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Virginie's old BR Tracker [UNUSED]
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Nope, no access to Hoopla infortunately :/
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Just thought to check wikipedia... areas served: US & Canada... oops...
It's a pretty popular service, but it's a real drain on library funds, from what I've read online... my library allows 5 items per month per cardholder, but also has a limit on how many people can check things out each day, so they don't go over budget... so I have to do most of my checkouts around midnight... any time I've tried to check something out around noon the limit has been reached already... so I assume it gets hit shortly after sunrise when people get up and check things out...
Yeah... Lots of cool book services are only available in northern America. The Tor bookclub comes to mind, with its free ebook each month.I'm only able to get by with my "account" with a library in Sweden. It's not really one per se, but we reached mutual understanding. I get access to the digital content (despite not being a Swedish citizen nor even residing in the country anymore), and I feed them information on what to buy for their Fantasy section since they have no Fantasy/SF reader on their staff.
Ok, I got the audiobooks of the two novellas! I don't have the omnibus-only short though (and don't plan of buying the whole thing just for it) :pSince you read a lot faster than me, I'm starting right away. You'll catch up in no time :) Do we ask for a thread or simply discuss here?
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I'll probably start tomorrow, after I finish Raven's Strike and Honor's Flight
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I'm only able to get by with my "account" with a library ..."
Sounds like a nice deal
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Hippos are for sure the best part of this... altho the ferals are probably scarier than I give them credit...
Houndstooth is also probably the least sympathetic of the characters... especially after (view spoiler)
Ok, I binged the whole thing! I agree with you, the hippos are really the best part! I loved how they all had their own personality and yet are all similarly stubborn :pThe feral hippos though.... I would be so terrified if they were a thing...
Did you like the narrator? It's probably 'cause I'm not a native speaker, but I found the southern drawl very distracting :O
It's been a while since I last posted some pics! Time to remedy that!
Beautiful! I particularly love the last one even though its darkest, its like the Northern lights!
APRIL 2019
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WITH A SCHEDULE / DAILY CHAPTERS / ANTHOLOGIES
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✔ Super Powereds: Year 3
✔ Corpies
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Buddy reads
✔ 04/01 Sea of Rust
✔ 04/11 Holy Sister [Book of the Ancestor #3]
Series BR: The Twenty-Sided Sorceress
✔ 03/11 #5 Heartache
✔ 03/25 #6 Thicker Than Blood
✔ 04/08 #7 Magic to the Bone
✔ 04/22 #8 Dungeon Crawl
Solo reads: Book of the Ancestor
✔ Red Sister
✔ Grey Sister
✔ Bound (short)
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Buddy reads
✔ 04/15 To Kill a Kingdom
Series BR: Eli Monpress
✔ 04/01 #1 The Spirit Thief
✔ 04/15 #2 The Spirit Rebellion
✔ 04/29 #3 The Spirit Eater
Series BR: American Hippo
✔ #1 River of Teeth
✔ #2 Taste of Marrow
Solo reads: Standalones
✔ Snapshot
Solo reads: Shadow Saga
✔ Shadow of the Hegemon
✔ Shadow Puppets
✔ Shadow of the Giant
✔ Shadows in Flight
Solo reads: Dresden Files
✔ White Night
MAY / JUNE / JULY 2019
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✔ Deadhouse Gates [Malazan ALL #2]
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✔ 05/01 Finder
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✔ 05/10 Spoonbenders
Series BR: Eli Monpress
✔ 05/13 #4 The Spirit War
Solo reads: Standalones
✔ Her Fearful Symmetry
Solo reads: Dresden Files
✔ Small Favor
✔ Turn Coat
G'day Virginie, so nice to see your name pop up in the FBR threads again :-) Great job with your May/June/July reads!
Thanks Shae! I'm happy to be back :)
Saw your post on my tracker. Gotta forgive me for the late response. I tried to make it like a virtual postcard. Hope you like it.The Front
He photographs better from this angle, dontcha reckon?
😂😂😂
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Buuuuuuut this is The Back...and I totally like it more (because I am biased towards the artist 😂😂😂)...
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Zaara! I love it, thank you so muuuuch! Saved the pic' so you can take it down whenever.That's a very cute drawing of the back of a cat hahaha!
About Red Sister... I already read the whole series (I had already read when I asked you about it), but am up for a re-read with you. Is that OK?
Btw, you have very beautiful handwriting <3
Done :))I remember we also talked about LPQ and you said you were waiting on a travelling book...did you receive it? I'm still in the first half and if you're in the mood for an impromptu BR, I know you can easily catch us up...all of us are at different points...Narilka finished the third book, I think...Bea and I are lagging the others who are just a bit ahead...
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Much better LitRPGs out there...
Zaara wrote: "Done :))I remember we also talked about LPQ and you said you were waiting on a travelling book...did you receive it? I'm still in the first half and if you're in the mood for an impromptu BR, I kn..."
Ah, the traveling book was for Anthony Ryan's Draconis Memoria. Yup, received it :)
I'd love to read LPQ with you but I don't know if I'll have time. My schedule is really hectic these days (my life is in a bit of a uproar) so I don't want to commit to a BR just to flake out on it later :/
Timelord Iain wrote: "Hey... did you ever read Survival Quest?... We were supposed to BR the series back in June, but you weren't around... I tried anyway, and didn't care much for it, so I didn't contin..."I did try the first book of the series. DNF around 60% I think... Don't know if it was the audio format (the reading of the stats quickly annoyed me) or the book itself...
Didn't help that the MC thought healers are just lazy players chilling in the back :O I was so offended hahaha. Keeping idiotic DPS ignoring boss mechanics (or competent ones cutting corners) from dying is a (stressful) full-time job, thank you very much :p
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For sure... I miss WoW Burning Crusade / Wrath of the Lich King era... the heyday of specialized healers and before LFG destroyed all semblence of teamwork in random dungeons/raids...
I thought the author was offensive to women, as well, especially early on...
I think the main problem with the book, tho, was how boring the plot was... because of the premise, the first book basically had to be boring, since the MC was in a slave penal mining colony...
I think it's also one of those things where the author was basically inventing a new genre, and hadn't figured out how to spice up the boring parts inherent in reading stats all the time...
Life in the North & Stuff and Nonsense both do a better job with that... System Apocalypse (Life in the North) can still be a bit excessive with the stat reading, but Threadbare (Stuff and Nonsense) only tends to mention stats when they matter... and both read out the entire character sheet at the end of the book, so you know the power level of the MC heading into the next book...
You should definitely try those... I really like System Apocalypse, altho it's nearly 2 books behind on audio releases because the narrator Nick Podehl is so busy... and Threadbare is the bestest, most adorable LitRPG trilogy out there (Soo agrees)...
Aaaaah, WOTLK... My favorite expansion by far, and the one I played the most! Ulduar and ICC were so much fun :D Back then, you chose your class & spec for the gameplay, now you have to choose a spec for the type of content (Rdruid for 5-man, disc priest for raids, etc) :(Weirdly, I took more offense at the hunter spitting on healers than women stuff; this one, I'm used to so it doesn't hit me that hard. But insinuating healers are bad players and lazy... :O Takes a special kind of stupid/crazy to voluntarily piss off the player in charge of keeping you alive ;)
Stuff and Nonsense was already in my TBR. Is the narrator for that series good? :)
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It's Tim Gerard Reynolds... he does all the Riyria books and a ton of stuff... very popular narrator...
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Timelord Iain wrote: "It's Tim Gerard Reynolds... he does all the Riyria books and a ton of stuff... very popular narrator..."OH! Tim Gerard Reynolds is my absolute favorite narrator! He's brilliant as Jalan in the Red Queen's War series (Mark Lawrence).
Timelord Iain wrote: "The woman stuff was just super in your face early in Survival Quest... I couldn't decide if it was because he's russian or what..."I just assumed it was because he's russian :p
But you're right, now that I think about it, he was pretty offensive to women in the beginning... Urgh.
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I don't always notice the subtle kind... I mean... I'm AWARE of the Bechdel Test, but I don't really think about it much while reading...
Yeah... I think I notice the subtle kind as much as any woman would, for the very simple reason that I tend to identify more often with female characters. I certainly don't think about the Bechdel test while reading, and don't particularly like the test to begin with.I mean... You can have two female side-characters talking about make-up/clothing for half a page. Still very reductive, and yet, that book would pass the test :p
One thing that I like to keep an eye out for is whether there is a female character going through a narrative arc.
AUGUST 2019
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Standalones/New releases
✔ The Goblin Emperor
✔ Blanca & Roja
✔ Part-Time Gods [DFZ #2]
✔ Hollow Kingdom
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Eli Monpress
✔ Spirit's End
The Sixth World
✔ Trail of Lightning *re-read*
✔ Storm of Locusts
Super Powereds
✔ Super Powereds: Year 1 *re-read*
✔ Super Powereds: Year 2 *re-read*
✔ Super Powereds: Year 3 *re-read*
Uh, did you enjoyed your Super Powereds Reread? :)
It was amazing! Noticed lots of little details now that I have insight, and solidified my theory concerning (view spoiler).Yup, I'm reading Year 4 for the first time :)
Virginie wrote: "It was amazing! Noticed lots of little details now that I have insight, and solidified my theory concerning [spoilers removed].Yup, I'm reading Year 4 for the first time :)"
Awesome, have fun with the last one, I'm sure you will love it as much as we did :)
Thanks! Did you and Iain end up reading more weekly chapters stuff? I remember you pitched something for after SP.
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SEPTEMBER 2019
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Worm : 1131 pages
✔ 09/06 Arc 1: Gestation) + Arc 2: Insinuation
✔ 09/13 Arc 3: Agitation + Arc 4: Shell
✔ 09/20 Arc 5: Hive + Arc 6: Tangle
✔ 09/27 Arc 7: Buzz + Arc 8: Extermination
New releases
✔ Gideon the Ninth [The Ninth House #1]
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Buddy read: Skulduggery Pleasant
✔ Skulduggery Pleasant
Super Powereds
✔ Super Powereds: Year 4
Spells, Swords, & Stealth
✔ NPCs
✔ Split the Party
✔ Going Rogue
✔ Siege Tactics
Standalones
✔ Station Eleven
✔ Good Guys
✔ The Tangled Lands
Threadbare
✔ Stuff and Nonsense
Hi Virginie…Anni’s post chez moi reminded me of how much you love sunflowers!Just passing on the
Awww, thank you! You're right, I love sunflowers! The only flowers that don't trigger my allergies and make me cry/cough/sneeze :pReally need those miniature suns these days, as it's been raining for weeks now, and I still don't have hot water :'(
Virginie wrote: "Awww, thank you! You're right, I love sunflowers! The only flowers that don't trigger my allergies and make me cry/cough/sneeze :p"I was LITERALLY jezzt telling Ghost...
Glad I could help, hon!
*hugs*
OCTOBER 2019
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BUDDY READS
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✔ Fire and Heist
✔ Skulduggery Pleasant #2
✔ The Shadow of What Was Lost
✔ Skulduggery Pleasant #3
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✔ City of Bones
✔ The Shadow of What Was Lost
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Worm : 1723 pages
✔ 10/04 Arc 9: Sentinel + Arc 10: Parasite
✔ 10/11 Arc 11: Infestation + Arc 12: Plague
✔ 10/18 Arc 13: Snare + Arc 14: Prey
✔ 10/25 Arc 15: Colony
Standalones
✔ Fire and Heist
The Memoirs of Lady Trent
✔ A Natural History of Dragons
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Skulduggery Pleasant
✔ Playing With Fire
✔ The Faceless Ones
Threadbare
✔ Sew You Want to be a Hero
✔ The Right to Arm Bears
New releases
✔ The Ten Thousand Doors of January
✔ Spaceside
Again, it's been too long since I posted some pics I liked:
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Nice! I like trees/nature scenes.Here...I wanted to pamper you alot today:
So you see them wherever you turn!
Zaara wrote: "Nice! I like trees/nature scenes.Here...I wanted to pamper you alot today:
So you see them wherever you turn!"
Thanks sweety, those flowers are wonderful <3
Timelord Iain wrote: ""
And thank you Iain for this dubious, strangely cute gift :p
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Do you have access to Hoopla in France/Sweden (that's your 2nd account right)?... that's where I'm getting the audiobooks from...