Fantasy Book Club discussion

This challenge sounds fun, I forget whose idea it was sorry!

The idea is that you read books from the group's previous reads, not including 2018!

You can read as many as you like but must read at least 12 to be counted a winner!!

Good luck!

Note: some of us are trying this again, remember you now get to include books from 2017

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

Previous reads

Do you think this one will be better done as a per-person thread thing? Or in a group thread?

Never mind I saw you are doing a per person thing :)

Yeah, open your own thread - I can do that for anyone who wants.

I feel like this challenge is in direct opposition to the challenge to finish series. Oh well. Will try anyway.

I know but it's so tempting... who am I kidding I'll probably end up doing this one

Blame whoever suggested it! I feel I've got more chance of doing this than the series. I hate to think how many I've got current.

This is the one I'll be giving a whirl. It's actually quite a massive list so I believe I'll beat my personal record of books read for the year. I'll post my list when I get it together.

I'm excited that you're taking on the entire list

Go for it!

It might help if you strike through the titles you've read so you can clearly see where you are up to.

< s > writing here < /s >

It'll look like this writing here

Don't leave spaces.

Helen wrote: "It might help if you strike through the titles you've read so you can clearly see where you are up to.

writing here

It'll look like this writing here

Don't leave spaces."

Guess I might have to go back and do my list.

I did have you in mind, thought it might be easier for you to distinguish. It doesn't take long to add the code bits though.

Yea, wasn't too bad. Thanks for the help ;)

Bold next, that's my fave. Just use a b not s.

And....Curse of the Mistwraith is a previous read and future read.

Paradox!!!!!

Brenda ╰☆╮ wrote: "And....Curse of the Mistwraith is a previous read and future read.

Paradox!!!!!"

Can we count it twice?

I made a shelf for this challenge with all the books from the group shelf that I haven't read and ended up with 58. Didn't realize how closely my taste aligned with the group picks.

We have such good taste ;)

Chris, exactly! But don't tell Brenda, you know how strict she is!!

Brenda ╰☆╮ wrote: "And....Curse of the Mistwraith is a previous read and future read.

Paradox!!!!!"

Lol.

Starting your own thread


At the top of this page, click the green writing saying 'read the group book shelf'.

Then you will be taken to that threads group, as it were, at the top above the list of different threads, there are two choices in the green writing. Edit and new topic. I'm not sure if edit comes up of you aren't a moderator.

Click new topics - new page appears. In the topic box, type the title you want eg. My challenge.

Put a comment in the box, click save/post (can't remember). This comment can be edited by you at any time.

How that helps, otherwise let me know your desired title and I'll start one for you :)

Have fun. I'm sitting this one out as it is the antithesis to the series cleanup challenge which I'm trying to take series since I have so many open.

Unless they overlap!

Helen wrote: "Unless they overlap!"

Some do but most of those are first book in series so they don't and/or I've read them.

I made this comment in Margaret's challenge but I moved it here. I'm going for as many as I can this year. If I don't finish, then I'll finish next year. A lot to read and I started with The Dragonbone Chair (massive book) and I just realized that next months book The Curse of the Mistwraith is also a massive book so this may be a little slower then I thought it would be.

You'll have such a great journey though

Margret wrote: "You'll have such a great journey though"

Yes indeed ^_^

Totally.

Ok, I just need clarification. I usually finish 95% or more of all books I read. However, sometimes I come across books that are just terrible, in my opinion. Wouldn't everyone say that 100 pages is a fair assessment to count books on the bookshelf. If not what would be a fair assessment? I fully intend on reading 100% of every single book, but sometimes books are just bad.

Since you're trying all of them rather than going for the goal of 12 I'm sure there will be some DNF books in there. I'd say if you were under 100 or so just have an "unshelved" category cause it just wasn't your thing.. 100+ (or 200+) pages I'd call that a DNF.

I know we've agreed on stuff like this recently so it's probably preaching to the choir.. maybe listen to other people lol

Yea, I want to give books a fair shake without having to slog through. I may be over thinking this.

Don't read anything you don't like, life is too short and there are too many good books.

That said if I'm 100 pages in, I'd probably finish so it counts towards the read in a year and page count. I did try doing the free sample, kindle 5%, and not buying it if I didn't like it but you don't always get enough to decide. And I usually just buy ;)

Helen wrote: "Don't read anything you don't like, life is too short and there are too many good books.

That said if I'm 100 pages in, I'd probably finish so it counts towards the read in a year and page count...."

Helen wrote: "Don't read anything you don't like, life is too short and there are too many good books.

That said if I'm 100 pages in, I'd probably finish so it counts towards the read in a year and page count...."

I think I'll just wing it and if the books just unreadable to me I'll move on.

Ok, I doing this again for 2018. This time I'm just doing 12 books.

Hahahaha