November Group Read Sign Up Post!

[glinda]

So, based on the response to the last post I think we can safely say that people would like to do the thing. (Thank you for keeping yourselves entertained while I fell off the internet for a week and a bit, sorry about that.) So here we have the sign up post!

Basically this can be as big or as little of a commitment as you feel up to. Dependant on your reading speed/available time you can sign up to read one book or ten books. Doesn't matter how big or small the book, only that its something that has been taking up space on your book shelf (or case/box/tottering pile beside your bed) for some time and you've never quite got round to it.

All you need to do is comment below with the book(s) you want to read this month.

Each Friday in November I will make a check-in post, and you can comment with your progress so far. Celebrating little achievements as well as big ones is heartily encouraged.

Comments

[shanaqui]

I want to read All The Books. I will go for the marginally more sensible goal of hitting my targets: 16 books bought prior to 2016, and 30 books overall.

Also, preferably these specifically:

Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer.
Ben Aaronovitch, The Hanging Tree.
Ilona Andrews, Magic Binds.
Marie Brennan, In Ashes Lie.
Mike Brooks, Dark Sky.
Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet.
Mira Grant, Deadline.
Mira Grant, Blackout.
Joseph Hansen, Skinflick.
Seanan McGuire, An Artificial Night.
Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses.
Sylvia Moreno-Garcia, Certain Dark Things.
Emma Newman, After Atlas.
Cherie Priest, The Family Plot.
John Scalzi, The Ghost Brigades.

[glinda]

Ooooh an intriguing list! I do love the RoL books, I didn't actually realise The Hanging Tree was out yet, I've been enjoying the teaser snippets that Ben Aaronovitch has been posted over the last month or so but I wasn't aware that the rest of it was out yet!

*sits on hands waiting for its arrival in paperback or at my local library*

[shanaqui]

I'm not sure if it is -- maybe yesterday? But I had an advance copy.

I've also just made a list of books to read by the end of the year to meet my reading goal of books-pre-2016. Uh. Oh dear:

Six of Crows, by Leigh Bardugo.
Foxglove Summer, by Ben Aaronovitch.
The Girl With All the Gifts, by Mike Carey.
The Tower at Stony Wood, by Patricia McKillip.
Dreams of Shreds and Tatters, by Amanda Downum.
The Ghost Brigades, by John Scalzi.
Vengeance Road, by Erin Bowman.
Bear Daughter, by Judith Berman.
Shadows, by Robin McKinley.
The Steerswoman, by Rosemary Kirstein.
Bloodshot, by Cherie Priest.
Hellbent, by Cherie Priest.
The Sealed Letter, by Emma Donoghue.
Leviathan Wakes, by James S.A. Corey.
The Boy With the Porcelain Blade, by Den Patrick.
Natural Causes, by James Oswald.
Time and Again, by Jack Finney.
Hero, by Perry Moore.
Magic Study, by Maria V. Snyder.
Fire Study, by Maria V. Snyder.
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers.
Daughter of Mystery, by Heather Rose Jones.
Sold for Endless Rue, by Madeleine E. Robbins.
A History of the World in 12 Maps, by Jerry Brotton.
Cleopatra's Heir, by Gillian Bradshaw.
Some Kind of Fairytale, by Graham Joyce.
Burning Bright, by Melissa Scott.
The Fire's Stone, by Tanya Huff.
Sylvester, by Georgette Heyer.
The Death of Captain America, by Ed Brubaker.
Blackwood, by Gwenda Bond.
The Ghost Bride, by Yangtze Choo.
Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved, by Elgen M. Long.
Newt's Emerald, by Garth Nix.
Two Americas, by Ed Brubaker.
Road to Reborn, by Ed Brubaker.
Captain America: Reborn, by Ed Brubaker.
Genome: Autobiography of a Species, by Matt Ridley.
Masters of Command, by Barry Strauss.
Death of a Unicorn, by Peter Dickinson.
Last Argument of Kings, by Joe Abercrombie.
Machine, by Jennifer Pelland.

It doesn't have to be precisely this list, but these are the ones that seem likely. Eek. Any encouragement is appreciated...

[glinda]

Ah well that does make it a little easier to resist in that case!

Gosh, that's an epic reading list for the rest of the year! I know you read at an fair pace but that'll still take some going! Good luck!

[shanaqui]

I need to read more than this, technically... 70 in total to hit my goal.

*hides*