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How many of our Club Books have you read?
Anna wrote: "The spreadsheet or the mod account thing? Both are linked in Current Events!"thanks! I am still at 140.
Btw, I have decided not to consume chocochip brownies anymore. The last ones I ate were wayyy too sweet - tried different bakeries - maybe because of the chips. I opt for the usual cashew ones now.
Or maybe I should move to banana breads....
I just realized I hit exactly 100 books about a month after finishing Flowers for Algernon. Another 10 (e)books already owned.
Barry wrote: "I just realized I hit exactly 100 books about a month after finishing Flowers for Algernon. Another 10 (e)books already owned."welcome to the Triple Digit Club House, bro!
Congratulations YouKneek and Barry! This mountain will be ascended.
Thanks Silvana and Gabi.Congrats Barry!
So I was glancing over the newest poll winners for July. Did I miss some rule that July’s books had to have precisely 384 pages to win? :) They both do according to the default edition I see when I click on the links from the group shelf.
3+8-4 = 7 for July? Trying to crack the code! ;)
I laughed at the same thing when I was adding them to the group spreadsheet! :D
One of August's poll books is 384 pages too!
It's my nomination, and I wish I could say it was deliberate!
Haha, maybe it was subconsciously deliberate! I just went down a small rabbit hill and pivot tabled your spreadsheet to see which page counts are the most common...336 pages: 12 books
416 pages: 8 books
384 pages: 7 books
400 pages: 5 books
448 pages: 5 books
There is some deep meaning here, I'm certain of it...
(Edit: I went down a small rabbit hole, not a rabbit hill. I'll save the rabbit hill for tomorrow.)
I almost told you to do that, but you read my mind XD (edit: Asked, not told!)OK, future theme: Books that are 336 pages.
LOL, it did seem like the most logical course of action.That sounds like a fun theme! Probably one of the easier ones to validate, too...
(Some of those page counts are from the old spreadsheet, and haven't been checked since I've been in charge of the spreadsheet, so it's possible they're no longer the default edition's page count.)
YouKneeK wrote: "That sounds like a fun theme! Probably one of the easier ones to validate, too..."But very hard to find something to nominate :D
Hmm, I wonder if 336 is some sort of default novel page count, like 32 is for Tor.com shorts? I have so many books on my GR shelves that are 336 pages, I could populate a couple of polls with them :D
does not have to be exactly 336 pages, I just prefer shorter reads nowadays but not necessarily novellas (which could not be nominated anyway). Books with 250-350 pages sound appetizing :D
This week I hit 175 on my bookshelf reads total. Slowly but surely making progress. I've already picked out the next five I'm going to read.
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So, turns out I forgot that this year I was going to pass 250 books from the Club shelf. Looks like I'm at 256 right now, so #250 was Dreamsnake on May 06, 2021.Any volunteers to compose a limerick to this grand occasion? In the world of poetry, I'd make a good streetsweeper.
Also, I forgot to call dibs on some Orange Mead for my 200 (?) back in this post #1218 in January. Any of that still around?
You are crushing it Mike! Wave at me in your rear view mirror as you go by.
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and added dreamsnake to the mix
Hank said you done well
you can rest for a spell
But Mike needed his SFFBC fix
And scrolling back up, congrats HeyT too! Sorry, I missed your post.
Allison wrote: "Mike hit two fifty and sixand added dreamsnake to the mix
Hank said you done well
you can rest for a spell
But Mike needed his SFFBC fix"
Just bursting with meter and rhyme!
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Congrats Ryan! How is your Goodreads “date read” updating reliability? You could count backwards that way. I took a quick look, because this is a very serious and important thing that needs to be addressed. Going by your read dates, and assuming I didn’t miss any book titles from our shelf, Gospel of Loki was the momentous book this past April 28.
160: Annihilation
159: The Library of the Unwritten
158: More Than Human
157: The Day of the Triffids
156: Magician
155: Childhood’s End
154: Blood Song
153: Cage of Souls
152: Dragonflight
151: Cat’s Cradle
150: Gospel of Loki
I just realized something cool I should've thought of ages ago! Logged in as the mod account, I can compare books with anyone and see how many group books they've read! Unless they have a private profile of course.So, I'm going to start going through all 29539 members now, one by one, and make a spreadsheet! :P
Haha, and by the time you get to the end of that list, everybody will have had the time to read more group books so you’ll have to go back through them all again and update your spreadsheet!It won’t be 100% accurate for me, though. I’ve only shelved books I’ve read since joining GR. There are some books on our group shelf that I had already read before joining GR. Plus I think there are a few omnibus discrepancies. Like I read and shelved The Lord of the Rings (one volume to rule them all!) rather than the individual The Fellowship of the Ring on our shelf.
Yeah, and do I really need to say I would never do that XD But it could come in handy if someone was trying to figure out their number but couldn't do it from their side for some reason.
Anna wrote: "So, I'm going to start going through all 29539 members now, one by one, and make a spreadsheet! :P..."You know what's really creepy? XD - that I don't find it that unlikely to believe. XD
Hmm OK, I mean sure, I like spreadsheets, but I can think of more useful things to do with my time than this! :Dedit: Or as pointless but more fun!
Congratulations to Hank and to YouKneek. Seriously!I was in the U.S. of A the last couple months, ate at Cheesecake Factory twice. Dessert report : 1. Carrot Cake; 2. Linda's Fudge Cake.
Sooooo good.
Ooh! That sounds wonderful, Bonnie!I’ve read a couple more books from our shelves since I last reported:
Parable of the Sower
The Day of the Triffids
Annihilation
I liked them all a lot but for very different reasons. Maybe I’m just easy to please.
Thanks Bonnie! LOL, I love that you came all the way from Germany and managed to fit in a trip to the Cheesecake Factory, and I live less than 5 miles from one (close enough to occasionally hear it calling to me!) and haven’t been there in years. I haven’t actually tried any of their non-cheesecake desserts, so I’m glad (I think) to hear that those are good too.
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I took a quick look, because this is a very serious and important thing that needs to be..."
Thanks YouKneek! I'm pretty good with Read Days now, but two of those group shelf reads were rereads for me. I think book 150 was The Left Hand of Darkness (and even if it wasn't I'm choosing to believe that it was because it feels right to have LeGuin as a milestone read).
I've just counted and I've read 32 of them. Several more are on my tbr and I've rejected a few of them.
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I just hit 185. I think at my current pace it will take me like twelve years to be current.
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I only have 28. I have a lot to read in order to catch up.
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Looks like 73 thus far with plenty more on my TBR pile.
Anna and the mod account tell me I’ve read 112 books from the shelf after reaching my goal of 20 in the RAYB challenge. I could’ve sworn I was already in the double digit club last year! Time to go through and make sure all those books I read prior to joining the club are actually in my challenge shelf.
DivaDiane wrote: "Anna and the mod account tell me I’ve read 112 books from the shelf after reaching my goal of 20 in the RAYB challenge."Congrats, Diane! 100 is chocolate level, yes? :)
Looking at my handy-dandy spreadsheet, I have a mighty 63. I pretty consistently hover at 25% of the SFFBC books I intend to read. Which sounds good until you remember that the 75% increases by 18-ish books every year. :D
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Btw, where can I find the excel link to know how many books? I swear I bookmarked it but could not find it.