Around the Year in 52 Books discussion
Buddy Reads
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Sara --> Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
Daph --> The Broker by John Grisham and suggests starting 1st August
Laura --> Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King when she gets her hand on a copy after the launch in the end of September
Bryony --> Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
Tracy --> The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Taasia --> A Court of Wings and Ruin
Formed group you can still join
Several are looking for buddies to read The Count of Monte Cristo
Several are reading One Hundred Years of Solitude from mid-August
Ali and Tracy --> Rebecca






I'm looking for a buddy to read Red queen by Victoria Aveyard. thank you!












I would be willing to give this a try in August!





I'm going to try to listen to this on audiobook during my commute to work (sometimes that makes a tough or long book easier to get through; it also makes the commute more bearable).

Is anyone interested to doing a buddy read of Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King? It doesn't come out until September 26 but the hold list at the library is already growing! I'd be ready to start as soon as my copy comes through.

I would love to read Rebecca with you Ali! I have it on my ATY list to read by years end. Let me know when you are interested in starting since I already have the book on my kindle.


Is anyone interested in buddy reading a Court of Wings and Ruin? I really need the motivation and have to read and return it to my local library by the 7th of September :) thanks!

Where do the buddy reads post?



Sounds good Ali, just let me know when you get it. A week or so sounds perfect as I'm just finishing up two books that I'm about half done with. I should have them wrapped up by the time you get your book.

Will do!

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Please read the Info, rules and FAQ topic first
Here's how this topic is going to work:
� Post a message to find a buddy, like: I'm looking for someone to read War and Peace with, is anyone interested?
� If you have a time constraint, please state it, like:
I'm reading in order and want to read this book for week 13, so that's between the 30 January and 5th February, or
I'm getting it from the library next week and will only have 3 weeks to read it.
Some people won't be able to meet this constraint, so it's better they form another group. Of course you can be flexible, but we don't want to get all excited about a buddy read and then realize it's not going to be possible because of schedule problems.
� Your message can also include indications about your reading speed, like
I don't have much time to read during the week, so I'd prefer a small amount of pages to read per day, or
I'm a quick reader and have a lot of time on my hands so a 200 pages per day goal doesn't scare me.
This will allow your potential buddies to have a glimpse of the effort they're going to have to put to read with you.
� You can leave as much time as you want for people to consider joining you before moving to the Organization topic. But of course if you have a time constraint, don't wait too long ;)
� Please be serious about committing to the buddy reads, it's really frustrating to count on someone who's never there!
� I'm going to update the second message of this topic with requests and groups already formed, so you can know without browsing all the messages which books are read by who and when.
� After the group is formed, please go to the Organization thread to discuss the details, how much pages you want to read, when you want to start, how you want to communicate, etc.
Please, do not start organizing your group in this thread so buddy requests don't get lost!
If you have any questions about the general stuff of buddy reads, don't forget the topic Info, rules and FAQ is here to help you!