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Zaara's Buddy Read Tracker
BRs I want to join *Farseer (RR)
*Inda (May, July, Sept 20)
*Memory,Sorrow and Thorn (RR)
*Abercrombie singles
*Sweaters
Things to Do*On July 1: PM Angela for The Name of the Rose BR in August
*Schedule B.E. re-read with Anni
*Get your Abercrombie back deffo! Be mean and RUTHLESS.
Things not to do
* Commit to any more buddy reads
CompletedOctober 2017
09: Malice read only 55% with the group
15: Guns of the Dawn
22: Low Town
27: The Blade Itself
November 2017
01: Daughter of the Forest
December 2017
Successful with my self-imposed December ban...woooo saaah! I'm counting this as a (fake) BR bcuz I have iron control. I am chilled steel. I am a demon ganglord.
*flexes bicep and spits flames in a casually ruthless way*
January 2018
01: Blood Song
15: Red Seas Under Red Skies
20: American Gods
25: The Lies of Locke Lamora
Signed up for and dropped/FAIL/EPIC FAILNov 15: The Steel Remains circs not in my control...EPIC FAIL
Nov 24: Leviathan Wakes dropped for
27: Before They Are Hanged and lent book out will get it back in Feb. Idiocy fail.
I loved American Gods, will definitely be dropping by to discuss that one! :)
Great list Zaara can't wait to read malazen empire with you so we can both ask what the f*** is going on 😂😂😂
Ahdam wrote: "Great list Zaara can't wait to read malazen empire with you so we can both ask what the f*** is going on 😂😂😂"Haha I'll be right there with yous.
Ahdam wrote: "Great list Zaara can't wait to read malazen empire with you so we can both ask what the f*** is going on 😂😂😂"Siobhan wrote: "Ahdam wrote: "Haha I'll be right there with yous."
@Ahdam, I wouldn't dare!
Like Veronica says...Step lightly, O Mortal...where angels fear to tread...😈😈😈
I'll tell you what...my strategy for Malazan is to lurk on the threads and post comments like..."what s/he said"...that will cunningly disguise my complete and utter cluelessness.
@Siobhan, yes i really will go to bed now.
Zaara wrote: "...I'll tell you what...my strategy for Malazan is to lurk on the threads and post comments like..."what s/he said"...that will cunningly disguise my complete and utter cluelessness."Almost sprayed my laptop with mouthful of coffee when I read this :D
Ingenious strategy.
Yeah. And shhhhhh. Or the Scary Malazan Police will hear.No seriously...those three dudes are Dunkirk, Marne, and Ypres. I'm not even a petty border skirmish.
Thanks for stopping by, Victor.
And you watch that coffee...he's a mean motha.
busy busy and a very tough schedule. All the best Zara. Will join you for your Feb-April reads. :D
Hello Abhay!
Abster is asleep. On a train somewhere apparently. With Brisingr as a pillow. He won't come to this thread for another ten thousand years.Now get you to the welcome thread. I'm unrolling the red carpet.
Oh and Ha! at busy and tough...i know this is nothing for you, you'll prolly do this in a month.
already there. checked post 112 of intro thread. ;)
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Abhay wrote: "Can I join the Malazan party next year? That series and I have been playing hide & seek for way too long now."Please do join the Malazan party! :D sorry if this has already been acknowledged haha XD
Siobhan wrote: "Please do join the Malazan party! :D sorry if this has already been ack..."@Sio, thks much. I missed that. I was super sleepy that day. Sorry Ab. Malazan waits for us all.
Iain wrote: "I'll probably be joining American Gods as well... just did Norse Mythology this week by Neil Gaiman...":-)
Please do.
Sorry I missed this as well.
hey Zaara!how are you? what are you reading these days?
Hi Manu...I'm ok sweetheart, tks for asking. In fantasy, am still reading The Blade Itself and Sevenwaters Book 1. Off grid and subversively ;-) I am reading Pablo Neruda and a bit of Rumi at bedtime. Mostly non-fiction. Journal articles and bludgeoned to death heavy reading most of...*yerk* philosophy n sciency yada yada.
I'm just going to wait and see how long that ban on December lasts.
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Zaara wrote: "Hi Manu...I'm ok sweetheart, tks for asking. In fantasy, am still reading The Blade Itself and Sevenwaters Book 1. Off grid and subversively ;-) I am reading Pablo Neruda and a bit of Rumi at bedti..."Neruda. *shivers*
Veronica wrote: "I'm just going to wait and see how long that ban on December lasts."Oh u speak sooth, Sistah.
@Ahdam asked me to join Locke Lamora and I love the book so I said yes. I'll deffo stop by the thread but I'm resisting the siren call of joining a full re-read. And I'm eyeing GoT...ever since I caved and got the illustrated 20th anni edition.
But i know, I just know if i join these I'll be jacking my own Malazan trek. So yeah, i will not.
*face*
@Manu...good shivers, Neruda hopes...@I-yay-n: lucky for us you lot of green innocents over at General Lacombe's obviously haven't heard of plotting sub rosa...and as long as you carry out your strategising with all the subtle cunning of a broadsheet advertisement the Raiders will always have the edge.
Especially now that we have famous PETRIK. Oh and btw dont you think thazz all we got. Me and my devastatingly effective heckling that makes you weep into your pillows and mumble in the dark...ha that's just our small fry advance skirmish.
General Hawkes is saving the Big Guns for 2018. Thazz when we unleash @Ron and her gatling gun GIFs....
*the wet sucking sound of a razor sharp GIF slitting throats*
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As long as you're distracted...I-yay...I think Ron and I have it in the bag, no?*Glokta face*
+ here's the hopelessly compassionate @Siobhan who is all for helping me...tsk tsk...kind and gentle ppl like these are so easy for us gutter fighters to OWN...I mean, lookit this:
Siobhan wrote: "Ahh man, I was trying to help Zaara! XD"
:-D gotta love that gal!
Now all we lot need to do is manipulate that sucka @Laura's kindness gene and we done. Ima do the *cute face* a lot around her.
Petrik can and will do the manly honest Herculean.
Ron is campaign artillery.
Me I'm just
And...Padre mio...I'll have you know I'm almost done with Sweaters now that the wonderful @Dave gave me the get outta jail card.
Ok I gtg now, actually earn my paycheck dammit, instead of goofing off on GR.
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Yeah I noticed @Laura had joined the Nazgul...
btw I met Machiavelli in DC (hope you are talking about the same character), quite a character she is!
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Siobhan wrote: "I feel so used :'("And it ain't even 2018 yet. I'll let you on a li'l secret, love. I am the Lady OonaaaaaaaAAAAGH! Ok that grossed me out a little.
Manju wrote: "btw I met Machiavelli in DC (hope you are talking about the same character), quite a character she is!"
No Manu I'm talking abt the one you deffo didn't meet in DC...he was quite a character also, Ole Nick.
Btw I wanna know more abt your gal *sigh* exposing my ignorance of virtually everything AGAIN...which book/series?
Iain wrote: "We'll show her!!!... Next book she reads, we WON'T read it... points be damned..."
The next book I'm reading that is germane to this discussion, @Iain, is Malazan 1. Boycott the ENTIRE series, won't you, and points be damned?
Hehehehehe. It would be something of a crowning statement wouldn't it?
And I'd be soooooo hurt, X my black black heart.
Ok ppl @Iain is taking a hammer to his own structure and @Siobhan's a blubbering pile of scented tissues. My work here is done *dusts hands*
Time to turn the eye towards @Mordor.
I am coming for youuuuuuuz, Precioussssss....
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And it ain't even 2018 yet. I'll let you on a li'l secret, love. I am the Lady OonaaaaaaaAAAAGH! Ok that grossed me out a little.
Manju wrote: "btw I met Machi..."
Oh, I was planning to Buddy Read it, still, in secret... I'm getting better at this villainy business... or I WAS...
Nice list you have there. I’ll probably join for Blood song and I’ll probably have a peak in the thread of Gardens of the Moon as well.As I mentioned before I’m not really into First Law trilogy, it never fulfilled my expectations. Not really a fan of American Gods either, I thought it was pretty boring for most of the book. It did give a decent ending though
Thanks @Jaykro..yep I read your post on the Blade Itself thread. Re Blood Song...its gonna be a great bunch of ppl + an awesome book by all accounts. It'll be nice to start the new year off with a great BR so I hope you'll come. And hey, its good that you finally flung off youz Mask of Silence...@Iain...heh, I'll leave you the rosy delusions of your own villainy and this single tip, which will be my only slight concession to kindness EVVVAAAAR:
(view spoiler)
But don't think I don't see you're carefully keeping silent on how your real strategy is to keep me from ever reading/engaged in posting chatty rubbish on various threads while you swallow book after book.
I don't know how you do it...is enuf and more for me to keep up with all the notifications from this one grp alone. But you read fifty books a week and chat with fifty ppl in fifty groups. What do you comsume for brekky, mate? Howitzer shells? Or just pure Trinitrotoluol?
Altho' I think is now called trinitrotoluene (xcuz i chked)..I like the archaic or just plain wrong names of everything.
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I'm having a slow month really... but I might be buckling down and doing some Kindle in the near future... up my game... I'm tired of fiddling with idle/clicker/incremental games...
Altho instead I'm watching Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries because Veronica and some people in another group were talking about it... reminds me of the Sebastian St. Cyr books I just took a break from... historical mysteries...
What am I saying... I'm against the both of you! Where is my team? Help?! 😂
I am here! :) Don't listen to them, we will rock the Team Challenge!
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We can't let the (Wo)Man tell us what to do!
Siobhan wrote: "What am I saying... I'm against the both of you! Where is my team? Help?! 😂"@S: Let's the three of us gang up and go roger @Laura over at Mordor. Surround her from three sides amd appeal to her better instincts...make Gollum faces at her... poor decent soul...she doesn't have a chance! Now that's a worthy idea, me hearties...we can't let Sauron win. I call for a Fellowship of Three.
Also @Siobhan, now you went and broke my blackest heart...whazz all this *snort* Team Iain?
Although now that I've posted I see the Lord Of Evil has made his own plans that do not include me :-(Hi @Anni...welcome, glad you made it to the dissing café
@Siobhan was just calling for backup...and look how quick they sent the Marines.
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Iain wrote: "Wait until you finish Sweaters"*serious face now*
@800 ok I swear unto all things holy and sooth...I will finish Sweaters and The Blade Itself by Nov 15. You hold me to it ok. I gotta. I really don't wanna let Shaitarn down,
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The Power of Three we now decree,
The Power of Three will set you free,
The Power of Three will destroy thee!
Hey I finished Low Town...wednesday, thursday, friday....
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Haha, I got here coincidentally and thought I could try to save Siobhan, but it seems she doesn't need saving :D
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16: Deadhouse Gates
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17: Tower of Thorns with Dani and Silvana
24: Elantris
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10: The Way of Kings
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12: Theft of Swords
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*xx: Schedule The Name of the Rose with Angela. you will read this book in August whether or NOT its a BR. And that's a promise ok?