The Procrastinators Book Club discussion

Anyone can nominate as many books as you'd like and look for a buddy! Any book that gets two nominations or more will have a buddy thread created for discussion during August. Please decide your start date and reading pace/reading goals in this thread. Once that has been decided, the mods will create a Buddy Read Discussion thread for that title. Reading the Buddy Read Guidelines is strongly recommended. There is no promise that you will have a buddy read for your nomination(s).


NOMINATIONS
Giulia: Michelle: Kalena: Heloise: Mirah:

BUDDY READS ✔⭐
✔ Kalena & Peyton
✔ Michelle & Peyton
✔ Giulia & Arunika
✔ Mirah & Peyton
✔ Heloise & Juliane
✔ Anushka & Brianna

Hi there!
At the moment I'm on my way through the Cosmere and next month I'd love to tackle either Elantris, Dawnshard, or Tress of the Emerald Sea.

I hope there's somebody who would be willing to join me :)

Hi All!
This my first time nominating some books. I'm almost done with Powerless and would like to read Reckless. I would also love to read Blood of Hercules and How to Survive a Horror Story.

I'm hoping someone wants to read one these.

Does anyone want to read If Not For My Baby by Kate Golden when it comes out August 5th?

@Michelle I’d be down to read blood for of Hercules

@Kalena I’d be down to read If Not for my baby

@Peyton yay!

Hi, I would like to buddy read The Honey Witch, Bonesmith or One Dark Window

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I can’t seem to tag books here but I would like to read tress of the emerald sea. Only problem is my current book might take me sometime to finish first 😿

I would love to buddy read A Discovery of Witches in mid-August.

@Mirah I would love to read it with you

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@Peyton you okay with mid-August right?

@Mirah perfectly fine

Arunika wrote: "I can’t seem to tag books here but I would like to read tress of the emerald sea. Only problem is my current book might take me sometime to finish first 😿"


That's great! We don't have to start at the beginning of the month. When do you think you will be ready?

All of the planned BRs have their threads made, however there are no reading schedules.

I'm planning to read the following books in August:


Let me know if anyone is interested?

Anushka wrote: "I'm planning to read the following books in August:
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@Anushka: I would love to buddy read these two:
Accomplice to the Villain - I have this preordered so will probably get it by Friday next week (8/8) since I rarely get my preorders on the release day or even the day after. The other two books have been fairly quick reads so depending on how long this one is shouldn't need a large chunk of time?

The Grapes of Wrath - This is one of my favorite books (from what I recall when I read it like 20 years ago) and have been wanting to do a re-read! With it being a classic I would be okay with spreading it over a longer period of time? It looks like there may be 30 chapters?

Ah that's great @Brianna C
Let's start with Grapes of Wrath tomorrow? We can do 2 chapters a day, because I had to dnf the last time I tried reading it. Hopefully I'll have a better run with it this time around.

We can start Accomplice to the Villain when we get the book. I agree that's a much faster read. We could easily gobble that one in 3-4 days tops.

Anushka wrote: "Ah that's great @Brianna C
Let's start with Grapes of Wrath tomorrow? We can do 2 chapters a day, because I had to dnf the last time I tried reading it. Hopefully I'll have a better run with it thi..."

re: Grapes of Wrath - Can we start Saturday? I won’t really have reading time tomorrow and want to start not behind. lol 2 chapters a day so 15 days?

re: Accomplice to the Villain- Once I get tracking i’ll let you know what my anticipated start date would be!

@Peyton when you like to start Blood of Hercules? My month is pretty much open so I can work with your timetable :)

Brianna wrote: "Anushka wrote: "Ah that's great @Brianna C
Let's start with Grapes of Wrath tomorrow? We can do 2 chapters a day, because I had to dnf the last time I tried reading it. Hopefully I'll have a better..."

Yes. 15 days for Grapes of Wrath!
And 4-5 ish for Accomplice to the Villain. I'm fine with whenever you wish to start for both. Just that, I want them on my August reads.

@Héloise I would be in for reading The Honey Witch Would the second half of the month work for you by any chance?

@i would love to start as soon as possible since I will be moving back into school and adjusting to a new schedule August 17th

Anushka wrote: "Brianna wrote: "Anushka wrote: "Ah that's great @Brianna C
Let's start with Grapes of Wrath tomorrow? We can do 2 chapters a day, because I had to dnf the last time I tried reading it. Hopefully I'..."

Sounds good! See below for Grapes of Wrath:

8/2: chapters 1-2
8/3: chapters 3-4
8/4: chapters 5-6
8/5: chapters 7-8
8/6: chapters 9-10
8/7: chapters 11-12
8/8: chapters 13-14
8/9: chapters 15-16
8/10: chapters 17-18
8/11: chapters 19-20
8/12: chapters 21-22
8/13: chapters 23-24
8/14: chapters 25-26
8/15: chapters 27-28
8/16: chapters 29-30

Brianna wrote: "Anushka wrote: "Brianna wrote: "Anushka wrote: "Ah that's great @Brianna C
Let's start with Grapes of Wrath tomorrow? We can do 2 chapters a day, because I had to dnf the last time I tried reading ..."

Oh that is perfect!

@Peyton okay that work for me. There are 36 chapters. Would you want to go 5 a day starting tomorrow 8/3 or can start today. Either works for me. I am a fast reader.

@Michelle 8/3 works for me because I’ll be traveling home by plane from my trip so perfect reading time

Juliane wrote: "@Héloise I would be in for reading The Honey Witch Would the second half of the month work for you by any chance?"

@Juliane yes sure, works for me !

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@peyton is this schedule good for you?

A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES 🧙‍♀️
15 Aug = Chapter 1-4
16 Aug = Chapter 5-8
17 Aug = Chapter 9-12
18 Aug = Chapter 13-16
19 Aug = Chapter 17-20
20 Aug = Chapter 21-24
21 Aug = Chapter 25-28
22 Aug = Chapter 29-32
23 Aug = Chapter 33-36
24 Aug = Chapter 37-40
25 Aug = Chapter 41-43

@Mirah yes that works

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@Héloise reg. The Honey Witch
Great, How about starting on the 15th? What pace would work best for you?

@Kalena do you have a timeline in mind for our book?

@Juliane @The Honey Witch

It's fine with me to start on the 15th :) As for the pace, I'm not sure. Maybe around forty pages a day? I don't know how many chapters there are or how that would break down. Otherwise, we can always adjust the pace.

@Anushka re: Accomplice to the Villain

I finally got my copy! It looks like 85 chapters plus a prologue and an epilogue so 87 total across 357 pages. If we do 5 days it is about 71 pages/day. Does the below work for you? I'll say a start date of either Monday 8/11 or Tuesday 8/12 so there is time for the thread to be created (but no rush)?

day 1: prologue - chapter 15
day 2: chapter 16 - chapter 35
day 3: chapter 36 - chapter 52
day 4: chapter 53 - chapter 67
day 5: chapter 68 - epilogue

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@Brianna C, I'll be traveling from 15-17 and some work needs doing before then. Should we start on 18?

@Juliane @The Honey Witch

I quickly looked inside my edition. Forty pages is about three or four chapters, depending. There are 42 chapters plus a few pages of introduction and conclusion. Maybe we can say four chapters per day?

If it's four chapters per day, that makes about ten days:

Week of 08/15
15: Chapters 1-4
16: Chapters 5-8
17: Chapters 9-12

Week of 08/18
18: Chapters 13-16
19: Chapters 17-20
20: Chapters 21-24
21: Chapters 25-28
22: Chapters 29-32
23: Chapters 33-36
24: Chapters 37-40

Week of 08/25
25: Chapters 41-the end

What do you think ?

Héloïse ☾ wrote: "@Juliane @The Honey Witch

I quickly looked inside my edition. Forty pages is about three or four chapters, depending. There are 42 chapters plus a few pages of introduction and conclusion. Maybe w..."

Splitting it over ten days with the pace of around 40 pages a day works well for me too.

Thank you for making the schedule.

@Arunika
Arunika wrote: "I can’t seem to tag books here but I would like to read tress of the emerald sea. Only problem is my current book might take me sometime to finish first 😿"

Hi, sorry to be a bother again. I would really love to plan my reading month so I would really appreciate it if you could give me an update whether you still want to read Tress or not :)

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