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D&J Catch up Challenge
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- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
- A Wizard of Earthsea
- The Dragon's Path
- Snow Crash
- His Majesty's Dragon
- Consider Phlebas
- The Left Hand of Darkness
- Gardens of the Moon
- Ilium
- Red Mars
- Magician
- The Anubis Gates
- The Golem and the Djinni
- The Way of Kings
- The Red Knight
- Perdido Street Station
- Dune
- The Mirror Empire (re-attempt...)
- The Water Knife
- Altered Carbon
- Just One Damned Thing After Another
- The Three-Body Problem
Available at library:
- Blackwing
- The Ghost Brigades
- Anansi Boys
- The Shadow of What Was Lost
- Age of Myth
- Stranger in a Strange Land
- Guards! Guards!
- The Black Prism
- Foundation
- Seveneves
- The Traitor Baru Cormorant
- Theft of Swords
- Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
- A Princess of Mars
- City of Stairs
- A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe
- Skyward
- Nyxia
- The Black Lung Captain
- Spinning Silver
- The Court of Broken Knives
- Way Station
- The Poppy War
Other:
- Six Wakes
- The Shape of Water
- All Systems Red
- The Lions of Al-Rassan
- The Witching Hour
- Beyond Redemption
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This is a great idea, Rinn! So often I want to participate but I’m either busy with other stuff or I don’t get the book in time.
I'm in! So many I want to get to; maybe this will push me towards them :-).I'll go through the bookshelf and make up my list later.
This sounds good!Previous BotMs I'd like to catch up on:
Furies of Calderon
The Last Unicorn - ✔ read 19/20th August
Artemis
Leviathan Wakes
Children of Time
The Man in the High Castle
There's also some I've been meaning to reread, would like to do so with a group!
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Uprooted
The Fifth Season
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet
Fahrenheit 451
Great idea! I also like how you divide your books.I will try to do the same later.
Count me in. Books from the group bookshelf that I own and really must read.Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
The Grace of Kings by Ken Li
The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman - This is a reread :)
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Parasite by Mira Grant
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
The Gunslinger by Stephen King - reread
The Martian by Andy Weir
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Cloud Atlas
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
I have Kings of the Wyld and Ancillary Sword on my bookshelf, unread. Must catch up on them.I find it difficult to squeeze in enough reading to complete my library books. I had borrowed the Earthsea Quartet but had to return it as another library user had a reservation on it. I'm sure it's worth buying on Kindle tho'.
Which is all to say I don't carve nearly as much time as I'd like out for reading...!
I’m in. I was away from the BotM list for awhile, but want to get back on track and close out the 2nd half of the year with 15 or so books. This is a great idea. I’ll need to finish The Broken Eye and Reaper at the Gates first, then my catch-ups are:Record of a Spaceborn Few
The Poppy War
The Long Earth
The Grace of Kings
Beyond Redemption
Black Wing
Six Wakes
The Ghost Brigades
The Shape of Water
The Mirror Empire
All Systems Red
Seveneves
The Shadow of What Was Lost
I love this idea! What better way to celebrate turning 5!I happen to have just downloaded a mammoth tome of a book (Super Powereds: Year 4), but here are the ones I plan to catch up on:
The Golem and the Djinni
The Anubis Gates
City of Stairs
I also love this idea! There are several I missed that I'd like to read, but I haven't composed a list yet. A buddy read of one I missed and really want to read would be a big draw for me too.Just a few popping up on people's lists that I'd be interested in:
The Man in the High Castle
The Long Earth
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Anansi Boys
Ilium
Love this idea! I missed Seven Eves as it was missing from my library (since found, but I'm on vacation), so I'll definitely be reading that, plus many of the Mod Specials that I've missed. If I can get enough read I'll go back to earlier months from before I joined.
I am surprise by how many I own. -List updated on DEC 30-
Own:
The Bear and the Nightingale
Childhood's End
Cloud Atlas
Dark Matter
A Deadly Education
Dragonflight
Hyperion
The Left Hand of Darkness
A Natural History of Dragons
Piranesi
The Rook
Seveneves
Six Wakes
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Gods Themselves
This Is How You Lose the Time War
At my local library:
Ancillary Justice
The Blade Itself
The Day of the Triffids
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Furies of Calderon
The Gunslinger
Leviathan Wakes
Neverwhere
The Night Circus
Old Man's War
Pandora's Star
Perdido Street Station
Red Mars
Red Rising
Red Seas Under Red Skies
Semiosis
Storm Front
Tigana
Other:
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
The House in the Cerulean Sea
The Last Unicorn
Nevernight
Parable of the Sower
Retribution Falls
The Space Between Worlds
The Stars My Destination
The Warded Man
Read:
Some of these work with other goals, so I'm in. I'm using the entire list of back books. (Aug: added several books)DONE
War for the Oaks DONE March
Brave New World DONE May
Artemis - DONE JULY
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch DONE August
Own
The Way of Kings
Leviathan Wakes
A Princess of Mars
The Night Circus
Seveneves
The Martian Chronicles
Foreigner
The Mote in God's Eye
Ubik
Watership Down
A Fire Upon the Deep
I Am Legend
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Warbreaker
The Name of the Wind
Library
The Golem and the Jinni
The Handmaid's Tale
A Clash of Kings
Other
Hyperion
The Fall of Hyperion
Old Man's War
The Lions of Al-Rassan
Stranger in a Strange Land
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 3
Six Wakes
Parasite
A Natural History of Dragons
The Stand
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Long Earth
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Consider Phlebas
The Gunslinger
The Final Empire
Great idea Rinn! I am trying very hard to only read books that I own to cut down my stack. I will compare what I have to the D&J list sometime today and put up a list.
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Also, I feel slightly ashamed - as a mod, I'm missing around 45 books of the 140 or so we've read together.
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Leviathan Wakes
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I'll join in! I've read/attempted about 44 of the group reads thus far. Some I've borrowed already and mean to read soon:
Altered Carbon
Authors I've enjoyed and thus should read more from:
Warbreaker
Books I've been meaning to try:
The Blade Itself
Foundation
The Martian
The Eye of the World
The Shadow of What Was Lost<--own
Red Rising
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
(others to be added, probably)
Also, I've noticed a lot of you want to read Frankenstein- I LOVE that book and will happily reread it with you guys! :D
Seems like a lot of people want to read, or reread, the Wayfarers books. Does anyone want to do a group read of them in August, going over "Small Angry Planet" and "Orbit" before joining in the BOTM discussion on "Spaceborn Few"?
Rinn wrote: "I'd like to read at least 15 books from our previous selections in 2018. I think I'll probably focus on the books I own first! ;)Own:
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
- [book:A Wizard..."
Is this all the books? If I copy the list and mark off what I have read will I have them all or do I need to go somewhere to find the full list.
I want to reduce my TBR so for now only books that I already own, unfortunately that is only a few books.Own:
The Blade Itself
The Magicians
Wool
Reread:
His Majesty's Dragon
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Own:
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
- [..."
Sandy, if you go to the home page of the group and scroll down to the bottom, you'll see a small list of the books we've read as group. Just under that list is an option that says, "more books", click that to get a complete list. It's rather large.
Roger wrote: "This is a really good idea Rinn, I just ran through our group read backlog and I'm really surprised that I've read so many of our group reads already. There are only two that I have not read that I..."Wow, well done on keeping so up to date Roger!
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TBH, I was incredibly surprised there were so few on the list, I feel like i missed some, but I checked quite a few different ways.
Cendaquenta wrote: "Seems like a lot of people want to read, or reread, the Wayfarers books. Does anyone want to do a group read of them in August, going over "Small Angry Planet" and "Orbit" before joining in the BOT..."I'll be happy to do a group read of "Orbit" since I need to read it before I can start next month's BOTM! :)
Roger wrote: "Margo wrote: "Roger wrote: "This is a really good idea Rinn, I just ran through our group read backlog and I'm really surprised that I've read so many of our group reads already. There are only two..."You deserve a special membership prize! I doubt if there are many of us that have done that well with group reads :-)
I have finalized my list and my reading goals and I will post them now.
D&J catch-up challenge
BY THE END OF 2018
All Systems Red
Nevernight
Traitor's Blade
Six of Crows
Brave New World
BY THE END OF 2019
The Final Empire
Elantris
Half a King
Age of Myth
The Man in the High Castle
The Golem and the Jinni
Blood of Elves
Retribution Falls
SOME TIME
Prince of Thorns
Furies of Calderon
Children of Time
The Left Hand of Darkness
Armada
The Stars My Destination
The Black Prism
Hope wrote: "Cendaquenta wrote: "Seems like a lot of people want to read, or reread, the Wayfarers books. Does anyone want to do a group read of them in August, going over "Small Angry Planet" and "Orbit" befor..."i just picked this up at the library for that same reason!
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Blackwing
The Shadow of What Was Lost
Artemis
Furies of Calderon
Children of Time
Warbreaker
Armada
The Fifth Season
The Magicians' Guild
The Black Prism
A Darker Shade of Magic
The Wise Man's Fear
The Way of Shadows
City of Stairs
The Blade Itself
Fortune's Pawn
(And I own so many of them already!)
I have a shelf "daj-unread" that I'm trying my best to power through, although I keep getting distracted by shiny books elsewhere. :)I'm finding The Grace of Kings pretty hard going right now.
There are several that I'm interested in reading though I have no idea what I'll finish this year since I'm trying to finish some other series I have in progress. That said, I'm going to break my list up between already owned and wishlist.Owned
A Closed and Common Orbit
Age of Myth
Retribution Falls
Uprooted
Wool
The Lions of Al-Rassan
Theft of Swords
Red Rising
Promise of Blood
The Long Earth
Wishlist
A Wizard of Earthsea
Needed If I did this list right... 124 in total. 24 so far 15.65 % call it 16 2019 - 130 left in total - 35 so far. call it 26.92 %
2020 - 96 + 24 BOM and 6 MOD = 123 left in total - 8 so far.
The Dragonbone Chair
An Unkindness of Ghosts 7/16/20
The Just City Mod
The Fellowship of the Ring
Scythe
Ninth House
The Stand 5/28/20
The Weavers of Saramyr mod
The Gods Themselves
The Rage of Dragons
How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse 3/28/20
Grey Sister
The Amulet of Samarkand mod
The Goblin Emperor
Dragonflight
2001: A Space Odyssey mod
A Memory Called Empire
Gideon the Ninth
This Is How You Lose the Time WarCMP 12/19, The Starless Sea
The Priory of the Orange Tree
The Calculating Stars,
Mod Windswept,
The Dragon Republic,
Children of Ruin,
City of Lies od CMP mod 12/19,
This Is How You Lose the Time War 12/19,
The Starless Sea
The Lives of Tao 9/19
The Library at Mount Char 9/19
Aurora Rising 8/19
Tigana
One Word Kill CMP 7/19
Age of Assassins MS
The Grey Bastards cmp already
The Quantum Thief
The City of Brass cmp 6/19
The Knife of Never Letting Go 6/19
Ninefox Gambit CMP 5/19
The Raven Tower CMP 5/19
The Demolished Man
Dark Matter CMP 4/19
Foundryside CMP 4/19
Senlin Ascends CMP 3/19
Childhood's End CMP 3/19
Circe - CMP - 2/19
1984 - cmp 2/2019
The big ship at the edge of the universe CMP 1/2019
The Phantom Tollbooth CMP 1/2019
Oathbringer - 3rd in series.
Red Seas under Red Skies CMP 12/2018
Skyward reading
Nyxia CMP 6/19
The Court of Broken Knives CMP Nov 2018
Spinning Silver OD wish
The Black Lung Captain - reading
A Conjuring of Light- od wish - 3rd in series
The Mirror Empire OD wish
The Shadow of What Was Lost - reading - have
Artemis OD - wish
Furies of Calderon CMP 11/2018 od Audio
Children of Time - 8/2017 CMP
Red Sister - June 2017 CMP
Northern Lights The Golden Compasson hold (Golden compass) OD
A Closed and Common Orbit CMP - Sometime in Aug 2018
Morning Star3rd in series - OD wish
The Left Hand of Darkness - OD
Jurassic Park - Nov 2017 CMP
Armada - OD CMP - 11/2018
Traitor's Blade - read but not showing.
Sabriel - 9/19
Age of Myth - Have -reading
The Three-Body Problem - od - wish
Blood of Elves - od wish #1
The Aeronaut's Windlass - od Wish
Six of Crows - od wish
The Two Towers - I have read but it is not showing.
Retribution Falls - CMP - Nov 2018
Stranger in a Strange Land od - wish
Uprooted - od wish
A Gathering of Shadows - have
The Bone Clocks od wish
Neuromancer OD - CMP - 9/19
Crown of Midnight -od - wish
The Dispossessed - od - wish
The Earthsea Trilogy?
A Wizard of Earthsea od - 3/18
The Tombs of Atuan - od wish
The Farthest Shore - od - wish
The Magicians' Guild - od - wish
Flowers for Algernon - od - wish
Time of the Twins - have -
The Stars My Destination od - CMP - 12/19
The Day of the Triffids cmp 1/30/20
Stardust od - wish
Stardoc - look at library
1Q84- od - wish
The Crystal Shard - might have or od wish
The Man Who Folded Himself CMP 3/19
The Hobbit od CMP 11/22/18
Watchmen
Wool - Oct 2016 CMP
Forge of Darkness
The Martian Chronicles
The Black Prism CMP 2/2019
Redrobe
The Illmade Mute
The Stone and the Flute
The War of the Flowers
The Forever War od wish
The Fifth Season 7/6/20
Nightside the Long Sun
Throne of Glass
Gardens of the Moon
The Man in the High Castle
The Lions of Al-Rassan
Foundation - I read but it is not showing
The Traitor Baru Cormorant
Golden Son CMP 2/2019
NOS4A2
Ilium
Magician
The Forever War
The Anubis Gates
Pandora's Star - od CMP 12/18
On Basilisk Station - own
Vicious by VE Schwab
The Golem and the Jinni 5/19
Ancillary Sword
Good Omens, the Nice and Accurate Prophesies
The Wise Man's Fear
A Princess of Mars OD CMP 1/2019
The Fall of Hyperion
Words of Radiance
Shadow and Claw
DragonsDawn - OD wish
Titus Groan OD - Wish
The Gunslinger - OD CMP - 11/9/18
Lock In ECP - CMP 1/4/20
The Way of Shadows - OD wish
City of Stairs OD - Wish
Station Eleven - OD CMP 3/2019
Oryx and Crake OD - Wish
The Last Unicorn - OD Wish
The Six-Gun Tarot
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? OD CMP 1/2019
The Blade Itself - OD - CMP 2/19
Neverwhere - od - wish
Fortune's Pawn - od - CMP - 11/2018
The Martian - od - Wish
Half a King - OD kindle
Cloud Atlas - OD - CMP - Audio - 8/22/18
The Way of Kings own
A Natural History of Dragons CMP - 9/22/18 audio
Brave New World od audio wish
Divergent - CMP 11/19
A Scanner Darkly - 8/26/18 CMP
Promise of Blood
The Red Knight cmp 6/28/20
Leviathan Wakes cmp 1/5/20
Ancillary Justice - Wish OD
Perdido Street Station - CMP - 9/11/18
Hyperion - OD - Wish
The Warded Man -OD- CMP 11/19
Jack Glass - Missing
Ready Player One - OD - wish -Audio
Elantris - OD - CMP 1/2019
Ender's Game - Own
Prince of Thorns - Kindle - CMP 8/16/18
The Name of the Wind - OD - on hold
All these great books yay!
It sure it - I found this group a couple years after it was born - a lot of catching up to do. Thought I was doing pretty good until I started looking - but where to start - hmmm - so many good choices - how do you eat an elephant - one bite at a time - or in this case - book. Roger I am truly impressed! Especially now!
Haha Sandy - that's a very big elephant you've got :-D
I love this idea! This year has been very stressful so far and I didn't get as much reading done as I would have wanted. And there have been many great BotM picks ... I'd love to join but don't know if I can fit this challenge in.
Lieke wrote: "I want to reduce my TBR so for now only books that I already own, unfortunately that is only a few books.Own:
The Blade Itself
The Magicians
Wool
Rer..."
It is not going well with reducing my TBR... I went bookshopping this weekend :)
But now I have two more to add tot this little list:
Elantris
American Gods
So my daj-unread shelf is just the books I missed since joining the group last year. Is the challenge to read all unreads from the entire history of the group?
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I'll take a look at the group history then I guess and make a list. I'm probably going to end up adding everything I haven't read before, because I'm an obsessive completionist...but ah well. As the great prophet Nostraal D'ermis said, "No skin off my nose".
Cendaquenta wrote: "Seems like a lot of people want to read, or reread, the Wayfarers books. Does anyone want to do a group read of them in August, going over "Small Angry Planet" and "Orbit" before joining in the BOT..."I just got Small Angry Planet from the library yesterday, I would love to join you with reading that!
Part of my problem is that even if I do remember to read a book off of the D&J list, I forget to comment on the discussion threads with my thoughts! So my list is going to be divided into books I've read but want to discuss, and books I want to read. I'm going to keep Discussion books capped to 2018 reads but I'll go back farther for books I want to read.Read already, Want to Discuss (2018)
The Poppy War
Six Wakes
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
A Conjuring of Light
All Systems Red
Want to Read
The Grace of Kings
Furies of Calderon
Red Sister
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
A Closed and Common Orbit
Record of a Spaceborn Few
Hope wrote: "I'll be happy to do a group read of "Orbit" since I need to read it before I can start next month's BOTM! :)"Sandy wrote: "i just picked this up at the library for that same reason!"
Kritika wrote: "I just got Small Angry Planet from the library yesterday, I would love to join you with reading that! "
Yay! 😁📚🚀
Anyone else want in?
(Also, should we make our own thread or just perform a bit of the ol' necromancy on the original discussions?)
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I'm starting off with Old Man's War, which I have on my Kindle, already halfway through.
Ok, so I've created a new shelf "daj-catchup-challenge". There are 116 books on it, and I'm afraid.
Scott wrote: "Ok, so I've created a new shelf "daj-catchup-challenge". There are 116 books on it, and I'm afraid."Be afraid, be very afraid!
Scott wrote: "Ok, so I've created a new shelf "daj-catchup-challenge". There are 116 books on it, and I'm afraid."That was a really good idea - shoot wish I had thought of that...
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Stranger in a Strange Land (other topics)
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (other topics)
Anansi Boys (other topics)
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I have been rather absent from Goodreads and the reading world this year. I've been very focused on Twitch and playing a lot more video games than ever (and therefore reading less...). I also had a friend come and stay with me for 3 months, which definitely detracted from my reading time! However, I've still managed around 2 or so hours of reading a day, thanks to my commute and lunchbreak at work.
One thing I've been meaning to do since June was start catching up on the D&J Books of the Month that I've not yet read. I thought this could be a fun challenge for anyone else who'd like to do the same. This could also help us to pick up and revive some of the older BotM discussion posts, and perhaps we could even Buddy Read some of our older Books of the Month.
If you want to join in, let everyone know here! I'll be sharing my goal and the books I want to catch up on (plus organising them in an easy way for me to work out what to read next). Please organise your post however you feel :)