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Title and Author: Once Broken Faith by Seanan McGuire
Date Read: 12/4/18
Rating: 5
Page Total: 420
Spell-Out Letters:
M: may [character]
S: seanan [author FN]
T: tybalt [character]
L: luidaeg [character]
E: elliot [character]
O: october [character]
Bonus Options:
could maybe work for the brown cover between 301 and 500 pages? i'm not sure if that counts as brown or more of an orangey-yellow though
flour in text: "From the kitchen came the hiss of batter hitting a griddle, followed by the hot flour and butter smell of pancakes cooking" page 227
four clothing items mentioned in text: "She was wearing a black T-shirt with the Borderlands Books logo on the front, along with a pair of dark jeans and battered white tennis shoes." counts for three [tshirt, jeans, and tennis shoes] and "A teenage girl with bone-white hair, looking profoundly uncertain and uncomfortable in her gown of white spider-silk." takes care of the fourth with gown.
top 20 dog names: october 'toby' daye is the main character
dog character: i don't know if it counts but madden is a breed of fae that switches between being completely human and completely dog [actual dog, not like a werewolf, but still not sure if that counts]
belt on cover: toby is wearing a belt [super large image]
Dec 04, 2018 04:53AM
i've not finished yet [just about to start chapter 17] but yeah the way these books deal with raysel is like ...kind of weird to me. i mean (view spoiler)
Dec 03, 2018 06:17PM
i read up through chapter 16 today.at first i was going to say that i feel like half the problem in this whole conclave is that they should also be discussing whether or not they should ban elf shot as well because to me the answer is obviously YES but then sylvester, tybalt, and dianda stood up and actually made good points. like ban elf shot, but have the cure to use because obviously shit is still gonna happen sometimes. and then still have 'oberon's law' but you know ...extend it to include literally everyone because MURDER IS WRONG! [some obvious self-defense situations aside] like the fact that the ongoing argument by people in this series is 'well it's obviously okay to murder people who aren't entirely the same 'race' as us' just shows how awful all these people are. also that they took 'don't murder other fae' and turned it into 'come up with increasingly awful forms of torture'.
also i just imagine this is toby while sylvester is ~defending her honor~
and this just absolutely killed me:
Arden was staring at me. “That’s . . . that’s not how the fae judicial system works,” she said.
“Oh, please,” I replied. “We don’t have a judicial system. We have one law, which we break constantly, and everything else is arbitrary punishments handed down by whoever’s higher-ranked in the nobility than the person who did something wrong."
completely accurate on all counts.
it was under the spoiler cut in this post and the first story in shadowed souls that i'm reading had a character named molly so we can use that for it. also main character in once broken faith is toby so i've got it covered double apparently loli'm just going to be reading the books i was planning on reading anyway and hoping they fit some of the options. i unfortunately just don't have time to go looking around for super specific stuff right now and i've got a list of books i wanted to finish before the end of the year anyway, but if tower teams was anything to go by most books will count for at least one thing.
Dec 03, 2018 06:39AM
@Claudia i agree. i mean i guess i can see hiding it from the world at large at least until an opportune moment because it's definitely going to start some shit, but you should tell your children / close family i would think. also agree that he might not 'think of her as a changeling' because she 'fixed herself' which is just ...ick. i do kind of have a problem with the whole 'changing people's blood' aspect of the storyline in general because it just seems like fixing a symptom while ignoring the root problem. i guess in certain cases like rayseline it can be helpful and turning changelings into fae will help them live longer so like ...it's not all bad but it still seems very 'instead of seeing changelings as valuable in their own right we're just going to fix them by taking the human out of their blood'. i wonder where seanan is going with the whole plotline for the endgame. @Cathy i'm starting to think the cait sidhe have the right idea when it comes to politics. solving things with violence might not necessarily be the best idea in a lot of circumstances but it is weirdly miles above the way the rest of them do it lol
is uno something from a different group then? i've heard people talk about it sometimes
Dec 02, 2018 07:36PM
also i went ahead and requested the threads for the last two books for the 9th and 16th since it sometimes takes them several days to check the request thread
@Mods can we get buddy reads for
for 12/9and
for 12/16
Dec 02, 2018 05:17PM
@Claudia i can't remember if i was surprised the first time or not. at the very least it seems a bit hypocritical because (view spoiler). i guess that might seem harsh but it's such a big deal and they seem to be taking such a 'not our problem' approach to it.also yes, what is with the weird food in this series!
Dec 02, 2018 11:20AM
ok i read chapters 1-8 today and god i just hate faerie society so much. every time she's like 'we'll always be a monarchy' i'm like maybe you should start trying to change that because you seem to be literally the only person here who can get anything done ever so like ...if anyone could start the faerie senate or whatever it would be toby lol i think the luidaeg would probably be on board as well.also the sleepover was too cute and i love that (view spoiler)
Dec 02, 2018 05:37AM
it's been out for awhile, but we waited to get it on black friday because it was like half price loli only vaguely remember the plot to this book so i'll have to start it before i can reply to your points so far, but from what i remember basically fae politics are just the worst and god forbid if you try to help someone instead of hurting them ...hmmm, sounds like regular human politics too -_-; but yeah you would think 'hey we can wake people up' would be a good thing ...but also you'd think maybe they could have never made it in the first place too sooo [shrug]
Dec 01, 2018 07:49PM
promise i will start this tomorrow! we finally got assassin's creed odyssey on black friday so my reading time has taken a definite hit lol
Start Date: 01/01/19TBR Start: 550+
TBR Goal: 500
End Date: 6/30/19
TBR Count: 476
Atkins Diet
500+ page books since I often put off reading longer books
[1] Cress by Marissa Meyer
[2] My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales by Kate Bernheimer
[3] Winter by Marissa Meyer
[4] Shadows Return by Lynn Flewelling
[5] The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
South Beach Diet
books with green covers
[1] The Mage's Trick by Ilana Waters
[2] Lost Gods by Brom
[3] Midnight Reynolds and the Spectral Transformer by Catherine Holt
[4] The Celery Stalks at Midnight by James Howe
[5] Coal by Constance Burris
Banana Diet
books that start with Q [or have a Q word anywhere in the title]
[1] Queen of Chaos by Kat Ross
[2] Absolute Power: Tales of Queer Villainy by Erica Friedman
[3] The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen by Delia Sherman
[4] The Lavender Menace: Tales of Queer Villainy! by Tom Cardamone
[5] A Queer History of the United States for Young People by Michael Bronski
The Cabbage Soup Diet
books on your to-read list that you got for free
[1] Unicorns Don't Come to Black People by Shekina Spears
[2] Danse Macabre by Laura M. Hughes
[3] The Bride of the Blue Wind by Victoria Goddard
[4] Nyssa Glass and the Juliet Dilemma by H.L. Burke
[5] Nyssa Glass and the Cutpurse Kid by H.L. Burke
Title and Author: Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy by Amerie
Date Read: 12/1/18
Rating: 2.5 / 3
Page Total: 368
Spell-Out Letters:
C: soman chainani [author]
A: amerie [author]
N: nerit [character]
D: susan dennard [author]
Y: nicola yoon [author]
E: elaine [character]
Bonus Options: none
Title and Author: The Daemoniac by Kat Ross
Date Read: 12/1/18
Rating: 3
Page Total: 334
Spell-Out Letters:
C: connor [character]
A: arthur [character]
N: nellie [character]
D: daemoniac [title]
E: elizabeth [character]
Bonus Options: none
and that's it for me this week!
Nov 30, 2018 12:07PM
Lost Gods by Brom
A young man descends into Purgatory to save his wife and unborn child in this gorgeous, illustrated tale of wonder and terror from the mind of master storyteller and acclaimed artist Brom
Fresh out of jail and eager to start a new life, Chet Moran and his pregnant wife, Trish, leave town to begin again. But an ancient evil is looming, and what seems like a safe haven may not be all it appears . . .
Snared and murdered by a vile, arcane horror, Chet quickly learns that pain and death are not unique to the living. Now the lives and very souls of his wife and unborn child are at stake. To save them, he must journey into the bowels of purgatory in search of a sacred key promised to restore the natural order of life and death. Alone, confused, and damned, Chet steels himself against the unfathomable terrors awaiting him as he descends into death’s stygian blackness.
With Lost Gods, Brom’s gritty and visceral prose takes us on a haunting, harrowing journey into the depths of the underworld. Thrust into a realm of madness and chaos, where ancient gods and demons battle over the dead, and where cabals of souls conspire to overthrow their masters, Chet plays a dangerous game, risking eternal damnation to save his family.
Odd & True by Cat Winters
Trudchen grew up hearing Odette’s stories of their monster-slaying mother and a magician’s curse. But now that Tru’s older, she’s starting to wonder if her older sister’s tales were just comforting lies, especially because there’s nothing fantastic about her own life—permanently disabled and in constant pain from childhood polio.
In 1909, after a two-year absence, Od reappears with a suitcase supposedly full of weapons and a promise to rescue Tru from the monsters on their way to attack her. But it’s Od who seems haunted by something. And when the sisters’ search for their mother leads them to a face-off with the Leeds Devil, a nightmarish beast that’s wreaking havoc in the Mid-Atlantic states, Tru discovers the peculiar possibility that she and her sister—despite their dark pasts and ordinary appearances—might, indeed, have magic after all.
Start: January 1, 2019Level: Sequence (51 + books) [or Succession x2]
January
01 Coyotes, Vol. 2 by Sean Lewis
02 Lumberjanes, Vol. 12: Jackalope Springs Eternal by Shannon Watters
03 Attack of the Metaplot {Heaven & Earth Book 2] by Alice Degan
04 Transmetropolitan, Vol. 5: Lonely City by Warren Ellis
05 Johannes Cabal the Detective [Book 2] by Jonathan L. Howard
06 Sting [Loot Book 2] by Jude Watson
07 In an Absent Dream [Wayward Children Book 4] by Seanan McGuire
08 Faith: Dreamside # 1- 4 [Faith Series Side Story] by Jody Houser
09 Queen of Chaos [The Fourth Element Book 3] by Kat Ross
10 The Tale of a Faerie Knight [Fairy Court Chronicles Book 2] by Tay LaRoi
11 The Mage's Trick [Mage Tales Book 2] by Ilana Waters
12 Transmetropolitan, Vol. 6: Gouge Away by Warren Ellis
13 Midnight Reynolds and the Spectral Transformer [Midnight Reynolds Book 1*] by Catherine Holt
*I read book 2 in this series first
14 Heaps of Pearl [October Daye Book 8.1] by Seanan McGuire
15 Taste of Marrow [River of Teeth Book 2] by Sarah Gailey
16 Worth Her Weight in Gold [River of Teeth Side Story] by Sarah Gailey
17 Coal [Everleaf Book 1*] by Constance Burris
*This series starts with book 0.5
18 Transmetropolitan, Vol. 7: Spider's Thrash by Warren Ellis
18 Dexter's Final Cut [Dexter Book 7] by Jeff Lindsay
19 Fog Season: A Tale of Port Saint Frey [Book 2] by Patrice Sarath
20 Reaper Man [Discworld Book 11] by Terry Pratchett
21 The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen [Changeling Book 2] by Delia Sherman
22 Ice Kingdom [Mermaids of Eriana Kwai Book 3] by Tiana Warner
23 Transmetropolitan, Vol. 8: Dirge by Warren Ellis
24 Transmetropolitan, Vol. 9: The Cure by Warren Ellis
25 Transmetropolitan, Vol. 10: One More Time by Warren Ellis
26 Dexter Is Dead [Dexter Book 8] by Jeff Lindsay
27 The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One [Women Are Some Kind of Magic Book 3] by Amanda Lovelace
28 Dexter [Graphic Novel Vol 1] by Jeff Lindsay
29 Dexter Down Under [Volume 2] by Jeff Lindsay
30 Comet Rising [Shadow Weaver Book 2] by MarcyKate Connolly
31 King of Scars [Grisha Series Spin-off] by Leigh Bardugo
32 The Last Mage [Mage Tales Book 3] by Ilana Waters
33 Blackout [Cal Leandros Book 6] by Rob Thurman
February
34 Smashed: Junji Ito Story Collection by Junji Ito
35 Chalcedony [Everleaf Book 2] by Constance Burris
36 Concrete Park Volume 2: R-E-S-P-E-C-T by Tony Puryear
37 Rick and Morty Vol. 9 by Kyle Starks
38 Kim & Kim, Vol. 2: Love is a Battlefield by Magdalene Visaggio
39 Jade [Everleaf Book 3] by Constance Burris
40 Doubletake [Cal Leandros Book 7] by Rob Thurman
41 Fighting Demons by S.L. Huang
42 Downfall by Rob Thurman
March
43 Moonstruck, Vol. 2: Some Enchanted Evening by Grace Ellis
44 Midnight Blue-Light Special [Incryptid Book 2] by Seanan McGuire
45 Kim & Kim Vol 3: Oh S#!t It's Kim & Kim by Magdalene Visaggio
46 Shades of Magic Vol. 1: The Steel Prince [A Darker Shade of Magic Spin-off] by V.E. Schwab
47 The Little Android [Lunar Chronicles Book 0.6] by Marissa Meyer
48 Scarlet [Lunar Chronicles Book 2] by Marissa Meyer
49 John Constantine: Hellblazer Vol. 16 by Mike Carey
50 The Wicked + the Divine, Vol. 8: Old Is the New New by Kieron Gillen
51 Witch Infernal [Infernal Hunt Book 3] by Holly Evans
i agree that i often bypass longer books or am quicker to DNF them just because i'm like 'i could read 2 or 3 normal sized books in that time' but also because i've found that RARELY do books actually NEED to be that long and it's usually just - to me - pointless filler that will make me hate the slow pace of the book anyway so it's probably good for me to drop most of them. i did read a 600 page book last week that was fairly good, but it was an entire 'season' of a serial so that was a bit different i guess.i've got 7 more 2016 books i need to knock off in december but i'm actually on track so i don't think it should be a problem. next year i'm definitely doing 60 for this challenge instead of 90 though and then hopefully focus more on finishing up series before i forget what is happening in them lol isn't there a challenge for series around here somewhere?
2019 CHALLENGESCleaning out the TBR Closet 2019
---61 books
Weight Loss Challenge [01/19 - 06/19]
Weight Loss Challenge [07/19 - 08/19]
New 2 U Authors 2019
---220 books
New Releases 2019
---13 books [JAN]
---23 books [FEB]
---25 books [MAR]
---21 books [APR]
---22 books [MAY]
---19 books [JUN}
---18 books [JUL]
---10 books [AUG]
---35 books [SEP]
---23 books [OCT]
---07 books [NOV]
---06 books [DEC]
TOTAL - 222 books
Decades Challenge 2019
---190 books
Never-Ending Series Challenge [01/19 - 03/19]
Never-Ending Series Challenge [03/19 - 05/19]
Never-Ending Series Challenge [05/19 - 07/19]
Never-Ending Series Challenge [07/19 - 10/19]
Fill in the Gaps [2018-2022]
---45 books [AHEAD BY 5]
Re-Read Rewind [11/18-02/19]
Re-Read Rewind [02/19 - 10/19]
DEAR [Drop Everything and Read] [4/12/19]
Earth Day Readathon [4/22/19]
Pride 50 Jubilee [06/2019]
My Year in Books 2019
this year i am only doing 60 books because doing 90 last year just about killed me. although i'm also doing 20 books with the weight loss challenge this year so that brings my number up to 80 again ...#oops. i tried.i am first going to get rid of the few sequel books i still have on my shelf that i added in 2017. then for the rest of the year i will be reading standalone books that i added in 2017.
JANUARY
[01] The Selkie by Nicole Field
[02] Johannes Cabal the Detective by Jonathan L. Howard
[03] The Tale of a Faerie Knight by Tay LaRoi
[04] Attack of the Metaplot by Alice Degan
FEBRUARY
[05] The Terracotta Bride by Zen Cho
[06] Red by Ramsey Shehadeh
[07] The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Pérez
[08] Unicorns Don't Come to Black People by Shekina Spears
[09] Fairy Tales are for White People by Melissa Yuan-Innes
[10] A Line in the Dark by Malinda Lo
[11] Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson
[12] The Devourers by Indra Das
[13] She Who Destroys the Light: Fairy Tales Gone Wrong by Shahida Arabi
MARCH
[14] Beanstalker and Other Hilarious Scarytales by Kiersten White
[15] The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
[16] Danse Macabre by Laura M. Hughes
[17] My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales by Kate Bernheimer
[18] Cranky Ladies of History by Tehani Croft Wessely
[19] War for the Oaks by Emma Bull
APRIL
[20] The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel
[21] How to Archer: The Ultimate Guide to Espionage and Style and Women and Also Cocktails Ever Written by Sterling Archer
[22] Project Cain by Geoffrey Girard
MAY
[23] Phantastic Fantasy by Resa Nelson
[24] The Beast That Never Was by Caren J. Werlinger
[25] Stardust by Neil Gaiman
[26] Magical Mechanications by Pip Ballantine
[27] Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling by Jaym Gates
[28] Phaethon by Rachel Sharp
JUNE
[29] Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
[30] Absolute Power: Tales of Queer Villainy by Erica Friedman
[31] Blood Divine by Greg Howard
[32] Lost Gods by Brom
[33] Athena's Daughters, vol. 2: Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy by Maggie Allen
[34] The Lavender Menace: Tales of Queer Villainy! by Tom Cardamone
[35] The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden
[36] The Gilda Stories by Jewelle L. Gómez
[37] The Mapmaker's Daughter: A Steampunk Novel by Joanna Emerson
JULY
[38] The Crow: The Story Behind the Film by Bridget Baiss
[39] The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
[40] Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens by Eddie Izzard
[41] Brooding YA Hero: Becoming a Main Character (Almost) as Awesome as Me by Carrie Ann DiRisio
[42] Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
[43] Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—without the Fairy-Tale Endings by Linda Rodríguez McRobbie
[44] The Martian by Andy Weir
[45] Odd & True by Cat Winters
AUGUST
[46] Clockwork Wings: the Chronicles of Icarus by Stacy Buck
[47] Queer, There and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World by Sarah Prager
[48] The Good Fight by Scott Bachmann
SEPTEMBER
[49] Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman
[50] Ash by Malinda Lo
[51] The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic by Leigh Bardugo
[52] A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
[53] The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
[54] The Wicked, Wicked Ladies in the Haunted House by Mary Chase
[55] Curtain Call by Nathan Squiers
OCTOBER
[56] Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh
[57] Teen Frankenstein by Chandler Baker
[58] What the #@&% Is That?: The Saga Anthology of the Monstrous and the Macabre by John Joseph Adams
NOVEMBER
[59] The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night by Jen Campbell
[60] The Modern Fae's Guide to Surviving Humanity by Joshua Palmatier
[61] The Near Witch by Victoria Schwab
