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Post subject: Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge Posted: Mar 17th, '18, 15:03 |
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jacobgrey
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Great going, bombus! I'm on book 12 now so on track exactly for 52.
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Post subject: Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge Posted: Mar 17th, '18, 19:23 |
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Hotaruchan
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Post subject: Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge Posted: Mar 17th, '18, 20:10 |
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jacobgrey
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Yeah, I should really learn... when it said "one hour remaining" at the bottom of the Kindle reader is when I should really have put it away and gone to sleep xD
It's not so hard! I've been reading short and medium-sized books. Alternating as much as possible so I can take a little longer on the mediums before catching up time on the shorts. Also finding books that I can't put down does help XD
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Post subject: Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge Posted: Mar 18th, '18, 01:26 |
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AliceON
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I finished Masque! I wanted to leave the ending for today so when reading yesterday in the evening I was keeping an eye on when could be the best place to stop. the author really knows how to make my heart pound (wait, maybe placing the protagonist in the same room as the murderer is the key...), so I wanted to put it aside closed to the end but before things get really tense. of course I missed this spot! had to stop on rising tension with my nervous system alarmed. as if it wasn't enough, I took a look at reviews while I was in bed and one of them spoiled the murderer to me and set my heart racing because I realized that the murderer was right there with the protagonist exactly where I left!
I knew nothing would happen. there were still 80 pages left. but I couldn't sleep for an hour or so
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Post subject: Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge Posted: Mar 18th, '18, 10:54 |
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Hotaruchan
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Post subject: Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge Posted: Mar 18th, '18, 11:26 |
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AliceON
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I'm pretty sure they didn't think of it as a spoiler. if you consider reading this book, I won't tell you what they wrote.
I need to remember to keep away from reviews on mysteries. it's never been a problem before XD
good luck to you! what series is it?
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Post subject: Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge Posted: Mar 18th, '18, 14:02 |
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jacobgrey
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I try to avoid reviews a little bit as well. But sometimes I kind of want to know what the storyline will be like XD I might think the premise of the book sounds interesting, but only IF x y z happens during it... like for example, I might think, this YA adventure story sounds interesting - but is there a love interest? Does she spend the whole book in one place or is it about what happens after she escapes? Etc.
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Post subject: Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge Posted: Mar 18th, '18, 18:51 |
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Hotaruchan
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I do actually read reviews of a book if I'm deciding if I want to read it. At least when I'm considering adding it to my goodreads to-do list. Indeed because they can kind of provide an image of whether I might like the book based on a general basis what will happen. But I would think that major spoilers would be left out of a review. Especially for mysteries, because that would kind of undermine the reason to read a mystery...
Masque by W.R. Gingell? I looked it up on Goodreads and it does sound interesting. Is it part of a series? Because it looks like that on goodreads, but it doesn't have a number saying were in the series it belongs.
I've started the Witcher Saga. It is actually preceded by 2 short-story collections, and I liked those. So I'll see what happens with the actual saga.
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Why change the past,
when you can own this day?
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Post subject: Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge Posted: Mar 18th, '18, 23:25 |
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AliceON
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@Hotaruchan: oh good luck with the witcher! it's one of my favourite series <3 I'm going to re-read it some time later
yes, it's that Masque. the action is set after the events of the other books but I received it as a standalone and read it such. some of the side characters in Masque are characters from Blackfoot (the second book) and the Staff and the Crown (the third book). Masque itself was written before any other books in the universe. I think Gingell called it a spin-off somewhere. it's safe to read independently, I guess. but I haven't read any other books so I don't know. it probably spoils the romance in book three because it's set later, but it was released in 2014 while book three only came out this february, so I guess the author considered this..? I mean if you know that your readers already have a resolution to something, you wouldn't put this something into the center of a prequel, right?
oh may I add you as a friend on goodreads? I'm wulfilalice on there
@jacobgrey: haha I know what you mean! I don't go into reviews looking for that but more often than not I want to know if it's really as good as the blurb says. sometimes if it's really that bad or if I'm missing something XD
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Post subject: Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge Posted: Mar 19th, '18, 09:17 |
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LittleJulez
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bomubs, jacob, you guys are crazy!! You have my full respect!
Moby Dick is quite hard to read in terms of the action. It deveolops so slow as the author describes all the actions very detailed. Therefore I cannot concentrate for a long time..
That's probably why I started reading Harry Potter again xD Now in English. I think it's the first time for me reading them in English... Not sure though.
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That's amazing!
Did they warn at the beginning that the review would contain a major spoiler?
