Bea’s Comments (group member since Apr 29, 2011)

Bea’s comments from the Pick-a-Shelf group.

Lagullande wrote: "Bea wrote: "Stacey wrote: "I'd like to join either Fall of Giants or The Pillars of the Earth depending on when you decide to start them. "

Stacy, I am already planning ..."

Lagullande, a buddy read is reading a book together on a schedule. Usually a number of chapters or pages per week is decided upon ahead of time and a start date is set. Stacy and I are aiming at April for The Pillars of the Earth. We would love to have you join us.

Meg wrote: "Thanks. I'm in the mood for non fiction so I'll do This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate."

I plan to read that one, also.

Meg wrote: "I'm back from my trip to Panama and landed on Stanley, can I please have three book choices from my shelf
Thanks!"

Meg, how about one of these?

The Water Dancer
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
The Paris Wife

Dee wrote: "i'll caution you guys there is a bit of a cliff-hanger and book 3 still isn't out...."

Dee, do you know the expected date for Book #3?

Marina, I have my copy of the book and have set up a thread for The Wise Man's Fear.

Participants:

Bea
Marina

This is open to anyone else who wants to jump in.

This book has no index. It consists of a one page prologue, 151 chapters and a one page epilogue.

I suggest that we decide how many weeks we want to take to read it...4-6 and then come up with pages per week.

At 4 weeks, it would be approximately 248 pages per week.
At 5 weeks, approximately 200.
At 6 weeks, approximately 165.

What do you think, Marina? And when do you want to start?

Reading schedule for 4 weeks:
Week 1 (Feb 2-8): chapters 1-32 (pages 1-248)
Week 2 (Feb 9-15): chapters 33-73 (pages 249-497)
Week 3 (Feb 16-22): chapters 74-113 (pages 498-746)
Week 4 (Feb 23-29): chapters 114-end (pages 747-994)

Christina and Lusie, Tien is away this weekend. She will respond upon her return.

Stacey wrote: "I'd like to join either Fall of Giants or The Pillars of the Earth depending on when you decide to start them. "

Stacy, I am already planning to do the other two I nominated, but I would be interested in doing The Pillars of the Earth with you once I finished those, if you are willing to wait. I am guessing about April?

Finished: Soulless for Series 2020

Still Reading:
The First Man in Rome - 58% done...end in sight!

Starting:
The Rabbi - restarting, that is - for LOST 2014, PnM Own, and Bookopoly
Unlucky 13 for MM 2019 and Series 2020

Marina (Sonnenbarke) wrote: "Bea wrote: "Marina, I have The Wise Man's Fear on hold. I will let you know when it comes in."

Good, let me know! I'm afraid I don't read nearly as much as you do, most days I can manage about 100..."

Don't worry, Marina. I am perfectly willing to go slower as I usually have multiple books going...and am so far behind on last year's PnM.

I added starting dates for each week to the reading schedule in post #2 above. Looking forward to this!

Coralie wrote: "That sounds fine by me. I will need to ask the library to get a copy from one of the other branches and get my new hip (I had a replacement hip last week) up to walking that far carrying an enormou..."

Hope you do as well as I did. I have had both hips replaced - about 10 years ago.

Coralie wrote: "I have landed on a transport square and rolled a 9.
9. Read a book with less than 5 ratings (has to be at least 1 year after first publication date).
The only book on my TBR shelf with less than 5 ..."

Coralie, I checked your TBR and found that your one book Dignity in a Teacup: True Stories of Courage and Sacrifice from Christmas Island was published February 2019. I would say it would be OK to read it. Or you could wait a week to start it.

Thread for Oathbringer buddy read has been set up here.

Participants:

Bea
Coralie
Lusie

If we did 5 weeks...
Start Feb 1: prologue + Part I = longest read at 326p
Feb. 8: Interludes + Part II = 228p
Feb. 15: Interludes + Part III = 274p
Feb. 22: Interludes + Part IV = 226p
Feb. 29: Interludes + Part V + Epilogue et al. = 187p

Any thoughts...please?

This is Book #3 of The Stormlight Archive.

It is divided into 5 parts plus a Prologue and an Epilogue.
Prologue pp. 1-27 (26pp)
Part One pp. 27-327 (300pp)
Interludes pp. 327-343 (16pp)
Part Two pp. 343-555 (212pp)
Interludes pp. 555-579 (24pp)
Part Three pp. 579-829 (250pp)
Interludes pp. 829-847 (18pp)
Part Four pp. 847-1055 (208pp)
Interludes pp. 1055-1071 (16pp)
Part Five pp. 1071-1229 (158pp)
Epilogue/Endnote/Ars Arcanum pp. 1229-1242 (13pp)

How would you like to divide this up for weekly reading?

Lusie wrote: "Bea, Coralie wants to join us. I'm not sure how many pages I'd like to you. Maybe you and Coralie can decide.

Coralie, it would be great if you joined Bea and me in our buddy read of [book:Oathbr..."

Great! The more the merrier. I will set up the thread when I return from the library. We can discuss the schedule then.

Lusie and Marina....I am willing to read both...I just need to make sure the weekly amount is do-able. I usually read 150-200 pages most days. But, keep in mind that I am reading for other challenges too, so all of that cannot go to the buddy reads. :)

Lusie, I will be picking up Oathbringer today at the library.

Marina, I have The Wise Man's Fear on hold. I will let you know when it comes in.