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[Miche]

Great job, Virginie!

[Lena]

Finished Buddy Read Series Challenge ★★★★☆

[Miche]

Great job, Lena!

[Miche]

Title: Forbidden Fire
Author: Heather Graham Pozzessere
Pages: 372
Buddy Read: No
Challenge: Yes (A-Z)
Total points: 4.7

After three fantasy books that killed characters that I liked, I needed something light. I might go for a couple more romances before jumping at King's Shield.

[Virginie]

Thanks, Miche!

[Virginie]

@Lena: Scoresheet up to date. Great job :)

[Virginie]

Yay, good job Miche! You're really reading a lot these days :)

[Petrik]

Virginie wrote: "Yay, good job Miche! You're really reading a lot these days :)"

The complete opposite of me.. I've been unwell for the past week and it's really hard to read novels. I'm rereading Tokyo Ghoul though!

[Solseit]

Well done team!
Hopefully I will contribute again this week with a couple of books!
Plus I will take a short holiday from Friday to mid next week and I should be able to read a lot! Including 2 legs of 7-hour drive with audiobooks!

[Virginie]

Petrik wrote: "Virginie wrote: "Yay, good job Miche! You're really reading a lot these days :)"

The complete opposite of me.. I've been unwell for the past week and it's really hard to read novels. I'm rereading..."

Oh, I hope you'll get better soon!
Are you re-reading TG to prepare for the sequel? :D

[Petrik]

Virginie wrote: "Petrik wrote: "Virginie wrote: "Yay, good job Miche! You're really reading a lot these days :)"

The complete opposite of me.. I've been unwell for the past week and it's really hard to read novels..."

Thank you! :)

Yes!! I'm halfway through my reread of Tokyo Ghoul, Kaneki's hair just turned white (can't ever get enough of that moment)

I'm almost done with my current novel too, about 20% left, but yeah progress has been really slow because I'm not feeling well! Urgh!

[Virginie]

Oh yeah... What's 1000 minus 7?!? *shivers*

[Virginie]

I'll wait for my library to acquire all volumes before diving into TG:Re. Thankfully, I've got plenty of great manga recommendations from a certain TBR Demon to keep me occupied in the meantime :D

[Petrik]

Goosebumps!

Hahaha i'm glad that particular TBR Demon is keeping you occupied! i'm assuming in bed? ;)

[Solseit]

Resuming the manga discussion for a second, especially on Boku no Hero Academia.
I did not realize there are actually two spin-offs (one being more interesting than the other to me, Vigilante/Illegals, not sure how it is called). Anyone has read them?

[Petrik]

Aristea wrote: "Resuming the manga discussion for a second, especially on Boku no Hero Academia.
I did not realize there are actually two spin-offs (one being more interesting than the other to me, Vigilante/Ille..."

I haven't! I dunno if they're any good though. I don't think it's penned by the Kohei himself.

[Virginie]

Petrik wrote: "Goosebumps!

Hahaha i'm glad that particular TBR Demon is keeping you occupied! i'm assuming in bed? ;)"

Hahaha. Well, that demon is quite experienced and gave me plenty of great ideas of exciting new things to try.

Spicing things up is essential for a healthy reading life, after all...

[Virginie]

Aristea wrote: "Resuming the manga discussion for a second, especially on Boku no Hero Academia.
I did not realize there are actually two spin-offs (one being more interesting than the other to me, Vigilante/Ille..."

I haven't even read the manga. I plan to get to it once Season 3 of the anime finishes.

EDIT: Wait... Is Vigilante about Stain? 'Cause that would be awesome!

[Petrik]

Virginie wrote: "Petrik wrote: "Goosebumps!

Hahaha i'm glad that particular TBR Demon is keeping you occupied! i'm assuming in bed? ;)"

Hahaha. Well, that demon is quite experienced and gave me plenty of great id..."

Oh my, I'm pleased to hear that! :D

[Petrik]

Virginie wrote: "Aristea wrote: "Resuming the manga discussion for a second, especially on Boku no Hero Academia.
I did not realize there are actually two spin-offs (one being more interesting than the other to me..."

You really should! The recent episodes have been super awesome!

[Virginie]

Petrik, you should log those Tokyo Ghoul volumes on your spreadsheet! Don't waste those 0.4 points! LMAO

[Petrik]

Virginie wrote: "Petrik, you should log those Tokyo Ghoul volumes on your spreadsheet! Don't waste those 0.4 points! LMAO"

hahhahaa but I don't want to include my manga into my shelves unlesss there's a full series omnibus kind of thing. I don't like seeing my Goodreads shelves bloated! xD

[Solseit]

Petrik wrote: "Aristea wrote: "Resuming the manga discussion for a second, especially on Boku no Hero Academia.
I did not realize there are actually two spin-offs (one being more interesting than the other to me..."

Correct - I understand it is penned by Hideyuki Furuhashi and artist Betten Court.

Virginie wrote: "Aristea wrote: "Resuming the manga discussion for a second, especially on Boku no Hero Academia.
I did not realize there are actually two spin-offs (one being more interesting than the other to me..."

I really do not know and I am intrigued by the idea. I know Eraser Head is featured there so that gets me going.

And I will take some seconds of your time to actually share a dream of mine. Mangaka. I would love to be able to write and draw the stories as these guys do (don't get me wrong, I know the successful ones have teams working with them but they start on their own). Close the Fabiola (being my real name) dream.

[Virginie]

Petrik wrote: "Virginie wrote: "Petrik, you should log those Tokyo Ghoul volumes on your spreadsheet! Don't waste those 0.4 points! LMAO"

hahhahaa but I don't want to include my manga into my shelves unlesss the..."

Mmmh. Maybe you can manually log an omnibus on your spreadsheet without entering it in GR. For example, the TG volumes are 224 pages each, so you could enter 'Tokyo Ghoul: Complete Series' with 14*224=3136 pages. With the manga points reduction, it's only worth a little more than 7.5 points for the entire series but hey! Every point counts, right?

That way, you won't clutter your shelves nor your spreadsheet...
Can we do that, Captain? :D

[Petrik]

Virginie wrote: "Petrik wrote: "Virginie wrote: "Petrik, you should log those Tokyo Ghoul volumes on your spreadsheet! Don't waste those 0.4 points! LMAO"

hahhahaa but I don't want to include my manga into my shel..."

Oh that's interesting! I'm definitely up for that!

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

Virginie wrote: "Petrik wrote: "Virginie wrote: "Petrik, you should log those Tokyo Ghoul volumes on your spreadsheet! Don't waste those 0.4 points! LMAO"

hahhahaa but I don't want to include my manga into my shel..."

Yes, no problem. We're all on the honor system anyway and I can imagine logging even one manga series would be all-consuming lol. I feel the same way about my animorphs books - I love them but they skew all the stats.

[Virginie]

Yeah. I started logging all my mangas read this year volume by volume both on GR and the spreadsheet... I'm really regretting not thinking of simply logging the omnibus earlier.
Can't really go back now that I've created a shit-tons of stats for my mangas (that's what started the spreadsheet madness, btw)

So I'll keep adding all my mangas! I'm at 108 volumes so far! ^_^"

I might actually hit 365 books this year if I include the mangas :O

[Zaara]

@Virginie

Title: Lord of Scoumdrels (9 July)
Author: Loretta Chase
Pages: 375
Buddy Read: No but I kept a log for Sha anyway
Challenge: Yes (Cover)
Total points: 4.7


Title: Lord of the Abyss (ongoing but may as well add, almost done)
Author: Nalini Singh
Pages: 288
Buddy Read: No
Challenge: Cover
I thought I'd try PNR...


Title: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society (8 July)
Author: Mary Anna Schaffer
Pages: 322
Buddy Read: Y
Challenge: Yes (Overflowing)


Title: Catch 22 (14 July)
Author: Joseph Heller
Pages: 570
Buddy Read: Y
Challenge: Y (Overflowing)

Title: Revolting Rhymes (15 July)
Author: Roald Dahl
Pages: 48 :-P
Buddy Read: No
Challenge: Yes Overflowing
Bcuz I still craved a fairytale retelling and wouldn't give up until I had read 6 😂😂😂

[Miche]

Virginie wrote: "Yay, good job Miche! You're really reading a lot these days :)"

Thank you, Virginie!

I am taking a break from World of Warcraft until the new expansion comes out, so that gave me a lot of extra time for reading these last couple of months, as I normally play a bit everyday and raid 3 nights per week with friends.

From August 13 onwards I will be back to the normal gaming and reading schedule. :)

[Miche]

Petrik wrote: "The complete opposite of me.. I've been unwell for the past week and it's really hard to read novels. I'm rereading Tokyo Ghoul though! "

I hope you feel better soon, Petrik!

[Zaara]

Get better soon, Petrik....

[Miche]

Great job, Zaara!

[Zaara]

Miche wrote: "Great job, Zaara!"

Thanks Miche and you too with Malaz.

[Miche]

Zaara wrote: "Miche wrote: "Great job, Zaara!"

Thanks Miche and you too with Malaz."

Thank you! 😉

[Virginie]

@Zaara: Your spreadsheet is up to date. Great job, sweety! You're amazing :D

[Zaara]

Miche wrote: "Thank you! 😉"

You gonna have such a feeling of achievement when you finish BotF and Empire...

@Virginie, statistically speaking I'm about 1/67th as amazing as vous and 1/10000000000000th Fin and Choc. But I'll take it, and thank you....I love how you're biased. Oh and yay France n all....tho' very late....

[Veronica]

Zaara wrote: "@Virginie

Title: Lord of Scoumdrels (9 July)
Author: Loretta Chase
Pages: 375
Buddy Read: No but I kept a log for Sha anyway
Challenge: Yes (Cover)
Total points: 4.7


Title: Lord of the Abyss (on..."

Well done, Miss Z!

[Veronica]

I've been puttering around between 3-4 books and not making much headway in any of them, it seems. Sorry team. I just haven't been able to hit my reading stride since getting back from vacation.

[Miche]

I finally found a good balance between genres of books and this has been helping me. If I stick to one genre only I get mini slumps.

[Miche]

Veronica wrote: "I've been puttering around between 3-4 books and not making much headway in any of them, it seems. Sorry team. I just haven't been able to hit my reading stride since getting back from vacation."

No need to apologize. You rock!

[Veronica]

I generally do that too, Miche. My issue right now is that I'm just wanting to be doing other things besides reading. The horror, I know. :-)

[Miche]

Nah, you are just enjoying real life. That's good too. :)

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

I've been doing the same thing Veronica. I keep getting excited to go update stuff because I haven't in a while, only to realize I haven't actually finished anything new lol.

[Virginie]

Niki Hawkes wrote: "I've been doing the same thing Veronica. I keep getting excited to go update stuff because I haven't in a while, only to realize I haven't actually finished anything new lol."

Heh. Why do you think I want to update every scorecard? x)

[Virginie]

Reading or no reading, I think you're all amazing anyway. There! I said it! And I'm not biased :p

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

Lol

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

Back at ya, Virginie!

[Bea]

Just finished Godsgrave
Pages: 448
BR: No
Challenge: Yes (Book Cover)

Loved it btw! :)

I'll update my sheet tomorrow, I'm too lazy to switch on my computer again...

[Bea]

Veronica wrote: "I generally do that too, Miche. My issue right now is that I'm just wanting to be doing other things besides reading. The horror, I know. :-)"

It's okay. Don't force yourself to read if you're not in the mood for it. Reading should be fun, not a chore :)

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

With each cover reveal, that series is creeping closer and closer to actually getting read. I'm glad to hear it's so good! :)