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

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

Score one for me....I am going with Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

It fits Scattergories (M and reviewed-books)
It is on the thought-provoking shelf
It is on the tear-jerker list (that should make me cry!)
AND it fits the recommend me challenge in another group. :)

I'll let you all know when I am done.

Tien wrote: "Okay, I've used the List Randomizer on random.org and it seems... Lyn M, you're to start! LOL -you'll need to find some humorous book ;)

1.Lyn M
2.Kathaleeya
3.Dee
4.Amy
5.Grace
6.Debi
7.Tien"

Oh joy, I get to go first, lol. Off to find a sad book!

I thought I had signed up, Tien, but I don't see my post. I must have thought I had, but got sidetracked.

Dee and Tien - I am the same with funny books. Many books make me smile, and I appreciate the humor in a lot of books, but I rarely actual laugh at a book. Alternately, I have found more books that make me cry, but they are not common either.

Great quotes so far this month, everyone.

Tara - I have had that book on my radar for quite a while.

JulieC. - I believe The Diary of a Young Girl is the original European title for the Anne Frank book that was used when it was published in the 1950s. I'm not sure when the title was changed, but I think it was after the movie came out, so that the book and movie had the same title.

Nakul - that is one of my favorite quotes from that book.

Grace - Hamlet is a fun read. I saw Hamlet once at a Shakespeare festival. It has been on of my favorites of his.

Melissa wrote: ""You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces, their own records, their own rules." - Mr. Penumbra's 24-h..."

That is a quite a commentary on current societies. I think it hits the nail on the head.

Tien wrote: "slowly chugging through my Jan contemporary read but I just had to share this!

"...how's come if you're from Japan, you...look like such a Jew," Davy O'Dowd said.
"We're in Japan," Sammy said. "We..."

What do you think of the book so far, Tien. I have heard good things and bad things about it.

The teams for this cycle are posted above. I tried to mix up the names so that we are not always choosing for the same person, but there are some duplicates.

If anyone else wants to join, I can add you to a group.

Let the recommendations begin!

Susan wrote: "I finally got around to reading Michener's Recessional. It's a book that doesn't hold up well over time -- I wish I'd read it closer to when it was published in 1994. My review here ."

Susan - I love Michener, but his last few books weren't that great, in my opinion.

Susan wrote: "from Recessional, p. 24:

But he soon forgot the attractive waterway, for along the riverbank was a line of immensely tall palm trees unlike any he had seen before, not even in books...."

Susan - that quote paints a great picture. :)

JuliaC. wrote: "I loved this quote from The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. This book was my fave read of 2013.

"I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anyt..."

that is a great quote, Julia. I still need to read that book. I hear it is fantastic.

I am going to try this one this time. I will go for 1 book and please pick from my to read mine

Bea wrote: "I think I will join again but will go for 2 books only. [Too much on my plate in the next two months - looking for a new dog (our last one died two weeks ago), getting the house ready to put on the..."

Sorry to hear about your dog, Bea. Glad that your husband's recovery is going well. Sounds like you do have a busy couple of months going.

Karen wrote: "Slight change of theme. Instead of narrowing it down to WWI we'll make it War in general."

Thanks Karen. I think that might be easier for everyone.

Sorry Bea, LOL. Now you have some extra books for other times.

Bea wrote: "I read The Bean Trees. I had planned this book for last month's shelf but did not get it started. I was pleased to find it fit this month's shelf too, as I like the author [author:Barb..."

I have heard that this is not one of her better books, Bea

My last two for the month. Not sure I would call either one contemporary:

A Wilder Rose by Susan Wittig Albert. A novel based on the premise, which is becoming more widely held, that Rose Wilder Lane, Laura Ingalls Wilder's daughter, was a co-writer of the Little House on the Prairie books. It was an interesting look into the life and thoughts of Rose.

Murder on Nob Hill by Shirley Tallman. A historical mystery that takes place in San Francisco in the 1890s or so. The protagonist is the daughter of a renown judge, and she is determined to become an attorney regardless of the social restrictions of the time.

Please post a quote from your thought provoking book here. The quote itself doesn't have to be thought provoking, but why not? That is, after all, the theme of the month. If you are stuck on what to post, try something from page 46, but really...any quote will do. :)

Susan wrote: "from Captain Alatriste, pp. 120-121 -- the author makes the protagonist, who was a teenage boy when the events of the story took place, wax quite eloquent as he relates them to us:

T..."

He does, doesn't he?

LynnB wrote: "p. 49, Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo

Sully reflecting on an employer who keeps 'forgetting' to pay him -

"Smiling, he imagined Carl Roebuck tossed out his office window, his arms ..."

I love the picture that this one paints. :)

Wow,Karen, that is quite a haul.