Fantasy Buddy Reads discussion

Goal 1: To reduce the amount of books I bring home and make progress through the books I currently own.

My Owned Books
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Soon to Read:



The Book-Buying Ban Mini Challenge

3 for 1 Book-Buying Ban Challenge [47]:

Purchased:

Book buying ban will include next in series books. I think. Depending on how urgently I need to read it!!


The Book Pledge Challenge

Siobhan's Book Pledge Challenge [18] [Goal: 10 by 30/09/2019]:

Nice! Good luck :)

Record of Success...!

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Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [1]:
1. Dragons at Crumbling Castle
2. Thief's Magic
3. The Girl of Ink and Stars
Purchased: The Stone Sky

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [2]:
1. Tooth and Claw
2. The Well of Ascension
3. Empire of Ivory
Purchased: A Skinful of Shadows

Siobhan's Book Pledge Challenge 1 [Goal: 5 by 31/12/2017]:
1. Thief's Magic ✓
2. The Girl of Ink and Stars ✓
3. The Well of Ascension ✓
4. Empire of Ivory ✓
5. The Lies of Locke Lamora ✓

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [3]:
1. The Lies of Locke Lamora
2. Lost Boy
3. Victory of Eagles
Purchased: The Obelisk Gate

High Priority [1] - completed 03/02/18
Thief's Magic ✓
The Girl of Ink and Stars ✓
The Well of Ascension ✓
Empire of Ivory ✓
The Lies of Locke Lamora ✓
The Hero of Ages ✓
Victory of Eagles ✓
Lost Boy ✓
Tooth and Claw ✓
Warbreaker ✓

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [4]:
1. The Hero of Ages
2. Red Seas Under Red Skies
3. Warbreaker
Purchased: Blood of Tyrants

Siobhan's Book Pledge Challenge [2] [Goal: 5 by 28/02/2018]:
1. Lost Boy ✓
2. Victory of Eagles ✓
3. The Hero of Ages ✓
4. Red Seas Under Red Skies ✓
5. Warbreaker ✓

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [5]:
1. Moving Pictures
2. Illuminae
3. Tongues of Serpents
Purchased: Gemina

Siobhan's Book Pledge Challenge [3] [Goal: 5 by 31/03/2018]:
1. Moving Pictures ✓
2. Illuminae ✓
3. Tongues of Serpents ✓
4. The Republic of Thieves ✓
5. The Fifth Season ✓

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [6]:
1. The Republic of Thieves
2. The Fifth Season
3. Midnight Crossroad
Purchased: Ink

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [7]:
1. The One Memory of Flora Banks
2. Small Gods
3. Crucible of Gold
Purchased: Obsidio

Siobhan's Book Pledge Challenge [4] [Goal: 5 by 31/03/2018]:
1. Midnight Crossroad ✓
2. The One Memory of Flora Banks ✓
3. Small Gods ✓
4. Crucible of Gold ✓
5. Gemina ✓

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [8]:
1. Gemina
2. Old Man's War
3. Six of Crows
Purchased: Scythe

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [9]:
1. Elantris
2. Obsidio
3. Blood of Tyrants
Purchased: Vicious

Siobhan's Book Pledge Challenge [5] [Goal: 5 by 30/04/2018]:
1. Old Man's War ✓
2. Six of Crows ✓
3. Elantris ✓
4. Obsidio ✓
5. Blood of Tyrants ✓

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [10]:
1. The Way of Kings, Part 1
2. The Way of Kings, Part 2
3. League of Dragons
Purchased: Firefight

High Priority [2] - completed 13/05/18
Tongues of Serpents ✓
Illuminae ✓
The Republic of Thieves ✓
Crucible of Gold ✓
Old Man's War ✓
Six of Crows ✓
Elantris ✓
Heart-Shaped Box ✓
Midnight Crossroad ✓
The Fifth Season ✓

Siobhan's Book Pledge Challenge [6] [Goal: 5 by 31/06/2018]:
1. The Way of Kings, Part 1 ✓
2. The Way of Kings, Part 2 ✓
3. League of Dragons ✓
4. Heart-Shaped Box ✓
5. Scythe ✓

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [11]:
1. Heart-Shaped Box
2. Scythe
3. The Boy in the Burning House
Purchased: The Special Ones

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [12]:
1. The Heroes
2. Lords and Ladies
3. The Alloy of Law
Purchased: Red Country

Siobhan's Book Pledge Challenge [7] [Goal: 5 by 31/07/2018]:
1. The Boy in the Burning House ✓
2. The Heroes ✓
3. Lords and Ladies ✓
4. The Alloy of Law ✓
5. Red Country ✓

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [13]:
1. Red Country
2. Vicious
3. Ink
Purchased: Guns of the Dawn

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [14]:
1. Shadows of Self
2. The Hedge Knight
3. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
Purchased: The Grim Company

Siobhan's Book Pledge Challenge [8] [Goal: 5 by 31/08/2018]:
1. Vicious ✓
2. Ink ✓
3. Shadows of Self ✓
4. The Hedge Knight ✓
5. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms ✓

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [15]:
1. The Mystery Knight: A Graphic Novel
2. Sea of Shadows
3. Knighthood of the Dragon
Purchased: Green Rider

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [16]:
1. Three Dark Crowns
2. The Special Ones
3. Firefight
Purchased: Asking For It

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [17]:
1. One Dark Throne
2. The Bands of Mourning
3. Men at Arms
Purchased: The Scarlet Tides

Siobhan's Book Pledge Challenge [9] [Goal: 10 by 30/09/2018]:
1. The Mystery Knight: A Graphic Novel
2. Sea of Shadows
3. Knighthood of the Dragon
4. Three Dark Crowns
5. The Special Ones
6. Firefight
7. One Dark Throne
8. The Bands of Mourning
9. Men at Arms
10. Children of Blood and Bone

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [18]:
1. Children of Blood and Bone
2. A Torch Against the Night
3. The Last Battle
Purchased: Of Sand and Malice Made

High Priority [3] - completed 10/09/18
Vicious ✓
Red Country ✓
Shadows of Self ✓
Knighthood of the Dragon ✓
Sea of Shadows ✓
The Armageddon Rag ✓
The Bands of Mourning ✓
The Last Battle ✓
Ink ✓
The Special Ones ✓

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [19]:
1. The Armageddon Rag
2. Shadow and Bone
3. Half Bad
Purchased: The Water Knife

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [20]:
1. Words of Radiance, Part 1
2. Words of Radiance, Part 2
3. Siege and Storm
Purchased: A Monster Calls

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [21]:
1. The Children of Men
2. Sharp Ends
3. A Monster Calls
Purchased: The Chalk Man

Siobhan's Book Pledge Challenge [10] [Goal: 10 by 31/10/2018]:
1. A Torch Against the Night
2. The Last Battle
3. The Armageddon Rag
4. Shadow and Bone
5. Half Bad
6. Words of Radiance, Part 1
7. Words of Radiance, Part 2
8. Siege and Storm
9. The Children Of Men
10. Sharp Ends
11. A Monster Calls
12. Snapshot

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [22]:
1. Dangerous Women
2. Snapshot
3. The Wish House
Purchased: Seasons of War

Siobhan's Bookend Challenge:
Newest:
1. Ink ✓
2. The Special Ones ✓
3. Vicious ✓

Oldest:
1. Heart-Shaped Box ✓
2. The Wish House ✓
3. The Children Of Men ✓

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [23]:
1. The Day of the Triffids
2. Ruin and Rising
3. Interesting Times
Purchased: The Dragon’s Legacy

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [24]:
1. The Mermaid
2. The Girl in the Tower
3. The Chalk Man
4. Before I Fall
5. Burial Rites
Purchased: Assassin's Apprentice

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [25]:
1. Maskerade
2. Crooked Kingdom
3. Assassin's Apprentice
4. Renegades
5. The Young Elites
Purchased: Royal Assassin

Siobhan's Book Pledge Challenge [11] [Goal: 10 by 31/12/2018]:
1. The Wish House
2. The Day of the Triffids
3. Ruin and Rising
4. Interesting Times
5. The Mermaid
6. The Girl in the Tower
7. Failed!! (hide spoiler)]

Looks great! 😊

Record of Success Part 2!

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Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [26]:
1. Feet of Clay
2. Royal Assassin
3. Seraphina
4. Thunderhead
5. Skyward
Purchased: King of Scars

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [27]:
1. Queens of Fennbirn
2. Assassin's Quest
3. Jingo
4. City of Ghosts
5. King of Scars
Purchased: Blood upon the Sand

Siobhan's Book Pledge Challenge [11] [Goal: 10 by 30/04/2019]:
1. Feet of Clay
2. Royal Assassin
3. Seraphina
4. Thunderhead
5. Skyward
6. Queens of Fennbirn
7. Assassin's Quest
8. Jingo
9. City of Ghosts
10. King of Scars

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [28]:
1. Dry
2. Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt
3. The Last Continent
4. Two Dark Reigns
5. Dragonsong
Purchased: The Familiars

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [29]:
1. Ship of Magic Ship of Magic
2. A Shadow in Summer
3. Carpe Jugulum
4. Burn for Burn
5. The Mad Ship
Purchased: The Emperor's Blades

Siobhan's Book Pledge Challenge [12] [Goal: 10 by 30/06/2019]:
1. Dry
2. Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt
3. The Last Continent
4. Two Dark Reigns
5. Dragonsong
6. Ship of Magic
7. A Shadow in Summer
8. Carpe Jugulum
9. Burn for Burn
10. The Mad Ship

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [30]:
1. Pax
2. A Betrayal in Winter
3. The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
4. The Painted Man
5. The Fifth Elephant
Purchased: The Great Bazaar & Brayan's Gold

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [31]:
1. Ship of Destiny
2. The Truth
3. Exit Strategy
4. An Autumn War
5. The Great Bazaar & Brayan's Gold
Purchased: The Girl in Red

Siobhan's Book Pledge Challenge [13] [Goal: 10 by 31/08/2019]:
1. Pax
2. A Betrayal in Winter
3. The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
4. The Painted Man
5. The Fifth Elephant
6. Ship of Destiny
7. The Truth
8. Exit Strategy
9. An Autumn War
10. The Great Bazaar & Brayan's Gold

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [32]:
1. Promise of Blood
2. Made to Be Broken
3. The Price of Spring
4. The Left Hand of God
5. Thief of Time
Purchased: A Little Hatred

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [33]:
1. Turning Darkness Into Light
2. The Last Hero
3. Wild Justice
4. Fool's Errand
5. A Little Hatred
Purchased: Turning Darkness Into Light (earning back!)

Siobhan's Book Pledge Challenge [14] [Goal: 10 by 31/10/2019]:
1. Promise of Blood
2. Made to Be Broken
3. The Price of Spring
4. The Left Hand of God
5. Thief of Time
6. Turning Darkness Into Light
7. The Last Hero
8. Wild Justice
9. Fool's Errand
10. A Little Hatred

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [34]:
1. Sorcery of Thorns
2. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
3. Golden Fool
4. The Toll
5. Over the Top
Purchased: So many things...

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [35]:
1. The Familiars
2. Vengeful
3. Five ​Dark Fates
Purchased: The Binding

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [36]:
1. Fool's Fate
2. The Wilful Princess and the Piebald Prince
3. Once Upon a River
Purchased: The Starless Sea

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [37]:
1. The Kingdom
2. The Crimson Campaign
3. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two
Purchased: The Foundling

Siobhan's Book Pledge Challenge [15] [Goal: 10 by 29/02/2019]:
1. Over the Top
2. The Familiars
3. Vengeful
4. Five ​Dark Fates
5. Fool's Fate
6. The Wilful Princess and the Piebald Prince
7. Once Upon a River
8. The Kingdom
9. The Crimson Campaign
10. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [38]:
1. The Binding
2. The Desert Spear
3. The Dragon Keeper
Purchased: The Autumn Republic

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [39]:
1. Naturally Tan
2. Ninth House
3. The Foundling
Purchased: Dragon Haven

Siobhan's 3 for 1 Book-Buying Ban Challenge [40]:



Purchased:

Siobhan's 3 for 1 Book-Buying Ban Challenge [41]:


Purchased:

Siobhan's Book Pledge Challenge [16] [Goal: 10 by 30/05/2019]:



Siobhan's 3 for 1 Book-Buying Ban Challenge [42]:


Purchased:

3 for 1 Book-Buying Ban Challenge [43&44]:



Purchased:

Siobhan's Book Pledge Challenge [17] [Goal: 10 by 31/07/2019]:



3 for 1 Book-Buying Ban Challenge [45]:

Purchased:

3 for 1 Book-Buying Ban Challenge [46]:

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Nice challenge sweety! And nice titles too!
Good luck 😘

I see you have also included next in series as "to be counted". Wise choice! :D Temptation to buy will be too great otherwise. But don't count the gifts either. Especially with Christmas coming up. 😊

Laura wrote: "Nice challenge sweety! And nice titles too!
Good luck 😘

I see you have also included next in series as "to be counted". Wise choice! :D Temptation to buy will be too great otherwise. But don't cou..."

Thanks huni! 😘 I think I might up the buying ban to 5 books before I can buy one. I thought 5 seemed quite high, but now 3 seems too low! What do you think?

Good luck, Siobhan. Nice challenge and lovely books!

Khushi wrote: "Good luck, Siobhan. Nice challenge and lovely books!"

Thank you, Khushi! :)

That looks pretty organised! :) Good luck with your challenge! Maybe you should choose the middle and go with 4 books ;)

Anni wrote: "That looks pretty organised! :) Good luck with your challenge! Maybe you should choose the middle and go with 4 books ;)"

Ooh an even number! I'd never even considered it 😂 I think I'll do it!! Haha.

Stick with the 3 at first as you already have the "earn the borrowed ones clause". I think you'll find it very difficult to resist if you up the mark. I know I am. :D
I have just ordered the 4th book in the Wayfarer series because it is the paperback with the amazing cover art and it was on sale (for just 2 bucks) so now I have to hurry up and read the 5 before it arrives. :) Though job. :))

What a bargain though! You can just fill in the purchased bit of the log then catch up on reading before you buy anything else! That'll help for books that it would be plain wrong to not buy.

Siobhan wrote: "Melissa ♥ Dog Lover ♥ wrote: "Looks great! 😊"

Thanks Mel! :) it was about time I got round to starting a thread. Hope I haven't bit off more than I can chew!"

You're welcome 😊 You will be just fine!

Good luck Siobhan! You have more will power than me! X

Ooh! I love how organized your challenge is haha. Good luck!! :D

Niki Hawkes wrote: "Ooh! I love how organized your challenge is haha. Good luck!! :D"

I copied and pasted the whole thing from your initial post and just deleted the explanations, so it's technically your organisation! XD thanks Niki!

Charlie wrote: "Good luck Siobhan! You have more will power than me! X"

This would be so good for you Charlotte! I particularly like the bit about focusing on oldest and newest books. Get on it!! :)

Siobhan wrote: "Charlie wrote: "Good luck Siobhan! You have more will power than me! X"

This would be so good for you Charlotte! I particularly like the bit about focusing on oldest and newest books. Get on it!! :)"

I'm too much of a spontaneous reader for this to work for me I think. I quite often put things on the pile next to my bed intending for that to be my to read pile for the month but then I don't read any of them. I'm definitely more of a 'whatever I fancy in the moment' kind of reader.

Well you could at least pledge to read however many of your owned books before buying a new one? :p

Siobhan wrote: "Well you could at least pledge to read however many of your owned books before buying a new one? :p"

I absolutely should do that, alas, I have virtually zero self control!

I could maybe make that pledge if that meant only not buying physical books, at full price, that are new. I couldn't agree not to buy things on ebook, or from second hand bookshops, or charity shops, or crazy cheap online deals, or borrow books from the library! You see, I can't do it.

The universe clearly wants me to buy all the books and who I am to deny the powers of the universe?!

Haha OK, OK, we'll just write you off as a lost cause 😂 😂

I'm not including ebooks like, I figure they're not a problem because they don't take up any physical space!

Siobhan wrote: "I'm not including ebooks like, I figure they're not a problem because they don't take up any physical space!"

That's excellent reasoning! I can buy as many as I like and they don't have to sit in my house. Lets go look at ebooks...

Charlie wrote: "I'm too much of a spontaneous reader for this to work for me I think. I quite often put things on the pile next to my bed intending for that to be my to read pile for the month but then I don't read any of them. I'm definitely more of a 'whatever I fancy in the moment' kind of reader."

I do the same thing! I am doing this challenge. I just make my spontaneous reading come from what I own. It just may not be from the stack that is beside my bed!

Tammie wrote: "Charlie wrote: "I'm too much of a spontaneous reader for this to work for me I think. I quite often put things on the pile next to my bed intending for that to be my to read pile for the month but ..."

I find I'm good at planning as long as it's buddy reads, because I hate to let people down and they motivate me.

I used to put a pile on my bedside table that I thought I would read next but like Charlie I would always end up back at my bookshelves looking. Now I just pile up the month's buddy reads.

I like to have room between for a random book too though, don't like how fully booked I am this month!

I try not to book more than half my monthly reads ahead of time... leave room for spontaneity or reading breaks... I plan a lot more since joining this group and all it's buddy reads... otherwise I'm more like Charlie... finish a book, pick the next...

Iain wrote: "I try not to book more than half my monthly reads ahead of time... leave room for spontaneity or reading breaks... I plan a lot more since joining this group and all it's buddy reads... otherwise I..."

I always intend to leave half the month free, but this buddy reads grow and I can't resist :'(

Solution: Read more... osmosis is key... sleep on a book

Ha, if only that worked. I know it doesn't because I've tried! :(

Maybe you didn't try hard enough? :D

Veronica's plan works too... eat book cakes...

Anni wrote: "Maybe you didn't try hard enough? :D"

Well, when you put it like that. I suppose it couldn't hurt to try again... XD

Iain wrote: "I try not to book more than half my monthly reads ahead of time... leave room for spontaneity or reading breaks... I plan a lot more since joining this group and all it's buddy reads... otherwise I..."

I usually do this too but I'm also terrible for putting books down and starting something else before I finish them, so I really don't help myself!

Siobhan's Book-Buying Ban Challenge [1]:
1. Dragons at Crumbling Castle
2. Thief's Magic
3. The Girl of Ink and Stars
Purchased: The Stone Sky

I've earned my first book! :D

Well done Siobhan!

Well done! :D

Yay!!! Feels so good. :D

Thanks so much guys! :)

Well done, Siobhan! I hope you're better at sticking to just one new book purchase than I've been so far. :-)

Iain wrote: "Veronica's plan works too... eat book cakes..."

Book cakes are nutritious. ;-)

Veronica wrote: "Well done, Siobhan! I hope you're better at sticking to just one new book purchase than I've been so far. :-)"

Thanks hun! I've been good so far because it's nearly Xmas and my family have put me on a buying ban in case I get something they've bought. But just wait until I go to a book shop to buy that one book I've earned... I can't guarantee I won't buy 10! :'(

On a side note, help me here, if I trade a load of books into a store and get credit to buy more books (making them free), that doesn't count right??

Siobhan wrote: " But just wait until I go to a book shop to buy that one book I've earned... I can't guarantee I won't buy 10! :'( "

I know. This is where is where I always go wrong, lol. It's like eating just one potato chip.

"On a side note, help me here, if I trade a load of books into a store and get credit to buy more books (making them free), that doesn't count right?? "

I'd say it doesn't count but, then again, I love to enable my fellow book addicts. :-) In all honesty though, I'd say that free books or gift books shouldn't count.

Well done Siobhan!!!

And free books definitely don't count! Free is free. Why earn them?! 😘

Thanks ladies! My partner thinks he's being supportive of my challenge telling me I can't go to Barter Books and splurge, but the credit is literally sitting on my account waiting/calling for me! :) I'll tell him you guys say I'm allowed :) 😘

Nice work!

Hacen wrote: "Nice work!"

Thank you, Hacen! :)

"Goodreads said it was OK" -- Siobhan :)

"Because, with a name like Goodreads, THEY'RE surely impartial" -- Siobhan's partner :))

Iain wrote: ""Goodreads said it was OK" -- Siobhan :)

"Because, with a name like Goodreads, THEY'RE surely impartial" -- Siobhan's partner :))"

Haha yeah... Might not be the best validation. We're all a bunch of enablers.
And I love it!

Good job Siobhan! :) You can tell him I also said it's OK and I am absolutely trustworthy! :D