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I read 10 books in January and earned 47 pts.
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First World Reader Problems :)
next round of cleanup probably means catching up on GR ratings/reviews... maybe tomorrow... already been fiddling around for nearly 3hrs...
Timelord Iain wrote: "Did a bit of thread maintenance this morning, and if anything, I'm starting to worry about how empty my TBR backlog is becoming... means I'm going to have to work harder to find new things to read...."First World FAST reader problem! xD
Iain, I'm here for ya buddy. I have SO MANY BOOKS to throw at you. LOL
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Yea... I wasn't counting all your recommendations... those are high on my list of things to check out once I'm all caught up... already got Cradle and Feedback Loop (and Odyssey One) on my horizon...
Em Lost In Books wrote: "I read 10 books in January and earned 47 pts."Great job, Manu and everyone!!
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My first 200-page reading day...💪💪💪💪 and I am two books ahead of my GR challenge, thanks to speedreading Harry Potter books...*toots horm*
Sorry! Don't do it often and immediately feel abashed/urge to apo.
Zaara wrote: "My first 200-page reading day...💪💪💪💪 and I am two books ahead of my GR challenge, thanks to speedreading Harry Potter books...*toots horm*
Sorry! Don't do it often and immediately feel abashed/urg..."
Don't be sorry, you're doing great! Also you're earning points for our team, so why shouldn't you share it? :)
Zaara wrote: "My first 200-page reading day...💪💪💪💪 and I am two books ahead of my GR challenge, thanks to speedreading Harry Potter books...*toots horm*
Sorry! Don't do it often and immediately feel abashed/urg..."
Well done Zaara!!!! And like Anni said don't be sorry for sharing. Seeing these kind of updates helps motivate me into actually reading instead of just looking guiltily at my books like I was through most of January :-)
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*toots horm*
Sorry! Don't do it often and immediately feel abashed/urg..."
urge to apo looks alot like urge to poo
Sir Anni wrote: "Don't be sorry, you're doing great! Also you're earning points for our team, so why shouldn't you share it? :) "Hailee wrote: "Well done Zaara!!!! And like Anni said don't be sorry for sharing. Seeing these kind of updates helps motivate me into actually reading instead of just looking guiltily at my books like I was through most of January :-) "
Thanks for the kindness and siscouragement, phenomenal women and more power to your solo reading plans and BRs too...❤️
Timelord Iain wrote: "urge to apo looks alot like urge to poo"
Laydieez and Gentlemen...my brother the Murderbot and Our Long Hoary History of Font-ic Emboldenment and Slightly Beyond The Pale Humour which consists mainly of me being unaware of suaveness/euphemisms/language use/social protocol and him trying to gently educate me but then giving up and contributing...😂
But nowadays I have improved alot...💪💪 and *smh* if not for his charitable nature and gentle hints by now everyone would think I were a crazed charlatan or soemthing...
NB: I didn't originally come up with the menstruation joke tho...but I just rolled with it once it was there...
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M sorry... apologies to everyone, esp ppl I am doing "duos" buddy reads with. How can I not be thinking of y'all??I'm part of a volunteer chaingang now for several days we'reve been working flat out packing facemasks, gloves, hand sanitizers, no contact thermometers and other randomly weird assorted supplies kits to corona-affected zones... reckon I get a couple hours sleep each night? as if I fall into bed like a stome for these last few days... as even shops in S'pore and the like have run out of standard medical stocks for quite some days noe. How are Jenna and Silvana? Thought of you....
Meanwhile my parents w/are rampaging across the countryside and tearin' up the rural roots (#supercringe 😂😂😂) I'm HAD TO spend the only remaining downtimeslot with them... and I messed up with (spilt) some food colouring... so my hands have turned a ghastly bright yellow, which no soap can remove... *rueful face* this would in normal circs be funny...
I'm sure y'all understood this break was out of my control...lots of ❤️ from the supergross jaundicehands 👐 nonposting siscourator who DID NOT flake out of any of the BRs and is still reading all of them, but very slowly. I promise I'll eventually earn all them points, team. I'm still reading, just superbehind on posting.
Thats definitely amazing and worthwhile work Zaara and should definitely take priority. But I hope you take some time to catch up on some sleep as well, the last thing you need is to run yourself down to fumes and compromise your own health. Have to laugh at your poor yellow hands but I suppose it could be worse. The food colouring could have been red. You'd be getting nervous sideways glances from strangers then 🤣
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Great volunteerism, Zaara...
Finally caught up on my GR ratings/reviews, myself (November 2018 thru to today)... great to have some accurate GR stats, for once... took forever to complete, tho... I had some real humdinger days, where I read 4-6 shorter books, instead of a big tome...
Gonna do another monthly summary again, in a few days...
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I'm part of a volunteer chaingang now for several days we'reve been working flat ..."
It's good to hear how you're helping people out Zaara <3
I'm self-quarantining at home right now. I just finished my first week off of work. So far, we know we have one more week off, but I don't know about after that yet. We've been told to stay home, but if it's necessary to go out, we have to wear masks and document any time we are in a place with more than 5 people gathered.
Nice going Zaara on the volunteering! Try to get some rest though, hon. Don't let your health suffer!Wow Jenna, Korea's level of quarantine is so much stricter than Japan's response, which is... not really doing much besides causing chaos.
Although the public schools in Japan are closing, I work at a private academy, so Monday looks to be business as normal. (Yaaaaay, capitalism.) Goodness, I wonder how many of my kids will show up to school on Monday though. I have no idea how I'll finish our projects, or tests, or do graduation ceremony practice if half my class is gone.
Apparently the stores are all sold out of toilet paper and bread now; the shopping habits of panicked consumers never cease to baffle me.
Hope y'all're staying healthy... and well-stocked in toilet paper. :P
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Wow Jenna, Korea's level of quarantine is so much stricter than Japan's response, which is... ..."
Sad to hear about your academy. Hopefully enough parents complain that it's open. That's what led to the decision of my academy closing down. Here they are making us make up the time off by working two months of Saturdays so I definitely feel sarcastic "yaaaay capitalism." :P
Interesting what is sold out there! Here it's ramen and water that people are stocking up on like crazy.
You guys stay safe. At least your governments are doing something though. It's just now spreading to the US. They're not even screening people who come in from hot zone countries. I'm kind of worried how bad it'll hit us here considering lots of people don't have sick days or good health insurance.
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You stay safe too, Diana. It seemed to have been almost at an end here, and then suddenly, cases shot up in number so you just never know.
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If things get serious, the US is going to be a disaster... I just saw the front page news this morning, that the Trump Admin is claiming the Coronavirus is a hoax perpetrated by the Democrats... and the whistleblower stuff 2 days ago about inadequate protection during overseas training...
Timelord Iain wrote: "Diana Stormblessed wrote: "You guys stay safe. At least your governments are doing something though. It's just now spreading to the US. They're not even screening people who come in from hot zone c..."Yup. We're screwed. Israel is 3 months away from a vaccine, or so they say. Hoping we can hold out, but at the rate it's spreading I'm pretty sure the whole country is going to be infected in under a month.
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The zombie apocalypse has started... I clearly read too much, lol... all we need is another virus to interact with the coronavirus to enact Feed
@Zaara: that's some great vollunteering work you're doing! @Jenna: make sure to take the precoutions they're telling.
@Melissa: I've read that the Japanese schools are closed now? I wonder what it will do to the Olympic Games. I follow evening class to learn the Japanese language and there are a couple of students who normally are going to Japan in a couple of weeks/months. Not sure if they're will leave now.
@Diana: it seems that the US is a bit behind on taking precoutions or maybe they think it's not so serious? I've heard in my country (Blegium) that normlally the malaria vaccin works also against corona.
@Iain: I've read that too and that Trump thinks it's all going to get away in April and it gets warmer...
All are neighbouring countries has infected people and it was a bit strange that we didn't got hit with it, except one. Well, now we've got a second one. The first person is cured. Tomorrow the vacation is over, so I wonder how that will go. I've got an email from the school of my son with some information from the health department and my son, he's 7, is a bit concerned too. Last Tuesday we went to the hairdresser for kids, and I had a litle cold (just a cold, people :D) and I was coughing bad. There was a father with his 2 kids who was eying me very mad. I think everyone is a bit wary.
@Iain- Thanks for reminding me. I need to finish the 3rd Feed book one of these days. Read the first 2 and loved them like 10 years ago, but my library didn't have the 3rd and I never bothered to buy it. I should check again now.@Saar- It isn't that we don't think it'll be serious. The country is just mismanaged.
@Diana: you're right about that.For now, we've got 11 people who are sick, but it can still be more now that the holiday is over.
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I actually read the 4th book, last year... not sure it was worth it... it overlaps the 1st book, and follows the blogger team of the OTHER political party... not as good as the main team from the original trilogy...
Timelord Iain wrote: "Diana Stormblessed wrote: "@Iain- Thanks for reminding me. I need to finish the 3rd Feed book one of these days. Read the first 2 and loved them like 10 years ago, but my library didn't have the 3r..."I didn't even know there was a 4th book! I need to get on finishing this series.
Hi, how is everyone doing? I'm having to self isolate at the moment. I have a really dry cough and the work colleague I spend most of my shifts with had to self isolate due to running a temperature so work sent me home during my shift on Monday and made me ring 111 who said to self isolate as a precaution. Apart from the cough and dry chest though I feel fine. I've suffered worse with colds in the past.
Today place of work announced officially that they were closing from the the end of Friday (although for how long hasn't been mentioned). I work at a university library so I'm very lucky that I will be paid for however long this closure lasts. I realise not everyone is in the same position as I am.
So I better take the opportunity to get some extra reading done I guess.
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Still doing tons of reading tho...
Been doing a Dresden Files re-read, and starting a ton of mystery/thriller series... about out of old TBR books to read... now I'm swamped in the yearly March new releases...
Work is dealing with coronavirus stuff... shortened hours, no more food prep stuff (cafe, samples)
Hey everyone ! I've been missing quite a bit lately, I've been in an awful reading and Goodreads slump. Like I told Iain over the Mystery Book Club, one of my co-worker died at the beginning of the year and stuff was, well, strange and hectic. I was really not in the mood to read and not in the mood to see people read either I guess. I tried to get back to it in February, didn't work. Now with this pandemy end of the world situation I think I can defeat the slump.
I hope everyone is okay. I've got a lot of catching up to do. But I just hope everyone and their loved ones are ok and safe. I'm in France, we are in an isolation / lock down / confinement since yesterday (I did start on Sunday tho), work is closed (I work in a bookshop, it was a stress those last few days with all the customers) (I'm so afraid I might have transmitted the virus to someone, even though I don't suffer from any symptoms so far). Also I live alone and even if I'm used to it by now (only moved in in October but yeah) and like it that way I'm still a bit afraid I will get lonely.
Well enough rambling, sorry about that. I just wanted to check in with you guys, let you know I'm ok. I will know proceed to read all those unread messages (well perhaps not all of them I won't be in confinement long enough for that) :)
I'm glad you're all doing fine! For me work's crazy... I work in stem cell collections and even if Germany gets a lockdown (I think it's still up for debate) I've got an official document saying that I can't work at home or have days off.We're fewer people, due to illness and quarantine, but therefore the work effort has doubled. We have to check 2-3 times with the donors if they are alright and haven't been in a high-risk areas, the collection dates are planned, then dicarded, planed anew or maybe with another type of collection and last but not least we have huge problems to get the products delivered worldwide...
Right now I get up around 5 or 6 am and I'm back around 8 pm... I really hope things will slow down a bit because I'm really tired and get nothing else done right now.
Hey y'all. Just popping here to say goodluck and stay safe with everything's that's going on. These are difficult times, some of us probably never thought we would ever see the beginning and living through a pandemic like this to happen. BUT don't give up. We can do this, we are all in this together! Do whatever you can do to slow down the spread! Yes, even if that means staying home!
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February -- 69 books -- 25 BRs -- 25,409 pages -- 722hrs audio -- 314.8 points
6 short stories, 1 novella, 58 books, 4 tomes, 7 re-reads
3 standalones, 10 new series started, 37 continuations, 11 UTD/Finished, 1 Abandoned, 7 re-reads
36 authors, 37 series, 26 publication years, 11 genres, 9 five star ratings, 3.59 average rating
876 pgs/day, 24.9 hrs/day audio, 10.85 pts/day
I maintained my reading numbers in February, from January, but my ratings took a pretty big nosedive, dropping from 4.0 to 3.6... only abandoned 1 series this month, but no DNFs... the abandon was Tales of the Otori, after suffering through Brilliance of the Moon on Hoopla... nothing about the rest of the series BR made me regret it, when I checked in... I think this might have been a record-setting 2 star rating month for me, with 7 books...
This collection, was a mix of disappointing conclusions, disappointing new releases, and my general masochism in clearing my TBR at all costs... and the 2nd Odyssey One book (the series was pretty satisfying by the end, tho, so this was an anomaly)...
Now, on to the highlights:
This list is heavy on newest releases and standalones...
Locust Job is the newest Daniel Faust UF book, and was great, even tho it ended on a cliffhanger that has me pretty excited for the new book in a few months...
Hollywood Dead is the newest Sandman Slim book, and the series in general has been a pretty impressive bounce-back from the middle trilogy I didn't particularly care for...
Pears and Perils & Second Hand Curses are both standalone Drew Hayes books, an author I'm a pretty big fan of...
Lost Stories was a wrap-up for the Ranger's Apprentice series... I didn't love the last couple RA books, but this anthology was full of great backstory and bridge pieces... this series has a ton of spin-off series now, but I'm going to wait a long while before considering continuing...
Grave Peril is the 3rd book in my Dresden Files re-read, and my love-it in the series... this time I'm reading the short stories in the anthologies, as well... I've liked most of the ones I've read, so far, but really loved the short B is for Bigfoot, the beginning of a trilogy of Bigfoot short stories...
Small Medium: At Large was the 2nd book in the Small Medium trilogy... this was the high point of the trilogy, adding a bunch of great side characters like the Wrestling Wizaard (think Macho Man Randy Savage eating Slim Jims)...
As proof that Odyssey One had it's up and downs, here's Warrior King, the 5th book, on the highlight list, right after the 2nd book was on the low point list... this series is heavy on the combat, but with most characters solified, these are easy books to enjoy... and available on KU R&L...
That's the highs and lows... I've noticed, as my TBR clears, I've been reading less variety of books per month, in favor of pushing with the series I've got a ways to go in, like Hercule Poirot... I continued this into March, but added long re-read with the Dresden Files, and started starting more series, to give myself more thrillers/mysteries to read, and keep a modicum of variety in my reading...
I'm glad everyone is doing fine. Belgium is also in a lockdown, although the governement don't want to call it that. But I still have to work. I work in a hospital and got now a document that I can't work from home, so, it's really hectic, but at the other side it's just an adjustment of life. No more rat race for the moment, I think.
Hello!!How's everyone doing? My country went into lockdown starting yesterday and this will end on April 15. Positive cases in India is still under 1k but it is expected to change soon as people did not self-quarantined themselves and kept roaming outside, spreading the virus to thousands of other people... :(
Em Lost In Books wrote: "Hello!!How's everyone doing? My country went into lockdown starting yesterday and this will end on April 15. Positive cases in India is still under 1k but it is expected to change soon as people ..."
"people did not self-quarantined themselves and kept roaming outside, spreading the virus to thousands of other people... :("
Yup. Every country always have them. I would understand if it's for work obligation and grocery shopping, but my god most of them hangout, clubbing, drinking, spreading it like wildfire.
On reading front, this has been an amazing month. I have read 15 books so far and collected 94 points. Hoping to reach 100.If anyone is looking for a non-fiction to read, give Know My Name: A Memoir a try.
Petrik wrote: "Yup. Every country always have them. I would understand if it's for work obligation and grocery shopping, but my god most of them hangout, clubbing, drinking, spreading it like wildfire ..."Exactly! Even in my neighborhood a couple came back from Dubai and didn't go to check themselves (don't know if they were all cleared at the airport). Someone did a complaint, and police arrived to take them away. guess what after an hour of bickering, they still refused to go but promised to get check themselves. People around them strictly asked them not to come out, things would be delivered to their door step. Sometimes educated people behave worse than then illiterates. :/
At least the govt was quick to respond this time.
You've find those people everywhere. Here, the're were young people having lockdown parties. Well, they are all in the ICU and need respiratory help...
Hi guys yeah idiots are always going to break the rules all we can do is try and stay away from them and report them to authorities if possible.I just added 50.2 points to my score after finishing three large books :-)
Nice going Hailee! I'm glad to hear many of you have been having good reading months. Mine has been rather more along the lines of Anni's with 12 hour days at work, going full speed, dialed up to 11 non-stop. It's been a super-productive month, at least. But yeah... my reading has taken a nose-dive, finishing only three things all month... one of those being a manga, and the other a children's book at that. But now that graduation is over, hopefully things will slow down, and pick up again in April.
Hailee wrote: "I just added 50.2 points to my score after finishin..."Em Lost In Books wrote: "On reading front, this has been an amazing month. I have read 15 books so far and collected 94 points. Hoping to reach 100.
If anyone is looking for a non-fiction to read, give [book:Know My Name:..."
Great job, Manju and Hailee!
@Mel, with all that you have going on...finishing three books is still great...
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Still 30hrs ahead for the year... 2213.6hrs audio for the year, and 91 days x 24 = 2184hrs
Not sure how much longer I can maintain, if my reading keeps dipping, but this stat has been fun, so far...
EDIT: It seems like an audio disparity, since I managed 500 more pages than January, but did 50hrs less audio and 23 less points (because so much of it ended up being my big Dresden Files Re-read)...
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March was the most satisfying month reading wise in a long time. I read 19 books. Lockdown was/is a big help. @Jenna - Schools are open in South Korea?
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@Jenna - Schools are open in South Korea?"
Public schools are not open, but a lot of private academies are. I've been back to work for 3 weeks after 2 and a half weeks off. Schools and some private academies are starting online learning.
Jenna wrote: "Hey team, I've been in a bit of a slump after going back to work a couple of weeks ago. I read 20 books or so while at home, but now, work is crazy busy and I haven't read anything. :("I feel you :( I still have to do a lot of extra hours and when I'm finally home I don't feel like doing anything besides laying down. I hope things will slow down for you soon. Don't pressure youself too bad, luckily books are patient after all :)
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Karishma? Scott? How were your Januarys?