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2020 Bookshelf Rereads
2020 Reread Schedule
January 15th:
The Goblin Emperor >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Nine Princes in Amber >> First impressions | Final thoughts
February 15th:
The Killing Moon >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Six of Crows >> First impressions | Final thoughts
March 15th:
Elantris >> First impressions | Final thoughts
All the Birds in the Sky >> First impressions | Final thoughts
April 15th:
The Left Hand of Darkness >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Golem and the Jinni >> First impressions | Final thoughts
May 15th:
American Gods >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Three-Body Problem >> First impressions | Final thoughts
June 15th:
The Dispossessed >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The City & the City >> First impressions | Final thoughts
July 15th:
The Fifth Season >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Bear and the Nightingale >> First impressions | Final thoughts
August 15th:
The Color of Magic >> First impressions | Final thoughts
City of Bones >> First impressions | Final thoughts
September 15th:
Neverwhere >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Alif the Unseen >> First impressions | Final thoughts
October 15th:
The Grace of Kings >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Grass >> First impressions | Final thoughts
November 15th:
Deathless >> First impressions | Final thoughts
1Q84 >> First impressions | Final thoughts
December 15th:
Alphabet of Thorn >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Leviathan Wakes >> First impressions | Final thoughts
I just want to get email updates so I'm posting here. To make it relevant I'll just say that I'm planning to read The Goblin Emperor in January, as I got it on sale a while back.
Looking forward to Nine Princes in Amber!
I bought an omnibus of the Nine Princes in Amber series for this re-read - only to now find out that I already owned part of the books @#$%! No more new buys for me till I get a decent overview what's on my shelves ... ^^'
Me too, I have even started the 'Sqwandyr' challenge on Habitica which is setting up a limit on book buying budget because I really need to stop getting new books. Last year it was a draw for me, I read as many book as I bought, but this year I really have to step up on this and buy as little new books as possible. Only exception here will be when books I want to buy are reduced to less than 3 euro.
Haha! People after my own heart! I run a guild on Habitica called Read Your Books and we do challenges designed to get you to read the books you already own. Last year I read 48 books that I’d owned longer than a year. Some many many years (one 20 years!). Come join us Leticia!
First rereads of 2020 starting soon!January 15th:
The Goblin Emperor >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Nine Princes in Amber >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Ha! Just saw that I can't get The Goblin Emperor on audible ... that's the second time I planned my book month under the assumption that everything is on audible ... time to look before I plan.
I don't think Goblin Emperor would work very well on audio? There are so many similar names!
Anna wrote: "I don't think Goblin Emperor would work very well on audio? There are so many similar names!"Ah, then it's a good thing.
If I remember correctly, there is a glossary at the back, and it'll come in handy! :D
The Goblin Emperor has a names index online. I linked to it in First Impressions thread.
Anna wrote: "I don't think Goblin Emperor would work very well on audio? There are so many similar names!"See if your library system has hoopla? I just listened to TGE on audio. I found that the author gave enough context that, although I could not have said if Diazapam was Sildenifil's cousin or aunt, I could keep up with the story.
The Goblin Emperor
>> First impressions | Final thoughtsNine Princes in Amber >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Starting tomorrow!
It's time to vote for April-June rereads! You have until February 25th. Live results in spreadsheet. I'll post the list here, too, as always, but I'll start that in February, after the newletter has gone out and more people start to vote.
If there's one thing I've learned about myself since joining this group, it's that I really enjoy voting for stuff.
Meredith wrote: "If there's one thing I've learned about myself since joining this group, it's that I really enjoy voting for stuff."Put me down for a big SAME.
I join you in that sentiment 😊. It seems to satisfy a deeply instinctive craving (same goes for ticking off challenges)
Yup. Same here. Except ticking off challenges doesn’t seem to be my forte.
Sorry if this is already answered somewhere, but what happens to ties in the vote?
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Peter Gabriel even wrote a song about you two! ^_^
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Dawn, what song? I now have In Your Eyes stuck in my head and can't think of any other things. Help please?
Pet Sematary by the Ramones - it's good ear candyI don't want to be buried in a pet cemetery
I don't want to live my life again
I don't want to be buried in a pet cemetery
I don't want to live my life again
it was written for the movie made from Pet Sematary
What happens in the event of a tie? for example quite a few have 8 votes at this time.
Allison wrote: "lol! But then you wouldn't have had the tactile joy of clicking things! We're all about tactile joy! Book pages and clicky things and soft socks!Dawn, what song? I now have In Your Eyes stuck in ..."
Sledgehammer?
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Anna or I continue to break it :) But we also highly recommend telling folks what you want (besides Peter Gabriel's sledgehammer, which I assure you is not how I generally break ties!) so that accommodating buddy readers can help prioritize what we hope to read soonish.
I'm giggling at the current top 6 :D UKLG <311 The Left Hand of Darkness (304)
10 The Bear and the Nightingale (322)
10 The City & the City (312)
10 The Color of Magic (228)
10 The Dispossessed (387)
10 The Word for World is Forest (160)
This would make for a leisurely re-read time, since I've read all of them but one ^^'
Yeah, same, I’ve read three, dnf’ed one, and don’t want to read another, so that just leaves one for those three months ^_^
That is astonishing. Suddenly everyone decides they need to read UKL, huh? Well, I may reread one of them, but not all. The City and the City is on my shelf and TBR so, im happy about that one.
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A shame none of the longer books are in contention.
Don't worry, things will get properly shaken up once the newsletter goes out and lots more people vote!
Dawn wrote: "Yeah, same, I’ve read three, dnf’ed one, and don’t want to read another, so that just leaves one for those three months ^_^"Which one did you DNF, Dawn?
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The Word for World is Forest is my only vote so far. 😳
Could we please keep The City & the City in the top 6? It's the only book up there that I haven't read.
I am in favor of The City and the City staying up there too. It’s the only one Mum planning on reading that is in contention.
I want City of Bones because it's in my TBR pile but so is The Bear and the Nightingale which I have a hard time approaching for some reason (maybe because I've read some bad adaptations of Russian fairy tales?)
CBRetriever wrote: "I want City of Bones because it's in my TBR pile but so is The Bear and the Nightingale which I have a hard time approaching for some reason (maybe because I've read s..."I want to read those two as well. City of Bones was soooo close in the last round of voting, only slipping out of the top 6 towards the end.
Voted. I noticed The Left Hand of Darkness is number one in the running. If that one is chosen I'm really eager to dig into it! I've never read anything written by Ursula K. Le Guin.
^^' meanwhile the first 8 books are ones I've already read. Some folks for City & City, pretty please!
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Gabi wrote: "^^' meanwhile the first 8 books are ones I've already read. Some folks for City & City, pretty please!"
SAAAAME XD
I've recently read all the others and don't want to re-read any of them XD
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VOTE HERE / Live results in spreadsheet
For the past few years we've gone through a process of voting for and scheduling past reads from the group bookshelf and reading them as a side group. This is intended to work in conjunction with the group Read All the Books! challenge. It is not necessary to join the challenge to participate in this process.
We'll be voting and scheduling for three months at a time. We'll be scheduling two reads per month based on member votes.
1. Voting will take place in
-> November for January-March
-> February for April-June
-> May for July-September
-> August for October-December
2. Schedule will be posted by the end of the voting month
3. Books that have been read by the group (main or reread) in the 24 months prior to the scheduled period will not be eligible, and will not be listed on the form
The only thing you'll need is a gmail login. You'll be able to change and update your votes at any point during the voting process. Books will be listed as title, author, page count.
For all books on the group shelf, see the links at the bottom of Current Events.