MODs - Please Adjust our Buddy Read Thread

[Nirkatze]

Thank you!

[Nirkatze]

Great and Powerful Mods,

Due to an overenthusiastic BR scheduling in February, Felina, Iain, and I have decided to postpone our Lost Things BRs to June-July (from Feb-March). Would you be so kind as to edit the threads? Iain is already taking care of the Spreadsheet Magic.

The Book of Lost Things (Feb 10 --> June 10)
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

The Land of Lost Things (March 10 --> July 10)
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I most humbly beg your pardon for the additional annoyance. Please don't shoot the messenger, my tentacles don't like it.

[Nirkatze]

Gah, just noticed I made a typo in my last request--How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories--I left of the "l" in "Elfhame"...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

@Yanique: I/we need to move the Buddy Read for A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping from April 9th to September 17th...

The release has been delayed... I've known since December, but was waiting until the BR was closer to reschedule, to make sure it didn't move again... I'm filling in my spreadsheet for April, and was reminded...

Thread Link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Looks like another normal day/fun day, for Yanique?

Based on my notifications, I assume Animorphs 25-28 was deleted by Goodreads... new threads jump from 21-24 to 29-32, and I made the requests in order...

[Yanique, Thread Master]

Yup. GR really didn’t like that middle one. It’s acting up as usual.

[Yanique, Thread Master]

Timelord Iain wrote: "@Yanique: I/we need to move the Buddy Read for A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping from April 9th to September 17th...

The release has been delayed... I've known since December,..."

Done.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Another edit... I'm taking some of the brunt off of Nirkatze, for once :D

We delayed the Buddy Read of Frances White's Voyage of the Damned, when we learned it was a UK release with no news on wider release, but as we've given more time for people to order the book internationally, we're now ready to reschedule it.

I've edited the thread title already (a few times, since it was TBD for awhile), but we need to change the date in the first comment from February 24th, 2024 to April 24th, 2024, to avoid any confusion:

Thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Yanique, Thread Master]

Timelord Iain wrote: "Another edit... I'm taking some of the brunt off of Nirkatze, for once :D

We delayed the Buddy Read of Frances White's Voyage of the Damned, when we learned it was a UK release with no news on wid..."

Done.

[Nirkatze]

Aww, thanks y'all... I'm still moving somewhat slowly this week.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Aftermarket Afterlife by Seanan McGuire should be starting on March 12, not May 12

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Yanique, Thread Master]

Timelord Iain wrote: "Aftermarket Afterlife by Seanan McGuire should be starting on March 12, not May 12

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/..."

Fixed

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Thank you

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Was brief earlier, laying down with a toe injury flare-up the past 48hrs... mostly responded using mouse and copy/paste... slowly feeling better and able to walk on it again...

That was a weird thread fix... must have had May on the brain... it was requested for March, and appeared in your March BR list threads in Random Chatter / Invites, but when the thread was made you wrote May both times... didn't even noticed until RachelG mentioned it in thread :D

[Yanique, Thread Master]

Timelord Iain wrote: "Was brief earlier, laying down with a toe injury flare-up the past 48hrs... mostly responded using mouse and copy/paste... slowly feeling better and able to walk on it again...

That was a weird th..."

Make sure let it recover fully before you try to do too much.
I don't know where May came from, but at least I'm consistent...

[Nyssa]

Please unretire the Spy X Family Series thread. We are still reading the series.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Nyssa wrote: "Please unretire the Spy X Family Series thread. We are still reading the series."

We've discussed this a few times, how foldering is handled... all threads go to retired 2-4 weeks after the start date, if they're in the Current/Upcoming Buddy Reads folders and not the Book Club folder, basically...

Archiving doesn't lock comments, and folder isn't visible when comments happen and pop up in notifications, so it doesn't affect much...

A few weeks ago, I started updating the thread title to the current Volume / date, to make it clear to people that it's still an active BR and not a lingering one from January (similar to In Death & Stephanie Plum threads)...

[Nirkatze]

Can the SPYxFAMILY thread be treated like the In Death & Stephanie Plum threads? It's essentially the same type of thing. How do we make that happen?

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I just moved it to Book Clubs!... just need to remember to archive it again later, when over...

[Nirkatze]

Thank you!

[Nirkatze]

Hi Mods! I'm putting in a spat of requests now and as normal I'm already making mistakes... Accidentally put Age of Legend (Legends of the First Empire #4) in July instead of August. Will try to do better.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

The errors pile up when you're tired or doing alot of requests...

I went through a few weeks ago, and fixed some, where you put the book link and requester names in the wrong spots on the form...

Fixed Age of Legend

[Nirkatze]

Thank you!! I try to stop and check each thing before I submit, but yeah... tired and repetitions are the ingredients for error.

[Nirkatze]

Hi Mods!

Reign has been postponed--again... Could our BR for it please be put in limbo for now?

thank you!

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I made a new Archive [Limbo] folder for tracking Buddy Reads that have been changed to Limbo/TBD, that way we (and readers/schedulers) can easily find / refresh their memory of Buddy Reads that have been put on hold until they release / etc... if that had existed last month, I'd have put Voyage of the Damned there... and a few other threads this past year...

[Nirkatze]

That's a great idea! thank you.

[Jenna, I'd be free if not for Temper & Edgewalker]

Thanks Iain!

[Yanique, Thread Master]

This Warhammer series was a mess... Those are not all a part of the same series according to how they are listed on Goodreads, and I had to go to the GR page for each book to find the ISBN because they haven't been entered properly on GR.
Where do you even find these books/authors?

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Yanique wrote: "This Warhammer series was a mess... Those are not all a part of the same series according to how they are listed on Goodreads, and I had to go to the GR page for each book to find the ISBN because ..."

Warhammer IS a mess :D

Elizabeth started this Buddy Read in January, with Xenos (I renamed the threads to fit with this multi-series thing we're doing)... it's technically 3 series, about Inquisitors Eisenhorn, Ravenor, and Bequin, but they all tie together because Ravenor was trained by Eisenhorn and Bequin was either an ally or a clone/child of another Inquisitor Bequin from the Eisenhorn trilogy that ended up in a coma... the series spans 300 years in the far future, where people clearly live longer...

At least this series is all one author... most other series are handled by a half-dozen authors and clearly guided by the owners of the Warhammer 40k property... Horus Heresy just ended after 63 books across 2-3 series name changes...

Elizabeth got us on this because it was a book club book, nominated by her boyfriend... so blame him :D

We're only really planning to complete out the Inquisition chunk here as BRs... the larger Warhammer Expanded Universe is like 600+ books... multiple new ones release each month... they've only been releasing content for about 20-25 years and have 600 books already, probably more..

[Yanique, Thread Master]

600 books....🙃

[Chris]

Yanique wrote: "600 books....🙃"

Might take Iain until the end of the week....

[Jenna, I'd be free if not for Temper & Edgewalker]

Chris wrote: "Yanique wrote: "600 books....🙃"

Might take Iain until the end of the week...."

Let's be honest, he could power through it in four sleepless days if we made it into a competition 😉🤣

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Jenna wrote: "Chris wrote: "Yanique wrote: "600 books....🙃"

Might take Iain until the end of the week...."

Let's be honest, he could power through it in four sleepless days if we made it into a competition 😉🤣"

No one said I could only listen to one book at a time... just need to buy 600 MP3 players...

[Felina]

O_o

[Yanique, Thread Master]

Timelord Iain wrote: "Jenna wrote: "Chris wrote: "Yanique wrote: "600 books....🙃"

Might take Iain until the end of the week...."

Let's be honest, he could power through it in four sleepless days if we made it into a c..."

I'm just imagining the sound of 600 audiobooks going at 3X speed 🤣

[Ann-Marie]

I mean, come on, Iain is already done and is planning a re-read soon!

[Felina]

Aaahhh gentle ribbing. The language of our love.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

It's a shame I can't find a clip from Finder season 1 episode 2 (the Bones spinoff)... walter plays 30 songs at once from a bunch of stereos and cassette players to find a blues singer that fled into hiding 20 years ago and changed her identity...

[Tammie]

Timelord Iain wrote: "It's a shame I can't find a clip from Finder season 1 episode 2 (the Bones spinoff)... walter plays 30 songs at once from a bunch of stereos and cassette players to find a blues singer that fled in..."

I remember that!

[Nirkatze]

Greetings Mods--the new release The Dead Cat Tail Assassins has apparently been pushed from April to August.

Can we either get a date change to August 13, or have the book put in limbo?

Thank you very much!

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Nirkatze]

One more request for the Amazingest Mods of the Universe:

Disquiet Gods audiobook release has been pushed to April 30.

Therefore, we humbly request that the BR date be moved back a month, to May 9th.

Thank you very much!

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I moved them on the spreadsheet, so they won't appear in the BR list that gets pasted tomorrow-ish...

[Nirkatze]

Danke!

[Nirkatze]

Hi Mods! It's your favorite thread-adjust spokesperson!

Heavenly Tyrant got delayed again, so the folks in the Iron Widow have pretty much all agreed we want to postpone the first book until the release of the second.

Right now, Heavenly Tyrant is scheduled for December 2024, but it's already been pushed back twice... so we're thinking of asking Iron Widow to be put in TBD Limbo for now, and we'll check back later this year on whether that date is solid or not. If so, we'll probably go for December 11th or so, for an early Jan read of Heavenly Tyrant...

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Thank you so much!

[Nirkatze]

If the sequel's thread isn't already in TBD Limbo, it should go there too...

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Nirkatze]

Also just noticed that Echoes Saga #5 Kingdom of Bones thread says June 17--it should be July 17 please.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

It looks correct in the spreadsheet, so it's just the Thread.

[Felina]

Hello Mods!

Can you please adjust our buddy reads for Dragon Songs Saga?

#1 Songs of Insurrection was originally dated for 04/20 but we want to bump it to 07/20 - Link

#2 Orchestra of Treacheries was originally dated for 05/20 but we want to bump it to 08/20 - Link

#3 Dances of Deception was originally dated for 06/20 but we want to bump it to 09/20 - Link

[Nirkatze]

Felina wrote: "Hello Mods!

Can you please adjust our buddy reads for Dragon Songs Saga?

#1 Songs of Insurrection was originally dated for 04/20 but we want to bump it to 07/20 - Link

#2 Orchestra of Treacherie..."

#4 too please, Symphony of Fates to October 20th

Thank you!

[Felina]

There are four? You’d think I’d remember that since this BR was my idea.

[Nirkatze]

Felina wrote: "There are four? You’d think I’d remember that since this BR was my idea."

LOL Trilogy is an easy guess, yah? Had to go double check the omnibus to make sure it wasn't one of those with the first 3 and #4 separate, but nope, it says "Dragon Songs Quartet"