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End-of-Year Cramathon
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Well I can read books pretty fast so we can read it whenever you want. I'm almost done with Trolls. I'm on page 386.
Sarah wrote: "I have Neverwhere and The Graveyard Book. And I probably can get a lot of others from the library..."I have both of those in audiobooks. Read by Neil himself :) I'm game, but it looks like you may be moving faster than I am right now! I'll join in whenever you guys start, but I'll probably finish last (which I don't mind, honestly. Either one of those would be a great book to bridge the year with!) because I am determined to finish one (more) physical book from my shelves this year.
Stacie, are you saying you have not read one actual paper book all year? Or did I misunderstand you? Virtually all the books I read are paper. I did read 2 stories online on a sci-fi website but that was a rarity. So I have finished:
Trolls by Stefan Spjut
The Four Thousand, The Eight Hundred by Greg Egan
The two books in many ways were the opposite of each other, especially in page count! One was 456 pages while the other was only 89. I think I liked Trolls better. I was quite disappointed by this Egan book..it was missing the science I had liked in the other one.
I can start reading Neverwhere sometime this week.
Sarah wrote: "Stacie, are you saying you have not read one actual paper book all year? Or did I misunderstand you? Virtually all the books I read are paper. I did read 2 stories online on a sci-fi website but th..."Blargh! That's what I get for trying to type on my phone! It should have said "one more physical book from my shelves". I've met my personal challenge of 12 from my stacks, but I'd like to beat it.
I listen to a lot of audiobooks because I've got a long daily commute, and I'm using my Kindle more because it's tons lighter to carry back and forth to work. I've slowed down on buying physical books because I moved closer to a good library (I try to only buy things I'm going to want to read multiple times). But I've still got a significant backlog of unread books on my shelves, many of which I've had for years.
What I hate is when I type stuff carefully on my phone but then the goofy auto correct on my phone decides to go change words! Like it will change a word to some totally different word and if I don't catch it, then my sentence looks like gibberish! And when I DO want spelling help...does it know the word I do want? Nope! Even if I'm only one letter off it acts like it's totally clueless! The spell check must be a dumb check instead. At least the one on my phone is! I just wish it would work right. But it doesn't. And it loves to change were to we're! So I'm constantly hitting the back button to fix it! It's been ages since I listened to an audio book. And I do have lots of books on my shelves here. I hope to read some of them next year. Because the new year is just around the corner.
Joining this cramathon late. I need to read three more books to complete my goal of 40 books off my TBR list. I just started 38 right now. I have three books to get to 75 (or 4 since Goodreads got rid of my Victorian's as a book). I don't think I am going to finish my alphabet goal. As long as I get my TBR goal finished, I will be happy since I've failed that goal the past two years and I will not fail this year!The books I want to read (and some of these are library books!)
No Exit by Taylor Adams (TBR)
Here's to Us by Elin Hilderbrand (TBR and Letter H)
Vacationland by John Hodgman (TBR and Letter V)
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (TBR)
We're Going to Need More Line by Gabrielle Union (library book)
Watchmen by Alan Moore (library book)
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clark (library book)
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before I’m off to bed. Finished to the end of chapter 1, which puts me on page 12.I’m liking this fantasy world so far. It’s been a wh..."
I just bought the 2 books last week. Definitely want to read them early on in 2020. The covers are so beautiful, I had to own them.
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today. And I will finish listening to
which I started on Saturday. Haven't picked up
since last week. :/
Elyse wrote: "Shelby wrote: "Started reading before I’m off to bed. Finished to the end of chapter 1, which puts me on page 12.I’m liking this fantasy world so far...."
They are gorgeous. I haven’t read any further yet. Being sick last week put me woefully behind on writing work and taking so long to finish Good Omens didn’t help my reading goals. I need to make serious progress on my writing goals today and then hopefully get a bit more reading done later.
I managed to finish a Christmas book earlier today, a novella set in the Victorian era. Now I'm reading another one of the New books I had checked out the other week from the library. Hope to make more progress on it this evening. It's a very interesting story too! A Christmas Hope by Anne Perry
The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher
Did a ton of writing work today, so I've hopefully caught up on at least that. Probably will read later tonight.
Karina wrote: "Joining this cramathon late. I need to read three more books to complete my goal of 40 books off my TBR list. I just started 38 right now. I have three books to get to 75 (or 4 since Goodreads got rid of my Victorian's as a book..."I say count it anyway! Goodreads is a platform for socialization and record keeping, not an arbiter of what is and is not 'good enough' to count as reading.
I got another 40 pages in
during breaks at work. I was hoping to get more tonight but my allergy eyes say that I am going to take Benadryl and go have a coma instead, lol.
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last night and starting reading
this morning for my Q author and my 100th RYS book!I'll start listening to
later today!I also read about 50 pages of
last night, woot!
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Ugh GR got rid of TWO of my books! So BS.
Shelby wrote: "Did a ton of writing work today, so I've hopefully caught up on at least that. Probably will read later tonight."Definitely going to count it, just need to read that fourth so the challenge is "complete" on the site... so annoying!!
Yesterday I read up to page 212 on The Twisted Ones. Hopefully I should finish it later today but I do have yoga class to go to. And it's super cold outside right now! It's like -14 wind chills! Why is GR getting rid of books? Are they like really old books from the 1800s or something, like rare? Or what? Are they ebooks? I know there are books out there that only 1 person might have read.
I once saw on somebody's book page that the person read a book that had 1 page. I admit I don't understand that. How can a book have 1 page? Even a picture book has more than I page...?
Elyse wrote: "I finished reading last night and starting reading this morning for my Q author.I'll start listening to [bookcover:Th..."
Totally! I'll make my goal but can't believe they them away!
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The books they've removed are apparently not considered "books," they're considered podcasts and therefore don't belong on Goodreads. They're usually Audible Originals that Audible gives to members every month. And it's a bunch of bull.
And "1 page" books are probably web stories. If it's not an audio format, Goodreads requires page count.
Oh...I've heard of podcasts (the term) but I don't really know what they are. Maybe I've listened to some but didn't know they were podcasts. Hmm....I see now what the "one page book" can be now. It never occurred to me that the "one page" might be online and that it might be something like 50,000 words! Makes me think of some stuff I've read in the past years ago on fanfiction.net that was like novel length almost but was one chapter, hence it would be "one page". I guess I just automatically still think of paper based books when I see the word "book" and not stuff online. But thanks for explaining it! 😀 I never would have thought of that. I need to remember that people read books online these days.
I did not get anything read yet today...well maybe like 5 pages before yoga class. But I had a nice time walking there too.
Hopefully today I can finish The Twisted Ones.
Well I just finished The Twisted Ones.. excellent creepy story! A weird noise came from somewhere while I was reading and I jumped! Haha.
I had a busy schedule today but I managed to read all of
, which I picked up as a sort of group read.
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Podcasts are basically radio shows. I don't listen to them because that would take away time from reading and I can't log podcasts as books. lol.
Thanks for explaining it, Elyse! I think I have listened to a few podcasts on YouTube. Just never realized they were podcasts. I often like to watch YouTube when I eat. It's a nice little break between reading. I'm starting the Red Address Book by Sofia Lundberg now. It's my book club book so I need to read it and then write in the journal.
I carved out some time for reading today, and managed to get to page 50 in
.
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I am about 30% through
. It's just a fluffy little cozy mystery.I'm about 25% through
. It's all coming together!I'm on page 150 of
. A little slow going.
I felt exhausted yesterday after I got home so I ended up going to bed. Today I managed to get up to page 90 in The Red Address Book.. it's hard to read for me as it's too sad. I probably should not be reading this but I'm supposed to write in the journal about it...
As things get busier at work (and we're nearly at Holiday peak- fun, but exhausting!) my reading has slowed down. I'm about 20 pages away from finishing
, so that will get finished with that today.
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I finished
, so I've officially beaten my RYS challenge for the year (by one book, but that's still "beaten", lol)
I've so far 123 pages of Diabhal by Kathleen Kaufman. I hope to maybe read more yet tonight before I call it quits.
I'm hoping to finish Diabhal this morning and after that I'll start on The graveyard Book by Gaiman. I'll read the other Gaiman book after Christmas but before New Year's. Oh and I'm done with the Red Address Book. It's giving me too much stress to read it and it's just way, way too sad for me. It's only reminding me of how my mother died a bit over a year ago...and that was very hard. And the stuff that went on before she died.
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Oh and I'm done with th..."
I only read the graphic novel adaptation of The Graveyard Book but loved it!
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That's awesome. What an accomplishment!
Andrea wrote: "As I'm typing this I'm listening to the end of my 150th book for the year!..."Wow! That's fantastic!
My plans for the day fell through, so I got some listening done during a frenzy of housework. I finished
and 2 hours of
.
I was busy reading today and I have read & finished:Diabhal by Kathleen Kaufman
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (which was an excellent story by the way)
A Christmas Journey by Anne Perry
Sarah wrote: "...The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (which was an excellent story by the way)"I love that book. It has one of my favorite openings!
I finished
. It's an old favorite, though this was my first time listening to it on audio.
I almost missed the first sentence on it actually! I had to flip back a page to see it. I really love books where kids go on adventures like Nobody did it the story..
So I haven’t had time to do any reading the past few days, but I think I’ve finished my writing goals for this month so I’m planning to dedicate much of the end of the year to getting to some books!I’m gonna be out of the house most of tomorrow and I’ll have some time to kill here and there so I’m bringing
with me and hopefully I can make some progress.
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, 50% through
, and 200 pages in
. Besides these 3, I have 2 e-books and 1 physical book to read in 8 days.
I haven't gotten a lot of reading done over my weekend away, but I did finish No Exit before I left on my trip and finished We're Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union this morning. I cracked open Here's to Us by Elin Hilderbrand which I am hoping will be a quick read. I am however sucked into a documentary on Netflix called "Don't F*ck with Cats" so it's taking away some of my reading time but I regret nothing!
I'm.on page 82 of Tinfoil Butterfly by Rachel Eve Moulton. The little boy in here is scary!! Demented. I went out to the ranch this morning. And I was walking across a rectangle piece of ice and the ice broke. I ended up in icy water halfway to my knees!! Spent nearly in hour wearing soaked boots. I think they will take days to dry out. Luckily it wasn't too cold, hence the weak ice. I never was in that pasture before so had no idea the strip of water was so deep!! 🐎🐎🐎 But I gave everyone in the herd a Christmas gift. 😁
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