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One caveat: while most of his books are standalones, seven of them form a series, and that's not obvious at first. He's also written some non-comedic stuff for other publishers; the BoB link filters that out but misses five books that they don't carry. |
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03-14-2013, 09:13 AM | #213 |
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Okay, I added Doughnut to my potential read list and it might fit the bill for this year's reading challenge for the 2013 entry.
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03-14-2013, 02:26 PM | #215 |
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The later books start drifting more to a "common setting" than a strict series, but there's enough of a thread there that it's still useful to call it a series. For that matter, Doughnut makes a couple of nods to earlier books, but is functionally an independent work. (At least so far; I'm 60% through it.)
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03-16-2013, 07:19 PM | #217 |
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I just haven't managed to keep track this year. I've read ALL of the Cherryh Foreigner series, several of the Phryne Fisher series, a couple of the Corinna Chapman books, two Campion books, and a bunch of other miscellaneous things I really haven't kept track of. So I'm abandoning this year's challenge and list.
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03-19-2013, 08:55 AM | #218 |
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22! That marks the halfway mark of my required reading list. Only twenty-two more years to go.
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03-19-2013, 11:48 AM | #219 |
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Occasionally I find it fun to mathematically check how I am doing in reaching my goal for the year. I do this strictly for fun. My goal is eighty five books for the year so 85 / 12 = the number of books that I need to read per month or 7.08 and 7.08/4 weeks per month gives me the number of books that I need to read per week 7.08/4 = 1.77 per week. We are currently in the 12th week of 2013 therefore 1.77 * 12 gives m the number of books that I need to have read by the end of this week which is 21.25 or in others words 21 and a quarter books. Since I am working on books twenty and twenty one I am a little behind at this point if I want to make that goal however not too far behind.
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03-20-2013, 01:59 PM | #221 |
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I'm not staying with my reading plan very well because of re-reading old favorites. Every few years it seems I must revisit Jeeves and Bertie, Mapp and Lucia. Sometimes I feel like a regular of the midnight showings of the The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Familiarity with the stories and dialogue does not lessen the pleasure.
I don't actually want to re-read, at least in theory, because of the length of my TBR list. But several of the books I've read so far this year, beyond Wodehouse and Benson, have been books I remembered loving many years ago. Oh well, I suppose we read most often for the pleasure it brings us. |
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My goal is 144 books total, as it has been for the last several years. Every year I've fallen short. Last year I was short by 50. This year I am ahead of schedule at this point by 3 books, and am hoping to finally reach my goal.
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03-24-2013, 08:53 AM | #223 |
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My goal is to reach the same point in 2013 that I finished up 2012 at, although others tell me that I am on point to finish my goal on time I personally do not believe them.
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03-24-2013, 09:17 AM | #224 |
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I'm still ahead of schedule, by three books according to Goodreads. I just finished book number 14 (out of 50): The Fault in our Stars by John Green. Highly highly highly recommended. Onto number 15: Lola and the boy next door by Stephanie Perkins.
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03-28-2013, 01:06 PM | #225 |
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Well, I'm struggling vainly to reduce my TBR. March, so far, has a slim chance of being the first month where I have read at least as many books as I've bought (and would have been even better without that pesky Amazon sale.)
As of right now, I've read 11 books, discarded 1, and increased my TBR by 33, of which 15 cost money. Out of interest I decided to see how many of those 33 new books I had specifically sought out, rather than just picking up because they were cheap/free. It turns out to be somewhere between 3 and 7, depending on how strict I am. Everything else I have picked up just because it was a bargain and sounded interesting or was part of a series. So if I cook the figures in one particular way, I'm doing okay. |
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