Bea’s Comments (group member since Apr 29, 2011)

Bea’s comments from the Pick-a-Shelf group.

Tien, my three posts on May 9 do not show in the summary on page 1.

I read Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

I gave this book 4*. It was definitely a "found family" of misfits. I really enjoyed this book, so much that (much as I might cover my eyes during a suspenseful movie) I kept putting it down when one of my favorites was in trouble only to come immediately back to see if they survived!

Congrats, Dee!

Enjoy your trip, Meg. Japan is on my bucket list, so I hope to get there sometime.

Tien wrote: "I agree! Joyce should be able to keep going :)

I've still got 2 and a bit to go so hopefully either this month or next!"

Tien, I noticed that you are starting found. I assume that have finished your last book?

Rosemary wrote: "I've finished LOST! One DNF, all the others read.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/..."

Congrats, Rosemary!

Michelle wrote: "Bea wrote: "Michelle wrote: "Finally finished it! Message #13 updated!"

Congrats!"

Thanks! lol, I am really trying to clean up my old challenges this year!"

Michelle, that seems to be a constant in my world. I still have one book for one challenge from last year...but will have lots from this year unless I get in gear!

Michelle wrote: "Finally finished it! Message #13 updated!"

Congrats!

Joyce, Found has been posted since May. You will find it here

Soelo wrote: "Finished Lost on June 23rd, listed in message #38

On to Found!"

Congrats!

Wow! I have nearly 60 yet to read!

I have basically enjoyed reading from this shelf and even have given a few of my rare 5* to several of the books: The Garden of Evening Mists, Burnt Shadows, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, and The Housekeeper and the Professor/

My Friends recommend shelf has: Klara and the Sun

My Kindle has: The Great Passage and Go

And, I have on my TBR: Pachinko.

I am thinking that I will probably try to read from my Kindle as I have had those books since 2018 and 2019 AND they are short.

Reading:
The Lake House Secret for BtM
The Chocolate Bunny Brouhaha for Fifteen and Series

Finished:
I'm Not Scared for BtM and Fifteen
Book of Night for BtM

Reading:
The Lake House Secret for BtM

Finished:
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit for BtM
Born in Fire for Fifteen

Reading:
I'm Not Scared for BtM and Fifteen
The Lake House Secret for BtM
Book of Night for BtM

I'm Not Scared for BtM and Fifteen
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit for BtM
Born in Fire for Fifteen

I know that I am not currently playing BtM, but I am treating it as an old challenge and still working on past month's plans.

Finished: Undead and Unemployed for BtM

Meg wrote: "Bea, are you sure you are counting right? By my calculations the total to read so far is only 50, so you shouldn't have 44 left unless you have read hardly any, which I know you haven't from your monthly updates."

Meg, 50 is correct but so is my count. I have only read 6 in the actual months that they were due to have been read. All the others were read after the particular month had ended...and thus do not count. Nope...time to stop on this game.

Oops! I forgot to post.

I read Undead and Unemployed and gave it 3.5*.
It was a fun premise...girl dies and comes back to life a couple of times and ends up being the Queen of the Vampires with a King she refuses to accept but is drawn to. So frustratingly impossible that I found myself drawn to it.

She has a job, loves shoes, talks with her mother, but is a vampire and must sleep during the day. She has all the frustrations of being alive yet dead. Oh, and the rest of the vampires do not accept her as queen and some want to kill her!

What an escape from the reality of the world!

I nominate Chick Lit.

I think that I am going to have to put this game on hold for now. Although I have a lot of books (7) on my desk that apply to May's reading, it will be June before they are read. Out of 44 yet to read during May, that is only 16%.

And, 44 + June's 7 is 51. No longer do-able for me as I will be camping for 1 week in June.