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

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

Congratulations, Lagullande.

Congrats on the finishes, Christine.

LynnB wrote: "Last book on the 2019 list, The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things. I'll be starting it in a day or two. I will have it done by the 31st (I will! I will!)."

You can do it, LynnB.

Coralie, it looks like you have only one book to go. Any chance you will complete this game?

Nicely done!

Congratulations, LaurLa. You are completing a lot!

Congratulations, LaurLa!

Meg, here are some choices for you:

The Paris Wife
The Murmur of Bees
Wide Sargasso Sea

Congrats, Michelle.

I will try Daughter of Fortune. This is a book I own and have been trying to get to for some time.

Other possibles:
The Murmur of Bees
Stones for Ibarra

Prompt 1: Read outside of comfort zone. (I picked genres that I seldom read or tend to avoid.)

My goal is 5 books.

1. Magical Realism: The Murmur of Bees - Read 3/1/20

2. Romance: Daughter of Fortune - Read 1/13/20

3. Politics: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption - Read 6/26/20

4. Science Fiction:The Left Hand of Darkness - Read 2/27/20

5. LBGT: Sacred Country - Read 3/25/20

6. Business: Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street - Read 8/1/20

Lusie wrote: "It sounds like you did a good job on it, Bea! Good luck cleaning up more games next year."

Thanks, Lusie. At least I will be mostly one year behind rather than many!

My goal this year was to clear off my old games. (Yep, a bit of obsessiveness here.)

I started the year with several old LOST books, Wheel 2 - 4 and Trim. I have finished nearly all of the old LOST books and Wheels 2-3. At this point I have: 4 Trim books left (2 are on my desk waiting to be read), 10 books for Wheel 4 (1 I am starting to read and 1 is on my desk waiting), and 1 LOST book.

I am proud of what I have accomplished and am ready to add to my clean up list the 7 unfinished PnM challenges as well as FOUND, Series 2019 and MM 2019! I expect to make good headway on all these as I have cross-planned with the 2020 games.

Finished:
Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life With the Tree-planting Tribe for Wheel 4

Reading:
The First Man in Rome for PnM Settings - Time
A Season of Delight for Trim (a game I planned books for but never started playing! - only 3 books left that were planned.)
The Art of Mending for Wheel 4

In checking the list of names that were linked, I found not only Anna's pointing to the wrong place, but no post at all for Kate T. I am thinking she may have deleted her post, which caused those below her to point to the wrong entry.

I think everything is fixed now.

Anna's Reading Life wrote: "Hi Bea, looks like my link isn't working either."

Anna, I am not sure what is happening, but I will fix it.

Judy, you are linked now.

♞ Pat wrote: "Hey Bea,

My link in post #2 doesn't connect to my post in the thread. My post is #50, not #51.

:-)"

I think it is corrected now. Not sure how it happened as I had not even linked Judy yet.

I know that some of the PnM challenges will be with me in the New Year...but Settings (Time) will last forever if The First Man in Rome has anything to say! The writing is good...but all those ancient Italian names and families! And the size of the book! I am only 56 pages in. Gonna be a LONG read.

Wow! The Outback is getting populated! Nice.