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2024 winner has been posted https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
The Way of Kings won, closely followed by Shogun and Wanderers
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READING SCHEDULE
January & February 2024
Prelude, Prologue and Part One: Above Silence
March & April 2024
Part Two: The Illuminating Storms
May 2024==BREAK / CATCH UP MONTH==
June & July 2024
Part Three: Dying
August & September 2024
Part Four: Storm's Illumination
October 2024==BREAK / CATCH UP MONTH==
November & December 2024
Part Five: The Silence Above and Epilogue
Over in the Cleaning out the closet challenge in 2018 we started talking...
Your know those MASSIVE books that you want to read, but everything else gets in the way?
Well we decided that perhaps the best way to tackle this problem is to pick a book and read it together over a year. So 2019 was the year of Les Misérables, 2020 was War and Peace, 2021 Gone with the Wind, 2022 Pillars of the Earth and 2023 Ship of Magic!
After nominating books and then voting for 2024, the winner is The Way of Kings!
Anyone is welcome to join. This is essentially an extremely long buddy read :)
There is a reading schedule below to show which chapters to read over a two month period and we will also have two break months ; meaning the read will last the whole year.
To participate, all you need to do is come on over and give your thoughts for the section you are reading. Please make it clear which section you are referring to, and if you are reading ahead of the schedule, put your comments in spoiler tags.
c.800 pages? 35+ hours of audio?! Meh! We got this! Let the Reading Begin!
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This is the 3rd level of this challenge.
The challenge consists of many levels, this level is 251 - 500 books. So, if you have not completed the first 250, go back and complete the previous levels of the Serious Readers Challenge for 2024 that you haven't already finished.
Just create your list of books (at this level, label them 251 through 500) and mark them off with a strike through or a check-mark them as you finish. If you find you can't finish one of the books on your list for any reason, you may replace it with another.
Also, if you just want to decide what you read as you go you can do that as well. Since this challenge is for the year 2024 any books you've read this year may be included.
This is a free choice challenge. Read whatever you want.
Make a ✔ Or Other Symbol
Level Quick Links
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This is the 2nd level of this challenge.
The challenge consists of five levels, and this one is for 101 - 250 books so, if you have not completed the first 100, go back and complete the previous levels of the Serious Readers Challenge for 2024 that you haven't already finished.
Just create your list of books (at this level, label them 101 through 250) and mark them off with a strike through or a check-mark them as you finish. If you find you can't finish one of the books on your list for any reason, you may replace it with another.
Also, if you just want to decide what you read as you go you can do that as well. Since this challenge is for the year 2024 any books you've read this year may be included.
This is a free choice challenge. Read whatever you want.
Make a ✔ Or Other Symbol
Level Quick Links
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This is the 1st level of this challenge.
If you can commit to read at least a hundred books in 2024, welcome. The challenge will consist of five levels, each level will require you to read more books!
Level 1: 1 - 100 books
Level 2: 101 - 250 books
Level 3: 251 - 500 books
Level 4: 501 - 1000 books
Level 5: 1001 - infinity!
So, once you complete your first hundred, you may advance to the next level.
Just create your list of books (at this level, label them 1 through 100) and mark them off with a strike through or a check-mark them as you finish. If you find you can't finish one of the books on your list for any reason, you may replace it with another.
Also, if you just want to decide what you read as you go you can do that as well. Since this challenge is for the year 2024 any books you've read this year may be included.
This is a free choice challenge. Read whatever you want.
Make a ✔ Or Other Symbol
Level Quick Links
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
Level 5
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Chapter Breakdown
Date Chapters Pages MPDQs
3 Jan Prologue - 10 25% Melindam
4 Jan 11 - 21 47% Angie
5 Jan 22 - 33 71% Cat
6 Jan 34 - Epilogue Lexi
Guidance for DQ setters
Aim for a reasonable number of questions: 4 - 5 is typical. Please don't post too many - any more than 7 gets unwieldy!
Use consecutive numbering of the DQs for your days. So, for example, if Day One is posted as questions 1-4, Day Two should start at number 5 etc.
Don't worry too much about your questions: you aren't being tested on how clever your questions are!
Hints and tips:
- Is there a quote that jumped out at you? Use that in a question.
- What about the characters - do they generate strong feelings? No feelings? - either way, we can explore that!
- What about that plot twist?!
- Explore the writing style: is there an unusual structure being used? what's the tone of voice like? or the point of view?
Want more information about how NBRC runs their Book of the Month discussions? Check out the information here
Dec 21, 2023 06:32AM
When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path, she may find that what we need isn't always what we seek.
In Bookshops & Bonedust, a prequel to Legends & Lattes, New York Times bestselling author Travis Baldree takes us on a journey of high fantasy, first loves, and second-hand books.
Viv's career with the notorious mercenary company Rackam's Ravens isn't going as planned.
Wounded during the hunt for a powerful necromancer, she's packed off against her will to recuperate in the sleepy beach town of Murk—so far from the action that she worries she'll never be able to return to it.
What's a thwarted soldier of fortune to do?
Spending her hours at a beleaguered bookshop in the company of its foul-mouthed proprietor is the last thing Viv would have predicted, but it may be both exactly what she needs and the seed of changes she couldn't possibly imagine.
Still, adventure isn't all that far away. A suspicious traveler in gray, a gnome with a chip on her shoulder, a summer fling, and an improbable number of skeletons prove Murk to be more eventful than Viv could have ever expected.
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nominated by: Melindam
Dec 21, 2023 06:30AM
