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

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

Prompt 2: Heads or Tails COMPLETED

Well, this keeps changing. Currently: My last serial book was A Sense Of Place (Alison Plantaine #2)

1. Heads: Curiosity Thrilled the Cat by Sofie Kelly Read 1/20/23 - 4*
2. Heads: Murphy's Law by Rhys Bowen Read 1/31/23 - 4*

Prompt 1: BIG

My second biggest book in 2022 was 705 pages.

Big books on TBR:
The Fireman - 768p
Against All Enemies - 756p
The Angel of Darkness - 752p
The Museum of Abandoned Secrets - 727p

I will read:
Against All Enemies by Tom Clancy- 756p [Planned for Lost, MM 22, and Trim 22]

I said that I was going to read A ​Court of Silver Flames, and I do have it out of the library. BUT, it is over 700 pages, so this is one that will probably go into January before completed as I have not yet started it.

EDITED: Started and already 200 pages done.

Reading:
The Dressmaker's Gift for Found
Reading Up a Storm for BtM
The Devotion of Suspect X for MM 22
A Sense Of Place for JRI3 and Blind Bingo even though I have finished both of those. This is one of those books that I plan for but never read.

Nat wrote: "1. Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery"

Nat, I found that I already had The Lost City of the Monkey God on my TBR, but I also added The Wrath and the Dawn and The Light of the World from your list.

Dee, I never even thought of using my Audible shelf for this game. Sounds like a wonderful solution for your constant on the go lifestyle, though. I find that I cannot listen to mysteries and more in depth stories with this mode. I keep having to run the book back to catch something I missed when my attention diverted.

Luann, your list has added The Hound and the Falcon to my TBR. I have the first book of Sarah Agnes Prine already on my TBR, so did not add the one you listed. I have already read and enjoyed Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster and In the Woods.

Everyone is on the participant list to here!

Looks like I will end this year with 6 rollovers unread. Oh, well.

The one thing this game did was introduce me to new books that were not in the perpetual list of books I was trying to get read.

Will give it a go for 2023 and aim higher.

Yeah, I'm in also. I didn't do well this year. I think I am going to leave December with 6 rollovers uncompleted. Still, it took me awhile to figure this game out and get the hang of it, and then I had a serious several months of reading slump during the summer.

Oh, well. Another year. Another try.

I have 4 books from 2022 January to start off this year that didn't get read last year. Nice.

January
GOAL: 12
1. For Love of Livvy (TBR 1/7/12)
2. Start Shooting (TBR 1/7/12, pub 1/10/12)
3. A Year on Ladybug Farm (pub 1/17/09)
4. The Book of Names (pub 1/2/06)
5. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (pub 1/17/01)
6. Home Front (pub 1/31/12)
7. The Orphan Master's Son (pub 1/10/12)
8. The Cat Who Smelled a Rat (pub 1/29/01)
9. All the Birds in the Sky (pub 1/26/16)
10. The Rook (pub 1/11/12)
11. Bluebird, Bluebird (TBR 1/8/19)
12. The Widows of Malabar Hill (pub 1/9/18)
Read:
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February
GOAL: 11 + x Rollover
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March
GOAL: 10 + x Rollover
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April
GOAL: 9 + x Rollover
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May
GOAL: 8 + x Rollover
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June
GOAL: 7 + x Rollover
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July
GOAL: 6 + x Rollover
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August
GOAL: 5 + x Rollover
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September
GOAL: 4 + x Rollover
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October
GOAL: 3 + x Rollover
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November
GOAL: 2 + x Rollover
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December
GOAL: 1 + x Rollover
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Finished:
Old Man's War for JRI 4

Reading:
The Dressmaker's Gift for Found

I know that it doesn't look like I am doing much for PAS but I am reading. In fact one of the books that are currently in the works were on BtM lists for previous months.

Nat, Dee - both added to participant list.

Joanna wrote: "Finished - see post 20!

This is the first time I've ever even started Found because I usually don't finish Lost. Huzzah!"

Congrats!

Beverly, I have read The Snow Child 4* and Like Water for Chocolate 3*. Both were good. I hope you enjoy them, too.

Coralie, Tien and Susan, your lists are full of books I haven't been aware of. I'll be interested in what you like.

Joanna, I have read An Abundance of Katherines 3* and Mirror Mirror 3*. Both were good stories. I have added Snow in August and The Memory of Running to my TBR.

Rosemary, The Room of Lost Things looks like a fun book! As does The Alchemist’s Apprentice. And, of course, this one: A Meditation on Murder. Wow! three more for the TBR. I hope you enjoy the Ruth Rendell one. I haven't read that one, but she is one of the writers I pick up for a quick read from time to time.

Everyone is linked. Beth and Michelle, you are linked to your "I'm in" post. Just edit it with your list.

Susan wrote: "Bea,

I'm close to finished, but I see I don't have a link in message #2. I'm sure it's because I started so late.

My post is message #27."

Wow! Susan, so sorry that I missed you, but you are added in time for your last book!

Lyn (Readinghearts), would you like to do a buddy read of A Tale of Two Cities? I have had it on my TBR a long while also.
Hehe...and the rest of your list might just have to be added to my TBR. (I have read and enjoyed His Majesty's Dragon and The Mists of Avalon, so that would leave 8 to add. LOL)

Beverly, Coralie, and Tien...I will need to come back to your lists to peruse the need to add to my TBR. I don't recognize most of your books...and my TBR needs a rest!

Everyone is added to the participant list to here.

Welcome back, Lauren! Looks like you are working on Series. Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson series is one I am enjoying also. I have a Will Trent book planned for a 2023 challenge but not the first.

Congrats on your accomplishment this year, Lagullande! Wow! I don't know any of your books, except The Mirror & the Light. I DNF'd that one. Not sure why, and I seldom give that designation to a book...even a bad one. It might be one I need to re-look at...maybe it was a bad time for me. Let me know what you think. You might be the impetus I need to look at it again.

Meg, your list is another with many books I do not recognize. However I see a Margaret Atwood on your list that I did not know...and I enjoyed the The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements.

LynnB, your first book is one I enjoyed. I hope you like it also. As with everyone else so far, lots of books I haven't heard of on your list. Some I will need to explore for myself, especially The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II.

Tien wrote: "Done!! Woot!

Now to finish off MM..."

Congrats! What an accomplishment!

√1. Broken by Karin Fossum [Mystery] Read 4/28/23 - 3*
√2. I am a Japanese Writer by Dany Laferrière [Novel] Read 1/23/23 - 3*
***3. Fallen by Karin Slaughter [Mystery]
√4. Against All Enemies by Tom Clancy [Thriller] Read 10/17/23 - 4*
5. Watch Me Die by Erica Spindler [Mystery]
***6. Hourglass by Myra McEntire [Time Travel, Paranormal]
7. The American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin [Historical Fiction]
8. A Young Wife by Pam Lewis [Historical Fiction]
9. No Mercy by Lori G. Armstrong [Mystery]
√10. Walks The Fire by Stephanie Grace Whitson [Historical Fiction] Read 3/24/24 - 4*

All books were added to my Wishlist TBR in June 2011.

Participants:

Bea

Beth FINISHED

Beverly FINISHED

CC

Charity

Coralie

Dee FINISHED

Ebony

Elaine

Elvenn

Jammin Jenny

Joanna FINISHED

Joyce FINISHED

Lagullande

Lahni

Lauren

LaurLa FINISHED

Luann FINISHED

Lyn (Readinghearts)

LynnB FINISHED

Mary FINISHED

Meg FINISHED

Michelle FINISHED

Nat FINISHED

Pat

Rebecca

Rosalynn

Rosemary FINISHED

Soelo FINISHED

Susan FINISHED

Tien FINISHED

Welcome to the world of LOST. There are a series of 3 rounds of this game. The first, LOST, will establish the date for the other two [FOUND and Lost & Found].

So...to get started.

Pick the 10 oldest books on your TBR. These are books that have been languishing on your To Read list for the longest. For this game, you may DNR a book and still count it if you gave it a try. I have found some gems by trying a book I did not think I wanted to read now.

Congrats, Rosemary!