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

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

I love fantasy!

I will read Daughter of Smoke & Bone

I finished Rubyfruit Jungle. This book has been shelved on my TBR since 2015. Somehow I had the idea it was non-fiction, so image my surprise to find it wasn't.

It is a coming of age type of book with a main character who discovers early her desire for women. Although it is an important story-line, I did not particularly like Molly. I gave it 3*.

I second the nomination for Audiobook.

Finished the Zen book! I have been trying to read that book since June. I am so excited! It actually turned out to be fairly good. Guess there really are books that I need to be in the right frame of mind to read.

Finished:
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice for Wheel 3 Yippee
Queen of Scots for Trim and Wheel 4
Rubyfruit Jungle for Monthly Shelf

Reading:
The Crossing for Series
Death of a Red Heroine for PnM Authors

I have 5 books to go.

Amy wrote: "Don't worry about picking for me, LaurLa. I'll use a GO card to roll again. "

Amy, thanks for the note. I would have been picking for you today, if LaurLa had not responded.

Anna's Reading Life wrote: "Bea, you've done fantastic! I am super jealous of the Thanksgiving dinner ;-) Love me a bit of turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce!"

Anna, I get 2 dinners. One Saturday night and one on Thanksgiving night. Both are potlucks. Not doing too bad for a single old lady, huh?

Three days to go, and I am beginning to weary. I will finish one more book - the Zen one.

That will leave me with 3 books in progress. I am sure I will get some pages read, but I will not be pushing to complete them.

Tomorrow I have a local history class to attend, mulch to put around the bushes, and I just HAVE to get the car vacuumed of all the dog hair. (I anticipate that will take an hour or so.) Saturday I have a Thanksgiving dinner to attend with one of my groups and a dish to make to take.

So...I will not be able to spend a lot of time on this read-a-thon. As of right now, I am close to 2400 pages read and 10 books completed.

Dee wrote: "yeah that...sorry typed pre coffee"

LOL. Thanks. Unless Tien disagrees, I will go with that. Thus my 2h 13m audiobook will be 67 pages.

Dee wrote: "i use roughly 30pgs per audio for audiobook (based on many years of listening)"

30 pages per hour?

Question regarding audiobooks: I finished one already that had printed editions. I was able to use the most popular edition for my page count calculation. (I had started that audiobook before the read-a-thon start date.) However, now I am listening to a short audiobook (2+ hours) that has no printed edition. How do I do page count for that?

I have finished 2 more books. One was for the PAS Monthly Shelf for November. And, happy days, I am making headway on the Zen book, which will finish Wheel 3.

@ Susan: I don't use the widgit for that very reason. Once I read a book or DNF it, I remove it from my shelf. Any pages read helps...even the ones you read before DNF'g the book.

@ Lusie: Some series can be read out of order. Too bad this one doesn't feel that way to you.

Although I am happy to be participating in this read-a-thon, the start took me by surprise and I was not prepared with a list of books for my challenges. As a result, my goal of finishing a bunch of the PnM challenges, just has not worked out. Instead I have been reading the library books I had on my desk and others that have come in.

So far, I have finished 7 books and have 4 more that I know for sure will be completed. Given that my reading fell off the last 2 weeks of October, I am pleased.

Amy, your thread created twice. I deleted one. Please check the other to be sure it is still OK.

Welcome, Teddie and Anna! This is a great group of people and games. Jump right in. Ask questions if you need help. Very friendly group.

Beth wrote: "Where do I create my shelf? I can't remember how I did it last time."

Beth, are you talking about your bookshelf thread? If so, go to My Books and scroll down. You will find a box on the left hand side that says ADD SHELF.

If you have a shelf for bookopoly already created, click on it and re-use that for the new game.

Go to Bookopoly - Travel Edition in list of games. Click on that folder to open it up. Select "new topic" and create your thread there.

Finished:
The Huntress for Found
Neverwhere for Found

Reading:
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice for Wheel 3 I really need to get this one done...it is the last book for Wheel 3
The Crossing for Series
Queen of Scots for Trim and Wheel 4
Rubyfruit Jungle for Monthly Shelf

Paola wrote: "I always use the same shelf, adding new books I want to read during the year :)"

I do the same, Paola, use the same shelf, that is. However, once I have made my plans for SRC and RwS, both seasonal reading groups, I then cross-plan with PAS and those are the books that make it onto my bookopoly. After those are added, it is only PAS books that go on it.

Right now, I have to clean my bookopoly list and remove any books not on current PAS plans.

I am running behind on my reading for the October shelf. I read Jazz.

This book had a rhythm about it that matched my thinking about jazz, the musical genre. It picked up and left off stories of black people that later interwove into each other.

However, as a work of writing, it was disjointed for me. It was not an easily followed story nor was it an easily followed non-linear story. It felt broken into pieces. I think that was partly because the narrator changed.

I gave it 2*.