Jennifer’s Comments (group member since Dec 03, 2021)

Jennifer’s comments from the On The Same Page group.

I just read the blurb -- holy cow, Beth!

@Lance, actually, when I first heard you mostly read about sports I had two thoughts -- one, that there wouldn't be much out there to read, and two, that what there was might be second-rate reading. Seeing your book lists and picks (and adding a bunch of them to my TBR, in fact) has educated me that I was wrong X2. :)

Martha wrote: "Jennifer, so many cozy series I haven't started!! Your shelf is dangerous for me. :-)"

Sorry about risking your reading life, Martha, LOLOL. Great picks! Thank you!

Thanks, Joy! Lincoln Highway came up for me in the For Love of a Book Discovery challenge today, so the timing is great!

I agree with you on that last, Tawallah. I usually walk away from them feeling that way, and also thankful that I don't do that for a living!

Martha, I love your shelf! I'm picking for you because Longmire is must-read for me. I hope you enjoy.

Time to pick, everyone! Pairs are posted here.

Denise, I'm picking Adriana Trigiani for you -- everything I've read by her I've enjoyed. :)

Time to pick! Pairs are posted here.

Hi, everyone! The winner of the "moderator recommends" poll for July 2022 is Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.

Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal--an experience that shocks him to his core.

Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She's traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Within the text of Olive's bestselling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him.

When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a childhood friend from the Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe.

A virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually playful, Sea of Tranquility is a novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment.

Agreed -- I thoroughly enjoyed my reads this month! Thanks, Lance!

And Rex Stout is a good type of author. LOL!

I read that years ago and liked it, Rhonda. I hope you will too.

OOH, Martha ! Nero Wolfe! I like all your choices but it's been a long time since I read any Stout.

Thank you, Rhonda -- I know a few people (including myself) who could probably use this!

. Jury’s still out.

In for five, please!
PIFM

I'm having to be careful this month: last month two of the books I had by the author chosen for me turned out to be series books and I didn't know it! I found one that wasn't but still.

Martin Turnbull


Amor Towles


Steven Rowley

Hi, everyone!

For anyone unfamiliar, this is a monthly challenge where you post a link to a shelf you created. It can be named "PIFM" or "Pick It For Me" etc, if you want one dedicated only to this challenge, or you can use an existing shelf you already have, as long as it has 100 or fewer books on it. The link must be to the specific shelf, or you will not be partnered.. Indicate how many books you would like to have picked for you from that shelf for the month in question. There is no lower limit as to how many books you can have on your shelf, but, of course, they should be books you are interested in reading during the next month and have ready access to.

On or about the 25th of each month, I will post who picks for whom. In order to accommodate an uneven number of participants, pairs will not be reciprocal -- in other words, it won't be Joanne picking for Jennifer and Jennifer picking for Joanne. It may be Joanne picks for Jennifer, Jennifer picks for Herman, and Herman picks for Suzanne, and someone else entirely picks for Joanne.

IF anyone has not been "picked for" by the 30th, I will pick for them if the designated picker can't be contacted by PM.

When you are assigned someone to pick for, note the number of books in parentheses after that person's name in the pick list, go to the link for their shelf, and pick that number of books for them. Post the books in a new message here. That person has the entire following month to read his/her picks. Someone will be picking for you the same way. We all like to see what people think about their picks, so we hope you will keep us posted in this thread!

Example: "In for five, please!
PIFM"

The HTML template for linking your shelf can be found here and if you have trouble, PM me and I will help you.

Your designated shelf must be set so that others can see it. To set up a PIFM shelf for those who would like to, go to the "MY BOOKS" link in the GOODREADS toolbar, scroll down below your shelves on the left until you see the "add shelf" button, and click that. Name it PIFM or Pick It For Me. Add books to it, and post the link to it in this challenge as described above. Again, if you need help, please don't hesitate to PM me!

If you are in for July, post your shelf and the number of picks you'd like to have below. See you on picking day!


July pairs:

Jennifer picks 1 for Martha
Joy D picks 3 for Desley
Beth picks 4 for Lance
Denise picks 1 for Jackie
Jackie picks 2 for Denise
Lance picks 2 for Beth
Desley picks 3 for Joy D
Martha picks 5 for Jennifer

Hi, everyone! July's colors are Yellow and Fuschia.. Looking forward to seeing your covers!