Fantasy Buddy Reads discussion

Tell us what you are reading in April.

I will be reading

Den of Wolves
Dragon Slippers
The Crimson Campaign
Shadow of Night

A lot... as usual:

April 2018 -- 17 new BRS + 4 possible re-reads + 4 Bookburners episodes

Arcanum Unbound -- 4/1 -- Cosmere Collection -- mostly re-read
Kushiel's Scion -- 4/1 -- Kushiel's Legacy #4
Plague of Giants -- 4/2 -- Seven Kennings #1 (new Kevin Hearne series)
Blood of Tyrants -- 4/5 -- Temeraire #8
Obsidio -- 4/5 -- Illuminae Files #3 -- END
Ethan of Athos -- 4/6 -- Vorkosigan Saga
Bookburners 1.1 -- 4/6
Halfling's Gem -- 4/7 -- Drizzt #6 -- last one before I drop out
Queen Bitch -- 4/8 -- Kurtherian Gambit #2
The Ghost Brigades -- 4/10 -- Old Man's War #2
Autumn War -- 4/10 -- LPQ #3
Way of Kings -- 4/10 -- Stormlight Archives #1 -- re-read
The Lees of Laughter's End -- 4/13 -- Malazan ALL #4
Bookburners 1.2 -- 4/13
Crimson Campaign -- 4/15 -- Powder Mage #2
Crooked Kingdom -- 4/15 -- Six of Crows #2 -- END
Just One Damned Thing After Another -- 4/15 -- St. Mary's #1 -- re-read
Red Sister -- 4/18 -- Book of the Ancestor #1
Lightning Thief -- 4/20 -- Percy Jackson #1
Bookburners 1.3 -- 4/20
Burn For Me -- 4/25 -- Hidden Legacy #1 -- re-read
The Wurms of Blearmouth -- 4/27 -- Malazan ALL #5
Best Served Cold -- 4/27 -- First Law #4
Bookburners 1.4 -- 4/27

Just left my BR tracker formatting this month... hope it's legible...

Burn for Me BR is in April? I thought it's in June...

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

I thought for a second it was double-booked again like Children of Time this month and last month, but I don't see it unless it's newly scheduled and hasn't been updated yet... White Hot is in May and Wildfire is in June...

looks like i was dreaming and checked the master list. it's in April. :)

I will do my best to finish these books:

Every Heart a Doorway
Fuzzy Nation
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
An Autumn War
The Man in the High Castle
Wylding Hall

I've been meaning to read the Bobiverse books

Buddy Reads:
2nd - King of Thorns
5th - Blood of Tyrants
5th - Obsidio
10th - The Way of Kings
27th - Best Served Cold

Also hoping to fit in Crooked Kingdom but not holding my breath.

And I want to read Heart-Shaped Box for my 'bookends challenge', haven't really made any progress with that bit of my overflowing bookshelf.

Iain wrote: "I've been meaning to read the Bobiverse books"

If you can squeeze it in your current schedule, we can have a BR too :)

Silvana wrote: "Iain wrote: "I've been meaning to read the Bobiverse books"

If you can squeeze it in your current schedule, we can have a BR too :)"

Just pick a date that's best for you and I'll be there... looks like the end of the month is best for me... the Bookburners listings are 40-50 pages, but Kushiel's Scion and Way of Kings are long ones...

Here's what I'm planning for April:

BRs

04/01 Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
04/01 The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories [PNR with Diana]
04/01 The Wheel of Osheim**
04/13 Golden Son
04/15 Age of Myth**
04/15 Crooked Kingdom
04/27 Best Served Cold**

Personal reads

Nice Dragons Finish Last**
Sir Thomas the Hesitant and the Table of Less Valued Knights
Arm of the Sphinx

Long-running BR : Bookburners: The Complete Season 1

04/06 #1 Badge, Book, and Candle
04/13 #2 Anywhere But Here
04/20 #3 Fair Weather
04/27 #4 A Sorcerer's Apprentice

(** = audiobook)

Here's what I have planned for the month.

*Arcanum Unbounded BR 4/1
*Age of Myth BR 4/15
*The Lightning Thief BR 4/20
*The Crooked Staircase
*Challenger Deep
*Crooked Kingdom (maybe...)
*Salt to the Sea
*The Arctic Incident

This will likely change somewhat. I haven't been doing all that well at sticking to my plans. I may have left something off as well.

Here's what I'm aiming for.

Buddy Reads:
04/10 The Ghost Brigades
04/25 Burn for Me

Personal Reads:
Wrapping up Carpe Jugulum
The Fold (audio)
The Tyrant's Law
Fairest
Sightwitch

Hello, everyone! So I have The Fellowship of the Ring and
The Eye of the World currently and after I've finished them I have a few others on my TBR (haven't bought them yet) and will also probably re-read The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

This is what I have planned to read so far:

Obsidio buddy read
A Conjuring of Light buddy read
Den of Wolves buddy read
Burn for Me buddy read
The Crimson Campaign buddy read
Charming book club

Iain wrote: "Silvana wrote: "Iain wrote: "I've been meaning to read the Bobiverse books"

If you can squeeze it in your current schedule, we can have a BR too :)"

Just pick a date that's best for you and I'll ..."

I actually prefer mid-month but since you'll much faster than me, and I will be listening to audio anyway (which will take longer time) I think I can start earlier then you follow at the end of the month. What do you think?

Sounds good... I jump in once you've made some progress... have some spoilers lined up for me to comment on...

Here is my TBR for April:



I may also be reading The Power if I get time but that was a last minute addition.

Some of these are buddy reads with this group but I am taking part in a Harry Potter themed readathon from 2nd-29th April so although I've managed to fit my buddy reads to some of the challenges and I've had to pick some more books to fit others. I don't know quite how many I'll get through though.

What I'm planning to read and hopefully finish (it has been a bad start for BR's so far. Just finished 1 or 2):
The Riven Kingdom
The Twelve
Assassin's Apprentice
The Penelopiad

What I really want to finish first:
The Passage
Empress of Mijak

Hailee wrote: "Here is my TBR for April:



I may also be reading The Power if I get time but that was a last minute addition.

Some of these are buddy reads with this group but I am taking part i..."

Son of Neptune is on my TBR too! I hope I get to read it this month.

I'm reading Book 1 The Lost Hero right now. Are you planning to join in the buddy read we are having of the series? The Son of Nepune starts 26th April

Oh, cool! I don't know about the whole series, but I could jump in for Son of Neptune if that's possible?

Maria wrote: "Oh, cool! I don't know about the whole series, but I could jump in for Son of Neptune if that's possible?"

Absolutely. The thread will be listed on the April buddy reads masterlist. Hope to see you there 😄

Buddy reads:

Obsidio
Toll the Hounds
An Autumn War
The Lightning Thief - attempt
Golden Son
Burn for Me

Non buddy reads:

Jackaby
Caliban's War

Might have a couple more, but these will depend on my mood at the time.

Ok here we go!

Finished
The Final Empire Catching Mistborn Era2 BR

TBR
Into the Labyrinth
The Seventh Gate
The Crystal Shard Catching BR
Streams of Silver Catching BR
The Halfling's Gem Hopefully with BR :)
Assassin's Apprentice BR
The Crimson Campaign BR
The Well of Ascension Catching Mistborn Era2 BR
The Hero of Ages Catching Mistborn Era2 BR
The Legacy BR

Also if I have time to read another thing I'll either start Dresden series of re-start WoT. I finished 6 but didn't start 7 for whatever the reason. It's been so long so I'm gonna start from the beginning and hopefully finish it this time for good :)

Hailee wrote: "Here is my TBR for April:



I may also be reading The Power if I get time but that was a last minute addition.

Some of these are buddy reads with this group but I am taking part i..."

I want to start Mark Lawrence's books with chronological order. I'm wishing it will be planned as BR here but it has probably already been done :/

I'm currently reading:
Queen of Fire
Promise of Blood
Bauchelain and Korbal Broach - finished blood follows and taking time catch up the two above before going to the second short story.

Might jump in on the second Powder Mage if I can catch up on everything.

Arcanum Unbounded
Obsidio
Fall of Giants
Ship of Destiny
Crimson Campaign
Babylon's Ashes
Best Served Cold
Ships of Merior & Warhost of Vastmark (2 books in series in one month)
And if I can fit it in - Plague of Giants

Toll the Hounds is my BR this month.

Non BR

Silent Scream
Manitou Canyon

These are the BRs I hope to partake in. One down, three to go.

Obsidio
Neverwhere
The Ghost Brigades
Mistress of the Empire

Sedat wrote: "Hailee wrote: "Here is my TBR for April:



I may also be reading The Power if I get time but that was a last minute addition.

Some of these are buddy reads with this group but I a..."

We read Prince of Thorns (his debut book) last month and are currently reading King of Thorns so you have time to catch up with us if you would like :-)

Hailee wrote: "Sedat wrote: "Hailee wrote: "Here is my TBR for April:



I may also be reading The Power if I get time but that was a last minute addition.

Some of these are buddy reads with this..."

I thought you would only read the first book as I saw in this schedule topic :/

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

I might catch up to you if I can find a time in my already kind of impossible schedule :)

I've read

Artemis

Running Full Tilt

Mariel of Redwall

Daughter of Smoke and Bones

currently reading Days of Blood and Starlight

I'm reading words of radiance by Brandon Sanderson but Idk if I should start another book, my options are:

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

Royal Assasin
any idea guys?

Now I'm reading Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil Degrasse, A clash of kings by GRRM and From Animals into Gods: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari c: messy taste haha

I'm reading Naomi Novik's Triumph of the Eagles, and getting to Tongues of Serpents after that!

@Luis: Go with A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms! Nice old school buddy fantasy with Martin's flair

Italo wrote: "Now I'm reading Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil Degrasse, A clash of kings by GRRM and From Animals into Gods: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari c: messy taste haha"

Nice!

I'm finally diving into Malazan... wish me luck! :)

Niki Hawkes wrote: "I'm finally diving into Malazan... wish me luck! :)"

Woohoo! Go, Captain! :D

Niki Hawkes wrote: "I'm finally diving into Malazan... wish me luck! :)"

Good luck Niki. I'm still only 1/3 of the way through Gardens of the Moon myself. I'm determined to make it a priority in May.

Thanks!!

Yeah I think I only made it 10% last time. I'm determined to finally make it a priority also. :) good luck!