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[Soo]

Darn you, Anna! *shakes fist*

Audible Plus has some of the club books. I added 5 of them to my audio TBR. At least some of the narrators are good. =P

lol

If I do those and the ones I've read since my last count, I should be around 130? That's a guess. Probably do a count in a few months. =D

[Anna]

lol, isn't that a *good* thing? :D

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

helping!!

[Soo]

Accessibility makes it easier to put them on the "read sooner" list but I'm not that excited about some of the stories. lol

[Hank]

Interestingly this is not available to me, I am on a Silver membership which is 1 credit and corresponding charge every other month and the Plus does not look like it applies to that level of membership.

[Anna]

Soo wrote: "Accessibility makes it easier to put them on the "read sooner" list but I'm not that excited about some of the stories. lol"

This is me and the free Scribd month, I'm still traumatized :S

[Soo]

Anna wrote: "This is me and the free Scribd month, I'm still traumatized :S"

LOL - Yeah, I tried Scribd and I'm glad I was able to get 3 listens from it but the service is kinda terrible.

[Soo]

Hank wrote: "Interestingly this is not available to me, I am on a Silver membership which is 1 credit and corresponding charge every other month and the Plus does not look like it applies to that level of membe..."

I think Audible updated the membership types. You could be on a promo deal that isn't one of the normal deals on there.

[Anna]

I listened to eight group books during my Scribd month, as well as some non-group books, and most of them were one star for me :/ So now I associate Scribd with horrible books XD

[Soo]

Hahaha! LOL An earned rep. LOL

[Jen]

I'm up to 165/315, hovering just over the 50% mark

[Anthony]

Hey there, what’s the link to the tool that automatically counts which books on the group shelf I’ve read?

[Anna]

Do you mean this?

[Anthony]

Yes, thank you! I’m at an even 100 SFFBC books read, after completing my goal of reading 25 more this year. I just upped it another 5 books. The 5-star reads so far have been Among Others by Jo Walton and Forty Thousand in Gehenna by C.J. Cherryh. Lowest points this year were the 2-star reads The Many-Colored Land, Planetfall, The Ten Thousand Doors of January, and Shadowshaper.

[Anna]

I think you meant 🤩 by 2 stars for Planetfall? :)

[Anthony]

OOOF. NO NO NO NO NO.

[Dawn F]

Ahahahaha another enemy of Anna’s 😂

[Beth]

I've been holding steady in the 20-25% range for the three years I've been tracking this figure. It's good to have a nice sturdy backlog, right? ;) Currently at 56.

[HeyT]

I'm currently sitting at 134 read out of what 300 or so? I took a year off from reading the backlog so now I'm trying to slowly read more again.

[Anna]

Dawn wrote: "Ahahahaha another enemy of Anna’s"

Yup, but like I said in the other thread, at least you guys get along well, so you'll have a party on the naughty list! :P

Beth wrote: "It's good to have a nice sturdy backlog, right? ;)"

Just don't leave the least interesting ones for last!

HeyT wrote: "I'm currently sitting at 134 read out of what 300 or so?"

313 or 315 if you count next month's books!

[Gabi]

Anna wrote: "Beth wrote: "It's good to have a nice sturdy backlog, right? ;)"

Just don't leave the least interesting ones for last!..."

Yup, that's the problem I'm starting to face soon. Whenever I scroll through the list of yet unread groupshelf books more and more titles are left with the "Yeah ... some time, when there is nothing else and I'm in the mood" feeling ^^'

[Beth]

Anna wrote: "Just don't leave the least interesting ones for last!"

Good advice! Though I'm never gonna be at 100% regardless, since there are 8-10 titles I'm confident I will never want to read.

[Anthony]

@Beth I don’t have as accurate a count as you, but there are definitely books on the shelf I don’t anticipate ever reading.

[Beth]

I copied the SFFBC bookshelf spreadsheet Anna put together into a personal spreadsheet a year or two ago, and deleted the lines for the "never want to read" books. Given a total of 313, it looks like there were 17 of them, but at this point I don't know (and, Murderbot-like, have little interest in knowing) what they might have been. ^_^;

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Yeah, agreed. 100% is likely not happening in this lifetime, but I admire those whose fortitude includes reading Doctor Who: The Coming of the Terraphiles

[Gabi]

Allison wrote: "Yeah, agreed. 100% is likely not happening in this lifetime, but I admire those whose fortitude includes reading Doctor Who: The Coming of the Terraphiles"

LOL! I didn't even stumble over this one yet. So far I've only crossed Brent Weeks and John Scalzi off my list.

[Beth]

Scalzi is five books all by himself, believe it or not. 1.6% right off the top!

[YouKneeK]

Allison wrote: "Yeah, agreed. 100% is likely not happening in this lifetime, but I admire those whose fortitude includes reading Doctor Who: The Coming of the Terraphiles"

LOL, this made me laugh because it always amuses me when I see this on our group shelf. For the most part I’m willing to try all the books, maybe even the Doctor Who book, although it would be my very, very last pick!

But my incomplete-series-a-phobia means I may never read some of them anyway. I’m saving the books that are part of an unfinished series for last and then I’ll decide what to do with them if I ever run out of completed/standalone things on our shelf. I might read them as sort of a sampler to see which ones I like and want to read in their entirety if the series is ever finished, but I’ll probably prioritize other finished things not on the shelf.

I’m not worried about it though since I only manage 30-35 books from our shelf a year, so I’m not exactly racing through the back list when you consider we add 24 new ones each year! I may actually fall behind this year as I’m only up to 16. This year has been hell even without the pandemic and my reading has been slower as a result, but maybe I can make up for lost reading next year.

I'm currently at 171 read.

[CBRetriever]

Doctor Who: The Coming of the Terraphiles is a book I'll never read from the list along with

Those Who Hunt the Night - I like Hambly, but I'm not fond of Vampire stories

The Gunslinger - not a big Stephen King fan

[Christopher]

I once polled the group for what was the worst group read and the answer I got was Weaveworld, but I haven't read it so I cannot verify.

[CBRetriever]

Christopher wrote: "I once polled the group for what was the worst group read and the answer I got was Weaveworld, but I haven't read it so I cannot verify."

it's on my No list too but not as strongly as the other three

[Meredith]

Pleased to know I'm not the only one with a "not gonna read it" list.

[CBRetriever]

Meredith wrote: "Pleased to know I'm not the only one with a "not gonna read it" list."

Life is too short to read books you don't want to read

[Eva]

The real question is what happens when you have reached 100% group cohesion? Will you merge into this internet group, or will you maybe become the group's avatar just the characters in The City We Became become the avatars of NYC? Will we still vote on new reads or will the avatar choose for us? Will you lose your own identity and become the group? These are very existential issues here! 😳😅

Maybe somebody put Doctor Who: The Coming of the Terraphiles on the shelf in order to save us all from a terrible fate! 😵

That said, I'm sadly in no danger and still struggling just to keep it at 18% without going down further. 🙈

[Anna]

Eva, are those spoilers for City? (I haven't read it yet, shocking, I know.)

We do have a couple of people who used to be at 100%, but I don't know if they've kept up. Even if not, that's dedication!

[Eva]

No, no, that happens in the beginning, it's the very start of the story, so no worries! :-)

[Lost Planet Airman]

CBRetriever wrote: "Doctor Who: The Coming of the Terraphiles is a book I'll never read from the list along with

Those Who Hunt the Night - I like Hambly, but I'm not fond of Vampire stor..."

Done all three! Moorcock was not the right choice for a DW book. Hambly was good, but I favored the Windrose books.

You might actually like like The Gunslinger. It's pretty short, and far, far different from the mouse-squisher horror stories like It or Cujo. (Also, it cannot be judged from the wreck of a movie they made when they did The Dark Tower). The Gunslinger is far more of an allegorical tale than anything else by King. Imagine a long novella starring Clint Eastwood as The Man with No Name (A Fist Full of Dollars, etc.). You'll be done in a day.

[CBRetriever]

I'm with you on the Hambly books - I like her fantasies

[Lost Planet Airman]

Mike wrote: "CBRetriever wrote: "Doctor Who: The Coming of the Terraphiles is a book I'll never read from the list along with

Those Who Hunt the Night - I like Hambly, but I'm not ..."

Or Idris Elba. He was the bright spot in The Dark Tower.

[Ícaro]

14 books. Only one to discuss here, but I'm a new member so that's fine, I guess hahaha. My fifteenth will be Recursion.

[Deborah]

83

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Fun! Hope you'll find more with us :)

[Coralie]

My quest to get to 300 this year has been disrupted by Covid 19 and library closures. I am currently on 294 with one more in progress. I have five more on hold at the library but when I will be able to borrow them is anyone's guess.

[Raucous]

99.

There might be a few more but if so I read them so long ago that I can't remember. They'll be like new again (at least for the first few pages).

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

you're so close to joining us in the club house! can't wait!!

[Grace]

I’ve read 42 books from the group shelf, some before joining. I still have lot of classic sci-fi on the group shelf that I actually own but keep getting distracted by new releases, group reads, and anyone mentioning Adrian Tchaikovsky and what the Tchaikovsky fans are reading and liking. :)

[Liane]

77 on the group shelf, most before I joined the group.

[DivaDiane]

Hey everyone! I hit double digits! 100 exactly at the moment and hopefully will read one or 2 more before the end of the year. To celebrate in the club house, I will bring some homemade banana bread (with chocolate chunks, of course) and prosecco!

[DivaDiane]

Liane, I too have read most of my total books off the book shelf before I joined the group. I'd say about 3/4 I read prior now. I'm surprised at how much overlap there was and also how many I actually have on my owned TBR, otherwise, I would be doing as well as I am.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Welcome to the club house! Very excited about the treats you're bringing, thanks for remembering that chocolate is mandatory!