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[Siobhan]

Ahh right, my friend Charlie did mention there is a bit of fan service. I'll just have to reread Six of Crows in future to get those references xD

[Hailee]

Siobhan wrote: "Ahh right, my friend Charlie did mention there is a bit of fan service. I'll just have to reread Six of Crows in future to get those references xD"

Perfect excuse for a reread ;-). And I just asked the mods for a thread to be created for Six of Crows.

[Siobhan]

Thanks hun! :)

[Sha]

Nyssa wrote: "Lynn Shepard - Attitude: See Article"

*blinks*
Oooookay. Brushing aside the whole "kids books are worthless" subtext, that was a bit... illogical. I don't think that's how buying habits work...

Edit: ooops sorry I didn't see the drop the subject bit till later. dropping it now.

[Beste]

Hailee wrote: "I haven't read The Grisha trilogy either. But from what I heard the Six of Crows duology is much better. I still might read the Grisha trilogy at some point but I'm much more excited to re-read Six..."

Yes I remember smiling at some references from Grisha trilogy :) Grisha trilogy is good too but can't beat the Six of Crows. Everything is fast paced and deeper compared to Grisha.

[Jenna, I'd be free if not for Temper & Edgewalker]

Come join me and Mayim for Range of Ghosts on Jan 25th! https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Anni]

I already read Steelheart but I would join for the sequels :)

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Sha wrote: "Nyssa wrote: "Lynn Shepard - Attitude: See Article"

*blinks*
Oooookay. Brushing aside the whole "kids books are worthless" subtext, that was a bit... illogical. I don't think that's how buying hab..."

I was part of "tangential topic ring" a few weeks ago... when we start these interesting side discussions, we can just create a thread over in Hodge Podge and continue them....

I created a topic just now for it: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Nyssa]

Jenna wrote: "Anyone interested in reading any of these books next year (I'm very flexible as far as scheduling goes):

Raymond E. Feist - Magician.."

I'd love to buddy read Magician, but I don't think I can fit it into 2018.

[Nyssa]

Iain wrote: "
I created a topic just now for it: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
"

Thank you for this!

[Jenna, I'd be free if not for Temper & Edgewalker]

Nyssa wrote: "Jenna wrote: "Anyone interested in reading any of these books next year (I'm very flexible as far as scheduling goes):

Raymond E. Feist - Magician.."

I'd love to buddy read Magician, but I don't ..."

That's okay - some other time :)

[Sarah]

Siobhan wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Siobhan wrote: "Hailee and I are planning to read Six of Crows around March 15th. Just checking if anyone else would be interested? :)"

Its on my list, but I still ha..."

Delitealex wrote: "Siobhan wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Siobhan wrote: "Hailee and I are planning to read Six of Crows around March 15th. Just checking if anyone else would be interested? :)"

Its on my list..."

I've just read a number of things that insist its better to read the Grisha trilogy first, so that's how I'm going to do it or else I'd feel like I was reading it wrong. I'm just weird like that. *shrugs*

[Tammie]

Ahdam wrote: "I don't know maybe I'm just too passive about authors unless the person is absolute garbage then I'd rather see the other side before making my decision maybe I'll run into an author who I cannot b..."

I'm with you Ahdam.

[Delitealex]

Anyone up for Skyborn Aug or later

[C.P.]

Does anyone want to read Hollow World near the beginning of the year? I'm not extremely particular when, but would rather do it fairly soon.

I also have some middlegrade series that I want to get back to, if anyone is interested in buddy reading them. I'll be picking up the Fablehaven series with book two and the Ranger's Apprentice series with book five.

[Nicole]

Would anyone like to join me in January to read the Obelisk by N.K. Jemisin?

[Shaitarn]

Would anyone be interested in reading some Robin McKinley? I'm really looking at Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast, but would be happy to read The Hero and the Crown and The Blue Sword as well.

[Jenna, I'd be free if not for Temper & Edgewalker]

Anyone who missed the giant group read of Oathbringer want to read it sometime?

[Rea]

@Jenna I need tooo, I shelved it, made it 50% in and got sucked into another series.

[Jenna, I'd be free if not for Temper & Edgewalker]

Rea wrote: "@Jenna I need tooo, I shelved it, made it 50% in and got sucked into another series."

Oh, hate it when that happens. The other series must have been really good though!
When do you want to read it?

[Ahdam]

I really want to join but I still need to read word of radiance but if you guys set a date later in the year I might be able to read WOR and join you guys then

[Beste]

Jenna wrote: "Rea wrote: "@Jenna I need tooo, I shelved it, made it 50% in and got sucked into another series."

Oh, hate it when that happens. The other series must have been really good though!
When do you wan..."
I guess we have The Way of Kings BR in april. We can do it after WOK and WOR ?

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Blasphemy!... leaving such a great new release for 6-8 months :)

[Beste]

Iain wrote: "Blasphemy!... leaving such a great new release for 6-8 months :)"

That blasphemy has 6.2 bonus points :)

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Did you guys see the cheatery we discovered with The Way of Kings? There's a Nook edition listed with 3159 pages because Nook measures pages as what fits on the screen... that's 7.9 bonus points from challenge and 15.8 bonus points from buddy read, on top of 31.6 regular points... for 55.3 points... I don't think that edition could count, but I'll leave that to the mods to decide... there's also a weird ebook edition with 2400 pages, then the mass market paperback has 1258 pages...

[Chris]

Didn't we decide to go with the most popular edition of each book? That's also a good way to convert audiobooks.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I must have missed this decision... it will save time, tho if true...

It does kinda make all this work some of us did putting this reference together for all the Buddy Reads a waste, tho... and I would think Jenna would have stopped us for doing it wrong...

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

[Chris]

I probably missed the decision or saw a suggestion and thought it was so. There are soooooo many threads in this group it's impossible to keep up...:)

Whatever y'all agree on should work though. That's a lot of work y'all did there..

[Rea]

@ Jenna, this is a common occurance with Sanderson novels and myself. WoK took me a year to read. WoR was a solid 48 hours of neglecting my entire life to read it in one go. Oathbringer is shaping up to be the reading slump of WoK. I love Stormlight Archive but sometimes they feel brickish to me.

I would be down whenever. I'm jumping head first into Malazan, and hoping to wrap up *fingers crossed* ASoFaI as well as WoT.

[Jenna, I'd be free if not for Temper & Edgewalker]

None of the mods except me have really been around, I'm leaning towards making it just the most popular edition because all of this is starting to become a big hassle when it doesn't need to be, but I'll get back to you on it.

[Siobhan]

Jenna wrote: "None of the mods except me have really been around, I'm leaning towards making it just the most popular edition because all of this is starting to become a big hassle when it doesn't need to be, bu..."

I'd be fairly happy just going with whatever edition I'm actually reading. I'm really particular about shelving the right one! Haha.

I do totally understand using the longest one available to keep it fair, but like Iain said with WoK there are some crazy anomalies. I'll be reading that as two books, wonder what the page count is there...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

It'll suck having to re-do the reference list, but it will balance out on time saved in the future, I think...

and remove all the oddities we encountered from contention...

Now that we're in the thick of it, we are finding the problems with the system and ironing them out... save everything learned for if/when you guys choose to do this again (I assume this won't be an every year thing if you choose to repeat it... some people might find the competition stressful, especially towards the end, when holidays are keeping people busy elsewhere)

[Hailee]

Siobhan wrote: "...going with whatever edition I'm actually reading. I'm really particular about shelving the right one! ..."

I'm exactly the same about shelving the particular edition I am reading. In fact gone so far as to join the goodreads librarian group because several times the edition I own hasn't been there, is missing a cover or had an incorrect page count and so I've requested that it be corrected otherwise it drives me mad.

[Hailee]

To be clear that is what the group is there for I'm not some random demanding nutter haha.

[C.P.]

I'm starting Ancillary Justice tomorrow (January 3rd) if anyone wants to buddy read it.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Yea... I'm a member of the Librarian Group, altho I don't use it much... I joined after reading the "prequel" to World of the Lupi by Eileen WIlks...

Turned out, it was actually an earlier version of the first book, published as a novella, with weird differences (like a pet cat instead of a dog) and made getting into the first book really hard...

I think so many people complained about the novella and getting warnings attached to it, that the book has been deleted from Goodreads now, because I can't find it anymore, and I used my review to warn people before the Librarians updated the blurb...

[Jenna, I'd be free if not for Temper & Edgewalker]

Iain wrote: "It'll suck having to re-do the reference list, but it will balance out on time saved in the future, I think...

and remove all the oddities we encountered from contention...

Now that we're in the ..."

That's what I'm thinking and generally leaning towards because as buddy reads are added, we'll constantly be doing this. Still waiting to hear back from other mods, but don't put any more work into for now.

[Jenna, I'd be free if not for Temper & Edgewalker]

Beste wrote: "Jenna wrote: "Rea wrote: "@Jenna I need tooo, I shelved it, made it 50% in and got sucked into another series."

Oh, hate it when that happens. The other series must have been really good though!
W..."

I don't mind waiting, but if there's anyone who wants to do Oathbringer earlier we could do a different buddy read.

[Jenna, I'd be free if not for Temper & Edgewalker]

Anyone going to read The Infernal Battalion when it comes out?

[Rea]

I'm down whenever. I'll kust have to jumble some stuff around but it's doable.

[Jenna, I'd be free if not for Temper & Edgewalker]

Rea wrote: "I'm down whenever. I'll kust have to jumble some stuff around but it's doable."

Is February good for you or do you need more time?

[Siobhan]

Hailee wrote: "Siobhan wrote: "...going with whatever edition I'm actually reading. I'm really particular about shelving the right one! ..."

I'm exactly the same about shelving the particular edition I am readin..."

I need to do that too. My boyfriend reads a lot of old obscure books and he hates when his edition doesn't have the right cover photo or page count etc.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Maybe I just read too much, but if I kept everything accurate like that, I'd waste days more than I already do on Goodreads... I messed with it a bit the year I read 100,000 pages to try and get an accurate count, and changing editions when books had 0 pages listed... but I mostly just live with whichever edition comes up...

[Hailee]

Siobhan wrote: "Hailee wrote: "Siobhan wrote: "...going with whatever edition I'm actually reading. I'm really particular about shelving the right one! ..."

I'm exactly the same about shelving the particular edit..."

@Siobhan. Its a good way to do it. I've never had to wait more than a couple of hours for the librarians to fix my issue. One time they answered me within 4 minutes!!

[Hailee]

Iain wrote: "Maybe I just read too much, but if I kept everything accurate like that, I'd waste days more than I already do on Goodreads... I messed with it a bit the year I read 100,000 pages to try and get an..."

I know it bothers people a lot less. But if I didn't get the right edition every time there would be a constant niggle in my brain everytime i logged in and looked at my home page. Plus if the page count isn't correct I get the wrong total page count at the end of year stats. But yeah I only average about 40 books a year so I can see why you might not have the time to worry about each edition of the 1 million books you read a year 😂😁

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I read 70,431 pages across 180 books this year +/- 1-2k pages... compared to 63,764 pages across 187 books last year (13 books aren't being counted because I didn't go back and fix them when multiple read dates were implemented... and 4 had no page number... so it's probably more like 68k pages across 200 books)...

So despite any small discrepencies, I know I met my goal of reading longer books in 2017... and that's good enough for me...

I'll be able to say tomorrow, once all my edition and review changes are recognized on the stats page...

[Rea]

@ Jenna Febuary is good for me. School will be thick in the throws for me and I welcome all open avenues of escape 😂

[Barry]

Nicole wrote: "Would anyone like to join me in January to read the Obelisk by N.K. Jemisin?"

Hi Nicole, I’ve read it but if you’re willing to continue the series I want to do buddy read for The Stone Sky.

[Jenna, I'd be free if not for Temper & Edgewalker]

Rea wrote: "@ Jenna Febuary is good for me. School will be thick in the throws for me and I welcome all open avenues of escape 😂"

Sweet, I'll set it for Feb 1st for now and we can always change it.

[Jenna, I'd be free if not for Temper & Edgewalker]

Here's the topic for Oathbringer: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...