Fantasy Buddy Reads discussion

2022 Year of Grimdark buddy reads

January
Heroes Die by Matthew Woodring Stover with Beena

February
Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence reread series with Grimdark gang (Zaara, Hailee, Beena and anyone else keen)
The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan with Rob Feb 15th

Anyone interested in...?:

The Court of Broken Knives by Anna Smith Spark
Godblind by Anna Stephens
A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie
Devices and Desires by K.J. Parker
Priest of Bones by Peter McLean
Pattern by K.J. Parker (Scavenger #2)
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City by K.J. Parker with Rob?

Might continue:

Mistborn Saga...maybe

2021

Beyond Redemption
The Mirror's Truth
Swarm and Steel

The Final Empire
The Well of Ascension
The Hero of Ages

The Way of Shadows

2019

January
1/1: Grey Sister
7/1: The Reality Disfunction
? /1: Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Barsetshire #2)
25/1: Assassin's Apprentice

2018
August:
10/8: Kings of the Wyld ✔
15/8: The Final Empire (Mistborn #1) nope
24/8: The Gates of Rome (Emperor #1) ✔

September:
5/9: Ruin (Faithful and the Fallen #3)
10/9: Cibola Burn (Expanse #4)
24/9: Wuthering Heights

October:
1/10: A Man of Shadows (John Nyquist #1)
8/10: Traitor's Blade
10/10: Nemesis (Expanse #5)
22/10: The Dread Wyrm (Traitor Son Cycle #3)

November:
1/11: The Body Library (John Nyquist #2)
5/11: Wrath (Faithful and the Fallen #4)
10/11: Babylon's Ashes (Expanse #6)
12/11: The Poppy War
22/11: A Plague of Swords (Traitor Son Cycle #4)

December:
1/12: Red Sister
10/12: Persepolis Rising (Expanse #7)
22/12: The Fall of Dragons (Traitor Son Cycle #5)

Reserved

Reserved

Reserved

I want to be on your shield wall! 😁

SHIELD WALL!!! *manly thumping on shield*

Laura Tenfingers wrote: "SHIELD WALL!!! *manly thumping on shield*"

Welcome to the club, Mark Lawrence/Abercrombie BR buddy Ten!
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Someday... ...
Do you reckon we can manage a BR for each finger?

EDIT Damn I just wanted the cover art not the whole jacket! (hide spoiler)]

Yes! How many fingers do we have to go? XD
And one finger should be a Heyer... and the rest of the Abercrombies 😍... we'll need more fingers.

*hears Heyer and rushes in*

Do you like Georgette Heyer?

Karishma wrote: "*hears Heyer and rushes in*

Do you like Georgette Heyer?"

I've only read Cotillion and had a hard time getting into it but by the end I really enjoyed it. I think I should try some more. You like her I gather?

All your dates are confusing for us Americans. In the spirit of American elitism I demand you change them! Just kidding ;-)

You're doing 2 Expanse books in 1 month? Is Nemesis on the calendar already? Crap, do I need to add this to my tracker?

Diana Stormblessed wrote: "All your dates are confusing for us Americans. In the spirit of American elitism I demand you change them! Just kidding ;-)

You're doing 2 Expanse books in 1 month? Is Nemesis on the calendar alre..."

Haha! Sorry! I've lived in both US and non-US systems and I gotta say month/day/year makes no kind of sense 😉🤣

Yeah, so we had Nemesis on for September originally but yeah, we should change that after we delayed Cibola Burn. Just hadn't done it yet. One month after Cibola? We're in no rush now that the latest one has been delayed to March 2019. And it looks like just you and me.

Laura Tenfingers wrote: "Diana Stormblessed wrote: "All your dates are confusing for us Americans. In the spirit of American elitism I demand you change them! Just kidding ;-)

You're doing 2 Expanse books in 1 month? Is N..."

I totally agree with you. American systems generally make no sense. 5280 feet in a mile? That's way stranger than 1000 meters in a kilometer. Americans complicate everything.

I can do one month after Cibola. My husband is caught up and is eagerly awaiting till I do, but I'm drowning in books and need to take it slow :-)

I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed myself so I'm totally game with taking it slow and adjusting as needed :)
My October and November are just stupid. I'll rebel and not keep up...

Laura Tenfingers wrote: "Karishma wrote: "*hears Heyer and rushes in*

Do you like Georgette Heyer?"

I've only read Cotillion and had a hard time getting into it but by the end I really enjoyed it. I think I..."

I don't remember liking Cotillion so much.

Yes, I love Heyer. The books were in my school library and my introduction to Historical Romance at age 14.

They also led to me asking my school English Teacher what "rake" meant - no not the garden instrument ma'am this is something else. And her being speechless and telling me what kind of books are you reading?

Laura Tenfingers wrote: "I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed myself so I'm totally game with taking it slow and adjusting as needed :)
My October and November are just stupid. I'll rebel and not keep up..."

😂 at rebelling against your own tracker. That's something I would do.

Laura Tenfingers wrote: "I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed myself so I'm totally game with taking it slow and adjusting as needed :)
My October and November are just stupid. I'll rebel and not keep up..."

They look perfectly manageable. Let's try to add in a few more shall we 🤣🤣🤣

Karishma wrote: "Laura Tenfingers wrote: "I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed myself so I'm totally game with taking it slow and adjusting as needed :)
My October and November are just stupid. I'll rebel and not keep up...."

That. That enabling is how I go from "I can totally do this" at the beginning of the month to "Help! I'm drowning!" by the end. This group is evil 😂

My BR tracker is like a diary of what NOT to do :D

Looking at it, it doesn't even match my spreadsheet, since I constantly kept joining Buddy Reads whenever I felt like it, unplanned... I did 22-30 Buddy Reads every month of the year, so far... I think... I'm several weeks behind on updating my spreadsheet...

Diana's right. This group is just a bunch of enablers.
Except me, of course. I'm innocent.

Virginie wrote: "Diana's right. This group is just a bunch of enablers.
Except me, of course. I'm innocent."

Right. I thought you were the BR assistant 😂

Virginie wrote: "Diana's right. This group is just a bunch of enablers.
Except me, of course. I'm innocent."

"Let's just binge the rest of the series"

Iain wrote: "My BR tracker is like a diary of what NOT to do :D

Looking at it, it doesn't even match my spreadsheet, since I constantly kept joining Buddy Reads whenever I felt like it, unplanned... I did 22-3..."

30 - wow!

Karishma wrote: "Iain wrote: "My BR tracker is like a diary of what NOT to do :D

Looking at it, it doesn't even match my spreadsheet, since I constantly kept joining Buddy Reads whenever I felt like it, unplanned...."

30 includes short stories... I don't think I ever managed more than 22-26 full-length BRs in a month... I've read a book almost every day this year... or I had until a couple weeks ago... I'm a few books behind, at this point, I think... still an impressive year for me... over 95k pages already, I think...

Guess I didn't slack off as much as I thought... just updated my spreadsheet... this was kind of a cheat month, tho, since we binged Kate Daniels together...

Karishma wrote: "They also led to me asking my school English Teacher what "rake" meant - no not the garden instrument ma'am this is something else. And her being speechless and telling me what kind of books are you reading?..."

Oh, I love me a good rake! 😂😍 I'll have to try out more of hers, I really didn't know where to start... Which is your favourite?

Karishma wrote: "They look perfectly manageable. Let's try to add in a few more shall we 🤣🤣🤣...

Aaahhh! Run away screaming!!! And... Yeah, sure, sign me up! 😁

Diana Stormblessed wrote: "That. That enabling is how I go from "I can totally do this" at the beginning of the month to "Help! I'm drowning!" by the end. This group is evil ..."

True that! It all seems so reasonable at first doesn't it? This group is totally awesome but also evil, yes.

Laura Tenfingers wrote: "Karishma wrote: "*hears Heyer and rushes in*

Do you like Georgette Heyer?"

I've only read Cotillion and had a hard time getting into it but by the end I really enjoyed it. I think I..."

I've just read The Inconvenient Marriage and had a hard time getting into it too...but those covers are gorgeous and I vaguely remember furtively sneak reading Arabella or was it Araminta at work years and years ago and liking it. Heyer is a variable experience, apparently...
I dunno....too many BRs....I need to make a list....

EDIT
This group IS evil....😈😂

@Zaara and Laura

My favourites are Venetia, The Grand Sophy, Faro's Daughter and Frederica. But there are many I haven't read.

I actually did not like both the ones you two have read!

Arabella is good!

Karishma wrote: I actually did not like both the ones you two have read!... Funny! She's written soooo much...
Alright,The Grand Sophy and Arabella were on my list so I'll try those out next. Thanks!

Diana Stormblessed wrote: "All your dates are confusing for us Americans. In the spirit of American elitism I demand you change them! Just kidding ;-)"

I was thinking the exact opposite ;-) This is one of the few trackers where I don't have to take a few extra seconds to wrap my mind around the backwards way American's write their dates haha.

Karishma wrote: "Right. I thought you were the BR assistant 😂"

Iain wrote: "Let's just binge the rest of the series""

Noooo, busted! 😱

🤣 🤣 🤣

Hailee wrote: "Diana Stormblessed wrote: "All your dates are confusing for us Americans. In the spirit of American elitism I demand you change them! Just kidding ;-)"

I was thinking the exact opposite ;-) This i..."

I agree! It is much easier since we also write our dates in dd mm

Karishma wrote: "I agree! It is much easier since we also write our dates in dd mm "

Yay glad there are some people on my side

LOL.

I caved a few months back, and went from DD/MM to MM/DD. Now, I'm all confused every time I update my own tracker xD

I go ahead and do 9th Sept so nobody gets confused 😋

I will never be able to do mm dd

Hailee wrote: "Karishma wrote: "I agree! It is much easier since we also write our dates in dd mm "

Yay glad there are some people on my side"

I'm on your side as well!!! 😂

Virginie wrote: "LOL.

I caved a few months back, and went from DD/MM to MM/DD. Now, I'm all confused every time I update my own tracker xD"

NOOOOO don't give in! We all need to stick together and unite against the American enemy.

(view spoiler)[Or is that being a bit dramatic? ;-) (hide spoiler)]

Karishma wrote: "I go ahead and do 9th Sept so nobody gets confused 😋

I will never be able to do mm dd"

Yes I list the month as a heading and then just list the individual dates on mine. MM/DD is unnatural in my opinion. If there is a date where both numbers are smaller than 12 then I'm always confused as to whether someone has written it in the American or the UK format. Why there can't be one format worldwide I do not know.

Hailee wrote: "Virginie wrote: "LOL.

I caved a few months back, and went from DD/MM to MM/DD. Now, I'm all confused every time I update my own tracker xD"

NOOOOO don't give in! We all need to stick together and..."

I wanted to say that - didn't know if I could!!

What she said people - 100 percent behind her!!

Sir Anni wrote: "Hailee wrote: "Karishma wrote: "I agree! It is much easier since we also write our dates in dd mm "

Yay glad there are some people on my side"

I'm on your side as well!!! 😂"

Haha we need to come up with a team name

Hailee wrote: "Sir Anni wrote: "Hailee wrote: "Karishma wrote: "I agree! It is much easier since we also write our dates in dd mm "

Yay glad there are some people on my side"

I'm on your side as well!!! 😂"

Hah..."


We could be Team Cyan 😂

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_...

But nowbody will understand it without the link 😅

Ok let's be Team Cyan. - Canada uses all three formats btw???? How confusing would that be!

Karishma wrote: "Ok let's be Team Cyan. - Canada uses all three formats btw???? How confusing would that be!"

My thought exactly 😂

😢 I'll see myself out now.

Diana Stormblessed wrote: "😢 I'll see myself out now."

Nooo, we still love you, Team Magenta.

I think star dates would be best.

I cunningly solved this problem on mine by going Word/Number format...like so...Dec 25...
But does this this even matter when I never update my tracker?
😂

EDIT just noticed that Kari already suggested this...

Diana Stormblessed wrote: "😢 I'll see myself out now."

Awwww! *cuddle for you* xD