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Iain's BR Tracker -- The Rebel Spreadsheets of the Free-Realms
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January -- 20 BRs -- 7401 pages
1/1 -- Daughter of the Empire -- Riftwar #5, Empire #1 -- 421 pgs
1/1 -- Super Powereds: Year 2 -- Super Powereds #2 -- 854 pgs
1/6 -- Gentleman Jole & the Red Queen -- Vorkosigan #16 -- 352 pgs
1/7 -- The Reality Dysfunction -- Night's Dawn #1 -- 1223 pgs
1/8 -- Sued for Peace -- Kurtherian Gambit #11 -- 351 pgs
1/8 -- Paradox Bound -- 373 pgs
1/14 -- Justice Calling -- D20 Sorceress #1 -- 119 pgs
1/25 -- Assassin's Apprentice -- Farseer #1, RotE #1 -- 448 pgs
1/28 -- D20 #2
February -- 11 BRs -- 6177pgs
2/1 -- Servant of the Empire -- Empire #2, Riftwar #6 -- 827 pgs
2/5 -- King of Scars Nikolai Duology #1 -- 480 pgs
2/8 -- We Have Contact -- Kurtherian Gambit #12 -- 346 pgs
2/8 -- Afterworlds -- 599 pgs
2/12 -- Empire of Black & Gold -- Shadows of the Apt #1 -- 612 pgs
2/15 -- Interview with the Vampire -- Vampire Chronicles #1 -- 342 pgs
2/15 -- Curse of the Mistwraith? -- War of Light & Shadow #1 -- 830 pgs
2/19 -- Bloodwitch -- Witchlands #3 -- 464 pgs
2/20 -- Queen of Sorcery -- Belgariad #2 -- 326 pgs
2/25 -- Royal Assassin -- Farseer #2, RotE #2 -- 675 pgs
2/25 -- Tigana -- Guy Gavriel Kay -- 676 pgs
March -- 16 BRs -- 7281pgs
3/1 -- Deadhouse Gates -- Malazan #2 -- 604 pgs
3/1 -- Mistress of the Empire -- Empire #3, Riftwar #7 -- 676 pgs
3/7 -- Neutronium Alchemist -- Night's Dawn #2 -- 1273 pgs
3/8 -- My Ride is a Bitch -- Kurtherian Gambit #13 -- 379 pgs
3/8 -- Thunderhead -- Scythe #2 -- 504 pgs (Need to Read Scythe)
3/12 -- Dragonfly Falling -- Shadows of the Apt #2 -- 673 pgs
3/15 -- The Vampire Lestat -- Vampire Chronicles #2 -- 481 pgs
3/18 -- Star Nomad -- Fallen Empire #1 -- 253 pgs
3/20 -- Magician's Gambit -- Belgariad #3 -- 305 pgs
3/24 -- Wild Country -- Others #7 -- 384 pgs
3/25 -- Storm Cursed -- Mercy Thompson #11 -- 384 pgs
3/25 -- Assassin's Quest -- Farseer #3, RotE #3 -- 757 pgs
3/26 -- Tiamat's Wrath -- Expanse #8 -- 608 pgs
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September 2017 -- 6 -- 4.5 avg
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October 2017 -- 4 -- 4.5 avg
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November 2017 -- 6 -- 4.46 avg
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December 2017 -- 8 -- 4.86 avg
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January 2018 -- 16/17
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February 2018 -- 22
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March 2018 -- 20
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April 2018 -- 17 + 4 re-reads + 4 episodes
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May 2018 -- 16 + 2 re-reads + 3 episodes
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June 2018 -- 15 + 6 re-reads + 5 episodes
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July 2018 -- 12 + 3 re-reads + 3 episodes + weekly romances
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August 2018 -- 10 + 2 re-reads + 5 episodes + weeklies & 2 flexible schedules = ~20
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September 2018
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Beyond Redemption -- 9/1/2017 -- Manifest Delusions #1 -- FBR -- DNF chapter 6 for now (I don't make much time for Kindle reading these days)
Ruin -- 11/1/2017 -- Faithful & Fallen #3 -- FBR -- dropped @ Chapter 20 bcuz audiobook issues and overbooking
The Curse of the Mistwraith -- 3/15/2018 -- War of Light & Shadow #1 -- Made it to chapter 8 in a month... I just don't make good time for ebooks these days... plan to return when I have the time...
Perdido Street Station -- 5/30/2018 -- Bas-Lag #1 -- China Mieville just isn't for me, I guess
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Your November is all gonna be:
See you @Sweaters!
And oh if you need this comment for a continuation of the ledger, just lmk and I'll humanely delete the oofy octo.
I tried. I couldn't find a moving Octo gif that also looked this happy + dopey. I need to take lessons in GIF wit from @Ron.
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Good to know. Satisfaction is our motto chez Team Ok I am not even gonna apo for timezone/lack of GR notification-induced super late reply.
Xcuz I'm so effin glad I'm seeing this in the early evening rather than late at night when it would have given my craven & lily-livered sensibilities the shakes and staggers.
Super-intelligent and sneaky giant tentacled things stalking their unwitting humans and eating everything smaller? And then vanishing...leaving not a trace behind?
Thazz some serious Blair Witch sh!t...
I read War of the Worlds (is that the one with the sentient tentacled machines?) when I was thirteen, I think. Gave me screaming nightmares for more than a week.
Xcuz I'm a fukkin coward, O'Malley.
I don't even read/watch horror xept someone on GR longago made me promise to read the Shining...I wouldn't go into it until I had at least ten ppl reading with me. I finished tho. Proud of me! Xcuz for me, that's major balls.
I swear, the cowardice (and my floral teacups) are the only nauseatingly girly things. Otherwise I'm 3/4 a man, I'm reliably informed by my 'hood.
Having set myself up like that...you're gonna unleash the creepy neon GIFs at Random Unexpected Moments, aren't you?
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*snort*Excellent timing, Iain. Did you plan for it to hit me right before lunch or was that mah baaaaaaad?
Take it away now.
Sooooo....there's this scene in Low Town where:
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Nowhere in the book blurb (which promised a kind of Oliver Twist/Locke Lamora on spe€€d) is there even a hint...so I'm chalking this down as a dirty trick + needless to say, Craven McCoy did not spend the night amid the Sweet Dreamless. Naaaaw, I did what I been doing a lot recently: watched a lot of Dave Chappell & Chris Rock + that cheesy cop movie with Martin Lawrence and Will Smith. My ways have been all
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I'm liking Low Town more than a little, despite such creepy surprises. Xcuz I figure the only way to get thru these great crises of the human experience is to soldier on and let them spit you out the other end?
How's it going with Wrath or is it Ruin? I'm too ashamed to show my face on the book thread.
Uh, yeah, your BR tracker is scary, lol. I just can't make myself schedule more than a year out.You said we wouldn't meet up again until Malazan in January but looks like we'll both be reading The Emperor's Blades in December. Now I have to go check my tracker...maybe I didn't put that one down...
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I love what you said about Octopi, we had a lecture at University about them and other stunning or completely crazy animals, it was a lot of fun and what you said reminds me of them. But I never heard of the zoo story, that's pretty cool!
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OMG!!! you're booked till 2020! O_O that first post of yours is scary and inspiring at the time.
Manju wrote: "OMG!!! you're booked till 2020! O_O that first post of yours is scary and inspiring at the time."Everyone wants to read boox with Iain.
He is the Shadow Phamtom.
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Zaara wrote: "Manju wrote: "OMG!!! you're booked till 2020! O_O that first post of yours is scary and inspiring at the time."Everyone wants to read boox with Iain.
He is the Shadow Phamtom."
lolss... i haven't even heard about of half of those titles... looks like i have a lot to catch up...
Iain wrote: "It's ambitious... and open to heavy modification if I don't like a series I've signed up for... and probably to my own whims if I keep signing up for things... I'll just have to go with what grabs ..."but I will keep my eyes peeled to that first post for all the new titles.
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You need to clone yourself, Ian, seriously ;)
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"WHAT HAVE I DONE?!?!"
Fully updated by the way... January is a horror story... especially when you add in the unscheduled continuations...
*pats on the head* there, there. Iain, you are going to do yourself an injury keeping up with those reads!! Please take care... Haha.
You can do this Iain! And look at the bright side, you will a.) remove tons of books from your TBR, b.) collect an insane amount of points for your team and c.) you will have a lot of fun reading and discussing with others :)
I decided to check out your tracker to see what else you're reading cuz I like being in buddy reads with you (you're one of the few that responds to me) and my god man. How do you manage so many books in a month? I already had to cut down my list cuz I just couldn't handle it.
Wow you have a full schedule. My list is definitely light compared to yours.
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I'll be able to get more reading done if I can continue listening at 1.25-1.5x speed, too...
This is about the limit, I think, for what I can handle... maybe a little over the limit... we'll see if I manage it going forward... the way they tend to cluster is a bit stressful... 2 days isn't always enough time to read something...
I'm surprisingly almost on schedule at the moment... I'm listening to Strange Dogs (novella) + Persepolis Rising next, and have 3 days before Curse of Chalion starts...
I have a feeling I might have to drop Malazan... I hope not, but they say it's too dense for audio, and I don't make much time for Kindle these days...
That's how I am. Most of my reading is done at work via audio. But I get my audiobooks from the overdrive app so selection is slim. A lot of buddy reads I have to skip cuz they don't have it :(
Iain wrote: "*Found crying in the corner in the fetal position*"WHAT HAVE I DONE?!?!"
Fully updated by the way... January is a horror story... especially when you add in the unscheduled continuations..."
You just need to learn that you don't have to jump in on every BR. From what I've seen around here is that eventually another BR opportunity for the same book/series will come up again at some later point so there's no need to overload. Otherwise, this might be a road to burnout. Pace yourself, man! :-)
Veronica wrote: "Iain wrote: "*Found crying in the corner in the fetal position*"WHAT HAVE I DONE?!?!"
Fully updated by the way... January is a horror story... especially when you add in the unscheduled continua..."
I definitely need to learn that top Veronica. I can't seem to control myself!
I don't always follow my own advice, lol, although so far I'm not doing too badly with early 2018.
Wait for it. I always start not too bad, but as the next month gets closer I start adding buddy reads and they it overwhelms lol.
I have willpower. I just have to find it. Somewhere.
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ALL THE EFFING THINGS.
you can do it! Most of it, anyway. :P
I worry most about burnout. i.e. not enjoying what I'm reading because I'm so focused on "getting through" it to get to the next read. There's a lot of pressure going into 2018.
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lol
Niki Hawkes wrote: "Iain's 2018 schedule: ALL THE EFFING THINGS.
you can do it! Most of it, anyway. :P
I worry most about burnout. i.e. not enjoying what I'm reading because I'm so focused on "getting through" it..."
That's what I'm starting to feel Niki. Like I'm reading just to get through to my next one, and that's not really fun. I'm going to drop some things.
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See? Burnout is a real thing. We need a shield wall against it. 
Niki Hawkes wrote: "Iain's 2018 schedule: ALL THE EFFING THINGS.
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I'm sorry to crash the party, but this made me laugh so hard! :D
I don't let the scheduled reads stress me... If I don't make it in time I will start later or read on after everyone finished. Seeing other enjoy the book and read the hidden spoilers is a great motivation through :)
I'm lucky at the moment, because I'm new most of the buddy reads were already organised without me anyway so I'm just keeping an awareness of what is coming up and then I can judge if I have time to read it as it approaches. Of course that only works for the ones already organised. I've already committed to quite a few later on in the year as they are only just being organised. I'll have to keep Veronica's advice in mind 😅 I've already deleted a load of ones from my tracker that I know I won't get to. I only had them on there because the books were sitting on my shelf. But as Veronica said hopefully they'll come up again.
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I'm trying to ignore the BR Invite thread for awhile... and will probably have to drop some stuff (longer series first, I think, so as to have a bigger impact)
Only thing going for me right now is the revelation of increased playback speed... I've been listening to Expanse at work at 1.5x like I did Son of the Shadows at home... that's 50% more reading getting done... so 8 BRs only take the time of 5.33 old BRs... I think it'll vary by book, tho...
Yeah, I love Overdrive cuz I listen at 1.4 speed. I've gotten so regular speed drives me insane cuz it's so slow.
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Diana Stormblessed wrote: "I decided to check out your tracker to see what else you're reading cuz I like being in buddy reads with you (you're one of the few that responds to me) and my god man. How do you manage so many bo..."@Stormblessed...rubbish...I talk to you EXTENSIVELY + so do Mayim + Loolee + Leeloo + Siobhan. Whazz all this love only for Laine?
#jealous
Have you forgotten Sweaters and The Blade Itself already? You break my heart, lady + also....you have a god man?
:-O Wo-aaoww *whistles* but with that rockin' avatar, I kinda should've expected it!
*sigh*
Does he wield a hammer?
Is he named Thor?
:-) hehehe kidding + sorry Diana, I sooo knew that was an autocorrect..but I cannot resist. When the comebacks strike, I HAVE to bring 'em. Besides what a happy (and wise) accident, gal! I bet you sent your man to the moon with that one. Btw I didn't know you have a godman. Or I'd have talked to him too. Bcuz Iain and I...we are the United Nations...we talks to everybody.
Unless Thor= Seán???
Bcuz I already talk to that one sometimes.
Mwha!
Merry Xmas, Mistah Stormblessed! You know you got lucky with this @Di, no?
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I get the love because me and Diana read at similar speeds and I go back and comment a lot :)... Buddy Reads have been hoppin' recently, and it's gotten to the point very few of us are reading the same books at the same time (or so it seems)... me and Diana have been talking in Sevenwaters (#2), First Law (#2), and Oathbringer threads quite a bit... and we have 3 more scheduled buddy reads together this month
We just have short-term memories Zaara :)
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10/1 -- Rose & Thorn -- Riyria #210/1 -- HP #1
10/1 -- Magician: Master -- Riftwar #2
10/1 -- Burning Page (catch-up with Masked City) -- Invisible Library #2 & 3
10/5 -- Narnia #1
10/6 -- Diplomatic Immunity -- Vorkosigan #13
10/8 -- HP #2
10/9 -- Exit Strategy -- Murderbot Diaries #4
10/10 -- Alcatraz #3
10/10 -- Siege and Storm
10/12 -- Narnia #2
10/15 -- HP #3
10/15 -- St. Mary's #7
10/18 -- Sweep in Peace
10/19 -- Narnia #3
10/20 -- Cursor's Fury
10/22 -- HP #4
10/24 -- Traitor Baru Cormorant
10/26 -- Narnia #4
10/30 -- Fury -- Menagerie #3
Super Powereds: Year 1 -- weekly, starting 10/19
Romances -- weekly-ish
November 2018 = 22++
11/1 -- Death of Dulgath -- Riyria #311/1 -- Silverthorn -- Riftwar #3
11/1 -- Lost Plot -- Invisible Library #4
11/2 -- Narnia #5
11/5 -- HP #5
11/6 -- Skyward
11/6 -- Vorkosigan #12
11/6 -- Diamond Fire -- Hidden Legacy #3.5
11/8 -- Kurtherian Gambit #9
11/9 -- Narnia #6
11/10 -- Alcatraz #4
11/10 -- Captain's Fury -- Codex Alera #4
11/10 -- Ruin & Rising -- Grisha #3
11/12 -- Poppy War
11/15 -- St. Mary's #8
11/16 -- Narnia #7
11/18 -- Innkeeper #3
11/19 -- Fever #1
11/25 -- Princep's Fury -- Codex Alera #5
11/26 -- HP #6
11/26 -- Fever #2December 2018 = 13++
12/1 -- First Law anthology
12/1 -- Invisible Library #512/1 -- Riyria #4
12/1 -- Riftwar #4
12/3 -- Fever #3
12/4 -- King of the Road
12/6 -- Vorkosigan #14
12/8 -- Kurtherian Gambit #10
12/10 -- Alcatraz #5
12/10 -- First Lord's Fury -- Codex Alera #6
12/10 -- Fever #4
12/12 -- Ship of Theseus
12/15 -- St. Mary's #9
12/19 -- Hungry City Chronicles #1-4
12/25 -- SuperPowereds: Year 1