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

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

Oh, goodness! I did not do well in August! So far I have only read 1 of 12 planned, which makes me going backwards!!! Right now I will need to read 15 in September to clear my slate.

Finished:
Secret of the White Rose for LOST
How the Light Gets In for Series

Reading:
The Astral for LOST
Deep Shadow for Book It (my last old game)

and (LOL) The Ladies of the Secret Circus, which I had planned for Blind Bingo (which hasn't started)! Guess I will need to replace that planned selection.

So...in the first 5 pages, I found exactly 3 books on my TBR and only 1 read. This is not a shelf that I navigate towards obviously.

I have a Twitter account (unused) and FB. I am active on FB, using it as my main source for keeping in touch and for writing.

On TBR:
No One Is Talking About This
So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

Previously read:
The Hate U Give

Since I am done for now with non-fiction, I might try No One Is Talking About This or I might skip this month. Still trying to get August done.

Finished:
The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good for July Monthly Shelf
Pick a Better Country: An Unassuming Colored Guy Speaks His Mind About America for July BtM
The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise for JRI 3

Reading:
Secret of the White Rose for LOST
The Astral for LOST
How the Light Gets In for Series
Deep Shadow for Book It (my last old game)

Blind Bingo
9/1/22 - 11/1/22

8/10

√Draw 1 - Prompt 1, Square 1 The Black Echo
√Draw 2 - Prompt 2, Square 19 Above the Bay of Angels
√Draw 3 - Prompt 4, Square 13 Eldest
√Draw 4 - Prompt 3, Square 16 Silent House
√Draw 5 - Prompt 2, Square 18 The Broken Girls
√Draw 6 - Prompt 4, Square 17 The Wicked King
√Draw 7 - Prompt 5, Square 4 An Equal Music
Draw 8 - Prompt 1, Square 15 The Queen's Fool
√Draw 9 - Prompt 6, Square 20 Arsenic and Adobo
Draw 10 - Prompt 3, Square 6 A Sense Of Place

LIST:

√1. Prompt 1: The Black Echo by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #1) Read 9/22/22
2. Prompt 3: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
3. Prompt 4: Old Man's War by John Scalzi (Old Man's War #1)
√4. Prompt 5: An Equal Music by Vikram Seth Read 10/29/22
5. Prompt 1: Blood Shot by Sara Paretsky (V.I. Warshawski #5)
6. Prompt 3: A Sense Of Place by Maisie Mosco (Alison Plantaine #2)
7. Prompt 4: Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card (Ender's Sage #4)
8. Prompt 5: An Apple for the Creature by Charlaine Harris
9. Prompt 2: The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
√10. Prompt 6: Wolfsbane and Mistletoe by Charlaine Harris Read 9/1/22
11. Prompt 1: Vengeance in Death by J.D. Robb (In Death #6)
12. Prompt 3: The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin (Yashim the Eunuch #1)
√13. Prompt 4: Eldest by Christopher Paolini (The Inheritance Cycle #2) Read 10/23/22
√14. Prompt 5: What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi Read 9/11/22
√15. Prompt 1: The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels #12)
√16. Prompt 3: Silent House by Orhan Pamuk Read 10/26/22
√17. Prompt 4: The Wicked King by Holly Black (The Folk of the Air #2) Read 10/25/22
√18. Prompt 2: The Broken Girls by Simone St. James Read 10/8/22
√19. Prompt 2: Above the Bay of Angels by Rhys Bowen Read 9/13/22
√20. Prompt 6: Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery #1) Read 11/3/22
21. Prompt 6: Just Desserts by G.A. McKevett (A Savannah Reid Mystery #1)
22. Prompt 3: The Absent One by Jussi Adler-Olsen (Department Q #2)
√23. Prompt 2: The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller Read 9/19/22
24. Prompt 6: Kneaded to Death by Winnie Archer (A Bread Shop Mystery #1)

Coralie wrote: "LOST completed August 9. Will post FOUND plan when I have one."

Congrats!

Finished The Messenger of Athens for August BtM

Reading:
The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good for Monthly Shelf
Pick a Better Country: An Unassuming Colored Guy Speaks His Mind About America for July BtM

Starting:
Secret of the White Rose for LOST
The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise for JRI 3
How the Light Gets In for Series

WTG LaurLa!

Finished The Butterfly and the Violin for July BtM

Reading:
The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good for Monthly Shelf
Pick a Better Country: An Unassuming Colored Guy Speaks His Mind About America for July BtM
The Messenger of Athens for August BtM

Meg, I only read 3, but I did get some of my rollovers knocked off.

My total rollover for August is 7. Some of the books I have planned for this month are books I have been avoiding for a long time. I think I will tackle them first.

Finished Yarn to Go for July BtM

Reading:
The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good for Monthly Shelf
The Butterfly and the Violin for July BtM
Pick a Better Country: An Unassuming Colored Guy Speaks His Mind About America for July BtM

LaurLa wrote: "I did a terrible job with this one. I got stuck on a Chance roll and couldn't make the book fit. Well, I guess I could have but I sort of forgot 🙄"

LOL. I know what you mean. I am still working on Round One.

I am reading The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good by Elizabeth L. Cline. This is a book that will take me some time to get through as it is a call to action that I am taking as I read it.

So far, I have gone through my dresser drawers and made choices of what to keep...and what goes. Now to read enough to find out how it should go and where.

No nomination at this time. This is a work in progress.

EDIT: I finished the book and found that I was spurred to tackle me walk-in closet. However, I doubt seriously that my buying habits will change much. Nor will I be inclined to be an advocate for clothing related revolutions. Still, I have tried to recycle my clothing responsibly and reduce my consumption.

Started:
Yarn to Go for July BtM

Beth, Tien is right. After FOUND, there will be LOST & FOUND. That is the third and last Lost game of the year. In that one, there is the chance to read more of each. Game #2 (Found) and #3 (Lost & Found) can be done simultaneously as both are determined by the end date of LOST. That means you will not need to finish FOUND before the final game starts.

Finished Ink and Bone for July BtM

Reading:
The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good for Monthly Shelf
The Butterfly and the Violin for July BtM

Joyce wrote: "Am I doing this correctly? Do only books read after this date count or can I count books I read after I completed the lost task. This is the first time I got this far.

LOST completed: March 17, 2..."

Joyce, it looks like you did it correctly.

Starting: The Butterfly and the Violin for July BtM

Tien wrote: "Not my usual reads but I have indulged now and then. "

Same here, Tien. Still in the first 10 pages, I found several that I have on my TBR yet.

Summer Rental
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas - own
The Identicals - planned for MM
Undead and Unemployed
First Frost - have been planning to read since 2018!
Home Front

BTW, did y'all notice that this list is showing 100 pages rather than the usual 25?

Finished Fever Season for July BtM

Reading:
Ink and Bone for July BtM
The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good for Monthly Shelf