Lyn (Readinghearts)’s Comments (group member since Apr 07, 2009)

Lyn (Readinghearts)’s comments from the Pick-a-Shelf group.

Tien wrote: "readinghearts (Lyn M) wrote: "Let me see if I understand Rule 4 correctly. For my first role I got black - nonfiction, and d - humanities. The second book on the list is Pride and Prejudice. Even t..."

Thanks Tien. I got one that I think will be good. :)

Anybody up for a session of POTS? We are starting clean in 2015, so there is no theme for this session. Please sign up below if you want to participate, and indicate the number of books that you want to read and the shelf that you want the others to choose for you from.

Since I am getting a late start - Session 1 timing will be as follows.

Sign ups - January 16 - 23
Book choosing - January 24 - 30
Reading February 1 - March 31st

PS since I am on the West Coast of the US, all dates are US dates, which are usually later than Australian dates.

Participants:

Team 1

Dee - 2 books MNG Picked Books
Lyn - 1 book To Read Mine
Tien - 2 books moving mt 2015
Coralee - 2 books to be continued
Niamh - 2 books "POTS 2015

Team 2

Amanda - 2 books POTS 15
Bea - 2 books My LOST Shelf
Alex - 2 books to read
Lauren - 2 books pifm
Marie - 3 books own but unread

Team 3

Karen - 2 books POTS
Susan - 3 books POTs 2015
Charity - 1 book pots 2015
Candiss - 2 books 2015 tbr
Kaitlin - 2 books to read

Team 4
Ebony - 2 books tbr-2015
Fairlee - 4 books pick it for me
Lahni - 1 book challenge maybes
Tea Lucija - ? to read list

What is your favorite quote from your audio book? This will take a little more effort if you are actually listening to an audio book instead of reading a book of the list, but I am really interested to see and hear what you are reading. :)

This is your chance to "be heard" so leave a quote.

Let me see if I understand Rule 4 correctly. For my first role I got black - nonfiction, and d - humanities. The second book on the list is Pride and Prejudice. Even though it is the second book on the list, it was only shelved 20 times as "humnanities" which puts that shelf on page 6 of the books top shelves. So even though it is the second book on the list, since humanities is not on the first page of its top shelves, I cannot use it. Correct?

Technically that means that I have to find a book that is shelved at least 100 times as humanities...So the more popular the book, the less likely that humanities is to be on the first page of top shelves, right?

I swear I am going to do this one this year.

Here is my first roll:

roll #l:
Category 5 - black
Shelf d - humanites Ghost Girl by Torey L. Hayden

Amanda wrote: "readinghearts (Lyn M) wrote: "My list is the same as 2014, lol. Not good at this....I am better at reading newer books than the older ones. :P

I am going to try this yet again, lol. Let's see ..."

I'm game, Amanda. Let's do it. I am like you, I need someone to kick start me to pick the book up. :)

The last book I completed in 2014 was Bloodgifted by Tima Maria Lacoba

My 2015 list:
1. "vampires" - Dracula by Bram Stoker

My list is the same as 2014, lol. Not good at this....I am better at reading newer books than the older ones. :P

I am going to try this yet again, lol. Let's see how it goes.


1. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
2. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
3. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
4. The Fire by Katherine Neville
5. The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama
6. I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
7. The Way of the Traitor by Laura Joh Rowland
8. Déjà Dead by Kathy Reichs
9. Sweet Revenge by Diane Mott Davidson
10. His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik

D.G. wrote: "Great shelf, Gemma.

If I can get out of this awful slump, I may try:
[bookcover:The Pi..."

I am in a horrible slump, too, D.G. :( Hope yours ends soon.

Don't forget to make a positive change to your life by leaving a quote here.

Also in the spirit of the month, I have started a thread for us to make our own list of life changers.Click the link, or find the thread in the Welcome and Ice Breakers folder.

As it is the middle of the night in California, I will be back in the morning with my top 10 life changers.

In the spirit of the month's theme for November 2014, I thought we could all do a little searching and come up with a list of books that we would consider "life changing" What are the top life changing books that you have read?

This month we are reading books that other readers have considered as life changing books. Did the book change your life? Leave a quote to let us know why this book should or should not be considered a life changer.

Which Life Changers did you end up reading? Did the books you read give you new insights? Would you consider them as Life Changers? What would you consider a life changing book?

There are some great books on this shelf, right? And it is always a bonus when they fit Scattershelves for those of you who play.

I will probably only be able to fit in one, but I think I will go for:

Mockingjay
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
or
The Awakening

Congratulations to Gemma, our shelf picker for the month of November. The shelf that struck her fancy was Life Changers.

What books on the list will you read for November, and do you agree that they are life changing books? What books that you have read would you consider life changing books?

See the above revised list. Sorry all.

Lauren wrote: "Thanks for posting Lyn :0)

Are we doing 15 shelves this time?"

Crap, I forgot I was supposed to knock off some of the shelves. Thanks for the reminder, Lauren. I will edit the above.

Sorry. I was trying to hurry it out. DANG!

Bea wrote: "Take your time...take your time. I have so many books to read!"

I know the feeling, Bea!

November:

Letter: S

Shelves:
1. action
2. psychology
3. need-to-get
4. college
5. 3-stars
6. literary-fiction
7. 20th-century
8. war
9. summer-reading
10. mythology
11. animals
12. religion

Categories:

a. Number of Pages: 301-400
b. Has number of rating less than 500
c. Number of Pages: 401-500
d. Main Character (90% of book): Female
e. Inanimate Object on cover (partials acceptable)
f. Published in: 19th Century
g. Main Character (90% of book): Male
h. Male Authors
i. Number of Pages: 100-200
j. Plant on cover (partials acceptable)
k. Published in: 1920 - 1949
l. Has number of rating of 50,000++


OK, here is the list for November. I think I checked all of the links, but if anything is not working let me know and I will fix it.