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Hi everyone!
I'm posting the read-a-thon schedule for 2022. This is preliminary and can still be changed if/when requested.
For those not in the know, the BCF read-a-thon is something a few of us on here do. The aim is to spend some time reading during the days of the read-a-thon. You can read whatever book(s) you want.
The read-a-thon usually takes place during the first weekend (Friday-Saturday-Sunday) of each month (so it starts the first Friday of the month). As I said, the dates can still be moved, this is just the preliminary schedule based on the above rule of it being on the first weekend of the month.
2022
[Month]: [Friday Date] [Saturday Date] [Sunday Date]
January: 07 08 09
February: 04 05 06
March: 04 05 06
April: 01 02 03
May: 06 07 08
June: 03 04 05
July: 01 02 03
August: 05 06 07
September: 02 03 04
October: 07 08 09
November: 04 05 06
December: 02 03 04
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Hi Lilly!! She looks adorable!
And hi Sybil!!
I always enjoyed our Pets threads.
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It's beautiful! Well done Luna!
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Welcome here Lana
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It's written by Adam Silvera and it's Young-Adult fiction (I have it on my general TBR). Yes it is in the wrong sub-forum, I'll see if I can move it.
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Oops, I was so busy and sensory overloaded I forgot to post Merry Christmas
, I'm sorry 
. I hope you all had a great Christmas!
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Happy New Year!!
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On 12/16/2021 at 10:00 PM, Talisman said:
I have finished - I completed the last country on my list last night!
Congratulations!! Well done!!
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On 03/12/2021 at 5:48 PM, lunababymoonchild said:
I just love William Faulkner and am restricting myself to one a year so it's a special treat.
I like doing that too sometimes with some authors I love! Good to know it's not just me who does that
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On 03/12/2021 at 11:59 PM, Hayley said:
I’ll be reading Ransom Riggs’ Library of Souls and there’s a good chance I’ll finish Silence too.
I don't know if you got much reading done but I hope you enjoy(ed) these
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On 03/12/2021 at 11:59 PM, Hayley said:That sounds interesting! Intrigued by the connection between strawberry shortcake and murder
The series book titles are all like that. The first book was called Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder. The main character in this series is Hannah Swensen who owns a shop called The Cookie Jar. She loves baking cookies and sells them in her shop. In the first book, the victim is the milk delivery guy and he's found dead in his truck near Hannah's shop, and there's a ripped open bag of Hannah's chocolate chip cookies around the victim. In the second book, the victim in that book has a strawberry shortcake with him, that he was bringing to his wife, when he was murdered in his garage.
On 04/12/2021 at 1:40 PM, Marie H said:I plan to read some tree-books manga, starting with the last two 19 & 20# of The Promises Neverland.
Enjoy reading this weekend everyone 🙂
I hope you enjoyed reading the manga
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On 05/12/2021 at 3:52 PM, lunababymoonchild said:I've been wrestling with Nietzsche all weekend. So I have not read a lot but I do feel as though I'm in a marathon of thinking loads! Does that count?
Yes, I'd say it definitely does!
On 06/12/2021 at 12:28 PM, Hayley said:I actually didn’t get anywhere near as much reading done as I wanted. I didn’t pick up Silence at all! But it was for a good reason… which I’ll post about later
I am curious now
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On 06/12/2021 at 12:37 PM, lunababymoonchild said:I finished the book - it was only 117 pages long - but I think I finished with only a very broad understanding of what he was talking about. Still, it's more than I had when I started!
Well done! It definitely sounds like the kind of book that you need some brain power for!
On 06/12/2021 at 12:37 PM, lunababymoonchild said:I never get anywhere near as much reading done as I want. Never. The price of addiction (since I get the jitters if I don't read enough it's definitely an addiction) imho. Can't wait to find out what held you back, hope it was something nice.
I hope it was something nice too!
This past weekend I finished Strawberry Shortcake Murder and I finished The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult. I started Sparkles by Louise Bagshawe on Sunday (which I'm reading with a friend and we read 50ish pages a day).
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It wasn't just you, I could not access the forum all day either. No one could. @Hayley contacted the server people, they were having some issues but it looks like things are fixed now.
For the future, here is the BCF Twitter account: https://twitter.com/Bookclubforum, if BCF is down Hayley will usually put up an update there.
There is also a BCF group on FaceBook, though it mostly contains people from before Hayley took over the forum from Michelle, and there hasn't been activity in 11 weeks as of me writing this. Still, here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/00bcf
Obviously if BCF is down you won't be able to check this post for those links, so for anyone who'd like please save them on your computer/phone/device oslt somewhere.
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I totally forgot but the December read-a-thon is originally scheduled for this weekend.
I'm reading two adult novels atm (Srawberry Shortcake Murder, which I'm reading with a friend, and The Book of Two Ways) and I have a somewhat busy weekend so I don't know if I'll be reading any of my usual read-a-thon reads (manga, graphic novels, graphic memoirs, illustrated children's books). We'll see I guess. Alternatively I guess I could also read some of that read-a-thon stuff another time this month.
EDIT: Oh and on Sunday I start an adult novel together with a friend.
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I'm currently reading Joanne Fluke - Hannah Swensen 2: Strawberry Shortcake Murder and The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult.
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20 hours ago, Brian. said:
I’m assuming that you have tried Calibre to manage your ebook needs? I know it converts different formats to allow you to use any ebook of your choosing and I always thought it could do the DRM trick as well.It used to, but a while ago Amazon recoded things and I don't think it's been possible since then (but I haven't rechecked).
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I loved The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet too, I'm glad you adored it as well! Yes, it is more character driven, very different from most of the science-fiction I had read prior to reading this book. I have read the first 3 books in the series and so far enjoyed the first one the most. I'm waiting for a medium size paperback release of the 4th book, which I'm really looking forward to read once I can (pre)order the medium paperback with the same cover as to match my other 3 books.
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6 hours ago, muggle not said:
I watched Episode 4 tonight. I think it was the best Episode so far and included the False Dragon.
I agree!
And whoops I forgot to post here after watching episodes 2 and 3. Episode 4 was the best one so far imo too, and I'm looking forward to the rest of the episodes.
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Congratulations to you and your other half Muggle!!
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What a lovely article, thank you Luna for posting it
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I love being surrounded by my books, and yes good memories of the ones I read, and books unread that will hopefully bring joy.
I have a lot of books. I had a list in a database file at first (which I printed every time I went out book shopping, so I wouldn't buy double copies as much), then in 2013 I found out about Book Collector (a program on the computer) and the mobile app CLZ Books so I purchased them and switched to that (they also include my Kindle books, so if I want to know the exact amount of physical books, I'd have to go and tell it to deselect any ebooks).
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Amazon Prime NL now says there'll be a new episode on Fridays.
Yesterday I watched the first episode, and I like it so far. They've made a few changes, some good some bad, but overall I really enjoyed watching this first episode and I look forward to see more.
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16 hours ago, Virginia said:
I thought about that. I really want them to dump a bunch of episodes. But then I'd watch them all and wait impatiently for the next season!
Just realized that I have the books and have yet to crack one open. Maybe I need to do that now. hmmm.
I have read them all and I love the series. It's not for everyone though. I hope you enjoy the books since you already have them
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9 hours ago, Raven said:This is a series I will never read, but I as I have Amazon Prime I will probably watch it (probably after I've finished my re-watch of Babylon 5!)
I hope you enjoy the TV series, and also your re-watch of Babylon 5!
6 hours ago, muggle not said:I watched Season 1, Episode 1, tonight (Thursday, Nov. 18). It appears that there will only be 3 Episodes in Season 1. I could have watched all 3 Episodes tonight but I have decided to only watch one Episode a week.
Rosamund Pike is awesome as Morraine. They couldn't have picked a more perfect actress for the role. The photography is excellent and the story seems to be following the book pretty well. I hope I can put off not binge watching and viewing the next 2 Episodes in a single setting.
Since there are only 3 Episodes in Season 1, I would like to drag it out a little.
Awww for there being only 3 episodes! I was hoping for a bit more than that. I'm glad you really liked episode 1. I'm glad Rosamund Pike is doing a great job of playing Moiraine! Yes, it makes sense to drag it out a little. I couldn't watch 3 episodes in the same day because of my sensory issues, I'll watch one episode per day. But I might be tempted to watch more than 1 episode per week, we'll see.
I've just checked: my Amazon Prime NL has 3 episodes up, but it also says 'new episode weekly'. So maybe we will get more episodes?
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I'm very excited about the Wheel of Time TV series too!!
I don't know if they'll put up one episode per week or what, but I'm very happy Amazon Prime NL will put up the TV series (as it's listed and has trailers and a release date of the 19th of Nov), I'm really excited to watch it (together with my other half, who has not read the books).
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17 hours ago, Hayley said:
I didn't realise, until I saw your post, that I forgot to update on the read-a-thon myself! I didn't finish Lady Audley's Secret (still haven't!), I actually had a pretty stressful weekend, so it was rubbish for reading. I did set aside some phone and screen free time, had a long bath and had the book with me, but you know when you keep re-reading the same part because your thoughts are drifting somewhere else? I kept doing that, so didn't make a great deal of progress.
Yes, I've had that happen too. Aww.
17 hours ago, Hayley said:That would have been very impressive for one weekend
but I'm glad you managed to read most of them before they were due back anyway. Were they good?
Most of them were, yes
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17 hours ago, Hayley said:Hopefully it will be a short partial lockdown, and after you'll be able to go back to the library knowing that it's extra safe
Thanks! I'll be avoiding going out for a while since it's pretty bad here and I do not want to get sick.. we'll see how things go. The NL government will hold another press conference in just under 2 weeks and evaluate if they need to extent the partial lockdown or not.
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8 hours ago, muggle not said:
37. Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy) - Robin Hobb - 4/5 - Book3 of the Trilogy. i Would rate all 3 books equally a 4/5 although probably book one a little better as it involves the main character when he was a young boy. Reminds me a little of Oliver Twist (not the writing, the story).
Yay!! I'm glad you enjoyed this trilogy
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8 hours ago, muggle not said:38. Dark Waters - Katherine Arden - 3/5 - I was a little disappointed in what was supposed to be book 3 of what I thought was a Trilogy but turns out to be a Quartet. I believe book 4 will be much better than book 3 as that is when the "smiling man" will be more directly involved with Ollie, Coco, and Brian.
I too thought this was a trilogy
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I am so sorry
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. May she rest in peace.
Aww
I'm so sorry.