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Year 2 Team: Jaghut Guardians
Year 2 Individual Points: 580.8
Favourite read of 2019: The Sword of Kaigen
Name: BillYear 2 Team: Jaghut Guardians
Year 2 Individual Points: 702.9
Favorite read of 2019: A Brightness Long Ago
Name: Silvana Year 2 team: Tome Raiders
Year 2 points: 544.2
Favorite read: Uh, when is the deadline for this sign up? I want to finish all my reads first before deciding what my favorite book is 😉
Yet I do have a temporary answer: A Little Hatred
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Year 2 Team: Tome Readers/Raiders
Year 2 Individual Points: 1970.6
Favourite read of 2019: Off the top of my head, I'd say Guns of the Dawn... but seriously, having read 400-500 books this year, it's hard to pick just one... Guns of the Dawn comes to mind because I went in with no expectations, and the book just got better and better as it progressed...
Name: Siobhan Year 2 Team: House of Chains
Year 2 Individual Points: 706
Favourite read of 2019: The Mad Ship
EDIT: Just to add, I don't think I'll do as many buddy reads next year so that will affect my points going forward. Total burn out achieved this year, to the point that I'm still in a two month slump...!
Hopefully be right as rain by January, same as this year!
Name: VirginieYear 2 Team: Tome Raiders
Year 2 Individual Points: 834.6
Favourite read of 2019: Super Powereds (the entire series); I had other great reads but, having read this series over months, it left the biggest impression :)
Name: NarilkaYear 2 Team: Tome Raiders
Year 2 Individual Points: 424.9
Favourite read of 2019: Currently it is Promise of Blood. It's made me a convert to Flintlock fantasy.
Name: TammieYear 2 Team: Jaghut Guardians
Year 2 Individual Points: 437.7
Favourite read of 2019: Already Gone by Bridget E. Baker
Name: HacenYear Two Team: Blood Eagles
Year Two Individual Points: 361.8
Favorite Read of 2019: Holy Sister
Name: JessicaYear 2 Team: House of Chains
Year 2 Individual Points: 418.8
Favorite read of 2019: The Girl from the Well
Name: ElinorYear 2 Team: Jaghut Guardians
Year 2 Individual Points: 377.6
Favourite read of 2019: Are we really allowed only one book ? That's cruel. I would say The Sword of Kaigen. (and just behind that wonderful book I have Carry On and The Cruel Prince)
Name: Frank JYear 2 Team: Tome Raiders
Year 2 Individual Points: 951.8
Favourite read of 2019: Oh that's a tough one, I have four, but if I had to pick one, Senlin Ascends.
BrianYear 2 Points: 481.6 points
Year 2 Team Name: Jaghut Guardians
Favorite Read: The Emperor's Blades, Heroes, and The Heresy Within. So many to choose from
Name: ZaaraAlso I'm in a nonconformist category (returning player but skipped this year) so please bear with the slight deviations/expositions in this post. I will try to keep it minimal/to the form as much as possible.
Year 2 team: None but a returning player, read for Tome Raiders in Year 1
Year 2 points: Zero 👌🙈 but Year 1 was above 650 without the eyeball bonus, if I remember correctly. This year was a very lacklustre reading/"participative" year for me. Aiming for 80 goodsized (not skinny) books in 2020 and largely read paperbacks/ebooks. Hope this helps with the numerical projections.
Favourite Read of 2019: Deadhouse Gates, read in the fortnight starting Jan 10th. But fave FBR buddy reading experience was NOS4a2 since I logged on to chat about that book almost daily for over a month :)
HelloName: Barry
Year 2 Team: House of Chains for 2 seasons in a row
Year 2 Individual Points: 607.6
Favourite read(s) of 2019: Ship of Magic, The Crippled God, An Autumn War
How did I missed the sign - in's?? I haven't been online for days and thought of this yesterday, so, yay!!!Name: Saar the Book Owl
Year 2 Team: Blood Eagles
Year 2 Individual Points: 351.1
Favourite read of 2019: only one? Gardens of the Moon
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Name: Yanique
Year 2 Team: House of Chains
Year 2 Individual Points: 1545.3
Favourite read of 2019: The Starless Sea
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Year 2 Team: HoC
Year 2 Individual Points: 704.9
Favourite read of 2019: The Sword of Kaigen
HoC is well represented.
Name: Elizabeth SmithYear 2 Team: Jaghut Guardians
Year 2 Individual Points: 304.1
Favorite read of 2019: The Shattered Sigil Trilogy by Courtney Schafer
Name: Petrik LeoYear 2 Team: Blood Eagles
Year 2 Individual Points: 982.5
Favourite read of 2019: Not including reread, The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang at the #1 spot for sure.
(Can I just say how happy I am that there are 3 people other than me who voted The Sword of Kaigen as their favorite book of the year!?)
Name: HaileeYear 2 Team: Tome Raiders
Year 2 Individual Points: 411.5
Favourite read of 2019: Excuding rereads I can't choose between Ruin and Wayward Son
Name : IniyaYear 2 team: Jaghut guardians
Year 2 individual points: 413.7
Favorite read of 2019: Iron and Maguc, Norse mythology, homegoing. Sorry difficult to pick one
Name: AnniYear 2 Team: Blood Eagles
Year 2 Individual Points: 812.7
But for next year's calculations, I won't be able to read that much next year. I started a new job (actually my first full-time job...) and I went from an average of 12 books a month to only 3 🙈 It might increase again, once I'm more familiar with the whole situation, but I think around 300-350 points will be far more accurate.
Favorite reads ( :) ) of 2019: A Little Hatred, Super Powereds: Year 4 and Thick as Thieves
Name : ShaYear 2 team: House of Chains
Year 2 individual points: 896
Favorite read(s) of 2019: The Epic Crush of Genie Lo, Deathcaster, Dragon Bones, A Duke in Disguise, The Orphans of Raspay.
Name: Chris HYear 2 Team: Tome Raiders
Year 2 Individual Points: 140.3
Favorite read of 2019: Like Hacen, I'm picking Holy Sister, mostly on the strength of it wrapping up a beautifully done trilogy.
Honorable mentions: The Millennial Manifesto, Smoke and Stone, Onslaught of Madness, Limited Wish, One Word Kill, and Mage's Blood
As far as the tourney, I almost didn't sign up. Coming in last place every time isn't fun. But Zaara gave me a pep talk :)
And of course I have the bragging rights of being the Top last place finisher.
Name: ManjuYear 2 Team: Jaghut Gaurdians
Year 2 Individual Points: 760
Favourite read of 2019: The Sunne in Splendour
Oh, go on then.Name: Shaitarn
Year 2 Team: Tome Raiders
Year 2 Individual Points: 689.7
Favourite Read of 2019: Do re-reads count? If so, then Chronicles Of Morgaine, if not then Jade City.
Name: CharlieYear 2 Team: House of Chains
Year 2 Individual Points: 693.8
Favourite read of 2019: The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet
Note: I won't be doing as many BRs next year as I did this year so I don't expect to get as many points.
I've been going back and forth with joining next year since I kind of fell off the radar this year (sorry team). But I think I got my reading mojo back a little and I'd like to give this another try.Name: Diana
Year 2 Team: Jaghut Guardians
Year 2 Individual Points: 286.5
Favourite read of 2019: The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Name: Melissa(Year 1 Team: Tome Raiders)
(Year 1 Individual Points: 152.6)
Year 2 Team: House of Chains
Year 2 Individual Points: 239.4
Favourite read of 2019: The Song of Achilles
I've enjoyed the competition the past couple years. It's a nice way to stay connected with the group even when I'm off reading my own thing and not active in any BRs. It's also motivating and fun to see all those juicy spreadsheet stats!
Whoops first saw this thread now. Julia and are back in again and this time she doesn't care whose team she is on! Rob
Year 2 Team: Blood Eagles
Year 2 Individual Points: 320.70
Year 2 Books: I think the sheet is off, but on goodreads this year I'm at 90. (85 or so I guess but a bunch of graphic novels in there too).
Fav Book for me was: Sword of Kaigen or A Little Hatred.
Julia
Year 2 Team: Blood Eagles
Total Points 1941.7
Total Books: 500
Yes, I still exist 🙃I've been debating if I should join for round three because I'm really hoping to have a reading year without any stress in 2020 and also wasn't on GR much the last few weeks. But the team interactions always were a lot of fun and maybe it will motivate me to engage in more bookish discussions again. :)
Name: Bea
Year 2 team: Tome Raiders
Year 2 Individual Points: 701.4
Favorite read of 2019: Idk, The Sword of Kaigen was pretty awesome, also my Malazan rereads obviously
Note on the points: My goal for 2020 is to put no pressure on myself when it comes to reading and to enjoy it as much as possible. So I'm not expecting to score as many points as in 2019.
Name: Beena2019 number of books read: 18
2019 number of buddy reads read with the group: 5
Favorite read of 2019: Prince of Thorns
Newbie here.. I only really started using Goodreads in mid- September this year despite having joined in 2018, I thought it was an app to download books on lol but then never used it. I don't know how successful I'll be at getting points, I probably won't manage to read as many as you guys. Though half the problem was finding the next book to read, but this is great for finding reading inspiration, I wish I'd used it sooner. I also do tend to slow my pace if I really want to enjoy something and don't want to fell pressured to read otherwise it'll take the enjoyment out so I probably won't be that much help lol. But it sounds like fun!
Hello. First timer here (and kindaa new to the group). This should be fun ^_^ Name: Maria
2019 number of books read: 20
2019 number of buddy reads read with the group: 9
Favorite read of 2019: ahh why would you make me choose but ok The Name of the Wind
Name: SooYear 2 Team: Jaghut Guardians
Year 2 Individual Points: 2172.7
2019 Fav Book/s: I read too many books to have one favorite. LoL
Fav Series: System Apocalypse, Threadbare, Chronicles of Elantra, Andrea Vernon, Completionist Chronicles, Pendergast, Jane Hawk, Gray Man, Space Team, Longmire, Cradle, Orphan X, Divine Dungeon, Joe Ledger, Charlie Parker, Mercy Thompson
Stand Out Books: The Wicked King, The Illiad Of Homer, The Last Sun, House of Chains, The Martian, Altered Carbon, Someone Like Me, Anathem, Skirmish, Firstborn, The Rosewater Redemption, The Dark Forest
Great Popcorn Series:
The Good Guys by Eric Ugland
Kurtherian Gambit by Michael Anderle
Wandering Inn by Pirateaba (This is a long webseries that I have gotten suckered into reading after listening to Vol1. Writing is inconsistent but cool concepts and fun to read.)
Note for 2020
I will continue chomping down a bunch of books but I will not be doing a lot of Buddy Reads. I know I will be more busy next year and I don't want to add time restraints by trying to do a lot of BRs. I will continue doing some Challenges. That will help to offset the audio penalty a bit.
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To do this, we have a quick question we'd like everyone to answer, over in the newly created 2020 Google Scoresheet thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Head over there now, when you get a chance, to pick how many bells and whistles you want/need on your sheet, so we can copy the appropriate template when the new sheets are ready.
Also, this will be the sheet to report any errors/issues throughout 2020. Thanks a bunch. (Veteran participants know the rigamarole)
Is it too late to sign up? Name: Navi
2019 number of books read: 193
2019 number of buddy reads read with the group: 2
Favorite read of 2019: The Priory of the Orange Tree
This would be my first year participating in the challenge. My goal in 2020 is to read primarily nonfiction and fantasy/sci-fi! Hopefully I can still join ☺️
Oh no, I've totally missed this entire thread D: Would love to still join if I can!Name: Kathrine
Year 2 Team: Tome Raiders
Year 2 Individual Points: 707.8
Favourite read of 2019: Individual book, probably Words of Radiance but I'm gonna cheat and put down Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings – my best reading experience probably ever!
Name: bryce2019 number of books read: 240
2019 number of buddy reads read with the group: 3
Favorite read of 2019: tie between the sword of summer and the priory of the orange tree
out of curiosity is there a way to check number of comments?
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2019 number of books read: 240
2019 number of buddy reads read with the group: 3
Favorite read of 2019: tie between the sword of summer and the priory of the orange tree
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Hi Bryce! You have 30 comments in the group so far. If you hover above your name on one of your comments, you can see the number. Stick around for a while and we will also be adding members to the competition as the year progresses as long as they meet the 100 comment minimum.
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Name: Angela JrYear 2 Team: Tome Raiders
Year 2 Individual Points: 1052.8
Favourite read of 2019: too many to choose
Taking it easy this year, so I'm definitely not going to make that many points this time around. I was having severe reading burnout by mid October...
I'd like to have the monthly sheet, or just the same one as last year if that's easier for you. Thanks!
Due to health and life reasons I dropped off halfway through last year, at some point during summer.I'd love to join again if I may?
Name: Olivia
Year 2 Team: Jaghut's
Year 2 Individual Points: (I didn't end up finishing, but I read about 80 books this year, and I did about 10 buddy reads.)
Favourite read of 2019: Gideon the Ninth
Newbie here (to the challenge at least), I'm a little late in entering, so I hope that's okay ^^; I wanted to try this out for 2020 if possible. ^~^Name: Katie
2019 number of books read: 96
2019 number of buddy reads read with the group: 40
Favorite read of 2019: Assassin's Apprentice
Name: KarishmaYear 2 Team: Tome Raiders
Year 2 Individual Points: 572.2
Favourite read of 2019: The Winternight Trilogy
Karishma's points in 2019: 572.2@Jenna: Sorry for adding a comment; will delete if/once Kari edit hers to include the info.
Name: Chris MurphyYear 2 Team: I don't remember...
Year 2 Individual Points: I didn't file any, sorry ;-(
Favourite read of 2019: Kings of the Wyld
Hoping to come back with a vengeance this year, I need more fiction in my life!!
Chris was on blood eagles I think with 38.6 points.
Choko Go... I am not at home to check my stats, but I will be reading less this year...
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