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Sanderson, Brandon - Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive #3) - informal buddy read starts 1 Jan 2025
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Dec 13, 2024 07:21PM
This thread is open to discuss Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson.
n Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst for vengeance.
Dalinar Kholin's Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified.
Nestled in the mountains high above the storms, in the tower city of Urithiru, Shallan Davar investigates the wonders of the ancient stronghold of the Knights Radiant and unearths dark secrets lurking in its depths. And Dalinar realizes that his holy mission to unite his homeland of Alethkar was too narrow in scope. Unless all the nations of Roshar can put aside Dalinar's blood-soaked past and stand together--and unless Dalinar himself can confront that past--even the restoration of the Knights Radiant will not prevent the end of civilization.
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How to Participate:The Audiobook Challenge is designed to not only help you to read your audiobooks, but to also find out about other great audiobooks from other challenge participants!
Though you may pop in/out at any time, the Audiobook Challenge will run on a monthly basis so you are able to see progress being made.
There are no minimum page requirements, and you can read abridged or unabridged audiobooks!
1. At the beginning of the month, post :
a: How many audiobooks in total you want to read for the month
b: How many audiobooks in the monthly category you want to read
c: Post the audiobooks (as you decide on them) by linking them to Goodreads in your post
2. During the month, read the audiobooks that you can AND update your post with your reviews. (You can do this after each book or wait until the end of the month.)
3. At the end of the month, update your post and with:
a: What books you read
b: Link(s) to your review(s) - note: can only be linked to Goodreads and not an external site
c: How many audiobooks you have read for this challenge this year
Then start a new post for the next month!
FORMAT YOU CAN COPY AND PASTE:
Start of Month
Total audiobooks to read:
Audiobooks in monthly category to read:
Books in category:
FINISHED
End of Month
Total audiobooks read this year:
Audiobooks in monthly category read:
MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):
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EXAMPLE : (under spoiler)(view spoiler)
~ Monthly Audiobook Challenge ~
Each month we will have a different theme of audiobook for you to listen to.
Read one, two, three, or thirty. Up to you! Just post at the start of the month which books you will read in the category, update through the month and post a link to your Goodreads review (no links to external sites).
Let's find some great audiobooks together!
Duration: Monthly
January 2025 Theme:
◈It's like three books in one
Audiobooks that are 25 hours or more in length
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A spreadsheet has been created to show all of our players, your target, how many books read, and what your % to your goal is comparative to other players.Everyone has access to columns C and D, so you can update your target and your books read whenever you like :)
Spreadsheet is here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
In 2016 we started this challenge because when one of our mods (Karen) joined Goodreads in 2012, she still had books on her "to read" shelf from back then. They just stared at her... mockingly... asking when she was going to either read them or remove them from that shelf...
So in 2016 we started "clean out the closet" to read or delete all the books left on your TBR added in 2012 or earlier.
Over the years we have played with the concept and changed things around a little, but the reading challenge is simple...
>sort your "to read" shelf by date
>pick the books that you are going to read which have been on your list the longest and set yourself a goal. You may decide to read all of your books from the oldest year, or you may just take the oldest 20, or 50, or 5 books on your list. Some people choose specific series books, or ARCs, or just random..... Completely up to you how you set your goal and how many books you read!
>Your goal is tracked on this spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
and players can edit columns C and D. So update your target books and books read as you go and we will post monthly progress to the thread.
It would also be great if you post your thoughts on the books once you finish them. Was it worth waiting for? :)
Reading Challenges
~ Emerald Coin To Earn an Emerald Coin:
One Coin upon "cleaning out" (reading) 30 books that have been on your TBR for more than one yearLearn about Gem coins here
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Nominations
Kushiel's Dart
The Man Without Qualities
The Faerie Queene
The Tale of Genji
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
A Little Life
Underworld
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
The Covenant of Water
A Day of Fallen Night
Vanity Fair
Passage
China
Shōgun
The Brothers Karamazov
Grant
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Each year we pick one incredibly large book, split it out across the year, and do a very long buddy read!2024 was The Way of Kings;
2023 Ship of Magic;
2022 Pillars of the Earth;
2021, Gone with the Wind;
2020 War and Peace ;
And 2019 Les Misérables
Anyone is welcome to join the buddy read, but you can only nominate if you intend to join
Nominate Up to three books below that meet the following criteria:
* A minimum of 30 hours on audio according to a reputable site such as audible or overdrive this is slightly less than previous years, as we started to run into mainly classics and it may be time to broaden the options
* Has not been a NBRC BOM previously
* You want to read and intend to join in the Weight Tome read in 2025
* If part of a series, it is book 1 (i.e. you can not nominate a book 2, 3 etc.)
To Nominate:
Post:
The book (link via the "add book/author" option above the comment box)
The description (copy and paste from GR)
The audiolength and source
NOMINATIONS CLOSE ON 20 DECEMBER 2024
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Nominations are closed
VOTING IS OPEN
Please:
> only vote if you intend to join the read.
> read the synopsis of the books so you are clear on your choices
> chose just one book as your first choice (if you choose more than one we will randomly decide for you)
Vote here: https://forms.gle/jJAq4bXapQWPHGtE7
The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand - December Theme BOM Traditions (starts 16 Dec)
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Dec 12, 2024 03:23AM
DQ sets and days announced!
Congratulations!To our Winners - Team Interior Painting
🎨 Sophie (Captain)
🎨 Mel (Co-Captain)
🎨 Karen (Co-Captain)
🎨 Lisa - Aussie Girl
🎨 Sana
🎨 Kat
🎨 Audrey
🎨 Elisabeth
🎨 Richard
And thank you to everyone who participated this year including all of our amazing captains and co-captains! We hope you had a great time
I'm taking requests for any themes you would like to see next year.Shout them out below :)
Kat wrote: "The Simple Wild by K.A. Tucker"Alyssa wrote: "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4..."
Nominations need to be made as per the Rules in post 1.
Please update if you want to nominate titles
