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Jan 24, 2023 01:57AM
Chapter Breakdown
Date Chapters Pages MPDQs
2 Feb Book VII - Deed 1-118 Karen
The End
4 Feb Book II - Home Again 134-256 Judith
Reset
6 Feb BREAK / CATCH-UP DAY
7 Feb Book IV - Cost 257-344 Kate S
Complicate
9 Feb Book V - end 345-525 (end) Lexi
Aftershocks
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
Jan 24, 2023 01:57AM
New York Times bestselling and Alex, Nebula, and Hugo-Award-winning author Seanan McGuire introduces readers to a world of amoral alchemy, shadowy organizations, and impossible cities in this standalone fantasy.
Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story.
Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. All she understands, she does so through the power of math.
Roger and Dodger aren’t exactly human, though they don’t realise it. They aren’t exactly gods, either. Not entirely. Not yet.
Meet Reed, skilled in the alchemical arts like his progenitor before him. Reed created Dodger and her brother. He’s not their father. Not quite. But he has a plan: to raise the twins to the highest power, to ascend with them and claim their authority as his own.
Godhood is attainable. Pray it isn’t attained.
Nominator: Karen (mod)
Jan 24, 2023 01:56AM
Jan 24, 2023 01:56AM
DQ VolunteersCat
Amanda
Karen
Eldarwen (if necessary)
Kate S (If necessary)
Jan 24, 2023 01:56AM
Chapter Breakdown
Date Chapters Pages MPDQs
16 Feb 1-7 1-107 Cat
17 Feb 8-15 108-196 Amanda
18 Feb BREAK DAY
19 Feb 16-25 197-300 Karen
20 Feb 26-end 301-403(end) Karen
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
Jan 24, 2023 01:56AM
Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he’s ever known.
So begins an unexpected journey that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia’s proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the Deep South to dangerously idealistic movements in the North. Even as he’s enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, Hiram’s resolve to rescue the family he left behind endures.
This is the dramatic story of an atrocity inflicted on generations of women, men, and children—the violent and capricious separation of families—and the war they waged to simply make lives with the people they loved. Written by one of today’s most exciting thinkers and writers, The Water Dancer is a propulsive, transcendent work that restores the humanity of those from whom everything was stolen.
Nominator: Cat (mod)
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Feed Your Readers, the NetGalley Challenge
Duration: Monthly
How to Participate:
The NetGalley Challenge is designed to not only get you to read your NetGalley books, but to also advertise your reviews for others to see because after all, that's what NetGalley is all about.
Though you may pop in/out at any time, the NetGalley Challenge will run on a monthly basis so you are able to see progress being made.
1. At the beginning of the month, post any/all of the following:
a: How many books on your NetGalley shelf
b: What books are on your NG shelf
c: What your Netgalley feedback ratio is
2. During the month, read the NetGalley books 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)**
c: Your updated shelf count
d: Your updated books to read
e: Your updated ratio
Then start a new post for the next month!
**When linking your reviews, please link only to the book(s) here at GoodReads. At this time, linking to a personal blog is not allowed. Thank you!
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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
February 2023 Theme:
◈ Audiobooks between 3 - 5 Hours
FYI - a new monster wheel, Asian Monsters has been posted.Any wheel can be used to get your initial 5 monsters or a replacement.
A new tab was also added to the Master List of Tasks spreadsheet for the Asian monsters.
Monsters aren't just spun from tales recorded by Homer, but from all corners of the world. Look to the East to find new nightmares to haunt your sleep.
Remember, you can spin for monsters from any wheel, just no more than 5 monsters at a time. The tasks are in the Master List of Tasks spreadsheet on the tab labeled Asian Monsters.
https://wheeldecide.com/?c1=Ropen&...
*A big thank you to Lexi for the heavy lifting for the monsters and tasks! It's appreciated :)
Jan 13, 2023 06:42AM
I've posted the breakdown. Judith & E are going to decide which of them are doing which days. Late volunteers still welcome!
Spreadsheet updated to hereNB: I have left the Target Books as your 2022 number unless you posted a new number in your post above. You can change this at any time as column C & D are editable
All players have spreadsheets shared with them andsign ups are now closed
End of 2022 statsTOTAL BOOKS TO READ: 4601 (2021 was 4185)
TOTAL BOOKS RECORDED AS READ: 2667 (2021 was 2065)
PLAYERS: 106 (2021 was 110)
PLAYERS WITH MORE THAN 1 READ BOOK: 76 (we will refer to these as ACTIVE) (2021 was 75)
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ACTIVE PLAYERS AVERAGE % READ 72% (2021 was 58%)
ACTIVE PLAYERS TOTAL BOOKS TO READ 3376 (2021 was 3224)
ACTIVE PLAYERS TOTAL BOOKS READ 2667 (2021 was 2065)
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Everyone who is currently signed up should have got access to their sheet now :)
