Does anybody know anything about 'Wingfeather Tales' ? I just ran across it by accident this morning.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0986381896/re ... UTF8&psc=1

FK, I believe that was originally released as part of the Kickstarter project for the Wingfeather animated movie/series that Andrew Peterson did this summer. I haven't looked into it yet though as I still need to finish the original 4 books (I have book 2 on the shelf but I'm reading very slowly at the moment, which I know you appreciate. )

Reflecting on the books I read this year, I have to say a standout for me was the Welcome To Night Vale book. But I like those types of weird stories.

I don't know who's seen it and who's interested, but Megan Whalen Turner is running a giveaway for an ARC of Thick As Thieves. Entering looks pretty straightforward/simple and it ends January 15.

I haven't started Way of Kings yet, but I did make two short diversions for a couple of kids books I had sitting around.

Has anyone else read The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman? It's about a librarian who works for a library that preserves books from across the multiverse. In it, she's sent to retrieve a unique copy of Grimm's Fairy Tales from an alternate earth with vampire, werewolves, and mad scientists. There's also evil Fae and an eldritch abomination who used to work for the Library. And dragons. It's pretty awesome.

Has anyone else read The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman? It's about a librarian who works for a library that preserves books from across the multiverse. In it, she's sent to retrieve a unique copy of Grimm's Fairy Tales from an alternate earth with vampire, werewolves, and mad scientists. There's also evil Fae and an eldritch abomination who used to work for the Library. And dragons. It's pretty awesome.

Oh dear! Really I should read this book, having been on the other side of the library counter. I'd want to find out if calling someone "who used to work for the Library", an "eldrich abomination" is really a bit too harsh. Or what did he/she do to deserve such a description? Feed those who refused to pay library fines to the dragons? Or only those library users with outrageously late loans? Now that does sound a tempting idea.

The author of one of my favourite books, Watership Down, died on Christmas Eve. I've also read and enjoyed The Plague Dogs. I'm not too sure about his other books though, since I haven't come across them casually.

Could I ask a book-related question? How much time do you guys tend to read each day? Do you speed read or do you take your time? How many books do you tend to read in a year?

I'm at a little over 60 books read for the year. That's down from last year when I read about twice that, but that number was padded pretty heavily with graphic novels. I have a Kindle, as well as the app on all my devices, so I tend to read in bits and pieces throughout the day. Breaktime at work, waiting for the water to boil for tea, between Overwatch matches, during commercial breaks during TV shows. Stuff like that. So I'd say it probably adds up to an hour or two a day.

I tend to speed read; I'll race through a book and get an overall impression. If it's really good I'll go back and do it again sometime. I'd say I read about an hour or two a day...

As for how many books... my book list has a REALLY LARGE number because I'll add essays and other small stuff I might want to look back at later, but it's +100...

mm1991, good questions! For me, it depends a lot on what time I have available. Most of my reading happens over lunch breaks at work now, so nominally I read about an hour a day. If the week is busy, though, or if we have lunch meetings, that number goes down drastically. Also, I'll often have two or more books being read at once---one at home and one that I put in my lunch bag, unless one is incredibly absorbing.
I tend to speed read, but if the book is kinda boring, I take my time. As for the annual number of books read, it will vary, partly depending on how much I've been traveling (I can usually get a good amount of reading time in on a plane ) and how big the books are I've been reading. I'm guessing I'll end the year with around 75-80 this year.

I finally have gotten into The Way of Kings. Some parts are kind of boring, but I really like Kaladin's sections, even if they're also really painful. I actually have skipped around a bit to read his (something I never do!), though I go back and read the others. I'd realllllllly like to finish the book before New Year's, but I think I'm only around 400 or 500 pages, and there seem to be at least a 1000, so...

I had had this new fantasy YA book on my shelf for over a month, so the week before Christmas I sat down and read it. It called Unblemished by Sara Ella and I really enjoyed it. Problem it is yet another series that started in 2016. I can't believe much fantasy I have read and enjoyed in 2016.

I did not get to finish Notes From A Tilt-A-Whirl before it had to go back to the library. I am going to finish it next year. I have not read Death by Living, Valia, and my library doesn't have it. However I "need" to order from Christianbook.com and it's $5.99 for the hardcover, maybe I should just buy it.

I got The Legend of Sam Miracle by N.D. Wilson and The Choosing by Rachelle Dekker from the library this week, I also have Leepike Ridge on hold and still need to pick it up. I am going to make myself finish reading Captivating by John and Stasi Eldredge before starting either library book. So it will probably sometime in 2017 before I start reading my library books.

I have read over 120 book this year and that includes some rather short YA books. I read a bunch to start the year off and then again in the summer/early part of fall. I lagged in my reading in late November into December, but still made my goal of 120 books. What I read in 2016 was probably 90+% fiction (or too much fiction according to my older sister).

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Congrats on reaching 120 books, SA! Enjoy all the Wilson you have to read next year.
Are you hoping to read more non-fiction next year, or are you happy with the ratio of fiction to non you had?

I finished The Way of Kings! For a little while I figured I wouldn't make it, but I did. I did skip forward a few times to read Kaladin's sections, but I went back and read the other sections. Overall, I liked it. Kaladin was my favourite character (if you couldn't tell ), but Adolin, Shallan, Syl, and Renarin were also good. I also really liked the Bridge Four crew.

Spoiler

Elkohar and Jasnah have started to grow on me, and I felt really terrible for Szeth. I was disappointed in the twists/betrayals about Saedas and the king with the hospitals. Also in Dalinar, and I didn't really like Navina...
Kaladin definitely had my favorite scenes (and the saddest): the Chasm scene where he decides he's already dead and there's nothing he can do worse by protecting folks, the training and chasm scenes with Bridge Four, and making the decision to go back for Dalinar and his men.
I was figuring Shallan had killed her dad (in defense of her brothers possibly?), and she seems to have a Shardblade though she has yet to draw it...
And less keen on another 'dead god' story, but oh well...

I counted it up and, excluding comics/manga but including rereads, I read around 85 books this past year. Which, considering the size of some of the books, I'm pretty happy with. And that was about what I guessed earlier.

Does anyone have any book goals for 2017?

Does anyone have any book goals for 2017?

I'm just excited that I managed to read several books this year.....maybe 10? Hoping to keep that up this year.

I'm going to try for 100. I'm kind of cheating a bit, I have three books I'm close to finishing right now, so I'll get a head start.

Hey Rose, how are you coming on the Middle-earth books (did I spell that right Tolkien peoples?)

I actually decided I'm ready to try reading LotR again. Every time I start I get bogged down in the middle of TTT and stop reading. We'll see if I can make it through this time. Maybe if I keep posting in here about it I'll be more motivated to finish.

So if you read LotR, does that count as one book or three or six?

Also, I think there may be a stalker on NWeb that lives near me and keeps reading about the books I want to check out at the local library. Now the Mistborn series is checked out, and the Ashtown Burials are not at my local library so I'll have to get it through inter-library loan.

I'm about three-quarters of the way through The Hobbit and enjoying it very much, fantasia! I'd have had it finished last month, except a) crazy busy, and I tend to gravitate towards non-fiction when life is like that, and b) a minor health issue has, among other things, included pain that made curling up with a book rather uncomfortable. (Oh the humanity. ) I'm doing better now, though, and I'm looking forward to finishing it soon! Bilbo is pretty awesome... I feel like he is a huge inspiration to homebodies everywhere.

Between hopping back and forth between books like a frog and listening to a lot of audiobooks as well, I'm extremely hazy on my reading count for this year... I feel fairly sure that it's more than it was for 2015, but I really need to get a Goodreads account to help keep track of this. I do tend to take my time, mm1991, unless the book isn't impressing me and I just want to get it over with or jump to a part that is more interesting.