Fantasy Buddy Reads discussion

Horns of Hammerad


Captain: Iain
Angela Jr
Emily
Erin
Katie
Mei
Monika
Narilka

Hello Horns!

Wooo new team, let's goooooo

Let's Do This!!!

Hello team!

Hello peeps!

Yayyy hi team!! Super excited for 2025 😊 i'll do my best to check in here more often than i did last year 😂

I'll be starting 2025 already behind on books/BRs...

I've done so much youtube watching and sleeping since Christmas, that I've gone from basically caught up to like 5 books behind...

Still need to read these December books:

Wind and Truth -- 70% remaining
He Who Fights with Monsters 2 -- 50% remaining
The Icarus Needle
Tea Set and Match
Miss Percy's Definitive Guide to the Restoration of Dragons
BuyMort: Bull Market Mayhem: How I Cornered The Multiversal Monopoly
Road Trip

Hope to finish HWFWM2 today, then knock out some of the shorter stuff tomorrow and New Year's Day, and be almost caught up again... I'm off New Year's Eve and New Year's Day this year...

I have only 2 books left to finish till end of tomorrow 😁 about 400 pages together I think.

I am not finishing any of my in progress books before midnight tomorrow so will be starting the new year with Wind and Truth and Beware of Chicken 4. Then I'll be going back to catch up on December's Discworld book.

Only one left for me 😁

I'm just happy I caught up on something (Animorphs, the easy one since they're so short xD)
My goal is to finish The first Rise and Fall Nolyn tomorrow.. And since I"m off I'm pretty sure I will :)

If I stay up for the next 23.5hrs, and listen nonstop, I can read everything I'm behind on except Winds & Truth... then crash and get no reading done on New Year's Day :D

that would also be like 2x by personal reading record... I don't think I've ever read more than about 48hrs in a day... listening for 16-17hrs straight at 3x speed...

24hrs at 3-3.5x speed is 72-84hrs of audio...

Mental 🤣🤣🤣 I have less than 200 pages to read for today.

was mostly a joke... I listened for 75-90 minutes then went back to bed, and just got up at my regular time...

I'll be happy enough to read up to half the stuff I mentioned, if I have a good day and stop sleeping so much... feeling my old school Winter Hibernation Mode, lately...

My man said today morning that we should be like bears and go hibernate for winter 🤣. I can't say I don't agree with him 🤣🤣🤣, but I would loose all this time I could use for reading 😂😂😂

Sadly bear hibernation and most hibernation is a myth... most animals thought to hibernate just torpor... hibernation lasts day/weeks/months (up to 100 days), and torpor lasts hours, up to 1-2 days, and is more involuntary, depending on temperatures and food supply...

I finally looked it up... I've known for awhile now that bear hibernation is myth that many people believe from being told by their parents/elders :D

I'm definitely prone to sleeping more in the dark, cold months...

Between the 2k pages I'm expecting to carry over into 2025, thanks to Winds & Truth mostly, and all the stuff I keep signing up for, I'm officially overbooked for January 2025... sounds about right... assuming I continue to average 600 pages/day, which is about my limit anyway, when low days balance out big reading days...

I'm lucky if I can reach max 300 pages/day, usually between 100-200. Work, voluntary job, house things first, the rest is my 'me time' for reading 😁.

At 3-3.5x audio speed, I can listen to like 75-120+ pages/hr, depending on narration speed variation and page count to audiobook length variation... so 600 pages can be anywhere from 5hrs to 8hrs...

I listen to up to 2hrs of audio/day at work, up to 4-5hrs on Sundays... and then after work I can listen to more, if I don't go to bed early or watch a bunch of youtube...

So, I can maintain my average with decent consistency, with a bit of effort, and make up the difference on days off, when I get serious and listen all day while doing chores/errands/gaming, and listen to over 1000-1500 pages on a really good day or generous pagecount audiobooks...

The last 5 work days, I listened to under 300 pages/day, which is what tanked my December average from really good, down to 540 pages/day...

Today, tho, I've already listened to 760ish pages in the past 12hrs (including naptime and breaks), and can probably finish another 800 pages in the next 6-8hrs, thanks to a generous audiobook in Tea Princess Chronicles #2 (600 pages and only 12hrs of audio)

I'm not for audio, after 10-20 minutes I'm out, not listening, treating it as background noise. I have to physically read. My reading time is different every day, sometimes only few minutes, sometimes few hours. Average 2 hours a day I think.

I'm hoping to read 75+ more chapters of this fantranslation of a webnovel + the last 500 pages of a book today

I might be able to do it if no one interrupts me for the next 5ish hours 😂

Fingers crossed no-one will Mei! Happy New Year 😁

We'll see when I get tired today/tonight... I'll need to charge my device for a bit, after finishing my current book, before starting the next one that I may or may not finish before bed...

About done with Cat Core 3: Road Trip... last book of the year will be Tea, Set and Match...

From my list a few days ago, I also finished HWFWM2 & read Miss Percy 3 today...

Going into 2025 with Wind & Truth, BuyMort 5, and Icarus Saga 6... and then immediately have a bunch of BRs starting...

Youtube is my bane, lol... now that I've returned to it while my device is charging, I kinda just want to keep watching, and leave Tea Princess for tomorrow :D

I'm done with reading and gaming for today, time for shower and bed. I'm working tomorrow... Have a great New Year girls and boys!!!

I'm probably done reading today, too... can just wind down, sleep, get up early, and earn 2025 points :D

Good morning 2025 😁.

Hello team~
Happy Reading Everyone!!

I finished a book! I'm no longer a slacker :D

Narilka wrote: "I finished a book! I'm no longer a slacker :D"

WOO

Okay now I have the opposite problem I had a few days ago... Too many notifications means things get lost... Man that notification update really screwed my system!

That's mostly cause Nirkatze got functional again, and comments alot... and Yanique keeps catching up on making new threads :D

Imagine if we were serious in multiple groups... I mostly only have notifications active for this group, and a few specific threads in a 2nd group, and nothing else...

Reading-wise, I'm on par for the year so far... 8-9 books and 600-700 pages per day so far, for 2025, depending if I finish the book I'm currently reading tonight...

I’m still not getting notifications.

Are you one of the people that tried all the tricks we listed a few weeks ago, that worked for some other people?... logging into new browser/mobile device, and changing settings there rather than default browser... off and on, in account settings:

https://www.goodreads.com/settings/no...

I did. I saw no change.

Timelord Iain wrote: "That's mostly cause Nirkatze got functional again, and comments alot... and Yanique keeps catching up on making new threads :D

Imagine if we were serious in multiple groups... I mostly only have n..."
Lol, sure just blame it on Nirkatze xD

Luckily I really only have this group to keep up with!

I'm about on par with December reading... Will probably go downhill after next month though

I'm on vacation this week, and commenting alot too, all day... my bad :D

Luckily, my comments don't flood my notifications.......................

Time to make Felina2 account ;)

Timelord Iain wrote: "I'm on vacation this week, and commenting alot too, all day... my bad :D

Luckily, my comments don't flood my notifications......................."

Heh, lucky for you :D

I’d lose so many years of history

Welcome to the team, Angela Jr!

Welcome Angela!

Wooooo welcome!!

Welcome new people... we gonna win now ;)

Angela's a good point earner :D

Also, I need you guys to hold my feet to the fire this year :D

Not regarding books read... more about keeping up with ratings/reviews... I have a bad habit of letting them pile up for 10 months... I'd like to fall no more than 1 month behind this year, so at the beginning of each month, if anyone that's my GR friend could say something like "When you gonna write them January reviews, Iain?"... maybe I'll be better at not letting it get crazy this year... I can't remember the last time I kept on top of it all... definitely back when I read 50-25% as much as I do these days...

Just update once a month!