Charlie's Lair - The Ravenclaw Common Room

[Charlie]

2025

January
Reign
Fourth Wing

[Charlie]

2022

Jan
Winterkeep - finished 4.5 stars


Feb
Cytonic in progress

June
Another Time, Another Place 5 stars

July
White Silence 5 stars

August
Dark Light 5 stars
Ruby Fever 5 stars

September Soul Taken 4.5 stars
A Catalogue of Catastrophe 5 stars

November
Long Shadows 5 stars



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2021 reads

January 2021
The Rithmatist 4.5 stars
Across the Green Grass Fields 4 stars
Blood Heir 5 stars
Sleeping Giants 5 stars
The Dream Thieves 5 stars

February 2021
What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 5 stars
The Deathless Girls 4.5 stars
Soulless 4.75 stars
Fire 5 stars

March 2021
These Broken Stars 5 stars
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within 5 stars
Waking Gods 5 stars
Wild Sign 5 stars

April 2021
Changeless 4 stars
Bitterblue 5 stars
Only Human 5 stars
The Gilded Ones 3.5 stars

June 2021
House of Hollow 5 stars

July 2021
Followers 4.5 stars

Scheduled in throughout 2021 on the last minute BR thread:

Lies, Damned Lies, and History
Hope for the Best
Plan for the Worst

[Charlie]

2020 reads

January 2020
The Slow Regard of Silent Things 5 stars
A Court of Frost and Starlight 5 stars
Honor Among Thieves 4 stars
Every Heart a Doorway 4.5 stars
The Familiars 5 stars
Down Among the Sticks and Bones 4 stars
Beneath the Sugar Sky 3 stars
Sweep With Me 5 stars
In an Absent Dream 5 stars
Five ​Dark Fates 4 stars
Come Tumbling Down 4 stars
The Young Elites 4 stars

February 2020
The Kingdom 4.5 stars
The Amateurs 4 stars
The Girl in the Tower 5 stars
Homeland 5 stars

March 2020
Smoke Bitten 5 stars
Exile 3 stars
Skyward 5 stars!!!
Aurora Rising 5 stars


April 2020
Ninth House 5 stars
Empress of a Thousand Skies 3 stars
The Foundling 5 stars
Sojourn 4 stars


May 2020
The Winter of the Witch 5 stars
Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds 5 stars
Network Effect 5 stars
The Hating Game 5 stars
The Way of Kings, Part 2 5 stars

June 2020
Full Moon Rising 5 stars
Record of a Spaceborn Few 5 stars
The Roanoke Girls 5 stars
Starsight 5 stars
A Court of Thorns and Roses 5 stars
Just One Damned Thing After Another 5 stars
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 5 stars
Kissing Sin 5 stars

July: 2020
A Court of Mist and Fury 5 stars
84K 4 stars
American Demon 5 stars

August: 2020
American Royals 5 stars
Glass Sword 4 stars
A Court of Wings and Ruin 5 stars
Emerald Blaze 5 stars
Tempting Evil 5 stars
A Symphony of Echoes 5 stars

September 2020
Dangerous Games 5 stars
A Second Chance 5 stars
The Original 5 stars
The Boneless Mercies 3.5 stars

October 2020
The Institute 5 stars
Kingdom of Ash 5 stars
Anna Dressed in Blood 5 stars
A Deadly Education 5 stars
This Is How You Lose the Time War 4 stars
The Wrath and the Dawn 5 Stars

November 2020
The Raven Boys 5 stars
A Court of Frost and Starlight 5 stars
The Very First Damned Thing 4 stars
When a Child is Born 5 stars
Roman Holiday 5 stars
Girl of Nightmares 4 stars
A Trail Through Time 5 stars
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 5 stars

December 2020
Forged 5 stars
Christmas Present 5 stars
The Night Circus 5 stars
No Time Like the Past 5 stars

[Anni]

placeholder for Anni's important stuff :)

[Siobhan]

Reserved XD

[Hailee]

Charlie wrote: "I'm a little early but decided to make a new tracker for next year since my old one is a little crowded!

My plans so far for 2020 are to try and only schedule 2/3 BR a month in advance.

I'm also going to try not to schedule too far ahead unless it's a series or an upcoming release I'm waiting for. I'm a mood reader so I often don't want to read the book anymore by the time it comes around if I schedule it 6 months in advance."


I'm planning to do exactly the same thing. However I also tried to do this last year as well and was failing hardcore by about May!! I love impromptu buddy reads. The only problem with that is since so many of us fill our schedules up so early in the year so few people have time to do them lol. I'm certainly one of the most guilty of doing this. I think that one year everyone should decide to not plan ahead at all, and all our buddy read should be decided no more than a week or two in advance (to give people a chance to get hold of the book).

[Melissa ♥ Dog/Wolf Lover ♥]

Charlie wrote: "I'm a little early but decided to make a new tracker for next year since my old one is a little crowded!

My plans so far for 2020 are to try and only schedule 2/3 BR a month in advance. I might ve..."

Good luck sweet, Charlie! 😊💕🌸

I have been pushing myself to get all of my books read off the floor and piled all around. It’s not been fun reading even if I have read some good books. I’m getting mine done so next year I can read at leisure again.

I hope next year is better reading for you too 😊

[Charlie]

@Melissa I hope you get them all read by new year so you can read for fun again!

@Hailee
We should do this! Spontaneous buddy reading would be so much fun.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Charlie wrote: "@Melissa I hope you get them all read by new year so you can read for fun again!

@Hailee
We should do this! Spontaneous buddy reading would be so much fun."

Living the spontaneous life is easy... just don't check the master BR list until the beginning of each month and jump aboard... I do it quite often when books catch my eye... it's the easiest way to be spontaneous, and lets other plan books months in advance for your reading pleasure...

[Siobhan]

I'm down for spontaneous next year. I'm gonna stick to your 3 buddy reads policy too Charlie.

[Hailee]

Siobhan wrote: "I'm down for spontaneous next year. I'm gonna stick to your 3 buddy reads policy too Charlie."

Charlie wrote: "

@Hailee
We should do this! Spontaneous buddy reading would be so much fun."

I'm certainly going to do my best to keep to spontaneity in 2020. We'll all just have to close our ears to the siren cry of the schedule ;-)

[Melissa ♥ Dog/Wolf Lover ♥]

Charlie wrote: "@Melissa I hope you get them all read by new year so you can read for fun again!

@Hailee
We should do this! Spontaneous buddy reading would be so much fun."

Thank you, Charlie 😊

I’m going to try to watch for you, Hailee and Siobhan buddy reads. I’m also going to do some outside the group with sweet, Tammie. There are reasons I stopped buddy reading in this group that only she knows about but I hope to just focus on my few sweet friends like y’all. Maybe we can all have fun again 😊💕

[Hailee]

Timelord Iain wrote: "Living the spontaneous life is easy... just don't check the master BR list until the beginning of each month and jump aboard... I do it quite often when books catch my eye... it's the easiest way to be spontaneous, and lets other plan books months in advance for your reading pleasure..."

I actually did this for the first few months of the year. The problem came further down the line once I'd jumped aboard some series; then of course when it came to the sequels the schedule was already there lol. I suppose that is the inevitable thing with fantasy though.

[Hailee]

Melissa ♥ Dog/Wolf Lover ♥ wrote: "I’m going to try to watch for you, Hailee and Siobhan buddy reads. I’m also going to do some outside the group with sweet, Tammie. There are reasons I stopped buddy reading in this group that only she knows about but I hope to just focus on my few sweet friends like y’all. Maybe we can all have fun again 😊💕
..."

That'd be great. Hopefully once you have wrestled your book piles into submission you'll be able to take advantage of some spontaneous reading and it'll be all the more relaxing for you. Fingers crossed!!

[Melissa ♥ Dog/Wolf Lover ♥]

Hailee wrote: "Melissa ♥ Dog/Wolf Lover ♥ wrote: "I’m going to try to watch for you, Hailee and Siobhan buddy reads. I’m also going to do some outside the group with sweet, Tammie. There are reasons I stopped bud..."

😂🤣. I’m wrestling hardcore!! I hope so too! I want next year to be a better more laid back year. A year of still being cancer free, reading less books so I can enjoy them when I read them and great buddy reads with sweet friends and peeps in general 😊

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Hailee wrote: "Timelord Iain wrote: "Living the spontaneous life is easy... just don't check the master BR list until the beginning of each month and jump aboard... I do it quite often when books catch my eye... ..."

I think this gets easier the more series you read, because then you can fill your year just reading New Releases... it's half the reason I started abandoning series/genres... I have 40-50 new releases to worry about each year...

[Siobhan]

Melissa ♥ Dog/Wolf Lover ♥ wrote: "Charlie wrote: "@Melissa I hope you get them all read by new year so you can read for fun again!

@Hailee
We should do this! Spontaneous buddy reading would be so much fun."

Thank you, Charlie 😊

..."

You're more than welcome in any buddy read I'm part of, lovely! ❤️

[Charlie]

@Iain I think I'll do that. browsing the master list is a great idea.

@Siobhan @ Hailee @Melissa If we all do spontaneous reads next year and none of all schedule reads in advance there won't be any schedule reads to jump into!

But seriously, I'm really looking forward to being able to go look at my shelves and just pick something out just because I fancy it. I haven't done that at all this year and I've really missed it.

[Hailee]

Charlie wrote: "@Iain I think I'll do that. browsing the master list is a great idea.

@Siobhan @ Hailee @Melissa If we all do spontaneous reads next year and none of all schedule reads in advance there won't be ..."

Yes that is true, plus if we jump into a series we can just read the next book whenever we want, whether that is straight after we finish the previous one or after we've read a few other books rather than rigidly doing them on the same day on consecutive months when that might not be the most convenient time.

[Charlie]

@Hailee

Agreed about the sequels. I think being flexible will be important for me next year so I don't get frustrated with reading.

[Anni]

Siobhan wrote: "I'm down for spontaneous next year. I'm gonna stick to your 3 buddy reads policy too Charlie."

Yeah, sure :D

[Charlie]

Sir Anni wrote: "Siobhan wrote: "I'm down for spontaneous next year. I'm gonna stick to your 3 buddy reads policy too Charlie."

Yeah, sure :D"

Haha we all have good intentions but I bet by May we're all up to our ears in BRs!

[Hailee]

Charlie wrote: "Haha we all have good intentions but I bet by May we're all up to our ears in BRs! ."

That's certainly what happened to me this year 🙈

[Charlie]

Hailee wrote: "Charlie wrote: "Haha we all have good intentions but I bet by May we're all up to our ears in BRs! ."

That's certainly what happened to me this year 🙈"

Me too actually. But I really mean it this time. I'm not pressuring myself. At all.

[Siobhan]

Sir Anni wrote: "Siobhan wrote: "I'm down for spontaneous next year. I'm gonna stick to your 3 buddy reads policy too Charlie."

Yeah, sure :D"

Stop being the tempting devil on my shoulder you!!

[Elinor]

I am so bad at the BR game, I often forget that I have one, then I take so much time to read it because I have a lot of them and also I want to read a few things unplanned... I think maybe I'm going to do the only spontaneous BR thing. And the 3 per month policy is really appealing too (tho I fear 3 is too much for me) (yeah I know I'm THAT bad)

[Karishma]

EEEEE! New tracker already that's awesome!!

[Katie]

Planning for the new year already??? gasp!

[Anni]

Siobhan wrote: "Sir Anni wrote: "Siobhan wrote: "I'm down for spontaneous next year. I'm gonna stick to your 3 buddy reads policy too Charlie."

Yeah, sure :D"

Stop being the tempting devil on my shoulder you!!"

Me? I'm absolutely pure and angelic! 😇

[Anni]

Hailee wrote: "Charlie wrote: "Haha we all have good intentions but I bet by May we're all up to our ears in BRs! ."

That's certainly what happened to me this year 🙈"

At least were all together, drowning under our to read/BR pile 😂

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Sir Anni wrote: "Hailee wrote: "Charlie wrote: "Haha we all have good intentions but I bet by May we're all up to our ears in BRs! ."

That's certainly what happened to me this year 🙈"

At least were all together, ..."

I'm well on my way to breaking my 2018 single month BR record this month, in my quest to beat Julia... at 54 books and 27 BRs including today's goals... I think I can hit a little over 30 BRs... I did 31 BRs last July, 30 last March, and 27 last August 2018... main difference is that BRs were 90% of my reads then and 50% now...

Be nice to be a bit more flexible again, come Halloween... finally catch up on WORM, hopefully...

[Charlie]

@Iain You are a reading machine! I'm seriously impressed.

[Zaara]

Great idea, Charlie!!!
All the best for 2020.
For Albus and you:
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I wish you could see the actual painting (by Scottishartist Julia Jeffrey)..the background is such a gorgeous glossy chocolate brown and the leaves and acorms in lifesize look beautiful in those autumn shades...
(hide spoiler)]

Also, were you planning to continue the rest of the trilogy after Bear and the Nightingale?
I still need to read Books 2 and 3 and would like to complete the series. If you haven't already made other plans, shall we do one in Nov and one in Dec?

@Siobhan...I am sitting here with Anni and wearing the *skeptical face* 😄😂 but hey, I quite like having you in ALLLLLL the BRs...😘

[Siobhan]

I was just about to invite myself to join Winternight #3...

I'm an addict and clearly need help... 🤣 I know I won't succeed going cold turkey, but I need to learn some moderation! I'm cutting down to 3 a month dammit!! XD

[Charlie]

@Zaara That image is gorgeous! <3 I don't own books two and three yet but if i can get them cheap enough (and i enjoy TBATN) i'd be up for readings books 2 and 3 :)

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I need to read the rest of the trilogy... I read the first book before the 2nd came out... I'm probably going to re-read it for bonus points this month...

[Charlie]

Timelord Iain wrote: "I need to read the rest of the trilogy... I read the first book before the 2nd came out... I'm probably going to re-read it for bonus points this month..."

Re-reading is my problem. I've got a lot of housework to do today so it's audiobook time. Instead of listening to something new I'm listening to something I've read 3 times before.

[Anni]

Charlie wrote: "Timelord Iain wrote: "I need to read the rest of the trilogy... I read the first book before the 2nd came out... I'm probably going to re-read it for bonus points this month..."

Re-reading is my p..."

I think re-reading favourits is a good thing actually! It might not help me with my scary TBR pile, but reading what you're in the mood for keeps you happy and avoid reading slumps, so I think you shouldn't feel guilty but enjoy your re-read :)

[Charlie]

Sir Anni wrote: "Charlie wrote: "Timelord Iain wrote: "I need to read the rest of the trilogy... I read the first book before the 2nd came out... I'm probably going to re-read it for bonus points this month..."

Re..."

I do agree with this, I don't want to get slumpy.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

My biggest problem with re-reads, is they're a slippery slope... I did 45 re-reads in July/August...

[Charlie]

Timelord Iain wrote: "My biggest problem with re-reads, is they're a slippery slope... I did 45 re-reads in July/August..."

I did too! I re-read all of Patricia Briggs Mercy Thompson books and the Alpha & Omega series. Definitely a slippery slope.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Charlie wrote: "Timelord Iain wrote: "My biggest problem with re-reads, is they're a slippery slope... I did 45 re-reads in July/August..."

I did too! I re-read all of Patricia Briggs Mercy Thompson books and the..."

I re-read Innkeeper Chronicles, Hidden Legacy, Kate Daniels, Mercy Thompson, Alpha & Omega, and October Daye...

[Charlie]

Timelord Iain wrote: "Charlie wrote: "Timelord Iain wrote: "My biggest problem with re-reads, is they're a slippery slope... I did 45 re-reads in July/August..."

I did too! I re-read all of Patricia Briggs Mercy Thomps..."

I also re-read Innkeeper Chronicles! I love Ilona Andrews, everything they wrote is gold.

[Siobhan]

Hey hun, just looking at January to schedule Five ​Dark Fates. You have something booked the start of the month, and Katie has something on the 12th I think, so how about towards the end? Last week maybe?

[Saar The Book owl]

I think the overall new mantra will be '2 or 3 BR's and more spontaneous reading'. I join in on that too.

[Charlie]

@Siobhan the end of the month is good!

@Saar we all say that but I bet by June we've got 7 BRs a month booked in.

[Siobhan]

Cool! Should we just use YA Book Club whenever we're ready? Or should I request a thread? X

[Katie]

lol. I was just suggesting the YA forum myself for Five ​Dark Fates. I think that one works out just fine, right?

[Siobhan]

Yeah that works for me Katie! :)

[Katie]

Siobhan wrote: "Yeah that works for me Katie! :)"

Excellent!