have like 100 pages left, some of the stories have been a bit slow, and I have to go feed my kid!I'll finish it for Week 9, like as extra!
Hah, see, I knew I should have put “@M” in there when I posted about this here a few hours ago. ;DWe can probably use the Mini for all 3 vols though, was the sense I was getting implicitly. At 7 points each, at least there’s that.
Or long Brown books ;D
M wrote: "Personally I would defend that per the rules of the mini challenge it states◈ You must read the book listed in the recommendation: series substitutions are not permitted.
They listed the omnibus..."
Ruling in Caps Group is that LoTR has to be broken up into 3 books.
No omnibus edition. Sorry!
That is very narrow indeed.I was basically just doing “On TBR since 2014 or earlier.”
For next year I’m moving it up to 2015. At some point in time, I may have become more selective in regards to how much stuff I was putting on my TBR... but if that point did in fact exist, I know not when it was.
Ditto!I'm gonna say 30 books again.
Stuff on TBR from 2015 or earlier. Maybe also a few things like "oldest NetGalleys" (I think I have some from 2016, yikes!)
Read
30/30
Original goal completed!
8/29/20
Additional books read after hitting 100% that count...
Ended with 41 / 30 🙂
LOL, I actually stopped keeping track and posting stuff here once I hit 100%, though I did keep listing stuff just for myself, elsewhere. I should go see what my percentage would be now...Like 140% probably! :D
ETA: A little over 150% in fact. Yay, this will make next year’s pool smaller!
LOL, well, the more books the better!
Hi Rebecca!I think we are finally over the bubble — that is, with book count in the low 30s, so long as a handful more of the unfinished claims get finished (including at least 1 of my own, lol), so just read whichever you prefer to read. 🙂
Ozana wrote: "I can answer DQ for Ninth House and I have Two Can Keep a Secret so I'll start reading.I loved Ninth House, she is good writer. Her first series was..."
Great!
I read the Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone a while ago, and I liked it but didn’t love it. I really liked her short stories “sort of” set in the same world. The little fairy tales like The Too-Clever Fox. I need to get around to reading more in the Grishaverse but I guess I will be reading Ninth House first. ;)
@Ozana, can you tell us if your Mythos book fits for “wrath” sin specification (something in it made you angry)?
Otherwise I don’t think it fits any sin except the “anything goes”, for which we won’t get any extra points besides the page count points.
Ozana wrote: "I took this week off work o I enjoyed with no phones and going to work ad from it in the evening.I manage to read few books, hope you know where to put them because I totally lost track of covers ..."
Sounds good, Ozana! We will put them in as best places as we can.
As for BOMs, there is still time to do Two Can Keep a Secret if you are interested, but it’s too late for The Chestnut Man because on Monday it will be 1 month since it started.
For Ninth House, it starts on Monday, and since you read it during TT you are still eligible to answer questions (3 sets) for points! 😃
Yay M!Yay Kerri!
@Kerri, if you haven’t already, when you get a moment can you also go to the Ninth House BOM thread an confirm your DQ day?
Done with my #Allison, you are a go to finish up the ladder :)
Glad you are feeling better, Joanne! And don’t worry, your books this week help a lot even if it’s less that you planned. The greater concern is the people who haven’t posted anything at all.Ozana, at least, just messaged me that she read 4 books but hasn’t been able to get to a computer, and hopes to post tonight.
@Jessi have you heard from anyone else?
I will go finish my # book - back in a tick!
I will plan to do that tonight then, but am still hoping that more people will turn up in the meantime.Allison, you already have the bulk of our books for the week, I’m sorry it’s so much on you!
I have 2 chapters left in my #30, so I can finish as soon as M and Joanne finish theirs.A library (kindle) hold for a very quick 200 pager just came in moments ago, and I can try to read that instead of the 160-page reread, to help get our numbers up... I will read more of my short story anthology first though, and hopefully in a few hours we will have heard from more folks.
Here is the current breakdown by person of what’s on the spreadsheet:
ETA: updated on Saturday evening:
Allison:
Alysa: 5 books (though it might only be 4)
Frankie: 1 book (though more like 0 because she did not add that book: I added it after checking her Currently Reading shelf)
Jessi: 3 books
Joanne: 2 books
Kerri:
M:
Ozana:
Rebecca: 1 book
Suzanne: 0
Wren: 2 books
