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

Book gods help me, my Book Outlet online shopping cart is getting bigger by the minute.

[Lena]

Careful now. Might want to wait for a sale, they have them often.

[Miche]

Great job, team!

I am trying to finish one more book before the month ends, so I will hold my monthly tally until then. :)

[Virginie]

Go, Miche, go! You can do it! :D

[Virginie]

Ok. I'm finally admitting I won't be able to join the BR for the Faithful and the Fallen this time around. I've been trying for a month to read Malice and can't get into it. I'm just not in the mood :'(

[Petrik]

Thank you all. Also, so many awesome monthly tally, great job guys!!

@virginie: don't force reading something that you're not in the right mood for! :D

[Miche]

I have been reading this one since the beginning of the month. I struggled with it until I hit the 70% a couple of days ago. Finally it got to the point where things got interesting.

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

Lena wrote: "Careful now. Might want to wait for a sale, they have them often."

My dilemma was that I REALLY wanted one title, but they only had 2 left. And it takes an order of $35 to get free shipping. I did it. But I got 9 awesome books (6 of which I've read already and loved) for like $40. Not a bad deal.

I have a sickness.

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

Virginie wrote: "Ok. I'm finally admitting I won't be able to join the BR for the Faithful and the Fallen this time around. I've been trying for a month to read Malice and can't get into it. I'm jus..."

I've been trying too. My main issue is that I'm all of the sudden gung ho about getting through books I already own and it feels like I'm wasting time from my goal to dive into it. I'm not bored with the story, but higher priority things keep making me set it aside (like Murderbot). I went in with such good intentions lol. Perhaps I will finish before the next book starts.

[Virginie]

@Petrik: Yeah. I think this series has the potential of being a favorite. I just can't take a slow, complex epic series right now, and I'm afraid stubbornly trying to read it will ruin it for me.

[Solseit]

Virginie wrote: "@Petrik: Yeah. I think this series has the potential of being a favorite. I just can't take a slow, complex epic series right now, and I'm afraid stubbornly trying to read it will ruin it for me."

The Faithful and the Fallen is one of my personal favorite series of all times. A slow epic fantasy story that is completely worth all my time - I just loved it.
I agree with you though: You need to be in the right mind set to enjoy it thoroughly!

[Petrik]

I second what Aristea said! :)

[Solseit]

Talking about epic series that excited me a lot - not only I am into "Of Gods and Blood" (and cannot wait to get off of work to delve into Wrath of Empire) but I am restarting the Lightbringer series. I think it was one of the first fantasy series I resumed reading (after the Chronicle of the Unhewn throne) and I was completely captivated by the magic system (and Gavin Guile). I am in a reading frenzy one more time - I just wish I was more consistent with my reading!

[Diana Stormblessed]

Niki Hawkes wrote: "Virginie wrote: "Ok. I'm finally admitting I won't be able to join the BR for the Faithful and the Fallen this time around. I've been trying for a month to read Malice and can't get..."

I feel like that's my issue with Black Company. I am enjoying it, but other things keep pulling me away.

[Petrik]

Aristea wrote: "Talking about epic series that excited me a lot - not only I am into "Of Gods and Blood" (and cannot wait to get off of work to delve into Wrath of Empire) but I am restarting the Lightbringer seri..."

I'm going to reread that series next year! Might as well, the last book comes out next year anyway! Have to plan these reread because my god, so many unfinished series that require a reread over and over again xD

[Lena]

Not a bad deal at all. I’m behind on my shelves and yesterday I received three boxes of books, one from a friend, two from Goldsboro. One the one hand, Book joy! On the other hand, I need to add them to my overflowing shelves challenge.

[Liam]

I have a book to add =].

Ender's Game
Pages: 324
Challenge: Book Cover Challenge
Buddy read: Nope

An old favorite. My fourth time reading it and I love it more each time.

[Solseit]

Petrik wrote: "Aristea wrote: "Talking about epic series that excited me a lot - not only I am into "Of Gods and Blood" (and cannot wait to get off of work to delve into Wrath of Empire) but I am restarting the L..."
I know! and time is limited! I just wanted to re-read Sins of Empire - it took me so little to rush through it - and I am sure I will just inhale Wrath of Empire. Which will imply I will need to re-read it next year before book #3.
Brian McClellan was a Sanderson student; the styles are different but they both have something in common - they write books that are just addictive for me.

[Solseit]

Liam wrote: "I have a book to add =].

Ender's Game
Pages: 324
Challenge: Book Cover Challenge
Buddy read: Nope

An old favorite. My fourth time reading it and I love it more each time."
well done Liam!

I need to check which was the last book I added to the list. I might have a couple to add tonight :D

[Veronica]

Liam wrote: "I have a book to add =].

Ender's Game
Pages: 324
Challenge: Book Cover Challenge
Buddy read: Nope

An old favorite. My fourth time reading it and I love it more each time."

My son chose that book to read over the summer for the AP English class he's registered for next school year. He's not a reader (how I birthed him, I have no idea) so he's not happy about it and even less happy that he actually has to read a book over the summer. He'll grumble for an hour over having to read 20 pages.

Meanwhile, his younger sister is working her way through Harry Potter. She's up to Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

My youngest son is currently obsessed with Captain Underpants. God help me.

[Veronica]

Aristea wrote: "The Faithful and the Fallen is one of my personal favorite series of all times. A slow epic fantasy story that is completely worth all my time - I just loved it.
I agree with you though: You need to be in the right mind set to enjoy it thoroughly!"

It's shaping up to be my favorite fantasy series too.

[Veronica]

Diana Stormblessed wrote: "I feel like that's my issue with Black Company. I am enjoying it, but other things keep pulling me away. "

I tried to read that one but it wasn't clicking for me. I'll give it a go later, maybe.

[Virginie]

Aristea wrote: "Talking about epic series that excited me a lot - not only I am into "Of Gods and Blood" (and cannot wait to get off of work to delve into Wrath of Empire) but I am restarting the Lightbringer seri..."

I really need to read Powder Mage one day. And Lightbringer. :O

[Virginie]

Liam wrote: "I have a book to add =].

Ender's Game
Pages: 324
Challenge: Book Cover Challenge
Buddy read: Nope

An old favorite. My fourth time reading it and I love it more each time."

Scoresheet up to date. Great job!
I love Ender's Game (heck, the whole saga). The full-cast audiobook is really good :)

[Diana Stormblessed]

Virginie wrote: "Aristea wrote: "Talking about epic series that excited me a lot - not only I am into "Of Gods and Blood" (and cannot wait to get off of work to delve into Wrath of Empire) but I am restarting the L..."

Ditto

[Lena]

Did you guys see I won the random book of the month August picker?!?!? Ok, that sounded cooler in my head. I just checked over my (physical!) shelves, and made sure some were also available on Audible, and sent Niki the list. Hope you guys like eclectic choices.

[Veronica]

Finished my last book for May.

Title: God Emperor of Didcot
Author: Toby Frost
Pages: 323
Buddy Read: N
Challenge: Y

[Veronica]

Lena wrote: "Did you guys see I won the random book of the month August picker?!?!? Ok, that sounded cooler in my head. I just checked over my (physical!) shelves, and made sure some were also available on Audi..."

Very cool, Lena! Look forward to seeing what you choose.

[Virginie]

Aristea wrote: "I need to check which was the last book I added to the list. I might have a couple to add tonight :D "

I kept adding your books as I saw your reading progress in my feed. I have, from April:

4/02/2018: Ascendant's Rite
4/23/2018: The Fell Sword
4/23/2018: The Path of Flames
5/27/2018: The Black Shriving
5/30/2018: Sins of Empire

BR and challenge info are missing though.

[Veronica]

Virginie, you should demand a salary from us. lol

[Virginie]

Lena wrote: "Did you guys see I won the random book of the month August picker?!?!? Ok, that sounded cooler in my head. I just checked over my (physical!) shelves, and made sure some were also available on Audi..."

That's awesome! I'm very curious to see what you've chosen :D

[Solseit]

Omg Virginie, you are the best!
I will take the post and add the information for completeness in this thread.

[Virginie]

Veronica wrote: "Finished my last book for May.

Title: God Emperor of Didcot
Author: Toby Frost
Pages: 323
Buddy Read: N
Challenge: Y"

Up to date!

[Virginie]

Veronica wrote: "Virginie, you should demand a salary from us. lol"

Nah, it's all part of a big evil plan to take over the world. And I'm doing the updates during my work time, when I need to relax.
(Yes, Excel is relaxing to me...)
That's why I always post "up to date": so I know where in the thread I last stopped.

[Lena]

Finished 4 Stars
May is NOT over!

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

Lena's choices & the poll: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

:) Thanks for getting those to me so fast!

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

Virginie wrote: "Veronica wrote: "Virginie, you should demand a salary from us. lol"

Nah, it's all part of a big evil plan to take over the world. And I'm doing the updates during my work time, when I need to rela..."

I don't take your efforts for granted, hope you know. :) If you ever get sick of doing any of the things, please let me know. I appreciate it soooo much!

[Lena]

I know a good thing when I see it Niki!

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

Nice. :)

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

I just added some of my points. I was only 4 books behind, but they all added up to 27 points. :)

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

BTW, thank you for the heads up on the Picstitch website. I'd tried to find a good one a few times and couldn't. I love how the pattern turned out:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BjJKViejj2B/

Getting started on this behemoth. For the record, I went with the max size and max colors (I opted for 134 or whatever the max was, and it came back only needing 93). ^_^

[Miche]

How big will be your aida, Niki?

[Diana Stormblessed]

Niki Hawkes wrote: "BTW, thank you for the heads up on the Picstitch website. I'd tried to find a good one a few times and couldn't. I love how the pattern turned out:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BjJKViejj2B/

Gettin..."

Ha! I picstitched that one, too. But I ended up settling for the Shalash one in Oathbringer, where she's taking off her mask. I haven't cross stitched in a while though so I started on small bookmarks first. I'll post the bridge 4 one I did over the weekend when I get home tonight :-)

[Diana Stormblessed]

Niki Hawkes wrote: "BTW, thank you for the heads up on the Picstitch website. I'd tried to find a good one a few times and couldn't. I love how the pattern turned out:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BjJKViejj2B/

Gettin..."

Btw, what did the max size end up being? It's going to be huge!

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

Diana Stormblessed wrote: "Niki Hawkes wrote: "BTW, thank you for the heads up on the Picstitch website. I'd tried to find a good one a few times and couldn't. I love how the pattern turned out:

https://www.instagram.com/p/..."

That will be a cool one! It would make a good bookmark or wall hanging. love it!

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

Diana wrote: Btw, what did the max size end up being? It's going to be huge!

Miche wrote: "How big will be your aida, Niki?"

It will be 400x240 when complete, and I'm doing a 14 count so it will be 29 inches (length) by 17 inches (height). 96000 stitches. I'm stoked to finally have a project I'm excited to work on. I just printed out WoR cover art and was thinking to maybe switch back and forth. So far I've completed 1.5% of the project haha.

[Miche]

I have been considering doing the one with Shallan drawing at the shattered plains. :)

I have a ton of patterns based on paintings. I am a pattern hoarder. 😉

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

Haha that's not a bad problem to have. ;)

The sketching pic would be gorgeous. And it seems like it would be fun to do with interesting color schemes.

I'd love to see yours and Diana's projects at some point. :)

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

For the record, the good website is pixel-stitch.net. Pic stitch is the one I always think of and it's the one I don't like.

[Diana Stormblessed]

Miche wrote: "I have been considering doing the one with Shallan drawing at the shattered plains. :)

I have a ton of patterns based on paintings. I am a pattern hoarder. 😉"

That's the one my husband wanted me to do, but we ended up buying the jumbo print of it. I don't need 2 of them in my house. The Jasnah Oathbringer cover is another one I love. I might do that one instead.