Fantasy Buddy Reads discussion

It's almost March, which means... spring cleaning!

Which physical books do you have on your TBR that you're hoping to tackle this month?

Also, out of curiosity, does anyone actually do a big cleaning of their house at the beginning of spring? I always end up doing it at the beginning of summer and sometime in the transition between fall and winter.

I know I'll be reading these three. Not sure about anything else yet.






I actually do like to do some spring cleaning, but it can end up being strung out into the summer. We just did a lot of cleaning because we have relatives coming into town this week.

Looking at my BR schedule, I think these 3 are close to the theme:

A Desolation Called Peace -- re-read the first book for the 3rd time, to finally read this, after a year or 2 of trying to get to it...

The Wandering Inn: Book 11 - The Titan of Baleros -- came out nearly 6 months ago, and finally getting to it... don't like falling behind on this series...

The Malevolent Seven -- been out for a year, and wanted to make time for it, since I first read the blurb...

I don't really do Spring Cleaning... also don't really have much stuff that needs cleaning... other than my junk table with old bills and receipts and stuff... I clean that up a few times a year...

Timelord Iain wrote: "Looking at my BR schedule, I think these 3 are close to the theme:

A Desolation Called Peace -- re-read the first book for the 3rd time, to finally read this, after a year or 2 of ..."

I'm reading The Malevolent Seven for book club this month.

Tammie wrote: "Timelord Iain wrote: "Looking at my BR schedule, I think these 3 are close to the theme:

A Desolation Called Peace -- re-read the first book for the 3rd time, to finally read this,..."

All my books for the challenge are BRs in-group... the Malevolent Seven BR is scheduled for March 27th, if you want to chime in (assume your Book Club meets before then)... https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

It's the continuation of a Sebastian de Castell BR sequence that started with Greatcoats in September/October/November/December... we're doing Spellslinger afterwards, then Argosi, then Court of Shadows...everything but Malevolent Seven is set in the same world...

Timelord Iain wrote: "Tammie wrote: "Timelord Iain wrote: "Looking at my BR schedule, I think these 3 are close to the theme:

A Desolation Called Peace -- re-read the first book for the 3rd time, to fin..."

I have to read it before March 16, so I would be really early for the buddy read.

@Tammie, re: early--that's not a problem! We'll enjoy checking out your thoughts when we get there. If you are willing to share, that is.

As for spring cleaning--I do my major cleaning at the beginning of summer, after school is out... no time or energy during the school year...

My list of books I own that I've been meaning to get around to (read or reread) for ages and ages...
o Full Riordanverse Cont: Magnus, Apollo, new ones (reread/new read)
o Priestess of the White Age of the Five (reread)
o Kushiel's Dart Series (reread)
o Luck in the Shadows Nightrunner (reread/new read)
o A Court of Thorns and Roses Series (new read)
o World of Elan series, especially Nolyn, Chronicles (reread/new read)
o Discworld (new read)
o Dune series (reread)
o The Crystal Cave series (new read)
o The Summer Tree--all Guy Gavriel Kay (reread/new read)
o Foreigner Series (reread/new read)
o A History of What Comes Next series (new read)
o Empire in Black and Gold series (new read)
o Discount Armageddon series (new read)
o Stephen King (new read)
o The Dragonbone Chair series (reread/new read)
o The Bear and the Nightingale Winternight Trilogy - Katherine Arden (new read)
o Green Rider Series (reread/new read)
o The Spirit Ring - Lois McMaster Bujold (new read)
o Thief's Magic Millennium's Rule Series - Trudi Canavan (new read)
o The Ambassador's Mission Traitor Spy Series - Trudi Canavan and Black Magician (new read/reread)
o The Galaxy, and the Ground Within - Becky Chambers (new read)
o The Warrior Heir Heir Chronicles - Cinda Williams Chima (new read)
o The Naming series - Alison Croggon (new read)
o Something Strange and Deadly series - Susan Dennard (new read)
o Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman (reread)
o An Illusion of Thieves Chimera series - Cate Glass (new read)
o Craft Sequence --Max Gladstone (reread/new read)
o The Magicians series - Lev Grossman (new read)
o The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alix E. Harrow (new read)
o Dhampir Noble Dead - Barb & J.C. Hendee (new read/reread)
o The Cry of the Icemark Icemark Chronicles - Stuart Hill (reread/new read)
o The Shadow of What Was Lost Licanus Trilogy - James Islington (new read)
o Shades of Milk and Honey Glamourist Histories - Mary Robinette Kowal (new read)
o Rich People Problems - Kevin Kwan (new read)
o Jade City Green Bone Saga - Fonda Lee (new read)
o Ninefox Gambit Machineries of Empire Series - Yoon Ha Lee (new read)
o Through Wolf's Eyes Firekeeper Saga - Jane Lindskold (reread/new read)
o Actually everything by Jane Lindskold (reread/new read)
o The Grace of Kings Dandelion Dynasty - Ken Liu (new read)
o Blood Song Raven's Shadow and The Wolf's Call Raven's Blade - Anthony Ryan (reread/new read)
o Cast in Conflict - Michelle Sagara (new read)
o A Darker Shade of Magic Shades of Magic series - V.E. Schwab (new read)
o The Bone Season series - Samantha Shannon (new read)
o Stardoc series - S.L. Viehl (new read)
o Oath of Swords War God series & Off Armageddon Reef Safehold series & others - David Weber... just waiting for o him to finish a series... (new read)--I'd reread anything by him too.
o The Cloud Roads Raksura series - Martha Wells (new read)
o The Thousand Names Shadow Campaigns - Django Wexler (new read)

Nirkatze wrote: "As for spring cleaning--I do my major cleaning at the beginning of summer, after school is out... no time or energy during the school year...

My list of books I own that I've been meaning to get a..."

Wow, you have so many new books to read! :D

I definitely won't get to all of them this month, but these are the physical books that I have yet to read.



Sword in the Storm - David Gemmell
The God is Not Willing - Steven Erikson
Forge of the High Mage - Ian C. Esslemont
The Hunger of the Gods - John Gwynne
Assassin's Fate - Robin Hobb
Jade War - Fonda Lee
Jade Legacy - Fonda Lee
A Desolation Called Peace - Arkady Martine
The Dragonbone Chair - Tad Williams

Jenna wrote: "I definitely won't get to all of them this month, but these are the physical books that I have yet to read.

[bookco..."

Tad Williams has a BR starting in September...

Timelord Iain wrote: "Tad Williams has a BR starting in September..."

Yeah, I'm planning to wait until then before I start Dragonbone Chair.

Nirkatze wrote: "@Tammie, re: early--that's not a problem! We'll enjoy checking out your thoughts when we get there. If you are willing to share, that is."

Ok, I'll probably join the buddy read then.

Nirkatze wrote: "As for spring cleaning--I do my major cleaning at the beginning of summer, after school is out... no time or energy during the school year...

My list of books I own that I've been meaning to get a..."

I love Green Rider and The Naming.

Nirkatze reads alot, so she needs a bit TBR to go with it...

A bunch of that stuff we're already reading later this year, monthly, or next year...

Ninefox Gambit is on my list of series I want to re-read, when there's time to schedule it...

I might have a book problem... I own a few thousand physical alone, and I'm not counting digitals... but books make make me happy... just surround me with books...

If anyone wants to BR anything on that list that we don't already have BRs set up for you know I'll leap at it...

The end of the month is already here...

I only finished 3 on my list, but I'm happy I at least got around to The God is Not Willing. I originally bought it when it came out, and after seeing some negative reviews, I put it on hold where it started collecting dust on my shelf. It wasn't my favourite Malazan book, but I still really enjoyed it :)

I ended up reading 4, but I was already planning to read 3 of them so I don't feel like I put as much effort into this challenge as I wanted to.

Same... Of my three, one I started in February and one was a BR, so it only felt like I read the one book deliberately for this challenge. I don't have many monthly challenge books set for April or May, so I'm hoping to catch up a bit with March (and hopefully January depending on release dates of new books).

I think I got through 11 on my list so far this month? There are others that would count for this too, but I put them in my series challenge instead....

Looking forward to Award Winners from tomorrow though!