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

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

Four to go. Will finish next year.

I've finished! This is the first time ever!

Finished:
Tracks for Trim 21
Alone with the Stars for Found

This finishes FOUND.

I really can't imagine making any way with this shelf for January as I am expecting to attempt that 1200+ page book with Lusie.

Here are the books on the first two pages that are on my wishlist:
The House on the Strand
Before the Coffee Gets Cold - this is the shortest
The Map of Time
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
How to Stop Time
Hourglass
Life After Life
and recommended by GR The Rose Garden

Lusie, do you want to create the thread for this book in the Buddy Reads folder or should I? Do you own the book? If so, perhaps you can figure out the reading schedule. I will see if I can get a copy next week so starting after the first of the year would work.

Reading:
Tracks for Trim 21
Music and Silence for Trim 21
Alone with the Stars for Found

Starting:
City of Heavenly Fire for October Book It
The Great Alone for September Book It

These two will finish those two sub-challenges.

I have been re-thinking my giving up on pages. Still all my planning is done...so, I think I will keep track of the pages I read for each prompt and see how many that is. Maybe that will boost my confidence to try pages next time!

Finished: A Trick of the Light for Trim 21 and October Book It.

I still have one book to go for both Sept and for Oct Book It. I have both on my desk and so expect to complete those two months. November and December, however, will carryover to next year - 7 books, although I do have 1 for each available to me now.

Starting:
Tracks for Trim 21
Music and Silence for Trim 21
Alone with the Stars for Found (this will finish this game)

Trim 21 is another carryover game.

And, remember, if it turns out to be too small, it can always be increased.

from instructions:
You may increase your goal later, if you find you haven't been ambitious enough

Yeah, Sandy, this one has me stumped. However, I have books planned for the other 5 and am hoping that, over time, I will get ideas for this prompt.

FINISHED
Just Read It! (Music edition)
Prompt 6: 🎵 Sweet Books (Are Made Of This) 🎵
1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2022

Goal: 10 books

Read book/s with your favourite trope/s

Paranormal female with unlikely love interest
Sweep of the Blade by Ilona Andrews Read 2/22/22 - 4*
Magic Rises by Ilona Andrews Read 3/10/22 - 4*
The Becoming by Nora Roberts Read 3/15/22 - 4*
White Lies by Jayne Ann Krentz Read 2/9/22 - 4*

Persistent female detective
Five by Ursula Poznanski Read 4/12/22 - 4*
Silent Scream by Angela Marsons Read 4/9/22 - 4*
Never Never by James Patterson and Candice Fox Read 2/7/22 - 4*

Ordinary person turns detective
Crunch Time by Diane Mott Davidson Read 1/30/22 - 4*
Immaculate Reception by Jerrilyn Farmer Read 4/6/22 - 4*
Ill Wind by Nevada Barr Read 2/2/22 - 4*

Just Read It! (Music edition) COMPLETED
Prompt 5: 🎵 Bibliophile Rhapsody 🎵
1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2022

Goal: 10 books

Poetry
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats Read 8/25/22 - 4*
And Still I Rise Read 8/24/22 - 4*
Booked Read 7/10/22 - 4*

Anthologies
Wolfsbane and Mistletoe Read 9/1/22 - 4*
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours Read 9/11/22 - 3*
A Tyranny of Petticoats Read 3/28/22 - 3*
The Irish R.M. Read 4/2/22 - 3*

Music-related books
Devil's Trill by Gerald Elias Read 4/30/22 - 4*
The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music Read 9/11/22 - 5*
The Cello Suites Read 7/15/22 - 3*

Just Read It! (Music edition)
Prompt 4: 🎵 Your STORY is a Wonderland 🎵
1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2022

Goal: 10 books

Read books with fictionalised settings (any fictional town in real country counts just as well as fictional universe).

√1. Old Man's War - space opera Read 12/8/22 - 4*
√2. Uglies - dystopia Read 5/31/22 - 4*
3. Children of the Mind - science fiction/space
√4. Z for Zachariah - dystopia Read 3/18/22 - 3*
√5. Cold Magic - fantasy Read 3/27/22 - 4*
√6. Eldest - fantasy Read 10/23/22 - 4*
√7. Sabriel - fantasy Read 2/18/22 - 4*
√8. The Wicked King - fantasy Read 10/25/22 - 4*
√9. The Poppy War - fantasy Read 3/7/22 - 4*
√10. The Midnight Library - fantasy Read 1/3/22 - 4*

alternatives:
Black Powder War - alternative history
Ink and Bone - alternative history, fantasy, dystopia, steampunk Read 7/26/22 - 4*
Thirteenth Child - alternative history, fantasy, steampunk

Just Read It! (Music edition)
Prompt 3: 🎵 READ the World 🎵
1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2022

Goal: 10 books

Read a book set in (at least 50%) AND written by author born/live in another continent from your current residence. For me, this will be outside of North America

√1. - 226 pages - My Sister, the Serial Killer (Nigeria) Read 2/26/22 - 3*
√2. - 304 pages - The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise by Julia Stuart (England) Read 8/11/22 - 3*
√3. - 380 pages - The Ruin (Ireland) by Dervla McTiernan (Ireland) Read 2/6/22 - 4*
√4. - 176 pages - Aiding and Abetting by Muriel Spark (Scotland) Read 6/11/22 - 3*
√5. - 196 pages - Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage by M.C. Beaton (Scotland) Read 3/31/22 - 3*
√6. - 495 pages - All This I Will Give to You by Dolores Redondo (Spain) Read 11/17/22 - 4*
√7. - 509 pages - The Witch Elm by Tana French (Ireland) Read 11/2/22 - 4*
√8. - 380 pages - An Equal Music by Vikram Seth (India) Read 10/29/22 - 4*
√9. - 352 pages - Silent House by Orhan Pamuk (Turkey) Read 10/26/22 - 2*
√10. - 188 pages - The Vegetarian by Han Kang (South Korea) Read 10/28/22 - 3*

Just Read It! (Music edition) FINISHED
Prompt 2: 🎵 We will, We will READ you 🎵
1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2022

Goal: 10 books - I will focus on Audible books as I have been paying for that service and not listening. These were added from 11/19 to 4/20.

√1. Year One Read 3/18/22 - 4*
√2. The Water Dancer Read 4/10/22 - 5*
√3. Pont Neuf Read 4/15/22 - 4*
√4. The Last Thing He Told Me Read 2/24/22 - 4* NOTE: I forgot that I owned this as an Audible book. I actually read this copy.
√5. Billy Kelly: This Is a Family Show! Read 4/20/22 - 3*
√6. Certain Woman of an Age Read 4/24/22 - 3*
√7. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America Read 6/21/22 - 3*
√8. A Murder of ManateesRead 3/1/22 - 2*
√9. The Mountain and the Sea Read 5/1/22 - 4*
√10. The Golden Orchard Read 5/9/22 - 4*

I want to try a pages goal; but after much calculation, I am chickening out and going for a book number.

My goal: 10 books

Just Read It! (Music edition)
Prompt 1: 🎵 Killing Me Serially 🎵
1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2022

Goal: 10 books

Only series books will qualify in this round.
Only 1 book per series can be claimed for this challenge.
You can read in any order.

√1. - 482 pages - The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1) Read 9/22/22 - 4*
√2. - 368 pages - Liar's Moon (Thief Errant, #2) Read 5/6/22 - 4*
√3. - 272 pages - Hangman's Root (China Bayles, #3) Read 2/15/22 - 4*
√4. - 1232 pages - Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive, #4) Read 1/27/22 - 4*
√5. - 360 pages - Board Stiff (Mattie Winston Mysteries, #5) Read 11/30/22 - 3*
√6. - 310 pages - Quietly in Their Sleep (Commissario Brunetti, #6) Read 8/11/22 - 4*
...
√11. - 226 pages - Zapped (Regan Reilly Mysteries, #11) Read 3/4/22 - 4*
...
√12. - 504 pages - The Queen's Fool (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #12) Read 11/25/22 - 4*
...
√17. - 319 pages - A Drop of the Hard Stuff (Matthew Scudder, #17) Read 5/11/22 - 3*
...
√20. - 224 pages - To the Land of Long Lost Friends(No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency , #20) Read 2/11/22 - 3*

Blarneygod, don't forget that part #2 of LOST is Found which is books you've added more recently. And part #3 later in the year is Lost & Found.

Charity, your #16 doesn't add up. You have used the 0.5 portion as a full 5. The two 0.5s only add up to 1.

Tien?

Finished for FOUND:
Nemesis: A Miss Marple Mystery

Finished for Lost & Found, Trim 21, and December Book It:
Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World

READING:
A Trick of the Light for Trim 21 and October Book It.