Team Cherry (S) - Chat

[Brooke]

Gillian wrote: "Well done girls. I'm sorry i have fallen a bit behind have had the flue for the past 5 days only just started to read again today :( but i have 5 books going at the moment [bookcover:Ink Mage|20791..."

I'm working on Golden Lily and Dragonfly, probably be done with both tomorrow :D I am still stuck on Game of Thrones thou, it's on my kindle and i tend to forget to grab it when i go out.

Another slow night at work, so finished a few more reviews (2392pgs worth!), i just want to say, i love large print books ;)

[Brooke]

Hoping to get a few done this weekend, since they approved my vacation time, i have a 4 day weekend :D

I am working on:

= 480pgs + BR
= 496pgs
= 496pgs + BR
= 448pgs + BR

Still need to write reviews for:

= 464pgs
= 544pgs + BR
= 480pgs + BR

[Brooke]

I'm crazy sorry i had my slump right at the beginning of the challenge, but hey, rather have it then than at the end :D

Plus it didn't help me that i had to get through a 36hr, 39hr and 41hr audio books in the first 2wks!

[Gillian]

Those big audio books are a killer to get through i keep trying to listen to them but i just can't concentrate :(

[Brooke]

Gillian wrote: "Those big audio books are a killer to get through i keep trying to listen to them but i just can't concentrate :("

That's where i'm at with Dragonfly. Nothing is really going on to get my attention :/

[Brooke]

I try to stick to ones that are around 6hrs-8hrs. otherwise i zone out too much and lose information

[Gillian]

I agree 6 to 8 hours is perfect for audio books it has to be a really good book if I'm going to do more than that

[Brooke]

EPPP i'm racing against the clock to get GoT done. i had only 31hrs to get it done when i got home this morning :(((( trying to finish it at work, but work is getting in the way!

[Brooke]

Victoria wrote: "It's okay if you're not able to finish it before the scores are put in. :) I was hoping to finish another book by tonight but I highly doubt that it'll happen :/ GOT is soooo long. It took me a few..."

Yah i finished it but i still need to update the BR thread for it, so no way it's going up today, maybe tomorrow night :D

[Gillian]

I am regretting haven chosen to do so many long books this month in future i will limit myself to 1 a month lol

[Brooke]

I wrote 2 more reviews for 3k pgs :D

[Brooke]

I'm writing my review for Game right now so that's anther 540pgs

[Brooke]

I've been trying to pace my reviews out so i have something going up most days :D i feel good about this weekend, i think i should get a good amount of reading done!

[Brooke]

My copy is waiting for me at the library, picking it up thursday afternoon and i will probably get to it this weekend.

Well i have all these i need to get done this weekend to be caught up with my BRs.... My good feeling has gone away...

[Eesh]

That is a whole lot of books, Brooke! I, myself have a much lower goal.
I'm planning to finish and one other book before on the 23rd.

[Brooke]

3rd place ladies :)

[Brooke]

jinx ;)

[Brooke]

even with my crap start, im in 1st place :D

[Brooke]

so im listening to my audio book at 1.5 speed for the first time, its a bit weird but I think ill keep reading at that speed from now on.

[Gillian]

When you get used to that speed it will sound normal Brooke i read all mine on 1.5 now but at first it was very strange. I'm still trying to plow through then i have a few smaller books to catch up on before i try the rest of the game of thrones series.

[Brooke]

yah im trying to get through smaller ones tonight so tomorrow night i can just focus on the 2 bigger books i need to do still.

[Brooke]

those accents can make or break the audio books for me. sexy British is always good, pirate voice not so good

[Brooke]

i have a southern belle voice right now for Lady Renegades.

[Brooke]

im only about 30mins in so far, too soon to tell

[Brooke]

Well i think i did well this weekend.

What i wanted to read:


What i got done:

[Gillian]

Wow i don't know how you do it Brooke you are amazing well done. I spent all weekend in bed no reading done at all was so disappointed but on a good note i am almost finished

[Ashley]

Nice, Brooke! I finished Oblivon a while ago that has an edition with 1000 or so pages but I haven't been in a reviewing mood so I'll have it up by tomorrow hopefully.

[Eesh]

I think that if you have a lot of reviews to post, you should start now because, near the end of the month, the number of reviews you can post are limited.

[Brooke]

I'm gonna be super upset if a cap is put in place. This is my week i'm not really on a computer at work, so i won't be able to write reviews unless i say screw food and do reviews on my lunch break which is only 30mins and i only got 2 written today. i will try to post before i go to bed in the morning but it's hard to stay up to get those done :(

[Brooke]

Yah i don't think they will because of that. I am sneaking on a computer now and getting more written :D

[Gillian]

Ashley i thought we were not allowed to use kindle edition page counts is that not the case for this challenge ?

[Ashley]

It's iPhone page counts we aren't allowed to use, I usually use kindle and it's accepted but we'll see haha.

[Brooke]

yah she said no ibook counts but yes to kindle

[Gillian]

bugger i read one that had a higher kindle count than any others and didn't put it in

[Ashley]

I'm sure it would be okay if you commented on the review thread and asked for a page correction :)

[Brooke]

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

she says so in this comment, i'm sure she'll let you change it :D

[Gillian]

Thanks Brooke and Ashley i will go back and get it sorted :)

[Gillian]

It must have been a book from the April challenge as i can't find it lol
I'm not going to Finnish the big books i had planned to read as I'm still unwell and finding it hard to concentrate. I will try to read as many small easy reads as i can.

[Gillian]

Nice work Victoria :)

[Brooke]

im working my way though the audio of Rogue, attempting to spring clean my house with a 6yr old... once i finish Rogue, im gonna listen to Days of Blood and Starlight or w.e. that is called.

[Gillian]

Im reading Betrayals, only just got my copy yesterday if i can get more of that series i will read them plus i now have a copy of Soundless then i will fill in any time i have left with more of the Weather Warden series i'm up to book 4 in that.

[Eesh]

I just finished A Court of Thorns and Roses and I'll be done with The Martian today.

[Ashley]

I'm starting Rogue Wave today and I'll have Steelheart done by the end of the day.

[Brooke]

Ugh i hate to be the review dumper, but this is the only time i've gotten to be on a computer in like 10 days. I did all my non BR reviews, and will have to do all my BR reviews tomorrow :/ hopefully no one has mean things to say about it. I usually stay on top of them, but since they started the new week on week off schedule at work, i get screwed on writing reviews. :/

[Gillian]

I have to Finnish on my own time line which is a lot earlier than most so i guess you would be doing the same unless your time is later than America.

[Brooke]

Sarah says it goes by goodreads time which is PST. unless your time zone is way ahead like Gillian.

[Gillian]

I wonder if i can have the extra day this month as i started in the american time line this month.

[Brooke]

Im now caught up on reviews :)

I will try to finish and review these today

[Ashley]

How is usually works is that if you start based on your own time zone you end based on it as well. But if you started based on GR time you have to stop on GR time.

[Gillian]

I will second that this has been a great group and we all did a lot of pages. The competition in the other groups has been very tough. Ashley good luck in the nest challenge. The rest of you lovely ladies see you in Elephants :)