Fantasy Book Club discussion

Wow! You already completed your challenge?!

Great work! :)

Thanks, Laura. I'll focus on other challenges now (Bingo in FBR and Subgenre in this group) but I want to read some more books from the bookshelf eventually :)

Don't forget the Ladies' Armoury! :D

There's no way I'll forget it! ;)

Finished my thirteenth book of 2018 for this challenge: The Last Wish!

Virginie wrote: "Finished my thirteenth book of 2018 for this challenge: The Last Wish!"

Great job. Loved The Last Wish. Also, love the series. It's another one of those I need to finish.

Thanks! I didn't expect to enjoy the book this much. I joined a buddy read with one book per month so I should finish the series in December :D

Completely forgot to update this thread. I finished The Rithmatist for my 14th book of 2018.

I don't think I'll be able to do 24 this year. I'm focusing on completing all my series this year, which is really incompatible with this challenge. I'm glad I went crazy in Jan and read most of my books for this challenge right off the bat.

I believe this will be my last year for this challenge. Next year it will be only the Series Challenge.

Tnkw01 wrote: "I believe this will be my last year for this challenge. Next year it will be only the Series Challenge."

You don't have much left to read on the group bookshelf anyway, do you?

I'm already tracking my series elsewhere, so next year, it'll be only this challenge I think :)

I'll never finish this challenge! I've done 3 this year. That said, I've signed up for much fewer budfy reads. There were so many new books and I need to read many of the ones I already own.

Nah, you're taking a little detour, that's all :p

The number of books from the bookshelf I'm reading is declining as well. I mean, the first year, I was just getting back to Fantasy (and reading in general) so this challenge was also my main source of good reads. Now that I'm a little more well read in Fantasy, I'm finding more and more books I want to read outside the challenge :)

It’s always been my genre of choice.

I've found it's not difficult to read Fantasy from now on and never read another genre.

:)

There are other genres? But, why?

Liam wrote: "There are other genres? But, why?"

LOL!! Quite literally!! Liam you're hilarious.

Hahaha! I wander and read some Sci-Fi sometimes but yeah, the Fantasy genre is so incredibly rich :D

Lol

Edited for 2019!


Read prior to 2018: 37

Read in 2018: 14 + 3 BOTM
1. The Princess Bride
2. Norse Mythology
3. The Last Unicorn
4. The Black Company
5. Legend
6. American Gods
7. His Majesty's Dragon
8. Good Omens
9. Prince of Fools
10. Age of Myth
11. The Sword in the Stone
12. The Night Circus
13. The Last Wish
14. The Rithmatist

+ The Disappearance of Winter's Daughter
+ Nice Dragons Finish Last
+ The Poppy War

2 books added to the challenge, bringing it to 71 unread books.

A lot of great books in the Book Shelf. I really enjoyed reading them.

Finished my first book for the 2019 edition of this challenge: Gardens of the Moon. And thus, I commence my 27-books-long (as of now) journey in the Malazan Empire...

Virginie wrote: "Finished my first book for the 2019 edition of this challenge: Gardens of the Moon. And thus, I commence my 27-books-long (as of now) journey in the Malazan Empire..."

This was a difficult book for me to get through. I liked the story but it was a tad confusing at times.

I went in after being warned countless times that this book (and the whole series) is so multi-layered that I was probably going to be confused for most of the book. So I just enjoyed the story & the writing, and went with the flow. Also helped that I was armed with Scott's little chapter-per-chapter summaries.

Virginie wrote: "I went in after being warned countless times that this book (and the whole series) is so multi-layered that I was probably going to be confused for most of the book. So I just enjoyed the story & t..."

That's good to know. I think the summaries would help. It would be great if the Malazan books were graphic novels.

What summaries are these of which you speak? I might need those. :)

I really enjoyed the Malazan series.

Liam wrote: "What summaries are these of which you speak? I might need those. :)"

I don't know of summaries but Virginie says Scott has one.

Liam wrote: "What summaries are these of which you speak? I might need those. :)"

Oops, missed this!
Those summaries/explanations are in a thread over at Scott's Buddy-reads group.

Here's for the first book:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Virginie wrote: "Liam wrote: "What summaries are these of which you speak? I might need those. :)"

Oops, missed this!
Those summaries/explanations are in a thread over at Scott's Buddy-reads group.

Here's for the..."

Thanks Virginie! I didn't know who Scott was or about the buddy reads group. I'll check these out :)

Liam wrote: "Virginie wrote: "Liam wrote: "What summaries are these of which you speak? I might need those. :)"

Oops, missed this!
Those summaries/explanations are in a thread over at Scott's Buddy-reads group..."

Please remember us after you visit there. It seems the Buddy group is like a Black Hole.

Don't leave usssssssssss

Helen wrote: "Don't leave usssssssssss"

Don't worry. Having a buddy is way too much accountability for me :)

Liam wrote: "Thanks Virginie! I didn't know who Scott was or about the buddy reads group. I'll check these out :)"

You're welcome! I only check those summaries/explanations once in a while to refresh my memory, or right after I finished a particularly obscure chapter. Scott is a true Malazan-pedia :)
I think he's read the whole thing several times :O

Liam wrote: "Helen wrote: "Don't leave usssssssssss"

Don't worry. Having a buddy is way too much accountability for me :)"

Aaaah yes, it's difficult to do BR sometimes, especially if you're a mood reader. The BR I'm enjoying the most at the moment is Super Powereds: Year 3. We're a group of 3 reading 15 chapters twice a week (the chapters are really short; the books were published as web-novels to begin with), and we're speculating like crazy in between :D

:)

I'm so glad you stuck around Virginie.

Tnkw01 wrote: "I'm so glad you stuck around Virginie."

:D
This group is my happy place! Where else can we voice unpopular opinions on authors and not get spat on :O

Virginie wrote: "Tnkw01 wrote: "I'm so glad you stuck around Virginie."

:D
This group is my happy place! Where else can we voice unpopular opinions on authors and not get spat on :O"

LOL. You are so right.

Well I’m currently being slobbered on by a cat!

Edited for 2020.


Read prior to 2019: 54

Read in 2019: 4 + 4 BOTM:
1. Gardens of the Moon
2. A Wizard of Earthsea
3. Her Fearful Symmetry
4. The Goblin Emperor

+ Spinning Silver
+ Empire of Sand
+ NPCs
+ A Natural History of Dragons

4 book added to the challenge, bringing it to 70 unread books.

Well, that was a failure! I'll try to do better this year :/

I don’t think I did better.

I got distracted by shiny new books haha.

Yes sigh