Fantasy Buddy Reads discussion

Yea... I don't follow Paltrow much... but even I know that she made that phrase a thing... altho I had to google it and make sure...

We all have our phrases... mine is: "All the cool kids are doing it"

Log update:
Audible 2 for 1 Challenge [2]
1. Zoe's Tale
2. Within the Sanctuary of Wings
Purchased: Magic Breaks

I bought a ton... 20... I'm weak. Audible had the "get $10 if you spend 3 credits immediately" thing, then the $4.95 sale. Then the kids $3.95 sale...
On the bright side, I'm almost out of credits and am only two months in... I'll make it all up lol. I'm counting sale items against my total (despite enabling others not to) because I feel like I need more accountability than most when it comes to book buying. ;P

Haha Niki. Well you will just have to read owned books until you earn the 20.

Lol, the hardship... at least the ones I bought were good ones! :D

I'm not really worried so much about buying too many audiobooks because I know I can knock them out pretty quickly. Ebooks on the other hand take me too long for me to be buying as many as I do.

How long would you say an ebook takes you? I can prob do an audio in 3 or 4 days, but it seems like physical or ebooks take a month a piece. I don't know how I used to have time to physically read 80 a year.

It's a matter of time, really... I think I read at about the same rate to a little faster than narrators when I read ebooks... 30-45 pages/hr... and I can skim the fluff that's boring/repetitive with an ebook that I can't on audio... so that means 8-10hrs per 300 pages... so it all comes down what comes easier... 10hrs audio or 8hrs ebook... and these days I have the same problems Bill does with ebooks (unless it's a 5-6 star book and then I read when I should be sleeping)... most of the time I'm lucky to manage a few pages of ebook then I just close it and go to sleep because I'm drowsy... audiobooks I can do about 5hrs/day usually, at least...

Them Stormlight Archive books are 45-48hr tho... so I was doing 8+ hrs/day to finish in 6 days...

Niki Hawkes wrote: "How long would you say an ebook takes you? I can prob do an audio in 3 or 4 days, but it seems like physical or ebooks take a month a piece. I don't know how I used to have time to physically read ..."

I'm the same. I think I may need reading glasses. I just can't seem to focus like I used to. Getting older sucks.

Iain wrote: "It's a matter of time, really... I think I read at about the same rate to a little faster than narrators when I read ebooks... 30-45 pages/hr... and I can skim the fluff that's boring/repetitive wi..."

8 hour audio days are tough. I do them but usually with breaks throughout the day.

8-10 per 300 book sounds plausible for my reading speed, maybe a bit faster. I took that staples reading speed test but don't remember the results haha. I think my issue is also time. I'm like you - I'm lucky if I get in more than a few pages before going to sleep.

Bill wrote: "Niki Hawkes wrote: "How long would you say an ebook takes you? I can prob do an audio in 3 or 4 days, but it seems like physical or ebooks take a month a piece. I don't know how I used to have time..."

Seriously. Thank goodness for audiobooks.

My reading pace is generally about the same as an audiobook at 1.5-1.75X speed. The difference is long after my eyes are done for the day I can close them and listen to audio. I enjoy both formats and I'm probably split pretty evenly.

I can't listen to audio for too long when I'm laying down... I enter that near sleep state where you think you are still awake and listening to the audiobook until you wake back up and realize you have lost 10-20 minutes without even realizing... generally, when I bother to set the Sleep Timer in iBooks, I turn the book off and just go to sleep before actually falling asleep and letting the timer turn the book off on its own...

Haha I do that all the time! Until I have a true moment of lucidity and realize I retained nothing.

I've earned a book!!! Too bad I'm making up credits already. :P

Niki's Book Buying Ban Challenge [1]
1. Heart's Blood
2. An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors
3. A Sending of Dragons
4. Yendi
5. Dragonsinger - Anne McCaffrey
Purchased: Oathbringer Booya!

Niki Hawkes wrote: "I've earned a book!!! Too bad I'm making up credits already. :P

Niki's Book Buying Ban Challenge [1]
1. Heart's Blood
2. An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors
3. [book:..."

Great job, Niki! Nice reward!

Thank you! :)

Finished another low-impact log:

Audible 2 for 1 Challenge [3]
1. Magic Breaks
2. An Echo Of Things To Come
Purchased: Zoe's Tale

Niki Hawkes wrote: "Finished another low-impact log:

Audible 2 for 1 Challenge [3]
1. Magic Breaks
2. An Echo Of Things To Come
Purchased: Zoe's Tale"

Good job!

Miche wrote: "Niki Hawkes wrote: "Finished another low-impact log:

Audible 2 for 1 Challenge [3]
1. Magic Breaks
2. An Echo Of Things To Come
Purchased: Zoe's Tale..."

Thanks! :)

Finished another weak Audible Log:

Audible 2 for 1 Challenge [4]
1. Arcade Catastrophe
2. Bride of Death
Purchased: An Echo Of Things To Come

You're just moving right along! 😊

Melissa ♥ Dog Lover ♥ wrote: "You're just moving right along! 😊"

Thanks! It feels good to make progress. :)

You're welcome. 😊 And I know. Well, I don't know because I'm not making progress yet on my list but a little in the books piled all over everywhere 😄

Melissa ♥ Dog Lover ♥ wrote: "You're welcome. 😊 And I know. Well, I don't know because I'm not making progress yet on my list but a little in the books piled all over everywhere 😄"

Haha yeah, my progress has been: making the list. Lol

Lol. I still have tons to add to mine but I'm trying to take it slow and read down what I have. Plus, I don't want to tackle those stacks 😕 Sometimes they tackle me, literally 🤣😂

Melissa ♥ Dog Lover ♥ wrote: "Lol. I still have tons to add to mine but I'm trying to take it slow and read down what I have. Plus, I don't want to tackle those stacks 😕 Sometimes they tackle me, literally 🤣😂"

Hahaha yeah I know what you mean. As long as you're enjoying the books you're reading, the list will whittle. :)

I hope so. Although, they keep trickling in too 😄

Melissa ♥ Dog Lover ♥ wrote: "I hope so. Although, they keep trickling in too 😄"

Lol

🤣

One awesome book at a time sounds like a pretty good strategy to me. :)

Mayim wrote: "One awesome book at a time sounds like a pretty good strategy to me. :)"

Agreed! Just keep swimming...

Niki Hawkes wrote: "Finished another weak Audible Log:

Audible 2 for 1 Challenge [4]
1. Arcade Catastrophe
2. Bride of Death
Purchased: An Echo Of Things To Come"

The Licanius trilogy is another series I want to get to. I own the first book - bought before I started this challenge. I'm guessing you liked it well enough if you bought the second one.

Veronica wrote: "Niki Hawkes wrote: "Finished another weak Audible Log:

Audible 2 for 1 Challenge [4]
1. Arcade Catastrophe
2. Bride of Death
Purchased: [book:An Echo Of Things To C..."

It's one of my favorites from the year. I'm trying to resist buying them in hardcover lol. Highly recommend! :)

Niki Hawkes wrote: "Veronica wrote: "Niki Hawkes wrote: "Finished another weak Audible Log:

Audible 2 for 1 Challenge [4]
1. Arcade Catastrophe
2. Bride of Death
Purchased: [book:An Ec..."

I really wanted to read that one with you guys but I just didn't have the time or money at that point so I'll have to tackle it next year!

Chris wrote: "Niki Hawkes wrote: "Veronica wrote: "Niki Hawkes wrote: "Finished another weak Audible Log:

Audible 2 for 1 Challenge [4]
1. Arcade Catastrophe
2. Bride of Death
Pu..."

There are so many dynamics in it that I'd recommend waiting until closer to when the third book is out. I'm worried about forgetting stuff by then lol.

Wow Niki!! You keep finishing them so fast! And great rewards also! :)

Laura wrote: "Wow Niki!! You keep finishing them so fast! And great rewards also! :)"

Thank you! ^_^ Unfortunatley I keep buying them faster - doh!

Chris wrote: "I really wanted to read that one with you guys but I just didn't have the time or money at that point so I'll have to tackle it next year!"

That's when I bought it. I was going to join in when the group was reading it here - don't recall if it was a BoTM or a regular BR - but I just couldn't squeeze it in.

Niki Hawkes wrote: "There are so many dynamics in it that I'd recommend waiting until closer to when the third book is out. I'm worried about forgetting stuff by then lol. "

Good to know, thanks.

Veronica wrote: "Niki Hawkes wrote: "There are so many dynamics in it that I'd recommend waiting until closer to when the third book is out. I'm worried about forgetting stuff by then lol. "

Good to know, thanks."

I'm still organizing my bookshelves when I have time because I'm close to having 250-300 books now, so it's never a problem finding a book to read, the problems occur when I find something that I don't have and want to read! lol

Niki's Book Buying Ban Challenge [2]
1. Dragonmaster - Chris Bunch [DNF - Donated]
2. The Infinity Gate - Sara Douglass
3. Dragondrums - Anne McCaffrey
4. Magic Shifts - Ilona Andrews
5. Bard's Oath - Joanne Bertin [DNF]
Purchased: Magic Shifts

I'm adding all the books I just bought that I need to make up. :F

Okay, here are the books from my recent Cyber Monday Haul...

Purchases to Make Up:
A Crucible of Souls - Mitchell Hogan
Banner of the Damned - Sherwood Smith
Daughter of Dusk - Livia Blackburn
Doomwyte - Brian Jacques
Fate - Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Hawk - Steven Brust
Lord Tophet - Gregory Frost
Magic Binds - Ilona Andrews
Marked by the Moon - Lori Handeland
Passenger - Alexandra Bracken
Path of the Sun - Violette Malan
Tremor - Patrick Carman
Quake - Patrick Carman
Sound - Alexandra Duncan
Storm - D.J. Machale
The Chaos Crystal - Jennifer Fallon
The Dark Shore - Kevin Emerson
The Far Dawn - Kevin Emerson
The Prey - Tom Isbell
The Providence of Fire - Brian Staveley
The Last Mortal Bond - Brian Staveley
Skullsworn - Brian Staveley
Trollhunters - Guillermo del Toro
When the Heavens Fall - Marc Turner
Total: 24

Read Already (Not Counting):
The Lunar Chronicles Boxed Set: Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, Fairest, Winter - Marissa Meyer
The Planet Thieves - Dan Krokos
Within the Sanctuary of Wings - Marie Brennan
Queen of Fire - Anthony Ryan
A Conjuring of Light - V.E. Schwab
Rush - Eve Silver

I'm very pleased with myself. ^_^

I'm going to exploit a loophole by adopting a version of the FIFO Bookends mini challenge: If I read any of the books from this recent purchase before my challenge anniversary, then I don't have to use a credit to earn that book. :P

Niki Hawkes wrote: "I'm going to exploit a loophole by adopting a version of the FIFO Bookends mini challenge: If I read any of the books from this recent purchase before my challenge anniversary, then I don't have to..."

You can do it! 😉

Thanks Miche! 💪

Audible 2 for 1 Challenge [5]
1. Magic Shifts
2. Oathbringer
Purchased: Something from the Nightside

Good job, Niki!

Great job Niki!!!

and if you want yo BR Something from the Nightside I'm in for it. :)

Thank you two!

Laura, I'm not sure when I'll get around to it, but I'll totally take you up on it when I do! :)