YA Buddy Readers' Corner ♥ discussion

Team Plunger


Brooke ✔️
☆☆Hannah☆☆ ✔️
Jenn ✔️
Jamie ✔️
Adriana ✔️
Ash ✔️
Kay-Mika ✔️
Brandee ✔️
Sabrina ✔️

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

Main Challenge Thread:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

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anybody have any books already lined up for next month? maybe we can BR some together!

I'll post my planned books when I get home from work :)

Here are my possible reads (library books i currently have checked out):



Planned Buddy Reads:

Hey everyone <3

Hilarious team name ha! I am a children's librarian so I am going to be thinking about this book every time I go on here -> .

Reading Options:



if my hold comes in from the library
if I finish A Little Hatred this weekend

I think I will mostly be reading the GBRs. Lots of series I either wouldn't mind re-reading via audiobook or ones I've been wanting to read. There are so many so unless I dnf a few series' I think that will be most of my month easily.

@Adriana I have read and loved it. There is this one sentence in it... just chief's kiss

My BR for this month
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Maybe , if I have enough time ( and energy)
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Just a heads up (for the mods) I live in Germany,so I'm seven hours ahead of PST/PDT.
Also, I might not post everyday ( but I read your entries) , so if you guys haven't heard anything from me by 10 o'clock PST/PDT (around 17 o'clock my time) come and poke me ^^

Lol Team Plunger. Checking in!

@Kay-Mika -Everyone is telling me they love it so I am so excited :D

I changed most of my reading plans... I am in a mystery/historical fiction mood.

Adriana wrote: "@Kay-Mika -Everyone is telling me they love it so I am so excited :D

I changed most of my reading plans... I am in a mystery/historical fiction mood."

I was pleasantly surprised, because 1) the Character are around 30 years old
and 2) For being written by an American it is actually very mature.
See, Americans here in Germany (maybe also Europe as a whole) are always seen as thinking in black and white. You either are right or you are wrong. There is no room for compromise.
One of the book's themes is about miscommunication and misinterpretation and both parties admit that they were right and wrong at the same time. And I think, that something like that coming from an American author is very grown-up.

lol. The truth of this statement -> See, Americans here in Germany (maybe also Europe as a whole) are always seen as thinking in black and white. You either are right or you are wrong. There is no room for compromise.

I guess I haven't read that much adult romance to say if that's true or not because I basically just read American published books.

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Normally read on my Kindle but plan is to sign up to new library and see if they have any of the books 🙂

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since it is the is already 1.8. here: Happy reading anyone🎉📚

I haven't read manga for challenges before so wondering if anyone knows if Spy×Family 3 would work for this challenge or no? It's more than 150pgs but i'm confused by the way it's explained in the challenge rules.

I have just looked them up, and the rules really are a little bit confusing. 🫤
First it says, it's allowed under 'illustrated' conditions and then, that they aren't 🤨

I would ask on the main threads with the rules then.

I asked on the main thread, see what they say.

they said they count :) I had a zoom meeting thing all day so I couldn't read any solid books but I'll have 5 mangas done and posted by end my day today so there's that :)

Yay, we got our first reviews 🥳🎊🍰

I just posted my first. :)

I've never done a buddy read before as I don't really know what's involved! Is it basically if I pick a book that one of you happen to be reading it'll count for more points?

In a bit under the weather so I'm going to start off with audio book :)

@Jamie 🥳
(Yes, I'm going to celebrate all your reviews 😋)

Sabrina wrote: "I've never done a buddy read before as I don't really know what's involved! Is it basically if I pick a book that one of you happen to be reading it'll count for more points?"

You can either join a preexisting buddy read (there is a thread that has them all listed for the month) or offer to read, or suggest a book to read and if you and at least 1 other person can agree on a book and a date you set up and ask for a thread. You must read the book and engage in conversation with the other person(s) on the buddy read thread for that book. 4 comments minimum and you need to actually reply to what they say (hence the engaging part)

@Jamie Thanks^^ You were faster

@Sabrina: Here is the general Buddy Read request threat:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
And here is the link for the planned Buddy Reads for this month
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/.... Maybe you can find something there and join

Well I tried reading Pretty Little Liars for the GBR. Had to dnf. Waste of an hour... :(

That series is horrible. I read all of the books and hated myself lol

Jenn wrote: "That series is horrible. I read all of the books and hated myself lol"

I can't imagine trying to read them all. I tried ebook and even audio but couldn't even get 25% through the first one. Might be would a lot of points for the challenge but so not worth enduring! IMO.

Two more reviews🎉

Kay-Mika wrote: "Two more reviews🎉"

YAY!

I finished a book earlier today but won't be able to leave a review til much later today (after its possible for an update), and I should finish another by end of day as well :)

@Brooke: You are so fast

@Brooke yeah how fast 🤣 hopefully I catch up on weekend when I don't have work

Im just extremely lucky to have a job where i can have headphones in the whole time so getting through audiobooks is crazy easy!

posted my 2 that I finished today

I've had a slow start but posted my first review. I want to get more into A Little Hatred and I'll start another middle grade audiobook. I'm off tomorrow so hopefully, I get a lot of reading done.

@Brooke - Are you a 2x speed type of person?

Adriana wrote: "I've had a slow start but posted my first review. I want to get more into A Little Hatred and I'll start another middle grade audiobook. I'm off tomorrow so hopefully, I get a lot of reading done.
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Yep always 2x, sometimes 2.25x depending on the narrator, one of the ARCs i read last month, i had to do 3x and it still sounded too slow to me, idk what was up with that one.

I cannot do 2x or faster. Everything sounds too clipped for me. Usually 1.5x is what I can do for audiobooks. I am amazed at the idea of 3x or 4x.

Fingers crossed that my Status Updates count

Does the book even count? It only has 137 pages

It will count as long as it's over 50 pgs. :)

* The minimum page counts needed for both page points and completing descriptions are:
~ Adult/YA without illustrations = 50 pages