How many of our Club Books have you read? Showing 1,101-1,150 of 1,698

[Sabrina]

Congratulations! So happy for some good news and a clubhouse celebration! Banana bread with chocolate chunks sounds very yummy!

[DivaDiane]

It’s my grandma’s recipe, altered for the modern age: whole spelt flour, and soya milk. The secret is using bananas that have turned black and souring/curdling the milk with vinegar (if your milk doesn’t happen to be sour on its own) and mixing the baking powder with the milk before hand (also for the fun explosion)! And we always add choc chunks. Good dark chocolate.

[Soo]

That banana bread sounds awesome!

[Michelle]

I just finally got around to checking the group shelves, and I've only read 63 or 68 of them. (By the time I started typing this, I've forgotten which!)

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

a pretty dang good start!!

[Anna]

Michelle wrote: "By the time I started typing this, I've forgotten which!"

This made me giggle, thanks! :D

If you want to check the number easily, try this!

[Michelle]

Why, thank you, Anna- what a useful link! It turns out that I've read 69 on the shelf, and another 6 are in my TBR pile.

[CBRetriever]

Anna wrote: "Michelle wrote: "By the time I started typing this, I've forgotten which!"

This made me giggle, thanks! :D

If you want to check the number easily, try this!"

The link for read puts me at 80, but my careful calculations put me at 115. However, I did find two more buried in my TBR piles: The Calculating Stars and When Gravity Fails

[Anna]

Hmm, that's strange CBR, are all the books on your Read shelf, or do you have exclusive shelves?

[CBRetriever]

probably not as I read them pre-Goodreads

well, I just compared and my versions of

Black Company
Black Prism

Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales - I have this one: Delphi Complete Fairy Tales of The Brothers Grimm (Illustrated) by Jacob Grimm

Final Empire (Mistborn #1)
Golem and the Jinni
Grace of Kings
Handmaid's Tale
Last Policeman
Last Unicorn

and several others

don't end up in the matches list and they are only in the Read. I did exclude the books that were part of an omnibus (Game of Thrones, First law Trilogy, Once and Future King, etc). It's weird. And I'm going to keep on with my spreadsheet

[Anna]

Whatever system works! I think I've gone through the group shelf enough times to make sure that all the ones I read before joining GR are on my Read shelf, but not everyone wants to do that. In that case the compare tool obviously isn't much use.

[Anna]

I'm at 198, and I've already read one of the likely December winners, so that means I only need to read one more to reach my goal of 200! I'm going to spend the rest of 2020 trying to decide which book should have that honor :D

[Hank]

Nice!

[Christopher]

Compare Books
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SFFBC’s books: 317 (185 not in common)
Books in common: 132

Wow, didn't realize I had read this many!

[Lost Planet Airman]

Anna wrote: "Hmm, that's strange CBR, are all the books on your Read shelf, or do you have exclusive shelves?"

Also, there are several shelved books that are sensitive ot edition, or the particular collection the work may have been in. I know that The Snow Queen keeps messing with me for some reason...

[CBRetriever]

Mike wrote: "Also, there are several shelved books that are sensitive ot edition, or the particular collection the work may have been in. I know that The Snow Queen keeps messing with me for some reason... "

I have a feeling it's the edition that's the problem. I have a mix of UK and US published works with different publishers. The version is definitely the problem with the Grimm book.

Aha Black Company was an Omnibus
but Black Prism was a UK published book as was The Final Empire: Mistborn Book One

Golem and the Jinni was US published as was Handmaid's Tale

there doesn't seem to be one definite rhyme or reason, but I'm gonna stick with my spreadsheet copied from the group one

[Jessica]

I've just recently joined the group and I've read 45. I'm not a huge sci-fi reader (other than post-apocalyptic) so that likely cut my count.

I DO have a lot of others on there on my wish list though! For 2021 I look forward to doing a Read All the Books Challenge

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Woohoo!! Great start, can't wait to see what you find next :D

[Richard]

Spending time in the hospital won't sto myreading of Sci-Fi nd even some fantasy. poured out in the mix. To those ends, I read some nonfiction as well.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

hope it's helping pass the time and that you feel well soon!

[Liane]

This has been a fun thread to pick and choose comments to read. That it has been going for 7 years is a testament to our persistence and how many new sci fi and fantasy books are out there to be enjoyed! Like many others have said, I have always felt more well read than many friends, but the reader’s here blow me away. Inspiring, though 2020 has also taught me to enjoy at my own pace. That said, I am looking forward to the clubhouse in the future but will continue to have my own supply of chocolate and red wine at hand here.

[Ryan, Your favourite moderators favourite moderator]

I'm up to 124, but worried that I'll fail to hit my 2020 goal of 150. My local library only has so many copies of the groups bookshelf books as audiobooks.

[Mel]

Oh wow! I didn't realize you could compare individual shelves as well! That would have made things so much easi-- Ah well. I am totally going to use this knowledge to set up future Buddy Reads.

I've only read 57 so far, but have another 78 on my TBR, so lots of potential there! However I know I'm never be completely caught up, and I'm okay with that. I recently created a Nope shelf for myself, and it's been so empowering.

[Stephan]

I've read 16 off your list, coincidentally. I'm new here. I'm surprised you don't have a few decent books that came out recently on the list...or other books farther along in the series of an initial book that was read here.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Hi Stephan! the group stopped doing books further into series because participation was quite low. so you won't see many sequels! excited for you to share books you think ought to be on our shelf--we vote every month for the next 2 books!

[Stephan]

That's a bummer. Thanks for letting me know.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

eh. they aren't on the shelf but we do a lot of buddy reads, so you can still talk about the series with groupmates. I'm in one right now in preparation for rhythm of war!

[Stephan]

I'm not sure how that works. What's a buddy read?

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

group reads are official club picks that members vote on. buddy reads are simply books that 2 or more people want to discuss as they read. we have a thread for setting them up. folks go there, see if there's interest in something and pick a date to start if there is!

[Stephanie]

58 so far. Started about 2011.

[Jessica]

Melissa wrote: "Oh wow! I didn't realize you could compare individual shelves as well! ..."

I did it a very low tech way - I went through and counted. But then when I actually compared the shelves to my read I got almost half the number I'd counted! That likely means a lot of books I read forever ago (i.e. before 2010 when I started tracking everything on Goodreads) aren't marked as read. That will be a project for me...

[Bargle]

Bargle wrote: "New member Bargle here. I've read 33 of the current 201 books on the list. Looking forward to finding some new additions to the TBR list, as if it isn't already big enough." (2015)

Now up to 49 of 319 with several in the TBR pile.

[Anna]

I'll be hitting 200 today not with a bang but with a whiny meh. But the good news is that I've already read all five books in the January 2021 scifi poll, and am pretty confident I'll have read the book that ends up winning the January 2021 fantasy poll, so technically that means I'm at 202, woohoo!

[Nicol]

Anna wrote: "I'll be hitting 200 today not with a bang but with a whiny meh. But the good news is that I've already read all five books in the January 2021 scifi poll, and am pretty confident I'll have read the..."

Seeing your post in read all the books, I decided to go check how far away I am to 100 and I can't believe it- I have 120 done!! - I think at least a third was read before joining years ago -

[Anna]

That's amazing, especially if it came as a surprise!

[HeyT]

I'm currently up to 143 but am hoping to finish two more by the end of the year to make it a nice 145.

[Coralie]

I am currently on book 300! I didn't expect to make it this year after our library was closed for most of the year.

[Anna]

Wow, congrats Coralie! ^_^

[Hank]

Go Coralie! First one in the 300 clubhouse, what will the reward be?

[DivaDiane]

Coralie’s choice! Congratulations! That’s amazing!

[Soo]

Congrats, Coralie! =)

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Really impressive!! We'll soon have to start a "read all the noms" challenge for Coralie to complete!

[Meredith]

Congrats Coralie! That's impressive!

[Lost Planet Airman]

Meredith wrote: "Congrats Coralie! That's impressive!"

Way to go!

[YouKneeK]

Coralie wrote: "I am currently on book 300! I didn't expect to make it this year after our library was closed for most of the year."

That’s amazing Coralie, congrats!

I’m currently at 177, and I think that’s probably as far as I’ll get this year. My next 3 planned books are tomes, and not on the group shelf.

I didn’t even break even with the newly added books this year, only reading 21 from the shelf. There were another 2 books voted in this year that I’d read in previous years, so that makes it sort of 23, but usually I manage 30 or so. This year was full of extenuating circumstances. Hitting 200 next year seems like a possibility, though.

[Anna]

Since this is the thread where I've raved about broccolini in the past, I think it's the right place to share this. I was going through the notes on my phone, looking for something specific (I never found it) and I came across an old one titled "TO DO". I was curious why there was an old to do list, since I usually keep them (yes, several) pretty well updated, so I opened it and there was just one item on it:

TO DO:

- prep broccolini

That's it. That's my to do list from April 2018.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

You prepped broccolini for a whole month???? Dang.

[Anna]

I don't know? Probably not since it's still on the to do list?

[Christopher]

I should cross 150 in 2021 if all goes according to plan.

[Midiain]

You guys are amazing. I'm way behind with only 86 but if I make my goal I'll be just over a 100 by next year.