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Nov 29, 2016 05:05PM
We're all at different points in the series. Try posting here if you'd like someone to buddy up with.
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I just started book 3 in audio. If anyone else is willing, I'm happy to buddy read book 3, or book 4.
Well, I just listened to it about a month ago on my road trip. One of my favorites. So I'd be happy to talk it with you.
Hello again. I'd be happy to do a buddy read, from the very beginning, starting in January 2017. It anyone is interested.
Carol. wrote: "Well, I just listened to it about a month ago on my road trip. One of my favorites. So I'd be happy to talk it with you."Terrific!
I should be starting book two as soon as I get my copy this Friday or Saturday. As soon as I do, feel free to hop in at any point, and I'll do likewise with whoever'll still be on books three and onwards once I catch up with them. Looks like we're covering most of the bases, with Nyssa and the first book, me the second, Lata the third, and so on. Yay.
Heh. Lata's doing the audio, so she's slower, perhaps. Maybe you'll all catch up. I'll throw up folders for each and then people can do what they like.
Thanks, Carol. As a first-timer to this series, I flip-flop between the audio and book, honestly, because as spine-tinglingly good as Holdbrook-Smith can be as narrator, Aaronovitch writes too intriguingly and Holdbrook-Smith reads a little too slowly for me to enjoy the latter properly since the former gets me so restless. But he would be perfect for re-reads (listens?).
James--exactly. I read the book and then the audio. It gives me the pace I like and then the audio allows me to appreciate nuances and tolerate my short listening times. :D
Right now I'm just going through the books by audio. Eventually, I'll be buying each title and rereading. It takes me close to a week to get through a book when listening. So I'll probably be on the slow side with the buddy reads but I'll be there
Speaking of, Book Depository has an extra 10% off fiction this week. :D
Carol. wrote: "Speaking of, Book Depository has an extra 10% off fiction this week. :D"I just bought a pile of books, Carol., thanks to Black Friday sales. I can't buy any more books for a while (wail!)
Oh, my sympathy and congratulations. ;)
Carol. wrote: "James--exactly. I read the book and then the audio. It gives me the pace I like and then the audio allows me to appreciate nuances and tolerate my short listening times. :D"Even then, the printed text itself soon becomes a problem, as when the plot's at one of its high points, I'm literally having to cover most of the pages with my hands and arms to show only the sentence I'm at. Otherwise, my eyeballs go spastic and jump paragraphs ahead. Then you know it's a really good book you're reading.
Lata wrote: "I just bought a pile of books, Carol., thanks to Black Friday sales. I can't buy any more books for a while ..."
I know that feel. Made the mistake of buying upwards to 50+ books at a book fair once, only to now having to cull most of them because of my having recently moved house, which all but temporarily crippled me since hauling those books around wasn't the most fun.
And thanks for the heads-up about the BD deal, Carol!
Last time I moved, I think I had as many giant plastic bins of books as I did of everything else... towels, random small appliances, kitchenware, clothing, etc.
Nyssa wrote: "Hello again. I'd be happy to do a buddy read, from the very beginning, starting in January 2017. It anyone is interested."I would be interested.
I plan to read the whole series in 2017 and since it has been about four years since I read the first book, I decided it would be good to start again at the beginning.
I've got book one, and would be happy to reread it starting in 2017.
Lata wrote: "I've got book one, and would be happy to reread it starting in 2017."Miriam wrote: "Nyssa wrote: "Hello again. I'd be happy to do a buddy read, from the very beginning, starting in January 2017. It anyone is interested."
I would be interested.
I plan to read the whole series in..."
Yay! I'm looking forward to it.
I'm back in university and working full time, so I'd be looking to read one to two books a month. If we did 2 books, the time frame would be along the lines of the 1st to the 15th and from the 16th to the 30th. If we want to be uniform, and keeping February in mind, we could also do the 1st to the 14th and then the 15th to the 28th. The 29th to the 31st in the other months could be buffer time, catch-up time or something.
I usually read about one book per week so 1st to 14th and 15th to 28th sounds good for me. That would give me enough time to write a review about one book before starting the next. Do we read the graphic novels ( Body Work, Night Witch, Black Mould) too? Does anyone know qhere they are placed in the series' timeline?
I'd like to include them as well. It would be cool if they were placed in order on the series list here at GR.Maybe someone would be willing to make a post with the complete series order?
Wait a minute... Lies Sleeping?????? Whaaaa????
I saw that too. I don't think he updates the page as often as he could... He does post on his tours. I wonder if he had thought the series wouldn't go far--the "temporarily significant" blog name, for instance. And I notice that his biography has been updated to say about him enjoying a resurgence of his career (can't remember where I read it, maybe the back cover?)
It was a freebie somewhere... maybe google it?
Nyssa wrote: "I don't see The Home Crowd Advantage on Amazon."It was first published in a special London edition of Rivers of London. Now you can find it in his blog: The Home Crowd Advantage.
I'm planning on doing book 4 in audio in a month or two. Lata, want to buddy up?
I'm finishing it now, Philip. I laughed out loud twice today :) you are in for a treat.
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