Fantasy Buddy Reads discussion

Started/In Progress: italics indicate that I want to focus on those first

The Academy (1/8)
Across the Universe (1/3)
Alex Benedict (1/8)
The Band (1/2)
Bobiverse (3/4)
The Broken Earth (1/3)
A Court of Thorns and Roses (2/4)
Finder Chronicles (2/3)
Dragonlance Chronicles, Original Trilogy (2/3)
Dune (1/8)
The Earthsea Cycle (2/6)
An Ember in the Ashes (1/4)
Embers of War (1/3)
The Expanse (2/9)
Fallen Empire (1/8)
Farseer Trilogy (1/3)
The Folk of the Air (1/3)
Hidden Legacy (4/5)
Honor Harrington (10/14)
Impossible Times (1/3)
The Infernal Devices (1/3)
Innkeeper Chronicles (3/4.5)
Inverted Frontier (1/2)
Die Krone der Sterne (1/3)
Lady Astronaut Universe (1/3)
The Licanius Trilogy (1/3)
The Machineries of Empire (2/3)
The Murderbot Diaries (4/6)
Nevermoor (1/3)
Poison Study (1/6)
The Poppy War (1/3)
The Raveling (1/3)
Remembrance of Earth’s Past (1/3)
Riddle-Master (1/3)
Revelation Space (1/3)
Sands of Arawiya (1/2)
Shadow and Bone (1/3)
The Singing Hills Cycle (1/2)
Spellslinger (1/6)
Thomas Cromwell (1/3)
The Trials of Apollo (2/5)
The Wheel of Time (1/15)
The Witchlands (1/5)
The Wounded Kingdom (2/3)
Vatta's War (1/5)
Zones of Thought (1/3)

Up-to-date:

Alpha & Omega
The Aurora Cycle (next book out in November)
Between Earth and Sky
Crescent City
Great Cities
Married to Magic
The Locked Tomb
Mercy Thompson
The Nameless Republic
The Serpent Gates
Six Crimson Cranes
Skyward
The Stormlight Archive

Series Finished in 2021:
Mistborn

Series Abandoned in 2021:
Dead Djinn Universe
The Dark-Elves of Nightbloom
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
The Faithful and the Fallen
Old Man's War

And So It Begins :D

I started with a thread... but my reading history is so unwieldy, I eventually upgraded to a spreadsheet... it's about 12-18 months behind, and been through several upgrades, but it's tracking nearly 500 series

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Let's see how many I can finish or catch up with by the end of the year! Hopefully at least 1/3 of the ones I start until then?

Oh wow, great spreadsheet! I do use one for tracking my yearly reading (except that I update it too rarely), but not my series. For now I'll try it just with this thread alone without starting another spreadsheet - otherwise I end up planning my reading more than I actually read. 🤭

That was always my best goal... to finish more than I start... always fails eventually tho...

If I get slumpy, the solution is to keep trying new series, until I find one I'm really into and focus on it for awhile... leads to alot of started series, and not many finished...

Eva wrote: "Oh wow, great spreadsheet! I do use one for tracking my yearly reading (except that I update it too rarely), but not my series. For now I'll try it just with this thread alone without starting anot..."

That's why I let it fall behind... it's a fair bit of work to catalog... and then it piles up and it feels daunting... similar to my backlog of ratings/reviews...

Mostly because I read 200-500 books a year... usually more in the 200-300 range... so it needs updating almost daily...

I like the spreadsheet for the color coding... originally it was 5 tabs I had to track, and constantly move things around... my biggest upgrade was migrating to a Master List, and using query functions to pull types of series into the other tabs based on status...

I used to have more statuses with Almost in the title, for series I'd read everything but the short stories, but instead merged them into a single tab... short stories are great for getting more insights into series you love, but tend to be more expensive per page than books, unless they end up in series-specific anthologies...

BTW... has anyone ever told you your profile picture looks like rudolph the red-nose reindeer, if you don't know what you're looking at in a small thumbnail, and have bad image recognition / pariedolia?


Even knowing what it is vaguely supposed to be, I still see Rudolph, especially at the smallest size in threads :D

EDIT: I pulled up the full-size image, and it's definite 100% the image cropping's fault...

Hahahaa! I had no idea and can't see it myself, but now I love that I look a bit like Rudolph. 😄

Your picture always reminds me of Kylar from the Night Angel trilogy.

And wow, that number of books is hella impressive! And here I am with my "read 80 books" yearly challenge, lol.

I'm around 200 for the year so far, this year... at this point last year I think I had 400... I could have read alot more last year if I hadn't slumped around the end of May with 300 already... I was reading like 3 books a day... tons of mysteries...

I've looped through a number of hoodie pics over the past couple years, mostly drawings, I think this one is a photo from google...

For rudolph, the roses are the nose, the hair is the eye, the pale head is the pupil, and the dress is the cheek and neck... it mostly works in the very small thumbnail on comment pages and notifications... NOT on your profile page...

Then again, I've always dissociated and found my own images in things, especially wall spackle or other random things...

it's more of an angry rudolph eye shape

Yes, now I can sort of see it. :-D

Update on the list:
Started/In Progress

The Protectorate (1/3)

Once you see it, it becomes the first thing you see until you force correct... at least for me...

Update:

Started/In Progress:

Graceling Realm 3/4

Series Finished:

The Illuminae Files

Series Abandoned:

Zamonien

Updates:

Series In Progress:
An Ember in the Ashes (2/4)
The Five Warrior Angels (1/2)
Green Rider (1/7)
Skyward (1/1 short story, 3/3 novels, 2/3 novellas)
Spin the Dawn (1/2)

Up-to-date:
Alpha & Omega
The Scholomance

Series Finished:
The Aurora Cycle
The Wounded Kingdom

Series Abandoned:
Married to Magic