Greetings and Salutations! 👋 I am OhMyDio, the current holder of the Discworld Quest, here to invite you to a cross-quest readalong!

The Color of Magic by Sir Terry Pratchett is what I like to call a Triple Threat. This delightful tome is on three quests: Discworld, Epic Sci-Fi & Fantasy, and Iconic Series. So we're gonna do a three way cross-quest readalong!

What is the Discworld? The Discworld is a flat planet on the backs of 4 elephants standing on a giant space turtle. It is a comedy fantasy series spanning 41 books, and the Color of Magic is the first book, although not the only entry point into the series. There are multiple series within Discworld, ranging from witches to city watch guards to Death himself. The Color of Magic is the first book published, and the first installment of the Rincewind novels.

What's The Color of Magic about? Rincewind, a very incompetent wizard, is hired as the tour guide for Twoflower, an insurance agent and the very first tourist on holiday to Ankh-Morpork, a town with a lavishly rich underbelly not entirely safe for people with as much disposable income as Twoflower. With an oddly intelligent and feisty luggage trunk in tow, Rincewind is tasked with keeping Rincewind safe from peril in the city.

The Deets: We'll start the first week of February and go through the end of March. If you need (or want) to start earlier or end later, please do! There currently is not specific functionality for buddy reads, and to accommodate different reading styles and timelines we won't set a specific reading schedule. Read at your own pace and join us in the forums as you are able! I'll endeavor to post at consistent intervals, and I hope you all will join in and together we can make the forum lively and robust!

I've cross-posted this to the other two Quest forums (after consulting those Quest owners) so I hope we'll get a large gaggle of folks together - and hopefully we'll all be able to connect with more Bounders who share similar book tastes!

If you have questions please let me know! Thanks for reading this far & I hope you can join us, either now or following behind at a later time.

Happy reading! 💕🎉

Well, I guess I am all in on Pagebound now. I spent most of the last two days entering in all my TBR books that I have bought on Kindle over the last 10 years. I buy a massive amount of books when they go on sale. I have always considered it my retirement reading fund. Plus, I check out a lot of book from the library and have always felt it is important to continue to buy books and support the industry (just a me thing). I figure even if I DNF a bunch of them I bought them so cheap I will come out ahead if I had bought them at full price.

Now that I have them all organized in Pagebound I can’t leave. I am currently sitting on about 500 TBR books which I know seems like a lot but I have a goal to read 365 books my first year of retirement (which starts in 5 months). I normally read about 175 while working so I think I will be in the ball park which will pretty much wipe out my TBR assuming I DNF about 1 in 4.

I am super excited to have them organized. Now I can easily find books depending on the mood I am in. Plus, I broke my mysteries up by country setting so I can pop around the world.

If you have a TBR stack what is the number where it starts to feel overwhelming for you?