The Procrastinators Book Club discussion

Anyone can nominate as many books as you'd like and look for a buddy! Any book that gets two nominations or more will have a buddy thread created for discussion during January. Please decide your start date and reading pace/reading goals in this thread. Once that has been decided, the mods will create a Buddy Read Discussion thread for that title. Reading the Buddy Read Guidelines is strongly recommended. There is no promise that you will have a buddy read for your nomination(s).


NOMINATIONS
Brianna: Katie: Priya: Anushka:



BUDDY READS ✔⭐
✔ Brianna & Sophie (1st-14th)⭐
✔ Priya & Brianna ⭐ (8th-17th)
✔ Priya & Sarah-Vanessa, Allyson (18th-24th) ⭐
✔ Priya & Sarah-Vanessa (18th-31st) ⭐
✔ LiteraryCryptid & Katie (18th-27th) ⭐
✔ Priya & Sarah-Vanessa (25th-31st) ⭐

I can't believe we are already planning for January!!

Here is what is on my official TBR for January:
The Wild Huntress - thinking of nominating for the group read
Polaris Rising
Queen of Shadows
First Lie Wins - thinking of nominating for the group read
Neon Gods
Black Ice

I want to reread the Legendborn books in preparation for the third book coming out in March! Anyone interested in doing Legendborn in January and Bloodmarked in February?

@Brianna
I read your suggestion for the group reads, although after I made the thread (that's why it's locked)😅 And I want to try it, so in a bit there'll be a few polls set up.

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@Brianna @Katie
I've added First Lie Wins and Legendborn to the polls that are in the GR thread.

Katie wrote: "I want to reread the Legendborn books in preparation for the third book coming out in March! Anyone interested in doing Legendborn in January and Bloodmarked in Febr..."

I just read Legendborn and Bloodmarked but regardless if it wins for the Series challenge or not - I will hop in on the 3rd one! (once it's released)

@Brianna

I’ll read Queen of Shadows with you, when were you thinking?

@Katie

I’ve had Legendborn on my tbr for ages so I’d be happy to read this with you. When would you want to start?

@Katie I recently read Legendborn and Bloodmarked but will happily join for the third one as well, as soon as it gets published.

Sophie wrote: "@Brianna

I’ll read Queen of Shadows with you, when were you thinking?"

I am open for whenever! Probably would be best for start of month through mid month but could still do late month if that is best for you!

I’d like to read one or two of the following for January:

A Court of Thorns and Roses
Six of Crows
Pride and Prejudice
One Dark Window
Fable
Belladonna

I’d love to have someone to reach any of these with :)

Priya wrote: "I’d like to read one or two of the following for January:

A Court of Thorns and Roses
Six of Crows
Pride and Prejudice
One Dark Window"

@Priya - I would read Fable with you! I have read it a few times and never picked up the sequel which is one of my priority reads for 2025 so re-reading would definitely help!

Brianna wrote: "Priya wrote: "I’d like to read one or two of the following for January:

A Court of Thorns and Roses
Six of Crows
Pride and Prejudice
[book:One Dark Wind..."

I honestly thought it was a duology at first! didn’t realize there more books until I was writing my 2025 goals! How do you want to go about reading it? Weekly number of pages/chapters?

Priya wrote: "Brianna wrote: "Priya wrote: "I’d like to read one or two of the following for January:

A Court of Thorns and Roses
Six of Crows
Pride and Prejudice"

From what I remember it's a pretty quick read so how long would you like to spread it across? The main Goodreads version is about 350 pages. I find it easier to split by chapters than pages.

Brianna wrote: "Priya wrote: "Brianna wrote: "Priya wrote: "I’d like to read one or two of the following for January:

A Court of Thorns and Roses
Six of Crows
[book:Pride and Preju..."

how’s this breakdown?

Chapters 1-9
Chapters 10-18
Chapters 19-27
Chapters 28-34
Chapters 35-43

depending on when you’s like to start or how short/long the chapters are

@Priya I would be in for Six of Crows, Fable and Belladonna.

Priya wrote: "Brianna wrote: "Priya wrote: "Brianna wrote: "Priya wrote: "I’d like to read one or two of the following for January:

A Court of Thorns and Roses
Six of Crows."

@Priya re: Fable

5 days works for me! When would you like to start?

Sarah-Vanessa wrote: "@Priya I would be in for Six of Crows, Fable and Belladonna."

@Briana for Fable

Do you guys want to do one set per week? So we’d start first week of Jan. Or do you want to finish it within two weeks etc.

@Briana @Priya I would say 7 days, but I‘ll go with what works for you. I most of the time fall behind anyways *lol*

@mina are we allowed to nominate same books we already did? Didn’t manage to even start them…

@Sarah-Vanessa & Priya re: Fable

My copy of Fable has about 350 pages so with the chapter breakdown as listed it's around the following number of pages:

set 1: 78
set 2: 80
set 3: 78
set 4: 55
set 5: 62

Maybe we can split it across the following:
Day 1 & 2: set 1 (Chapters 1-9)
Day 3 & 4: set 2 (Chapters 10-18)
Day 5 & 6: set 3 (Chapters 19-27)
Day 7: set 4 (Chapters 28-34)
Day 8: set 5 (Chapters 35-43)

@Sarah-Vanessa - I also frequently fall behind. lol

@Briana @Sarah-Vanessa

I’m also bad with due dates. Are we thinking of finishing everything in a little more than a week? I think I can do that if you don’t want to spread it across multiple weeks.

How’s starting it on Jan 8?

Sarah-Vanessa wrote: "@Priya I would be in for Six of Crows, Fable and Belladonna."

when would you want to read six of crows/belladonna?

@Priya sets of one week work for me. Let’s start in the week of 6th January.

And then let’s do Belladonna for 1 week and afterwards Six of crows for 1week.

Sarah-Vanessa wrote: "@Priya sets of one week work for me. Let’s start in the week of 6th January.

And then let’s do Belladonna for 1 week and afterwards Six of crows for 1week."

works for me!

Brianna wrote: "Priya wrote: "I’d like to read one or two of the following for January:

A Court of Thorns and Roses
Six of Crows
Pride and Prejudice
[book:One Dark Wind..."

are you planning on reading all four books in the series or just fable and namesake? I’m iffy on the prequal and last book.

Priya wrote: "are you planning on reading all four books in the series or just fable and namesake? I’m iffy on the prequal and last book."

@Priya - I do own all four so ideally would probably get through the entire series at some point in the year. I'm mostly iffy about the last book but am intrigued by the prequel.

@Brianna @Queen of shadows

Start of the month works for me! What kind of pace were you thinking?

Priya wrote: "I’d like to read one or two of the following for January:

A Court of Thorns and Roses
Six of Crows
Pride and Prejudice
One Dark Window
[..."

I have a court of thorns and roses! I would love to read that with you :). I was pretty sure that I had Pride and Prejudice, but for some reason I can't find it. I was also planning on getting six of crows soon toooo

Kara wrote: "Priya wrote: "I’d like to read one or two of the following for January:

A Court of Thorns and Roses
Six of Crows
Pride and Prejudice
[book:One Dark Wind..."

ono I’m almost halfway through ACOTAR because I didn’t think anyone would buddy-read it. I’ll edit it out. The second book could be a buddy read though if you have it and can catch up?

I got the pride and prejudice with the illustrations because it seemed prettier btw

I think six of crows is going to be the last week of January

Sarah-Vanessa wrote: "@Priya sets of one week work for me. Let’s start in the week of 6th January.

And then let’s do Belladonna for 1 week and afterwards Six of crows for 1week."

Is there a specific way you want to break it down: chapters vs. pages? or do you want to just comment as we go along?

Priya wrote: "@Briana @Sarah-Vanessa

I’m also bad with due dates. Are we thinking of finishing everything in a little more than a week? I think I can do that if you don’t want to spread it across multiple weeks..."

Priya & Sarah-Vanesse re: Fable

Starting on the 6th or 8th works for me!

Sophie wrote: "@Brianna @Queen of shadows

Start of the month works for me! What kind of pace were you thinking?"

Sophie re: Queen of Shadows

It looks like it is 89 chapters and my paperback edition has 645 pages. The prior ones were decently quick reads but it is the tail end of busy season for my work so if we split it across 14 days its approximately 47 pages a day? Would that work?

Priya wrote: "Kara wrote: "Priya wrote: "I’d like to read one or two of the following for January:

A Court of Thorns and Roses
Six of Crows
Pride and Prejudice"

Priya re: A Court of Mist and Fury

I'd be willing to read this one with you in January as long as it was in the second half of the month? I read the first at the beginning of December but would love to get to the sequel!

@Brianna @Queen of shadows

That works! I flicked through and this is how it works out broken down by chapters :)

1st: chapters 1-6
2nd: chapters 7-10
3rd: chapters 11-16
4th: chapters 17-22
5th: chapters 23-27
6th: chapters 28-32
7th: chapters 33-39
8th: chapters 40-45
9th: chapters 46-51
10th: chapters 52-58
11th: chapters 59-64
12th: chapters 65-74
13th: chapters 75- 83
14th: chapters 84- end

Sorry everyone for not updating, for some reason I wasn't getting the notification that new comments have been made in the thread.

@Sarah-Vanessa Nominatin same BR you nominated last month? Yes, you can nominate it how many times you wish

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I'll join the Belladonna buddy read!

Sophie wrote: " @Brianna @Queen of shadows

That works! I flicked through and this is how it works out broken down by chapters :)

1st: chapters 1-6
2nd: chapters 7-10
3rd: chapters 11-16
4th: chapters 17-22
5th..."

@Sophie RE: Queen of Shadows - this schedule works for me!

@Brianna
Do you know how many chapters are there in First lie wins?

Also, does someone know how many chapters does Witchcraft for wayward girls have?

so sorry I absolutely lost track as I wasn’t able to check in due to work.

@Brianna & @Priya ok, so Fable is on the 8th works for me as well as the schedule. I would also like to finish the series and would be in for continuing over the next months.

@Priya & @Allyson Maybe Belladonna 1th up to 7th? or rather 18th up 24th?
Schedule:
Day 1: Prologue - 7
Day 2: 8 - 14
Day 3: 15 - 21
Day 4: 22 - 28
Day 5: 29 - 35
Day 6: 36 - 42
Day 7: 43 - Epilogue

equals 60-70 pages per day

@Priya @Kara for Six of Crows propably 25th up to 31th of January?
Schedule:
25th: 1-7
26th: 8-14
27th: 15-21
28th: 22-28
29th: 29-35
30th: 36-42
31th: 43-46

Does that work? The lenght varies, sometimes it’s 100 pages, then only 50 a day.

@Priya @ Brianna reading a Court of Mist and Fury works for me as well. When would you like to read that one? I hope I‘ll manage reading all these books *lol*

Sarah-Vanessa wrote: "so sorry I absolutely lost track as I wasn’t able to check in due to work.

@Brianna & @Priya ok, so Fable is on the 8th works for me as well as the schedule. I would also like to finish the series..."

I’m actually reading A Court of Mist and Fury right now, if you guys wants me to wait for January to start and we can read it on the first week.

Otherwise, I prefer 18-24th for Belladonna and 25-31st for Six of Crows. I’m fine with the breakdown you gave! :)

Sarah-Vanessa wrote: "@Priya @ Brianna reading a Court of Mist and Fury works for me as well. When would you like to read that one? I hope I‘ll manage reading all these books *lol*"

Sarah-Vanessa RE: Court of Mist and Fury

I would only be able to read this in the second half of the month as I want to read Queen of Shadows first (I am reading Sarah J. Maas in publication order so intermixing the series). I could start on the 16th?

mina wrote: "@Brianna
Do you know how many chapters are there in First lie wins?

Also, does someone know how many chapters does Witchcraft for wayward girls have?"

@Mina RE: First Lie Wins

It looks like there are 26 chapters.

@Brianna works for me and you @Priya?
As i already probably have a Buddy Read in the middle January. Could we do 10 up to 14 days for that one?

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@Katie @Sophie
Legendborn was made as a group series. the thread is in the group reads folder.

Sarah-Vanessa wrote: "@Brianna works for me and you @Priya?
As i already probably have a Buddy Read in the middle January. Could we do 10 up to 14 days for that one?"

Sarah-Vanessa re: Court of Mist and Fury

Do you want to do the 18th-31st so a full two weeks?

@Brianna That would be perfect

Sarah-Vanessa wrote: "@Brianna That would be perfect"

Sarah-Vanessa re: Court of Mist and Fury

Would the following schedule work? Based on my paperback it's about 45 pages/day:

18th: prologue - chapter 4
19th: chapter 5 - 7
20th: chapter 8 - 13
21st: chapter 14 - 16
22nd: chapter 17 - 20
23rd: chapter 21 - 25
24th: chapter 26 - 31
25th: chapter 32 - 36
26th: chapter 37 - 41
27th: chapter 42 - 44
28th: chapter 45 - 49
29th: chapter 50 - 54
30th: chapter 55 - 59
31st: chapter 60 - 69

I won't be joining the buddy read for A Court of Mist and Fury, but maybe we can read the next one together :)

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