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It's the decennial anniversary of our Read All the Books challenge! We're excited to bring it tio. We hope yeol celebrate by reading for dix challenge! In the coming diez, pick a number of books from the shi-lf and pledge to read them over the next 365 dez. you don't have to go in-zehn, any number will do, but if you're counting percentage rather than book totals, 25 is one more than we'll read das year. we hope juu join us! this challenge is a perfect 10 in our books!

(There's technically 11 ways to say 10 in this post, because we always want to give you a hundred and TEN percent!)

Find all the different ways to see what's on the group shelf in Current Events.

Sign up for the challenge here on January 1st.
Personal challenge threads here.
Other challenges in Current Events.

(side quest, which languages did we include?)

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decen- Latin?(not sure)
tio- Swedish
yeol- Korean
dix- French
diez- Spanish
shi- Chinese
dez- Portuguese (not really sure about this one either)
zehn- German
das- Hindi
juu- Japanese
ten- English (I think, may be wrong about this one)
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nice! did you get all of those from personal knowledge?? and can you put it in spoiler tags so others can play? ^^

Allison wrote: "nice! did you get all of those from personal knowledge?? and can you put it in spoiler tags so others can play? ^^"

All from personal knowledge except Portuguese and Swedish. And sorry for not putting it in spoiler tags.

very good! that's impressive. no worries, thanks for changing :)

cute (and impressive to both of you) and I'll join with the theme as I have precisely dix books on the bookshelf that are part of my TBR pile. Serendipity.

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09/24 Group Reads 2023
        

12/24 Group Reads 2023 (previously read)
         
 

03/24 Group Reads 2023 (later)
  

I meant to read all three remaining group books, but some I can't get at the moment, and one I'm not in the mood for, so I'll get to them later :)

I'll go for wentytay ivefay ooksbay.

hahaha

Allison wrote: "hahaha"

My foreign language skills are limited

Mine too, but I know some really good words. Strudle, Stroganoff, and, Lasagna and a few. LOL

i am living for the language lessons we're getting here. I think this will be a great year XD

My 10:

Homeland by R.A. Salvatore
When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
The Stand by Stephen King
The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
The Quantum Magician by Derek Künsken
The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

That is a diverse and invigorating list!

it's the last ones I own that I haven't yet read. I may add more as the year goes by

I'm aiming to reach 200 shelf books read in 2023. So, assuming I finish Nimona before the end of the month, that will be 18 books. I'm going to round that up to 20 which is a nice round number and a multiple of ten.

yes! a mighty goal!

Waw, that was fun to read! I haven't recognized all the languages, but I think I managed to recognize 10. I won't go for 25 as this year was an epic fail. So, I'll go for 10. It doesn't have to be only books that been read in 2022?
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Nope! You can read any books on the shelf from any year!

I think I will stick to the 25 for the year, even though I have so far fallen five short of that goal for 2022

Seven seems to be about right for me, so I'll stick with that. Jū would be a stretch goal at best, but we'll see!

I was awful at keeping up last year! Copying and pasting my list (removing Velocity Weapon and Piranesi as I did manage to read those) to read in 2023, basically:

Adding a couple of new ones from 2022 and the one to be read January 2023 to the top

Nettle & Bone - T Kingfisher
Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree
Blackfish City - Sam J Miller
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2) �� Brandon Sanderson
Uprooted�� Naomi Novik
Spinning Silver �� Naomi Novik
A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2) �� Becky Chambers
The Mere Wife - Maria Dahvana Headley
Too Like the Lightning �� Ada Palmer
An Unkindness of Ghosts �� Rivers Solomon
Pawn of Prophecy (Belgariad #1) �� David Eddings (finally!)
Sea of Rust�� C Robert Cargill
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton
The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini
The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn #1)
by Tad Williams

Sign up for the 2023 Read All The Books challenge here.
Sign up for the 2023 TBR Cleanup challenge here.

Challenge trackers are now open!

2023 Know Thy Shelf Challenge is here.

Personal challenge threads here.
Other challenges in Current Events.

2023 SFF RATB
Progress: 12/15

✔️1. The Book Eaters - 2/3/23
✔️2. The Girl With All the Gifts -3/25/23
✔️3. Legends & Lattes - 3/30/23
✔️4. Persephone Station - 4/15/23
✔️5. The Way of Shadows - 4/25/23
✔️6. A Master of Djinn - 6/21/23
✔️7. Good Omens - 7/6/23
✔️8. Kindred - 7/18/23
✔️9. The Handmaid's Tale - 7/20/23
✔️10. The Prey of Gods - 10/4/23
✔️11. The Terraformers - 12/5/23
✔️12. Severance - 12/13/23
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My list:

The Dragonbone Chair - Tad Williams - completed 1/17/23
Stone of Farewell - Tad Williams - completed 2/5/23
To Green Angel Tower - Tad Williams - completed 2/22/23
Early Riser - Jasper Fforde - completed 5/6/23
The Wolf in the Whale - Jordanna Max Brodsky - completed 8/1/23
The Power - Naomi Alderman
Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
Moon of the Crusted Snow - Waubgeshig Rice - DNF May 2023
Nettle & Bone - T. Kingfisher - completed 6/27/23
A Pale Light in the Black - K. B. Wagers - completed 1/3/23
Daughter of the Forest - Juliet Marillier - completed 5/16/23
The Steerswoman - Rosemary Kirstein - can't find it
Saturn Run - John Sandford - completed 1/26/23
The Serpent in Heaven - Charlaine Harris - completed 6/10/23

Ok, this may be a challenge too far, but I will try for 10:

✔️Nettle & Bone
✔️Sunshine
More Than Human
✔️Dreamsnake
Oryx and Crake
✔️Moon of the Crusted Snow (replaces The Summer Tree)
Reap the Wild Wind
✔️Hyperion
✔️A Night in the Lonesome October
✔️Snow Crash

a worthy list for an experiment!

They are all books I’d like to read, and I already have copies of 5 of them.

You should save Lonesome October for October! :)

Good idea, I’ll do that!

Stephen wrote: "Good idea, I’ll do that!"

You might also want to see if you can find an Audio Book version of it read by the Author. I generally don't recommend Audio over Print, but in this case, I do. And I love the Gahan Wilson images in the print book.

Dj wrote: "Stephen wrote: "Good idea, I’ll do that!"

You might also want to see if you can find an Audio Book version of it read by the Author. I generally don't recommend Audio over Print, but in this case,..."

Thanks for the suggestions. I’ll have to look into those possibilities for sure.

The group has done a daily read-along in October for A Night in the Lonesome October for the past few years. It’s great fun!

I didn’t know there’s an audio version! I’ll check in out!

Aspirational list:

Vita Nostra
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
Too Like the Lightning
Guards! Guards!
Ubik
The Black Company
Watership Down
The Tombs of Atuan
Childhood's End
The Caves of Steel

i just read Ubik! will be interested in your thoughts

Will do �� will probably attempt that one in February

cool!

I pledged 12.

This is the list of books I own and have yet to read:

Recursion
Legends & Lattes
The Prey of Gods (scribd audio) (started)
Gideon the Ninth (started)
The Traitor Baru Cormorant (started)
The Ten Thousand Doors of January* (started)
The Island of Dr. Moreau (audio)
We Are Bob - We Are Legion (audio)
The Name of the Wind (audio)
Six of Crows (audio)
To Say Nothing of the Dog* (audio)
The Dragonbone Chair (audio)
The Once and Future King (It's an omnibus, so the further 3 portions)
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
Blindsight
The Memory Police
Hollow Kingdom
The Outside
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
A Closed and Common Orbit
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Ninefox Gambit
The Anubis Gates
The City and the City
The collapsing Empire
Catfishing on CatNet
The Calculating Stars
Elantris
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Neverwhere
The Two Pearls of Wisdom (Eon: Dragoneye Reborn)
Blindsight
The Book of Koli

Available Elsewhere

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (Library)
The Alphabet of Thorn (Internet Archive)

This is a first: 4 out of 6 group reads books are books I read in 2022. They don't count toward the challenge, but of course they count toward my total read from the group's bookshelf. They are:

Amatka
Spear
Elatsoe
A Half-built Garden

(unread) Group Reads 2023:
Spirits Abroad
Stories of Your Life and Others

Last year I declared 15 books and didn't manage to reach it (ended up with 14, if you count my 2 DNFs), so this year I'll go with a safer number of 12.

I'll start on Amatka ebook once I'm done with my current Kobo read and I'll get to Legends & Lattes when it's available for pick-up at my library (they estimate it will come at the end of January).

Otherwise, these are my candidates for this year:

The Sword of Kaigen: A Theonite War Story

So here is my first review of the new year, for a book read this year at any rate. It is also the first of the twenty-five books I am attempting to remove from my Group Library reads. Here is the review.

There were parts of this book I really enjoyed, but having a battle that last chapters with the Narrator supposedly taking part in this battle standing around as an observer makes it way too hard to put it into a suspension of disbelief category. I am glad to know that others like this book much more than I did.

So my second real read of the year and another off the Group Shelf

Witchmark

So for me, this book was a slow burn. Slow, but not lacking in interest. While it was more or less a straightforward murder mystery, to begin with, it grows into a Grand Consipraisy that works in a Fantasy Novel but would never work in reality. What a rush though. this book is well worth the effort of slow pacing at the beginning, a lot like a tootsie pop without being able to bite into it to get to the chewy center.

I have already gotten the second book so I can find out what happens next.

Did we read A Pale Light in the Black ?

I've read it, but don't have it marked as this group.

it's not in the spreadsheet

My challenge will be to read 10 from this list of books I own.

1. The Memory Police - Completed 1/12/23
2. The Dragonbone Chair
3. The Way of Kings
4. Semiosis
5. The Song of Achilles
6. The Night Circus
7. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
8. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
9. The Eye of the World
10.The Way of Shadows
11. Leviathan Wakes
12. Consider Phlebas
13. Red Mars
14. The Name of the Wind
15. Warbreaker
16. Ubik
17. The Black Prism
18. IQ84
19. Ship of Magic
20. The Lions of Al-Rassan
21. Altered Carbon
22. Childhood's End
23. A Fire Upon the Deep
24. The Final Empire
25. Prince of Thorns
26. Sabriel

these are the 5 I already own and have not yet read!

1) Ubik - Phillip K Dick
2) Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
3) The City We Became - NK Jemisin
4) A Scanner Darkly - Philip K Dick
5) Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel

hi Marc, this one is reading from the group shelf! the TBR challenge is cleaning up your TBR with the use of prompts. there is a game somewhere for cleaning up owned books. you've got options! And a few on this list are club books so you're off to a no good start if this is one you want to join :)

Goal: 7 books. (0/7)
(10 would be extraordinary for me, but it could happen, maybe!)

Completed
(TBD)

Currently Reading


On Deck

(in tandem with the "372 Pages We'll Never Get Back" podcast episodes)

(both started last year, and not finished)

Sorry, still not clear. I assume TBR=To Be Read (newbie to this group, don't know the lingo (dix?? in-zehn??? guessing this/insane). "pick a number of books from the shi-lf", uh, I looked for shi-lf, didn't find anything with 'shi-lf'. 'off to a no good start' sounds bad to me. club books? I saw the stuff about know-thy-self challenge, and I'm gonna pass on that one. nothing wrong with it, just not really my thing, but at least the rules are clear on that one. not sure what the rules are here. oh well, have fun with your challenge, I'm still reading that set of books but I won't track here...

TBR is, indeed, To Be Read. The challenge is to read a number of books of your own choosing ("your choosing" being both the specific books selected, and the quantity) from the SFFBC's group shelf.

On the group's main page, under "challenges" you can set a number of books for the challenge, and you must also name a personal shelf (i.e. "SFFBC 2023"). Your progress is counted when you (1) finish a book from the SFFBC shelf (2) set a "read" date for this year in your review of the book (writing a review and/or rating the book are optional) (3) set your named shelf ("SFFBC 2023" in my example) for the book using the drop-down menu on the review page.

All the dix, in-zehn, etc are silly puns based on numbers in various languages.