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Dec 31, 2023 03:26PM
Eww pass on that.
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This is my favourite social media site, so I really hope they don't get rid of it :(
Same... Only the community is keeping me here... if they scrap GR, no way I'm going to something that is just to funnel Amazon money....
If they phase out GR we need to riot!
Happy New Year all! Great image, Soo!
Happy New Year! Love the image, too!
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We're staring a brand new year packed with amazing buddy reads, I wish all of you an amazing reading year, and look forward to chatting with you all in 2024!
Jan 1, 2024 Grand Conspiracy (Wars of Light and Shadow Series #5) by Janny Wurts
Jan 1, 2024 Akata Warrior (Nsibidi Scripts #2) by Nnedi Okorafor
Jan 1, 2024 The Invasion / The Visitor / The Encounter / The Message (Animorphs #1-4) by K.A. Applegate
Jan 1, 2024 Spy X Family Series by Tatsuya Endo , Casey Loe (Translator)
Jan 1, 2024 My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
Jan 1, 2024 Valour (Faithful and the Fallen #2) by John Gwynne
Jan 1, 2024 Tricked / Trapped / Hunted (Iron Druid Chronicles #4-6 by Kevin Hearne
Jan 1, 2024 One for the Money (Stephanie Plum #1) by Janet Evanovich
Jan 2, 2024 An Easy Death (Gunnie Rose #1) by Charlaine Harris
Jan 3, 2024 The Tyranny of Faith (Empire of the Wolf #2) by Richard Swan
Jan 3, 2024 Luck in the Shadows (Nightrunner #1) by Lynn Flewelling
Jan 3, 2024 Baking Bad (Beaufort Scales #1) by Kim M. Watt
Jan 5, 2024 The Unkindest Tide (October Daye #13) by Seanan McGuire
Jan 5, 2024 Theft of Swords (Riyria Revelations #1) by Michael J Sullivan
Jan 5, 2024 Xenos (Eisenhorn #1) by Dan Abnett
Jan 7, 2024 Trailer Park Trickster (Adam Binder #2) by David R. Slayton
Jan 7, 2024 Everlost (Skinjacker #1) by Neal Shusterman
Jan 8, 2024 The Color of Magic (Discworld #1) by Terry Pratchett
Jan 10, 2024 Barrayar (Vorkosigan Saga #2) by Lois McMaster Bujold
Jan 10, 2024 Dune (#1) by Frank Herbert
Jan 10, 2024 Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
Jan 10, 2024 Voice of War (Threadlight #1) by Zack Argyle
Jan 13, 2024 Blood Engines (Marla Mason #1) by T.A. Pratt
Jan 15, 2024 The Spirit Eater (The Legend of Eli Monpress #3) by Rachel Aaron
Jan 15, 2024 Veiled (Alex Verus #6) by Benedict Jacka
Jan 15, 2024 The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus #4) by Rick Riordan
Jan 15, 2024 The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1) by N.K. Jemisin
Jan 16, 2024 Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children #9) by Seanan McGuire
Jan 18, 2024 Dreams Made Flesh (Black Jewels #4 Short Story Collection) by Anne Bishop
Jan 18, 2024 Wind Runner (Wandering Inn #10) by Pirateaba
Jan 20, 2024 Kitty Cat Kill Sat Argus
Jan 20, 2024 The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni #1) by Helene Wecker
Jan 22, 2024 The Light Fantastic (Discworld #2) by Terry Pratchett
Jan 23, 2024 Tiamat's Wrath (Expanse #8) by James S.A. Corey
Jan 23, 2024 Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde #2) by Heather Fawcett
Jan 25, 2024 Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl #2) by Matt Dinniman
Jan 27, 2024 Poison Sleep (Marla Mason #2) by T.A. Pratt
Jan 28, 2024 Empire of the Vampire (Empire of the Vampire #1) by Jay Kristoff
Jan 28, 2024 Paladin's Grace (The Saint of Steel #1) by T. Kingfisher
Jan 30, 2024 Mother of Death & Dawn (War of Lost Hearts #3) by Carissa Broadbent by Argus
Jan 20, 2024 The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni #1) by Helene Wecker
Jan 22, 2024 The Light Fantastic (Discworld #2) by Terry Pratchett
Jan 23, 2024 Tiamat's Wrath (Expanse #8) by James S.A. Corey
Jan 23, 2024 Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde #2) by Heather Fawcett
Jan 25, 2024 Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl #2) by Matt Dinniman
Jan 27, 2024 Poison Sleep (Marla Mason #2) by T.A. Pratt
Jan 28, 2024 Empire of the Vampire (Empire of the Vampire #1) by Jay Kristoff
Jan 28, 2024 Paladin's Grace (The Saint of Steel #1) by T. Kingfisher
Jan 30, 2024 Mother of Death & Dawn (War of Lost Hearts #3) by Carissa Broadbent
Compared to my BR list, noticed a couple things:Grand Conspiracy has been moved to February 1st--I just need to request it on the main sheet. I think I only did through the end of December.
One for the Money shows up on the monthly spreadsheet--the other three aren't showing up weekly. Is that a spreadsheet magic need? Or do the same as with Iron Druid/Animorphs, and list all 4?
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Grand Conspiracy has been moved to February 1st--I just need to request it on the main sheet. I think I only did through the end of De..."
That's a book club thing... like with the In Death series, I only input the first book each month, since they're all being funneled to a single thread...
The Animorphs got worked around because I used a box set book link, and they're in monthly threads that way...
I think the Stephanie Plum box sets are 2-3 books, and don't really line up with the weekly/monthly plan...
Roger that, thank you for the FYI.
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A) the work,
B) the fact Yanique tried to avoid the need for the book club funnel tab in the spreadsheet, when i invented the work a year and a half ago before book clubs became frowned upon, and
C) I was worried about cluttering the monthly Buddy Read tracker with all these weekly book club reads, before we started scheduling 40-60 monthly BRs per month...
It might be less of a concern now, honestly... just more work... my compromise of 1 per month, was to make sure the Book Club was being mentioned each month, for it's duration... I think I have it on the spreadsheet once a month through July/August, when we hit book 28ish... there's only 30 books so far... after 57 In Death novels + 10 novellas, 30 seems small, somehow...
that makes total sense! I just tend to compare the list monthly with my list, to make sure I'm not missing anything, or to see if there is anything that got overlooked... and was wondering about those--and now I know! A lot of those "plz adjust thread" requests Yanique is so fond of usually come after these monthly lists, lol...
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I don't think Book Club BRs should be tracked by mods. The Book Clubs were made for spur of the moment/loosely schedule stuff. I like that we have the What's Happening in Book Clubs thread pinned. It should be the Book Club's responsibility to post updates in this thread. FBR is busy enough without adding more work for the mods. My rec would be to put a note about how Book Clubs work in FBR info post. I think we have one that talks about FBR and general navigation?
Timelord Iain wrote: "Definitely... I actually just realized I forgot to include Gunnie Rose on my sheet... so easy for things to fall through the cracks..."I've created a buddy-read shelf to help combat that. I realized I needed it at some point last year.
I add the intended book to the shelf, add the start date in the notes, and then add the link to BR Thread there, as well, when it's available. I also set the shelf to sortable so I can have all the books in order of start date.
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I built the workaround in late 2022, just before we put an end to most new book clubs / series binge threads, because another concern was people weren't updating thread titles and the Book Club info thread, and it left people feeling excluded, when they found out, months later, that a BR they wouldn't have minded joining had happened quietly in a book club thread...
It's also why alot of the Vagabond series-long buddy reads moved to their own threads, like Laundry Files and Sun Eater... things we all bought on sale and planned to read together... definitely returned to the spirit of the sput-of-the-moment thing with Dragon Heist and Dandelion and the first Beware of Chicken and Dungeon Crawler Carl and Unorthodox Farming...
Does anyone know when we'll be able to update books? I've finished what I was reading and want to mark it off and move on to the next book.
You can still mark it as read you just need to go into the book and under the title there is wording like ‘Edit Reading History’ or something like that. You can click on that and rate the book, review it and add any shelves and add a read date.
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You can either edit review near the star buttons, or scroll down to the your review section of the book page and click the edit details button in the upper right corner...
I think GR starts a "review" the second you start putting updates in, and everything can be controlled through there?... just need to put in a finished reading date/etc...
I do as well, I didn't even realize you could do so from the main page. I just go to the book page to make any updates. If I am adding a series to my TBR I will do it from the series page but if I am marking something as Read and adding a rating and date read it is from the book page.
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🎉🎉🎉Gotta love the active participation in FBR! Just from reading thread titles, I decided to do the following:
- Reread #1-6 of Wars of Light & Shadow & read the rest. I stalled in 7 years ago when it was published. Re-read 1-6 several times. It's one of my fav series but beginning of 7 is rough. Like pull heartstrings and gnash teeth rough. 🫠 This series will be reading print. No audios.
- Reread #1-9 of the Fitz (Robin Hobbs) books, devour 10 and snag 11 as soon as it is published. I have the audiobook for 10 & plan to buy whatever audios for the series that comes out. Another reading spree in print.
- Nightrunner series reread by audiobooks. Another long time fav series.
- Push up Akata Witch series on TBR. My library has the books! Woo!
- After Wurtz & Hobb series, I may tackle Wheel of Time again. I do want to finish the series, but that must be in print because I can't dislike the audios immensely.
- I have 7 books in my Read Again shelf because that was the year of glitches and my ratings for those books were not recorded.
I'm sure there will be more added cause of FBR infectious enthusiasm. 🤗📚🤗
Would try to join you for Hobb's Tawny Man trilogy and beyond, but I'm pretty sure you'd leave me gasping in your dust. ^^ Glad you'll be joining us for some of the BRs Soo!Is Hobb writing more in that universe? I thought they were done with the Fitz & the Fool trilogy...
Some of us made it through the Liveship books a year ago, but haven't picked it up again since.
Oops I mixed up Wurts and Hobb. Fitz is over and I need to just read the last book. I have all the books for Realm of Elderlings & read most of them, but going to stick with my fav Fitz for the re-read + finale. Then go back to read the others. Wurts has final coming out in a few months.
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4 months ago, Hobb announced she's working on a new book, about Bee Farseer... whoever that is... that's all I found, when I tried to figure out what you're talking about, earlier...
@Iain--Oh, I do remember seeing that, about Bee....I haven't read the final trilogy yet... been trying to slowly make way through the reread first...
The Wurts & Hobb mixup makes sense! I think the big BR was initially planned to land with the finale, but Chibipoe and I are the only ones to make it past book 1... Laura just jumped in for book 2 this week, which I am very excited about, and the schedule was pushed back to 2 every 3 months instead of 1/month trying to give folks time to catch up... book 5 will be Feb 1st...
I really need to get back to Realm of the Elderlings... Lost the pace last year :(
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Ships and Dragon arcs have very different narrative voice and pacing. I recommend reading all Fitz books and doing the other 2 series separate.
Maybe I'll get to it towards the end of the year.. Way overbooked now
Unpopular Opinion Time!Wheel of Time books have new covers and I don't like them. Bring back the old covers!
I’m planning on re-reading the Elderling books this year; I’m setting myself the (fairly easy) goal of one trilogy/quartet every two months, so I should finish around October.I absolutely loved Bee in the last trilogy, so I’ll. certainly check out any future works about her.
Shaitarn wrote: "I’m planning on re-reading the Elderling books this year; I’m setting myself the (fairly easy) goal of one trilogy/quartet every two months, so I should finish around October.I absolutely loved B..."
I could go for that pace, Shaitarn, if you want to make it an official BR... I probably won't jump in until the Tawny Man series though.
Regarding pacing--I definitely find the Fitz trilogies easier to consume than the Ships/Rain Wilds ones, but for that reason I try to make myself read them in order... else I'll just skip the other books altogether, and I do enjoy them too, they're just more work... Plus, there're fun easter-eggs in Tawny Man for Ships readers... not a lot, but enough to make it worthwhile to me...
Anyway, if folks want to make an official thing out of it, I'm down.
@Soo--are you dissing the Dan dos Santos covers? LOL I love his artwork...
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I didn't even look up the artist. I noted the cover change for Wheel of Time on Audible. Other authors and their series have cover changes too on Audible.
There's lots of ways to do art for covers and make it work well. I like the old covers. Not necessarily the best art. It's a stylized style of its own, but I like them.
Zoomed in on the new Wheel of Time covers on Audible. I got disgruntled at the eskewed proportions of face and body drawings for the style drawn. Comes across as amateurish. In comparison to old covers, I prefer the original covers.
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Some of my fav Fantasy cover artists are probably dead.
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Soo wrote: "Unpopular Opinion Time!Wheel of Time books have new covers and I don't like them. Bring back the old covers!"
I love the old covers too! They hold a certain nostalgic feeling for me from when I started the series back in high school. I'm glad I already had a complete set of them
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@Jenna--you are far ahead of me! >.< but someday I will catch up.@Soo & Erin--re: Wheel of Time covers--I was thinking of the ebook covers (and I was wrong, Dan dos Santos only did one of them, but I rather like all of these)--you can see them on this blog: (https://www.benjaminrose.com/post/the...) I really love these covers.
I agree--the new "TV show" covers are rather bleh. I am not a fan of "live action" photo covers in general... I love seeing hand-drawn or painting art... some day I'm going to buy a book cover original painting... some day...
Ooo thanks for sharing that link. Most of those are nice, but a lot of them don't make me think Wheel of Time and a few I would only use cropped. Which is never what an artist would want to hear but that's how it goes sometimes. Ugh, hearing that those covers are based on the show and edited is more depressing. It's not hard to take out good screenshots and do mild edits to focus. 😮💨
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Not liking it…
Snapped driver door handle off car (might be able to replace myself for $20, have to open from inside using other entrance till then)
Car wouldn’t start (karma for not taking to battery center pre-weather for battery check)… had to get boss to come jumpstart me, and I can get a new battery when stores open later…
Also slipped/fell and sprained my big toe… 3 for 3, that one could have been worse…
Also need to buy solo chargeable jumpstart kit for future emergencies… I’ve seen them the past couple years and learned my lesson today… got to work 1hr late… gonna be colder tomorrow I think…
Timelord Iain wrote: "Also need to buy solo chargeable jumpstart kit for future emergencies… I’ve seen them the past couple years and learned my lesson today…"I bought one of those two years ago. They are definitely worth it. Super easy to use and fairly light weight so easy to carry with as needed.
Timelord Iain wrote: "Cold front came in, as weather announced a few days ago…Not liking it…
Snapped driver door handle off car (might be able to replace myself for $20, have to open from inside using other entrance ..."
Wow, what a punch to the face of a morning! Hope you can get the car situation sorted
Looking for new friends and book recommendations! Send me a request I accept everyone :) (book recs can be anything fantasy / thriller / supernatural etc)
Timelord Iain wrote: "Cold front came in, as weather announced a few days ago…Not liking it…
Snapped driver door handle off car (might be able to replace myself for $20, have to open from inside using other entrance ..."
Ooph you are not having a good day :(
Listening to School Spirits and the teens are saying:- carnally interested in females
- like him in the carnal sense
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Like is this a teen 2010-ish thing? Can we stretch to 2000s thing?
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This version of slang/casual chat sounds hilarious and not like teenagers.
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- carnally interested in females
- like him in the carnal sense
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Like is this a teen 2010-ish thing? Can we stretch to 20..."
That feels like spicy teen show vibes... Skins, the Secret Life of the American Teenager, etc etc etc..
Timelord Iain wrote: "Cold front came in, as weather announced a few days ago…Not liking it…
Snapped driver door handle off car (might be able to replace myself for $20, have to open from inside using other entrance ..."
Yikes, I hope the rest of your week gives you 3x3 positives in exchange...
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Bit of a gas leak scare at work this morning at 9am, had everyone outside for 30 minutes, while Fire Department and Gas Company came out to check... -5F out... luckily there wasn't much wind, so it didn't feel too bad...
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