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The Penric & Desdemona Binge Read that me and Yanique setup earlier today... all to be read in February, to go with the Short Month, Short Books, Monthly challenge...
I did it to myself too, tho... I still have 20 other BRs in February...
Guys, look up the Drone Light Show for Chinese New Year 2023 in Busan & Seoul. Really cool!
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Just pre-ordered my copy... releases April 25th... pretty much right when I guessed it would, when I heard it was recording this month... I think it's not the first to release at this time, in the last few years...
https://www.audible.com/pd/Tears-of-L...
About to double-post this over in the Wandering Inn thread...
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Since like Saturday, I've only finished like 1 book (Judgement in Death) and 1 very short story (Mother of the Year)... I tried those other books I listed the other day, and didn't finish them...
It'll all even out when I finish stuff... I have 5hrs left on Deadhouse Gates at 2x speed (so I've read 24 of 34hr audiobook)... and 6hrs left on Empire of Silence at 2.7x speed (so I've read 10 of 26hr audiobook)...
I feel like this is going to be a year of tomes for me, at least on the new book front... between Malazan, Sun Eater, unread Wandering Inn audiobooks... I'm look at at least about 20+ tomes this year... and plenty of other books are close to counting, like the Children of Time books...
Timelord Iain wrote: "I've really upped my game... tempting Emily with 11 Buddy Reads simultaneously :D >:DThe Penric & Desdemona Binge Read that me and Yanique setup earlier today... all to be read in February, to go..."
These buddy reads are out of control! xD
Timelord Iain wrote: "I've really upped my game... tempting Emily with 11 Buddy Reads simultaneously :D >:DThe Penric & Desdemona Binge Read that me and Yanique setup earlier today... all to be read in February, to go..."
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Good work, BR instigator!
Timelord Iain wrote: "I've really upped my game... tempting Emily with 11 Buddy Reads simultaneously :D >:DThe Penric & Desdemona Binge Read that me and Yanique setup earlier today... all to be read in February, to go..."
When did this happen and why was I not invited?
Soo wrote: "Guys, look up the Drone Light Show for Chinese New Year 2023 in Busan & Seoul. Really cool!"Ooh, I just looked it up. Very cool! I watched this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhh57...
Timelord Iain wrote: "The Wandering Inn: Book 9 - Tears of Liscor is up for pre-order on Audible... it's not been correctly linked to the Wandering Inn series, yet... but I found it with a google search ..."THANK YOU!!!!
Is this Vol 5.3 or 6.1?
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The Penric & Desdemona Binge Read that me and Yanique setup earlier today... all to be r..."
It came together fast in the February challenge thread... I tempted Emily, just by having the Penric thread appear in notifications, and she popped in and was like DAMN YOU, IAIN... :D
Timelord Iain wrote: "I tempted Emily, just by having the Penric thread appear in notifications, and she popped in and was like DAMN YOU, IAIN... :D..."That... is an ongoing theme, I feel. XD
One day
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shall be the tempter!
Soo wrote: "Guys, look up the Drone Light Show for Chinese New Year 2023 in Busan & Seoul. Really cool!"Marking this to watch when I'm not at work! :D
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shall be the tempter!"
Good luck... the reason me & Soo are the tempters, is because we read so much, and we've already read alot of the best known stuff that we've recommended you guys to read... so we have to "prospect for gold" to find the next great book/series out there :D
Gotta find the buried gold. =D 
We can all count on you to do this very hard and laborious work for all of us:)))
It is much appreciated! :D
Guys! Look at this fun artwork that Pirateaba commissioned for the Beware of Chicken author! =DThere's some good artwork done for Beware of Chicken. =D
But I gotta say this is prob my fav collaborative done since it has Wandering Inn & Beware of Chicken.
Oooooo so cute!
Adorable!!! Has anyone tried the Beware of Chicken serial?
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Is there audio for it? If yes, I would be interested:)))
Hey @Iain. When we’re we planning g on reading Desert Star by Michael Connelly? I know we had talked about it but wasn’t sure if/when that was still happening??
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EDIT: I just read the blurb and (view spoiler)
I've talked before (incessently) about how I'm not a fan of Chong-Ra... but this book sounds like it takes the series into guaranteed SF/Fantasy territory, and not just hinting at it... maybe that'll make the Chong-Ra more palatable?...
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There is... audio for Volume 2 comes out late March... sounds like the webnovel is only on Volume 3, chapter 58, on Royal Road, so we'd be mostly caught up on the story, if we waited for that to release, and then read both of those... it's "only" 2300 pages and counting... unlike Wandering Inn, which is like 33k-37k pages and counting, based on being over 10,000,000 words...
Wow! I guess we can wait for the third one to come out on audible and try it out:)))
Beware of Chicken: A Xianxia Cultivation Novel #1 was fun. A light, Xianxia read. Travis Baldree is the narrator. He did a good job. =DI'm reading Vol3 on Royal Road now. That's how I'm seeing the art posts via author notes/etc. It's not bad. There's a lot of the author in the character design & that's been interesting to sorta piece together. We do write what we know, etc.
The Cabinet of Dr. Leng - Plan to listen to this soon-ish. I didn't even read the book blurb. Just looked up series I'm reading or authors on Audible & grabbed the next to on list. XD
Will post thoughts after I listen to it.
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The books are littered with interesting characters and mysteries... I liked the last one I read, with the new forced FBI partner Coldmoon...
What do you think of the new narrator, Jefferson Mays?... the series has had like a half-dozen narrators, but Rene Auberjonois did books 8-18, and kinda became the voice of Pendergast for me... I knew they were going to have to get a new narrator since he passed, tho... I don't even remember what the earlier narrators sounded like, at this point...
Has anyone read The Fireman by Joe Hill? Just got it cheap on Chirp. Haven’t read anything by him before
Brian wrote: "Has anyone read The Fireman by Joe Hill? Just got it cheap on Chirp. Haven’t read anything by him before"That's a good one. You'll enjoy it. Hill has his own blend of pop culture/horror blend that works well. He doesn't make characters are well layered as his dad, Stephen King, but it's pretty good.
What is Chirp?
ETA: Read my review for the book. Overall, enjoyed it. Pacing is uneven, but I got over that with the audiobook. It was a mix of listening & reading ebook for me. =D
Timelord Iain wrote: "Pendergast is one of your binge series from a few years ago that I picked up, even tho I have myriad problems with Pendergast, I can't seem to help reading the books :DThe books are littered with..."
The narrator voices are different & are good narrators. So, the changes don't bother me that much. I think there are some aspects that seem a bit annoying, but I think that's due to some of the female voices/etc.
The authors for Pendergast have lots of interests & enjoy researching all sorts of topics. Lots of history, myths, fables, etc are woven together in all of their books, but it only works in Pendergast. I've audiobooked a bunch of their books, co-authored ones & solo, and they are not good at blending the fantastical with the mundane in a solid plot. XD
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That's a good one. You'll enjoy it. Hill has his own blend of pop culture/ho..."
www.chirpbooks.com/
Sign up for free and list your genre interests, and it customizes your home screen to show audiobook deals that you might like... constantly rotating sequence of books for only a few dollars... more and more people around here have accounts... I made one the other day... another source of cheap reading... no subscription required, and they treat authors better than Amazon/Audible, which is getting flack for predatory profit sharing...
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Only other book I've read, was a Lincoln Child book about an amusement park gone awry, 20+ years ago... there was a Dr. in it named Dr. Pepper...
Chirp looks interesting. What's the audio format? Locked MP3? Website needs a bit of help/refresher. The sale prices are nice, but it'll be not as handy to have books in more than one app for series.
Will have to download app & check it out. See what listening speeds/etc.
Beware of Chicken - Vol3 is currently being written. I don't think the audiobook for it will be out until end of year or later. The author writes a bit slower than Pirateaba. I was amused to read that the story idea was initially meant to be a Harem story, a Viking cultivation deal and some other stuff. But it turned into a light Xianxia, slice of life tale instead. It's pretty cozy.
Beware of Chicken Rec: Vol1 can be read/listened to as a standalone. It stops at a decent point. Vol2 is more like half of a story arc. So you will want Vol3 out if you enjoy the series & want to keep going without a break.
I'm reading Vol3 on RR right now. It'll suck when I get caught up to the latest release. That'll be soon. Then I have to write a note on the book review & forget about it for like a year. xD
Trying to decide if I want to start listening to the "new" WI audiobooks or start from the beginning & listen to the end of the latest additions. Then go back to reading Vol8 on website. XD
On Chirp App, you can up/down speed by 0.1x increments when you have the book playing--it has a +/- buttonOMG That's an adorable WI art! I'm trying to figure out who everyone is... So far, just... (view spoiler)
That is WI right? I feel like there's so many I can't guess...
Nirkatze, yah! It's fanart that was commissioned for WI. =D I'm gonna bet it's on the WI Wiki with the info of who everyone is! I'll put my guesses in spoiler below.
My info for the series is a bit rusty but your guesses should be right.
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Soo wrote: "Trying to decide if I want to start listening to the "new" WI audiobooks or start from the beginning & listen to the end of the latest additions. Then go back to reading Vol8 on website. XD"
Hmmm my guesses are
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I'm gonna bet it's on the WI Wiki with the info of who everyone is! I'll put my guesses in spoiler below.
My info for the series is a ..."
Mostly know this by spoilers and wiki visits...
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Trying to decide if I want to start listening to the "new" WI audiobooks or start from the beginning & listen to the end of the latest additions. Then go back to reading Vol8 on websi..."
Going with my gut, before reading Soo's guesses, I said the same thing about #1, and totally agree about #5, given the fanart I showed in the WI thread...
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Timelord Iain wrote: "Wiki fanart page confirms combination of answers is correct... Soo made me wronger than I would have been alone :D[spoilers removed]"
oooh! I got a lot of them :D
I got 3 wrong. I disagree on #1~ That looks like a dude! XDAlso, I never think of Pisces as looking like that. Though it made sense after I read Emily's guesses.
Naaahhhh shes got elf ears! XD
Tonari no Emily wrote: "Naaahhhh shes got elf ears! XD"Ooh, I see the ears! I was thinking maybe the same as Emily for 0 & 1 but what is up with #1 looking like he is maybe missing an eye??? Why is #4 on fire? Very fun teaser for future episodes...
#1 looks more evil than he is. lol I don't think he's evil. #4 must be when E is fired up with a new project or "fun". XD
It's not too much of a teaser. All of these characters are already out by Vol2.
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