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from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.
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12/12Total 'want to read' as at 1/1/24: 347
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I'm also adding how to get them as I want to read my list this year and not delete if possible. Starting with some large oldies that keep being put on this list every year!! Also putting all the 2016 books still on my tbr here and I want to read or delete this year anything prior to 2017
2013
2015
(audible)2016
Red Rising (purchased, audible)
Anatomy of a Soldier (paperback, library)
Where the Trees Were (paperback, library)
Girl Waits with Gun (paperback or ebook, library)
In the Shadow of the Banyan (audible, owned)
The Muse (bolinda & ebook, library)
Silver Bay (paperback, library)
2017
Lion in the Valley
2018
Same for me with Jimmy Barnes!
Thanks all! Just one day and (not quite) one hour to go.I’m amazed at how many musicians we have already uncovered!
That would be a waste of his obvious talents
I am thinking about Ryan Gosling now....And I am in!
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Start of Month
Total audiobooks to read: 6
Audiobooks in monthly category to read: 1
Books in category:
FINISHED
End of Month
Total audiobooks read this year: 6
Audiobooks in monthly category read: 2
MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):
because it was the first full cast dramatisation I had tried for the series and it was an interesting way to read the book.I did the next one as well the same way, but I think I will finish the series with the 'regular' audio
Thanks!
Sammy wrote: "Thanks for the heads-up Karen. I have the paperback (or more to the point, hubby does, lol), but just audible and it's free in the UK too 😁"must be a very large paperback!! Or is it tiny writing? :o
Sammy wrote: "
Shōgun by James Clavell1152 pages - 53 hrs and 34 mins
bold English adventurer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn ..."
I just saw this is free on audible.
I see it nominated every year… maybe I need to just download it and start 😬🤭 see what all the fuss is about 😂
Elisabeth wrote: "I just found another musician book called 'Stravinsky' about the Russian composer. It's a translation from French so can I use the translator's first name, Eric? The author name is an S so no use."Yes, if you are reading a translation you can use the translator first/last name 👍
Eldarwen wrote: "And to feel included, you nominate Dickens... *shakes head* :-p"Your favourite author 😂
Melindam wrote: "I wanted to nominate the Way of Kings, but Karen beat me to it. :))So I am just throwing my support in."
Teehee
They are terrific escapism books Elisabeth!It is a title (we only use something like Grandma as a name if they are never referred to as having any other name). But as you say, P is generally more helpful :)
Nomination #238 hour 48 mins
868 pages
Book 0 in the series
In A Day of Fallen Night, Samantha Shannon sweeps readers back to the universe of Priory of the Orange Tree and into the lives of four women, showing us a course of events that shaped their world for generations to come.
Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory. For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms – but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation is starting to question the Priory's purpose.
To the north, in the Queendom of Inys, Sabran the Ambitious has married the new King of Hróth, narrowly saving both realms from ruin. Their daughter, Glorian, trails in their shadow – exactly where she wants to be.
The dragons of the East have slept for centuries. Dumai has spent her life in a Seiikinese mountain temple, trying to wake the gods from their long slumber. Now someone from her mother's past is coming to upend her fate.
When the Dreadmount erupts, bringing with it an age of terror and violence, these women must find the strength to protect humankind from a devastating threat.
My first nomination at 45 hours and 29 minutes is
1007 pages
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, book one of The Stormlight Archive begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion.
Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter.
It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them.
One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable.
Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.
Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar's niece, Jasnah. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan's motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war.
The result of over ten years of planning, writing, and world-building, The Way of Kings is but the opening movement of the Stormlight Archive, a bold masterpiece in the making.
Speak again the ancient oaths:
Life before death.
Strength before weakness.
Journey before Destination.
and return to men the Shards they once bore.
The Knights Radiant must stand again.
Finished
which was an eye opening account of one of Australia's most successful musicians
new spin: Title starts L-Z
Listening to All I want for Christmas.. Mariah 🎄
Connection is that Jimmy grew up in absolute poverty and he would have wished for anything at Christmas
new spin: female author
Melindam wrote: "New spin....the same >401 pages"Ok this is the same book but it is over 400 pages!!
The Nine Lives of Bianca Moon
New song though. 3D by Jung Kook.
Connection is that he is singing about how he can connect with someone in 2D but wants to have them there. Bianca in the book can hear the ghost of her fiancée and wants him with her!
Sammy wrote: "It's quite the eclectic mix! lol."Haha sure is
