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[Virginie]

Diana Stormblessed wrote: "Virginie wrote: "Good job, Diana!

How is the Sookie Stackhouse series holding up?"

It's not. It disintegrated a couple books ago, but I got to book my first time around before giving up and this ..."

Oh wow. That's some determination lol.
I probably won't try this series then.

[Diana Stormblessed]

Virginie wrote: "Diana Stormblessed wrote: "Virginie wrote: "Good job, Diana!

How is the Sookie Stackhouse series holding up?"

It's not. It disintegrated a couple books ago, but I got to book my first time around..."

The first few books were fun

[Virginie]

I'm a bit reluctant to read Charlaine Harris after Midnight Crossroad :p

[Diana Stormblessed]

Virginie wrote: "I'm a bit reluctant to read Charlaine Harris after Midnight Crossroad :p"

I think that was when she didn't give a f*ck, like with the later Sookie books. The first 2 or 3 or 4 weren't bad.

[Miche]

Diana Stormblessed wrote: "Virginie wrote: "Good job, Diana!

How is the Sookie Stackhouse series holding up?"

It's not. It disintegrated a couple books ago, but I got to book my first time around before giving up and this ..."

Is it worse that Wheel of Time? I am so happy I let it go of that series! I know a lot of people loves it, but it wasn't my style. I might still read the ones written by Sanderson though.

[Miche]

Great job, folks!

[Angela, I'm Silverfox lost]

Please welcome your new team member Lena :-). Lena, you can just add your points into a thread here until you are set up on the spreadsheet. Include anything you've read from the 4th March onwards to count for the challenge :-).

[Lena]

Oh wow I’m on a Team!!! Thanks guys! That’s 13 Books (not counting DNFs) so I’m going to need to take a little time and write that up.

[Miche]

Wecome to the team, Lena! :)

As you can see, we talk a lot here, lol.

[Petrik]

Virginie wrote: "Petrik wrote: "Nope! You're right, Aristea. Only book 3 of the first trilogy, and the fourth series (Rainwild Chronicles, super bad), the rest are REALLY good! "

I'm so glad you liked Fool's Assas..."

I certainly did! I thought this one was one of the best in the entire series! :D

[Petrik]

Virginie wrote: "Petrik wrote: "Nope! You're right, Aristea. Only book 3 of the first trilogy, and the fourth series (Rainwild Chronicles, super bad), the rest are REALLY good! "

I'm so glad you liked Fool's Assas..."

I certainly did! I thought this one was one of the best in the entire series! :D

[Virginie]

Yeah! Welcome to the team Lena :D

[Lena]

Virginie wrote: "Yeah! Welcome to the team Lena :D"

Thank you Virginie! Can’t wait too show off my reading prowess! 💪💪💪

[Virginie]

Lena wrote: "Thank you Virginie! Can’t wait too show off my reading prowess! 💪💪💪"

That's the spirit! :D

I created your spreadsheet so you can start entering your books. It seems that updating the spreadsheet on a tablet/phone is a nightmare so you'll have to do that from a computer.

If you want me to help you enter the data, make a pretty spreadsheet (like Zaara's or Melissa's) or add a bunch of stats, just say the word. I told this team several time already: I'm an Excel nerd. I like tinkering with the spreadsheets and if I can help a teammate at the same time, that's even better ;)

[Lena]

Just put up 52.8 points!

[Petrik]

Welcome to the team, Lena!

[Lena]

Petrik wrote: "Welcome to the team, Lena!"

Thank you Petrik!

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Welcome to the team Lena! We're excited to have you. :)

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Hey team, I just wanted to apologize for being a little awol. I've been dealing with a fairly serious medical issue over the last few weeks that culminated in an emergency surgery. I'm on the mend and doing okay, but I'm not 100%. Just wanted you all to know I appreciate having an awesome team and a good place to lurk when I need a mood boost. ;)

[Lena]

Ouch! I’m glad you’re on the mend Niki. Thanks for the welcome.

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Thank you Lena! :)

[Miche]

No need to apologize, Niki! I hope you get well soon! We miss you! 😘😘

[Virginie]

You have nothing to apologize for, Niki. I hope you'll get better soon.
Can't talk for the others, but I appreciate having an amazing Captain :) If our team thread is such a good place to lurk and decompress, it's because you made it that way!

[Silvana]

Niki, I am glad you are recovering. Here's hoping for a speedy one.

Lena, welcome to the team!

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

You peeps are the best. Thank you

[Lena]

Thank you Silvana.

[Diana Stormblessed]

Miche wrote: "Diana Stormblessed wrote: "Virginie wrote: "Good job, Diana!

How is the Sookie Stackhouse series holding up?"

It's not. It disintegrated a couple books ago, but I got to book my first time around..."

I'm going to be honest, I wasn't a huge fan of wheel of time. If it wasn't for wanting to get to the end books that Sanderson wrote I would have abandoned it in the beginning. Sookie is at least short and easy, so there's a little fun in it. Jordan just dragged, with horrible characters. There. I said it.

[Diana Stormblessed]

Welcome Lena!

Hope you get better asap Niki!

[Miche]

Diana Stormblessed wrote: "I'm going to be honest, I wasn't a huge fan of wheel of time. If it wasn't for wanting to get to the end books that Sanderson wrote I would have abandoned it in the beginning. Sookie is at least short and easy, so there's a little fun in it. Jordan just dragged, with horrible characters. There. I said it. "

Don't you feel much better now? ;-)

[Lena]

Thanks Diana!

[Petrik]

Don't worry about it, Niki! I hope you'll feel better soon! :D

[Diana Stormblessed]

Miche wrote: "Diana Stormblessed wrote: "I'm going to be honest, I wasn't a huge fan of wheel of time. If it wasn't for wanting to get to the end books that Sanderson wrote I would have abandoned it in the begin..."

I'm waiting for the wheel of time facebook group to kick me out now. If I ever uttered such words at JordanCon I'd get kicked out for sure. That's going to be my secondary costume, a Wheel of Time fan. Shhhh.

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Thank you! :)

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

I finally finished a book today after starting like 8 of them over the last few weeks (which means I'm like 75% through most of them and will likely mic drop a thousand points sometime next week).

Title: The Lost Hero
Author: Rick Riordan
Pages: 557
BR: yes
Challenge: yes
9.8 points

I've had a gorgeous box set on my shelves of this series for a couple years and am super excited to finally be reading it. It's a true continuation from Percy Jackson and I love where the author is taking it.

Tangent note: I made a list of owned series I'd like to read in 2018 (stuff that has been taking up space for ages) https://www.goodreads.com/review/list... and I decided I'm going to tackle them in descending order based on average rating. This, Temeraire (Novik), and Gemmell's Rigante series are at the top so hopefully they'll be entertaining enough to keep me motivated. All indirectly for my overflowing bookshelf challenge. :)

[Lena]

I have Dead Iron!

[Angela, I'm Silverfox lost]

Ooh please let me know too if you read Dead Iron. I've wanted to read that for ages.

[Lena]

Mid May? Or July? Please not June, that’s already looking tight, lol.

[Angela, I'm Silverfox lost]

I would prefer July. Let's see if Niki is keen too :-).

[Lena]

Ok, we’ll wait for Nikki’s keen.

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Oooh!! Okay, so I'm giving you the insider scoop here. My name came out for book club a few weeks ago and Dead Iron was going to be one of my nominations for June... should I find something else and schedule this? Or should we loosely pick a date and see if it wins?

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Ha! Lena, I just processed the "anything but June" lmao

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

July it is.

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

I think I'm open anything after the 20th.

[Angela, I'm Silverfox lost]

I really don't want June either as I'm on practicum. July 21st? Do you have anything else scheduled then Lena?

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

I was just thinking this morning how I wish it was higher up on the rating so I could read it sooner. It screams at me every time I see it on the shelf. I'm looking forward to it. :)

[Lena]

It’s a lovely looking book with a good description and the subsequent Books rate higher. July 21st sounds great.

[Petrik]

Title: The Poppy War
Author: R.F. Kuang
Pages: 544
BR: No
Challenge: yes
6.8 points

Fans of Blood Song or grimdark/military fantasy, trust me. You don't want to skip this book. Super incredible debut!

[Virginie]

Good job Petrik!

EDIT: Read you review. Added the book to my TBR. Damn you!

[Virginie]

Sir Thomas the Hesitant and the Table of Less Valued Knights
Liam Perrin
267 pages of awesomeness
Challenge: Cover
3.4 points

Mini-points for an amazing read. Also, check out that unicorn:

[Lena]

I’m up to 74.4 points, I finished several books this weekend.