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For my own personal challenges, I'm finished with:Personal: 1/25 (4% complete)
Sword: 1/5 (20% complete)
Laser: 0/5 (0% complete)
I read 1 book in January, although I started 2 others. Things are still slow. I'm starting to wonder if even 25 books will be too much for me this year.
We'll see how things go. I'm not super motivated to read with my eyes, even though I'm enjoying Small Gods so far, I haven't picked it up very much or read it for long each time.
Hopefully I can shake this off at some point, but it'll likely depend on how the rest of this year goes..
January Results:Sword Challenge
Total Participants: 75 (+75)
Total Read: 193 (+193)
Average Books Read: 3 (+3)
Total Committed: 2,813 (+2,813)
Average Books pledged: 38 (+38)
Participation so far is about 1/3 of last year, but our participates look eager to read committing to read nearly 38 each, although we're projected to only average 30 each so far.
Laser Challenge
Total Participants: 77 (+77)
Total Read: 166 (+166)
Average Books Read: 2 (+2)
Total Committed: 2,606 (+2,606)
Average Books pledged: 34 (+34)
Similar to our sword challenge, only 35 books each, although we're projected to only average 24 each so far.
Well that was a crazy January. What books are you enjoying for February?
The month has begun. Go forth and discucss!
Rachael wrote: " Is the message board and the discord the only places for discussion, or is there a zoom call?"Welcome Rachael. We do have some "local meetups" that are all virtual at the moment, some of which happen over Zoom I think.
You can find info about those in the events section.
For the most part though we tend to either post here or on the discord. Some of use us both.
I work half days on Fridays, so I've been watching it with lunch.
John (Nevets) wrote: "You have been paying much closer attention then I have been."Not especially. I just rate every episode on imdb after I watch it, and the previous picture was (view spoiler)
I will note the picture for this week's episode was changed after it was released. So I'm not sure how much stock to put into those pictures actually matching up with an episode.
Dave please put your last sentence in spoiler tags.
It's 9 episodes. Strange to do an odd number, but I'm sure there is a reason. I guess when you're not tied to advertisers you can do any crazy thing you want to tell your story.I thought this was a very good episode. I agree that (view spoiler)
The Andy Serkis version of The Hobbit is $7 today.https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Hobbit...
Not sure I want to buy it even though I know it's probably fantastic. I already own it in paperback and have the Rob Inglis version (who does the LotR books too).
I don't really need a 3rd version, despite loving the book. Plus it's one of the more expensive "deals" they've done in recent memory.
Another great episode. Although I'm confused about what Naomi is doing at the end. (view spoiler)The highlight for me was all the Amos and Clarissa stuff. (view spoiler) It's one of the reasons why I enjoyed the book so much too. This arc is really good.
This season's been really good. I kind of like going back to the weekly schedule. It builds anticipation and gives me a reason to come back to this thread to post about it every week (which is the intent of their schedule).
I still feel like enough people don't know about or watch the show though.
I think it's the best thing on TV right now. Although some of the people I recommended it to rolled off it, so I guess it's just not for everyone.
Here is this week's post-show. They have the Nadine Nicole who plays Clarissa Mao/Peaches on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys5ja...
At this point it's been so long since I read Nemesis Games that I don't really remember where that ends. Of course the show hasn't followed the books exactly.
A lot of the stuff was re-arranged, given to other characters along the way.
Tom wrote: "By the way, I'm leaving the book picks entirely up to the guest hosts. if they give me options I can try to steer them toward fantasy but I really do want them to feel free to pick from their own p..."Yeah. I think we all figured that. Maybe you just have too many Sci-Fi friends and not enough fantasy friends. :-D
He does the Bobiverse books too.
Rick/etc. Please drop the subject.
Welcome Kevin.
Richard wrote: "I strongly recommend the audiobooks; Ray Porter knocks it out of the park."I was kind of on the fence about this pick, but I've skipped a bunch of club picks and have a lot of audible credits atm. Seeing it was narrated by Ray Porter put me over the top.
I forget what else he's narrated that I liked, but the fact that I remember his name is a good sign.
Silvana wrote: *Roberator coming to kick us out of this thread in three....two....*"Good call!
Please create a new thread to discuss Mr. McClellan in more detail if you'd like to continue to disucss his works.
Back to posting deals.
The City of Brass is $3 today: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B06VXWPMV5
Terence wrote: "You haven't read any of them? Wow. Siege of Tilpur, Forsworn, and Servant of the Crown are all really good."I generally don't enjoy short fiction. So I picked them up when they were free, but haven't been motivated to pick any of them up.
I have most of the novellas, but haven't read any of them. I however read both of his trilogies and enjoyed them quite a bit.IIRC we read Promise of Blood for the group awhile back, which is probably the weakest of the 6.
