LynnB’s Comments (group member since Aug 07, 2011)

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

I just finished LOST today. Here's my list for FOUND 2024.

Read 10 books which were:
added to your TBR in the past 6 months (since 6 Mar 2024)
AND
were published prior to the date you completed LOST 2024. (before 6 Sept 2024)

✔1. Our Darkest Night, Jennifer Robson, 3 Jan 2025, added to TBR Mar 2024; pub. Jan 2021
✔2. The Heretic's Apprentice, Ellis Peters, 13 Nov 2024, added to TBR Mar 2024; pub. Feb 1989
✔3. Secrets of the Octopus, Sy Montgomery, 2 Jan 2025, added to TBR Mar 2024; pub. Mar 2024
✔4. The Other Valley, Scott Alexander Howard, 1 Apr 2025
✔5. Whale Fall Elizabeth O'Connor, 16 Jan 2025
✔6. American Flygirl, Susan Tate Ankeny, 16 Sept 2024, added to TBR July 2024; pub 23 July 2024
✔7. Exile Music: A Novel, Jennifer Steil, 5 Feb 2025
✔8. A Collection of Lies, Connie Berry, 19 Sept 2024, added to TBR May 2024; pub 18 June 2024
✔9. Free Fire, C.J. Box, 17 Nov 2024, added to TBR 26 May 2024; pub. May 2007
✔10. Blood Trail, C.J. Box, 24 Nov 2024, added to TBR 26 May 2024, pub. May 2008

One more to go for me, then on to FOUND!

Seriously Serial '24
January 1 - December 31, 2024
COMPLETED 24 May 2024

1 = #1, Sheriff Dan Rhodes - Too Late to Die, Bill Crider, 12 Jan 2024

5 = 2+3
#2, Jane Austen Society, Bloomsbury Girls, Natalie Jenner, 18 Feb 2024
#3, Andrew Basnett, The Crime and the Crystal, Elizabeth Ferrars, 21 Jan 2024

1 = #1, Corfu, My Family and Other Animals, Gerald Durrell, 22 Jan 2024

1 = #1, Lady Sherlock, A Study in Scarlet Women, Sherry Thomas, 25 Jan 2024

4 = #4, Alaska Wild, Winter's End, Paige Shelton, 29 Jan 2024

2 = #2, Mags Munroe, Growing Wild in the Shade, Jean Grainger, 16 Jan 2024

7 = #7, Insp. Karen Pirie, Past Lying, Val McDermid, 23 Jan 2024

5 = #5 Joe Pickett, Out Of Range, C.J. Box, 29 Feb 2024

9 = #9 Department Q, The Shadow Murders, Jussi Adler-Olsen, 23 Apr 2024

1+1= #2, Cal Hooper, The Hunter, Tana French, 7 Feb 2024

4+5 = #9, Detective Varg, The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf, Alexander McCall Smith, 8 Feb 2024

9+1 = #10, Bess Crawford, A Forgotten Place, Charles Todd, 19 Jan 2024

7 = 2+2+3
#2, Shades of Grey, Red Side Story, Jasper Fforde, 24 May 2024
#2, Amelia Peabody, The Curse of the Pharaohs, Elizabeth Peters, 17 Mar 2024
#3, Cormac Reilly, The Good Turn, Dervla McTiernan, 8 May 2024

3 = #3, Joe Pickett, Winterkill, C.J. Box, 14 Jan 2024

3 = #3, Alaska Wild - Dark Night, Paige Shelton, 2 Jan 2024

6 = #6, Joe Pickett, In Plain Sight, C.J. Box, 15 Mar 2024

1 = #1, Ill-Mannered Ladies, The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies, Alison Goodman, 25 Feb 2024

8+5 = #13, Brother Cadfael, The Rose Rent, Ellis Peters, 13 Jan 2024

9 = #9, Fjallbacka, The Ice Child, Camilla Läckberg, 14 Feb 2024

1 = #1, Emily, Emily of the New Moon, L.M. Montgomery, 17 Jan 2024

For once, I am ahead of my usual sloth and have read 5 of my 10. Whooee! That said, I don’t see the other 5 getting read before mid-summer, so I'm fine with whichever date you choose.

Fifteen for Fifteen - COMPLETED final prompt
8 Jan 2024

Prompt 7: "Lucky Seven"
Completed 8 Jan 2024

Read 7 books that feature 'Seven'
- chose 7 continents

1. Africa - Love in Color, Bolu Babalola, 5 Jan 2024, (short stories in various countries)
2. Antarctica - Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence, and Emperor Penguins, Gavin Francis, 8 Jan 2024
3. Asia - Honor, Thrity Umrigar, 20 Feb 2023, (India)
4. Australia - Exiles, Jane Harper, 4 Feb 2023
5. Europe - The World That We Knew, Alice Hoffman, 22 Jan 2023, (France/Germany)
6. North America - Finding the Mother Tree, Suzanne Simard, 25 Jan 2023, (Canada/US)
7. South America - Portrait of an Unknown Lady: A Novel, María Gainza, 21 July 2023, (Argentina)

Prompt 11: repdigit - Done!

Read 2 books where:
titles (excluding subtitles / series names) contain same EXACT word/s

Three Wishes, Liane Moriarty, 13 Dec 2023
Three Wishes, Barbara Delinsky, 15 Dec 2023

Prompt 11: repdigit - Done!

Read 2 books where:
titles (excluding subtitles / series names) contain same EXACT word/s

Three Wishes, Liane Moriarty, 13 Dec 2023
Three Wishes, Barbara Delinsky, 15 Dec 2023

My possibilities:
And the Rest Is History by Jodi Taylor
The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf by Alexander McCall Smith
Dirty Thirty by Janet Evanovich

Finished at last!!
LOST 2023
Completed 9 Dec 2023

I am using my "books-I-own", "library", and "ebook" lists only this year and skipping those on the list I haven't been able to buy or borrow. These were put on my shelf between 2009-2020.

✔1. The Tales of Beedle the Bard, J.K. Rowling, 7 Aug 2023
✔2. Betsy: The Dramatic Biography of Prison Reformer Elizabeth Fry, Jean Hatton, DNF 30 Aug 2023, read 1/2
✔3. Watching the Dark, Peter Robinson, 22 Apr 2023
✔4. American Princess, Stephanie Marie Thornton, 21 Oct 2023 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔5. A Keeper, Graham Norton, 4 Nov 2023 ⭐⭐⭐
✔6. The World That We Knew, Alice Hoffman, 22 Jan 2023, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔7. What the Wind Knows, Amy Harmon, 9 Dec 2023, ⭐⭐⭐-1/2
✔8. The Turn of the Key, Ruth Ware, 4 July 2023, ⭐⭐
✔9. Wild Strawberries, Angela Thirkell, 10 Mar 2023, ⭐⭐⭐1/2
✔10. The Dearly Beloved, Cara Wall, 8 Feb 2023⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I have 4 books to go, but two of those are for prompt 11. I have no clue what to read for that. I need to see what everyone else has read for it, I guess. I know I won't complete the challenge before the end of the year.

LOST has been so successful for me over the years (my first LOST was in 2013) that my oldest are now coming from 2019! ... so I'm going to use 5 that have literally been longest on the list, but also 5 that are oldest by publishing date. Just because.

Lynn's LOST list, 2024
Completed 6 Sept 2024

✔1. The Ragged Edge of Night, Olivia Hawker, 10 Feb 2024
✔2. The Ice Child, Camilla Läckberg, 14 Feb 2024
✔3. The Art of Inheriting Secrets, Barbara O'Neal, 6 Aug 2024
✔4. How We Disappeared, Jing-Jing Lee, 17 July 2024
✔5. Vanishing Grace: What Ever Happened to the Good News?, Philip Yancey, 6 Sept 2024
✔6. The Problem of Pain, C.S. Lewis, 21 June 2024
✔7. The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende, 18 June 2024
✔8. The Crime and the Crystal, Elizabeth Ferrars, 21 Jan 2024
✔9. Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan, Bruce Feiler, 15 Jan 2024
✔10. Winterkill, C.J. Box, 14 Jan 2024

Seriously Serial '24
January 1 - December 31, 2024

Read the serial # book/s as per each number OR you may put together numbers that are next to each other and read that serial # book/s

1 = #1, Sheriff Dan Rhodes - Too Late to Die, Bill Crider, 12 Jan 2024

5 = 2+3
#2, Jane Austen Society, Bloomsbury Girls, Natalie Jenner, 18 Feb 2024
#3, Andrew Basnett, The Crime and the Crystal, Elizabeth Ferrars, 21 Jan 2024

1 = #1, Corfu, My Family and Other Animals, Gerald Durrell, 22 Jan 2024

1 = #1, Lady Sherlock, A Study in Scarlet Women, Sherry Thomas, 25 Jan 2024

4 = #4, Alaska Wild, Winter's End, Paige Shelton, 29 Jan 2024

2 = #2, Mags Munroe, Growing Wild in the Shade, Jean Grainger, 16 Jan 2024

7 = #7, Insp. Karen Pirie, Past Lying, Val McDermid, 23 Jan 2024

5 = #5 Joe Pickett, Out Of Range, C.J. Box, 29 Feb 2024

9 = #9 Department Q, The Shadow Murders, Jussi Adler-Olsen, 23 Apr 2024

1+1= #2, Cal Hooper, The Hunter, Tana French, 7 Feb 2024

4+5 = #9, Detective Varg, The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf, Alexander McCall Smith, 8 Feb 2024

9+1 = #10, Bess Crawford, A Forgotten Place, Charles Todd, 19 Jan 2024

7 = 2+2+3
#2, Shades of Grey, Red Side Story, Jasper Fforde, 24 May 2024
#2, Amelia Peabody, The Curse of the Pharaohs, Elizabeth Peters, 17 Mar 2024
#3, Cormac Reilly, The Good Turn, Dervla McTiernan, 8 May 2024

3 = #3, Joe Pickett, Winterkill, C.J. Box, 14 Jan 2024

3 = #3, Alaska Wild - Dark Night, Paige Shelton, 2 Jan 2024

6 = #6, Joe Pickett, In Plain Sight, C.J. Box, 15 Mar 2024

1 = #1, Ill-Mannered Ladies, The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies, Alison Goodman, 25 Feb 2024

8+5 = #13, Brother Cadfael, The Rose Rent, Ellis Peters, 13 Jan 2024

9 = #9, Fjallbacka, The Ice Child, Camilla Läckberg, 14 Feb 2024

1 = #1, Emily, Emily of the New Moon, L.M. Montgomery, 17 Jan 2024

Finished - This year I chose to focus on this reading list first. Yay!

Trim That TBR (2023)
My start date: 20 Sept 2023

📚A. How many?!?! (Current TBR ends in "5". Must be on TBR before 20 Sep 2023 start date)
1. The First Ladies, Marie Benedict, 29 Sept 2023, on TBR Jan 2023
2. This Gulf of Fire: The Destruction of Lisbon, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason, Mark Molesky, 9 Oct 2023, on TBR Sept 2021
3. Murder at Melrose Court, Karen Baugh Menuhin, 11 Oct 2023, on TBR Nov 2021
4. Dear Emmie Blue, Lia Louis, 3 Nov 2023, on TBR July 2020
5. A Keeper, Graham Norton, 4 Nov 2023, on TBR 2019

📚B. Share the love
Chosen option: ✂️ "date pub"
Read:
a. Books with the most recent date
b. Books with the oldest date
Try to read the same number of books (a+b) as you did for (1) above, if not more.
1. The Last Devil to Die, Richard Osman, 5 Oct 2023, pub 14 Sept 2023
2. Chenneville, Paulette Jiles, 22 Sept 2023, pub. 12 Sept 2023
3. The Longmire Defense, Craig Johnson, 3 Oct 2023, pub 5 Sept 2023
4. The Wall, Marlen Haushofer, 24 Oct 2023, pub 1963
5. The Root of All Evil, E.X. Ferrars, 23 Oct 2023, pub 1 Jan 1984

📚C. Monstrosity (choose ONE of longest 5 on my list)
1. World Without End, Ken Follett, 20 Nov 2023, 1,014 pp.

📚D. Catch Up
Must have read at least the first book before October 2023.
1. The Raging Storm, Ann Cleeves, 24 Sept 2023, Two Rivers #3, first bk read in 2021
2. Birder, She Wrote, Donna Andrews, 26 Sept 2023, Meg Langslow #33, first bk read before 2009
3. The Longmire Defense, Craig Johnson, 3 Oct 2023, Walt Longmire #19, first bk read in 2017
4. Maureen, Rachel Joyce, 25 Oct 2023, Harold Fry #3, first book read in 2012
5. The Golden Calf, Helene Tursten, 15 Nov 2023, Inspector Huss #5, first book read in 2020

PROMPT 15 (start 11 Apr) - Completed 3 Nov 2023
Read a total of 15 books across different PAS challenges (not counting this annual one).

Note the slight amendments (above) to allow if you aren't participating for the whole year. Mix and match as how you can fit 15 books into however there should be at least 2 challenges.

LOST 2023
1. Watching the Dark, Peter Robinson, 22 Apr 2023
2. The Turn of the Key, Ruth Ware, 4 July 2023
3. The Tales of Beedle the Bard, J.K. Rowling, 7 Aug 2023
4. Betsy: The Dramatic Biography of Prison Reformer Elizabeth Fry, Jean Hatton, DNF 30 Aug 2023 (read over 1/2)
5. The Lady Brewer of London, Karen Brooks, 8 Sept 2023
6. American Princess, Stephanie Marie Thornton, 21 Oct 2023

Trim that TBR 2022
7. The Engineer's Wife, Tracey Enerson Wood, 24 May 2023
8. Love in the Time of Bertie, Alexander McCall Smith, 25 June 2023
9. Adult Assembly Required, Abbi Waxman, 29 Aug 2023

Seriously Serial '23 #1 series books
10. Buried in a Good Book, Tamara Berry, 27 June 2023, By the Book Mysteries #1
11. An American in Scotland, Lucy Connelly, 20 July 2023, Scottish Isle Mystery #1
12. Clark and Division, Naomi Hirahara, 10 Sept 2023, A Japantown Mystery #1
13. Murder at Melrose Court, Karen Baugh Menuhin, 11 Oct 2023, Heathcliff Lennox #1
14. Circle of Influence, Annette Dashofy, 26 Oct 2023, Zoe Chambers Mystery #1
15. The Broken Spine, Dorothy St. James, 5 Nov 2023, A Beloved Bookroom Mystery #1

Trim That TBR (2023)
My start date: 20 Sept 2023

📚A. How many?!?! (Current TBR ends in "5". Must be on TBR before 20 Sep 2023 start date)
1. The First Ladies, Marie Benedict, 29 Sept 2023, on TBR Jan 2023
2. This Gulf of Fire: The Destruction of Lisbon, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason, Mark Molesky, 9 Oct 2023, on TBR Sept 2021
3. Murder at Melrose Court, Karen Baugh Menuhin, 11 Oct 2023, on TBR Nov 2021
4. Dear Emmie Blue, Lia Louis, 3 Nov 2023, on TBR July 2020
5. A Keeper, Graham Norton, 4 Nov 2023, on TBR 2019

📚B. Share the love
Chosen option: ✂️ "date pub"
Read:
a. Books with the most recent date
b. Books with the oldest date
Try to read the same number of books (a+b) as you did for (1) above, if not more.
1. The Last Devil to Die, Richard Osman, 5 Oct 2023, pub 14 Sept 2023
2. Chenneville, Paulette Jiles, 22 Sept 2023, pub. 12 Sept 2023
3. The Longmire Defense, Craig Johnson, 3 Oct 2023, pub 5 Sept 2023
4. The Wall, Marlen Haushofer, 24 Oct 2023, pub 1963
5. The Root of All Evil, E.X. Ferrars, 23 Oct 2023, pub 1 Jan 1984

📚C. Monstrosity (choose ONE of longest 5 on my list)
1. World Without End, Ken Follett, 20 Nov 2023, 1,014 pp.

📚D. Catch Up
Must have read at least the first book before October 2023.
1. The Raging Storm, Ann Cleeves, 24 Sept 2023, Two Rivers #3, first bk read in 2021
2. Birder, She Wrote, Donna Andrews, 26 Sept 2023, Meg Langslow #33, first bk read before 2009
3. The Longmire Defense, Craig Johnson, 3 Oct 2023, Walt Longmire #19, first bk read in 2017
4. Maureen, Rachel Joyce, 25 Oct 2023, Harold Fry #3, first book read in 2012
5. The Golden Calf, Helene Tursten, 15 Nov 2023, Inspector Huss #5, first book read in 2020

Trim that TBR 2022, 1 Oct. 2022 - 30 Sept 2023 (one year)
Completed 10 Sept 2023

TBR list ends in 7 this time (227). Start date will be October 1 for my list. I am limiting this to books I already own or can get through the library.

📚1. How many?!?!
1. Clark and Division, Naomi Hirahara, 10 Sept 2023
2. Something Wicked, Elizabeth Ferrars, 28 October 2022
3. Weather Girl, Rachel Lynn Solomon, 6 Nov 2022
4. Stormy Weather, Paulette Jiles, 5 Apr 2023
5. Adult Assembly Required, Abbi Waxman, 29 Aug 2023
6. The Engineer's Wife, Tracey Enerson Wood, 24 May 2023
7. The Shattered Tree, Charles Todd, 27 Feb 2023

📚2. Share the love
1. Betsy: The Dramatic Biography of Prison Reformer Elizabeth Fry, Jean Hatton, DNF (by read over 1/2), Aug 2023, added 12/17/2018
2. Watching the Dark, Peter Robinson, 22 Apr 2023, added 1/1/2019
3. Ring for Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse, 2 Nov 2022, added 1/15/2019
4. The World That We Knew, Alice Hoffman, 22 Jan 2023, added 8/13/2019
5. Mother Daughter Traitor Spy, Susan Elia MacNeal, 5 Dec 2022, added 8/15/2022
6. The Librarian Spy, Madeline Martin, 14 Nov 2022, added 8/8/2022
7. Love Letters from Ladybug Farm, Donna Ball, 14 Dec 2022, added 9/12/2022

📚3. Monstrosity
3. The Lady Brewer of London, Karen Brooks, 8 Sept 2023, 816 pages

📚4. Catch Up
1. A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #18), Louise Penny, 9 Dec 2022, read 9 Dec 2022, first book read 2010
2. The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club #3) (read before 1 Oct, replacing with...)
2. A Cup of Silver Linings (Dove Pond #2), Karen Hawkins, read 27 Oct 2022, first book read May 2021
3. Love in the Time of Bertie(44 Scotland Street #15), Alexander McCall Smith, 25 June 2023, first book read 2008
4. Ice Cold Heart (Monkeewrench #10), P.J. Tracy, read 28 Nov 2022, first book read 2011
5. A Distant Grave(Maggie D'arcy #2), Sarah Stewart Taylor, 5 Jan 2023, first book read 2020
6. The Drowning Sea(Maggie D'arcy #3), Sarah Stewart Taylor, 26 Mar 2023, first book read 2020
7. Lucy by the Sea (Amgash #4), Elizabeth Strout, read 1 Oct 2022, first book read 2017

PROMPT #1, completed 8 Sept 2023

My second longest book in 2022 was 784 pages, so I have three possibilities:

1014 pp., World Without End
909 pp., Peter the Great: His Life and World
✔816 pp., The Lady Brewer of London, Karen Brooks, 8 Sept 2023

7 down, 3 to go. One is 1,000+ pages ... I think the thought of that one is slowing me down! But they WILL be done before the end of the year.

Prompt 14. Arrays
Completed 26 Aug 2023

Read 14 books:
2 books from 7 different shelves* (ie. 7 shelves only from which you will read 2 books each)

✔Contemporary (Jan 14)
1. Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting, Clare Pooley, 31 Mar 2023
2. Earth's the Right Place for Love, Elizabeth Berg, 5 May 2023

✔Historical-Fiction (Sept 09)
1. Stormy Weather, Paulette Jiles, 5 Apr 2023
2. The Night Travelers, Armando Lucas Correa, 7 May 2023

✔Short-Story-Collection (May 14)
1. The Best of Connie Willis, Connie Willis, 13 Apr 2023
2. Seasonal Work: Stories, Laura Lippman, 28 Apr 2023

✔Crime (Feb 15)
1. The Body in the Dales, J.R. Ellis, 15 Apr 2023
2. Children of the Revolution, Peter Robinson, 17 May 2023

✔Non-Fiction (Dec 08)
1. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson, 18 Apr 2023
2. The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II, Katherine Sharp Landdeck, 6 May 2023

✔Canada (Jul 16)
1. Last Winter, Carrie Mac, 2 May 2023
2. The Librarianist, Patrick deWitt, 26 Aug 2023

✔Biography (Oct 10)
1. The Gatekeeper, Kathryn Smith, 13 May 2023
2. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom, Ilyon Woo, 16 May 2023

Prompt 9: Square Number
Completed 16 Aug 2023

Author #1: Ellis Peters
1. The Pilgrim of Hate, Ellis Peters, 10 May 2023
2. An Excellent Mystery, Ellis Peters, 11 Aug 2023
3. The Raven in the Foregate, Ellis Peters, 16 Aug 2023

Author #2: Charles Todd
1. The Shattered Tree, Charles Todd, 27 Feb 2023
2. A Divided Loyalty, Charles Todd, 27 May 2023
3. A Fatal Lie, Charles Todd, 29 June 2023