Leftover from #WinterGames this was a solid cosy murder mystery

I think this was a #readordonate from December @julieclair

I procrastinated reading the procrastination book!

I was drawn to this book as I'm neurodivergent and struggle with procrastination.

I read this on my Kindle and much of the book was unreadable. Sections had no spaces between words, words would be different sizes or bolded. I assume these were formatting errors that would be sorted out before publication.

Unfortunately, this made it difficult to read and the worksheets looked odd.

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I really enjoyed the first volume. I've wanted to read this for ages after watching bits and pieces of the show. It is very different from the show and I think much better.

Guo Changcheng was definitely my favourite. I related to him so much.

There was mystery, mythology, pining, and longing looks, all the good stuff.

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This is the first planned reading schedule for #RealmofElderlings

It could change depending on how people find it.

I‘m giving 2 months for books over 500 pages which is pretty much all of them! This means it will take about 2 years to get through the entire series.

We'll be starting with Assassin's Apprentice in February, there will be a buddy read and readalong on SG and I'll post start, mid, end posts on Litsy

Chicago during the roaring 20s with cat shapeshifters, mobs, and speakeasies. Absolutely fantastic!

The ending was a bit quick and hand waving but I didn't really mind that. The romance was sweet and had a natural build up.

This is part of the Hexworld universe which I've not read, or I've read one, but you don't need to have read them to understand the book.

Not sure who is following #RiordanverseReadalong but I figured I‘d do a check in/final thoughts post

How did you enjoy or not enjoy the book? Any favourite characters or moments?

Anybody can join in!

The next book we‘ll be reading will be The Son of Neptune in February

I was a bit underwhelmed. I found the characters a bit bland and there wasn‘t any connection between them. Hoping this changes! Percy is just so hard to follow

I've set up a book club on Storygraph about reading the entire Realm of Elderlings series - https://app.thestorygraph.com/book_clubs/29999d93-0689-409b-8291-72dbf71334bf

I'll host readalongs, buddy reads and I'll post on Litsy. I'm hoping to start February/March. Couple of things need sorting like reading order and whether some books need two months to read. You can join here or Storygraph

Comments, thoughts all appreciated

@LitsyEvents

Would anyone be interested in a Realm of Elderlings readalong/monthly buddy read? I haven't read the last few series and I want to and I also want to obsess over them

Also, which series would you start with? Because I started with the Liveship Traders and then read the Farseer trilogy. I think Liveship Traders is easier to get into

This is fast paced and action packed. It follows a nun who accidentally becomes embroiled in the supernatural.

I was intrigued by the main character being an older woman. It's something new to me in this genre. She was amazing, very realistic, reactive, and cared about the people around her.

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I‘m not 100% happy with it. It‘s my first time creating something like this though so I can improve on it! I figured I‘d share in case it is useful

#BookSpinBingo yearly tracker template

You can change the colours, you can move the boxes, change the font etc, use it as a starting point and customise

.pdf link in comments

February #QueerBC author is Akwaeke Emezi

If you've got any recs comment them below! This is not an author I'm familiar with so looking forward to seeing what people think

I really enjoyed this. This was my first official Danmei novel and I'm glad I started with this. It was very light and humorous, made fun of and then subverted common tropes, and was a fun read.

#ReadYourDamnDanmei #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

I read 14/100 and most of that was either being forced to read Roald Dahl because everyone loves him (I really don't!) or I read as an adult

I was all about those Greek myths and medieval monk mice

Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView

#TLT @dabbe

My library doesn't have this ... My reasoning for buying

#ukkindledeals #99ponkindle

I am in such a mood. PMDD with pain, it's cold, I want pizza but gluten and dairy makes me ill... I'm in bed, little heater going and trying to start this because the book is so pretty

This was poorly written, the pacing was off, it was front loaded with exposition and it was boring.

I never got to experience this sweeping, technological advanced empire, every location was small and insular and could have been anywhere.

I am divided by this book. All the way through I had to keep reminding myself this was a children's book because it is badly researched, weirdly paced, and very repetitive.

Things happen to the characters, they don't make things happen. The characters themselves were rather bland and there was no connection between them.

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Here is my #bookspinbingo board for January

#bookspin is a #Roll100 book

#doublespin is an ARC

@TheAromaofBooks

This is currently available on KU in the UK and there is a free course attached to it. I'm reading it and going through the course and it's really good

If you've got any pelvic floor issues or general pelvic pain then give this a go. I've found the course stuff really useful as it's videos that talk you through some practical stuff as well as giving theory

Storygraph wrap up. I'm not good at remembering to rate books on SG and I forget to add them to GoodReads 🤣

I'm not going to get any reading done today so here is my total for #Wintergames2024

167,100

I wasn't expecting to do as well the second half of the month. I usually slow down so that was a nice surprise!

#HolidayBookDragons @LiseWorks

#LGBTQIABookBingo bonus board. I'm not going to finish this tomorrow. I struggled finding anything for genderfluid

@KenyaZero

#LGBTQIABookBingo 2024 is now complete! This one was hard and I cheated a bit with the poetry ...

@KenyaZero

Completed the winter #GottaCatchemAll challenge!

#HolidayBookDragons #WinterGames2024 @LiseWorks

#WinterCosy board next!

#HolidayBookDragons #WinterGames2024 @LiseWorks

Second board which is the e-book version of Winter Clear Down

#HolidayBookDragons #WinterGames2024 @LiseWorks

First bingo board completed! This was my Winter Clear down board

#HolidayBookDragons #WinterGames2024 @LiseWorks

Riordanverse readalong starting with The Lost Hero #RiordanverseReadalong

Reading one book a month to get through The Heroes of Olympus, The Kane Chronicles and Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard in 2025

I‘m going to use the readalong function on Storygraph. I can also set up a Discord if people would prefer that. I‘m making this up as I go along

https://app.thestorygraph.com/readalongs/1a9b7112-b02d-4092-bb6b-f8aac21c3553

I've never read anything with a nautilus shifter so that's something.

I generally enjoyed this. I didn't like the near constant references to how small Nemo was and his pet name being ‘little one‘ but that personal preference

#SnowedIn @Jadams89

Can't say im excited by any of these books for #Roll100 !

The two fiction books I think will be DNF/skim read to get them out of the way. The cleaning one is useful, just not excatly a fun thing to read 😅

First rolls of 2025! I didn‘t get any new dice this year (I know! Tragic!) so I went with some bluey ones since it‘s still quite cold outside

Roll 1 – 96
Roll 2 – 57
Roll 3 – 62

What‘s everyone reading?

#Roll100

I've posted a sharing template in the GDrive that can be edited in Canva

Time to vote on an author for #QueerBC February

Voting is open until 12th Jan

https://forms.gle/nkWXqG8Wmee5mmSB7

I didn't realize this Christmas series was also an offshoot of another series by this author. Characters from both series‘ show up.

This was a speedrun of a Hallmark film; sweet with no depth.

I didn't like this couple. Leo sounded very, very young and he was infantilised a lot.

January 2025 #bookspinbingo

I want to read more of my physical books this year and hopefully clear down my TBR with this and #Roll100

@TheAromaofBooks

#20Questions

All holiday themed books

10pts per question and 50pts per correct guess

Yes or no questions and no back to back questions

Loads that haven't had questions asked or been guessed. Scroll through the tag

#20Questions

All holiday themed books

10pts per question and 50pts per correct guess

Yes or no questions and no back to back questions

Loads that haven't had questions asked or been guessed. Scroll through the tag

#20Questions

All holiday themed books

10pts per question and 50pts per correct guess

Yes or no questions and no back to back questions

Loads that haven't had questions asked or been guessed. Scroll through the tag

Not in the database and I'm not adding it because I'm petty

I'm done with this author. I've tried several of their books and it's all juvenile banter and asshole characters. Blergh 🤣

I think this is book 20 of a series. I got it free because it's a Christmas one, maybe? It's not a good book.

There was also a forced wholesomeness that I didn't like. Corny tee shirts were referred to as ‘vulgar‘. There were also some weird references about characters that didn't go to church/believe in God.

Not for me.

#20Questions

All holiday themed books

10pts per question and 50pts per correct guess

Yes or no questions and no back to back questions

Loads that haven't had questions asked or been guessed. Scroll through the tag

#20Questions

All holiday themed books

10pts per question and 50pts per correct guess

Yes or no questions and no back to back questions

Loads that haven't had questions asked or been guessed. Scroll through the tag

#20Questions

All holiday themed books

10pts per question and 50pts per correct guess

Yes or no questions and no back to back questions

Loads that haven't had questions asked or been guessed. Scroll through the tag

#20Questions

All holiday themed books

10pts per question and 50pts per correct guess

Yes or no questions and no back to back questions

Loads that haven't had questions asked or been guessed. Scroll through the tag

#20Questions

All holiday themed books

10pts per question and 50pts per correct guess

Yes or no questions and no back to back questions

Loads that haven't had questions asked or been guessed. Scroll through the tag

#20Questions

All holiday themed books

10pts per question and 50pts per correct guess

Yes or no questions and no back to back questions

Loads that haven't had questions asked or been guessed. Scroll through the tag. Partner is playing TotK, Hyrule hog so I'll be bored today 🤣

The suggested reading for this is as an advent book - read a chapter a day until Christmas. I'm glad I didn't do that and read it all in one go, I wouldn't have finished the book otherwise.

This didn't work for me. I didn't enjoy the writing, and the plot was predictable.

Thanks to #Netgalley for the #ARC

This was unrealistic even for a cosy mystery. The humour fell flat for me.

It was free though so I'm not that mad

Eh this was a bit too kitsch? Not sure what the right word is. My teeth hurt reading this.

#HolidayBookDragons #WinterGames2024 @LiseWorks

This is a really strong paranormal slow burn romance. The world building was really good, the relationship felt authentic, and the plot was interesting.

I'm just not interested in that. This is one of the best ones I've read though.

Another one of our annual Christmas watches

#HolidayBookDragons #WinterGames2024 @LiseWorks