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[RachelG.]

Demonic Tree 3 Chapter 13:(view spoiler)[ I was taken by surprise with the merchants. I didn't think that this would blow up like that, lol. (hide spoiler)]

[RachelG.]

Demonic Tree 3 Chapter 50: I'm glad we get an interlude with Nox because the cultivation part is getting a bit boring. I'm ready for some more action.

[Soo]

Brian (+ anyone else interested), Company of Bones : Book One of the Pendulum Series is on Kindle Unlimited. Willing to give that a try with ya if you want to BR it.

I hope it's not a ripoff of Black Company.

Which I totally failed in continuing with the group. XD

[Brian]

Soo wrote: "Brian (+ anyone else interested), Company of Bones : Book One of the Pendulum Series is on Kindle Unlimited. Willing to give that a try with ya if you want to BR it.

I hope it's ..."

I grabbed it. Let me know when. I also failed after book 3 on Black Company. Been slumping pretty hard

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I'm abandoning Black Company after 3.5 as a good pause point with the original trilogy and aftermath plot complete... I just don't love the series

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

RachelG. wrote: "Demonic Tree 3 Chapter 50: I'm glad we get an interlude with Nox because the cultivation part is getting a bit boring. I'm ready for some more action."

Yea... the first half started to drag on me... I thought things got alot better in the 2nd half, tho, as the Nox plot kicked into gear, and other things happened...

In my head, Nox was spelled Knox, lol... like Knoxville... don't know why I defaulted to that making the most sense :D

[RachelG.]

Finished Demonic Tree 3 and I enjoyed the story.

I agree that Knox is how I would have thought it was spelled if I was doing the audio version.

I liked how it ended with Nox but (view spoiler)[ the turning over a new leaf pun was too much. (hide spoiler)]

[Soo]

Brian wrote: "Soo wrote: "Brian (+ anyone else interested), Company of Bones : Book One of the Pendulum Series is on Kindle Unlimited. Willing to give that a try with ya if you want to BR it.

..."

Brian, ready when you are! Let me know when and I'll start with you. Going to get the ebook on KU and may take my time to read it. XD

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

RachelG. wrote: "Finished Demonic Tree 3 and I enjoyed the story.

I agree that Knox is how I would have thought it was spelled if I was doing the audio version.

I liked how it ended with Nox but [spoilers removed]"

You haven't been reading Dead Tired with us, have you?... that leaf pun was tame in comparison :D

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Soo wrote: "Brian wrote: "Soo wrote: "Brian (+ anyone else interested), Company of Bones : Book One of the Pendulum Series is on Kindle Unlimited. Willing to give that a try with ya if you wan..."

Edited the thread title, so it's not just my BRs getting the spotlight :D

[RachelG.]

Timelord Iain wrote: "RachelG. wrote: "Finished Demonic Tree 3 and I enjoyed the story.

I agree that Knox is how I would have thought it was spelled if I was doing the audio version.

I liked how it ended with Nox bu..."

I have been reading Dead Tired but at least bone daddy is known for his puns. This one just seemed out of place in comparison.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Tree daddy being knotty ;)

[RachelG.]

oh hohoho!

[Soo]

Knotty 🤣🤣🤣

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Soo wrote: "Knotty 🤣🤣🤣"

Harold the Lich in Dead Tired does puns all the time and his resurrected minion calls him Bone Daddy

And the human MC in demonic tree considers the Demon Tree to be her dad at this point, considering how their relationship started when she was a child and her father had died... tree saved her many times... and they started a cultivation sect together, with tree in charge... works on many levels...

[Soo]

Self-delusion is scary!

About a week ago, I found a dead "bee" in the door frame between my deck door & storm door.

Then a few days later, I killed a "bee" that somehow got into the house on the deck windows.

This morning, I was running around the house doing stuff and I heard buzzing in the kitchen. Found a "bee" and I worked awkwardly to smash the "bee" on the kitchen window. Ended up spraying it to death. Cause I don't have a fly swatter. I ordered a pair & will have two soon.

So... bees are preferable to wasps.

Turns out I killed a yellow jacket wasp on deck window and a balded faced hornet in the kitchen this morning.

Cause I would prefer bees over wasps.

I hope the pesticide people are prepped to work on the roof/etc. I think that's where the nests are.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Soo wrote: "

Self-delusion is scary!

About a week ago, I found a dead "bee" in the door frame between my deck door & storm door.

Then a few days later, I killed a "bee" that somehow got into the house on ..."

You have the worst bug luck

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Hey Soo... where do you get your page counts for all these big Light Novels you read?...

I know/saw you had to create some of the book pages for some, since nobody else had before, earlier this year.

And the only book page I can find for one of your most recent ones that I was curious about was delisted by Goodreads and lacked much info:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

The Rebirth of Han Yuxi (not 100% sure if this link will work, I handcrafted it after finding that book page with google, GR search gave no results)...

[Soo]

Gonna put in spoiler. 😆

LN Page Counts Are Low Ball Average
Generally way less than actual word count to print page average. There's give and take on machine translation vs fan translation. Good fan translations will be 1.5-3x longer than original Chinese cause of contextual writing.

(view spoiler)[Most of the LNs this year are posts I had to create.

For "Page Count" - I input the total chapters for web novel.

My estimated page count is based on average of 10-20 chapters word count total & based on 300 words per page.

Then I write the info about total chapter count & estimated pages in the review.

(hide spoiler)]

Can't take info on any of the LN posts seriously cause information isn't always accurate. There's a bunch of reasons, but I want a post for the GR challenge & to record when I read the series.

Sometimes I can't find full info, I look up the original Chinese/etc & use page translate to get chapter counts, year it is finished as a series, etc

Existing GR LN posts are either auto created based on Kindle stuff or user posts from people with incomplete info.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I dug through my entire Audible library, all night, and now have a decently accurate wishlist of 500+ books to buy to fill out my collection on series I've started owning on Audible... probably would need to add 100-200 more, if they weren't freely available on Audible Plus at the moment...

Still need to pick and choose, but nice to have an accurate record for once...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I'm very good at being relatively caught up, and way behind, at the same time...

Only 2 days behind on BRs, but that's still 5-6 books, 2500-3000 pages and 80-90hrs of audio...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

At least I finished my reading veggies for the month, and most of the rest is cake...

DCC5, Rip Through Time 3, Joesph Bridgeman 4, Green Creek 4, Malevolent Seven... should all be 4-5 stars...

[Narilka]

Iain, do you remember several months back when I picked up the omnibus books 1-6 of a cozy paranormal mystery series Nine Lives Magic Mysteries: Books 1-6 for cheap and I think you saw the audio version for cheap too?

I wanted a fluffy read for my flight home yesterday so started book 1, Witchy Whiskers. I like it so far. I'm about 70% through. Our lead, Cora, is an air witch who runs a magical candle shop. The candles cause various illusions when they're lit. Anyway, a hot guy new in town enters her shop looking to buy his mom a present and the next day he's the main suspect in his brother's murder. It's not turned into a romance yet but it easily could. If you're interested, I'll keep you updated. I will finish it today.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I refound #1-3 box set for $3.58... 4-6 and 7-9 don't have ebook listings to drop the whispersync price... feel free to keep me updated, tho...

[Narilka]

I finished Witchy Whiskers and greatly enjoyed it. 4 stars. Cora's illusion magic came in handy at the end and who wouldn't love another talking cat book :D I think I'm kind of binging books with talking cats lol The solution to the mystery is satisfying and there is a hell of a hook for the next book. A romance didn't happen yet though there is definitely room for it in the future. I'm glad I bought the omnibus.

[Soo]

Nice! Glad you're enjoying the bundle.

Results of pesticides inspection:
- 2 Wasp Nests
- 1 Hornet Nest
- Carpenter Bees living underside of wooden deck.
Stuff got treated & I need to keep an eye out for future troubles.

Also found dead yellow jacket wasps (smaller than the one I killed) inside the basement room. Technician said I probably killed the yellow jacket wasp queen.

I am thankful that I didn't get stung by any of these. In this case, glad I didn't know the other yellow jackets were in the house and they died on their own.

I don't worry about bees, but the wasps & hornets would suck if I got stung. Plus, if I did kill the queen, at least that's one nest I don't have to worry about.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

You and bugs have wild encounters, I swear...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Month is pretty much over, and my stats are down... technically...

January (31) -- 23,684pgs -- 764 pgs/day -- 54 books -- 715h 22m
February (28) -- 25,043pgs -- 894 pgs/day -- 60 books -- 726h 30m
March (31) -- 23,658pgs -- 763 pgs/day -- 56 books -- 680h 52m
April (30) -- 22,416pgs -- 747 pgs/day -- 48 books -- 677h 10m

Few less books and pages for April, but basically the same hours listened... I'm only 3 books behind, at the end of the month, which is decent... I think part of it was how much/little I wanted to read some of the books, and how many I listened to with battery draining apps that required me to charge my ipod for an hour... and how much time I spent watching youtube and listening to Pandora comedy from 10-15 years ago...

[Soo]

Timelord Iain wrote: "You and bugs have wild encounters, I swear..."

It's new place weirdness man. New place weirdness. I've never had so many bug issues happen at the same time.

hahaha

Tonight, Goodreads & Audible were inaccessible for about 30min.
Yesterday, I had issues with GR not loading or saving posts.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I’ve had problems the last few Mondays/Tuesdays late at night… maintenance?

[Soo]

Hope so! I highly doubt the servers for Audible and GR are the same.

[Soo]

LoL Guys, I was so confused when I read this blurb for Red Star Falling.

Hahhaha!

Cause the MC is named Luke Daniels.

I was like... Luke Daniels (the narrator) is in a story???

LOL!!! I was so confused for a second.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Narrated by Scott Brick :(

Would have been so funny if they found out too late, and then got narrator Luke Daniels to narrate...

[Soo]

The ironies would have tickled me a lot! XD

[Narilka]

Ha! What a missed opportunity for the audio book lol

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Finally cleaned up my account, and left all the groups I'm not really active in... went from 10ish groups to 4... also means I left all the groups that send me monthly newsletters I don't read to my Goodreads Mailbox...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

A few of the groups were literally dead, apparently... hadn't had a new comment in a year or more... some groups I'd never commented in in nearly a decade of being a member... others had a few comments... highest had less than 150...

[Soo]

I did left a few groups at the beginning of the year. Honestly, I'm only active in this one right now and sometimes I take a look at threads in others, but I'm not commenting.

Not enough time in a day! XD

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I only really participate here 99% and GG&G 1%... and stay in the Librarian group in case I need it for some reason...

[Narilka]

I finally started Heretical Fishing 3. I think I put enough space between the books that I enjoyed the recap. Time to see what kind of trouble the Church of Fischer can get up to. I'm guessing a lot :D

[RachelG.]

I just finished Heretical Fishing 2 recently and it wasn't nearly as good as the 1st. I do plan to read 3 shortly though. I will be curious on your thoughts, Narilka.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I'm eagerly awaiting #4 later this year... I agree they're not as good as Beware of Chicken, and I didn't enjoy binging multiple back-to-back last year and needed a long break in between to enjoy #3 more...

[RachelG.]

I still need to read Beware of Chicken. I'm loving Demon Boba Shop. The past couple have really made me tear up because they have touching parts.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

RachelG. wrote: "I still need to read Beware of Chicken. I'm loving Demon Boba Shop. The past couple have really made me tear up because they have touching parts."

I see there's 5 ebooks on KU, and the first 2 just came out on Audible in the past 5 weeks, so I'll give them a try... also a finished series...

[Narilka]

Timelord Iain wrote: "I'm eagerly awaiting #4 later this year... I agree they're not as good as Beware of Chicken, and I didn't enjoy binging multiple back-to-back last year and needed a long break in between to enjoy #..."

Iain, I remember you saying this. Rachel, I also thought that Heretical Fishing 2 wasn't as good as 1 though still enjoyable. I'm only a few chapters in and liking #3 a lot so far. I do think Iain is right - this series benefits from several month break between. I'll post back here periodically :)

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Next year's Orphan X has a name: Antihero

Will be reading Nemesis next month in the BR thread... still haven't had time to read the new Gray Man that came out in March: Midnight Black

[Narilka]

Heretical Fishing 3 Through Ch 23 (view spoiler)[A lot is happening! I'm glad Fischer freed and has integrated the cultivators he rescued. Or at least those ones that want freedom and not to just run back to the bad guys. That story line seems to be picking up steam though as the King that Fischer embarrassed seems bent on getting revenge. Hopefully that is resolved in this book. I guess we will see if there's a jail break too. I'm not sure how they were able to lie to the auditor unless it's a cultivation thing?

I'm really glad to be back to fun fishing shenanigans and some interesting crafting. Maria's father Roger's advancement was interesting. I like that the litRPG bits are still minimal though they seem like they'll be more important as everyone grows. (hide spoiler)]

Iain, have you noticed if the author has stated how many books this series is intended to be?

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I have no idea...

HF3 is like the end of a first trilogy, (view spoiler)[resolving the starting town stuff, but ranking up and triggering more of the broken System in the rest of the world, for a next trilogy... (hide spoiler)]

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

HF4 comes out in August, HF5 comes out next February... from GR pages...

[Narilka]

I wonder if it will be like two trilogies then. I guess we'll find out in a year or so. At least the GR pages are showing the forthcoming books.