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Jun 10, 2020 11:54AM
I underestimated as well. I read 35-40 books per month, but I signed up for 35, planning to read longer books. So far I only have one book over 1,000 pages planned, though.
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I'll be doing this one for a long book for H
Robyn wrote: "[[ Frankie ]] wrote: "Robyn wrote: "Hi! My names is Robyn and this will be my first Wheel-A-Thon. I am excited to play although I will admit maybe just a bit slightly confused lol. I am sure I will..."I added it to the spreadsheet for you. :)
Robyn wrote: " I'll be doing this one for a long book for H"I'll put this one on the spreadsheet for our first R, for one of the characters. :)
I put it down for the MPG LGBT. Let me know if you want to put it down for a different task. You can only do a task once per person.
The main Wheel-a-thon thread has a collection of team recommendation links:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Laura wrote: "Robyn wrote: " I'll be doing this one for a long book for H"I'll put this one on the spreadsheet for our first R, for one of the characters. :)
I put it down fo..."
Thats actually perfect! Thank you.
I'm actually in the middle of rereading the Twilight books for the first time in 10 years so I can definitely do at least one of the TWILIGHT tags :')I've also queued up a lot of longer books for the summer so I made a pretty conservative estimate for how many books I'll read per month, hopefully I'll have the time and the reading mood to fly through them quickly enough!
Tomorrow evening at 5pm for me! Yay!I am actually going to start with Network Effect (the new Murderbot book) because my library e hold came in at a weird time. I had to check it out before I lost my place in line, and now I have to read it before it gets yanked.
I was hoping our first word would have some N's, but oh well.
It'd better work for some character names...
I really do like wheelathon because it’s a great time to mix things up. Read longer books or reread favorites. And almost any book can fit for a word. I got a few books from the library yesterday and they both fit!
Alysa wrote: "Tomorrow evening at 5pm for me! Yay!I am actually going to start with Network Effect (the new Murderbot book) because my library e hold came in at a weird time. I had to check it ..."
Thank goodness I saw your post, Alysa! I hadn’t checked the countdown clock. I was thinking I would start Saturday. But actually I can start tomorrow 4 pm my time.😀
Riding in on my motorcycle to give you some recommendations from me!:Romance and young adult:
Mystery/thriller/horror:
Nonfiction:
Do we need to post our wheel shelf link? I have had to do that in the past.
We usually do, yeah, though maybe Michelle's been checking everybody's shelves on the downlow.I'll post mine here just in case:
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Alysa wrote: "Tomorrow evening at 5pm for me! Yay!I am actually going to start with Network Effect (the new Murderbot book) because my library e hold came in at a weird time. I had to check it ..."
I’ve been wanting to read that series! I’m recently getting into more science fiction & that’s one I’ve been trying to get to! Maybe I’ll start it for Wheel, since book one is on the short side.
5pm tomorrow for me, too! Getting close!!
I'll drop some recommendations too!Fantasy
Young Adult
Horror/Thriller
True crime
Fiction
Starts at midnight for me so I probably won't get much reading done today but then there's a whole weekend at least!What book is everyone starting with?
Yes, please link your shelves!Just a quick note: I’ve known LaurLa and Michelle through Goodreads for several years. We mod together in another group. Both of them have had their work lives get crazy busy lately. So when I saw we were on the same team, and I had not said yes to co-captain (although I thought I had), I offered to help. I haven’t captained anything at NBRC since Wobble, but I do captain Karen’s Uno challenge every year. So my experience is old, but I do have some. :)
All that to say that sometimes we might be slow to respond, especially on something that needs captain consensus. But we’ll do our best to tilt at all the windmills with you in the best Quixote style!
Laura wrote: "Yes, please link your shelves!Just a quick note: I’ve known LaurLa and Michelle through Goodreads for several years. We mod together in another group. Both of them have had their work lives get c..."
Not a problem, Laura! Here’s my wheel shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
Britta wrote: "Starts at midnight for me so I probably won't get much reading done today but then there's a whole weekend at least!What book is everyone starting with?"
I usually read 2 or 3 books at a time. 😀 I love variety. I’ll start with a book that will work for 2 challenges, Easy Charm and one I have been wanting to read for a while House of Earth and Blood.
So ready!
I usually read 2 or 3 books at a time as well, in the normal course of things -- or even 4 if I'm also in the middle of reading something long to my kid! -- but I actually often read fewer books at a time during challenges. It's like, I'd rather complete one after the next after the next, rather than a bunch of books all finished at the same time. But, we shall see. Current circumstances being strange.I'm going to start with Network Effect effect, like I mentioned, and then probably Blameless (my hold came in this morning, yay!). Then I'll start in on the other books I already put on the spreadsheet.
I've been reading the Harry Potter books aloud to my daughter, and we are going to start #4 soon, which I am excited about. It's been really amazing to see her reactions to these books. Like, whenever Snape does something unfair in potions class, and she is like "WHAT?!" :D
We started a different book last night, something that's just a little too short to have counted for Wheel anyway. If we finish it during the weekend days, we can start HP #4 sometimes next week. :D
I usually have a physical or ebook going and an audiobook. So I’ll start with Dear Aaron and Valentine Between the Sheets: A Reverse Harem Anthology of Stories that Get to the Point.
Alysa wrote: "I usually read 2 or 3 books at a time as well, in the normal course of things -- or even 4 if I'm also in the middle of reading something long to my kid! -- but I actually often read fewer books at..."It great that you are sharing the joy of HP with your daughter!
Laura wrote: "I usually have a physical or ebook going and an audiobook. So I’ll start with Dear Aaron and [book:Valentine Between the Sheets: A Reverse Harem Anthology of Stories that Get to the..."Oh, I recognize a couple of authors in the reverse harem anthology. Let me know what you think of it. I have some reverse harem books I will be reading for the challenge. Book 1 in a variety of series. Trying to find more I like.
Our library had the audiobooks, so my youngest have listened to all 7 HP books during quarantine.
Geri, I will. BUT, all of the Between the Sheets anthologies are only available for a limited time before the authors get the rights to the stories back. I think they are fundraisers. This one was from February 2019, so you probably can’t get your hands on it, and I probably can’t loan it.
How young are your youngest? I'm a bit worried about mine (9 1/2) being old enough for the last 3 HP books, when we get there. I was planning to space them out more, so she'd be like 12 by the time we get to Deathly Hallows, but with quarantine -- and with some of her friends reading them all and starting to do spoilers (THOSE LITTLE BASTARDS!) -- I don't know if that's realistic.
Question:Would y'all consider this cover as having a cityscape (for Task #26)?
I think it does, but it's not ONLY a cityscape because there's also a person in the foreground.
I would consider it a cityscape.My youngest is 10. But the older girls and the movies have spoiled stuff.
I let my girls read Twilight at 12, so that gives you some idea of what/when I consider books appropriate. My 2nd oldest will be 18 in a week. She reads/listens to Ilona Andrews. But she skips the racy parts.
Well I didn’t get picked to write DQ’s for The Jetsetters, but I’ll still be reading & answering BOM’s for points! Crossing my fingers that I can write for Five Feet Apart!
Hello hello from Team Around the World in Eighty Days! Please feel free to come over to our thread and see our book recommendations! Happy reading everyone!
Hi all! Here's my link for the challenge:https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
I'm starting off with The Suicide House by
Charlie Donlea
I'll probably be reading another book simultaneously but haven't got that far into planning yet!
Book Recommendations:Fantasy:
Mystery:
Fiction:
Thriller:
Historical Fiction:
Nonfiction:
Horror:
Young Adult:
Laura wrote: "I usually have a physical or ebook going and an audiobook. So I’ll start with Dear Aaron and..."Ugh. Apparently I never bought the Valentine one, so I'll be starting with Ruined Between the Sheets because it still has the O author.
Laura wrote: "Geri, I will. BUT, all of the Between the Sheets anthologies are only available for a limited time before the authors get the rights to the stories back. I think they are fundraisers. This one was ..."No problem. I’ll look up the authors to see if they have anything else I can read.
And now I will start a book! It was 3 hours between finishing my last before Wheel started. It was rough! :)
Hello team! The words TGIF have never been truer!!! It's been a loong work week, my brain is tired :-( Tomorrow I will try to put together some recommendations. I read Romance/PNR/Rom Suspense almost exclusively so I always feel like what I read isn't 'great literature' but there are some (esp by authors) that I really do want to share. So I'll put me head to it tomorrow.
I think we start in just a few minutes for me, so I'll start with Inconvenient Wife which will work for I, T so a good start! I'll probably follow up this weekend with Rusty Nail and Tempting Fate which is short but I gotta get it read.
Once we finish a book, do we post a completion post here? Or just add the date read to the spreadsheet? Or both?
Happy start of Wheelathon! :)It's late but I think I'll get started on my first book before bed.
Unless Michelle says otherwise, post a completion here.
Carrie wrote: "Book Recommendations:Fantasy:
Mystery:
..."These are some great recs, Carrie! Thank you!
Alysa wrote: "Oooh Carrie, I LOVE The Library at Mount Char!"Me too!!! It seems people either love it or hate it with little room in the middle but I thought it was so original and an absolute page turner (although in the beginning I had absolutely no idea what was going on!).
[[ Frankie ]] wrote: "Carrie wrote: "Book Recommendations:Fantasy:
Mystery:
[bookcover:The Broken G..."
You're welcome!~ So hard to narrow it down to a few favorites:)
Some Recommendations from meFantasy:
Retellings:
Will add more later
[[ Frankie ]] wrote: "Has anyone read The Library of the Unwritten?
"Not yet, but I want to. I remember almost voting for it in BOMs during the last TT, but then switching to Ninth House for strategic purposes, lol.
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