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Timelord Iain wrote: "At work this morning, I was like "I'm gonna go home and do 200 book ratings/reviews today"... after 30 minutes and the month of February, I was like "I'm gonna do one month of book ratings/reviews ..."Haha, not to mention its more fresh in your mind... I feel like if I put too many books in between another book, I won't remember much about it but fleeting impressions...
Started The Heretic Royal! I love this series... It's so ridiculous and fun. There aren't too many different character archetypes, but I don't even care xD
Girl, this is why I love GA Aiken's world! It is all over the top ridiculous and fun, and I can't get enough of it!!! Iain, hahaha! I soooo get it! I am two weeks behind on my work paperwork and I feel completely overwhelmed even thinking about tackling it... I was doing so good doing it every end of the day for a while, but the holidays and now I don't even want to get close to the computer... I get it! Good luck:)
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Junkie is the term for the zombies in this anthology... I'm surprised how much worldbuilding and plot is being fit into this short story collection... it's 4 short stories... but they're all connected... it's really more like 4 connected chapters...
It starts with (view spoiler)
That's pretty much a story summary of the little book (first 66%)... not your usual vague spoilers...
Great summary:) Obviously, not something I would be interested in reading... For once you are not getting me to add it to my TBR:)))
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This little anthology thing is interesting... I paused for awhile, and am back at it, and just finishing the 3rd section... packed with surprises... (view spoiler)
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My problem with short stories is always that they're too short, and don't give enough answers...
I'm with you there about short stories. They normally aren't long enough to be satisfying. There are always exceptions though.
Whew! I caught up on all my outstanding reviews for 2022 :DHappy New Year everyone!!
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Happy New Year everyone!!"
Grats... I have alot left to do... I added ratings to the 2022 spreadsheet yesterday, for all books from February to June... next up, I need to do all that on Goodreads... probably do that tomorrow...
Then, I still need to break up July to October into what I read each month, and toss ratings on, then add that to GR as well... then I need to record November/December somewhere in the first place... so much work...
At least the Competition Spreadsheet is live, and off my to-do list...
Great job catching up! Happy New Year, everyone ❤️
Happy new year!! <3
Happy New Year!!!!🎊🎆 hope everyone has lots of fun tonight and a great 2023
Had a nice book haul yesterday to start the year off. Got me the entire First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie, Scythe Trilogy, and I found a hard cover version of Robert Jordan's New Spring with the original cover to finally start my much wanted WoT collection.
That is a nice book haul! Happy New Year!!
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Nice Greatest Hits Collection there... all those books are awesome...
Julian wrote: "Had a nice book haul yesterday to start the year off. Got me the entire First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie, Scythe Trilogy, and I found a hard cover version of Robert Jordan's New Spring with the..."I still have the Arc of the Scythe to read and missed Choko's BR last year. Let me know if you want to give it a go sometime this year :)
I might try a re-read on Scyth as well. Read the first two a couple years ago and didn’t finish
Very nice haul! I have all but one of the WoT with physical hardbacks... I'm missing #4 because when I bought it the first time, it was a smaller hardback size and I just still haven't found one of the original published ones.. Although I really haven't looked hard since finishing them to be fair...
Finished The Heretic Royal today! Wasn't as good as the first two IMO, but still enjoyed it nonetheless. Agree with you Iain about Beatrix (view spoiler)For some reason I was mixing up Ainsly and Anwyll in my head so some things got a bit confusing there when I kept forgetting who's who... It's funny how each book has the one big sex scene with the center sister's love interest (view spoiler)
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For some reason I was ..."
Like I said... (view spoiler)
In her early years, Laurenston/Aiken wrote like 50-75% sex scenes, it seemed like... now it's like 1-10% max... rest is hilarious story... Annwyl would probably be more memorable if you'd read the Dragon Kin series... she's the star of Dragon Actually, same with alot of the dragon humor... Briech, the one with the beautiful golden hair that found Ainsley in the tree, etc... they all have books... and there's a long plotline with the Blind God & the half-dragon kids of Annwyl and half the Southlands...
I'm not sure if Isadora will (view spoiler)
Timelord Iain wrote: "Tonari no Emily wrote: "Finished The Heretic Royal today! Wasn't as good as the first two IMO, but still enjoyed it nonetheless. Agree with you Iain about Beatrix [spoilers removed]..."Isadora (view spoiler)
I'll get Dragon Actually, eventually! January is just probably not the best time given the packed BR schedule....
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Very few authors commit to queer relationships in otherwise hetero series... it drives me crazy... I'm not saying I prefer queer relationships over hetero, or anything... but if an author sets up a relationship on a slow-burn for a half dozen books, then does a 180 at the last second, it pisses me off a bit...
The worst offender, in my eyes, is Rachel and Ivy in the first 6 Hollows books... I can't remember how well the Blaylock plotline was handled in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series, because the series pissed me off eventually, for myriad other reasons...
I know the Halle Pack series had some M/M shifter relationships, especially in the companion Poconos Pack series, and a 3rd series I think...
For the longest time, it seemed like Nalini Singh was avoiding Aodhan & Illium in the Guild Hunter series, but it seems she finally committed recently in Archangel's Light, book 14 of the series...
@Iain - I got really lucky in that I found the complete set at the bookstore I go to. @Narilka - I read the first book in the Scythe trilogy a few weeks ago and am planning on doing book 2 probably after I finish John Gwynne's Blood and Bones series.
@Emily - I've been wanting a complete set of the wheel of time series for forever now but always held off since I own it in both ebook and audiobook format. Hoping to get all the books in hardcover eventually with the original covers rather than the new ones
@Julian - Ok. I'll add Scythe #1 to my January read list.I decided to start The Wizard's Butler on audio today. I'm only a half hour in and enjoying it already. Thanks for the rec Iain :)
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I decided to start The Wizard's Butler on audio today. I'm only a half hour in and enjoying it already. Thanks for the rec..."
That's great to hear... my reading is / is going to be all over the place, I think... I've signed up for so many BRs, I need to jumbled them around a bit, to make sure I'm reading the things that catch my fancy / mood, as much as possible (or I'll inevitably have to bow out of some stuff, if they're not gripping me / interesting me... we'll see)...
Timelord Iain wrote: "Tonari no Emily wrote: "Timelord Iain wrote: "Tonari no Emily wrote: "Finished The Heretic Royal today! Wasn't as good as the first two IMO, but still enjoyed it nonetheless. Agree ..."Havent really had that happen to me, but yeah that would piss me off too! And its not that id prefer one or the other, but i do appreciate a bit of a mix since not everyone is straight, y'know?
Havent read any of the series you mentioned besides the first Black Dagger and that one was just not for me
Yeah im inevitably gonna drop a few BRs but while I feel like it I'll try my best! Gonna need to add in a mood read or two in January though...
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There was a time when I read alot of PNR and Romances, after UF started drying up... BDB was never my favorite, either... but I toughed it out for awhile... twice, actually... I gave it a second shot... but I gave up, eventually, around book 9 (back when I would binge read stuff without raking long breaks between books... binge until you lose interest, rinse, repeat...)...
Same here... I read a lot of that when it was first coming out... I am sure I would have much less patience for any of it nowadays...
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The fact Amber & Grimm are so short should help... hopefully you don't bow out of the series I setup as Vagabond reads :D
No pressure...
Man, I was just watching the game, Buffalo and Cincinnati, and this player made a tackle, got up, and then just fell... They had to get an ambulance on the field, did CPR, and carted him off... It was shocking! Now it is not certain that the game will continue... This is something...
Me too... I really hope he gets better!!!
Timelord Iain wrote: "Tonari no Emily wrote: "Yeah im inevitably gonna drop a few BRs but while I feel like it I'll try my best! Gonna need to add in a mood read or two in January though..."The fact Amber & Grimm are ..."
Laundry files and Heartstrikers? Were there any others? Those were the ones I'm most excited about... If anything I'd bow out of Amber and Grimm (even if they're the shorties xD) okay and maybe In Death, but I'm going as long as I can lol
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Laundry Files and Heartstrikers are the ones I wanted you guys to read... YOU started a Vagabond October Daye series BR... and Empire of Silence is technically a Vagabond thread, but only for the people that bought way too many of the books on sale, back in August...
Choko wrote: "Man, I was just watching the game, Buffalo and Cincinnati, and this player made a tackle, got up, and then just fell... They had to get an ambulance on the field, did CPR, and carted him off... It ..."My husband interrupted my reading about this last night. Hope the player is ok and they figure out what happened.
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Yikes, all of these folk getting hurt... >.<
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I'd call it another half-mod job :D
And I'm not really doing anything over there I didn't already do... mostly sharing my vast knowledge/spreadsheet of New Release data each year, and making a couple monthly new release threads... shouldn't be too bad... (talking about GG&G: Girls, Guns, & Grimoires)
Oh goodness, yeah my coworker was talking about the player today. I'm glad Renner had neighbor who could handle that!
Timelord Iain wrote: "Tonari no Emily wrote: "Timelord Iain wrote: "Tonari no Emily wrote: "Yeah im inevitably gonna drop a few BRs but while I feel like it I'll try my best! Gonna need to add in a mood read or two in J..."LOL yes I did... I suppose that counts as a Vagabond BR xD
I knew I was forgetting one other one!
Tonari no Emily wrote: "Timelord Iain wrote: "Tonari no Emily wrote: "Timelord Iain wrote: "Tonari no Emily wrote: "Yeah im inevitably gonna drop a few BRs but while I feel like it I'll try my best! Gonna need to add in a..."I'm just really hoping I'll be able to keep up with them all... I don't want to drop any!
The Wizard's Butler I'm around 20% in and loving this. (view spoiler) I am starting to understand everyone's comments from last year now :)
Narilka wrote: "The Wizard's Butler I'm around 20% in and loving this. [spoilers removed] I am starting to understand everyone's comments from last year now :)"I was a little surprised it took him so long to do so--it never hurts to humor the local superstitions, right?
Glad you're jumping in Narilka!
Narilka, it is surprising for such a slow story, how much all of us enjoyed it! Glad you are too:))Iain, you make an amazing Mod!!! We are all lucky to have you!
Wheee! Jumping in on the The Heretic Royal bus! A little late but not too late right?This one is... Ainsley? Already forgot who she is. Archer? Bookish? I should probably go read some summaries of the first two. I just remember people screaming "WAR MONK!" and sister #2 doing some fun crazy necromancyish things.
Oh yeah, and weren't there like, a million jokes about Ainsley still being six, and wait, was she in the room? Did she leave? Nah, she never came in the first place, right?
Heretic Royal--opening. Was that a dragon? That was a dragon! Yay Dragons!!!!Also loving that Gruff is the clan "grudge holder." Heh.
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This one is... Ainsley? Already forgot who she is. Archer? Bookish? I should probably go read ..."
Yea, Ainsley is the one everyone forgets... she hides in trees and knows archery...
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