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Virginie wrote: "Timelord Iain wrote: "Hopefully be caught up by Christmas…"Woohoo, you can do it, I believe in you!
(also, I'll be able to stalk your profile and add even more stuff to my TBR)"
You'll add to your TBR just following this thread lol
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It's a shame most of the stuff Soo & Virginie mention don't have audio formats... or English audio formats...
I feel like most of my randomest TBR additions that I later force upon you guys come from the Audible suggestions and app suggestions being in my face every day...
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I like that series a lot. It's semi-cozy. You could quit at the original trilogy as it's fairly wrapped up then if you wanted.
🤣Need to read 25 books before 12/30. So, I'm sorting my downloads on Audible app and found 22 Audible Plus audiobooks that are expiring on 12/31.
Some of them are the first of a series and the whole series will expire on 12/31. 🧐
Not counting the few that I removed from library cause I doubt I'll try to read them before end of the year.
Sad to see that a few books I had wanted to listen to have already expired. Needed to remove them from library.
I've got like 6-7 library books, 2 BRs (that I can remember), and these 22+ Audible Plus books to juggle and read before end of year.
Weeee~~~
Next year, some of my loose plans are to restart reading Wandering Inn Vol8 online, pick an epic fantasy that I grew up reading & can finish now that all books are released (will read from start to finish) and knock out at least 250 of my Audible books. Stats show that I've read half of my Audible library. Need to sort my huge library & mark off books in series I have bought to collect audio. That should lower the unread #s down by a good bit.
Timelord Iain wrote: "I think I want to give the Bobiverse series another try at some point... I tried book 1 forever ago, and don't think I was in the mood for an audiobook where so many characters basically have the s..."It's a fun series, but you need to pay attention to the first book to get the characters and plot clear in your head. After, stuff happens where there are overlaps of Bobs. Need to keep them straight. Easy to do once you're in story flow.
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Need to read 25 books before 12/30. So, I'm sorting my downloads on Audible app and found 22 Audible Plus audiobooks that are expiring on 12/31.
Some of them are the first of a series and the ..."
So many books have been expiring, lately...
🤣😅😭I read so many books that GR isn't enough to help keep track and I can't completely rely on Audible app showing book status as Read/etc.
New (need to stick with it this time) book record will be made before end of year. I'm not going to kill myself by making myself check my Read Books on GR for incomplete series, but I'm going to comb through Audible and add series as I come across them.
UGH, I may need to look up ways to make my excel sheet more functional with menus and stuff. Things I avoid learning. 😅🤣
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Space Team: All The President's Space Men: We are being trolled by the author.
🤔🧐😆
Blurb said this was set to go in 2019. Meanwhile, on Audible, I saw a short story collection was added to series in 2022.
He's probably making better money with his mystery series.
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Virginie wrote: "Soo wrote: "Some of the books on the Big Books of 2025 list seem cool."Those articles always make me want to add (almost) everything to my TBR lol. Which ones are you interested in?"
Contemporary & Historical Fiction:
- The Stolen Queen
- Wild Dark Shore
- The Original Daughter
- The Listeners
Mysteries & Thrillers
- Famous Last Words
- The Man Made of Smoke
Fantasy
- Water Moon
- Black Woods, Blue Sky
- A Drop of Corruption
- The Devils
Sci-Fi
- When the Moon Hits Your Eye
- Dissolution
Horror
- The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
YA
- I Am Not Jessica Chen
- Our Infinite Fates
Hahahah! OMG I shouldn't have looked at my FBR personal tracker thread. It gave me mental twitches because I haven't updated it in ages. Welp, that's gotta get cleaned up for 2025. XD
*adds to To Do List*
Who publishes this "Big Books" List? Those all look interesting.
It's GR's blog post. Been the banner for the last few days. XD
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Narilka wrote: "You'll add to your TBR just following this thread lol"Half of the audiobooks I listened to this year were direct recommendations from Iain from this thread and the cozy November one. Then half of the remaining audiobooks are indirect recommendations from Iain (he mentioned the book at some point, but didn't tell me directly "you should read this").
As for my eyereads.... It's almost only danmei 'cause my former colleague got me into it, a random BR I joined on a whim (The Malevolent Seven) and a Light Novel 'cause talking about LNs on this thread made me want to read one.
And now I'm realizing that I have no agency, I mostly read the things people are telling me to read xD
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I seem to be the person most likely to break away from my BR commitments and read some random cozy/LitRPG book, and then people decide to read it or turn it into a BR 3 months later...
That's how Dungeon Crawler Carl happened... that's how Beware of Chicken happened... that's how Cinnamon Bun happened... and people keep getting interested in Daily Grind when I mention it (altho the writing style didn't work for Soo, who tried book 1)...
Sadly, most of the things other people mention around here don't work for me, because no audio... I still keep holding out hope that Reunion gets audio someday...
Speaking of, you should read Reunion, Virginie ;)
It's Buffy the Vampire Slayer + Cthulhu, if something bad happened and the gang split up for 10-20 years and reunited for a school reunion and shit started all over again...
Brian & Graeme & Emily loved it...
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Soo wrote: "It's GR's blog post. Been the banner for the last few days. XD"LOL Teach me to look up. It's a failing I have being short.
Virginie wrote: "And now I'm realizing that I have no agency, I mostly read the things people are telling me to read xD"
I feel that. 100% of my books this year have been BRs with this group or external book clubs. It's been great for my post-book depression though.
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Got my audio copy, tho, and 3 other recent releases that WERE Whispersync priced:
Beware of Chicken 4
Heart of the Machine: A Humorous Isekai LitRPG (Terminator LitRPG series)
Never Send Roses (Craig Schaefer / Harmony Black series)
The Sundered Realms (Tea Princess author)
I downloaded Beware of Chicken & saved the BR thread! =DTotally forgot about Reunion. I put it on my ebook Wishlist on Amazon. Basically been getting my new ebooks in Kindle format. Not my fav format at all but more convenient to keep an eye out for sales or get double points for discounts.
Ya know what would be handy in Audible app? An Audible Plus tab in your library. That way you can see just the Plus books you added to read at some point.
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Wonder if they shuffled the chapter order from web serial... the plot jumps to some Fa Ram time, then flashbacks 1-2 months to fill in the highlights from the gap from the end of the tournament...
Author knows what we want to see :D
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Still vaguely on track, despite a few hectic days putting me behind... and then GR hitting me hard with CAPTCHAs today, for some reason...
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We’ve officially signed everything for GJD which I guess I can now tell you stands for God’s Junk Drawer. What’s it about? Well…
Forty years ago, the Gather family—James, his daughter Beau, and her little brother Billy—vanished on a whitewater rafting trip. No sign of them was ever found.
…until five years later, when Billy Gather appeared on the far side of the world, telling a ridiculous, impossible story of his family plunging down through time to a primordial valley populated by dinosaurs, a clan of cavemen, an alien, and an android butler from the far future. Little Billy became the punchline of so many jokes, until he finally faded away.
Now years of research and calculations have told adult Billy Gather exactly where and when he needs to be standing in order to get back to his prehistoric valley.
But the valley isn’t the place he remembered. Maybe it never was. He’ll need to navigate more danger, more violence, and even more mysteries if he has any hope of finding his way back to the present-day world again.
And so will the handful of grad students he accidentally brought with him.
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Once I have a book title, I can try a second search and read detailed answers like this newsletter post from Clines' website...
Oooh, more Clines! Hey, have y'all BR'd the ex-whatsit series by him yet? Not during my time, anyway...
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Mmm... hoping more finished than abandoned...
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I read the first one a few years ago and didn't care to continue 🤷♀️
Timelord Iain wrote: "Peter Clines next book should be coming out in mid-2025:We’ve officially signed everything for GJD which I guess I can now tell you stands for God’s Junk Drawer. What’s it about? Well…
Forty yea..."
Cool. Sounds like a good BR candidate :D
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Dropped a couple random books from my Audiobooks.com freebies from my Cozy November plans that I was no longer feeling in the mood for, to make sure I finish everything by New Year...
Planning to catch up on He Who Fights With Monsters, since I never read book 1 in July and they're doing book 2 at the end of the month...
Only downer is Nirkatze is making me read the newer Black Jewels trilogy ;) (mostly because we're completionists)....
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He Who Fights with Monsters -- July 27th
The Last Echo of the Lord of Bells -- December 13th
Wind and Truth -- December 16th
The Queen's Bargain -- December 18th -- reading now, 50% done
Blood Over Bright Haven -- December 20th...
If you generously ignore all the page counts, anyway... that's still 3750 page, only counting half of Queen's Bargain...
The rest of the month mostly only has some shorter books left, tho, for another 3000 pages... so it's doable, for once... 11 days and 6750 pages and my monthly average is 650/day, so far...
Oh, my notifications are working again! I randomly stopped getting them 1.5 month ago (website ones, I loathe emails notifications and deactivated that 5min after creating my account lol), nothing I tried would make them work...I made do with checking the unread discussions thingy but it was a bit tedious. I want my little dopamine hit at seeing that red number :D
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It's annoying... luckily, whatever I did got 95% of my stuff working immediately, back in September, when the trouble started... occasionally something slips through the cracks, but in general I never had any issues...
Yeah, I tried that but didn't work. Unchecked-rechecked both in my profile settings and individual threads.It started working again without me doing anything at all, after more than a month.
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📚📚📚Victory lap! It took forever (several hours) to sort my Audible library: tagging collection for audio series/books as read, removing expired Plus and loosely figuring out which audiobooks to add to my revolving "current TBR".
Best Discovery!
On Audible app, you can REMOVE books from the wishlist!
- Search for book or series & easily Remove from Wishlist.
On website, you can only browse wishlist pages and remove once you find the book. My wishlist is huge and it was too much work to take books off before.
Started my spree to read & hit my reading goal. 2 BRs, a bunch of expiring on 12/31 Audible Plus, maybe some of my library books, Drops of God manga and a couple of cozy-chill series to fall back on if the Plus books suck.
Hopefully I will be able to get it done. It's been very busy settling into new home, work and end of year shenanigans.
lol The book I started with was a total catfish! Looked like it would have a fun, fluffy plot to enjoy and then the plot was empty! Crap just happened. Hahhahah! I'm off to try my next Plus book. XD
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P.S: that guy hasn't responded to my email :D
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Those articles always make me want to add (almost) everything to my TBR lol. Which ones are you interested in?