Fantasy Buddy Reads discussion

Tomorrow dawns the new month.

Finishing:

Blood of Innocents Group Read
The Widow's House Group Read
The Summer Dragon Audio book

Then

The Mirror’s Truth Group Read
Toll the Hounds Group Read
Golden Son Audio book
The Guns of Empire Group read

And if I have time

The Fifth Season
Everyone Brave is Forgiven Audio book

I have a lot of books I want to read but I doubt I can finish it all this month.

The Name of the Wind
The Dragon's Path
The Invisible Library
Gardens of the Moon
A Crucible of Souls

The Waking Fire (buddy read)
The Hero of Ages (buddy read)
I'll be reading other things too but everything else is up in the air.

Beyond Redemption started this morning.
The Fireman, continuing this too...

There are other books I want to read, but I'm going to play it casual and keep from committing just yet.

So far this is what I have planned.

Summer Knight

Life Force

Koban

A Dance of Cloaks

A Canticle for Leibowitz

Still need to decide 5 more titles, which will be 2 more series' and 3 either one shots or only one book so far situations. Plus some buddy reads.

My plan for this month:

The Mirror’s Truth

Wrath

The Blood Mirror

Red Tide

possibly in that order, possibly not.

Scott wrote: "Tomorrow dawns the new month.

Finishing:

Blood of Innocents Group Read
The Widow's House Group Read
The Summer Dragon Audio book

Then

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Yay!! You're reading/listening to Golden Son!

As for me:

Audio-
[book:An Autumn War
Hannah's Dream (I love elephants)
Warbreaker
And likely a few others

Book books-
Magician really my problem is not sitting down to finish this one
Monsters of Men
Beyond Redemption all this talk of this book is giving me itchy feelings to ignore my other stuff so I'd better just read it already

Margret wrote: "Beyond Redemption all this talk of this book is giving me itchy feelings to ignore my other stuff so I'd better just read it already..."

Haha, that's exactly what I did today.

If you like GrimDark then Beyond Redemption is a must. Original, fast paced, caustic sense of humor........

I'm seeing that already...

Well then it's just what I need.. Im missing being at work lately

My TBR Tackler Shelf looks pretty good this month:

Silence Fallen – Patricia Briggs
Babylon's Ashes – James S. A. Corey
Bad Blood – Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Waking Fire – Anthony Ryan [buddy read]
The Obelisk Gate – N. K. Jemisin
United – Melissa Landers
Gauntlgrym – R. A. Salvatore
Magic Strikes – Ilona Andrews
A Darker Shade of Magic – V. E. Schwab
Vanguard – Ann Aguirre
The Twisted Citadel – Sara Douglass

I doubt I'll have time to get through them all, but there's a whole lot of good reading ahead of me either way.

https://nikihawkes.com/2016/12/02/tac... [for my reference]

I just finished Riyria which is a bit sad because now I have to wait for the 4th Chronicle to come out. I'm really happy he is continuing to write them though. :)
Here is my review.

Just started the bands of mourning

I am not good at planning what to read ahead since I more or less decide what will I read next moments before actually starting new book but for this month rough plan is:

The Human Division
The Bonehunters
City of Illusions
The Sword of Shannara
The Crimson Campaign(re-read)
The Vagrant
Castle in the Air

Let's see if I can stick to it.

Ivan wrote: "I am not good at planning what to read ahead since I more or less decide what will I read next moments before actually starting new book but for this month rough plan is:

[book:The Human Division|..."

I'm the same way. I usually only stick to maybe half of my planned list if I make one.

I've been reading at a snail's pace lately so the below may be optimistic. The plan this month is to read:

The Blood Mirror Buddy Read but I'm extremely late.
Deadhouse Gates Buddy Read
Chains of the Heretic Buddy Read
Dead Beat Series Read
The Witch With No Name Series up to Date Challenge

Quinn wrote: "I have a lot of books I want to read but I doubt I can finish it all this month.

The Name of the Wind
The Dragon's Path
The Invisible Library
[book:Ga..."

The Name of the Wind is one of my favorite epic fantasy novels. It's pretty deep though... lol I hope you enjoy it.

I just finished Tower Lord. I have only one more book in the series left I hope the conclusion is as great as the story has been so far. Other novels I hope to make it to:

Queen of Fire
The Waking Fire
The Winds of Winter (if by some Christmas miracle it is released)

Also listening to the audiobook of We Are Legion (We Are Bob). Brilliant. If you like stuff like The Martian, you should try this.

I've noticed you've been reading medical books Chris, is it for work or are you taking a course?

Margret wrote: "I've noticed you've been reading medical books Chris, is it for work or are you taking a course?"

It's for fun. lol

No, really. I went back to school this fall and those are the textbooks that kept me from pleasure reading. I figured I'd count them.

Just finished Fool's Assassin and recently started The Curse of the Mistwraith. I am hoping to also get through either The Alloy of Law, Fool's Quest, or The Crown Tower by the end of the year.

Best,
Jonathan

What are you taking? I'm only curious because I work in health care (trauma/ER and ICU predominantly)

Margret wrote: "What are you taking? I'm only curious because I work in health care (trauma/ER and ICU predominantly)"

I'm working on a degree in Health Info Technology, with the goal of doing coding & billing. I'm actually doing that, just want the credentials to say I know how lol...

The first semester just wrapped up, and I was concentrating on anatomy, medical terminology, legal aspects of healthcare, documentation structure (EHR) and a basic intro to health tech. More of the same starting back up in January.

Ah I see, hopefully you can squeeze more money out of your employer once you're "official" lol

Haha, that's a good one ;)

Martin wrote: "I just finished Tower Lord. I have only one more book in the series left I hope the conclusion is as great as the story has been so far. Other novels I hope to make it to:

[book:Qu..."

Thank you! you just made the decision for me! I was wondering which book to read next

Made it through 5 minutes on an audiobook and couldn't stand the narrator, onto Warbreaker!

I'm about 30% into The Innocent Mage and I'm giving up on it now. Ugh, boring and annoying.

Omg I stopped the innocent mage at about the same place several years ago. So much talking and nothing else going on haha.

I'm reading Midnight Tides now, book 5 in MBotF. I'm about 220 pages into the book and I'm liking it so far. Great prologue to start with, and the story has been good so far as well. It takes some time getting used to the new world/characters, but I'm fully immersed by now. I do have to say that the philosophical ranting by Erikson is a bit much sometimes. It seems this was less the case in the first three books

Half way through bands of mourning

Jakyro wrote: "I'm reading Midnight Tides now, book 5 in MBotF. I'm about 220 pages into the book and I'm liking it so far. Great prologue to start with, and the story has been good so far as well. It takes some time getting used to the new world/characters, but I'm fully immersed by now. I do have to say that the philosophical ranting by Erikson is a bit much sometimes. It seems this was less the case in the first three books."

My favorite prologue of the series. That is just so epic. The opening paragraph alone just sets an amazing scene.

Midnight Tides and Reaper's Gale taking place in Lether is to me like the Americas of that world. Where as the trio of Genabackis, Quon Tali and the Seven Cities are more like Europe, North Africa and the Middle East/Western Asia.

It's definitely by design that Social Economics and greed are the underlying tone of the Lether books while the others tackle famine, wars between tribal factions, colonization, etc.

Niki wrote: "Omg I stopped the innocent mage at about the same place several years ago. So much talking and nothing else going on haha."

Nothing is going on and I didn't care for any of the characters. At all.
Now I'll need something really good, so I won't fall back into my big reading slump of 2016. Ugh.