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Virginie's BR Tracker - The (new and slightly more) Evil Empire
BUDDY READS
[ ✔ for completed, links in the title ]
Cozy November
SERIES BRs
[ links in the title ]
PRINT
[ 📖 for currently reading, ✔ for completed ]
✔ The Beauty's Blade
There’s Something Wrong with the Chief Vol. 1
Forever Desert
✔ The Lies of the Ajungo
The Truth of the Aleke
The Memory of the Ogisi
Sumerians
Inanna
Gilgamesh
AUDIO
[ 🎧 for currently reading, ✔ for completed ]
✔ The Everlasting
Hemlock & Silver
How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes
I Ran Away to Evil
I Ran Away to Evil
I Duet Evil And Love
I Re: As An NPC Troll
Fluff
🎧 Fluff
Fluff 2
Mo Dao Zu Shi (read on podcast)
🎧 Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation Vol. 3
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation Vol. 4
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation Vol. 5
PRINT + AUDIO
[ 📖🎧 for current read + listen, ✔ for completed ]
📖🎧 Babylonia
The Broken Earth
The Fifth Season
The Obelisk Gate
The Stone Sky
MANGAS
SHORT FICTION
a selection of my favorite stories
READING HISTORY
2018 & 2019
January 2020
February 2020
March 2020
June 2020
January/February 2024
March 2024
April 2024
October 2024
November 2024
December 2024
January 2025
May/June 2025
July/August 2025
September/October 2025
November 2025
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I'm a bit late, but here's my RESERVED comment as well 😁
Sir Anni wrote: "I'm a bit late, but here's my RESERVED comment as well 😁"+1
Siobhan wrote: "Amazing pic! 😍"Right?!? One more, by the same artist. This one is titled 'Dragon Call':
https://wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?...
Wow that's fantastic! I want it for my computer background!
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Virginie wrote: "Siobhan wrote: "Amazing pic! 😍"Right?!? One more, by the same artist. This one is titled 'Dragon Call':
https://wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?..."
Wow, I like this even more than the oter one you postet. The colors are great and I love the little details of the castle and of course the dragon 😍
Timelord Iain wrote: "There’s a guy that did that Van Gogh swirly painting, but with dogs..."Awww, those are so cute!
Timelord Iain wrote: "There’s a guy that did that Van Gogh swirly painting, but with dogs..."Ooooh, doggo starry night!
Fun fact: I believe Zaara posted the Starry Night on the first page of my old tracker :p
You can't beat awesome dragon pictures like that. Love them!!!
Sir Anni wrote: "Wow, I like this even more than the oter one you postet. The colors are great and I love the little details of the castle and of course the dragon 😍"Heeeh, I didn't post this one as first 'cause I didn't like the blue 'mane'.
Virginie wrote: "Sir Anni wrote: "Wow, I like this even more than the oter one you postet. The colors are great and I love the little details of the castle and of course the dragon 😍"Heeeh, I didn't post this one..."
Oh no... why have you said that? It really looks a lot like this guy
... I can't unsee it :/
Bwahaha! Sorry (but not really sorry) :D
Omg I can't unsee it now either!! I hadn't even noticed! 😂
So, I was making my round and saw teh comment that you missed having ugly socks on your tracker, because it's new and shiny... here you are :)
I've started to watch Somali and the Forest Spirit (also called Somari and the Guardian of the Forest) the other day, and WOW, it's pretty! It's Fantasy Slice-of-Life, about a Golem finding a little human girl in his forest one day, and deciding to starts travelling with her to find her parents/other humans.I've already read the manga up to volume 4 some time ago, but the animation, the work on the colors and voice acting make everything so much better! :)
Look at those backgrounds...
There's only 3 episodes so far, and 6 volumes out for the manga:
Oopsy missed the reserved train!Hello!
Karishma wrote: "Oopsy missed the reserved train!Hello!"
You're here now, that's enough ☺️
If you want to do Virginie a favor you could leave her a picture of ugly socks, I think she would like that very much!
Sir Anni wrote: "Karishma wrote: "Oopsy missed the reserved train!Hello!"
You're here now, that's enough ☺️
If you want to do Virginie a favor you could leave her a picture of ugly socks, I think she would like..."
Hahaha 😂
That anime looks amazing, Virginie! I'll have to look for it.
Karishma wrote: "Oopsy missed the reserved train!Hello!"
Better late than never :)
Hello to you too!
Sir Anni wrote: "If you want to do Virginie a favor you could leave her a picture of ugly socks, I think she would like that very much!"Of course I would like that, who doesn't like ugly socks all over their trackers? LOL
Siobhan wrote: "That anime looks amazing, Virginie! I'll have to look for it."It's available on Crunchyroll:
https://www.crunchyroll.com/fr/somali...
If you're not familiar with the platform: every video without a little crown, you can watch for free. Those with the crown are for the premium member (something like 5 bucks a month). Usually, that means the latest episode that aired in Japan, which will only be available to non-paying members a week later.
Virginie wrote: "Siobhan wrote: "That anime looks amazing, Virginie! I'll have to look for it."It's available on Crunchyroll:
https://www.crunchyroll.com/fr/somali...
If you're not familiar wi..."
Awesome! My boyfriend has a subscription! :D
I still need to catch up on Attack on Titan, that's why we subscribed and I haven't watched any for ages.
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in February/March... I really liked Dire Saga, except for the one in Hell at the end, a bit... but can't wait to get back into the Threadbare world, and eventually make it to the new Blasphemy Online trilogy in the future... just waiting to pickup the final book of the trilogy (and have a ton on my plate already)
Library only has book 1 so far... I've placed a request for #2 and #3 already, I'll join you if they acquire it before then. We can hijack the LitRPG book club for the BR :p
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The Waking Fire... I tried to send it again to Elinor after last time, but it's returning to me again after the delay to nab it from the postal office has expired. She never answered my messages about it so I'll send it to the next person as soon as I receive it (yay for incompetent French postal services as well). Kathrine, was it?Sorry for such a delay... I now know I shouldn't ever do traveling books again -_-"
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JANUARY 2020
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⦿ BUDDY READS
Skulduggery Pleasant
✔ 01/15 6 short stories
✔ 01/17 Dark Days (#4)
✔ 01/04 Starsight
✔ 01/11 Every Heart a Doorway
✔ 01/13 Down Among the Sticks and Bones
✔ 01/18 Beneath the Sugar Sky
✔ 01/20 The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday with Sylvana
✔ 01/23 In an Absent Dream
✔ 01/28 Come Tumbling Down
✔ Ormeshadow
✔ Sisters of the Vast Black
✔ The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday
⦿ AUDIO
✔ Starsight
✔ The Death of Dulgath *re-read*
✔ Dark Days
Wayward Children
✔ Every Heart a Doorway
✔ Down Among the Sticks and Bones
✔ Beneath the Sugar Sky
✔ In an Absent Dream
✔ Come Tumbling Down
⦿ MANGAS
⦿ SHORT FICTION: a selection of my favorite stories
Into the Paddock – Nathan Susnik (~ 4800 words)
[read / listen] in Escape Pod, Episode #708 (November 2019)
The Mad Scientist’s Daughter – Theodora Goss (~ 6500 words)
The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination (2013)
Requiem Without Sound – Izzy Wasserstein (~ 2200 words)
[read / listen] in Escape Pod, Episode #710 (December 2019)
Thousand Tongues of Silver – Kate Heartfield (~ 4500 words)
[read / listen] in Pod Castle, Episode #601 (November 2019)
Blood & Stardust – Laird Barron (~ 5500 words)
The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination (2013)
No Mercy to the Rest – Bennett North (~ 6100 words)
[read / listen] in Pod Castle, Episode #604 (December 2019)
------------------------------------------------------------A great start to 2020! I did a lot more buddy-reads than I intended to but had lots of fun. I tried my hand at writing reviews for the three novellas I read on my Kindle. It was... Interesting. Definitely put more thoughts into the book once I finished instead of just grabbing the next one and never looking back. I think I appreciated those reads a lot more that way, so I'll continue inflicting my not-so-great writing skills on my followers :p
Virginie wrote: "The Waking Fire... I tried to send it again to Elinor after last time, but it's returning to me again after the delay to nab it from the postal office has expired. She never answere..."What a nightmare!! Hope it gets safely back to you soon.
Have you started Legion of Flame yet? :)
Virginie wrote: "Eeeehhh, not Undead Empress?"Timelord Iain wrote: "Dead Empress?"
Haha ooops... My phone seems to have quite a dark sense of humor 🙈
I hope the postal service will get it together soon... sorry it has been so stressful for you!
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