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

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

Think I'll read if I can get a copy of it.

Prompt #4: Family:
(COMPLETED)

Read book/s with person/s on cover/s where, when number of people on cover/s added, we have a total of 4.

Every Summer After, Carley Fortune, 19 Jan 2023
Dinners with Ruth, Nina Totenberg, 12 Feb 2023

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I wondered that too as a square is times itself, but I wasn't going to say anything so we could slip by with only 6, lol!!

Prompt 9: Square Number
Completed 16 Aug 2023

Read 2x 3 books of an author (ie. 6 books from 2 authors, 3 from each author).

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

Prompt #3: Third Time's the Charm

Author: Alice Hoffman
1. The World That We Knew, Alice Hoffman, 22 Jan 2023
2. Skylight Confessions, Alice Hoffman, 28 Jan 2023
3. Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman, 29 Jan 2023

Meg wrote: "That sounds good Lynn, maybe a bit like Lab Girl?"

I haven't read that one yet, but I plan to do do.

Prompt #5: Prime number - COMPLETED

Read a book where page number is a prime number

The Winners by Fredrik Backman, 673 pp.

I read Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard. 4+ stars.
The author is a professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia and is an early researcher of plant communication and intelligence. It's part memoir, but mostly an explanation of how she got interested in the subject of plant communication and the research she has done on it. Very interesting!!

(No nomination idea at this time)

Prompt 6: Dice
COMPLETED

Roll = 3 (all part of a series)

Series:
1. Benediction, Kent Haruf, 16 Jan 2023, Plainsong #3
2. Between a Rock and a Hard Place , Marty Wingate, 16 Jan 2023, A Potting Shed Mystery #3
3. Dead Man's Ransom, Ellis Peters, 18 Jan 2023, Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #9

Prompt 8: Oxygen - completed.

Read 8 comfort/ guilty pleasure books.

1. Bake, Borrow, and Steal, Ellie Alexander, 20 Jan 2023, cozy mystery
2. The Skeleton Garden, Marty Wingate, 2 Feb 2023, cozy mystery
3. Fogged Inn, Barbara Ross, 9 Feb 2023, cozy mystery
4. The Painted Veil, W. Somerset Maugham, 23 Feb 2023, classic/romance
5. Mousse and Murder, Elizabeth Logan, 27 Feb 2023, cozy mystery
6. The Other Alcott, Elise Hooper, 7 Mar 2023, historical fiction
7. Wild Strawberries, Angela Thirkell, 10 Mar 2023, classic/humor
8. The Light Years, Elizabeth Jane Howard, 16 Mar 2023, modern classic

FOUND (LOST 2022)
Finally completed! And all the books on this year's FOUND list were ones that I enjoyed.

Read 10 books which were:
1. added to your TBR in the past 6 months (23 Dec 2021 - 23 June 2022) AND
2. were published prior to the date you completed LOST 2022 (3 July 2022)

✔1. Miss Eliza's English Kitchen: A Novel of Victorian Cookery and Friendship, Annabel Abbs, 17 July 2022, added to TBR Dec 2021, pub. Oct. 2021
✔2. I Must Betray You, Ruta Sepetys, 28 Dec 2022
✔3. Peach Blossom Spring, Melissa Fu, 14 Jan 2023
✔4. What the Fireflies Knew, Kai Harris, 4 Oct 2022, added to TBR 8 Jan 2022, pub. 1 Feb 2022
✔5. Shady Hollow, Juneau Black, 22 Dec 2022
✔6. Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus, 12 Oct 2022
✔7. The Shadow of Memory, Connie Berry, 5 Sept 2022, added to TBR Feb 2022, pub. May 2022
✔8. Confessions of a Bookseller, Shaun Bythell, 25 Dec 2022
✔9. The Garden Plot, Marty Wingate, 9 July 2022, added to TBR Mar 2022, pub. May 2014
✔10. The Seed Keeper, Diane Wilson, 21 July 2022, added to TBR Mar 2022, pub. Mar 2021

Prompt 7: "Lucky Seven"
Completed 8 Jan 2024

Read 7 books that feature 'Seven'

Think I'll do like Bea and "travel" the continents.


1. Africa - Love in Color, Bolu Babalola, 5 Jan 2024
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 6: Dice
COMPLETED

Roll = 3 (all part of a series)

Series:
1. Benediction, Kent Haruf, 16 Jan 2023, Plainsong #3
2. Between a Rock and a Hard Place , Marty Wingate, 16 Jan 2023, A Potting Shed Mystery #3
3. Dead Man's Ransom, Ellis Peters, 18 Jan 2023, Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #9

Prompt #2: Heads or Tails
January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023
COMPLETED

My last two series were both #1, the last being:
Fresh Brewed Murder.

1. Heads - The Existential Worries of Mags Munroe (Mags Munroe #1), Jean Grainger, 9 Jan 2023

Prompt #5: Prime number

Read a book where page number is a prime number

The Winners by Fredrik Backman, 673 pp.

Prompt #4: Family:
(COMPLETED)

Read book/s with person/s on cover/s where, when number of people on cover/s added, we have a total of 4.

Every Summer After, Carley Fortune, 19 Jan 2023
Dinners with Ruth, Nina Totenberg, 12 Feb 2023

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I'll be one short for 2022 (company in town this weekend, so little reading). I'll read it next week to finish up. Looking to get started on my 2023 books, too!

I'll read Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest. The library has it, so I just have to see if it's available for checkout.

I have 2 left on Found. I should finish in time as they are in the pile as my next 2 books to read.

I updated my list today. I accidentally read one of my books last week (oops!) and was able to find and buy 3 that I had skipped over as I hadn't been able to find copies of them up until that time.

I love reading everyone's lists!